July 21, 2009 at 2:56 pm
Kit G (7/21/2009)
I'm semi-interested in Angels and Demons because I'm curious about various Catholic Church conspiracy/occult/whatever theories. They make for good stories. Secret societies, buried occult mysteries, the powers of light and dark battling in the background... perfect stuff for a good story.
Read the book.
It's not bad. I didn't find it as good as the Da Vinci code, but it was a decent read and I got a whole lot of ideas from it for the roleplaying game I run. If you like conspiracies, you'll enjoy it.
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July 21, 2009 at 3:19 pm
GilaMonster (7/21/2009)
Kit G (7/21/2009)
I'm semi-interested in Angels and Demons.Read the book.
It's not bad. I didn't find it as good as the Da Vinci code, but it was a decent read and I got a whole lot of ideas from it for the roleplaying game I run. If you like conspiracies, you'll enjoy it.
[font="Verdana"]The illustrated versions of both books are good (except for the awkward size). You get good plates of the art work or architecture that is featured in the books.
I preferred the book Angels and Demons, but The Da Vinci Code was the better movie I though.
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July 21, 2009 at 4:15 pm
What kind of roleplaying game involves conspiracies, Gail?
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July 21, 2009 at 4:25 pm
. (7/21/2009)
What kind of roleplaying game involves conspiracies, Gail?
Lots. Dungeons and Dragons may be the best known, but it's far from the only one. Many of the World of Darkness games thrive on conspiracy.
I run a d20 Modern game set a few years back in the sleepy university town of Oxford UK. Some info on my personal website (address subject to change in the next month or so). The site's unfinished and very few of the links actually work, I got distracted and busy...
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July 21, 2009 at 4:32 pm
GilaMonster (7/21/2009)
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What kind of roleplaying game involves conspiracies, Gail?Lots.
[font="Verdana"]Paranoia is the one I remember ("The Computer is your friend!") But I also ran some private games based on medieval europe that were all about political and religious intrigue and conspiracy. It does seem to be a common theme with roleplaying.
Actually, the most memorable one for me was a one-off game for a role-playing tournament where we all played characters with DID (dissociative disorder syndrome, or multiple personalities) who were coming off medication and were suffering from paranoid delusions. 😀 Switching back and forward between the personas (at the instruction of the game master) was fun! One moment I'd be hurling a spear at a chariot, the next I'd be wondering why there was a plumber's plunger stuck to the back of a passing car.
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July 21, 2009 at 4:49 pm
Bruce W Cassidy (7/21/2009)
Paranoia is the one I remember ("The Computer is your friend!")
Never played it, but I would like to try it sometime.
Switching back and forward between the personas (at the instruction of the game master) was fun! One moment I'd be hurling a spear at a chariot, the next I'd be wondering why there was a plumber's plunger stuck to the back of a passing car.
That sounds awesome!
Gail Shaw
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July 21, 2009 at 5:25 pm
GilaMonster (7/21/2009)
That sounds awesome!
[font="Verdana"]It was very, very funny at the time. :-)[/font]
July 21, 2009 at 5:28 pm
Dave Ballantyne (7/21/2009)
Hi ho hi ho , if off to Disney i go , see you all in 4 weeks.Enjoyed my short time here, more rewarding than usenet anyway
Have a good time!
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July 21, 2009 at 5:58 pm
Dave Ballantyne (7/21/2009)
Hi ho hi ho , if off to Disney i go , see you all in 4 weeks.Enjoyed my short time here, more rewarding than usenet anyway
Hey, if you are the Disney in Florida, I'm only about 45 minutes away. It's hot and wear sunscreen.
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July 21, 2009 at 9:22 pm
BSG Season 1 and 2 being shipped to Lynn.
Also available (first come, first serve):
Witches of Eastwick - not sure why I have a copy, don't even like the movie
Trading Places - not sure why I have 2 copies, but I only need one (awesomely funny)
Mystic River - not sure why I have a copy, haven't even taken the plastic wrap off (I've seen it, just not fond of it in any way)
Alias Seasons 1 and 2 - another pre-Netflix "why did I buy instead of renting" set
The rest of the collection has re-watch value. And my copies of the Firefly and Coupling shows are keepers, despite my usual thing on TV-on-DVD.
