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Land Tax Issues, Uranium, Gaming, Evil Awards
Green Left Weekly published my letter on the land tax cuts for the rich. Meanwhile housing affordability hits a new low. Compare land and house prices and housing affordability (links via ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
erudito). An international phenomenon Slums Growing Around The World.
I will be presenting on all these issues on Wednesday June 28th at 6.30pm at the Hume Global Learning Centre, 1093 Pascoe Vale Rd at a forum entitled "Please Explain Mr. Brumby"; please come along.
Martin Ferguson spoke at the Unitarians last Sunday on the global energy debate; possibly presented the best arguments for expansion in uranium exports I have heard - and was steadfast in his opposition to it in Australia. This follows a presentation by Jim Green (who has a rather different opinion) on the same issue.
Ended up continuing to play GURPS Australian Noir, rather than the Retro AD&D game which I set up to balance the numbers. Meanwhiledroog64's Arthurian HeroQuest game just gets better and more devious. Next Sunday is my Paranoia/Cyberpunk crossover alongside Middle-Earth Role Playing. Have noticed that Mongoose are getting seriously canned on the various RuneQuest mailing lists. On topic, scored big time at the local opportunity shop last weekend; someone had donated their roleplaying collection. Several Kult supplements, three copies of Empire of the Petal Throne (a roleplaying game designed by a Muslim convert and professor of linguistics), Atlantis, and some D&D supplements.
Two awards of evil this week. One to korgmeister who believes that Australia's indigenous people lost to the British and they should just put up with it, stop whining and appealing to pity. Number two to Japan for leading the charge to declare the IWC moratorium on whaling invalid.
erudito). An international phenomenon Slums Growing Around The World.I will be presenting on all these issues on Wednesday June 28th at 6.30pm at the Hume Global Learning Centre, 1093 Pascoe Vale Rd at a forum entitled "Please Explain Mr. Brumby"; please come along.
Martin Ferguson spoke at the Unitarians last Sunday on the global energy debate; possibly presented the best arguments for expansion in uranium exports I have heard - and was steadfast in his opposition to it in Australia. This follows a presentation by Jim Green (who has a rather different opinion) on the same issue.
Ended up continuing to play GURPS Australian Noir, rather than the Retro AD&D game which I set up to balance the numbers. Meanwhile
droog64's Arthurian HeroQuest game just gets better and more devious. Next Sunday is my Paranoia/Cyberpunk crossover alongside Middle-Earth Role Playing. Have noticed that Mongoose are getting seriously canned on the various RuneQuest mailing lists. On topic, scored big time at the local opportunity shop last weekend; someone had donated their roleplaying collection. Several Kult supplements, three copies of Empire of the Petal Throne (a roleplaying game designed by a Muslim convert and professor of linguistics), Atlantis, and some D&D supplements.Two awards of evil this week. One to korgmeister who believes that Australia's indigenous people lost to the British and they should just put up with it, stop whining and appealing to pity. Number two to Japan for leading the charge to declare the IWC moratorium on whaling invalid.
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Well, seeming that the boxed set included multiple copies of the original rules (well, the DW reprint from 1987), I'd be more than happy to swap you a copy for something nice and equally cool ;-)
There has been complaints about elements of the combat system (of course) and especially the legendary abilities section, which is very munchkin in my opinion. But mostly there's been comments about the treatment of Mr. Perrin and the playtest group (cf., a previous lj post of mine where I was almost left off the playtesters list).
The general feeling seems to be that Mongoose is treating RQ as a commercial opportunity rather than a game worthy of revival for its own sake (of course, this shouldn't surprise anyone - Mongoose are a profit-making enterprise),
All this said, I must confess I am really looking forward to the Dragon Pass 2nd Age supplement - Godlearners versus Empire of Wyrm Friend's is truly epic..
Oh, and on-topic Greg Stafford sends his regards. I've been in recent communication with him.
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Ahh, I'd heard something about this but I'm utterly unaware of the precise details.. Enlighten me!
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...those posts are of course from Usenet, so if you have the time, Google Groups should be able to provide you with more details from the discussion.
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Hmmm... It seems that Mr. Sprange may have ruffled people the wrong way in the past.
It will be interesting to see what develops.
Thanks very much for the links.
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I'm not too worried about munchkinness these days. But they certainly did seem to poorly handle the playtest process. Still, proof in the pudding and all that - I haven't seen any of it myself since last year, but at least the current stuff is done by good people. And to be honest I wasn't that thrilled with Perrins magic system suggestions.
The 2nd Age stuff looks good. I'm also looking forward to the 2nd Age deep background stuff Greg and others have done due to be released later this year (despite the ugly confrontation the high priced pre-release con fundraisers have sparked on the HeroQuest list).
Been back and forthing with Greg myself on the HQ list.
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The last edition of the rules were less prone to what I considered to be obvious errors. Steve Perrin's magic rules I felt were a first draft execution of a good idea and basically that's what should have been said.
Being as kind as possible the playtest group was treated very poorly. In one period months went past without a single message coming from Mongoose. It really wasn't good.
Send me the link of the HQ list - seeming that I'm actually playing it regularly these days...