I Have Powers - Crazy Busy

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			I Have Powers - Crazy Busy I am the Monkey King!

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	Crazy Busy
	Well, November is packed with (writing/editing) work: * Freelance editing project, at my day-job rate. * Starting DFRPG edit work Real Soon Now. [1] * Working on STotC at odd moments. [2] * UA PDF project progressing. [3] * Day-job editing of many, many 2 yr old DOCs. * Once again, pondering Hyperworld. [4] I think that this weekend is the last anyone will see me in a social context until December. NOTES: [1] That would be the Dresden Files RPG. [2] That would be the Strange Tales of the Century sourcebook. [3] That would be the Thin Black Line, the Order of Saint Cecil sourcebook. [4] That would be the revisiting of my "Hyperworld vs. the Invadroids" CiaB. . . and a backdoor new edition of T&J under the PDQ# rubric. Tags: asmp, ciab, day-job, dresden, evilhat, gah, game design, gaming, mad rpg theory, pdq, s7s, silly, truth-and-justice, unknown armies, work journal, writing

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	From: oletheros	Date: November 6th, 2009 07:35 pm (UTC)		(Link)

damnation. i was hoping to chat with you sometime in november. i can wait.

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	From: artbroken	Date: November 6th, 2009 07:52 pm (UTC)		(Link)

But I just bought T&J last week!

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	From: drivingblind	Date: November 7th, 2009 06:05 pm (UTC)		(Link)

He's just pondering! Could be years. :)

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	From: zonemind	Date: November 6th, 2009 10:01 pm (UTC)		(Link)

I shall make cash-register noises in honour of this month in Underland.

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	From: timgray	Date: November 6th, 2009 10:13 pm (UTC)		(Link)

If you're going to do a new edition of T&J, do a new edition of T&J.

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	From: cmdr_zoom	Date: November 7th, 2009 03:04 am (UTC)		(Link)

Also, frankly, I liked it better without all the extra jargon and structure that # added. I don't want a damn Forte, I just want to decide what I'm Good and Poor at.

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	From: drivingblind	Date: November 7th, 2009 06:06 pm (UTC)		(Link)

You mean you want to decide what Qualities and Super-Qualities you're Good and Poor at. No fair comparing a whole apple to a slice of an apple.

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	From: cmdr_zoom	Date: November 8th, 2009 12:00 am (UTC)		(Link)

True. It's been a while since I played with the system, so I forgot.

However, at no point in the T&J/regular PDQ process was I told, "Okay, now pick one of your Qualities or Super Qualities to be your Squamish, another to be your Bibble, and don't forget to select a Double Shyamalan, which must be a Super Quality, preferably from this list."

I wanted to create a Seven Skies character with qualities like "Dashing Swordsman" and "Laughing and Leaping" (cut down from Laughing with Hands on Hips and Leaping Off Of Things). I don't know which one is/should be his Forte and I don't scuppering care. When the rules get in the way of my fun, I pitch them. If they aren't my game or my rules, I don't play.

(cheap fake edit for afterthought)
Also? When you put exclamation marks after EVERYTHING, it doesn't make everything more awesome. Constant emphasis becomes meaningless, like painting everything the same color of day-glo orange.

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