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Message: <blockquote data-quote="d4" data-source="post: 1087294" data-attributes="member: 12699">for Brother Onion, a lecherous, impious priest / forgery expert in a GURPS fantasy Renaissance campaign, i had to refamiliarize myself with the Decameron, a book of 14th century Italian erotica.the campaign before that was a GURPS near-future sci fi game, and i played Wong Shan Mao, the starship's Chinese chief engineer from Singapore. he happened to be a devout Taoist, and also had a habit of consulting the I Ching before any major decision. i brought a copy of the Tao Te Ching and the I Ching with me to every game session, and i would often generate hexagrams and look them up in the I Ching during play. oftentimes, even though what the Oracle said made no sense to us players, the GM would nod knowingly...we even ended up naming the ship through the I Ching. no one could think of a decent name, so Mao consulted the Oracle. one of the lines of the hexagram he got stated, "It is bad luck to ignore your sacred tortoise." since our ship was vaguely turtle-shaped, we immediately became the crew of the inimitable S.S. Sacred Tortoise. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>