Wednesday, April 18, 2007

I'm thinking of a number between 4 and 6

6mm Minis - One of my favorite miniatures blogs. Great photos. Not just 6mm scale.

Uncouth Savage Studios - Home of the Awesome Atomosaurs online comic and the Awesome Setting.

The Always Amusing Euphemism Generator - Hey! Who's been soiling the wife's bulldog?!

Crystal Dragon Jesus - I recognized the phenomenon, now I can name it.

Brainwriting - A technique for getting ideas out of the quieter people at the table.
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7 comments:

  1. Stuart11:47 AM

    Huh. I posted some stuff on brainwriting and gaming a few months ago.

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  2. Anonymous12:22 PM

    I like the term "crystal dragon jesus" as a playful belaboring of the obvious, but to be a useful term for me I'd have to broaden it [the definition, not the term] to include the entire practice of unapologetically mirroring the trappings of real-world religions for fantasy ones.

    What I mean is, it would undo the value of a handy term if I have to tediously divide my bogus faiths into "crystal dragon jesus" faiths and "crystal dragon shinto" faiths and "crystal dragon scientology" and so on [and so on], and or break them down into blended categories ;)

    To give one obvious example: the repeated use of the Ankh as the symbol of holiness in the Ultima/Britannia setting doesn't make the Ultima church any _less_ Crystal Dragon Jesus than a comparable fantasy church that uses the Cross.

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  3. Jeff Rients12:36 PM

    szilard - I was wondering where I got that link from!

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  4. Anonymous1:07 PM

    My repeated attempts to use your blog as a substitute for a discussion forum just aren't working out :)

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  5. Jeff Rients2:41 PM

    Ha! For what its worth, I totally agree with you on Ultima. For all the noise made about the humanism and/or paganism of the setting, there sure seems to be a lot of crystal dragon jesus all over.

    Still, good games. Nice maps. And I still have the ankh I got with U4.

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  6. Anonymous5:53 PM

    A shiny pile of crystal dragon jesus is often the very best (and least hostile) way to express humanistic notions ;) I mean, it's no accident that I commissioned Denis Loubet for a piece in Uresia 2. No ankhs, though ...

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  7. MaksimSmelchak7:35 PM

    Hi Jeff,

    Thanks for the link!

    I've long been a fan of your blog. Love it!

    I've been linked to you for ages.

    Thanks again for liking my 6mm-Minis blog.

    Shalom,
    Maksim-Smelchak.

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