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Local Boy living the dream…

BBC News Northern Ireland writes: A man accused of a stealing underwear from a shop in a knifepoint raid believed he was a female elf at the time, Belfast Crown…
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Watching the box last night…

and The Ordinary Boys came on the box. I was amazingly struck by the similarity between Samuel Preston and the late great Troy Tempest. The difference being that Troy Tempest…
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WotW: Earth – System Proposal

Here’s a simple system that would get a WotW: Earth game up and running. Before I go into the details, here’s what was going through my head as I designed this.

  1. WotW: Earth is set in turn-of-the-century England
  2. Player characters are likely to have a base set of skills which can probably default to stats
  3. Highly technical skills don’t really exist, and science is still the realm of the wealthy
  4. Skills matched career very closely, and people generally had one career
  5. My feeling (from reading what Matt has written) is that this is a game about normal people in an abnormal situation, so there won’t be much difference between the characters

And now the system …

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Do women look for more depth?

Inanna Jones writes a bit about this sexism thing here on the IrishGaming livejournal: So generalising remark: women look for more depth. I disagree with Inannajones. I think both men…
Posted inCommentary Industry

Shakespeare at least had Viola.

Apparently, I'm exercising the power and privilege of my gender by criticising the idea that we should actually de-cliché a cliché in order to make everyone feel secure about themselves.…
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System junkie

I looked up the definition of the word junkie. It says "Drug addict, esp. heroin", and the term gets used to describe addicts to anything - adrenaline, sports, whatever. I…
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WotW: Earth – London

"And as I looked at this wide expanse of houses and factories and churches, silent and abandoned; as I thought of the multitudinous hopes and efforts, the innumerable hosts of…
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Would I GM for money?

There's a bloke on StoryGames who's advertising his new business: Will GM for money. The price is $50.00 per month of weekly play, as of the 23rd of Febuary, the…
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My Superhero Game.

I'm not happy with the current crop of superhero games. My favourite is Advanced Marvel Superheroes from TSR which is nearly 20 years old. It's certainly the most flexible and…