tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post7175476332055703624..comments2024-03-27T01:28:28.346-07:00Comments on False Machine: The Knights of Griefpjamesstuarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13288777018721199748noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-45042187273739761602021-05-05T23:22:12.173-07:002021-05-05T23:22:12.173-07:00Damn that's a good sceneDamn that's a good scenepjamesstuarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13288777018721199748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-28231172129018157502021-05-05T21:40:40.898-07:002021-05-05T21:40:40.898-07:00Ah, the melancholy of inevitability, one of my fav...Ah, the melancholy of inevitability, one of my favourite vibes. This really reminded me of a scene between the incomparable Ian Holm and the suspiciously attractive Kate Beckinsale in the 'Sitting on a gate' scene from the otherwise awful '98 Alice through the looking glass. Such a good scene; such a bad movie.<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrlPudlkI0Y<br /><br />Anyway, I love the idea of someone who's going through the motions of fighting you, but it's all so tedious and depressing, because he's already beaten you - he defeated you before you were born, before the deepening of the coastal shelf you grew up on. He's long since killed you and moved on - you just haven't realized it yet.<br /><br />Definitely a concept that works so much better in fiction than in gaming. Your queen mab stuff is some of the best you've written, but I think trying to make it work in the face of player agency is trying to fit a right hand foot into a left hand shoe, as the poem goes. David Clarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14929953348279727881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-84512647002854883212021-05-05T17:29:26.604-07:002021-05-05T17:29:26.604-07:00What a great idea. What a great idea. Jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13576384742168685922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-26186654722511140792021-05-04T06:37:15.478-07:002021-05-04T06:37:15.478-07:00This or some kind of silicification, although the ...This or some kind of silicification, although the latter probably not much different from cryo, in sense that it kind of kills the subject.Kyanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12992025061183651850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-45198189216987963462021-05-03T08:46:50.092-07:002021-05-03T08:46:50.092-07:00Hmm no magic in this dungeon but we do have hyper-...Hmm no magic in this dungeon but we do have hyper-science. 'Stasis' might be a good equivilent.pjamesstuarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13288777018721199748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-75927417013506971222021-05-03T08:45:11.652-07:002021-05-03T08:45:11.652-07:00Still going baby!Still going baby!pjamesstuarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13288777018721199748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-52271694702451447552021-05-01T04:58:35.646-07:002021-05-01T04:58:35.646-07:00This is very interesting idea, the potential probl...This is very interesting idea, the potential problem of dealing with somebody who has almost precognition and also doesn't die. <br />Putting on into ice will probably kill one shortly, unless the ice is of 'instant cryofreeze' variety. I'd go with Flesh to Stone, it creates statues which can be then put somewhere for adventurers to mess with.Kyanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12992025061183651850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-32339361339524811872021-04-30T06:43:09.495-07:002021-04-30T06:43:09.495-07:00I'm glad to see you're pursuing this setti...I'm glad to see you're pursuing this setting. I vaguely remember you expressing doubts about it at some point, but I always thought this setting sounded super interesting.maxcan7https://www.blogger.com/profile/12504030224075149157noreply@blogger.com