Campaign Law and Other gaming, Miscellany.

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I was originally asked to write one chapter (World Building) of the upcoming new edition of Campaign Law for Rolemaster Classic, I am now significantly contributing to two other chapters (Peoples and Campaigns). Appropriately, the Rolemaster Companion I wrote some sixteen years ago, with a cover price of $14, now sells for $100 USD. I recently finished playing a Rolemaster PBeM run by Luther Martin set in Robert E. Howard's Hyborian Age (I played a Dafarian mentalist named Xanana). Now he wants to start a PBeM set in Middle-Earth after the Hobbit, but before the Lord of the Rings. I shall have to revive my lovesick Halfling, Paul McGann. Iron Crown also had a 'remembrance contest' in honour of Gary Gygax. I submitted "A Tale of Two (Rolemaster) Paladins", which I am sure grailchaser could correct me on some of the finer details.

This is quite a big week for me in hanging out with friends in the shared imaginary space of roleplaying games. Thursday evening (D&D 3.5, Fantasy Australia), Friday evening (Swordbearer Castofan), Saturday day (AD&D1e, Norman Britain) and Sunday day (L5R, Ainu Nezumi) is all going to be taken up with ham improvised acting and dice rolling. This is on top of recent events such as an increasingly notorious Easter Sunday GURPS Bunnies & Burrows game (complete with players in rabbit ears). Although without amusing images, I must say the last two retro-AD&D Norman Britian games has been enormous fun (visiting hell, stopping Arachne's revenge against the Gods). In the HeroQuest Glorantha game I narrate, the players have been doing some crazy things, such as winning wars, playing cupid and planning seductions; improvised storytelling at its best - all's fair in love and war.

The past weeks haven't all been fun and games however.. I've spent a fair bit of time working through the implementation of subdomains on DNS and Apache with a PHP/MySQL site; not for the first time Debian Administration has come to my aid. National PornographicGeographic informs us that apparently sex was invented in Australia. Finally, ctudball alerts us to the disaster that is the refusual to separate church and state in the UN Declaration of Human Rights. I take the opportunity to, once again, break Victoria's Racial and Religious Tolerance Act; and I incite others to do.

Comments

[lardarsegreg.livejournal.com]

Reading your posts over the last year or so leaves me slightly confused as to your standpoint on religion. Any chance you can help to ease my confusion?

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I am a member of the Melbourne Unitarian Church, and often give services there.

As with other Unitarian-Universalists we advocate the separation of church and state. We are all secularists.

Unitarian-Univeralists are a non-creedal religion. We do not make theological pronouncements; there are Christian UUs, Pagan UUs, Buddhist UUs, Atheist UUs etc.

We recognise religious teachings as providing contributions to human understanding, the nature of the world, ethical systems etc., but we do not consider any to have absolute knowledge on such affairs. We accept the gifts of reason and the senses to provide the knowledge which is within human ken.

Does that help?

[lardarsegreg.livejournal.com]

Yes it does. I'm just glad that I didn't try to read that while I was half asleep...