Topic: Come as you are party!
Started by: Sean
Started on: 4/5/2005
Board: Forge Birthday Forum
On 4/5/2005 at 2:17pm, Sean wrote:
Come as you are party!
OK - for this thread:
1) What was the last film you saw in its entirety?
2) What was the last novel you read cover to cover?
3) What was the last rpg you played a complete session of?
I'll start:
Red River, with John Wayne, directed by Howard Hawks.
Sword of the Gael, by Andrew J. Offutt.
Universalis, by Ralph Mazza and Mike Holmes. Or if that didn't count as a complete session (we were all pretty drunk after the third exchange), then it was the Tekumel LARP at UCon in Ann Arbor, Michigan, which was a blast. Six-GM crew, including such awesome talents as John Schippers, Simone Cooper, and Joe Saul and Edwin Voskamp who designed the new GoO game. No idea what system they were using, but the thing that drove it so well, as with most LARPs of my experience, was that the individual character victory conditions were woven together really well so that you were likely to cross paths with others in interesting ways over the course of the evening.
On 4/5/2005 at 2:26pm, Paul Czege wrote:
RE: Come as you are party!
• Man on the Train (L'Homme du Train)
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
• Empire of Satanis (the pre-current version without all the Director power and story control mechanics)
Paul
On 4/5/2005 at 2:28pm, Andy Kitkowski wrote:
Re: Come as you are party!
Sean wrote: 1) What was the last film you saw in its entirety?
Asoka (for the fourth time).
For me, I consider "Anime Series" to be like a movie... just 12-20 hours long. So for me, it would be the anime series Twelve Kingdoms, which totally kicked my fucking ass so hard that I'd recommend it to anyone here. In fact, I'll begina topic about it later here.
2) What was the last novel you read cover to cover?
Shit, it's been awhile... Armor by John Steakley?
3) What was the last rpg you played a complete session of?
The Shadow of Yesterday, set in my homebrew "Faux China meets Stargate" world.
On 4/5/2005 at 2:43pm, Andrew Morris wrote:
RE: Come as you are party!
1) Sin City
2) Crossroads of Twillight by Robert Jordan -- Unless you actually mean from physical cover to cover. I haven't bought an actual, printed-on-paper novel since I found out I could put e-books on my Palm Pilot.
3) Universalis
On 4/5/2005 at 2:51pm, Bob Goat wrote:
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1) Sin City
2) The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan Kundera... I'm a Kundera junky.
3) Burning Midnight (Burning Wheel Midnight game)
Keith
On 4/5/2005 at 3:30pm, Matt Snyder wrote:
RE: Come as you are party!
1) The Bourne Supremacy, a mediocre spy flick
2) Motherless Brooklyn, one of the finest novels I've ever read
3) Mutants & Masterminds, in a really nifty balls-to-the-wall "one-shot" where the supers hunted down villains assigned to the face cards, aces, and jokers of a deck of cards (an idea from the Iraqi most wanted playing cards deck)
On 4/5/2005 at 3:36pm, Thor Olavsrud wrote:
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1) Sin City
2) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, by PKD
3) HeroQuest, in a conventional PCs are members of a Heortling Clan struggling with the occupation game. It's new to me, so I'm having a blast running it.
On 4/5/2005 at 3:36pm, jrs wrote:
RE: Come as you are party!
1. Purple Butterfly (Zi Hudie)
2. My Uncle Oswald / Roald Dahl
3. Nine Worlds
Julie
On 4/5/2005 at 3:43pm, Emily Care wrote:
RE: Come as you are party!
latest flick Venus Boys, great documentary about Drag Kings.
latest novel The Martians by Kim Stanley Robinson. Collection of short stories, does that count?
latest game Well, I'm tempted to say Aria since Tom & I made our goal of getting through an interactive history session within only 5-6 hrs. But we'd have needed a nother day or two to really dig in. So prolly Primetime Adventures.
Em
On 4/5/2005 at 3:59pm, xenopulse wrote:
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Last movie, Fog of War: 11 Lessons from the Life of Robert McNamarra.
Aside from the draft of my manuscript, the last novel was George R.R. Martin's Storm of Swords (for the 3rd time).
Last RPG session, the freeform game I GM online called Legacy of Horutep.
On 4/5/2005 at 4:01pm, Paka wrote:
RE: Re: Come as you are party!
Sean wrote: OK - for this thread:
1) What was the last film you saw in its entirety?
2) What was the last novel you read cover to cover?
3) What was the last rpg you played a complete session of?
1) The Claim...rockin' flick, if a bit heavy-handed in its themes.
2) The Scar by China Meiville...a floating pirate city, a leviathan, dirigibles, vampires, magic words that fiddle with probability...amazing.
