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These days I read a lot less books than I used to. I read too much blogs on the topic of role-playing games, too much time spent on Google+, also on the topic of role-playing games, I skim this role-playing book and that PDF, and since I'm mostly interested in the Old School Renaissance of role-playing games—namely D&D from the nineteen eighties—I also feel like I ought to like the books recommended by one of the founding fathers of D&D, Gary Gygax in his Appendix N of the AD&D Dungeon Master's Guide. If you're interested, you should check out the articles in Martin Ralya's blog tagged Reading Appendix N.
These books are weird. Compared with the The Lord of the Rings, The Wheel of Time, A Song of Ice and Fire or Malazan Book of the Fallen, these older books are short. There are sometimes short stories, collection of short stories, novellas, or little paperback books. All of Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian fit into two books of typical size for these fantasy series.
A while back, I remembered how eagerly I read all those Darkover books by Marion Zimmer Bradley and I decided to find them all second hand, in German, on Amazon, and buy them for Claudia. Every now and the she reads one of them, interspersed with some Steven Erickson and George R. R. Martin. We start talking and comparing. There are two aspects I like about these books:
Tolkien may have started this dreadful fashion of telling multiple stories at once. But in his case, at least each segment was long, very long. When I read George R. R. Martin, I feel like the author is suffering from Attention Deficit Disorder. Is every little segment ending on a cliff hanger? When I start noticing the literary devices, when I start to see the man behind the curtain, it doesn't really work anymore. It starts to bore me. I start noticing that—like in Zeno's paradox about Achilles being unable to overtake the turtle—as the number of segments increase, the time slot available decreases. As more stories are told in parallel, less actually happens. Plot is reduced to flashes and still images.
I am exaggerating, of course. In comparison with older books, however, I start to appreciate a tight plot, a unified vision, a drive forward. All the Conan stories stand on their own. They can be arranged in some sort of chronological order, but that's not the important part. Similarly, the Darkover books can be read in any order. You get the occasional reward for regular readers. Older stories are referred to, but understanding this is strictly optional.
I was once again reminded of this when I read The Walrus and the Warwolf. It was published in Paizo's Planet Stories line (now discontinued). I liked it very much. The book itself wasn't short, but the chapters were short. The characterizations were short. Things happened. I felt that it incorporated not the best of literature, of language, of fancy words and synonyms and antonyms but it incorporated what is best in story telling. Keeping things short. Just enough words to let the reader's imagination embellish it all without ever taking too long to read.
I'm hoping that I'll like the other volumes in Hugh Cook's Chronicles of an Age of Darkness series. I've ordered many of the volumes second hand, via Amazon. I also ordered the four books that got translated into German. Perhaps Claudia will enjoy them as well.
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Comments on 2014-01-04 The Walrus and the Warwolf
brad I loved hugh cooks books. A breath of fresh air when they were released. I read recently that initially he had planned 60+ books in the series. Sadly passed away now but walrus and warwolf was ond of the better ones
– brad 2014-01-05 10:31 UTC
AlexSchroeder Yeah, I read the same thing on Wikipedia. I was sad to learn that he had died in 2008 and I was disappointed to learn that his 60 book plan had been cancelled much earlier because of financial failure. Nooo!
I'm fascinated by the idea of telling the story of a different protagonist in each book with intersections between the books every now and then. It reminds me of the Eternal Champion stories by Michael Moorcock. I was always fascinated by the boat trip in the mist where the various heroes all meet.
– AlexSchroeder 2014-01-05 12:26 UTC
Recently Harald Wagner wondered on Google+ "Is anyone but me writing short vignettes (three to five paragraphs) of background stories for important locations / items in their games even though they're never meant for publication and most probably no one will ever be able to figure out all the details in game?"
In the old days, I used to write longer notes to myself:
Notes on an enemy camp where the red dragon ruled
These days, if there is any background at all, I try to make it part of the adventure. I find that whenever there are written things to be found, my players want to read what they say. Often modules will have nice hand-outs for plot-relevant stuff, but no list of titles and short blurbs for libraries, correspondence, stone tablets, and so on. I always have to improvise. Whenever I forget to prepare such a list of things to read, I feel a facepalm coming up as we reach that point during the session. The players ask: "What do the books say?"
In this case, I did not forget to prepare ahead of time. There were stone tablets to find and information about the dungeon, the setting and its history to be found.
Here are the beginning of my Caverns of Slime. Some coherent notes to help me get an overview of what the adventure is all about.
Again, a dwarven stronghold, with a few coherent sentences. "The dwarves are a suspicious, isolationist lot. […]"
I wrote more about this particular example back in 2010. When I rewrote this for inclusion in Fight On! #8 I also cleaned up the notes a bit. You can better see what I'm aiming for, but since it's "cleaned up" it doesn't reflect actual notes from my gaming table.
I think these examples also illustrate that I want my notes on my maps!
Tags: RPG Keep It Short Red Heart Fortress
What motivates a referee? I think positive feedback is a key element. I'm not just thinking of players thanking you for running the game or players saying that they like your style. What I really enjoy is players who get excited when they're thinking of the next session, players who're sad if they have to miss a session, players who tell other people about the funny things they did, the terrible things that happened. Player engagement is intoxicating, infectious.
DM Peter recently ended one of the campaigns I'm playing in, citing lack of player engagement. It's a tricky subject: who is responsible for it, how do you measure it, how do you foster it? Here's what has worked for me.
