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Hi all, Did anyone other than Eric J. take any pictures of the St. Patrick's Day (March 17th - has it really been that long since the last game?) Briwkars game at Jorge's house? I was going to try and compile some pictures and a report of sorts, (...) (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | Re: Meeting theme building?
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In lugnet.org.us.nelug, Freight Freitas writes: I'm definitely up for vehicles, but given the proposed theme of the past looking into the future technology, maybe, just maybe, we could use this theme for our club building project.I'm thinking we do (...) (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | Re: Meeting theme building?
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This sounds like a great idea to me. I'd be interested in any of the ideas that Eric or Suz threw out. - Joe "Lorbaat" <eric@nospam.thirteen.net> wrote in message news:GDFzEz.EJ8@lugnet.com... (...) at (...) (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | Re: BrikWars: SteamPunk
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(...) But IS James E of Cheapass Games, right? (...) He didn't know already? His jumping frog game is a favorite of mine (and my kids)... (...) Scarey, you mean. :-) (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | Re: BrikWars: SteamPunk
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(...) Phil (...) little (...) flying (...) told him about Lugnet. It's interesting to see just how much of a connection there is between AFOLdom and gamers. Frank (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | Re: BrikWars: SteamPunk
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(...) ha! I'm having a flashback to Phil and Dixie in Dragon magazine. Did you see this? (LEGO model) neat-o (URL) (23 years ago, 17-May-01, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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(...) You dare say it, I call it from the mountain! Time Cruisers is certainly weird science and the Twisted Time Train and Flying Time Vessel fit nicely into it. Another, more recently published, suggestion is the Girl Genius comic from Phil and (...) (23 years ago, 17-May-01, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | Re: BrikWars: SteamPunk
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(...) Whoah! this just freaked me out- though it has nothing to do with LEGO (sorry). From the above link, I went here: (URL) it's a book I own! (the German original) I haven't looked for info on this book in a few years, but I remember a fruitless (...) (23 years ago, 17-May-01, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | Re: BrikWars: SteamPunk
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(...) I believe Mr. Sullivan is right. We're going for medieval first, then we're shooting for 1800's Sci-fi. But I had Guinness in my system too, so I could be wrong. By the way, the new Disney movie, Atlantis, has a lot of this "steam (...) (23 years ago, 17-May-01, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | Re: BrikWars: SteamPunk
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(...) Another good RPG is Deadlands, though it's darker than Space 1889. (...) Good list. Even the "maybes". Frank (23 years ago, 17-May-01, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | Re: BrikWars: SteamPunk
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If you have Sci-Fi, they have a show about Jules Verne - it's not very good story-wise, but there's some decent special effects; it features things like giant airships, an underground drilling vehicle, a hover tank, a robot, etc. Also, Disney is (...) (23 years ago, 17-May-01, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | Re: Meeting theme building?
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(...) I like your Mechanical and Monuments ideas. 'Monuments' is a nice general term. Reminds me of the art show TLC did with the assignment: Gateways. It produced a huge variety of things. Here are a few I thought of over coffee.. - Zoo: normal (...) (23 years ago, 17-May-01, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | Re: BrikWars: SteamPunk
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(...) Other examples might include: - Johnny Depp's character in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" - Wild Wild West - actually, this movie is probably bad enough that you should only look at the box and check out the movie poster to get an idea of the (...) (23 years ago, 17-May-01, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | Re: BrikWars: SteamPunk
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(...) :-D Hey, somebody had to make a list like that. There wasn't one. But, yeah it's a shameless plug for LUGNET.. Equally shameless: I've been told that my list was *featured* by Amazon on their site :-) I wish there were more of those lists made (...) (23 years ago, 17-May-01, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | Re: BrikWars: SteamPunk
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(...) doh! I was probably zoning out. (it's all kinda fuzzy now..) Hm, were we both sitting the same distance away from the guy who was supposed to make decisions for us..? I'm sure he'll let us know. -Suz (23 years ago, 17-May-01, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | Re: BrikWars: SteamPunk
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In lugnet.org.us.nelug, Suzanne D. Rich writes: <snip> (...) Not a bad list. The canonical steam punk book may well be _The Difference Engine_ by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling though, since it delves into quite fantastical steam powered (...) (23 years ago, 17-May-01, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | Re: BrikWars: SteamPunk
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(...) Hmmm, perhaps there was Guinness in my ears, but ... My impression was that the Brikwars game on the 23rd (official announcement forthcoming) was going to be a medieval setting (without SP points) one, and that the Steampunk game was to be (...) (23 years ago, 17-May-01, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | Re: BrikWars: SteamPunk
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Info for folks: At the last NELUG meeting (5-15-01), it was suggested that an upcomming BrikWars game be set in a world of pumped-up past technology. The game has possibly been scheduled for the 4th weekend in June. Possibly to be at Jorge's house. (...) (23 years ago, 17-May-01, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | Re: BrikWars: SteamPunk
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(...) If you can build it using the BrikWars 2000 rules and *not* the Supernatural Powers Supplement, it's legal. For the record, that doesn't mean that "supernatural" things are not allowed. If you want to have magic as a part of your army, more (...) (23 years ago, 17-May-01, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | Re: Meeting theme building?
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(...) This reminds me of a funny story. Well, funny for everybody else ... During junior/senior high school, we were occasionally blessed with snow days or teacher-conference days, or some other excuse not to go to school and to have the day off. (...) (23 years ago, 17-May-01, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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