Weekend Events, RPG Review 20
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tcpipIt was an extremely busy weekend, starting with a late Friday night session of The Rocky Horror Picture Show with Patria Quinn and Nell Campbell (Magenta and Columbia) introducing the event. It was, as always, a raucous event of costume and audience participation. On Saturday ventured to deepest Dandenong to see ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ser_pounce and hathhalla and their stunning new home (Edwardian period, Victorian style) for another day of cheesequest (the white stilton with ginger and mango was brilliant) and games; Cthulhu 500 was a impressive surprise of two genres that one normally doesn't associate together. On Sunday attended the Unitarian bi-annual concert; among some various impressive musical talents (Marg C's flautist and soprano grand-daughters were particularly great!), I was assigned on the programme to encourage people to open their wallets for the Fred Hollow's Foundation. Although there was less than 100 people in attendance, over $1500 was raised. Afterwards Bill Hall from the Koroit Institute spoke at the Philosophy Forum on knowledge vs belief especially Popper's approach to scientific evidence.
RPG Review 20 has been released; new contributions from myself (which will be posted to RPG.net) include reviews of Monsters! Monsters!, the AD&D 2e Monstrous Compendium, Hunter: The Reckoning, Anaxial's Roster, and Malleus Monstrorum. The next issue of said 'zine will look at the influence of computing on the RPG industry (including from MUDs to MMORPGs), design and with various support applications and so forth. In a very real sense it is looking at the future of tabletop roleplaying, which should have a few surprises at the very least. Other gaming in the past week (in addition to the aforementioned Cthulhu 500), included the beginning of another Eclipse Phase scenario run by Martin. By this stage of the development we're really beginning to get a much better sense of the various factional conflicts and are increasingly forced to make substantive choices of where we line up. On Sunday afternoon I ran a game of Twilight 2000, which witnessed a conclusive victory for the forces of the Free Republic of Warsaw over the Barony of Warsaw, which means there's a string of independent townships along the Visla River, with the superpowers on either side. Wonder how that will work out?
ser_pounce and hathhalla and their stunning new home (Edwardian period, Victorian style) for another day of cheesequest (the white stilton with ginger and mango was brilliant) and games; Cthulhu 500 was a impressive surprise of two genres that one normally doesn't associate together. On Sunday attended the Unitarian bi-annual concert; among some various impressive musical talents (Marg C's flautist and soprano grand-daughters were particularly great!), I was assigned on the programme to encourage people to open their wallets for the Fred Hollow's Foundation. Although there was less than 100 people in attendance, over $1500 was raised. Afterwards Bill Hall from the Koroit Institute spoke at the Philosophy Forum on knowledge vs belief especially Popper's approach to scientific evidence. RPG Review 20 has been released; new contributions from myself (which will be posted to RPG.net) include reviews of Monsters! Monsters!, the AD&D 2e Monstrous Compendium, Hunter: The Reckoning, Anaxial's Roster, and Malleus Monstrorum. The next issue of said 'zine will look at the influence of computing on the RPG industry (including from MUDs to MMORPGs), design and with various support applications and so forth. In a very real sense it is looking at the future of tabletop roleplaying, which should have a few surprises at the very least. Other gaming in the past week (in addition to the aforementioned Cthulhu 500), included the beginning of another Eclipse Phase scenario run by Martin. By this stage of the development we're really beginning to get a much better sense of the various factional conflicts and are increasingly forced to make substantive choices of where we line up. On Sunday afternoon I ran a game of Twilight 2000, which witnessed a conclusive victory for the forces of the Free Republic of Warsaw over the Barony of Warsaw, which means there's a string of independent townships along the Visla River, with the superpowers on either side. Wonder how that will work out?