Alpha players are always at the forefront of everything. They edit the campaign wiki. They write a log. They never loose track of their character's experience, wealth, equipment and encumbrance. Their characters have plans. Their characters have issues. If you get one or two of them, that's great. I found that my games can take a lot of casual gamers, however. Not everybody needs to be an alpha players. Quiet people, hard working people, parents, people with little time between sessions are just as entertaining at the table. Realizing this has made it possible for me to enjoy more games. If I need more games to fill the time between sessions, I run more games or join more campaigns.
Session reports are a measurable by-product of our games. Long session reports that cast the events in a mythical light, provide more intimate glimpses of the characters, provide extra details and entertaining complications are great. There will always be players that don't have the time to write such session reports and there will always be players that don't have the time read such session reports. Preposterous, you might think. And yet, this thought will set you up for disappointment. If one person keeps a few notes on the back of their character sheet and can bring everybody back up to speed at the beginning of the next session, that works just as well. Realizing this, I have cut down on my session report writing. These days, I don't write to entertain, I write to remember. A short list of events is all that is required. Now I no longer feel close to session writer burnout, I'm no longer disappointed by the disinterest of my fellow players.
Player contributions are an inspiration: I try to encourage players to contribute little elements to our fairly traditional game. Sometimes the personality traits of a player character turn out to be the personality traits of an entire culture. Sometimes the ambitions of a player can shape an arc of the campaign. Sometimes, however, none of the players seem to be willing to contribute anything other than playing their character. In this case, a referee might feel cornered into the role of the untiring entertainer, a thankless job of crafting adventures for unappreciative players. This can be deadly for a sandbox campaign. I have found two solutions to this problem in my campaign:
Addictive elements to game play. Yes, it's mean. It's called the variable ratio reinforcement schedule: a reinforcement schedule in which the number of responses necessary to produce reinforcement varies from trial to trial, according to Wikipedia. I feel that's why unbalanced encounters are fun. There can be two or three sessions where practically no treasure is found and characters gain less than a hundred experience points each and other sessions where the major hoard is found and each character gets a thousand experience points or more. Knowing this puts some of them on edge. They want to make sure not to miss the one gold session that will pay off big time.
I hope these points help you adjust your expectations and help you increase player engagement in your campaigns.
Tags: RPG Sandbox advice Keep It Short
Comments on 2012-12-11 Player Engagement
Nice write-up. Have ever thought about what keeps you at the table as player?
– Stefan 2012-12-14 18:39 UTC
AlexSchroeder Yes!
I suspect it can all be found somewhere on this blog, hidden here and there… Perhaps How I Roll might be a good starting point, although it collects a lot of stuff from a referee perspective.
Thinking back, this is what I would say based on the last few years.
Given this list, I think previous "tests" telling me I was mostly a storyteller were plain wrong and didn't account for the kind of game I like.
– AlexSchroeder 2012-12-14 19:42 UTC
What about ambience? Do you care for stuff like flickering candles and matching music or not at all? The fact that you didn't mention this point and that I haven't seen any of this in one of your games might give a hint, though
Do you think these things can help create an intense gaming experience and keep the players focused on the things happening on the table?
– Stefan 2012-12-14 20:44 UTC
AlexSchroeder I do not think that candles and the like would improve my game experience. It would be fun if somebody else organized it and it would be fun, but it would be unrelated fun. As for music, I have music playing in our appartment practically nonstop. That's why I like to play movie or game soundtracks in the background. I don't think that preparing particular tracks for particular scenes is worth the effort, however. Whenever I tried it, I was distracted and felt stressed out. What I like to do as a player, however, is to keep the iPod nearby and switch tracks to something appropriate every now and then. As a player, I have enough down time to be able to focus on the music. The only scene where this visibly helps, however, is when I switch to some droning Lustmord just as the party is confronted with ancient evil… I did that to good effect a handful of times.
– AlexSchroeder 2012-12-15 00:20 UTC
Over on the Hill Cantons, Chris wonders about Mastering Wilderness Description at the Table. Back in 2008, I wrote Keep It Short. I still try.
He pointed to the opening paragraphs of The Willows by Algernon Blackwood and illustrated how he'd strip it down. I'm willing to go further than that, however.
Here's what I wrote:
In my experience, brevity is the most important. Players care about doing things, they care about treasure, monsters, interactions. That's why they are perfectly happy with this: "After leaving Vienna, the Danube spreads out and the country becomes a swamp for miles upon miles. You see a vast sea of low willow-bushes before you…"
I guess it has an anchor (Vienna), an object (Danube), a change (spread), nature (swamp), some mood (miles upon miles), some detail (low willow-bushes), direct addressing (you see) and little else.
In terms of process, the most important feedback is what players are doing. As soon as one of the seems to be paying attention to something else, I cut the description short and go directly to "something happens!" or "what do you do?" Then, upon enquiry, I improvise more detail as required. This is rare and confirms my suspicion: my players value brevity above all.
When I wrote Caverns of Slime, I was also trying to keep things short. When I wrote How To Write A Module, I said: "In order to further aid improvisation every location starts with a sentence or two setting the mood, a list of impressions (sounds, sights), a list of names to use—little things that I'd appreciate as a referee."
Here's an example:
"The tunnel opens into a big cavern. On the ceiling, you see a glowing city with light bubbles and hanging bridges and gray webbing holding everything together."
At the far end of the cave lies a lake. The stone wall rising from the water is wet. A dark fungus moss grows here, fed by water raining down from a black hole above. Flying or climbing up this wet tunnel will lead you to the realm of the Shroom Lord.
