Saturday night musings
So I'm back from the day's visit to Chicago--maybe my last trip for quite a while! The next time I'll be in Chicagoland it will be with my family and a moving truck for the purpose of relocating Michele to GR. The thought of actually being in the same state as the love of my life is making me giddy with joy!
So on that marginally coherent note, I offer these random observations.
- In a bit over two months, I will be married to my best friend. How cool is that! Can I hear a collective awwwwwww from the audience, please?
- I watched Seven (er, that's "Se7en" for the uber-cool amongst you) this weekend. I was quite pleasantly surprised--it was an excellent movie in almost every respect, although it was also quite unsettling. I'll write up some of my thoughts on the film and post them here in the next few days as time permits.
- I note that Atlas Games is offering their classic RPG Ars Magica for free in PDF format. I've never played the game--which I believe is about wizards in historical Europe?--but friends Ed and Jon assure me that it's worth checking out. Good deal!
- It's AD 2003. Why don't we have battlemechs yet?
Have a great weekend!
Comments
(RE: Battlemechs) Hey, after 1999 passed by without the moon been blown away from the Earth with a moonbase on it, I've been resigned to a boring future.
Posted by: Ed | March 23, 2003 1:04 PM
I found Seven to be a profoundly disturbing and evil (gasp!) film. I'm interested to hear what you'll have to say about it.
Posted by: alan | March 24, 2003 7:52 AM
Ars Magica is the bomb. It uses a few concepts that may be unfamiliar to the average RPG'er (at least they were unfamiliar to me), including:
"troupe style" play (each player has 3-4 characters)
improvisatory magic (rather than a set spell list)
a less rigidly numerical, more "descriptive" approach to attributes and skills.
I think you would appreciate the historical feel of the world and possibly the theological premise behind it (that medieval Christian thinkers have a correct world view, and magic, being separate from faith, is strongest the further away from cities/religion it gets.) Definitely recommended.
Posted by: Jon | March 24, 2003 9:25 AM
I went out on a set-up date in college and we went to see Seven, not knowing that it was not exactly the best getting-to-know-you type date movie. It made for some really great after movie small talk:
"So...that was disturbing, huh?"
"Yeah..."
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