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Heroic imaginations

This is probably more suitable for infurious because it's riffing off Guy Kawasaki. Nurturing a heroic imagination takes five actions: Maintain constant vigilance for situations that require heroic action. Learn…
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Action is character

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, “Action is character.” A few years ago a friend of mine came up with the theory that we often play our polar opposites in games. The…
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Episode Four – 27th October 2000, PM

Skycrane and Psiren arrived safely on the rooftop of WatchTower and were greeted by a concerned INDIGO and the team Paramedic, Robert. Nothing could be done about Skycrane's smouldering flesh…
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Systems

A posting on RPGnet asks us to describe our homebrew systems. I ended up describing mine thusly. Maths-easy 2d6 comedy with either a manga/anime/mecha or zombie holocaust backdrop Qualitative success…
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Episode Three – 27th October 2000

Things started off innoculously enough as Donna the receptionist watched the rank and file of WatchTower New York file into the conference room. Jack introduced a new staffmember, Yellowfist, a…
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Insulting the conservatives

Morfedel writes: "I think its because my conservatives watch Fox news because they (and I) feel that many other news media are liberally slanted. And of course, when you do…
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Unborn Ghosts

"We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people…
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Live for the moment

Last Monday, a friend of mine found out they had cancer after a couple of months of complaining about an upset stomach. Five days later, she found out it was…
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Watchtower: Just in over the wire

++++ADVANCE NOTIFICATION ++++ WATCHTOWER EYES ONLY++++ Five superhuman individuals have been contracted for operations unknown in East Coast North America, most likely New York. All operatives in the East Coast…
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Zombie Links

This isn't a link blog, but these are very fun. Zombie World News "ZombieWorldNews.com is , as far as we can tell, a departure from other Zombie sites. Instead of…