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Thursday, 8:36 am in Archive

I still have nothing particularly interesting to write about. ~Mat [h]’s books finally came yesterday, which meant it took them about as long to come an hour down from Sydney as my Malice Mizer photobook took to come down from Japan. So we played a bit of 3.5 last night… after everyone had finished copying their old characters off the v3 sheets onto the v3.5 sheets which always takes way longer than it should. I have this dreadful desire to play Werewolf. I think I’m at a stage with DnD that it’s just not really all that fun anymore. Because it’s always so bland; group of unnamed adventurers x go and fight random battle y, get reward z. Every second week someone looses a character, which I always found weird. As Storyteller in our White Wolf games I didn’t kill off a single character; I have this thing about Character Development, you see, which comes from the days when I considered myself a budding writer. I have this firm belief that all characters should, in time, develop extensive backstories and personalities, and that the events in an RPG should help facilitate this. Dying off and having to create a new character every second week (or even just the threat of it) is kind of non-condusive to this. As far as RPGs go, I believe that PCs are PCs for a reason. They are the centre of the world’s story; they are the Frodos, the Rand al Thors and the Cases. Thus, PCs should live long enough to finish the plot, and be interesting enough in their interactions with each other that it can carry the story along. I remember back in the days of Werewolf especially, we’d sometimes play late night at sleepovers, no books, no dice, no charactersheets, no plot. Just having conversations in character. We were our characters. I was Loki the Pack Totem, Anna was Sharn the Fianna Galliard, Judith was Cailet the Black Fury Theurge.

That’s the kind of thing I miss. Shit, I don’t even know if I could do it anymore. I’m not nearly as creative as I used to be; age and TV and the Internet is wearing me down I think. Pain in the ass.

Ah well.

I really need to get dressed and go to politics. Once again haven’t done readings; maybe Wednesday nights is not such a good time to be playing DnD…

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What does that Potter kid know?  He’s just too<br>young and self-centered to realize what’s<br>always been obvious to you – Snape isn’t a bad<br>guy at all!  He has plenty of reasons for<br>acting the way he does – he has to keep up a<br>front of hostility so that the Death Eaters<br>don’t suspect he’s turned on them.  Naturally<br>he has friends and romantic interests, he just<br>keeps his private life private.  And hey, if<br>you had to stand over a steaming cauldron all<br>day, *your* hair wouldn’t stay volumized<br>either.  You like to read/write stories that<br>portray Snape as a long-suffering hero who<br>eventually gains the respect and love he<br>deserves.  Oh, and his nose isn’t big – it’s<br>*aquiline*!
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