Timewaster's Guide Archive

So I came up with an idea for a sci-fi story that I will probably never write, but I figure some of you might be interested.

Starting fact: a fraternal twin who marries another fraternal twin has a greater chance of concieving multiple birth pregnancies than single-birth pregnancies.

Story concept: what would a family be like that only permitted their children to marry people who were fraternal twins, thus having a family where nearly everyone has a twin?

So I assume there are some strong opinions about this book coming out. There are probably some strong opinions about Christopher Tolkien. So does anyone care to share them?

I'm curious as to what other people are thinking.

So, the project I'm working on is in desperate need of a style guide for the lesson activities we're writing. The current writing format we're using is too academic and not very accessible to students or parents. Since the project is a lot less useful if it is only usuable by people who hold degrees in elementary education or child development, I'm hoping some normal people might be willing to give one of our lesson plans a look. Any feedback would be helpful at this point. The lesson is about 2 pages long plus supplimental material. So any takers?

So for fun, I’d thought of a forum game for the RPG section. I call it the Time-Waster’s Guide Ever-Changing Dungeon. It consists of members posting descriptions of one room in a vast dungeon that encompasses the imaginary universe.

Each post consists of the following five elements:

Name: Please give you room a cool name.

Start: list here which exit you are building off of from a previous post. For example: if the previous post had an exit called “down the rabbit hole” your start section should say “down the rabbit whole.”

Description: describe your room. What’s in it, who’s in it, physical dimensions, and obvious features. Please refrain from being long-winded and only include the stuff a game-master would read out loud to the group of players.

Event: put everything that could happen to the characters while in the room. List details about creature or traps and every thing you can possibly think of the player characters doing in this room.

Exit: list the exits from the room. Please limit the number of exits you include to one or two.

Don’t worry about game system or statistics. Mostly, I like the idea of this just being a thread where people can generate ideas or just practice writing descriptions. People can adapt the individual rooms to what ever game they are play. Likewise, don’t worry about what characters may be entering the room. Sure you could plant a trap for a greedy character or place the long lost parent of another character in your room, just please don’t plan it for a specific character played by a specific person. Leave things adaptable.

Other things you might consider. Just call characters PCs and gamemasters or dungeonmasters GMs for consistency. You may also give hints as to what lies ahead, but please don’t try to railroad the next person. Please be both creative and cooperative.

Please only have one post per exit.

If you wish to comment on a room or on this thread, that will be done in a seperate thread that will be created later.

I’ll get things started.

I saw this yesterday and was surprised at how good it is. I grew up seeing a lot of Bond movies, but I wouldn't say I'm a fan. Casino Royal is definitely a new direction for the Bond film franchise.

Has anyone else seen this? Is anyone writing a review?

At least he didn't die of something mundane like cancer.

So for those of us who can't go see Superman today, there is at least this.