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An overview of the Taiping

An overview of the Taiping Rebellion (from the Interesting Times piece I linked to below).

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Allen Varney, a game designer

Allen Varney, a game designer and interesting reviewer from Dragons’ past, has a web-site. Nice.

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Interesting Times is a list

Interesting Times is a list of interesting events taking place in 1850, one of the key junctures in the Feng Shui roleplaying game setting.

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Over on rpg.net, Brian Gleichman

Over on rpg.net, Brian Gleichman took some poor game designers to task for not finding out the facts about how to handle the problems of using guns in extreme cold weather. “Especially when it plays a critical role in the adventure and is easy to research (just do a goggle search on “Firearms” and “Cold Weather”).“.

So I did that search. He was right. So I tried to see if this would help me find out some facts about the effect of sea water on modern guns, for my Feng Shui game. Well, not really. But I got some interesting links, like this one: “THE VOYAGES AND FIVE YEARS’ CAPTIVITY IN ALGIERS, OF DOCTOR G. S. F. PFEIFFER , GIVING A TRUE DESCRIPTION OF THE CUSTOMS, MANNERS, AND HABITS OF THE DIFFERENT INHABITANTS OF THE COUNTRY OF ALGIERS, WRITTEN BY HIMSELF”, and this one: Sea Kings of the Antilles, an article about the Carib indians.

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Hey look, there’s a William

Hey look, there’s a William Blake page, including the complete text of the The marriage of Heaven and Hell, which is filled with quotable stuff, and is a rant about how reason is seen as good while energy (action, creativity) is called evil.

Blake used to be so heavily quoted in eighties superhero comics – more than Neitzche. Maybe because it was the British wave.