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Interview meme
1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me!"
2. I will respond by asking you five questions. I get to pick the questions.
3. You will post the answers to the questions (and the questions themselves) on your blog or journal.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions. And thus the endless cycle of the meme goes on and on and on and on...
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madelineusher
1. Do you have any games currently running or currently being planned? No. Since I'm trying to get focused on my fiction writing, I've put aside gaming for the moment. I do have ideas for a Traveller game based around a group of starship repo men. The problem of course is time.
2. What's your favorite comic? Traditional strip format, Pearls Before Swine. Web comics, either Sluggy Freelance (is it not nifty?) or xkcd. I don't read comic books anymore. This is mainly because I got sick of there being no significant character development or advancement. This tendency was actually covered in one of the GURPS Infinite Worlds articles in the old Pyramid magazine. A time line where superheroes exist, but ever forty years or so they all reset with slightly different names and origins.
3. What book(s) are you currently reading? Plot & Structure by James Bell. Also reading The Space Opera Renaissance ed. by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer.
4. Are they any good? Yes for both. The Plots book is an excellent set of lessons and exercises in creating good plots and how to pace them. It already has improved my stories. The Space Opera tome (over 900 pages) is a magnificent overview of the genre, starting in the late 20s and moving up to the present day.
5. What game system do you hate most? For sheer unplayability, Twilight: 2000 (1st Ed). Clunky character design, unplayable combat, and a lack of non-combat roles made this a one trick pony. Worst combat rules ever? Phoenix Command. Not dozens, but hundreds of charts and an equal number of die rolls to handle every combat action. Way too much detail. When I was writing At Close Quarters one of the things foremost in my mind was to avoid doing the next version of Phoenix Command.
2. I will respond by asking you five questions. I get to pick the questions.
3. You will post the answers to the questions (and the questions themselves) on your blog or journal.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions. And thus the endless cycle of the meme goes on and on and on and on...
Since I got this from Niece Prime, the interview questions come from
madelineusher1. Do you have any games currently running or currently being planned? No. Since I'm trying to get focused on my fiction writing, I've put aside gaming for the moment. I do have ideas for a Traveller game based around a group of starship repo men. The problem of course is time.
2. What's your favorite comic? Traditional strip format, Pearls Before Swine. Web comics, either Sluggy Freelance (is it not nifty?) or xkcd. I don't read comic books anymore. This is mainly because I got sick of there being no significant character development or advancement. This tendency was actually covered in one of the GURPS Infinite Worlds articles in the old Pyramid magazine. A time line where superheroes exist, but ever forty years or so they all reset with slightly different names and origins.
3. What book(s) are you currently reading? Plot & Structure by James Bell. Also reading The Space Opera Renaissance ed. by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer.
4. Are they any good? Yes for both. The Plots book is an excellent set of lessons and exercises in creating good plots and how to pace them. It already has improved my stories. The Space Opera tome (over 900 pages) is a magnificent overview of the genre, starting in the late 20s and moving up to the present day.
5. What game system do you hate most? For sheer unplayability, Twilight: 2000 (1st Ed). Clunky character design, unplayable combat, and a lack of non-combat roles made this a one trick pony. Worst combat rules ever? Phoenix Command. Not dozens, but hundreds of charts and an equal number of die rolls to handle every combat action. Way too much detail. When I was writing At Close Quarters one of the things foremost in my mind was to avoid doing the next version of Phoenix Command.
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3. Given a choice between front row seats to see Black Sabbath or going to a club to see a new act, which do you choose?
4. Connecticut: threat or menace?
5. Talk about the first time you got drunk in public.