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Thanks for the info guys.

We (my family and I) don't watch TV anymore during the week (a great thing to me) but I did record and watch a movie this weekend called Black Death. It had the same young fella in it as the Monk who played Jack in Pillars of the Earth. He did a great job in both parts and although the film...

Some good advice so far. My take and my experience below. We did all that stuff way back when. Still do. We didn't do that much, not by the obvious ways anyways. We played it more subtly, but then again most players tried their bets to play well, and so it almost never...

I think someone was being more than fair to the Hittites

I agree with everything pretty much said so far. And if it's not that pretty then we can do better folks. And if not, well then, there ya go... And to all the ships at sea, good night.

I think that is a very good approach. I'd also emphasize the importance of rumor and false information and different rates of information flow. Even if you had magical or miraculous means of information flow in a fanatsy setting there'd be little chance of mass communications flow. In other...

I don't know exactly how you plan to play it RW (or at least how KM plans to play it), but I'd role play it like the PCs are Undercover Dicks. Unless the PCs are privy to advanced Intel on the possible POI then I'd play out everything as it occurs. And I'd encourage player to engage in...

I didn't take it that way at all. Just making an observation. I have seen some things on here, and elsewhere on the internet, and thought to myself, "of all things this is something to fight about?" A good debate, now I like that. But no, I didn't take it as being overly sensitive. I'm pretty...

I'm easy in this regard. People can modify, improve, alter, redesign things as works best for them. I've never understood the tendency I've observed among so many modern Geeks (I'm not using the term disparagingly, just descriptively) to assume because someone else suggests something different...

The way we do it in my setting is that the group officially works for the government, but in an undercover fashion. Their mandate states that they must undertake certain assignments for the government of an investigative nature, but if they happen to discover something on their own they are...

Some good observations. About communications and setting/campaign change. Some things I thought of: Have a person or group of people responsible for throwing in Living Events every now and then. A Plaque outbreak, war or border skirmishes, a volcanic eruption, earthquake, tidal wave, forest...

By the way, if you wanna say how game designers could make games better suited to Campaigning (to being a better Campaign Game) or better suited to being an Adventure Game then talk about that as well. I'm easy. Just soliciting thoughts and picking brains about my own game designs and...

I thought about giving a very short, opened ended definition, or maybe a complicated and all-inclusive one. But I think instead I'll let you guys define it as you like and then decided why you think a particular game is a good Campaign Game, or not. So define it as you like. To me a good...

This thread by Havard: Living Campaigns got me to thinking. How would you improve the idea of Living Campaigns to make them better? What things would you do, or suggest, to make a better Living Campaign? I'm not talking about improving specific Living Campaigns (though you can talk about...

I run a lot slower than when I was younger. On the other hand I fight a lot dirtier and more effectively as an old man. Because I know how to now. So I guess it all evens out. On a more serious note this kinda reminds me of the old saw that if you don't make a great discovery in physics by the...

Stormy, I think you've got a real case here. Calling in the Postal Service was totally uncalled for. My advice is Sue, my friend, sue early and often. I'll see if she'll give you her number. She works down by the Lobster docks, but don't let that throw ya. She's awful good at what she does.

I didn't think anybody would go for the Hittites. But just you watch now...

I don't have a lot of time to play either. But over the next year or so I've set up adventures or small campaigns or tournaments for these: Role Playing Games: The Other World Enigma Wargame: Hammerstroke - set in various locales in Africa, and Pakistan...

This thread: How Many Campaigns have you Finished? by Olaf got me to thinking. What role playing games and/or wargames, in your opinion, are best suited to real Campaigning (as opposed to just adventuring) and what games are better suited to adventuring? And if you think a game...

Well, if ya count all kinds of Role Playing Games then about five or six reached an ending I planned, more if you count "reached a suitable but unplanned ending." My RPG Campaigns used to be of the longer variety, one running about 5 years or so (it was AD&D). In that one my players (I was...