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(...) It's OK. I'll forgive you if you have good taste in other literature. (...) How bizarre. If this is from the song I'm thinking of, it's the one that's in the CD player in my LEGO room right now. Tenchi Muyo 2nd series? Or just a bizarre (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I like the Lord of the Rings and Wheel of Time... :) I *did* try reading Narnia when I was real young, so that may've had something to do with it. I haven't tried recently (...) Yup, its from "Pioneer". Great Song! I actually don't have the (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Fantasy series & anime music (was Re: [CW] Pawel and Craig - please clear up this confusion!)
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Jeff Stembel wrote: Followups going to off-topic.fun cos this is getting way out there from .castle... (...) One outta two ain't bad. 8) Have you tried George R.R. Martin's _A Game of Thrones_? It's a doorstop fantasy like Jordan but far better (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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Massive snippage They may have a reason. The best one I can think of is "Play Balance". They have obviously announced that armed conflict is a possibility in CW. This will make it a whole lot easier for the Big Guys to pick on smaller folk, IF they (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Centaurs, Satires, Minotaur and the like...
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(...) Tim is a mythical creature? Half-man, half-ABS maybe? :) DaveE (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Well, I'd say that, up til now, that's probably the best entrance application yet! Very imaginative, kudos; and Eric looks like an awfully serious little bugger - looks very mischievous. Hey Pawel, this looks like the perfect applicant for (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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At the inaugural DixieLUG meeting, I had a Satyr, using Suzanne's basic design, but with a JarJar torso with yellow arms, and a Fright Knight soldier's head (the same one that Pawel uses for Verneer, IIRC), a 1x1 tile w/ clip, and a cattlehorn. I (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) That doesn't matter. Combat and Wars are *completely* optional! For Example, Let's say My Necromancer and his army of Undead soldiers decide to attack Dave Eaton's Peaceful Village. I email Dave and ask him if we can have a battle. If Dave's (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: [CW] Pawel and Craig - please clear up this confusion!
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(...) of (...) <delurk> I just re-read these from a large, hard bound book with full color illustrations. My mom (through some cool machinations) bought this thing for like $5 and was gracious enough to loan it to me. The cover has a full map of (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Tolkien (was Re: [CW] Pawel and Craig - please clear up this confusion!)
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(...) The correct answer is both vague AND huge. ;) I've done some research into making Minas Tirith, and come to the conclusion it will involve a lot of artisitic license. JJR has a grand total of about 150 words of descriptive text for it..<sigh> (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Tolkien (was Re: [CW] Pawel and Craig - please clear up this confusion!)
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(...) Very true (vague, huge, with a sense of being quite elaborate while having no description). I'm looking forward to the upcoming live-action LotR movies to see how they tackle the problem. Of course, one could always get the animated movies and (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) This is a good question. I'd like to join (castle was always my first love, going waaay back to the Yellow Castle). (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) But Castle World is not a game. There's no need for Play Balance. Just like an author doesn't need 'play balance' in his books. We're creating a 'shared world fantasy' here (like the _Wild Cards_ or _Thieves' World_ series), not running a (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Tolkien (was Re: [CW] Pawel and Craig - please clear up this confusion!)
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(...) Nonsense. :) I am in the throes of planning out a model of Minas Tirith, at a micro-fig scale, where people are ~1 brick tall. Even at this scale, my best size estimate is that I can't really get it under 5 feet high and about 6 or 7 feet (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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Having just said that Castle World is not a game, this is going to sound very strange. But the more I think about it, the cooler this idea seems, so I might just wind up doing it. I might well do a ballad or two working with several other people, (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Tolkien (was Re: [CW] Pawel and Craig - please clear up this confusion!)
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(...) animated (...) Minas Tirith is, after all, set on a mountain, with 7 (is it 7, it's been a while since my semi-annual Tolkien re-reading) levels, a citadel on the top, walls on all levels, a huge city below, and a variety of other stuff. Huge (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) folk, (...) finding (...) your (...) Ah Ha! At the most basic level, CW is a game. It's "Let's Pretend" which is the simplest game there is. There are rules to follow, but very few of them. This is not AD&D, GURPS, Hero System or any other (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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Ok ... looks like this is the time to address this question: Q) How do I join CW and what does it take to join? A) You've gotta have a creation of some sort - a picture, a scan, an L-draw file, or something else as such. If you have a signature (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Microfig-scale castle (Was: Check out these mecha)
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(...) Actually, there's only one ninja in the entire page. Care to find him (or her)? Barbara and I have been doing this microfig-scale people thing for a while now. I got the idea for a microfig-scale castle from Greg Williams originally. The scale (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle)
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Last night I made a couple of animals inspired by Franklin Cain's animal designs. Using his pig, I made a cool wild boar and using the chicken and goose as models I created a turkey. I also made a big black walrus (though is looks a little more like (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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