- spider webs cover every hanging house
- rope bridges connect platforms
- this huge mass of webbing is secured by glowing glas balloons
- water is diverted from the Fungus Falls at the back and distributed using wooden half pipes
- occasionally ropes reach down to the cave floor below
- the cave floor itself is covered in broken bones, the fallen remains of what the spider people feed upon
This city is one of the few places down here where the party can make friends and rest.
The above is then followed by events (encounters, monsters) and non-player characters (in this case, a spell-casting aranea).
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Recently Michael Gibbons asked on Google+ regarding gaming blogs:
What do you prefer: content or opinion?
I prefer opinion and insight with examples from actual play or things that I will immediately adopt for my own games.
My favorite example for this is the Ode to Black Dougal blog.
A blog in the same category I recently stumbled upon is Untimately.
I will download a lot of content, but it doesn't get read carefully unless it gets used at the table and that happens rarely. I have huge folders on my hard disk full of PDFs: bears, hats, treasure maps, Vancian spell names and short spell descriptions, alternate classes, one page dungeons, character generation shortcuts… At the gaming table, I can barely remember to use one or two of these.
What kind of stuff cheeses you off enough to stop reading someone's blog?
I think my reasons for unsubscribing from blogs usually involve one of the following:
Tags: RPG Blogs Keep It Short
Comments on 2012-08-24 On RPG Blogging
-C I have written about this before on my blog. http://hackslashmaster.blogspot.com/2011/05/on-why-your-blog-isnt-any-good.html
shortymonster I'm kind of new to all this myself (being going for less than three months), so my points won't be massively groundbreaking. I'm actually more interested in the results of this mini survey.
A lot of blogs I don't read, or at least don't read often, could be amazing, and well written, but they're about games I don't play, or styles of play that don't suit me. As an example, I'm not really into the OSR thing, so if that's all a blogger talks about, I get turned off. But if you're an OSR blogger who talks about the hobby at large, and offers advice and insight, maybe even some content that doesn't have to apply to OSR, then I'll keep checking back.
I guess that what that means is I want something different every once in a while. Right now I'm on a horror RPG kick, so i wrote something about how to GM a horror game. Didn't want to tread on old ground, so the next week it was a possible location for a game, that just happened to also work well in horror games. Next Monday comes a little discussion (that's right, I'm talking about what I'm posting ;p) about role playing a child, something that is done more often in horror systems/settings than others, but can be applied to other games.
So, a general theme, but something different each time, that I hope appeals to more than a core of people, and to gamers as a whole.
– shortymonster 2012-08-24 20:16 UTC
AlexSchroeder -C, that's right, I remember reading it. I don't agree with all your points. Do you still think the following points still are important?
"Provide some sort of resource on your blog on a regular basis (recipes, a picture, quiz, etc.) So that people will want to mark your blog as one to come back and check"
That sounds like a setup to trick authors into posting lesser quality posts because they need to follow a particular schedule.
"Schedule your posts to come out either around the morning or the evening, when people are going through their blog roll"
Maybe you are right. If you're trying not to bias by timezone, however, this is difficult. Also it assumes that most people don't use a feed reader. That may be true, but I have a hard time understanding such choices.
"Be consistent in your posting schedule"
This is similar to the point above regarding regular features.
"Write interesting titles that draw interest, like they teach in journalism"
I am not sure the web works the same way (see 2011-03-10 Headlines). I don't like sensationalist and provocative news lines. Or at least I ink I don't.
– AlexSchroeder 2012-08-24 23:41 UTC
AlexSchroeder Shorty game, variety is a good goal if you want to appeal to a wide audience. If you're trying to write a Warhammer Fantasy style game, however, I don't think "more variety" is the answer. At least, I'm not sure. Should you try to pull in more people in the hopes of attracting and converting visitors or should you write for your target audience only? Currently I'm in the latter camp: I think it's cool to specialize your blog—but at the same time me unsubscribing must be cool, too. Once I determined I am not in the target audience, keeping me tied to the site seems like a bad idea for all of us.
Probably both approaches can work, depending on your goals.
– AlexSchroeder 2012-08-24 23:50 UTC
Brendan I disagree that blog schedule matters much. If people visit your site directly, they will always see the N most recent posts. If people read your site in a feed reader, it's their schedule that matters, not yours, just like with TV and a DVR. The only exceptions I would give are very rarely posting (which may lead to people removing your site from blogrolls or whatever), and very frequently posting or posting in clumps (which may lead to people unsubscribing because of being flooded). I personally am more likely to subscribe to a lower-volume site that has articles of consistent quality (Swords of Minaria is a good example of this kind of site).
– Brendan 2012-08-25 17:31 UTC
AlexSchroeder To be honest, when I open my feed reader, I also like to read the blogs that have one or two unread posts before tackling the blogs that have twenty or more unread posts (World War II Today, I'm looking at you…).
– AlexSchroeder 2012-08-26 22:22 UTC
Brendan Strejcek wrote In Praise of Modules and argued that there are a number of positive aspects to modules.
On his Google+ post linking to the blog post, I left a comment that I've copied and edited somewhat.
Lately I find that modules take too damn long to read. Perhaps I'm spoilt by the One Page Dungeon Contest I've been trying to keep my own adventure notes very short, and when I wrote the Caverns of Slime for the upcoming issue of Fight On! I tried hard to keep things short.
