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clash_bowley
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(Quote) Ah! Yes! That is much what I was thinking!
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That was intended as a confirmation from experience, not a dispute... ;)
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I don't know to what extent the last scenes on the other earth were real. I am quite familiar with both peyote and psilocybin, two psychedelics the Aztecs would have easy access to, having taken quite a bit of both in the seventies, and the things s…
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I knew right away that Alex had betrayed her. I thought it was obvious. I had been waiting though the whole book to see it all come out. Then again, I immediately figure out whodunit in police procedurals - which I love - all the time. I also knew V…
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I explored that in one of my game settings - If the second Crusade had happened a little differently.
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I liked that the final location was not NOT our world. I had no problem with the many worlds at all. Perhaps the great leap the Aztecs made was this device, and at least some of their other advances were picked up from the other worlds. Perhaps not.…
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I thought the pace was fine. It took me too long because I was busy, not because I wasn't interested. I liked the gradual build up and care taken with illuminating - and of course building - the setting.
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In spite of what you may think I will be happy to stay the course. I think Islanders was not my cup of tea, but the others may be more suitable for me.
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There is nothing here I would especially like to bring into my games. Some things you mentioned I have already had in my games for decades - for instance longitivity and reinvention, where long life and a finite cranial data capacity make changes in…
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(Quote) I remembered that and was not surprised to read the later apparent contradiction that Glaund and Faiandland were the two two superpowers. Of course if they are separate stories, there is no contradiction...
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I found it easiest to read them as an anthology of completely separate short stories mixed in with random travel guide listings. Far more enjoyable.
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(Quote) It seems I forgot to select the enter button... D'oh!
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(Quote) They are not people, they are symbols. They are symbols set up as opposites to embody a principle the author wanted to play with. They have no life beyond that embodiment. They are characters the same way the letter X is a character. (Quote…
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(Quote) No - I've just been weirdly busy!
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(Quote) Same here!
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I voted on the poll.
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(Quote) That too!
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I Chose A Memory Called Empire as I have read The Princess Bride (a joy!) and Paladin's Grace is not my kind of book - I mean fantasy, the romance bit is fine!
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True enough! :p
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(Quote) This was my reply, which was not mentioned and thus looked like this was Richard's reply (Quote) Apologies. I was thinking about Bathurst and Kammeston and Yo. I had forgotten about Kaine. (Quote) We agree to disagree here. You seem to hav…
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(Quote) More circling back. Reinforcement in case you didn't get it yet. (Quote) No. They are both pretty much jerks in the book. (Quote) Like most authors, he hasn't the slightest idea on what the military actually do or how they work, so he make…
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(Quote) I missed that! D'oh! (Quote) It's Priest. There is no smoking gun. There may be a smoking jacket, or perhaps a smoking hot character which tangentially relates if you tilt your head and look at it sideways, but effects have no direct causes…
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(Quote) Ah! That fits!! Not Nordic, but English
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(Quote) I was getting angry and frustrated because I felt he was handing me jigsaw puzzle pieces from different but similar puzzles. This way I can appreciate each story on its own without feeling like in connects somehow with the others. (Quote) I…
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(Quote) I don't really understand the question. These are obviously different stories, why would the use of these elements be the same? (Quote) No. I've decided to treat each chapter as entirely unrelated to anything else. It helps immensely for me…
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(Quote) Neither. Just different in my opinion. (Quote) Traces are apparently some kind of residual psychic emanations or some such. There certainly appeared to be some such manifestation in the account. Whether it was objectively (in world) real or…
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(Quote) This is awesome! I remember a time when academics refused to admit that there were any written language systems native to the Americas with the possible exception of Mayan. They've come a long way!
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In like Flynn!
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I also have mine
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(Quote) I see what you see!