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I'm not the most strident Atheist you're likely to meet. I'm very much convinced that there are no 'voices in the sky' though (you can recognise the classy Atheists by the fact that they quote Motörhead instead of A.J.Ayer, Robert Ingersoll or Dawkins). Yet songs like these move me profoundly.

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Happy Easter.

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Sometime I'd like to write a game about the maginalized guys in hippie utopia.

I got a pm (elsewhere)suggesting that I addressed how fantasy Leverage is different from normal Leverage (besides the obvious). How does the change in setting, and the fact that the crew are rebels fighting an evil overlord and his armies affect the nature of the Jobs ( Read more... )

Tomorrow is Leverage-day. Where the first game may have not given them enough of a challenge, this one will drop them into a death trap. It'll be awesome to see them get out ( Read more... )

I'm reading the free quockstart version of the RPG Mystic Empyrean.

At first glance at those cool catchphrases and dreamy images, I felt like I knew what the game was about. A dead civilization's last act was using its last bit of power to start divine incubator-machines, and in effect creating future gods that would rebuild their world and its ( Read more... )

Think on it for a moment. There are people out there still who know nothing of the world we take for granted. Can it end well? We want so many things. It's down to a matter of when, and of how bad we fuck them up, isn't it ( Read more... )

I'm deeply unmotivated to do, well, anything. Ain't you glad that I have found the energy to at least share that? I Even had my breakfast (such at it was) at McDonald's (this Scottish place down the road). I had one of their traditional McBacons as the crofters used to make them ( Read more... )

What makes you grok an rpg setting? What makes you excited about it? I know, lots of things. Still, are there certain things that 'does it' for you more than others?

- Art
- Intro fiction
- In character introduction (I've tried writing one below)
- Attention to detail
- A section detailing the game/setting designer's intentions
- Something else...

I'd ( Read more... )

There are startlingly few roleplaying games that focus on continental Europe. Even fewer if we narrow the field to post-WWII ( Read more... )

(Apologies to David Byrne)

In the future everyone will create games for one situation and one player.
In the future everyone will use the same toolkit rules
In the future everyone will generate their fun randomly
In the future it will be next to impossible to tell where gaming ends and sex begins.
In the future there will be bitches at every table.
In ( Read more... )