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    Presentation and Rules Are Different Things

    David went on to become a big fan of the game as it evolved. He’s the one who got me hooked on it, in fact. So it’s not like that was his last word.
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    Presentation and Rules Are Different Things

    David Dunham - who went on to create King of Dragon Pass and Six Ages - described his initial reaction to Hero Wars as “You develop your character’s qualities, engage with the environment in unique ways, encounter obstacles to the pursuit of your goals, and then a hand of bridge breaks out.”
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    What are you reading in 2025?

    Finished The Chronoliths by Robert Charles Wilson. I left this review at StoryGraph: Like Wilson’s other books, this is an intensely humane story of people caught in the midst of strange circumstances. The characters’ specific situations couldn’t exist without the mysterious monuments from the...
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Pictured: Morrus and Umbran dealing with us:
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    D&D Forums and Spam Threads

    Naturally, I read this while taking a break from reading Robert Charles Wilson. Specifically, The Chronolotjs, in which coincidence and synchronicity play a very important part.
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    Today I learned +

    Good to know! I love this kind practical detail about life.
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    Today I learned +

    Roman clothing didn’t have pockets. They used small packs on shoulder straps and belts, armbands thst could hold a small quantity of stuff, and carried bags, along with other ways of dealing with things they wanted to take around with them. So if you’re ever shifted back to the Roman republic or...
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    Plunder The Starry Wisdom Library For Your Next Cursed Tome

    This sounds wonderful. Thanks!
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Edit: sorry, I hadn’t realized the captioning on that image crossed the naughty word line.
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    What are you reading in 2025?

    Now I’ve finished The Deadhouse Gates, second volume of the Malazan Books of the Fallen. In brief: 1. I loved it. 2. Watching Erickson’s improve noticeably by the volume is neat. The scene between Tull and Duiker where they talk about the changes forced on us by accumulated horrors and griefs...
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    Evil Genius Games Attempts To Remove Bad Press [Update--And Then Adds Legal Threats!]

    Yeah, I agree. The appropriate, desirable number of harassing messages is zero. Even aimed at people I really dislike, just as for me and anyone I wish well to. Now, I’m also I’m favor of publicizing an example or few stripped of identifiers…but this gets further and further off the path...
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    Evil Genius Games Attempts To Remove Bad Press [Update--And Then Adds Legal Threats!]

    At which point, too many people would assume that means there is no case there. This happens with too many causes for complaint, up to rape and murder, in various kinds of situation. I don’t want to expound a lot further, because it would have to go far beyond EN World limits in laying out what...
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    Evil Genius Games Attempts To Remove Bad Press [Update--And Then Adds Legal Threats!]

    Yup. And yes, I’m drawing on my own experience as well as that of others.
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    Evil Genius Games Attempts To Remove Bad Press [Update--And Then Adds Legal Threats!]

    The absence of a police report is less of a gotcha than one might think. In many jurisdictions, the police have no interest in such things. Many won’t even take a report. Of those who will, many will take literally no action whatsoever, as long as the attackers aren’t fitting into any of the...
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    D&D Forums and Spam Threads

    Pfft. Like Illuminatus actually exists. The whole thing is just Kerry Thornley’s Necronomicon, something he named together in down time at Dealey Plaza, and your father was a pen name for Eric Van Lustbader. (I, um, I read the trilogy in an impressionable time in my freshman year at college.)
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    What are you reading in 2025?

    The Languages of Pao was fun. I may finish Deadhouse Gates today. Or I may not. Much depends on how serious my flu wants to be today. When I finish, there’s likely to be more Roman history in my life.
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    D&D Forums and Spam Threads

    Maybe we could one of the black magic spammers to curse the others.
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