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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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| | Re: Wandering Adventurer
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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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(...) Sounds like fun! You can count me in! Jeff "You can't be a hero hiding underneath your bed" (URL) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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Earlier today, I posted on another thread that I had made a Satyr [1] and a Minotaur, but didn't have any images of them. Well, I decided to hack a quick-and-dirty ".DAT" file for the Pirate Pegleg (which is used by both these models), and then I (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) on (...) of (...) Bring (...) I was guessing that some people wouldn't realize it... after all, the references were obvious to people who're familiar with the series but not otherwise ;-) (...) I was sure I'd never like it either... this guy I (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Hi James and Eric, In order to join, send Pawel a picture of your sig fig (signature minifig, not significant figure ;-) Read this: (URL) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Centaurs, Satires, Minotaur and the like...
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(...) Right. I already have one, see here: (URL) I was referring to half-human creatures, but any mythical creatures are cool! -Shiri (URL) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Centaurs, Satires, Minotaur and the like...
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Perhaps you could also make a Minotaur using a minifig body and a Fabuland head. :) -- Paul Davidson, aka Tinman www.theforce.net | Your Daily Dose of Star Wars www.filmforce.net | Your Daily Dose of Film News Shiri <shirid@hotmail.com> wrote in (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I disagree - unless you also want to count 'writing a novel' as a game of Let's Pretend! I think the two activities are very similar - perhaps even closely related. After all, there are certainly 'shared world' settings that evolved from (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Centaurs, Satires, Minotaur and the like...
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(...) LOL! I meant, "other than Tim Coats', I haven't seen any..." But you never know... (on the internet, no one knows you're a minifig... :) -Shiri (URL) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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Hi Franklin, I like these guys a lot! Especially the minotaur. Too bad I don't have any 'peg-legs' to make a real one... -Shiri (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | [CW] No camera? No scanner? No problem ...
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Ok .. here is a problem that some of you may experience. You've got some figures or creations, yet you lack the means of getting them online because you don't have a scanner or a digital camera. Can you still participate in CW? Of course. There are (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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