The previews make me think of the wretched King Arthur movie with Keira Knightley and Clive Owen.Originally posted by What Exit?
The previews make me think of the wretched King Arthur movie with Keira Knightley and Clive Owen.
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Despite my admiration of Keira K., I actually haven't seen King Arthur yet, so I couldn't say. Maid Marian isn't a maid in Robin Hood, either; she's already married by the time Robin meets her, but... sparks fly, let's just leave it at that. Cate Blanchett does not look her best - almost haggard, I'm sorry to say. Marian is also not especially warlike, but neither is she a shy, demure and helpless damsel.
Yes, I'd say it felt like Robin Hood, all in all. There were a lot of things wrong with the movie, but some good stuff too, IMHO. You could easily wait to see it on DVD; there's nothing about it that absolutely must be seen on the big screen. As terrible as Robin's accent in the Costner movie was, though, that was a much more fun movie than this.
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Based on the description I will wait for Netflix.
D&D for people who just don't otherwise have the time: http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/wayof...ex.html?hpt=C2
I'm pretty active in the RPGA, and this program is a spin-off from the RPGA. They just started it a couple of months ago, and from what I can see, it's been pretty darned popular. They just concluded the first "season", with the second "season" starting tomorrow.
I'm going to be out of contact or nearly so for about a week-- don't wait up for me.
I'm going to be fairly absent for the next 4 days, so go find stuff and a) loot it, b) kill it, c) kill it some more
In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.
Then can we paint it?
Paint what? Our wagons?
Y'know, stuff. Like CatInASuit said.
I'm preparing a "Star Trek" RPG for here on Mellophant, along the lines of What Exit?'s LOTR D&D campaign. The rules would be a mishmash of FASA and other ST game rules for easy, seamless play. Players would be newly-assigned junior officers aboard a Starfleet ship. The Captain and First Officer would be NPCs, at least to start.
Once I establish a setup thread I'll get everyone's feedback as to which era of ST the game should be set in, and the kinds of adventures you'd like to have. More details to follow.
Interested in playing? Send me a PM. No salesman will come to your door.
I'll get a PM out eventually but I would hope for the age of adventure when Men were real Men and Women were Real Women and Vulcans were real Pointy Eared Carbon Based Computational Devices.
Also I would love to play a Chief Engineer that for no sound military reason finds himself often on away missions. I would settle for a bridge officer though.
So you folks know, I'll be out of touch for most of next week, as I'm going to Origins (a big gaming convention in Columbus, OH), where I'll be playing far too much D&D.
I'll be leaving on Tuesday morning (22nd), and not back until Sunday evening (27th). In my absence, feel free to stick Ceol in front so he can smite more evil!
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Have a good time, kenobi! Hack and slash with great abandon.
Ditto. Though, due to the girlfriend having law school class Wednesday night, we won't be leaving until Thursday morning.So you folks know, I'll be out of touch for most of next week, as I'm going to Origins (a big gaming convention in Columbus, OH), where I'll be playing far too much D&D.
I'll be leaving on Tuesday morning (22nd), and not back until Sunday evening (27th). In my absence, feel free to stick Ceol in front so he can smite more evil!
And then we come back late Saturday night since we're flying out to Bangalore, India for the wedding of mutual friends Sunday afternoon. So expect me to be largely out of commission from Thursday until July 6th or so.
Hey guys, I'm going to be moving for the next few days, and my next regular internet access will probably be Friday or Saturday. Soldier on!
"You laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at you because I'm on nitrous."
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On that note, I'm going to be in Ecuador for a month starting tomorrow. Best of luck with these spiders!
Have a great trip! Will you have Internet access?
Not regularly enough to play. I'll call it a win if I can check in twice.
Have fun and good luck Appleciders.
Also Happy 4th of July for my fellow Americans.
Same to you! I'm now in Vermont with my wife and her family. There'll be a parade, cookout and fireworks here to mark the USA's 234th birthday tomorrow. Huzzah!
Sorry for not being around, a week off will do that. Now where are we...
In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.
I'm back, and all caught up.
Well I need some players to step up and do things. Are we sending the Hobbit or the Elf or some other plan?
Come on, everybody loves flying invisible hobbits.....
In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.
Yeah, but I hate it when they drop crumbs of lembas in my hair.
Note on Spider Silk or Web
A ¼" strand of spider silk is off course quite silly but it would also be remarkably strong and tough if possible.
Synthetic spider silk has often been mentioned as a possible building material for a Clarke-style space elevator or "beanstalk," because of its combination of great strength and extremely light weight. For now, though, still a pipedream.
Checking in with what I think is the first post from south of the Equator. I´ll try to check in again in less than two weeks.
ETA: And I always preferred skyhook to beanstalk, but either way...
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Legolas gets hitched: http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2010/07...e-knot/?hpt=T2
Question came up in the other game thread: So a Repost.
I am the forum leader for this forum. So I am not a mod but have some extra editing and merging powers.
CatInASuit and Zuul are both Board Admins so they have far more powers and I believe their edits are invisible. At least that is how it worked when I was the board admin.
Everyone has between 10-20 minutes to edit their own posts though.
BTW: There is a whole board outside this forum and you are most welcome to post to it or wander over to our chat area (listed as Chate! I believe). There has been a long running weekly Star Trek TOS episode by episode discussion in the Arts and Entertainment forum. Look for it, you might enjoy them. Feel free to bump any old thread, we have no Zombie Thread rules.
There are often Tolkien questions in the A&E forum too. Lots of movie discussions of course.
Incidentally, Tolkien fans will want to see Reclaiming the Blade, a pretty good documentary about swords in history and the movies, with quite a bit about how the LOTR movie swords were made, the training the actors underwent, as well as brief interviews with Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn), Karl Urban (Eomer), artist John Howe and various Weta craftsmen.
http://www.amazon.com/Reclaiming-Bla...0724188&sr=1-2
PLAYERS: You need to bump the game along a bit. I think we might need a role-call. I fear we have lost most of the players at this point.
If it is just a handful left, I will try to accelerate the game based on the 4-5 players still playing and get it moving again.
I'm here, just a little busy over the last week or so.
In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.
I'm back in the country and I'll post regularly again now.
Cool, did you have fun?
I've decided the game needed to be pushed into a faster gear. Thus the hawk and today's suggestion.
I did. It's a pretty country and I got to eat a lot of local food, which is half the point of travel, anyway.
I'll be out of town at GenCon starting tomorrow. So I probably won't be back to the game thread until Monday.
A Brandybuck and a Fox? Believe it!:
My apologies to all; real life got rather crazy for the past few weeks. But, it's all good, and I'm back. Will strive to check in at least once a day.
For the record, I didn't prepare a Knock this morning. That came off a scroll that I purchased ages ago.
I'll be away for two weeks starting Saturday - off to sunny France (or so we hope).
Librarians rule, Oook
Cool have fun and hope you get your sunshine.
Not to metagame too much, but if What Exit has let on that he wants to hurry this mission up- is that why the towers are barred?
Well you know, checking each house and tower takes forever in this format I discovered and after all the big evil is up in the big tower.
An inspirational graph: http://graphjam.com/2008/04/25/song-...emes-this-day/
Is there something else you need to update?
Sorry, I was off running a festival the last few days. I'll make an update to the thread in a little bit.
"...Then a heavy copper pot flies out the window towards Gilraen but Thoroncir was ready and takes the blow on his shield...."
What, the bad guys were all out of palantirs?
Yes, yes they are."...Then a heavy copper pot flies out the window towards Gilraen but Thoroncir was ready and takes the blow on his shield...."
What, the bad guys were all out of palantirs?
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