One Female Canuck, a funny site.
From a great post by Hilzoy about war and hubris:
“Violence is not a way of getting where you want to go, only more quickly. Its existence changes your destination. If you use it, you had better be prepared to find yourself in the kind of place it takes you to.”
This is Hilzoy on Peter’s previous piece.
Can’t fire teachers easily? Studies show that leads to better outcomes for students.
We’re on schedule to get together next this upcoming Friday. We’ve tentatively scheduled it as a Shadowrun Character and Background Creation session. Kev has told us that any group of runners will work– don’t worry about “balancing” the team.
Here’s what we have so far, also on a new wiki page:
Dad: A former swat team magician, enhanced a bit with cyberware and a few body enhancements. Very good at melting brains and knocking people out…
Me: A kid with a gift for healing; long on skills for “getting along” on the streets.
Jennifer: A skilled, probably cybered fighter, with a love of cars and retro technology.
Any corrections anyone? Any early thoughts Ben?
If you’re on the web and have some time to kill, I have a page of Shadowrun links that might be useful.
We finished the adventures of Erisorn, Ludwig, Draifen and Kogor last week, and look forward to picking a new game this Friday. Come prepared to kibitz and pitch fun games for the rest of us to play! (We can also sneak in some light and funny board games while we’re talking, if that’s appealing on Friday.)
A few interesting tidbits:
Here’s a handy Xen’drik Assistant, I say with pride.
Cool what I learned recently thread about GMing. Lots on AoOs and corner cases.
On Obsidian Wings, there was a good debate about introducing an Iran invasion Litmus Test.
It began with Publius’s It’s Time for a Litmus Test on Iran and Von responded with Profoundly Unwise. Hilzoy looked at Iran and Litmus Tests, Von responded with The Long View, and Publius answered with When Keeping It Credible Goes Wrong.
All in all, an excellent debate with points made from all sides.
UPDATE: The session has been pushed back to the 23rd. Kev is out of town this weekend, visiting in-laws.
If you have any problems making it Friday, please let us know. Otherwise, it sounds like we’ll finish up Waterdeep and wander back up the hill to turn Erisorn’s brain over to Chaos. 😉
Via Ilyka:
Tom and Cheryl are still on schedule to visit us this weekend, so our normal D&D night is off. It looks like our next meeting should be Friday, February 9th. As ever, if that doesn’t work for you, please let us know.
I’ve read some interesting advice, mostly targeted at novelists, but useful for roleplaying as well. (I’d especially like to figure out how to adapt the Sequel/Scene pacing elements to games.)
Sequels and Scenes: Important balance, important emphasis, particularly for writers.
Quick Spirit of the Century summary
Cool tiles, freely available.
With Kev’s illness derailing the game this week, it looks like we’re going to need to skip ahead to next week. Jennifer is throwing a goodbye party for her designer on Friday night, so a Saturday game sounds best. Can you all make it?
Just to make things trickier, Jennifer’s flying out of Fresno Saturday night for a conference in Las Vegas. I think that we can still get in a good session– say 11 am – 6 pm?
The game log has been updated too.
(If you saw anything here– ignore it. We’re back to throwing the party on Friday. Yay for Saturday gaming.)
