Mage was a cool game - it came out when WW writers didn't suck, and when the majority of WW players didn't suck either, yet. (I'm aware I'm going to be killed by the loyalist goths out there - oh wait, you won't care enough to do it, because you're so sad...) I'd even still say it was worth the money - and that's rare to me.
Um... I don't there are any loyalist goths left out there. They left the same time as pretty-much everyone else, back when WW got seriously pretentious (trust me on this one - 90% of goths have a really low tolerance for that, probably because the other 10% of 'em are insufferably pretentious...:), started playing directly to the munchkin gallery and forgot that ongoing plotlines are much less fun when they're resolved offstage by the sourcebook writers instead of actually involving the players. IMHO, of course.
Wiping out (or retconning) entire chunks of setting when many people are halfway through a campaign doesn't help, either. "I'm sorry, but the official sourcebook now says that your character was disintegrated in Mexico somewhen late last year... um..."
Good as White Wolf used to be, I think they lost their grip a long, long time ago!
Not sure where I read this, but PTerry did an interview in which he said he'd never, Never, NEVER again work with Neil Gaiman.
Not that he dislikes Neil, or disrespects him - just that their working styles and personalities were so utterly irreconsilable.
I remember turning up to a Discworld book signing, several years ago, and asking Terry Pratchett if there'd ever be another collaboration with Neil Gaiman and/or a Goods Omens sequel of some sort.
His reply was "When hell freezes over"
At the time, I wasn't sure if this was a statement or a story synopsis...:)
Well if it's even possible that any of this stuff could be legal, I would say they don't. That is, even if these don't become law, if they could without being struck down(ours would be in the Supreme Court, I'm assuming there's something at least vaguely similar in the UK), then you do not have more freedoms than we do.
Well, this exactly the sort of thing that the House of Lords used to (occasionally) be good for. Which is probably a major reason why our current government decided to 'reform' (read: decimate) it. While there are some very obvious downsides to an upper chamber that's partially filled with senile hereditary peers, I think that, at its best, it worked quite well.
A big room full of cantankerous & cynical old politicians can make a pretty good sanity check for bad laws - both the quietly nasty ones like this and the loudly stupid "tough on crime" ones designed to get knee-jerk support from the tabloids.
Politicians who no longer have their eye on party leadership, and who don't have to worry about losing votes in the next election and/or being ousted if they do something controversial (such as breaking ranks with their party), can suddenly become amazingly sensible.
Unfortunately, such individuals are rarer than hens teeth in the UK Commons - and most of them do tend to have some very weird views about bloodsports.:-(
"Imagine Clinton, Chirac, Blair, Schroeder talking about 'their favourite OS' - an amusing thought."
Actually, I can just picture Blair (and maybe a couple of the others) doing this, if only to enhance their image by appearing computer-literate.
The chosen OS would, of course, be carefully selected by their advisors so that it projected the right image & flattered the right billionaires (Or the wrong billionires, depending on how you look at it.:-)
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Mage was a cool game - it came out when WW writers didn't suck, and when the majority of WW players didn't suck either, yet. (I'm aware I'm going to be killed by the loyalist goths out there - oh wait, you won't care enough to do it, because you're so sad...) I'd even still say it was worth the money - and that's rare to me.
Um... I don't there are any loyalist goths left out there. They left the same time as pretty-much everyone else, back when WW got seriously pretentious (trust me on this one - 90% of goths have a really low tolerance for that, probably because the other 10% of 'em are insufferably pretentious... :), started playing directly to the munchkin gallery and forgot that ongoing plotlines are much less fun when they're resolved offstage by the sourcebook writers instead of actually involving the players. IMHO, of course.
Wiping out (or retconning) entire chunks of setting when many people are halfway through a campaign doesn't help, either. "I'm sorry, but the official sourcebook now says that your character was disintegrated in Mexico somewhen late last year... um..."
Good as White Wolf used to be, I think they lost their grip a long, long time ago!
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Not sure where I read this, but PTerry did an interview in which he said he'd never, Never, NEVER again work with Neil Gaiman.
Not that he dislikes Neil, or disrespects him - just that their working styles and personalities were so utterly irreconsilable.
I remember turning up to a Discworld book signing, several years ago, and asking Terry Pratchett if there'd ever be another collaboration with Neil Gaiman and/or a Goods Omens sequel of some sort.
His reply was "When hell freezes over"
At the time, I wasn't sure if this was a statement or a story synopsis... :)
Well, this exactly the sort of thing that the House of Lords used to (occasionally) be good for. Which is probably a major reason why our current government decided to 'reform' (read: decimate) it. While there are some very obvious downsides to an upper chamber that's partially filled with senile hereditary peers, I think that, at its best, it worked quite well.
A big room full of cantankerous & cynical old politicians can make a pretty good sanity check for bad laws - both the quietly nasty ones like this and the loudly stupid "tough on crime" ones designed to get knee-jerk support from the tabloids.
Politicians who no longer have their eye on party leadership, and who don't have to worry about losing votes in the next election and/or being ousted if they do something controversial (such as breaking ranks with their party), can suddenly become amazingly sensible.
Unfortunately, such individuals are rarer than hens teeth in the UK Commons - and most of them do tend to have some very weird views about bloodsports. :-(
"Imagine Clinton, Chirac, Blair, Schroeder talking about 'their favourite OS' - an amusing thought."
:-)
Actually, I can just picture Blair (and maybe a couple of the others) doing this, if only to enhance their image by appearing computer-literate.
The chosen OS would, of course, be carefully selected by their advisors so that it projected the right image & flattered the right billionaires (Or the wrong billionires, depending on how you look at it.