Tuesday, 25 November 2014

Historical Change

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Barbara Tuchman is one of the all-time greats, and I was planning to re-read The Guns of August this year - for obvious reasons - but then ...
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Monday, 24 November 2014

Three Ideas

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It's been a while. I've not been lazy, I promise. Yoon-Suin is done and dusted and waiting to be sent off to kindly fresh eyes. I ...
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Sunday, 26 October 2014

Fu Ying and Lee Ba

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This pair of magicians travel the foothills of the Mountains of the Moon, offering their services in return for magical items and preciou...
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Sunday, 5 October 2014

Describing Hit Point States

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Observation 1: Hit points are an abstraction which represent morale, fatigue, fitness, and so forth as much as health. (The classic statem...
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Tuesday, 30 September 2014

Out with the Old

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It happened like this in the world. Old things lost their grip and dropped away; not always because they were bad things, but sometimes bec...
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Monday, 22 September 2014

Making as well as Doing

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I'm currently reading TH White's book about falconry, The Goshawk . It's a great book. A beautiful, sad, meaningful book. A book...
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Monday, 15 September 2014

Arch-Mage Tower Generator and Yoon-Suin Update

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Enough with the politics. Here's a table from the Yoon-Suin Gazetteer. This is what's consumed much of my summer: formatting tables ...
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Sunday, 14 September 2014

Sorry about the politics, but it's time to talk about Scotland

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I think it's bad form to post about politics in a non-political blog, but Patrick did it and anyway, this is a once-every-three-centuri...
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Thursday, 11 September 2014

On Bad DMing

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Let's think about bad DMing decisions (while recognising that everybody makes mistakes). Three examples from my own gaming past: 1)...
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Tuesday, 2 September 2014

Ryuutama and the Tiresomeness of New Systems

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I've recently heard about a Japanese RPG that had its translation into English launched as a kickstarter. It's called Ryuutama and t...
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