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Post by HourEleven on Aug 30, 2014 17:18:12 GMT -8
Sorry... That was a rhetorical question, mostly.... I understand the argument. It's a load of BS. Like all those arguments, it's never a fault of the tool, only of the user. Systems don't make bad games, they just don't fit with every group (IMO the best systems mesh with the largest variety of groups). Hell, in 5 years of Rifts campaigns we never had a balance issue; but the same group's run at DnD 4e was a showcase of mechanical failure.
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Post by heavymetaljess on Sept 11, 2014 8:56:18 GMT -8
When I get burnt-out on my game, we take a break. I don't run the game for usually 2-3 months - like a break in a TV show season. I try to leave it on a cliffhanger and just back away from the game completely for at least 1-2 months of the break. Then I gradually get back into it leading up to a scheduled date.
I usually find that as I read over my notes and start pulling things together, I get excited about the game all over again. I'm actually in the process of doing that now. Our first game in 3 months is this weekend. Woooo!!! ... Obviously I'm excited again.
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Post by D.T. Pints on Sept 11, 2014 13:48:37 GMT -8
This is the reason we've adopted the five sessions and out model. We all want the long story arc but at times this feels a bit grindy. So I run five sessions and regardless of where I am at we take a break and play something else. This has really eliminated any sense of burnout being an issue.
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Post by andreasdavour on Sept 12, 2014 0:51:22 GMT -8
Let's clarify a bit.
The Scandinavian peninsula is Norway and Sweden. "Scandinavia" i general is usually including Sweden, Norway and Denmark. The three languages are almost dialects of each others, and the culture and history of the countries show lot of overlap. From the middle of 1300 to early 1500 there was even a union under one king/queen, more or less.
The Nordics (or "the Nordic Countries"), extend those three to include Iceland and Finland (sovereign countries all) and the Faroe Islands.
Finnish is indeed a language not related to the languages used in the countries mentioned above. Quenya was inspired by it, indeed. Finland was ruled as part of Sweden for almost 700 years, so many Finnish speakers live in Sweden and even though it's under debate, Swedish is still taught in Finnish schools.
End of Geography class.
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Post by fredrix on Sept 12, 2014 2:09:23 GMT -8
Cheers Andreas, I've been wanting to clarify the Scandinavian geopolitics with our colonial cousins for some time, but knowing there are a bunch of Scandinavian listeners, I didn't feel it was my place ...
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Post by andreasdavour on Sept 12, 2014 3:00:19 GMT -8
I have no idea if anyone cares, but I felt like sorting out the basics. Naturally, there are pitfalls.
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Post by D.T. Pints on Sept 12, 2014 6:22:22 GMT -8
So sadly neglected...
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Post by fredrix on Sept 12, 2014 12:28:01 GMT -8
When I was at university in Machester, one of the local bus companies was called Finglands, so we used to sing that song while waiting for a bus.
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Post by Kainguru on Sept 13, 2014 0:04:16 GMT -8
When I was at university in Machester, one of the local bus companies was called Finglands, so we used to sing that song while waiting for a bus. On behalf of the peoples of the North West we would like to apologise for Manchester and it's buses - a truely gruesome experience that must have been. Mind you I believe it's one of things that has only got worse over time . . . So it may have been comparatively pleasant back then. Have you been back to Manc since then? Cause it's changed a lot in the last 3 years alone . . . Aaron
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Post by fredrix on Sept 13, 2014 2:33:51 GMT -8
Have you been back to Manc since then? Cause it's changed a lot in the last 3 years alone . . . Aaron A few times, Finglands' routes got taken over by Stagecoach I think. One of the other changes was only a couple of years after Uni. My wife was filming at Granada studios, so I came up with her promising to show her the sights. Yang Sing, my favourite Chinese restaurant, was on my itinerary, but I couldn't find it. It turned out to have had a huge fire. I took her a walk along the Rochdale Nine, the canal which gives "anal Street" it's name. I'd come to love its dubious charms after our year group on the design degree I was studying for were tasked with coming up with orientation to persuade more normal people to use the towpath, rather than leaving it to drug-pushers and muggers. I' was really inspired by the project and came up with street furniture, lighting designs and all sorts of stuff, at the heart of which was a photo-etched aluminium "tube map" that showed people down on the towpath, what was up each set of steps. Another student won the completion though, with a crappy interpretation panel with a bit of history and a prettified map. But when I took my wife (or rather my girlfriend at the time) I discovered at the bottom of each set of steps, my aluminium tube map! I was well chuffed.
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Post by Kainguru on Sept 13, 2014 5:06:59 GMT -8
Have you been back to Manc since then? Cause it's changed a lot in the last 3 years alone . . . Aaron A few times, Finglands' routes got taken over by Stagecoach I think. One of the other changes was only a couple of years after Uni. My wife was filming at Granada studios, so I came up with her promising to show her the sights. Yang Sing, my favourite Chinese restaurant, was on my itinerary, but I couldn't find it. It turned out to have had a huge fire. I took her a walk along the Rochdale Nine, the canal which gives "anal Street" it's name. I'd come to love its dubious charms after our year group on the design degree I was studying for were tasked with coming up with orientation to persuade more normal people to use the towpath, rather than leaving it to drug-pushers and muggers. I' was really inspired by the project and came up with street furniture, lighting designs and all sorts of stuff, at the heart of which was a photo-etched aluminium "tube map" that showed people down on the towpath, what was up each set of steps. Another student won the completion though, with a crappy interpretation panel with a bit of history and a prettified map. But when I took my wife (or rather my girlfriend at the time) I discovered at the bottom of each set of steps, my aluminium tube map! I was well chuffed. cANAL Street - lol . . . I wandered down there by accident during one of my first solo forays into Manc when I first arrived. It was, how shall we say, enlightening and very much only for the open minded. At the time I was trying to find the deserted Hacienda to pay my respects before it was demolished - and, yes, I was very inebriated thus the unplanned detour. For those who don't know about the Hacienda ('there will always be a Hacienda') look up 'Factory Records' and '24 Hour Party People' . . . The cultural revolution that made the North 'Cool' again . . . For those that do know 'the scene' - 'The Fall' continue to play locally with Mark E Smith as sweary and angry as he ever was. It was nice to see the Stone Roses get back together again, a small bit of closure from a time long gone. Plus Beks standing for EU Parliament : unbelievably he was the sanest sounding one of the lot. Aaron
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