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(Quote) Hahahaha!
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(Quote) Not at all! I live in the 32nd century and commute via delorean. Logins with underscores and no caps work better in multiple time periods, as I am sure the doctor would agree!
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(Quote) I am sure if we touch it will be mutual annihilation! Good thing you are stuck on that wee island of yours! :D
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No, we are all getting dumber! It's the contrast that creates the illusion. :p
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(Quote) He's utterly shameless! Can't resist a plug, our Doctor! ;)
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I can't imagine what I WOULD expect - except the Spanish Inquisition! ;)
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I have started it and am enjoying it so far! I will be looking for the Eno reference! :D
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Personally, I loved it. It was well constructed, historically well grounded, had interesting characters in interesting situations. The writing was not Jack Vance, but it was solid. I thought it excellent!
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(Quote) Certainly a valid point of view! :D
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The Hero Twins names were Hunahpu and Xbalanque. I do not think they were used in the book either.
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(Quote) Thank you, Dr. Mitch - folks sorta got lost in various mechanical ways to force change, losing sight of the discussion point, which was "Could you see yourself using any of this book's elements in your own roleplaying?". Nothing in…
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The freaking Rod of Seven Parts...
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The Times selected Michael Bazzett's new translations as one of the top ten books of poetry for 2017 or 2018, whenever it was released. I was interested in picking it up for myself. The translation I read was more interested in accuracy than poetry.
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(Quote) Snort! (Quote) And vice versa. In both stories, the viewpoint character - a woman - is trying to become part of another culture through sheer determination and inner conviction, and that liminality unfolds within them, transforming them int…
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Have any of you read the Popul Vuh? I did, and the archetypes are like this - abstract and deterministic. The Hero Twins and their parents are gods, not humans. Humans have not yet been created - out of maize, BTW! - and I believe this change is in…
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I would be more interested in doing something more SF, influenced by this... Or perhaps an urban fantasy game...
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Nothing is heavy handed here. If that was her point, she made it deftly without me noticing. I think you are right in retrospect.
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This was the anti-Broken Earth! Everything is BUILT. CONSTRUCTED. Laid on FOUNDATIONS! No salmoning. Loved it!
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(Quote) I love it. It makes the story work. Cassiopeia has to color outside the lines, no matter how much the gods want her to work inside them
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(Quote) Here it is. Not sure it will help. It's pretty much designed for Outremer. The Rumor The first thing to determine is the rumor - the news that reaches the ears of the association. This takes the form “(Rumor Table Result) (Place Table Resu…
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Ah! Got it!
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(Quote) Lord! This looks like a madlibs on steroids!
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(Quote) That is this thread. Where are they?
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This seems very much applicable to our Player of Games discussion!
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(Quote) Hahaha! :D
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Whoa! I hadn't read this thread and didn't know! I had already started the third book, thinking we would be discussing it! I would have been willing to go to the end. I had got my brain around the fact that there were no redeeming people, and that e…
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(Quote) Ha! You and your crazy 'logic'! That will never be a thing! It's just a quaint old superstition!
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Descriptions are her strong suit.
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(Quote) Salmoning! (Quote) Nothing exists that the author has not specifically told you about. And if the author has not kept harping about these things, they were just window dressing and should be forgotten. Contradictory information just means t…
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(Quote) Why should it be any different. We knew something involving the obelisks was up. We knew Alabaster was trying to teach Essun before she killed him. We knew the author was not ready to reveal the wham bam thank you ma'am yet because it wasn'…