So what's this I hear Jim Ward is killing TLG?

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Sir Osis of Liver wrote:
Ah yes. Iocane. I've spent the last several years of my life developing a tolerance to the stuff. Have fun storming the castle.

You really wouldn't believe what I live 9 miles from....
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gideon_thorne wrote:
You really wouldn't believe what I live 9 miles from....
www.okcastle.com

Cool. Although the fireworks store part is a little anticlimactic for me. Anytime I have to go from my house through northern Indiana, the billboards coming out of Illinois are all for either fireworks shops or nudie bars. It's the weirdest thing. I get all overcome with the urge to throw Black Cats at folk dancers. I don't know what it is.

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Don't worry, Steve. someone understands what you mean.
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Looks like those changes Steve talked about are now up on the Product page.
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Post by Wasgo »

Frost wrote:
Looks like those changes Steve talked about are now up on the Product page.

I'm happy. It's clean, it's simple and it clearly states everything it needs to.

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Wasgo wrote:
I'm happy. It's clean, it's simple and it clearly states everything it needs to.

Eh, its better, but there are a LOT of black and white minds out there, so I think blatantly explicit statements would be better.

Like Jim W. said, write it so an 8 year old can understand it.
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Sir Osis of Liver wrote:
Anytime I have to go from my house through northern Indiana, the billboards coming out of Illinois are all for either fireworks shops or nudie bars.

Fireworks AND nudie bars?

What is the name of this mystical land? Surely it must be "heaven"
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AslanC wrote:
Fireworks AND nudie bars?

What is the name of this mystical land? Surely it must be "heaven"

Dual advertising, helping the common man get their rockets off.
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AslanC wrote:
Fireworks AND nudie bars?

What is the name of this mystical land? Surely it must be "heaven"

It can't be heaven because there is the conspicuous absence of signage for liquor stores.

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Sundog wrote:
Don't worry, Steve. someone understands what you mean.

Maybe someone should post a link like this to RPGnet or better yet quote Mr. Ward from this webpage.
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Before I begin I want to say that I wouldn't even be posting if someone hadn't pointed me to this.

That said, I want to clear up a point or two: 1) I do not have an rpgnet account and will not have one. 2) As stated before I am busy with my degree and have little time to do anything with gaming. This weekend being an exception. 3) Traveller summed up my feelings better than I could 4) SSFX made a good point earlier that was not responded to. Go back to the beginning and look for it. BTW this point makes me wonder some things that I will not go into. 5) I did make one blog post recently that was a bit aggressive that I apologized for.

That is all.
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Julian Grimm wrote:
Before I begin I want to say that I wouldn't even be posting if someone hadn't pointed me to this.

That said, I want to clear up a point or two: 1) I do not have an rpgnet account and will not have one. 2) As stated before I am busy with my degree and have little time to do anything with gaming. This weekend being an exception. 3) Traveller summed up my feelings better than I could 4) SSFX made a good point earlier that was not responded to. Go back to the beginning and look for it. BTW this point makes me wonder some things that I will not go into. 5) I did make one blog post recently that was a bit aggressive that I apologized for.

That is all.

I hope you also noted several of us said it wasn't you.
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Yes I did. I forgot to add that.
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Philotomy Jurament wrote:
I think Gamma World is the perfect vehicle for Jim's style and approach.

I could not agree more.
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Geoffrey wrote:
I think it would be a lot of fun to referee or play in a C&C campaign with only the C&C PHB and James Raggi's Random Esoteric Creature Generator.

Yeah, that would be really interesting. Especially if one is looking for a game that emphasizes the strange and bizarre (not unlike Carcosa, in fact ), the combination of the PHB and James Raggi's Generator could be fantastic.
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