Gareth Hanrahan

I’m very glad you enjoyed it!

It snapped back to normal when I wrote some words so technically I wrote 12000 words this morning

Does the story contain a lot of subtext?

Open document
Word count says document is 17000 words long
Panic as document was 29000 words last night
Select all text, hit word count
Word count reports the selection contains 29000 words, but the document as a whole contains 17000 words
Scream silently and keep typing.

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Yeah, a press release has gone out, but apparently the press have not put it up anywhere.

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Greg Davies: Controversy brewing here.

Theseus: Nothing in the rules about getting outside help.

Alex Horne: He is technically correct.

Greg Davies: Are you telling me that the other contestants would have survived if they'd brought some twine?

Alex Horne: Theseus wins the full five points!

"heron in a pedalo, I know
I know it's serious"

I found a screenshot of the rpg core awards, and apparently a press release was sent out a few hours ago. But it's not up on rascal or bgg or anywhere I can find...

But yeah, Arkham Bed and Breakfast would work as a concept.

That's from last year, I believe.

Does anyone have a link to the actual Origins Award nominees for this year?

it feels like cyberpunk and the London gangster genre are an obvious fit, I dunno why there hasn't been more cockney cyberpunk stuff

we could call it "cockneypunk," you could have razorbirds and netgeezers

Alex: Next up, our final team task of the series.

Contestant 1: Oh, j'ai détesté celui-ci!

Contestant 2: 彼らがそれを台無しにするまでは順調に進んでいた

Alex: Let’s see how team one approached the task.

Contestant 1: [reading card] “Build a tower to reach heaven. Highest tower wins.”

Greg: And the task was...?

Alex: Conquer the city.

Greg: And you?

Odysseus: Built a giant wooden horse.

Greg: And it's impressive. Completely fails the task.

Odysseus (suddenly looking very like Jason Mantzoukas): But does it, Greg? Does it?

Alex: There was a camera inside the horse.

Greg: So. Escape the cave, sail home. Shouldn't take long, assuming nobody's insulted a god.

Alex: Well, let's take a look at how Nobody did!

Odysseus: (head in hands)

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Alexander the Great: I think I smashed that.

Alex Horne: Well… it doesn’t say anywhere that you can’t cut the Gordian Knot.

Greg Davies: I’m going to let him have it. Five points.

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Bloody hell

Alex: And now for the prize task, we’ve asked the contestants to bring in the most desirable thing. The most desirable thing will get five desirable points.

Greg: Odysseus?

Odysseus: Horse!

Greg: A wooden horse. Good to know we’ve got our loser. Eris?

Eris: Well, I have this apple…

Greg: What’s next?

Alex: Well, sometimes we like to set a task for just one of our contestants. Or, in this case, twelve different tasks.

Hercules: Oh for f -

Greg: Roll VT!

Greg: What was the wording on the task?

Alex: Make Achilles invulnerable by dipping him in the Styx. Most invulnerable Achilles wins.

Greg: Dip the baby. The whole baby. They’re not going to hang onto a heel or anything stupid like that.

Alex: First, let’s see Thetis’ attempt.

a film crew guy in a wetsuit pulling the huge scale model from Raise the Titanic along by means of a rope over his right shoulder as he wades in chest-deep water. he's pulling a face that makes it seem like hard work but is inadvertently making himself look like a Terry Gilliam giant hauling home his supper.

talking of behind the scenes film photographs i think this is still my favourite

That's four Infrastructure Weeks, 2.5 scaramuccis, or time enough to release concepts of a healthcare plan twice.

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Hmm. Then you'd need to keep the magic simple enough and also ensure it doesn't dominate the game.

(Or take a leaf from @jdragsky.bsky.social 's Seven Part Pact and give the wizard a whole complex minigame of balance that the other players don't know about or need to understand...)

Yeah, but they're different things in Earthsea. The climax of Wizard is Ged acknowledging his shadow as part of him; in the Lord of the Rings, the shadow is always evil. One's about balance and acceptance, the other's about hope and resistance. (One's Taoism, one's Catholic!).

Hmm. I don't know. It'd depend on what you wanted to evoke - and is everyone playing a wizard, or do you want a mix?