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Politics

Abortion, Marijuana, and War

Abortion is about Autonomy Good diarist post about the KOS keruffle

The World of Commerce A fun mocking of the recent supreme court decision

History Rhymes Fifteen similarities between the Vietnam and Iraq wars. Thought provoking.

Baby Name Wizard Charts the popularity of names over time. It has a nice interface.

Plus a snarky quote about roleplaying below the fold.

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Game Group

Sunday June 19th: Shadowrun

UPDATE: Due to Father’s Day conflicts, this was moved to Sunday June 26th.

After last night’s conclusion of the Dragon Coast coup in D&D, we’ll shift gears and move along to Shadowrun.

Sunday we’ll get together at 2 and chat about Shadowrun, go through a quick run with sample characters to let everyone shake down the system, then crate characters as a group. [Subject to correction by Kev.]

There are lots of good links in the Shadowtalk Comments if you want to read more before we get together. For the basics– what the Stats do, how magic works, and the like, here’s DMP’s writeup. See you all Sunday!

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Game Group

Next Game: Sunday June 12

We’ll start at 2 pm, as we agreed at the end of last session.

Also, we asked Dad what a good stopping place would be for this campaign. He suggested that after the battle with the Baron, IF we win, would be a good time to take a break. Hopefully, that gives us a vague timeline for getting Shadowrun prepped… does that sound doable Kev?

I’ll try to write out my character concept in the Shadowtalk thread; if we babble about characters maybe we’ll get some coordination out of the way.

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Politics

Peak Oil gets some discussion

After reading some of the more extreme Peak Oil sites (and finding flaws where they tried to stretch their arguments), I was content to just about write them off. Kevin Drum did the research though, and while there’s a lot of disagreement on particulars, there seems to be some wide concensus. Kevin Drum’s Peak Oil reporting–
Executive Summary.
Details: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Coda

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Game Group Roleplaying

Shadowtalk

Repost of Kev’s Site link. His World history, & Character Creation rules.

I thought we could use a thread to talk about character concepts, ask questions, figure out what we want to see in a campaign, and the like. (Plus, if I find any useful links, I’ll tack them on.)

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Game Group

Next Game: Sunday June 5th

What time do we want to start this week– our standard 2pm, or closer to noon (like last week)? Do we want to stop earlier? [I’d be OK with a solid 6 hour session, for example.]

Most of the spells were wonky again; I’ll have to check out your generator Dad & try to find out why it’s only churning out stuff we don’t have books for.

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Game Group Roleplaying

Next Game: Hopefully Memorial Day Weekend

Since days & times are up in the air, here’s a thread for figuring out when we can meet next. Everybody, say “Arrr!” with me.

UPDATE: So, Monday’s the plan. Ben suggests an early start… say, 10 or 11 am. Does that work for you?

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Game Group

Next Game: Sunday May 22nd

So, Sunday the 22nd. Does the day work? Should we start around 2 pm, or is there a better time to start?

Let’s use this thread for purchases & item creation/sale, and a discussion about where we’re going. Ben kicked off with a great comment, questioning what our characters see as their next step.

[Update: We’ve already had our two weekends off– I deleted the reference to “what we’ll be up to”, since we’ve already done it. Also, I changed the date to bump it to the top.]

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Game Group

Undistributed Items

(An aside: Marv’s Spells is a very handy database of spells.)

Here’s our remaining loot list, categorized.
Undistibuted/Known
Golem Bane Clay Scarab
1500 gp Ink + Bottle & Quill; allows scribing scrolls w/o Scribe Scroll or XP cost
Chest of Holding
Pillow of Rest

Potions: Remove Fear, Expedious Retreat, Endure Elements (Fire), Endure Elements (Sonic)
Oils: Magic Weapon, Uncanny Dodge
Arcane Scrolls: Spider Climb x3, Grease, Misdirection, Blur, Mount x4, Spectral Hand x3, Sleep x3, Minor Image, Change Self, Summon Monster II x2, Web, Reduce, Shield, Familiar Pocket [CA: 106], Snilloc’s Snowball Swarm [Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting on page 74]

Undistributed/Unknown
Wand of Preverication’s Bounty (33ch) — [Prevarication’s Bounty (Cleric 1) Transmutation: Causes the tongue of the victim to swell when the victim lies. from RR98 (not sure what that is)]
Void Rod, dragon eye gems, void pebbles

Potions: of Armor in a bottle [??], Undentified
Scrolls: Scroll of Lesser Spell Immunity [Dragon 275 p86], Hell’s Hammer [in dragon Lords of Melibone p120, Transmutation Weapon touched, Cleric 1], Invisible Object [??], Ray of Ice [Dragon Annual #5 on page 24], Bristle [?? Perhaps supposed to be Brambles– Complete Divine on page 156], Rat Vision [??], Wound [there are lots of X wound spells, but none just called wound.]

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Roleplaying

Many good RP links

Lots of recent D&D and roleplaying posts. Some will make the links, some won’t.

The Shadow of Yesterday quick references
Character Creation, Conflict Resolution

RPG Blog What’s out, what’s current. Links to many RPG creator websites

World of Tereth End (custom D&D campaign)

Goodman Games: Free Stuff Thier extensive free stuff page. Has lots of tiles & converted (from 1E) adventures.

Shining Dodecahedron Another interesting game theory blog

D&D NOTES:
Hell’s Hammer is from Dragon Lords of Melibone (which we don’t have)

Attacks of Opportunity RPG discussion & theory blog

Cool looking PBEM– Sea of Stars

Amber Cool Amber site, with a good partial powers system

On Railroading and The Impossible Thing Before Breakfast