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02:16 am That was the year that was: 2012

07:29 pm ...and then the bumper fell off.

07:48 pm ...getting done with mess, getting shut o' doing things rather more or less...

08:28 pm a quiet weekend in the suburbs

03:54 pm hard decisions and surprising changes - 2 comments

04:41 pm the return of internet spaceships

06:48 am Poor Fantasy World-Building: Poverty, Inequality and Sexual Morality in Pre-Industrial Societies

01:06 am At least they didn't pod me
10:27 pm ...and back to work.

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wombat_socho
25 Apr 2018, 19:47
We've lost that quality now
Indeed. Not too may kids read the classic works from Greek and Roman days, much less in the original. Probably the closest a lot of kids these days get to learning anything about polytheistic…
wombat_socho
25 Apr 2018, 19:45
We've lost that quality now
That speaks to a major difference in RPG players - people like me who came out of wargaming and want the world we're playing in to make a certain amount of sense, and other gamers who are more…
meep
25 Apr 2018, 17:13
We've lost that quality now
...it's a game. With magic.

So, maybe let's not get too picky about the "realism"
ravenclaw_eric
22 Apr 2018, 07:37
We've lost that quality now
You do have a definite point about that. While (in a fantasy RPG world) a female thief might be especially devoted to the god(dess) of thieves, she would make offerings to the god(dess) of health if…
(Anonymous)
16 Sep 2017, 05:50
Focus
Amen! Damnit, Kevin, you are someone I have always assumed I would disagree with, but you hit it on the head here. (speaking from the WF past...)