3) I ran Conspiracy of Shadows this Sunday. Great stuff.
On 4/5/2005 at 4:10pm, Lee Short wrote:
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last film -- Guantanamera a Spanish-language "a day in the life" road-trip film. Liked it, didn't love it
last novel -- Hmm. Don't read a ton of fiction these days. Probably Lem's Hospital of the Transfiiguration.
last game -- Dogs in the Rigging, my embryonic pirate ripoff of DitV.
On 4/5/2005 at 4:11pm, Gaerik wrote:
RE: Come as you are party!
1.) This weekend I watched:
a.) Friday Night Lights - A mediocre (at best) football movie. The last 20 minutes were the best part but hardly worth waiting for.
b.) Troy - I liked this movie a lot more than I thought I would. I still wanted to kill Paris for being such a putz though.
c.) The Bourne Identity and The Bourne Supremacy - Two of the best espionage movies ever made, in my opinion. Even though they had absolutely zero to do with the books.
2.) The Outstretched Shadow by Anne McCaffrey and um... another author. I enjoyed it enough that I'm going to read the next two books.
3.) D&D 3.5 - I DM a bi-weekly game.
On 4/5/2005 at 4:29pm, Clinton R. Nixon wrote:
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Last movie: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Say what you want, but I got teary. That movie was heartwrenching and beautiful. (Also, it confirmed that I may in fact be in love with Kate Winslet. I get swoony.)
Last book: Working by Studs Terkel. Read it. You might quit your job afterwards, though.
Last RPG: Dogs in the Vineyard.
On 4/5/2005 at 4:31pm, lumpley wrote:
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The Incredibles on DVD. By the way, anyone who thinks that's a libertarian or conservative flick can bite me.
The Gunslinger by Steven King.
Primetime Adventures!
-Vincent
On 4/5/2005 at 4:36pm, joshua neff wrote:
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Last Movie: Robots, which I thoroughly enjoyed. It's anti-profit-oriented business, pro-socially-oriented business, pro-working class (without having every working class character be a paragon of virtue)...and it has fart jokes. And the visuals were designed by William Joyce, one of my favorite children's author-illustrators.
Last Novel: Midnight for Charlie Bone...well, I'm almost done with it. But since I've mostly been reading short fiction, comics and nonfiction these days, I can't recall the last novel I read from cover to cover.
Last Game: Dogs in the Vineyard.
On 4/5/2005 at 4:36pm, Ron Edwards wrote:
RE: Come as you are party!
Last film stuff: BBC version of Smiley's People, The Fifth Element, Sin City
Last books: Divided Generation (studies of E and W Berlin kids), The Secret Generations by John Gardner (spy/family saga)
Last game: Nine Worlds, character creation for Dogs in the Vineyard
I know I broke the typical Forge profile rule of "one and one only," and I laughed when I did it. Ha!
Best,
Ron
On 4/5/2005 at 4:37pm, Alan wrote:
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Last Movie: Die Hard 2 (For the second time! It's as bad as I remembered.)
Last Book: Red Planet by Robert Heinlein (Ice skating the canals of Mars! Woo Hoo!)
Last RPG: Castles and Crusades (Yeah, well, I go along with it cuz they play my crazy narrativist games once in a while.)
On 4/5/2005 at 4:42pm, Wolfen wrote:
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Last movie seen in it's entirety: A Knight's Tale; Gotta love the corny, anachronistic take on medieval life.
Last book read cover to cover: Kushiel's Chosen, by Jacqueline Carey; This trilogy seems to be popular among some of my female friends.. Very good, if a bit disturbing at times.
Last game played a full session of: Hm. I'd say InSpectres, but we ran out of steam mid-way through our 40 franchise dice, and so Lx retroactively decided that there were only 20. If that doesn't count, it would be session two of our second town in DitV.
On 4/5/2005 at 5:39pm, Ben Lehman wrote:
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Last thing watched: Sin City, which was spottily excellent.
Last thing read: The Shadow of Yesterday. Okay, actual book? Book of the New Sun, by Gene Wolfe.
Last game played: Purana, Santo Sengupta's Vedic HeroQuest. Also, Polaris! And more Polaris tonight! And the next day! And the day after that!
On 4/5/2005 at 6:08pm, bcook1971 wrote:
RE: Come as you are party!
Movie - Sin City
Book - The Paradox of Choice
RPG - BW
On 4/5/2005 at 6:22pm, Selene Tan wrote:
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Last movie - Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (and I watched most of Bourne Supremacy but didn't bother sitting through the whole thing)
Last book - Terry Pratchett's Monstrous Regiment
Last game session - I ran InSpectres. Blast, I should write that session up...
