{"id":5688,"date":"2004-01-23T20:26:42","date_gmt":"2004-01-24T03:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/01\/23\/pithy.html"},"modified":"2014-11-06T08:36:54","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T15:36:54","slug":"pithy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/01\/23\/pithy.html","title":{"rendered":"Pithy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whiterose.org\/pam\/archives\/005174.html\">Game WISH<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p class=\"block\">Sum up one or more games that you GM or play in 10 words or less. (Three is best, but not everybody is that pithy.) Don\u2019t restrict yourself to current games if you have great ones in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Present &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Chrysalis <\/b>[Nobilis]:  Losing my stick.\n<li><b>Necropolis <\/b>[D&#038;D]:  Cheap drunk elephant.\n<li><b>In Deo Confidemus <\/b>[Spycraft, GM]:  Playing NPCs rocks.\n<li><b>Sharper Than a Serpent&#8217;s Tooth <\/b>[Amber PBEM]:  I&#8217;m angry.  Still.\n<li><b>Ill Met in Amber <\/b>[Amber PBEM]:  Go with the flow.<\/ul>\n<p>Past &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Things in Heaven &#038; Earth<\/b> [Amber PBEM]:  The pain, the pain.\n<li><b>To Reign in Hell <\/b>[Amber PBEM]:  Fathers and sons.\n<li><b>Justice Squad <\/b>[SAS D20, GM]:  Too many notes.\n<li><b>Oriental Adventures <\/b>[Rokugan D20]:  Shishiko has fun!\n<li><b>The Prince of Alderaan <\/b>[Star Wars D20]:  Guns, ships, wiggins.\n<li><b>The Mask of Chaos <\/b>[Amber, GM]:  Wheels within wheels.<\/ul>\n<p><small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/random.average-bear.com\/archive\/cat_links.html#3935\">Doyce<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s Game WISH: Sum up one or more games that you GM or play in 10 words or less. (Three is best, but not everybody is that pithy.) Don\u2019t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,372],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-star-wars-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11812,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/01\/29\/worlds_past.html","url_meta":{"origin":5688,"position":0},"title":"Worlds past","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 29-Jan-08 1:47pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been doing some sifting and sorting of my old Thunderbird folders, preparatory to dumping them to disk and uninstalling the program (since I'm now well and truly embedded in...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Gaming&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Gaming","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/gaming"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5339,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/05\/amber_thoughts.html","url_meta":{"origin":5688,"position":1},"title":"Amber thoughts","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 5-Apr-04 8:15am","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Doyce, posts on 20x20 about the GoO\/ADRPG deal, and the Unspeakable Horror That Is a D20 Amber Monstrosity. 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