gyg wrote:I've recently brought The Fantasy Role Players Bible and Gygax's Dungeon mastery book. I already have Heroic Worlds, the Dungeon Master By William Dear as well as The Elfish Gene (Can't recomend enough!), but what other books do I need about the history of/fiction about/collectability ofhorror stories concerning etc, etc RPG's and games in general?
Badmike wrote:What was the name of the Robert Planmondon book (spelling?) called something like "Of Dungeons Deep?"Mike B.
JohnGaunt wrote:Random strangeness starting Friday afternoon:A week ago I had a feeling that I was getting laid-off but decided to wait and see what happened. For the first time in my life I am right about something. I was a week off in my prediction, but I had the patience to wait until Friday the 30th. The layoff was not strange, but my positive attitude was.Friday night I came home and found that a second mouse had snuck into my mouse's cage. The mouse break-in was not odd, but the new mouse has remained in the cage. Obviously, times are really bad if a mouse sneaks into a mouse-prison and worse if he decides to remain there. Saturday midnight I saw a patrol car and was obeying the speed limit. The guy behind me did not and was not, so he passed me on the shoulder 30 seconds or a minute later. He made a sharp right turn into a vacant lot, and spun out. I think he turned off his lights after he stopped. This subterfuge did not fool the patrol car, which followed him into the vacant lot. The odd thing was that the guy turned on his blinker as he skidded around the corner.My Internet connection has been out since the Friday chat, so I am sitting in a Panera Bread cafe wondering if anyone is running a packet sniffer. Two unsecured wireless networks are available. The odd thing is that when I call the tech support number, I get a message that says something like "This service is not available to you." I wonder if the tech support number has my phone number blocked or if the ISP went under when I lost my job.
JohnGaunt wrote:Random strangeness starting Friday afternoon:
lawrenson wrote:Hiyaextreme (ish) weather for the UK.6 inches of snow this morning, and ALL the buses in London are cancelled.Cheers,Malc
bombadil wrote:Those are the obvious examples, but what you're describing, JG, sounds more like the subtle "glitch-in-the matrix" observations that portend a subconscious awareness of an imminent event with big consequences.
JohnGaunt wrote:Or madness. I think it was just a big clusterfrack of events. B.J. Penn got clobbered in UFC, so this is all centered around that.
JohnGaunt wrote:Or madness.
bombadil wrote:Interesting subject in an of itself. What is madness, after all, other than a glimpse into reality more real than what we accept as reality? Ever had a kid with a high fever? They see all kinds of weird shit, but how do we know it's hallucination rather than perception of the things surrounding us that we've just learned to tune out, the way pigeons living in cities have become habituated to traffic, jackhammers, throngs of humans, etc?
