Walsingham

It's strikes me that you should have echeloned testers.

It's a badalganza!

I've just read the article and my conclusions are totally different. It sounds pretty reasonable, all told. Although I'm not convinced I'll enjoy it, it doesn't sound dumb.

I don't think I could do that, after all the horror films I've seen. I assume you were stalked by a psychopath who was eaten by zombies who were the undead remains of German POWs who were driven off by the ghosts of teenagers drowned by the former owner of the cottage who you were obliged to explode by luring him into the kitchen of the cabin and setting off the gas cylinders. Leaving you to walk wearily into the nearest town barefoot and singed, ending everything on a corny one-liner.

I think it cheats a ot of the experience as I say. We were playing a very fine Cthulhu adventure this evening set in WW1 and were being advanced upon by a strange skeleton thing. Having dispatched one previously with copious firepower we were grimly reloading and muttering to on eanother what we could do. Suddenly one of the party shouts "I'm going at him with my rifle butt. RAAAGH!" There's a moment of stunned silence and I shout "Come on then, you slugs!" and charge after him. Shortly to be followed by the rest of the squad. The first fighting went predictably badly, with no damage done by us. The return was two lots of claw lacerated innards. The point being we figured we were certain dead, knowing the referee wouldn't cheat to save us from what was a silly but altogether good roleplayed charge. Then in the second round the plucky but weedy feller who started the charge tried to grapple this flipping beast! Hilariously he actually succeeded in his roll with a critical. He successfuly swarmed over it and just grabbed its arms into a full nelson. Anyway I followed up with a double critical using my rifle butt and knocked it's head clean off. You've not heard such a hearty cheer in a long while. If the above incident had been done with a kinder referee there would have been far less payoff for getting away with it.

Marylebone?

Cigarettes are kinda essential if you're addicted to them. But I don't think I'd spot someone cash just because I worked in a store. That's bananas!

I did make that distinction, but you make a good point. Is an anthill artificial?

Sorry yes. my move: Loitering on the steps of Kings Cross

I for one welcome the representative of our abusive 'mother'. Mother nature started the fight for survival and now she wants to quit just because she's losing?

I'd like to apologise for this. It's just wrong on so many levels.

Having a female NPC interact with the party. Think about it.

Ten days. And the prize had better not be a lock of your intimate hair bound up with a pink ribbon.

How could you possibly write a book about the game? The rules are perfectly simple.

SEX vs VIOLENCE More than eloquent, in my opinion. You are quite correct that rape, and particular these kind of rapes are a question of sadism and power more than sexuality. Indeed one of the 'career paths' into violent sexual assault is experience of sexual inadequacy. However the concept of removing the tools from the offender is logical. It's just that if you conceive of the exercise as violent then you're talking about removing quite a lot. DIFFICULTY OF PROOF As I said before the concept of punishing the true offender and preventing recidivism is one I wholly support. Even to the extent of supporting execution. However I think that rape, and especially child rape, is an area which our courts are currently unable to rule on with sufficient certainty. PAROLE As for parole I think that this is an important and tricky issue. I've spoken to prison officers in Northern Ireland, and they said that parole was an essential method of controlling the population without extreme violence. You need to offer incentives for good behaviour. On the other hand my cetral concept of prison is that it protects the public from repeat offences for the duration of incarceration. Cutting sentences, particularly to a handful of months, makes a mockery of the entire system. A further point is that the system often complains that it is over-burdened with inmates, and it is obliged to let people go before time. Obviously this argument carries some weight. However, it is my belief that we would have plenty of space if we tackled the issue of drugs and drug addiction more effectively. Decriminilisation, as I've said before, would free up massive space in the system.

Oh OK, just this once we don't have to. Shall we dance?

Hmmm, tricky... I'd be tempted to try Bethnal Green but I think Walsh is just crazy enough to follow that with Cannon Street, and then we'd be in a right mess. So I think I'll play safe instead, and go for Gloucester Road. Heh heh heh.

I don't know if you meant in this way, but you can get the WHFRP novels from Games Workshop stores, and places like Amazon. My favourites would have to be just anything by Dan Abnett, and the Konrad series. Another good book would be the compilation Ignorant Armies I meant that I always enjoyed reading about other peoples playing sessions since they usually end up with some hilarious(for the reader)/terrible(for the player) thing happening to them all the time. I checked out the WFRPG forum, hoping to find some fun stories from the posters in those forums but I couldn't find anything of interest. Righto. I'll be chatting to some of my old comrades and see what I can recall.

I think that without the possibility of sudden unexpected death the PCs don't act sensibly. It's like playing poker without cash.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/listenagain/monday/rams/0500.ram The BBc's adaptation of The Deceivers. A tale from the early days of British involvement in India. Tonnes of material to inspire a campaign either fighting against an evil cult, joining one as a double agent, or even signing up with one. Themes of the the insiduousness of violence and its allure. The cult in this tale is that of Khali - goddess of destruction. You may also enjoy the story even without intending to use it.

I woke up this morning to the sound of persistent falling rain. For te first time in my life I grased how much part the rain plays in England's green and fertile ground. I actually liked the rain. On the other ahnd I could just be high from having had a full night's uninterrupted sleep. I reckon the vermin have decided to holiday elsewhere.

I've been thinking about this pain and retribution thing. It seems to be very popular. Indeed I support it myself to the extent that it may be justified. However, that doesn't make it RIGHT.

Agreed. *horizontal salute using copy of the Evening Standard as epee* I can see what you're doing, Steve. My move: Marble Arch.

I've often wondered whether the wording implies it has to be BOTH cruel and unusual or cruel OR unusual. My favourite recollection on this point is the psychological conditioning used on inmates in the seventies which actually WORKED in stopping violent behaviour.* Lawyers succesfully challenged it on grounds of being cruel, for denying people the option to be violent. But I thought it could equally have been challenged as unusual. * I can't be bothered to reference this point, so if you think it unlikely feel free to ignore it.

If you say so. I'm all out of trumps so I'll have to miss this round anyway.