tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4930065815010914887.post2881701274123044102..comments2023-07-01T05:04:43.376-07:00Comments on Really Bad Eggs: All Your BaseBlack Vulmeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04270071699114783644noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4930065815010914887.post-11592090749467073932012-07-02T01:24:37.065-07:002012-07-02T01:24:37.065-07:00I'm glad that these posts are worth coming bac...I'm glad that these posts are worth coming back for, Chris. Hopefully the next couple might clear up some of the shadowy corners.Black Vulmeahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04270071699114783644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4930065815010914887.post-82364874009431656592012-07-01T16:52:35.538-07:002012-07-01T16:52:35.538-07:00Very much looking forward to that upcoming article...Very much looking forward to that upcoming article, Mike.<br /><br />I'm really enjoying this series. I'm still not seeing how I could put it into play, but the more I've talked with my group, the more I realize that Flashing Blades doesn't offer what they want.<br /><br />I suspect I need to do three things: 1) play a lot more FB before I try to run it again, 2) do a lot more period research, and 3) recruit a group of players who specifically want to play this sort of game.<br /><br />It reminds me a lot of the difficulties I had running Vampire: The Masquerade back in the 1990s. I wanted to do lots of intrigue but I find myself incapable of putting together a good "living city" even when I'm using a place and time I know well (e.g., New Orleans, Rome, or Venice).<br /><br />There's some <i>tertium quid</i> I'm missing. Your series of essays is helping me identify some of it, but I think there's something obvious I'm just not grasping. The write-ups you are doing strike me as a solid, common sense approach to this type of game. Why these points aren't obvious to me until <i>after</i> I've read your posts escapes me.<br /><br />And I'm still not sure how to put them into practice...I had the same problem with singing Gregorian Chant until someone explained to me that in ancient music Note and Pitch aren't the same thing, whereas in modern music they are. That one fact was a revelation to me that unlocked chant for me. That's the best analogy I can come up with.Flambeauxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00133131881423202010noreply@blogger.com