PilotMoonDog

Recent Actions

• Commented on Announcement time!
  I'm not sure any TV adaptation would need to be transplanted. Bear in mind the first book was a cross between Len Deighton and Lovecraft and the second was movie Bond and Lovecraft. Now as far as I know the...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  I kinda liked it. Any soundtrack problems were more than compensated for by the perfect casting though. All concerned gave very good performances....
• Commented on Announcement time!
  I'm not so sure about that after seeing the mess BBC America made of adapting the Discworld city watch books. The best we can hope for is that selling the TV rights makes Charlie's financial future secure. The quality of...
• Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
  Hmmm. Well, it was an American statesman, a republican even, named Carl Schurz who said “My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Schurz Words that most nations would do...
• Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
  That sounds like a variant RQ campaign to me. The original Gloranthan setting had things called Iron, Bronze and so forth that were actually dug up god bones from the time before time. Iron is a Dwarven product, did double...
• Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
  Yeah, I seem to recall us having this exchange before. You like your veg turned to mush. Good for you, enjoy. Other do not and I despair as to why you can't seem to understand that not everyone likes the...
• Commented on Worldcon in the news
  On a related note. I was tempted to attend this year in Glasgow. But I tend to look at many of the big events that I might otherwise attend in the light of widepsread complacency over COVID and say, nope!...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Season of Skulls
  The National Archive at Kew has a lot of stuff. You might try perusing their catalogue. A friend worked there some years back and got me a copy of SOE Syllabus as a birthday present. This was the course notes...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Season of Skulls
  On that basis all the partisan and resistance movements in WW2 were using human shields. On that basis so were the Irgun and Lehi. Certainly that would also apply to any other irregular or terrorist organisation you could care to...
• Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  That's valid enough but, harking back to the comment you are replying to, if you ignore the law for one person or group that sets the precedent that you can do so for others. This is, in my opinion, not...
• Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  Well there is such a thing as a large button landline phone for a disabled person. Maybe there is a good case for a large screen, disability adapted smartphone?...
• Commented on I should blog more, but ...
  Fair enough, where would I find them online. Failing that what should I look for in the library? The first thing I stumbled across is this article https://newrepublic.com/article/116215/was-harry-truman-zionist. However I am not familiar with what the biases of this publication...
• Commented on I should blog more, but ...
  I do have some links about the stuff I have been mentioning but, given they are from left wing sites, I suspect a lot of people would discount them before reading. Specifically Lawrence of Cyberia (about mandate era terrorism) and...
• Commented on I should blog more, but ...
  My understanding is that the early Zionist movement was secular in character and not explicitly looking at Palestine as a homeland. The latter changed on contact with the British empire. The former seems to have changed recently with Netanyahu seeking...
• Commented on I should blog more, but ...
  As I recall part of the basic strategy of terrorism is to provoke the group you are fighting into over-reacting and doing things to radicalise your base and to loose support elsewhere. Terrorism is a law enforcement problem. If it...
• Commented on I should blog more, but ...
  Hamas and it's actions are wrong. Understandable but wrong. However, what of the founders of the state of Israel? Amongst them the terrorists of Lehi and the Irgun. Members of those organisations went on to become senior political figures in...
• Commented on Do my Laundry
  Are the New Management now in power for eternity? Or does entropy do a number on them as well and what happens afterwards? Obviously this would be a more fitting topic for the new series. Alternatively, did the Senior Auditor...
• Commented on A fistful of tropes
  The only fantasy that isn't set in an feudal society that immediately comes to mind is the Commonweal series. Given the starting condition of low tech and some level of (non-theistic) magic what sort of society could work that isn't...
• Commented on Announcement: 2nd edition Laundry Files RPG is coming
  No, he's a smuggler. When you meet him he is in trouble with his boss because he dumped a load of product to avoid getting busted by the Imperials. He's also ex-Imperial military. Having joined up because he had no...
• Commented on Announcement: 2nd edition Laundry Files RPG is coming
  Some years ago a friend of mine ran a campaign using the West End rules. I was a bounty hunter with a peculiar notion about droid rights and a never memory wiped snarky astromech named R2FU2. We found out why...
• Commented on Announcement: 2nd edition Laundry Files RPG is coming
  Fair enough. I remember hearing that West End Games had access to a ton of George Lucas' files on the Star Wars setting when they did their version of the Star Wars RPG. That did lead to some odd interventions...
• Commented on Announcement: 2nd edition Laundry Files RPG is coming
  Are they using the same authors for the second edition? I ask because I think they nailed the general tone of your earlier Laundry books very well. I gather they made some mistakes around their depiction of Deep Ones though....
• Commented on Announcement: 2nd edition Laundry Files RPG is coming
  I will play AD&D. One of my group has a, currently in hiatus, Iron Kingdoms game. But I wouldn't run it for all the tea in China. I will plunder the system's worlds and scenarios for stuff that I am...
• Commented on Announcement: 2nd edition Laundry Files RPG is coming
  Trashing your old 3rd Edition books seems like a bit of a waste. They often seem to turn up in the bring & buy sections of gaming meets so someone would pay you for them. And, as I said, tastes...
• Commented on Announcement: 2nd edition Laundry Files RPG is coming
  Tastes vary. If that approach works for you then fine. My first serious campaign as a player was in Glorantha under RuneQuest 2. I still favour RuneQuest 3 as an easy enough to set up fantasy system. My cinematic system...
• Commented on Announcement: 2nd edition Laundry Files RPG is coming
  The problem with levels as per old skool D&D is gaining hit points with each level. So a weapon that can kills you a L1 tickles you once you are high level enough. Even if the weapon in question is...
• Commented on Announcement: 2nd edition Laundry Files RPG is coming
  What they said. I've always felt that D&D/AD&D are very much the ZX81 of TTRPG systems. There are better ones these days that avoid the trap of character levels and the like. That said I am not a fan of...
• Commented on Pass or Fail
  To quote "There's a name I have not heard in a long time." One of my first jobs was coding for a company called IMTEC that did most of their business with microfilm readers. They had, I believe, a license...
• Commented on Go away, Muse, you're drunk (again)
  I think part of the problem is a lot of people advocating violent solutions have little experience of violence or the consequences of it. They see it as a way to win a contest with their political opponents and think...
• Commented on Finding true love in the cosmos
  The first thing that comes to mind here is, what sort of love is the story about? Romantic and/or sexual love might be problematic but would it be that odd for two intelligent beings to be friends, regardless of biological...