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clash_bowley
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(Quote) Neither do I. :smiley:
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Beautiful, Richard!
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@Apocryphal - I just meant great characters and interesting situations were the ingredients of good games. This was a novel, not a game, and novels don't make for good games, though sometimes the setting is worth exploring.
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I liked the characters and had no problem accepting their thought processes and actions.
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The game has indeed changed. In order to play you now need to know how to promote the crowdfunding, not make games. Now I just throw games out there, like I throw music out there. Maybe someone will trip on them, but that's the only way they will kn…
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I don't put themes in my games. My players find them there.
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I often use Flash Forwards and Flash Backs. Sometimes I use reverse time, in which I present an end state and ask the players to step back point by point and tell me how it came about. I have done full on time travel, for instance once where the pla…
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I liked it all the way around. Great characters, interesting situation, good writing, what more can you ask for? The ingredients of a great game as well.
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(Quote) The fairest of all? (Quote) If he weren't such an asshole I would think him a Marty Stu. (Quote) > Bing! Solipsistic Narcissism for the win! :wink:
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Will probably have to catch up!
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(Quote) To distract us from killing off Little Severian? :D
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Severian, why mention that Typhon was fondling his erect penis when it mean exactly zero to the story. That was just meaningless. Who the hell cares? Also, I don't think "slave" is the proper word.
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How about this guy?(Image)
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(Quote) Tolkien was not in the least a modernist, and sex was not something one wrote about at all in his cohort. (Quote) Lewis is of the same cohort, along with many, many others. I have read the Out of the Silent Plant Trilogy many times, and alw…
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(Quote) That's the way I read it.
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@dr_mitch - the is Patrick McGoohan, the star of The Prisoner. One of my all time favorite TV series. I watched it when they ran it for the first time here in the US. If I were Canadian, I'd vote for him! Then we'd finally know who Number One is!
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Interesting article!
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It's mashup of Mowgli and Romulus and Remus that went nowhere.
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Re-reading my comment above, I am coming across as very nasty towards Severian, but I do not like and do not trust him, and he generally takes five steps back for every one he takes forward.
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I have no clue what Severian thinks he can get by taking this boy. Not his usual sport. But since he's the prophesied golden boy, I'm sure it will all turn to his benefit somehow.
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I use r-maps, but for politics rather than characters. I find the relationships between characters are usually too complex to chart accurately, but organizations tend to be simpler, and work well in an r-map.
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Boughtenated!
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(Quote) Have we not sufficiently established that Severian thinks solely with the brain between his legs? What I don't get is why Agia cares so very very much. I think it's odd.
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Thank you, @RichardAbbott! That makes some sense! As for other authors, you always know they are skipping something for later, either because they tell you, or because a break in the narrative occurs.
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Why does he do this? The author, I mean. What is gained by this technique of skipping important things without notifying the reader and possibly filling in later... or maybe not? I am not familiar with this technique and am rather curious about it.
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(Quote) She was telling him the story WHILE they shagged! Talk about blase! Did she file her nails or read a bit too?
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It wasn't the Autarch, it was the regional governor, and yes, it was all "Y'all gots ta kill that ol' gal what you just porked, Bubba!" BZZZT!!! ((((DISCONTINUITY))))) I went to the hovel of the sick girl and cured her, and the little boy …
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I was close. I said he'd be doing it on top of the unconscious Dorcas... Very close. I missed that he decided not to do his job. I thought he was just avoiding talking about it. How am I missing this stuff?
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I'm OK with Recursion.
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I got a rock... no, wait! It's a 7!