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Big Read book meme
The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well let's see ( Read more... ) -
Doctor Who - "Midnight"
Unexpectedly scary and effective stuff from RTD. Wonderful to see one of the usual tropes of the show - that the Doctor rushes in, a stranger to everyone, and quickly gets nearly everyone following his instructions despite remaining enigmatic - being utterly subverted. It made good use of a small set and did well to keep it's "monster" a mystery ( Read more... ) -
Moffat is New Doctor Who showrunner
Huzzah ( Read more... ) -
I Am The Very Model Of A Modern Roleplay Theorist
I am the very model of a modern roleplay theorist ( Read more... ) -
Ranking the New Who.
So, I've been pondering the relative quality of all of the New Doctor Who episodes thus far, with an eye to doing a sort of "end of season three" Revival Review come the finale in two weeks' time. And what I have discovered is that it is damn hard to rank the stories, particularly the ones in the middle, quality wise ( Read more... ) -
Tragedy Playtest - Sisters in Hollywood
So I got to run a two-player game of my Tragedy game last night, with Anthony Damiani, whom I met in the #rpgnet channel after putting out an appeal for playtesters ( Read more... ) -
The Tragedy Game - first prelimenary draft
This is all a bit quick and dirty at the moment. I'm not at all sure about most of it, especially any of the numerical values ( Read more... ) -
Shared Imagined Space
I know I'm not alone in saying that this is one of the most intelligent thing ever said about roleplaying.
Over on The Forge, it's called the Lumpley Principle, and it runs like this ( Read more... ) -
Hello World,&c
Guess it was about time I got me one of these.
I should explain the name.
Meserach is the name if the Demon Prince of Sloth from one of my current obsessions, the role-playing game In Nomine. I'm a huge nerd and also very lazy so it seemed to fit.