I want you to accept that what I’m about to say is sincere. I know you have heard other accounts of the Tempest, and I know what I’m about to say differs from those. In the past people who have heard this story have called me a liar, or have said that my injuries caused…
Read MoreQuick post: skipping a week
Sorry gang, I have a week filled with medical diagnostics. So, no update on the covenant project for now. 2013. I’m so glad you are gone. Seriously. I thought the whole slow torture with Amber thing was terrible, but then you had my doctor calling me three days before Christmas saying “You know those turning…
Read MoreStats up for the autocrat over on the vanilla covenant page, and an odd image I discovered on my hard drive
So, the vanilla covenant project is moving forward again: stats for specialists this and next week. Also, I found this on my hard drive while I was cleaning out. I’m guessing I did it before the associated book came out?
Read MoreGraphic Novels MOOC interview
I was interviewed about a MOOC I was studying, and the interview has just been published. It’s at the tail end of this bio piece about my lecturer. http://www.westword.com/2013-10-24/news/william-kuskin-university-of-colorado/
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Go Play Brisbane August 2013 – Sesion One
In the first session I played Lady Blackbird. We did some character generation, and my take was this: Rodriguez the Space Ninja Silence (Movement, Attacks, About Motives) Destroying Things (Precision, In Person, Retrotech) Gadgets (Improvised, Retrotech, Stolen) Keys: Impatience with frivolity Desire to perform a single, decisive action which resolves situations. Secrets: One Perfect…
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A quick note
So, the blog has been a little quiet (I’ve been off doing Coursera) but there’s some material upcoming: My Sicily notes. These really are notes: they are some of the raw material out of which I’ll later build story hooks and paragraphs of text. I need more, particularly geography, but we’ll see how far this book takes us…
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I’ve finally made a start on the Against the Dark page
It’s taken a while, but I’ve started my notes on Against the Dark, my twentieth Ars Magica book.
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A gathering of thoughts
So, could we design an Ars Magica game which starts at, for example, around 1875 (the greater Regency era, if you will) and runs until the end of the reign of Victoria? What would it look like? My suggestion is either that Issac Newton, in his Principia Magica, or Roger Bacon in his New Atlantis takes…
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Ars Magica Note: London Bridge
Apparently London Bridge had a chapel in it, which means that in an Ars Magica sense, it had a Divine Aura. It also had a band of men who served the chapel and kept order on the bridge, and shops and residences. I think a covenant built on the bridge would be an excellent…
Read MoreIn Which Marco Discusses A Banana
“Grandfather, I was going to ask you about how you accidentally killed a king with a banana.” “Well, that’s a strange thing to ask me about, but, yes, I did once kill a king with a banana.” “A banana?” “Yes.” “Where did you even get a banana?” “I was in the Levant at the time. …
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Games From Folktales 