When I ran the Paizo modules, the two or three I ran went just fine, but I always felt slightly confused. I was already stretched thin. When I ran the Paizo adventure paths, it was worse. I discovered that I didn't really want to read the modules. It was too much, it took too long, it wasn't the kind of reading I enjoy. When I ran the Goodman Games Dungeon Crawl Classics for D&D 3.5, I also felt that they would have been great if they had been half as long. The two hard-cover collections of short adventures in the same line, on the other hand, seem perfect!
When modules are too long, I like to jokingly say that I could have written my own in the time it takes me to read it. That's not true, obviously. Raggi's argument is a valid one: to run adventures somebody else created is a challenge, a refreshing change of pace, maybe a learning experience. Lately, however, I've come to think that I don't like it enough to spend money on modules. I didn't invest in the Lamentations of the Flame Princess drive, for example, even though many of the authors caught my attention and many of the adventure blurbs seemed right up my alley.
Do you find your money is well spent when buying adventures? Perhaps my problem is that I didn't read reviews before buying adventures. I was subscribed to the Paizo modules and the adventure paths both, and when there was a big sale of Dungeon Crawl Classic modules for D&D 3.5 I bought as many as I could get my hands on.
Do you feel the same tension? Some aspects you like – the enthusiasm, the ideas, the art, the change of pace – and some aspects you don't like – spending money, investing the time, negative surprises.
How do you decide which modules to buy?
Tags: RPG Keep It Short
Comments on 2012-08-10 Buying Modules
Crose87420 My #1 criteria for a new module/adventure is that it must be around 30 pages or just a few more and less than 30 pages really catches my attention.
I like the One Page Dungeon Contest format quite a bit and pull a few every now and then to add to our game.
I do buy higher page count modules/adventures, Stonehell Dungeon immediately comes to mind. Its simple room format and very well laid out dungeon section by dungeon section format is perfect for me.
– Crose87420 2012-08-11 02:57 UTC
Rorschachhamster Hehe, I just bought L1, L2 and N1 (again, don't know where my original copies went), and these locales are already in my campaign world, ready to happen when or if the PCs go there, maybe even happening and getting changed to the worse if they don't go there… Oh, and stonehell will find it's place somewhere, too… I like lookng at modules and then extrapolate what happens when no pc got there in time. Adventure Path's sites are used for plundering. This dungeon and that village etc. So, yes, I buy modules, but not to use them as written, but as inspiration. And running Pathfinder, for looting stat blocks… :P
– Rorschachhamster 2012-08-11 07:34 UTC
-C I enjoy reading modules. They are like building blocks. You both have to figure out how the original person fit them together, and what you can do to make it interesting. It fills in detail in a way I wouldn't.
That said, it certainly is possible to write a bad module. Gygax's modules are fantastic. Many of the 2e ones are not. The adventures in fight on, as well as many of the Goodman Games 3.x modules are very very good. Some are not.
AlexSchroeder The one adventure that worked very well for me was the Vault of Larin Karr by Necromancer Games. I think this may have been because it was written such that every adventure location was very small (a small number of rooms or just a simple encounter) and independent of all the other locations in the sense that changes in one location practically never caused changes in another location. There were of course links between the various locations: the elves are pissed because somebody took their statue and this statue is now in the dragon's hoard. But even if you killed the dragon, the elves are still pissed: you need to return the statue to them to appease them. This structure drastically reduced the awkward "looking for info" moments when I was running the adventure. It simply was not necessary. I often had those moments in the two adventure paths I ran because the locations and characters seemed more tightly bound.
– AlexSchroeder 2012-08-11 21:32 UTC
Recently Mike Evans asked about setting books on Google+. Here's what I wrote:
I found Rob Conley's Points of Light 1&2 to be short and concise setting books. They contain regional maps with a key; most things get a paragraph or two. NPCs get name, class, level. It's very similar to the Wilderlands of High Fantasy but shorter. I have used both at the table and have been very happy. There are free examples available online: Lenap (which is what I got started with) and Southland.
Rob Conley's Majestic Wilderlands has more house rules, classes and the like which I don't care for and unusable small maps. This is why I haven't used it. I usually find that browsing the blogs and reading books gives me cool ideas and make me want to add stuff to the campaign. These things don't need to be in a setting book.
I've used the Forgotten Realms book for D&D 3 as a player to help me write a backstory because I felt the DM enjoyed this kind of thing. The setting book provided names and places galore, so it was very useful to me. As I suspected, however, the backstory itself turned out not to be very useful at the table. This is why the kind of games I like to run don't need this sort of setting book (Forgotten Realms, Eberron, Golarion, Glorantha).
Generally speaking I need much less religion, history and culture background than is usually offered by the big setting books. When I ran the Rise of the Runelords adventure path, for example, I never referred to the Golarion campaign setting book once. Not once! That's how useless it was at the table. I think it's useful for people wanting to write interesting backstories to their well-travelled characters, it's useful to authors wanting to write adventures set in Golarion, it's useful for the community as a reference point when talking about the game they love. It's just not as useful at the table.
Tags: RPG Old School Keep It Short
I just sent the following mail to Paizo customer service:
Why is that? I no longer play the system, and I no longer need the wordy style.
