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by Bifford [White Hare Games] (Sam)

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On Breaking the Back of Things (tm)
by [username=Bifford]Bifford[/username]

Familiars of the Village: It was only ever meant to be a small project. Indeed, it's a dozen page A5 booklet supplement to work alongside Arion Games' Tales of the Village. I don't expect much from it sales wise, but it's not about that - I wanted to create something for this cool little game.

It's great to have finally broken the back of getting the work done. The core data is written up and a character sheet has been crafted similar to the original. I just need to write up the example familiars and play around with text and layout until I'm happy with it. Maybe one week more, then I can move onto the next project (Accessible Gaming Quarterly).

I also started my new supplementary job: Clerking for an Academy. Which is an ironic thing as I've just started running the game of Clerk & Dagger for the newbie initiative. That hasn't been without a learning curve hickup: The game is new to me and I was unsure on a few points so had to query some things with the dev. I'm glad my players appear to be accomodating of me in my misshaps! We have done "stage one" (prep) of the characters mission, and are about to kick off the actual mission! I hope it all works well!


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I have the Herbalist's Primer but didn't feel the need to get the Geologist's Primer. Maybe I should have.
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If I were to want an olympics for the common person it would have barrel lugging, archery, and smoke-ring-blowing. 'nuff said.
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QOTD MAR 3: Do you account for equipment wear and tear during character missions in your RPG? Do you require or expect characters to perform the mundane task of maintenance? Do any RPGs require it?


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by Rachel

Groceries! We had a nice break in the weather and managed to stock up on the necessities. Errands took up most of today, but we got what we needed. That said, do you know that Palm Island's rulebook is 31 pages (not including the covers)? I didn't realize it was that long. Granted the pages are super tiny, but that still makes me feel a whole lot better about the size of most of my rulebooks 😜.

Game Over On borrowed time...

Happy Wednesday and happy playing!
-Rachel

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by Lowell Kempf

Over the past several years, I have come to appreciate media that allows you to decompress, some of which could even qualify as escapist. Games, movies, books, music, etc. And while you can't survive on a diet of that, I also think that they are important and part of a balanced mental health. However, sometimes I wonder if some escapism is going too far lol

I recently reread A. A. Milne's collection of poetry When We Were Very Young, which was his first work for children. And, yes, we are talking about the same guy who gave the world Winnie the Pooh. However, there is a fascinating difference in maturity (but not artistry) between When We Were Very Young and the Winnie the Pooh stories or even his later volume of children's poetry, Now We Are Six.

In When We Were Very Young, Milne actually seems to be writing to, not down to, three-or-four-year-olds. He doesn't capture their vocabulary but he does capture their worldview. I quite enjoyed how E. Nesbit managed to do that with older children (and felt that Kenneth Grahame completely failed in the Golden Age) but Milne manages to capture the voice of the truly young. With the very important note that he speaks in the voice of a child who is from a family of affluence.

And that sense of privilege and social isolation may be why I found rereading the book not clicking for me. Most of the poems in When We Were Very Young were just too far away for me. Does that mean Milne did his job too well?

That sense of disconnect isn't something that I had a problem with his other works for children. The two collections of Winnie the Pooh stories are charming and delightful and I can easily see how they launched the merchandising juggernaut that Disney helms. (And I do think that at least the first movie holds up to Milne's work very well) Even Now We are Six has more wry humor that I can buy into.

I did find myself thinking that the simple rhyming schemes and meter felt like the quintessential children's poetry. Then it occurred to me that if Milne hadn't invented the form (and I'm sure he didn't), he refined it and helped carry on its popularity. Lewis Caroll, Edward Lear and Robert Lewis Stevenson wrote memorable children's poetry but Milne really nailed it.

And When We Were Very Young has what is one of Milne's most important poems, Halfway Down. I think I have heard or read in in enough other places that I forgot that it was originally Milne's. The sense of disconnection that the poem defines, of being in the middle of staircase and thus not being 'anywhere', is where my sense of disconnection really works in the poem's favor. Which is the actual point. It is a child's first liminal space.

My parents read the book to me when I was about that age and the fact that I still remember that speaks volumes. I may no longer be the target demographic but I think there is brilliance there.

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