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Threatening Judges

This is all from Obsidian Wings. Sebastian tackles Senator Cornyn in another courageous Police Your Own post.

Mostly though, I wanted to link to Katherine R’s comment. There’s no way to hop straight to her comment, so I’m quoting it here.

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Next Game: April 16. April 9th game CANCELED

This upcoming Saturday (April 9th), Grandpa’s coming down to visit. Originally, we were going to meet for lunch– but there are only two trains that run on Saturday, so our meal got shifted to dinner instead.

UPDATE: Dad’s out of town the whole weekend, so there’s no last minute coordination required. Next game should be April 16th, the day after tax day.

Is there another day we want to meet this weekend? Friday night, Sunday afternoon… does anything work for you, or do we just want to cancel this week?

Also, Steve wrote to say that his schedule on Saturdays has been shifted to 2-10:30 pm, so he won’t be able to make Saturday night games. If we hold to Saturdays, please cancel/delete his character.

Sorry for the change in plans. Let me know what else will work for you.
Scott

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Memes Roleplaying

Lunchtime Poll #20: Bait & Switch

Lunchtime Poll #20: Bait & Switch

You’ve got your character rolled up, a backstory with lots of plot hooks created, and you are perfectly equipped to survive in your environment. Only…you aren’t in your environment. Your GM has dropped you through a wormhole/dimension door/time warp/Stargate, and you are completely unprepared for so much as asking directions to the nearest bathroom-equivalent. From either a player or a GM perspective, discuss the pros and cons of a surprise setting switch.

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Next Game: Saturday April 2nd

The next game should be Saturday night, starting sometime like 6:30 pm, unless we decide otherwise. Does anyone have a problem with making it this week?

Last session recap:

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Lunchtime Poll #19: My So-Called Life

Lunchtime Poll #19: My So-Called Life

What does gaming bring to your real life?

Gaming (both roleplaying and boardgames) provide me with “fun things” to do with friends. They are a good way to do something while friendship grows… though they’re also subject to taking the place of real friendships if you let them. Mostly, they’re like most hobbies– something to do with likeminded people.

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IRE #16: The Revolutionary Document

IRE #16: The Revolutionary Document

Today, March 17th marks the 100th anniversary of Albert Einstein’s completion of the first of his major papers that would revolutionize physics forever. So even with the recent Ides of March, I am choosing Einstein’s papers as the inspiration for the latest IRE.

Introduce something that changes all the rules, mid-game. For the best parallel, I prefer that it be something the PCs have been working on, with effects even more dramatic than their imaginations anticipate. In some games this is perfect– sci-fi in particular has very skilled character types (Engineers, Science Officers, etc.) that don’t do much more than “scan”.

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Next Game- Saturday March 26th

Does anyone have a problem making the game next weekend? What time should we start? I’m thinking 6:30pm, as normal, but if people have to leave earlier, that’s good to figure out here.

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Memes Roleplaying

Lunchtime Poll #18: Not in Kansas

In Li’s Lunchtime Poll #18: Not in Kansas, she asks:

What alternate-historical setting would you most like to play in, and why?

Wow, there are a number of great worlds I’d love to play in. One of the ones that has me intrigued is the Chronoplane Wars, The Empire of Time was particularly interesting.

I think it’ll work well because you can muck around with history without worrying about paradoxes– you can meet and negotiate with the big names of history. It’d also be cool as a conspiracy, since no one knows who runs the Intertemporal Agency… nor why people and missions are shunted around, why people have blocks– there is lots of room for internal politics.

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Lunchtime Poll #17: Long-Term, High-Yield

In Lunchtime Poll #17: Long-Term, High-Yield, Li repeats Narrative Guy’s querstion:

“New games are popping up all of the time, yet they don’t stay around very long at all anymore. Magic: The Gathering has lasted 10 years…The White Wolf “storytelling” system reached its apex at about 4 years old…the (*shudder*) Pokemon game lasted maybe two years…what’s going to last?”

The games that are established are the ones that will stick around; long after D&D was obsolete, it was still the gateway RPG. More importantly, though– I don’t care which ones stick around. Once I buy a game, I’m rarely interested in a lot of supplements [Mage was a sad exception]; I can run the core game at my leisure.

Except that I’m really enjoying the new wave of indie games. I want to play them– and to play any significant proportion of them, the games I do play should be short. That works fine for me, for now at least.

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Politics

More on torture

From Body & Soul, Jeanne keeps us up to date with the current rash of torture scandals.

The Beast in US does a great job of laying out all of the torture information that’s currently bubbling over.