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jeregenestI've been reading LeCarre's latest, Absolute Friends, and couipled with watching MI5 and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy I now find myself wanting to do some gritty espionage again. But no action. Pure LeCarre. I'm envisioning a game starting in the late 60s early 70s with young recruits and than moving forward to the modern day when the characters are all old hands called back to solve a big modern problem. Yes I wear my sources on my sleeves, and I'm proud of it.
Jess ad I brainstrmed an innovative use of CF dueling for the game too.
I think I'll try to write this up for 20x20 later.
Jess ad I brainstrmed an innovative use of CF dueling for the game too.
I think I'll try to write this up for 20x20 later.
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Date: 2004-02-04 07:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-02-04 08:04 am (UTC)In CF you basically have two decks, dueling and normal action (three if you count sorcery, but I'm not).
The dueling deck is dealt out at the beginning of a session or at other dramatic moments as per bridge. Maybe even with some bidding mechanisms, not sure about that part. The action deck is treated as normal.
Dueling handles all the intrigue, planning, archive work that Le Carre loves. Flashbacks, interviews, knowing the right person, happening to meet the right drunken soldier at the bar. All that stuff.
Action handles the more one-on-one tradition rpg stuff. Your shoozing, your shadowing, that one time the entire game you fire agun. That sort of stuff.
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Date: 2004-02-04 07:33 am (UTC)Did I mention how much I enjoyed your depiction of the espionage world in Pantellos?
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Date: 2004-02-04 08:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-02-04 08:03 am (UTC)Would this be in the Pantelliverse too? (I hope you say yes.)
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Date: 2004-02-04 08:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-02-04 08:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-02-04 08:59 am (UTC)For example I want to do this firmly within one country's intellience tradition. Probably, to be true to my inspiration, MI6 (though I like the idea of folks moving back and forth between the three post-WWII sister services and the JIT)
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Date: 2004-02-04 08:07 am (UTC)I'm curious about it (I'm curious these days about ANYTHING that is NOT D20 related).
Joe
Re: Info Wanted
Date: 2004-02-04 08:12 am (UTC)I like the mechanics, they are very flexible to several different styles of play and genres, and I'm thinking (it was originally
Re: Info Wanted
Date: 2004-02-04 08:38 am (UTC)Sometimes gaming abbreviations just fly over my head, despite having been gaming for as long as I have.
Too many things to keep in my head, and not enough quick access storage available.... I need a ram update and a bigger hard drive :-)
joe
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Date: 2004-02-04 09:02 am (UTC)Re: Info Wanted
Date: 2004-02-04 09:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-02-06 09:37 am (UTC)http://www.indie-rpgs.com/_articles/zero_at_the_bone.pdf (http://www.indie-rpgs.com/_articles/zero_at_the_bone.pdf)
I didn't quite get it after one read through, I must admit.
Re: Is it worth reading
Date: 2004-02-06 10:11 am (UTC)I've read medical papers on advanced areas of epidemology that are better written and more straightforward.
Re: Is it worth reading?
Date: 2004-02-06 10:30 am (UTC)I've read medical papers on advanced areas of epidemology that are better written and more straightforward.
I believe you. But part of the difference is that the medical papers don't make you angry in the same way Edwards does, and I don't understand why that is. Esoteric theory? Idiosyncratic use of language? I see that in the first paragraph. Condescension I don't see. But we don't have to agree. I'm not going to try to convert you.
Re: Is it worth reading?
Date: 2004-02-14 06:31 pm (UTC)