Hello, my name is Dion, and I'm a crap roleplayer.

It's interesting (in a horrible sense) to finally come to the realisation (after smashing down the walls of your stupid pride) that you are actually terrible at one of the things that is a central part of your life.

The worst part is that my lack-of-ability to roleplay causes my friends campaigns I ( Read more... )

"Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains."
"The Social Contract," Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The basic thrust of Rousseau's argument in "The Social Contract" is that it is acceptible to trade away your freedom to do what ever you like (that is, a form of violent anarchy where the strong can prey willy-nilly on the weak) for the far better ( Read more... )

"Call no man happy until he is dead."

I do have a fear of hubris striking me, so let's just imagine what I'm not saying.
Still, :)

Normal service (by which I mean writing AoA and other assorted Roleplaying things) will now resume.

I think that in the general community, Jyan and myself (and probably Minh too)are perceived as 'failed adults,' whether consciously or unconsciously. I think this gets expressed in the belief that we're wasting time, being stuck in a rut, not being serious with our lives, and so on ( Read more... )

Sometimes I wonder, naturally enough, about what in my life I would have done differently, what opportunities I have squandered and so on and so forth ( Read more... )

If they hate, let them hate.

Since I made a request of my Higher Power (who tends to work through the offices of those three intermediates Fortune, Necessicity and Order) it isn't surprising that I've been travelling on the synchronicity highway. Life is like a maze at times, but my mazes tend to be (like all not-protestant-at-all people) unicursal ( Read more... )

I've realised that I've become comfortable in the furrow I've ploughed ( Read more... )

"I answer prayers;
I am the goddess of good hope; I help
In time of need; you never shall complain
You worshipped an Ungrateful deity."
-Ovid, Metamorphoses IX. 694-723

As mentioned before, I have been thinking of running Unknown Armies set in the Malazan Universe ( Read more... )