With all the money saved, I might be buying Anomalous Subsurface Environment and the latest issues of Fight On and Knockspell instead.
|ASE1: Anomalous Subsurface Environment (Standard Paper)
|Realms of Crawling Chaos
|Fight On! #12 - Spring/Summer 2011
|Knockspell #6 softcover
|Shipping and Handling
|Shipping Discount (OCTGROUND305)
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Comments on 2011-10-15 Pathfinder Subscriptions Canceled
AlexSchroeder Got my stuff!
|ASE1: Anomalous Subsurface Environment (Standard Paper)
|Realms of Crawling Chaos
|Fight On! #12 - Spring/Summer 2011
|Knockspell #6 softcover
Hm, where to start?
– AlexSchroeder 2011-10-31 15:26 UTC
I recently started listing to the Happy Jacks RPG Podcast. It took me a bit to get used to the occasional belching. Does it have to be into the microphone? Anyway, one of the guys, Stu, also runs the Douchey DM blog, and there he wrote about using Obsidian Portal to keep his notes. He also notes that his players did not seem to interested in actually reading the stuff he writes on the wiki. In fact, one of his commenters writes the following:
I feel your pain about players not paying attention sometimes. I've emailed them pdf's of campaign notes and all that good stuff. Then about a quarter of the way into the first session, I start getting some blank looks. "You didn't read any of the stuff I emailed you, right?"
I recognize the situation. Here's what helped me cope:
Tags: RPG Keep It Short
Comments on 2011-06-16 Session Reports Are Read Just Once, If At All
Adrian I really want to reiterate your first point. Whenever I wrote session reports for our Shackled City campaign, I wrote it mainly for my personal enjoyment. If anyone read it and commented on it, then that was just gravy.
– Adrian 2011-06-16 21:12 UTC
AlexSchroeder Another aspect of writing for yourself: Claudia writes copious notes while playing. Once the game is over, however, she just can't find the time to transcribe her notes onto the wiki. She'd love to, but it just doesn't happen. At the same time, she really loves checking my session report for omissions using her notes, and she really likes summarizing recent events for the other players at the beginning of the next session. She likes it this way, and that's fine. There's no point in me trying to push her towards the wiki.
– AlexSchroeder 2011-06-16 21:40 UTC
Oh, what I wouldn't do for a one-time read! Great advice here, and spot on, in my opinion. Players come to the table for many reasons. Most GMs come to the table as storytellers. Few players seem to share that focus (else they're GMs themselves.)
I've started to regard the Obsidian Portal wiki as an in-game tool more than a player resource.
– Anarkeith 2011-06-16 22:42 UTC
Bevin Flannery I'd like to add a "me too!" to this. Multiple members of our group take turns as GM. One of them lamented that he didn't know what to put on the wiki that would make the players read it/add to it. I gave him this very advice: do only what you want, and what you enjoy. Anyone else's use of the wiki is gravy. That's how I approach my Obsidian Portal wiki – it's great if the players read it or contribute to it, but in the end, I do it for myself.
– Bevin Flannery 2011-06-17 01:26 UTC
I usually read session reports twice: once when they're posted, once before the follow-up session. That's an upper limit.
– Harald 2011-06-17 05:46 UTC
Thaumiel Nerub I also have read that some GM's are annoyed about the fact that players don't learn rules themselves. But there is similar point, some players want to sit down, have their few hours fun and get back to their life. They want to enjoy the game, not do homework.
And I love the picture! It's always interesting to see other fellow GMs' personal notes on paper.
– Thaumiel Nerub 2011-06-17 06:44 UTC
The Obsidian Portal guys say the same thing. http://www.jennisodes.com/podcasts/obsidian-portal/
– AlexSchroeder 2011-06-21 14:14 UTC
Shane Mangus All great pieces of advice, Alex. I am not sure why, but it is nigh impossible getting players to even read my blog. Even when I was posting the house rules we would be using for the game at that time. I have even tried offering extra experience points to anyone who would take the time during the week to stop by and take a look around at my recent posts. I have yet to give out any extra XPs to any of them…
– Shane Mangus 2011-07-15 02:22 UTC
When I listed my nominations for the One Page Dungeon Contest 2011, I added a few sentences to every nomination. I was later contacted by Shane Knysh and asked for feedback on his submission. When I asked, he said I could post it on my website as well. I love giving this sort of feedback!
So, The Island by Shane Knysh. My first impression is that the font is big enough for me to read without squinting, so that's positive.
The map is very nice and light, so that's another positive. The drawings of the four cabins are detailed with beds, tables, chairs, doors, windows—everything!
The most interesting aspect of the entry was the list of seven undead creatures "living" on the island. They are distinctive, they wear specific clothing, they have my attention—but unfortunately there is no more space, so there are no names, there are no clues to past events that I could figure out. What I would have loved to see: names, goals, personality quirks? Are they enemies, are they mindless or intelligent, are they perhaps friendly? Do they need saving? I want to know more about them, the secrets they are guarding, the necromancers or woes that created them. I want there to be more to it than flight or fight mindless undead.
I think that generally speaking the entry is good—it has an interesting location and interesting undead—but it could be so much better, so much tighter, so much more action packed. I like action packed.
Since there is not much space available, every sentence has to be either something to read to the players, or something for the players to interact with. I'm thinking of verbs like explore, investigate, fight, talk, plot, lie, exploit, help, read, etc. To give you an example, here's a paragraph:
It's nice, it has detail, it's short. But if I were the editor, I'd delete this paragraph. Instead, let there be a letter from a grief-struck father lost at sea with his daughter and no help coming, writing a last letter to his wife, sealed. Have the bloated zombie following the skinny one wear a signet ring. This creates a possible adventure hook where they players get to track down the wife or family and hand over the signet ring. Perhaps the letter also contains a secret to involve players in an intrigue. Replace all the non-essential descriptions with things the players can act on.
