Category: thoughts

• RPG #2

  2–3 minutes

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  December 21, 2010

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  games, RPG, thoughts

  The second week of the Rune Quest 2 campaign went exceptionally well last night with pizza and ninja bread men, although Xavier did his best to stay up late to see what all the fuss was about. I’m really enjoying the bronze-age mythological Glorantha game world setting and the Rune Quest rule system, but it…

• Historical rationality: some thoughts on Civilisation 5

  6–9 minutes

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  October 11, 2010

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  games, research, review, thoughts

  During a short trip to Tasmania last week for my grandmother’s fabulous 90th birthday celebrations, I managed to cram in two activities – reading a little of Raymond Williams (1977) Marxism and Literature, and playing quite a bit of Civilization 5 (Civ5) – about 15 hours worth. Civ5 is the latest in the turn-based strategy…