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Pleased
I continue to be very gratified and, frankly, amazed at the reception Thousand Suns has received since its release in February. There's a demonstration of it being given in Oakland, California in early May, which neither I nor
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Ksantipa-Helena Molitor
Here's the first piece of art from The Pilot's Guide to the Core Worlds. It's an "official portrait" of the governor-general of Center Sector.
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Organization Rules
I'm hard at work on The Pilot's Guide to the Core Worlds, which in addition to describing the 19 worlds of Center Sector, is intended to be a toolkit for Thousand Suns players and GMs who like their games to focus on decadence, corruption, and political manipulation. One of the things that's grown increasingly clear to me is that there's a ( Read more... ) -
What's in a Name?
In the early days of Terran interstellar exploration, worlds were grouped arbitrarily together based on their pseudo-proximity via D-Drive and given temporary designations such as Sector Alpha, Sector Beta, and so on. Over time, as these sectors became more settled, new “picturesque” designations were given to them. Throughout most of the Thousand ( Read more... ) -
Morning Grumble
I think wireless computer peripherals were invented solely to vex me. My wireless keyboard inexplicably gave up the ghost sometime between the time I went to bed last night and this morning when I woke up. Of course, the mouse is perfectly fine. And of course, Logitech, being the nice guys they are, will be sending me a new keyboard -- in 5-7 ( Read more... ) -
Spousal Pride
It's not yet been posted anywhere online that I can find, so I guess I can be the first to break the news: my wife has been awarded the 2008 Follett International Teacher Librarian of the Year Award, given every year by the Canadian Library Association. At the end of next month, she gets flown to Vancouver for the awards ceremony, where she'll be ( Read more... ) -
Hmm
Did I miss a memo somewhere?
Pretty much every single spell checker, both on my computer and online, doesn't like the word "esthetic" or variations thereof -- as I speak, even LJ is objecting to it -- and yet I know this is an acceptable spelling of the word. Much like archeology, it seems that everyone, even Americans, spells it the British way. ( Read more... ) -
And now you know
Like me, some of you may have long wondered how it was that Julius Fučík's "Entrance of the Gladiators" came to be associated with clowns (aside from the obvious circus connection). An enterprising Canadian at the turn of the last century named Louis-Philippe Laurendeau (aka Paul Laurent) is apparently responsible, after he re-arranged what Fučík ( Read more... ) -
The Chabuli Conspiracy
I finally completed the long-delayed intro adventure for Thousand Suns today. It'll be made available for free on the Rogue Games website over the next few days, depending on how long it takes
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