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Finally released RPG Review 15, which is nominally associated with indie game systems. It's incredibly late, but nevertheless I am happy with articles like the interview with Liz Danforth, and the actual play reports. One thing which strikes me about indie RPGs is that their narrow focus and simplicity is at least partially due to the enormous quantity of material that has been produced in the 70's, 80's; I am still playing good RPGs from that period. It is little wonder that there is demand for new games to be particularly short and snappy.
As an example last night finally had the opportunity to run a game of Ringworld, a very good Chaosium game based on the Larry Niven series. There was an excellent fan site a few years back, however said author gave up after the Niven's agent squashed a plan to publish a Known Space RPG. Damn character generation took all night tho'.
Last weekend there ALP State Conference and a meeting of the Isocracy Network. The former a primarily a policy conference, which meant that some delegate were less interested (which is tragic) in attendence. The urgency motion that I had put up regarding Timor-Leste documentation had somehow become misplaced and as a result wasn't discussed. I collared several responsible people over this and will continue to do so.
The Isocracy meeting went very well, although unfortunately a the UN Association of Victoria did not provide their planned speaker. Nevertheless, there was a wide-ranging discussion of the history of just wars, legal mechanisms such as the Geneva Convention, the definition of genocide, the rise of the International Criminal Court, and finally the Responsibility to Protect. We took an in principle support of RtP, recognising potential issues of implementation. We also decided to affiliate with the International Luxemburgist Network.
As an example last night finally had the opportunity to run a game of Ringworld, a very good Chaosium game based on the Larry Niven series. There was an excellent fan site a few years back, however said author gave up after the Niven's agent squashed a plan to publish a Known Space RPG. Damn character generation took all night tho'.
Last weekend there ALP State Conference and a meeting of the Isocracy Network. The former a primarily a policy conference, which meant that some delegate were less interested (which is tragic) in attendence. The urgency motion that I had put up regarding Timor-Leste documentation had somehow become misplaced and as a result wasn't discussed. I collared several responsible people over this and will continue to do so.
The Isocracy meeting went very well, although unfortunately a the UN Association of Victoria did not provide their planned speaker. Nevertheless, there was a wide-ranging discussion of the history of just wars, legal mechanisms such as the Geneva Convention, the definition of genocide, the rise of the International Criminal Court, and finally the Responsibility to Protect. We took an in principle support of RtP, recognising potential issues of implementation. We also decided to affiliate with the International Luxemburgist Network.