Long paragraphs have an addition drawback. I won't be reading them to the players, and I won't learn them by heart. As it stands, I'm afraid the party will enter a room, followed by ten seconds of silence as I need to read the two paragraphs again before describing the room to them. If everything were shorter, that'd be no problem.
What do you think—too harsh? Too particular to my taste? Perhaps your players enjoy rummaging through old decaying cabins…
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Comments on 2011-04-27 The Island
Adrian Did you recognize the pop culture reference? I am guessing not, since Gilligan's Island probably never have made it to Switzerland. All of the undead are, in fact, undead versions of the iconic series' characters. If you have seen the show, it immediately provides some inspiration on what is happening, and, if noticed by the players, is a cool Easter egg.
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No, I did not! I had never even heard of the show.
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Ahmedabad: Ah! For that crisp, crunchy, delicious namkeen. We may not live to eat, but snacks are irresistible stuff when you're curled up cosily watching TV or catching up with friends or family over hot cuppas.
But, with obesity being projected as the root problem behind several silent killers, people are avoiding fried snacks and opting for roasted ones. While tastebuds are reasonably satisfied , they're left without guilt and with the feeling that they're fighting flab.
Says Jaimin Patel, proprietor of a sweetmeat shop, "Demand for roasted snacks has soared. Today, they account for 25 per cent of our total namkeen sales. People are willing to compromise on taste for better health. These snacks are roasted in special kadhais and oil is sprinkled along with masala at the end."
Price is 30-40 per cent higher than regular namkeen, but people don't mind paying. "Future of this market is bright and with rising demand, more research will be done to develop new products," he adds. Patel's shop stocks snacks made of bajra, wheat, corn (most popular), moong, chana and soybean . They also make diet chips of dry potato powder. Only around three per cent oil is used in these chips as compared to 100 per cent in deep-fried chips, says Patel.
Though market for roasted snacks seems huge no national player has ventured into it. Supply is from small, local players, often unbranded. Roasted offerings include moong jor, chana jor, soybean jor, pudina dal, moong ankurit (whole), diet chevda, aloo tikka, disco papad, cornflakes, mattar jor and navratan mix. The packets carry varied claims – no cholesterol, low fat, low calorie, high protein and high fibre. But, they do list edible oil as an ingredient along with salt and masala.
"People, especially 40-plus women, show a lot of interest in diet snacks. But, no standard company makes these. So I only keep diet khakra," says Amit Patel , owner of a grocery store.
Dietician Kalpana Shukla gets roasted snacks from Jaipur for her clients. "When clients are on holiday, instead of eating fried stuff they can carry these and spice them up with some tomato and onion to make bhel. I even suggest these snacks as tiffin for children who are obese," she says.
Why are there so few companies in this business? The reason, she says, is that equipment required to prepare roasted snacks is expensive and marketing is also costly. However, one doubt remains – are these snacks really healthy? Dietician Sima Shah thinks not. "They don't mention proportion of oil used. They are better than fried snacks, but I would still recommend murmura, Marie biscuit and diet khakhra to my clients." she says.
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We had a wonderful time at Adam and Raquel's house in Guanajuato! It is a great base from which to explore the city. Although it's up the hill a little ways, you still feel close to the center. I think it took us about 8 minutes to walk down....a little bit longer on the way up!
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A couple months ago my partner and I decided to go to Mexico on a babymoon. I've been to Mexico 40 + times, but my partner had never visited. So we decided to go to Guanajuato where I had never been so that we'd share the discovery together. We found Racquel and Adam's casita and booked it (based on location and look). Just before leaving we spent a couple nights in La Jolla, California at another guesthouse (not booked thru this site) and it was a disaster. Total rip off. So we were a little gun shy going to Guanajuato. We shouldn't have been. Raquel and Adam's casita is gorgeous. Amazing tile work, roomy, great views and in a neighborhood where we never saw another gringo. R and A are gracious, generous hosts. It was a little rainy and cold when we arrived and they brought us over sweaters, a pea coat and plenty of wood for the fireplace. Raquel took me shopping and introduced me to the local shop keepers. They gave us excellent tips on where to go and what to see and were incredibly attentive to what ever we might need. At the same time, they were very careful to give us both all the privacy we needed. This was the best airbnb experience either of us have ever had. Very highly recommended.
We thoroughly enjoyed our stay at Casa Palma. It was the perfect retreat for our stay in beautiful Guanajuato. The house is very roomy and open with a spectacular view of the city and mountains. The kitchen is very complete with a separate dining area with lovely views and terrace. The location is an ideal 5-7 minute paseo to the centro while feeling safe and very comfortable. The hosts were extremely gracious and responsive and we loved all of the artistic touches (the tile work in the shower itself is a work of art). It is obvious that Raquel has put her heart into the home. We are looking forward to our next stay at Casa Palma.
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I am a writer/designer who divides my time between Hoboken, NJ just 1/2 an hour from NYC, and Guanajuato, Mexico. My husband and I design high end, gourmet solar ovens called uitzis. Look "uitzi solar ovens" up online to learn about our solar ovens and cooking with the sun in Guanajuato. I am passionate about design and beauty, and feel incredibly lucky to have such beautiful homes and be able to share them with interesting people. I love being a part of the airbnb community, and have stayed at fabulous places in Amsterdam and Oxford. I am also passionate about food and happy to share recommendations of good local eats! I like reading but am not big on TV so neither of our homes sports a huge, flat screen TV. But both our homes are warm and beautiful with exquisite attention to detail - and if you're on vacation in a fabulous place, do you really want to be watching TV? (Hoboken does have a smaller, flat screen TV and cable.)