Was good to do a bit of a look at the shelves. There are movies on there that I haven't watched in a couple of years that are definitely worth another look. Like "Night Watch", "Immortal", and the original "La Femme Nikita" (subtitled, but I sometimes turn those off and force myself to understand the French). Haven't watched those in a long while, but definitely worth a go some time soon.
Tons of others that I watch every year or two, sometimes more often with a few favorites. "Yellowbeard", "Hot Shots Part Deux", Star Wars 4-6, the whole Die Hard series (well, except for number 3, which I call "Die Hard the Scavenger Hunt"), "Singing in the Rain", a bunch of Astair/Rogers flicks, "Some Like it Hot", "Not Another Teen Movie", "Strictly Ballroom", "V for Vendetta", whole shelves of superhero movies (original Reeves "Superman" and the new "Superman Returns", the new Batman movies in HD, "Iron Man", "Spider Man", and tons more), the list goes on.
Was fun looking it over.
Anyone interested in the ones I listed as "might as well get rid of 'em" at the top of the post? If not, I'll find a library or something.
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July 22, 2009 at 1:55 am
GSquared (7/21/2009)
Alias Seasons 1 and 2....
My son bought me the entire boxed set of Alias :smooooth:
But my favourite and most watched DVD has to be Metropolis with Giorgio Moroder's music. Can watch it repeatedly without ever getting bored 😀
Far away is close at hand in the images of elsewhere.
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July 22, 2009 at 3:33 am
Gus,
I'd be interested in Alias DVD's. Used to watch it semi-faithfully, but missed many because I also played basketball that night. Season's 1 and 2 were the only really good ones anyway. I'll PM you an address.
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July 22, 2009 at 5:28 am
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What kind of roleplaying game involves conspiracies, Gail?fnord
Call of Cthulhu. It's all a conspiracy. The Elder Gods. He Who Sleeps. The Crawling Chaos. Ia Ia, Cthulhu Fhtagn!
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July 22, 2009 at 6:44 am
Paranoia... what a beautiful game. The only game where you start off with SIX copies of your character! You have clones that get activated when you die. "The Computer is your friend. The Computer wants you to be happy. If you're not happy you may be used as reactor shielding!"
It is definitely a game of backstabbing, twisting paranoia. After all, the best way not to be contradicted at Mission Debriefing is to be the only one at Mission Debriefing.
Owning a set of the rules, even if you don't play, is worth the amusement value of reading the rules. It is definitely a game where the Game Master IS out to get you. But then, so is everyone else!
World of Darkness has every conspiracy theory in the world and then some. The Vampires are secretly running the world and fighting the Werewolves, the Werewolves are fighting the Vampires and secretly controlling the world and then there are the Mages who everyone else tries to stay away from cause weird stuff happens around them and they are secretly controlling the world. Fun stuff!
-- Kit
July 22, 2009 at 7:23 am
Kit G (7/22/2009)
Paranoia... what a beautiful game. The only game where you start off with SIX copies of your character! You have clones that get activated when you die. "The Computer is your friend. The Computer wants you to be happy. If you're not happy you may be used as reactor shielding!"It is definitely a game of backstabbing, twisting paranoia. After all, the best way not to be contradicted at Mission Debriefing is to be the only one at Mission Debriefing.
Owning a set of the rules, even if you don't play, is worth the amusement value of reading the rules. It is definitely a game where the Game Master IS out to get you. But then, so is everyone else!
World of Darkness has every conspiracy theory in the world and then some. The Vampires are secretly running the world and fighting the Werewolves, the Werewolves are fighting the Vampires and secretly controlling the world and then there are the Mages who everyone else tries to stay away from cause weird stuff happens around them and they are secretly controlling the world. Fun stuff!
I've played Paranoia a couple of times where we couldn't get out of the mission briefing room. Everyone kept shooting, stabbing, kicking each other to death, laughing all the time. It's a fun game. There are probably no other role playing games where you can have a fun evening without ever going on the mission.
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