{"id":9397,"date":"2006-07-15T10:25:56","date_gmt":"2006-07-15T17:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/07\/15\/groffo-your-mom-ruffians-gasp.html"},"modified":"2006-07-15T10:25:56","modified_gmt":"2006-07-15T17:25:56","slug":"groffo_your_mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/07\/15\/groffo_your_mom.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Groffo &#8230; your mom &#8230; ruffians &#8230; (gasp) &#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ended up playing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anvilwerks.com\/?The-Shadow-Of-Yesterday\">The Shadows of Yesterday<\/a> last night at the Casa &#8212; Lee, De, Jacke and I being put through our pre-genned paces by Doyce (same scenario as mentioned with another group <a href=\"http:\/\/random.average-bear.com\/archive\/008913.html\">here<\/a>).  Lots of fun, an <a href=\"http:\/\/random.average-bear.com\/TSOY\/HomePage\">enjoyably flexible (yet well-structured enough) system<\/a> that one has an idea of what&#8217;s possible without it being constrained to whether to use the dagger or the longsword.<\/p>\n<p>As the Deceiver with a Heart of Gold (I immediately thought of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ateamshrine.co.uk\/face.php\">Face<\/a>), I enjoyed playing with both my abilities and the &#8220;constraints&#8221; of my keys.  I was pleased by some solutions I came up with some problems, and think it could be a fine sort of system to run &#8212; well, anything in, though the sort of dark fantasy pirate stuff worked nicely.  Plus it uses FATE dice, and uses them well.<\/p>\n<p>Good stuff.  Thanks, Doyce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ended up playing The Shadows of Yesterday last night at the Casa &#8212; Lee, De, Jacke and I being put through our pre-genned paces by Doyce (same scenario as mentioned&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133875,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/17\/gaming-with-pictures.html","url_meta":{"origin":9397,"position":0},"title":"Gaming! 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