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Okay so here is my problem started out 8 months ago with cardio and weight lifting. Starting weight 353lbs don't know what body fat was but sure it was high. Anyway after 8 months have dropped to 288. Goal weight is 225. I am 6ft and feel this is a good size to build back up from. Workout is 45 minutes of cardio. Followed by 1 hour +/- weight training. Day 1 is Chest/tri,Day 2 is back/bi,Day 3 is legs/shoulders, abs every other day. Only problem is i have been stuck at this weight for two months. Diet has not change. 7 eggs for breakfast, Two grilled chicken breast for lunch, and two grilled breast for dinner. Gallon of water a day. Only supplement I am taking is Nutrex Lipo 6X. Cardio started out at 30 minutes and have been told to increase it but still no results. PLEASE HELP.
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Your diet definately needs a change, you should be eating 6-8 small meals per day instead of just the 3 your on now. Your also eating a very very small amount of calories and zero carbs which I can assure you is doing nothing but killing your metabolism. Check out Ruggers cutting guide and search the forums for some better diet and training options.
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You need to add more food to your diet. You're not eating enough. Add at least 2 small meals to your diet.
6-8 small meals like said above, make sure you keep that metabolism humming...
Thanks, the small meals what should they be more protein, and would a protein shake count? Sorry to be so ignorant but want to do this right so that i don't put the weight back on.
a shake could count but whole food would be better. You need to read more and look at the big picture of your goals. Look up some john berardi stuff and do some research. Sorry, but I can tell you havent.
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(remedies)soothe voice prior to singing
Question Posted Thursday January 17 2008, 10:02 pm
I love singing.. I sing for the choir..
sometimes i find that my throat dries out and its hard to sing...
what are some home made recipes to sooth my voice prior to singing???
lubricating the thoat so that i can sing melodiously??
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answered Thursday April 15 2010, 1:40 pm:
You should drink a glass of warm water and cyyan pepper sorry if im spelling it wrong but yea it works alot and its also works for getting rid of colds....
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answered Saturday January 19 2008, 10:40 pm:
water always is good, but you don't want the water to be too cold or else that will affect your voice. try to stay away from dairy the day you are singing. also, this may sound silly but cough drops are a great idea because they cover your throat, making it less likely to dry out. hope this helps.
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answered Friday January 18 2008, 5:22 pm:
Halls vapor action cough drops. They work.
Room temperature water - NEVER ice cold (if you try it, your vocal chords tend to try to seize up; you kinda shock them), hot is okay, but try to go room temp - with either lemon or honey in it. Lemon works for some people, honey for others.
Peppermint tea is good, too, with a Ricola cough drop melted in it. Or you can do a combo and put a teaspoon of honey in peppermint tea with a cough drop melted in, or lemon and honey, or...you get the drift. Anyway, the peppermint DECAF tea with a cough drop in it is what I did every morning before my competitions, worked like a charm.
Drink LOTS of water.
Don't drink caffeine, stay away from dairy that day, and try to stay away from sugar. (Sugar free cough drops are good)
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Do not drink milk before you sing. It thickens the mucus in your throat, as does chewing gum.
A Teaspoon of honey is good. Do not have anything too acidic, I don't think you want to burp during your performance. Drink plenty of water to keep you hydrated, and you should hum a lot to relax your vocal cords so they are not tight when you sing, which could cause your voice to be raspy and squeeky. Throat sprays work, even though they are for sore throats, my choir used to use it and it worked well.
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One, which sounds REALLY gross, and is, but works incredibly well, is olive oil. Drink it, and it will help.
Second, hot tea with lemon and honey will soothe any throat problem.
There's also salt-water, but I don't reccommend it. Gargling with it has caused me problems in the past(gagging up chunks of salt at intermission... ick.)
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In 1998, Letta became at age 32 the youngest government minister in Italy's history when then-Premier Massimo D'Alema named him minister for European policy. He had other ministerial posts in subsequent center-left governments and in 2008 won a Parliament seat with the newly formed Democratic Party.
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We really enjoyed staying at this house. The house is comfortable and spacious and has some nice outdoor space as well. The studio space is private even though it is right next to the main house.
We liked that the house is on the edge of the forest and walking on the trail that runs behind it. It is a short drive to the many bay beaches and is very close to the bike path.
We would definitely stay here again and highly recommend it.
We picked out this house because it has a separate studio with living space and bedroom. We had two teenage girls with us and they loved being able to be off on their own. We barely saw them during the week. The house is very nice and has plenty of space plus lots of air conditioning which we needed in the 95 degree heat. There is also a nice outdoor deck and shower. The pictures on the website fairly represents the property. Our only issue with the house is that the cleaning fee seems fairly high considering you have to provide your own linens. Although this is somewhat offset by the reasonable rental. ( I am always surprised by the number of homes with rents so high that nobody rents them.)
