Oh! I know this one! We encountered these people in one of our adventures - let me look it up in my notes, and I'll get back to you. It was a passing encounter - the general involved really is a jerk...Originally Posted by Shemek hiTankolel
Oh! I know this one! We encountered these people in one of our adventures - let me look it up in my notes, and I'll get back to you. It was a passing encounter - the general involved really is a jerk...
To hear is to obey. It's all true, too. How many morons did we face, over the years... ?)
I replied earlier, but I'll expand a bit. Chuck was one of the 'proto-EPT' players, back in the 1973 / 1974 era, and one of the people Phil used to game with at CSA meetings and the Little Tin Soldier Shoppe. He was also in on the very first miniatures games Phil did, where there was first a lot of 'proxy' figures and then one of the first to play out at Phil's with when Phil got his new Tekumel figures from Old Guard / Bill Murray. This was back before the war with Yan Kor got started, so they had a lot of 'one-off' battles where Phil devised the sides. I think, based on the information I found in Phil's papers, that two of these games were the classic battles of Ry and Chanis. I think he's referencing the latter, which had Shen in it; Ry is a pretty straightforward human vs. human piledriver, and not a very sophisticated battle like Chanis is.
He moved away from the area a while before we started the original Thursday Night Group, as I recall him once saying.
Sounds good, and thanks.
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That would be great. It's just something I have been meaning to ask about for a little while and keep forgetting to do so.I'll flip through the HSE rules, and check the website as well.
Congrats on the new job. Hopefully "new" is also better in this case. Will you still be on afternoons/evenings? This shift has to be the worst shift of all. I was on evenings for two years when I first got married, Mon-Fri: 3:30 to 11:30, and this schedule nearly killed me and the marriage. We used to call it the "dead man's shift" as you have no life when on it. Even mid nights was better IMO.
Shemek.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Mark Twain
I also found this message from Phil as a follow up on the original Battlefield Magic post by Chuck Monson.Great find! Chuck played with Phil back in the days before there were any published rules sets, and using various historicals rules with modifications. He's dead on about how Phil viewed how military sorcery should work in his world, and it's how I functioned in it. While I am a powerful weapon, I am also a very high-value target and have to be used very carefully and tactically. See also Third Mar...
"Battle magic is indeed a way of slowing down and harassing an enemy army.
It also slows down your own forces. But it keeps every little would-be hero
from running out and zapping enemy leaders with his own little Eye of
Raging Power (or what have you). Can you imagine warfare in which magic is
used and in which there is *no* counter? What a mess that would be! With no
way to defend your generals and organised forces, warfare would quickly
become an incredible chaos of warring magicians."
Shemek
Last edited by Shemek hiTankolel; 06-23-2016 at 02:08 PM.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Mark Twain
This sounds fun. Can't wait to hear the story.
Shemek.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Mark Twain
Congratulations or condolences as appropriate on the new job, Chirine.
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Congrats on the new job, if that's in order.
I've lost track. Facing a moron isn't as much fun as you may think, folks; a game against poor opposition isn't really much fun. However, it's far worse when the moron(s) are on YOUR side. Wish I had a dollar for every time I've thought "I wish this were a real battle, at least then I could have you shot for incompetence."
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Happy to help! I really need to have a look through the files to see just how many language books we have; beyond that, I really need to do a complete index of our holdings.That would be great. It's just something I have been meaning to ask about for a little while and keep forgetting to do so.
Congrats on the new job. Hopefully "new" is also better in this case. Will you still be on afternoons/evenings? This shift has to be the worst shift of all. I was on evenings for two years when I first got married, Mon-Fri: 3:30 to 11:30, and this schedule nearly killed me and the marriage. We used to call it the "dead man's shift" as you have no life when on it. Even mid nights was better IMO.
Shemek.
The new job is in a different department, doing very different things that I happen to be very qualified for; I did the interview, and they hired me on the spot. I'll be moving off the 3:30 pm - 12:00 am shift that I've been on for this past year, and moving to 7:00 am - 3:30 pm.I'd been on an overnight shift since 2008, and I liked it better - more of a life outside work. So, I think this will be a good move. The only downside is that on days when the Missus needs transportation to her medical appointments, she'll have to drop me off and pick me up. So it goes...
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