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Character Motivation in RPGs

Thu 22 August 2024 By Andrew McConachie

This article presents a thought exercise that likely goes too far down a very specific rabbit hole. It was originally motivated by my frustration with the lack of a good mechanic for social interaction in the Traveller table top role playing game (TTRPG). From there it took on a life …
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#7 Akira

Sat 23 February 2019 By Andrew McConachie

In high school I had two things scrawled on my backpack. "Generalizations suck" and "Akira is coming, but Tetsuo will be first." Generally speaking, generalizations still suck and Akira is still coming. I loved Akira as a teenager. It's a great story, beautifully animated and completely ahead of its time …
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#6 Philip K. Dick

Mon 04 February 2019 By Andrew McConachie

Our next entry isn't a book and it isn't a book pairing either. It's an author, Philip K. Dick (PKD). It's difficult to determine which book of Dick's impressed on me the most, so this post is about the author and not any specific book of his.

PKD's consistent theme …
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#2 An Interventionist Pairing

Wed 02 January 2019 By Andrew McConachie

Use of Weapons, by Iain M Banks

The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government, by David Talbot

Our next pairing features a work of fiction and a biography.

Use of Weapons is set in Banks' Culture universe and features a protagonist hired by …
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