The only other issue and why I did not rate the property 5 stars is the location. It is rather far off the beaten track (although very close to Cape Cod bike trail). We spent a lot of time driving to places. In addition, the nearest beach (Nauset Light) has extremely limited parking. If you are not at the beach by 9 or 10 you can forget about parking. We were forced every day to drop off people at the beach (which they hassle you about), and then park our the car about a mile away at Nauset high School. Consequently we had to walk the mile back and forth. The next nearest beach, Coast Guard Beach, also has limited parking and typically fills up by 11. If you don't get a spot in the lot there is no alternative. There is also no good alternative for food shopping except in Orleans which is about an hour's round trip in typical cape traffic.
Overall , if you want a quiet peaceful vacation (although there is a shooting range about 400 yards from house with gunfire during most of the day) I would highly recommend the property, especially if you have teens. (There is a great skateboard park in Wellfleet if you have teenage boys). If you want more to do and more convenience I am not sure North Eastham is the best place. We prefer Wellfleet or Chatham for those reasons.
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Led by a trained sommelier, our Wines of Italy tasting is an in depth tutorial in wine history, technique and appreciation. As an integral part of Italian culture, to understand wine is to understand a part of the Italian soul and millenarian traditions linking people to their land and its gastronomic traditions.
During the course of the walk, we will visit two characteristic enoteche, or wine bars, where locals congregate to imbibe, snack and socialize. The docent will start with an overview of the history of wine making and the basics of production, including the importance of the production calendar, from the grape harvest, the vendemmia, to the autumnal appearance of the year's vino novello, or young wines. The docent will help you navigate the wine lists and explain the characteristics of each region's important varietals and the importance of food pairing. In pairing a selection of wines with appetizers, the group will have the opportunity to explore the local region around Rome or, instead, go farther afield to sample wines from Tuscany, Sicily, or Le Marche. We usually start with whites at the first stop, then reds at the second, with appetizers to keep us going all along.
Although you should come away from the walk knowing the difference between a Chianti and a Fiano, the emphasis is on learning to enjoy Italian wines and observing, through tasting, how they reflect and encapsulate Italian culture itself.
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Gina Tringali is a food historian, coffee connoisseur and cook. She has a Master's degree in Italian Gastronomic Culture from the Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata", an MBA from NYU and is a certified sommelier and member of AIS. She worked for the Craft family of restaurants in NYC in business development and marketing and spent some time in the kitchen before relocating to Rome in 2007.
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Following completion of her law degree at Università degli Studi of Rome, Daniela became a certified sommelier through AIS, one of most important international wine associations. She then went on to continue her studies and earned several wine Master's degrees in France. In 2006 and 2007 she worked for the commission board of AIS evaluating candidates for sommelier exams. In 2008 she started to work as a writer and wine taster with Edizioni Estemporanee, an Italian wine publisher, and she began to manage Comptoir de France (a fine wine shop specializing in French wine in Rome and Milan). In addition to her work with Context, Daniela is currently teaching the Wines of France at the Saint Louis de France Cultural Institute in Rome, leading wine tastings for a variety of organizations, alongside her work for Edizioni Estemporanee and Comptoir de France.
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INDIANAPOLIS — Chuck Pagano was so eager to get back to work Monday, he was the first one to show up at team headquarters.
Long before meeting with his players, the Colts first-year coach drove quietly into the complex, walked into the office where the lights have remained on for nearly three months and began preparing for Sunday's game against AFC South champion Houston like it was another at the day office.
Hardly. It was the biggest milestone yet in an incredibly emotional season in which Pagano has beaten leukemia and the Colts have been a most pleasant surprise in reaching the playoffs under interim coach Bruce Arians.
I asked him if he would ... take over the reins and what a masterful, masterful job you did Bruce, Pagano said with Arians nearby at the news conference. You carried the torch and all you went out and did was win ballgames, you got our 10th win yesterday and you got us into the playoffs and you did it with dignity and you did it with class. I can't thank you enough.
Players, coaches and staff members had been anticipating this day from the moment they learned Pagano was taking an indefinite leave to fight cancer, Oct. 1.
So when the 52-year-old first-time head coach returned, the 24-hour rule was cast aside — giving the Colts (10-5) another 24 hours to celebrate something far more important than reaching the playoffs.
I know Chuck is ready for this challenge, said Colts owner Jim Irsay. I know the time is right for him to grab the reins and get the head coaching cap on and begin the journey.
The great thing about the National Football League is that so much attention gets paid to it, so many other things happen beside win and losses and the inspiration Chuck has shown to others and the time Chuck has spent connecting with others, it really is miraculous. It's a fairytale story, its' a Hollywood script, it's all of those things.
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Jul 4, 2013A prismatic meditation on an entire nation, Eliav Lilti's documentary is history as abstraction.
These mostly silent home movies often have the tug of nostalgia, especially those that show domestic life... But images can be slippery, showing something different from what their creators intended. Even as Mr. Lilti constructs a history...he seems to show its fissures.
Lilti tells a fine story, but he doesn't always look closely enough at what he's saying.
Israel's most interesting — and revealing — footage tends to be the most candid: beach-goers in the '30s, scenes from family gatherings and celebrations, a coke-fueled celebrity wedding in the '70s. The commentary gimmick justifies itself in these stretches.
There's a matter-of-factness to Israel: A Home Movie that's disquieting, as it shows the joy and determination of a nation in the making, and the dismayed faces of those elbowed aside.
What Lilti's cinematic mural does is remind us that the political is always personal—and in Israel's case, vise versa.
Ultimately, this film reveals the Israeli self-image, but not much more. The people with the cameras pass by Arab neighbors, and what the Palestinians' home movies might look like remains unexplored.
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