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Weather: Currently around -10 degrees Celsius and snowing. Still, it was rather cold - around -16-23 Celsius - for a long time, as you can see: ( Warning: cold weather images )
To those who don't remember, I'm currently working for the Pispala Library House, the small "private" library the locals founded when the Tampere City Library closed the local branch library. Collection is based of donated books. ( So this is my current workplace )
Your
Ultimate Roleplaying Purity Score | | Category | Your Score | Average | | Hacklust | 83.02%
Warrior needs guts... Badly! | 53.6% | | Sensitive Roleplaying | 86.08%
Occasionally remembers to name their PC | 54.7% | | GM Experience | 52.9%
Puts the players through the wringer | 69.3% | | Systems Knowledge | 87.29%
Played in a couple of campaigns | 90.4% | | Livin' La Vida Dorka | 58.62%
Has interesting conversations in public | 63.3% | You are 72.87% pure
Average Score: 68.8% | | This test is apparently made with an assumption that everybody plays Dungeons and Dragons (and I don't, hence the below 100% result in bloodthirstiness.) As for PCs and names, I usually start with them but the term are apparently belittling anyway.
I haven't managed to write an entry about my slowly-moving campaign since last April for various reasons. The campaign was also in effective hiatus for number of months because of incompatible schedules, one player dealing with the aftermath (legal or otherwise) of the death of his mother and (believe it or not) another player going through a brain surgery to remove a tumor. Add that the usual digressing and characters checking out minor details that were not important. And I still would not like to run a minimalistic campaign, with no outside events…( Breaking, entering and taking care of dogs in Nancy )Tags:
Christopher McGovern - the Dragon SeekersChristopher McGovern has written a book about the British fossil collectors before the Darwin's work with the Origin of the Species (which appeared around 150 years ago). They collected the fossil because of curiosity, because of scientific interest but also for profit. Scholars tried to use them as a proof of Biblical flood - and some of them retouched them to make them more presentable - and marketable. ( Fossil collectors before Darwin )
Pierre de Vomecourt - Who Lived to See the Day( ”more )
Benjamin Woollet - The Queen's ConjurerJohn Dee was an astrologer and occultist in the Elizabethan England. In his predictions he supported ideas like the British Empire and wanted to find the laws of nature by asking angels themselves. ( Serious research via crystal and a fraud )
Arturo Perez-Reverte- The Seville CommunionArturo Perez-Reverte is Spanish author who has written various books (in the current publishing environment, his publisher would have forced him to stick to Captain Alatriste in the expense of everything else). But this story is placed in the modern day or, to be exact, relatively recent past. ( Magnificent book, magnificent tale )
Steve Aylett - The Inflatable VolunteerThe back cover blurb is even more wrong in this case than in many others because it tries to give an impression that there is some semblance of a story between the covers of this book. If the whoever wrote it even read the book, he probably ended up going to a dog psychiatrist asking for herbal acupuncture. ( Amusing intentional incoherence )
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