Theme events

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

See, the point of the site is entertainment: games (of any sort) books, music, movies. Review someting. Or write an article about how to use or do one of them.

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

Hang on... i think his stuff could be good background for a Roman game.

[Maxwell]

Well i was thinking if you know more about the myths behind gads and monsters that are in these games it could
A: help you better understand the background and possibly plot/refferences
B: help to make your own game(if you plan to or are) more interesting and mythologically accurate.

[Entsuropi]

Hang on... i think his stuff could be good background for a Roman game.

My feeling is that any GM would do his own research on this sort of thing. We should aim to offer our own brainwaves on the subject. If i run a game set it rome for example, i do not want to read some other RPGers re-iteration of things i would have needed to know before running the game, but i might be interested in his opinions on how things could be used in an rpg perspective.

And i am tired, so that makes NO SENSE.

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[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

yeah, were you to do such an article, connect it to gaming somehow. that would be worth using.

[Spriggan]

This months theme day is in 6 days (next monday), are you people going to have anything done for it?

Incase you forgot, this month is anchent civilizations (you can all thank Entropy).

I don't have anything I can think of for this, so this is all on you guys.

*Cracks whip*

[EUOL]

Uh...

Hum...

(Scratches head in thought.)

SE gave me some lectures on tape about Egypt.

Or, uh, we could do a one-year-early review of ELANTRIS.  It's kind of about an ancient civilization.

(Sorry, guys, I'm scraping the bottom here.)

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

there were a lot of ideas before.
I'll have a review in soon for one set of lectures. The other one will be done later in the week.too  bad I didn't get avalanche to send me one of their game products on Byzantium or somethign

[Entsuropi]

Well, crap. That was quicker than expected.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

get to work, Entropy. THis was YOUR idea after all.

Here's the list of things to be potentially reviewed (just to collect them from earlier in the thread):

Gladiator
Sparticus
Praetorians (PC game)
Aeneid, Odyssey, Illiad, any number of greek trajedies and the epic of Gilgamesh
Discussions on ancient greek philosophy
Articles on how you could roleplay in the time period
If i get my hands on some, i could review the warhammer ancient supplements for the period - there are several (Chariot wars, fall of the west, alexander the great).
Mummy, mummy 2, Scorpion king
Age of mythology (pc game)
(all Entropy suggestions)

Jeffe said he'd do Fulminata and Life of Brian.

JP mentioned maybe doing something on the Medea.

THen there's my two promised reviews already.

And if we come up short, we could link to some old reviews. I did Atlantis and the Age of Mythology board game that we could resurrect.

edit: oh,a nd I may condescend to review Ben Hur if I find I have the time.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

This is monday right? Are we emailing reviews to SPrig? Or just posting them normally?

[Spriggan]

eh, just submit them normaly and I'll get Fell or Tage to link to them.

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

Crap, due to internet issues I cant submit untill tomorrow.

[Spriggan]

Do we have any others for today?  If not I don't think it would kill us to do this tomorrow.

[Entsuropi]

Tomorrow!