It was a good week for reading:
- Echoes from the Geekcave has a post about why he uses the 1 gp = 1/10 lb standard. I don't love it, but I understand his arguments for keeping it.
- Tom Van Winkle wrote "The Historical Argument about Racial Diversity in D&D." I present it mostly as a post of interest - I stay out of the whole discussion of gaming as a whole as much as possible. I like our game, and how we do it, and the silliness and whatnot that comes with it. I won't pretend it's a model of any particular ideology or worldview, but it does produce a lot of fun. When I do take a look around at gaming as a whole, it always seems to be like it was in the past - a lot of people fighting about who's way of playing is right and why it's right. I'd rather take a pass on all of that these days . . . but I always like to see TVW's take on subjects.
- I finished Jon Peterson's book, that I started back in August.
I'll stand by my description in that link - it's a more readable story of the development of D&D and roleplaying games. I just liked the detail more in the 1st edition; this read more like his later work, Game Wizards. I enjoyed it well enough, but I don't think I'll return to it again in the way that I did and do with the 1st edition.
- Felltower is Sunday . . . small group - 3-4 players? - and we'll see. It's likely they'll skip the Brotherhood Complex without the firepower of Duncan and Persistance Montgomery. NPCs just can't provide enough to make up for a couple of 300-point PCs.
- Iron Llama on how to play GURPS!
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