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More on Writing: Show vs. Tell
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More Pathfinder: Serpent's Skull
After the campaign I wrote about in this post ended, we started another with the same players. The new campaign was another of Paizo's adventure paths, Serpent's Skull. I did something unheard of: I decided to try playing a character with a high charisma ( Read more... ) -
Of writing and Fullmetal Alchemist
Last December I ran across the new anime of Fullmetal Alchemist, called Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. I watched it and thought it was awesome. Because I'm not a very good reviewer, I'll just say that I enjoyed it and that the characters' faces were refreshingly recognisable. I also read some of the manga ( Read more... ) -
Pathfinder campaign complete!
I began playing my first Pathfinder campaign a bit over a year and a half ago. I made a post about it too. To summarise, we started with the old Dungeons and Dragons 3.5 ruleset (or maybe "3.6", with what we knew of Pathfinder), but changed to Pathfinder as soon as the core rulebook came out. The campaign was Rise of the Runelords, a complete ( Read more... ) -
Swearing
I've realized something about swearing and can put it in words now ( Read more... ) -
On Avatar and its review
I went to watch Avatar today. It was a movie about how humans come to exploit blue humanoids called navi on their home planet Pandora. I liked it, and while I admit it could've been done a little better, it was quite fine as it was. For once I thought 3 h 45 min wasn't enough to tell the story (though, granted, I mostly wanted more technobabble ( Read more... ) -
D&D battle
I was sitting here adjusting the character sheet of a character of mine, thought about some D&D battles and was reminded of one of the greatest battles I took part in ( Read more... ) -
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I like role-playing games. I first heard about them when the mother of my friend mentioned them to me when I was 12 or something. At that time, I got the idea that it was like acting or holding a presentation (I couldn't find a good translation for the word "esiintyä") and was not thrilled at all. She could have been talking about LARP, too. ( Read more... ) -
Movie critic
I'm a really lousy movie critic. When I go see a movie and later try to tell what I thought of it, I can either say "it was good/great" or spew a very long essay about it. I've never actually written an essay, because it feels like writing that would be too toilsome, so I'm not entirely sure that I could do it. This same thing probably applies to ( Read more... ) -
Farewell, the American way
...No, not really. I couldn't make such a long post about it ( Read more... )