Gamex Part II.

[tablesaw]

I had a plan to get to the con early on Saturday morning, sign up for some open slots of full games, and play something in the morning slot. But the night before, I had to take NyQuil to get myself to sleep, and that knocked me out a bit. When I came to consciousness, it was ten to ten; I drifted back off to sleep. A few hours later, I woke up a

Comments

[justbeast]

Re Spirit of the Century -- I really like Fudge, and the FATE system specifically. I'd be curious of what you'll think of it.

[tablesaw]

I did play a Century hack on Sunday, which is now posted, so you can see how that game played out.

I really like the way the system works, and I do enjoy making characters.

[meghatron]

Big O!

FYI, Jesse's LJ is bloodthorn.

[bloodthorn]

It's interesting that you call One Can Have Her, "misogynistic." I don't. I don't think I'd run it if I did. It's true that she's constructed entirely from her relationships with me. However, I tend to be a very expressionistic/romantic person in that I rarely think of things in fiction as if they were "real." Instead I measure everything as a deliberate fabrication designed to say something about the subject of the piece, in this case the male PCs

[tablesaw]

It's interesting that you call One Can Have Her, "misogynistic." I don't. I don't think I'd run it if I did. It's true that she's constructed entirely from her relationships with me. However, I tend to be a very expressionistic/romantic person in that I rarely think of things in fiction as if they were "real." Instead I measure everything as a deliberate fabrication designed to say something about the subject of the piece, in this case the male PCs.

From that point of view the Femme Fatale is not a "real" woman. She's an idea and our ideas about things very rarely reflect the reality of them. She's an idea and our ideas about things very rarely reflect the reality of them.
I'm not sure what you're arguing; it seems to me that you're making my point. The fact that, in this game and in its stories, only men can be real is the misogyny that I was talking about