On 4/5/2005 at 6:32pm, C. Edwards wrote:
RE: Come as you are party!
Movie: Traffic
Book: The Maltese Falcon
RPG: Primetime Adventures
-Chris
On 4/5/2005 at 6:43pm, Frank T wrote:
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Movie: "The Good Cop" by Lasse Spang Olsen (for whatever reason they named it so in English, the German title was "They Eat Dogs in China")
Novel: "Dragons of a Vanished Moon" by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
Game: Star Wars d6 by Bill Smith (originally Greg Costikyan)
On 4/5/2005 at 11:48pm, ScottM wrote:
RE: Come as you are party!
1) Sin City
2) LeGuin's The Beginning Place
3) D&D, 3.5, Dad's campaign.
Scott
On 4/6/2005 at 12:02am, Jeph wrote:
RE: Come as you are party!
Film: The Taking of Pellum One Two Three. Charming heist movie from the childhood of my farther about the hijacking of a subway train in New York City.
Book: Either Children of Dune or Idoru; I forget which I finished first.
Game: Dungeons and Dragons, 3rd edition, as a player of a wizard. The game's at those wonderful levels where the characters have a degree of real power and, with sufficient planning, can kick nearly anything's ass, but get their butts kicked whenever they rush headlong into a situation; that is, whenever they fail to execute a scry-teleport-scry ambush assault.
On 4/6/2005 at 12:07am, John Kim wrote:
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Last movie: Finding Forrester (something of a disappointment)
Last book: Barrayar, by Lois McMaster Bujold
Last RPG: Buffy the Vampire Slayer RPG (the long-standing Silicon Valley Slayage campaign that I'm now co-GMing)
On 4/6/2005 at 1:12am, Rich Forest wrote:
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Movie? The Incredibles
Novel? The Lord of the Rings (and this was a couple years ago, wow)
Game? D&D 3.5
On 4/6/2005 at 1:24am, rafial wrote:
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Oh boy does this come at a bad moment for any pretentions of coolness i might have had:
Film - Sin City
Book - War of Honor by David Weber
RPG - Castles & Crusades
On 4/6/2005 at 1:35am, Christopher Weeks wrote:
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Mary Poppins
The Confusion (The Baroque Cycle, volume 2) by Neal Stephenson
My Life with Master or Capes -- depending on the definition of "complete session."
On 4/6/2005 at 3:04am, daemonchild wrote:
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Movie: Bourne Supremacy (rental)
Novel: War of the Flowers by Tad Williams
RPG: Sorceror by Ron Edwards
On 4/6/2005 at 3:11am, JamesNostack wrote:
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Movie: Amelie
Book: The Plague, by Camus
RPG: The Pool, by James West
On 4/6/2005 at 4:02am, greyorm wrote:
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1) Sin City -- just this weekend.
2) High Druid of Shannara -- if I recall correctly. I've been reading short stories recently instead of novels.
3) D&D 3E -- sigh. Someone save me.
On 4/6/2005 at 7:14am, Leningrad wrote:
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1) Sin City (genius)
2) L'Etranger (also genius)
3) Dogs in the Vineyard (see above re: genius)
On 4/6/2005 at 10:39am, nellist wrote:
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Film: Thomas and the Magic Railroad - a dreadful film that was SO awfully genre-breaking that I wish it could be utterly destroyed and never existed. Gold dust! pah! Nevertheless my 3year old nephew likes it.
Novel: The Goblin Tower (Sprague De Camp - forget his Conan pastiches, on his own he rocks) Just realised I nearly always read short stories.
Game: Heroquest, with a Demigod of Glorantha. I am cottar No.6. Go Greydogs, go!
On 4/6/2005 at 1:51pm, Marhault wrote:
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1) Bruce Almighty
2) The Life of the World to Come by Kage Baker
3) AD&D2E. And that was last summer. Man I've got to get back on this horse.
On 4/6/2005 at 3:50pm, Sydney Freedberg wrote:
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1) Million Dollar Baby, I think. That was my wife's request for her birthday. Very good. Very very very depressing.
2) [scratches head] Robin McKinley's Sunshine -- fun, but kinda goth vampire/romance novel wish fulfillmenty. My wife gave me this for my birthday.
3) Capes. My wife had nothing to do with this one.
And now I've gotta start a thread about how many people are married/have kids.
EDIT: And the family thread is born.
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On 4/7/2005 at 11:50pm, John Harper wrote:
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Film - Sin City
Book - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
RPG - Savage Godlike of Yesterday: War of the Worlds
On 4/8/2005 at 5:55pm, Blake Hutchins wrote:
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Sin City.
Song of Susannah, the sixth in Steven King's Dark Tower series.
Primetime Adventures - a Traveller knock-off in terms of setting.