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Rahimahu Allah, may he rest in peace.
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I'm in Avondale Estates right by Decatur. I used to play Cthulhu stuff and sci-fi FATE pretty regularly with a group of mostly Emory people, and they still play; RuneQuest right now. I've been not playing most of this academic year, working on phd e…
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Posted By: Noah D Something to do with Diaspora. I'm accumulating models kits from which to bash up some ships in that style. Ooh ooh post pictures when you do! I've used little lego ships in combat before, just fun markers on the map really. It mi…
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I would desperately love to play, not so much be Keeper for, a Bookhounds of London game. I have a dirty cockney occultist scumbag in my head and he needs to be let out sometime.
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--anything Cthulhoid. I won't be in this area forever, my friends and I really enjoyed our campaign of Masks of Nyarlathotep, gotta do more before I leave to hopefully be a professor at some other university... -specifically, Cthulhu Dark in a scen…
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Endosian Hax began his career at Demicorp at the Age of 13 in the Internal Security Division in Demicorp. 50 years later he was a the Executive Vice-President of the Space Technology, Home Appliances, and Human Development Divisions. +5 Brokerage +…
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With full cluster creation as described, Diaspora characters are certainly going to be distinctive to their clusters, but no real reason you can't present them out of context. There are some characters from one of my group's campaigns at the Troika…
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I've always said "TARask." My high school D&D friends said "Tara skway."
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Awesome Framweard, it's been a super rewarding game for me and my group --both Diaspora & Starblazer, actually, which mix and match as nicely as you'd expect.
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Merry Christmas indeed! No gaming gifts this year, but I just got myself Fiasco from Tyche's Games in Athens, GA, where I haven't been able to visit nor browse their entire shelf full of indie games for many a moon! I was also very pleased to see t…
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http://grognardia.blogspot.com/2010/09/it-came-from-ept.html Recent discussion on Grognardia about EPT and a level/hit-dice/damage mechanic the guy thinks is nifty.
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Posted By: migoI've kicked around multiple ideas for a retro-clone or combination of various editions, but I always reach a point where I'm thinking I might as well use an entirely different system with the changes I want to make. Recently though, i…
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I have a friend who'll be going. He's looking to buy FUDGE dice (then he can return mine!). Anyone know of a vendor or attendee who will have them?
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GLEE
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Starblazer Adventures Wasn't that released in aught-eight?
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This reminds me: can anyone recommend podcast episodes dealing with running games for players new to roleplaying?
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DIASPORA! Hotter than a helium-3 fusion drive baby!
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Paul, Colin, could you say more about this drives/pillars game you're seeing?
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There are probably only two Lovecraft protagonists who are suffering a human crisis in addition to their plot function of reading letters. This came up in an episode of the HP Lovecraft Literary Podcast guest-starring Ken Hite, http://hppodcraft.com…
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Posted By: TimothyIf you say "This is Australian" they don't care either way, but I still remember an argument I had over on the Ars Magica lists where people though I must be doing serious drugs, and all I'd done was described a forest of spotted g…
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Posted By: Paul BShoot, sorry, insideish joke intended for Graham. Jason Morningstar wrote a Trail of Cthulhu module set in the Kerguelens, and I'm pretty sure he didn't get a chance to sample the local scene. Jason, I am *so* looking forward to "Th…
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Tying this back to the Southern Gothic thread, one of the biggest modern musical voices of Southern Gothic is Nick Cave. Dude's an Aussie. But he assimilated the mythology of SG and has made it work in performance, album after album: murders, reveng…
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Woo Mountain Goats! fantastic song, and one introduced to me by a southern Methodist minister in my PhD program. He'd been interested in reading Lovecraft when we have time, and I gave him the American Library collection not long after.
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Posted By: GrahamPosted By: Nathan H.Don't ya have to kinda be a southerner to do a southern gothic? I am! Stan Laurel did that joke too :> "Why, I say, I'm from the South too sir!" That reminds me, I need to visit the Hardy museum before Ie…
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Posted By: wburdickWell, back in 1980, we played a lot of Melee, Wizard, and In The Labyrinth, so I recommend blending the two current retro-clones of The Fantasy Trip:Dark City Games'Legends of the Ancient World with Chris Goodwin'sWarrior and Wiza…
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Posted By: ccreitzHans, the crystalline beauty of the Mythos-SAN-knowledge and spells to keep you alive-MP-POW economy might not have been clear to you when you ran CoC before, but now that I've laid it out that way, you won't be able to take your e…
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Further, the mechanics of BRP CoC are a pioneering instance of designing what matters (Cthulhu Mythos and SAN, in this case). It's theGrey Ranksof cosmic horror roleplaying, a perfect mesh of mechanics to themes. Pretty much. He's talked briefly ab…
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I'd love to hear GB Steve talk about my baby Trail of Cthulhu, Graham on Steal Away Jordan, and I'd also love if you could get Ken Hite for Call of Cthulhu. Also, hearing some hippie games folks talk about old school games would be cool. An older …
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Heh, my first roleplaying was in junior high in Lexington. Lunchtime, Hardy the class clown GMed pretty freeform games of what he called "Dungeons and Dragons," with flipped coins for resolution. We went from some post-apocalyptic warzone with flyin…
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You're welcome Walkerp. You'll be wanting this episode.
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Posted By: walkerp Of the original Wicker Man or the remake with Nicolas Cage? The original.
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Oh, and if you listen to "Master Plan," you'll recognize Yog Radio's Paul of Cthulhu's voice from the "Goblin gaming broadcast network" spots.
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Wow, nobody mentioned Yog Radio? Reviews, interviews, banter, con reports about Cthulhu related games, Lovecraftian material, and sometimes pretty tangential interviews; they interviewed the director of _The Wicker Man_, for example. But Simon Roger…
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If you're talking about renaissance humanism, do not mistake it for contemporary humanism or leave out the kind of emmanationist, man as non-metaphorical microcosm cosmology that was abroad in those days. The Book of the Courtier is pretty clear abo…
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Posted By: kevperrine @YunusWesley - I am very interested in where you're headed. I like your thoughts and I would love to hear more on your points. Do you feel that the "nature" of the rabbits in Watership Down vs. the "goals" and the way …
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In Watership Down, a lot of the tension comes not from mission goals versus personal goals, but mission goals versus personal nature. Rabbits just want to hang out, silflay some carrots, make kittens, tell stories. They need scouts and lookouts, an…
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Oh cool Simon! And that discussion was just a few hours ago... lo, the stars are right. I did start a discussion at yog-sothoth.com about mass combat, on the theory that it's interesting to not know just how it's going to come out any more than ho…
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Great thread! Sorry I seem to have missed the bulk of it. I ran a published Call of Cthulhu campaign using Trail last year, a game I'm pretty passionate about. I introduced it to our then newly-formed group, some of whom had played lots of Call of …
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Hello hello I'm Yunus. I go by Taha Celestin on various games forums when I'm feeling pseudonymous and Yunuswesley on others when I'm not. 30s, married, PhD candidate in religious studies working with Islam, Buddhism, traditional textual/scholarly …