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Interesting all around!  I've really got to read or listen to GS again... obviously three times isn't enough.  So far, the only book in the whole series I've only read once is Changes. I just can't bring myself to read it again, and yes, I'm sure I'm missing a lot of details because of it... I still can't do it though.

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DFRPG / Re: Roleplaying Podcast doing Dresden Files Actual Play
« on: July 29, 2011, 10:44:47 PM »
Interesting!  I'll scope it out later tonight.   :)

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Author Craft / Re: Genre Craft: Expectations of a Hybrid Genre
« on: July 04, 2011, 07:09:30 PM »
Check out Territory by Emma Bull 

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How very brave to have a signing this close to the release date of GS, though Jim's fans are mostly good sorts so it's likely also a great opportunity to share the excitement of that as well as some comics signing love.

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DFRPG / Re: Offer to assist on City Creation of...
« on: April 18, 2011, 03:30:52 AM »
Actually.... I read something about a theory about Euclid ave being on a ley line, and that there was an Indian mound right around where Public Square is, gonna go look for that again.   Oh, I'm pretty far east of Cleveland now. Portage County, not far from where Geauga Lake was (well, it's still a lake named Geauga, just not a park anymore)  Easy drive to the city though time is a factor for me. 

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DFRPG / Re: Offer to assist on City Creation of...
« on: April 13, 2011, 03:52:21 AM »
Cool!  No I don't have a group, I got rather distracted and lost track of things.  A friend suggested I go to Kent and check out notices or put some of my own up at the student union... never actually did though. 

I'd have some trouble meeting up, though I'd be willing to try.  I care for my 92 year old father and while he's in decent health etc, I'm nervous about being away for too long.  Still, I'm a good researcher.  Do we/you really have to give Cleveland more bad luck than it already has?   :D  kidding!  (sort of)  I'm actually rather fond of some parts of it and get irritated at anyone except Drew Carry or other fellow Clevelanders picking on it.  It just gets SO old!  (no matter that it's at least partially deserved!)

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either the date mac's opened or the date it was accorded neutral ground, not sure which

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Ooooh, very interesting Loki, and suitable for your name too! It really seems to me that someone would slip in and remove the sign, and possibly post some 'message' near the entrance... while the fae might like taking advantage of the 'trap' potential of it all, but that would be a big risk of involving human authorities which would be a big no no too.  Hmmmm

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There's a date given about Mac's and it's been there longer than Death Masks... well, what year do the books actually take place in?  I think the date I saw was in the early 1970's... anyway, wouldn't it make sense that anyplace that is 'friendly' to supernatural types, i.e. the owner (or proprietor) knows of their existence, is not an actual member of any court or faction, and welcomes them in general, and is the sort of place that both (or all) sides might wish to frequent, would petition for the status?  

I mean, if people wanted to go to Mac's back in the day, but he'd had to repair his place a couple times thanks to opposing parties showing up at the same time, and the vanilla authorities were possibly in danger of being attracted to trouble, that would probably trigger a need for it to get the status, as long as the proprietor was a responsible individual and has proven himself so (as Mac had/has).  Mac is pretty darn careful to walk the straight and narrow about staying out of his customer's business.  He just barely gave Harry a little help the one time, and I bet then he carefully considered if it would go against his neutrality status!  It was more against a vanilla human opponent and not an actual signatory of the accords.  (trying to remember what it was now, but I remember thinking about it at the time, and yeah, that was other than the case in "Last Call" BTW, and oh yeah, didn't they violate NG by doing that to his place and his Ale?)

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DFRPG / Re: So what IS the agenda of the Fae Courts?????
« on: January 25, 2011, 10:02:15 PM »
I've seen many signs of emotion in JB's flavor of Fae as well as in other author's versions as well as historical descriptions of them so I don't agree that they're emotionless.  Mab for instance has been angry, disappointed, satisfied, bored, intrigued, curious, etc, etc... and so has Leah not to mention other lesser fae so I don't agree at all that they don't feel emotion.  It may be a sort of detached version of the emotion as compared to human kinds' emotions, but they all seem to be represented to some extent at least. 

I agree that they are a sort of yin/yang of contrasts to each other, and must struggle against each other, at least enough to keep a steady pressure against each other to some extent to keep the yin(seelie)/yang(unseelie) shape within the encompassing circle of our perception intact.  I don't see it all so much as evil vs good as much as a light vs dark thing.  We humans mostly prefer the light, and so we see the seelie as 'good', but without the dark, (which many creatures prefer and indeed NEED) how would we perceive the light? 

Oh, and as far as their "boredom" goes, I think it goes beyond simple boredom.  The long lives of both branches of the fae has resulted in something more pervasive.  I think the word "ennui" expresses it much better.  I found a rather good explanation of the word here:  http://www.alphadictionary.com/goodword/word/ennui  and here are some snipped out descriptions of it from there. 

Meaning: A chronic mental listlessness and disengagement caused by boring interactions with the people, places and things around you.

Notes: Ennui is a special kind of boredom that attacks people who know and have experienced everything in life—or think they have.

In Play: Ennui is likely to attack the man or woman who has everything, and has done and seen everything: "Six months into retirement Jack Uzzi found the ennui unbearable and returned to his job as a parking meter attendant." Ennui is often the price of wealth: "Morris Bedda had 6 houses, 24 cars, two planes, a helicopter, a billion dollars, and more ennui than in all of France."


I like all that the word expresses in reference to the fae, they don't have to strive for life or a living, and have everything they could possibly want, and they are incredibly restricted by custom too so humans offer them all sorts of variety that they don't have any other opportunity to indulge in.

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DF Books / Re: Shirt Quotes: Buy Dresden Stuff!
« on: January 17, 2011, 08:14:34 PM »
I submit it should be...

666 of one, 55.5 dozen of another.

(which is 666 divided by 12) or possibly,

666 of one, a dozen and a half of another.


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DFRPG / Re: Killing in the Game
« on: January 08, 2011, 05:19:27 AM »
LOL or hens!  Biddies is also a way of saying hens if you're a 'chicken person'! :D  Thanks for clearing it up though pulphero, even though we were having fun with it for a while  ;D

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DFRPG / Re: Killing in the Game
« on: January 07, 2011, 11:07:11 PM »
biddies are old women.

Well, yeah, I agree that's the most common meaning, but in the context below, it just doesn't track.  Just a typo I think but a little ambiguous in this case.  I do think that devonapple is right though and it's meant to be baddies, because bodies would be able to 'run to emissaries of power'.

    One way to encourage players to be more careful with leaving biddies in there wake is to let them run to emissaries of a large power that they can't continue there normal life and persuading goals after making a mortal enemy of. One off my Hunter the Reckoning games became a game of being on the run from the cops and the FBI after shooting at the cops from a car licensed in there name. After that they where able to interact with the world in a less D&D way.

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DFRPG / Re: Killing in the Game
« on: January 07, 2011, 04:34:32 AM »
ahhh, good point!  I'll give my translator a kick, it may be misbehaving!  ;)

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DFRPG / Re: Killing in the Game
« on: January 07, 2011, 04:17:02 AM »
What the heck are biddies?

don't you have an auto "typo" translation option on your browser?  That's biddies = bodies ...or so I believe.

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