Sir Fred Hoyle, popular opponent of ‘Big Bang’ theory, dead at 86 [from CNN, via Boojie]
Month: August 2001
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Nice roleplaying stuff on the
Nice roleplaying stuff on the Blackgate Publishing site, including a generic RPG called Jazz that is influenced by Fuzion, Storyteller & Champions/HERO.
Also on that site is a fancy fan page for a famous (well, familiar) movie extra, The Golden Horde: The Al Leong Fan Club.
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John Kim, maintainer of various
John Kim, maintainer of various rec.games.frp.advocacy FAQs and links, has some interesting material on his campaigns (as well as plenty of RPG theory), including this Ripper Game, a non-mythos Call of Cthulhu game set during the Ripper murders, which also features a William Blake Tarot (kewl!).
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Some RPG Links now (as
Some RPG Links now (as if I blog anything else…):
Kenneth Hite’s top ten list of in-print GURPS source books, from October 1997, worth comparing to S. John Ross’ Best Of GURPS books list.
Also digging through the corpse of Mania magazine, I found this 1997 interview with Steve Jackson (on GURPS, obviously – pretty light reading…), and an article by Steve Jackson presenting GURPS.
All these finds were spawned by an RPG.net thread asking people’s opinions about GURPS, part of a “Best of the Forums” collection.
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How Many Jews Did Hitler
How Many Jews Did Hitler Kill?, By William Markiewicz – The author speculates that Jews were much more prevalant in Europe before WWII then the official records show. I found the whole article evocative and filled with thought-provoking bits, from the line about Alexander’s Jewish Archers, to the bit about Frankists converting to Catholicism and adopting surnames based on the months of the year (like Mars and December).