2012-02-21 (Tuesday)
Links
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Maelstrom - Arion Games | RPGNow.com
I never played a game of this RPG but I remember really liking the system. It seemed somehow more “realistic” than a lot of RPGs. Now available as a PDF for $10.
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Marking it up like it’s the 20th century. #htmlemail
@PiersAtkinson Great, congratulations! I can’t decide if the Double Ostrich pom-poms or the “Jessie” would be more my style 8:-)
@rosiestones *bow* M’lady.
@bobbiejohnson @mattsheret @tobybarnes Looks like there’s a recent companion volume that improves Maelstrom’s rules bit.ly/yi35SO
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@tobybarnes @mattsheret I never played it, but really liked the sound of the system. I still have it too I think.
@mattsheret @tobybarnes I liked how difficulty of spells in Maelstrom w based on how unlikely effects were in realworld bit.ly/wZZuue
@tobybarnes @genmon Are there any fictional worlds with magic in which someone is rigorously scientific about what “magic” is and can do?
@rooreynolds I don’t even use iCal much but I’ve come close to buying something like bit.ly/wwyesW just to get rid of the “leather”.
@designswarm “And this is the time I garrotted a typographer… click… And this one is when I disemboweled a magazine designer… click…”
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