Monthly Archives: December 2006

Welcome…

Welcome to the oceans in a labeled can, Welcome to the dehydrated lands, Welcome to the self police parade, Welcome to the neo-golden age, Welcome to the days you’ve made. – Welcome (to the future), by Hawkwind If some smart … Continue reading

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Separated Dad at Christmas

The arrangement today is that I’m getting my kids at around 8 pm and having them for the next 4 days. After a morning of catering for my nephew and being excited for others as they regale me with tales … Continue reading

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Frantic….a week to Christmas..

I’ve been writing a lot on the WIKI recently and quite a bit in prepared posts for sending out later this week maybe. Most of it is is WotW: Earth stuff with one little diversion into game design theory. I’m … Continue reading

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“When it come to emotions, even great heroes can be idiots.”–Sir Te to Yu

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Gaming and the Real World

It’s definitely a little crap when both of your gaming groups have to cancel due to the Real World encroaching. It does leave me with a slightly deflated outlook for the rest of the week. Especially as I was really … Continue reading

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WotW: Earth – Progress

I don’t know if anyone is even reading this ๐Ÿ™‚ Certainly doesn’t look like it in the comments. I’ve got two more WotW articles on the back-burner. About the actual technology, machines of war, recovery of civilisation and what we … Continue reading

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WotW: Earth – The Red Men

The tragic story of a face-eating fungus on Youtube and another about mind-controlling fungi has pushed me to write a little about the Red Men. “The church bells were ringing for evensong, and a squad of Salvation Army lassies came … Continue reading

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Stop the bus I want a Wii-Wii

Again The Mulley comes up with the linky-goodness. Looking at all of this makes me want a Wii. ( ๐Ÿ˜€ chuckle. See what I did there. I’m SO funny. ๐Ÿ˜€ )

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Egalitรƒยฉ

In a newish blog, 10 by 10, they opine about the potential lack of balance in superhero games. I mean – Superman and Batman teamups? How does that work out? One can chew through steel, the other can…um…buy hotels with … Continue reading

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spam apam soam saom?

I get a lot of SPAM. Never mind the amount that gets grabbed by my ISPs filters (which are raised one level of strength every year or so), I commonly have 300 or so that make it past the ISP … Continue reading

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WotW: Earth – Here is the News

“At the corner of the bridge, too, I saw one of the common contrasts of that grotesque time–a sheet of paper flaunting against a thicket of the red weed, transfixed by a stick that kept it in place. It was … Continue reading

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Writing elsewhere…

A few days ago, a d20 supplement author had a little kvetch about getting bad ratings on RPGnow. One of his reviews was very constructive, the second was written by someone new to Earth Languages. He was a little down … Continue reading

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