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Sounds interesting!
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I'm always up to talk about RPGs!
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An interesting classification of alignment might be philosophical - Nietzschean, say, or Machiavellian, or Hegelean. Using a Venn diagram rather than rigid boxes...
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Well, that's some of the reason why I moved away from levels in the first place. But many people love Levels and Leveling! It's just not such an attraction for me. Mind I am way out on the pointy edge of nobody where RPGs are concerned, so no one mu…
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Good stuff Chris!
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That is a cool way of thinking about a campaign, Tom! A campaign is your experience, and what you experience changes you, for better and worse.
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I thought of your first point and I believe it is covered. In StarCluster 4, all checks are skill based. Skills use the associated attribute as Target Number. As characters age, the characters gain skills, but as they age past the age of 30-33, they…
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I'm currently reading your latest, Richard... :D
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Food Food I got! It's like the Jack Reacher series last year was set in New England, and everybody got coffee at 'Dink's'. That's a coded reference to Dunkin Donuts, or 'Dunk's', for all you heathens... The others I didn't, but I could see the wealt…
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I liked it as well - reminds me of Vance's footnotes or the little quotes from various sources in Dune. A nice technique!
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Like kcaryths, I thought it was the 'control' one the whole time, and for much the same reasons. I am infamous for my ability to guess the perp a quarter of the way through most procedurals or mysteries, though.
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I wouldn't hazard a guess as to his religious orientation. I'm usually wrong about that! I very much enjoyed the discussion though!
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Cloud Computing is just a fancy name for 'On Someone Else's Computer'... There was an internet when he wrote the book, but it slightly predates the Worldwide Web. I was an IT director at the time for a bleeding edge physics based startup, and we all…
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Well it was definitely Toronto! I like Toronto a lot! There is a satisfying energy in Toronto which appeals to me, and I found myself often thinking "I could live here", which I may end up doing if I require asylum, as looks increasingly l…
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I too greatly enjoyed the book. The technology was acceptably described, and the people vividly drawn. The explorations of the moral and ethical questions involved were very interesting, Some of which I have explored myself in my SF games, and there…
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I am a very fast reader, and read with complete focus - If they are any good, generally sinking deep into the book and letting my imagination create that world, which I experience directly. I do not enjoy listening to books; first because the reader…
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(Quote) That's the kind of thing it kept doing to me, utterly throwing me off my game.
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For some reason I couldn't grasp this book. It writhed and fought me tooth and nail, like Merlin fighting Mad Madam Mim. I got about 10% of the way through and gave up. Hopefully I can go back to it later and try again. It took me three tries befor…
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I have read Make Room! Make Room!, which was good, but the other sounds interesting and will be totally new to me.
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(Quote) The first time I read it I was all "Puppets? Hilarious! But I didn't see that coming." The second time I read it I was like "Huh! I didn't notice this subtle inference the first time I read it... not this hint here... nor this…
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Good luck with it! It sounds fascinating, so keep us informed!
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It's StarCluster 4 - Wavefront Empire, which has a very different social structure, which is why I thought of EPT. People cannot bring standard current social values into the game, which forces them to change their ways of thinking. As you can imagi…
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Actually the Resource Number is the only bit not part of the game I mentioned. I came up with the resource number for you. That game has more detailed resources, but the resource number abstracts all that, so it's easier to track.
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(Quote) You are very welcome!
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Here is an idea: All people of the city have three organizations to which they belong. CLAN - A group of closely related families and retainers; GUILD - people one works with, who do the same job or related jobs; and CLUB - A social organization bui…
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(Quote) That was what I had remembered. Thank you, Richard!
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I could mention one, but it's one of mine, and I won't, so perhaps Empire of the Petal Throne?
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Waiting no longer. It IS the first... :D
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I just finished reading it for the - tenth? - time.
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I could see playing a number of evolving iterations of a story with the players deciding what changed in between, and deciding when we got to the real story, That could work well, if everyone were on board with the premise.