Ian Cooper

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Principal Engineer, speaker, gamer, geek. Tattooed, pierced, and bearded. The 'guv' on https://github.com/BrighterCommand Line Editor at Chaosium for QuestWorlds: https://github.com/ChaosiumInc/QuestWorlds #Tech - tech posts #TTRPG - rpg posts

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A report from the Guardian with Games Workshop’s profits of £135 million and noting its star performance in the FTSE 100
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A woman and a girl gaze over Victoria Falls
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Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don’t Create the Torment Nexus
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Anime-inspired genre pack for the QuestWorlds tabletop RPG. Spec-ops Magica Crisis is a Japan-set anime-inspired world setting for Chaosium's QuestWorlds roleplay game. The elevator pitch is: High School Wizard Secret Agents. You play a student attending an elite magic high school in modern Tokyo. Able to wield the magical power of the elements, you are drawn into a world of action and intrigue, fighting terrorists, criminals, and foreign agents. It's a world rich with magic, mecha, and magical girls. Battle kaiju monsters, and eldritch horrors from the Rift! Spec-ops Magica Crisis is NOT a standalone game. Rather, it is a 'genre pack' that provides a setting and adventures for the QuestWorlds game. It is based on the QuestWorlds Core Rulebook.
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You come to this place, mid-life. You don’t know how you got here, but suddenly you’re staring fifty in the face. When you turn and look back down the years, you glimpse the ghosts of other lives you might have led; all houses are haunted. The wraiths and phantoms creep under your carpets and between the warp and weft of fabric, they lurk in wardrobes and lie flat under drawer-liners. You think of the children you might have had but didn’t. When the midwife says, ‘It’s a boy,’ where does the girl go? When you think you’re pregnant, and you’re not, what happens to the child that has already formed in your mind? You keep it filed in a drawer of your consciousness, like a short story that never worked after the opening lines. Hillary Mantel Giving up the Ghost
The big difference that sets Prince Valiant, The Storytelling Game apart from most games is the cooperation, simplicity of interchange, and striving for equality that occurs between participants. This is a social game in the most positive sense of the word. Aggressive competition or legalistic arguments over rules are alien to the spirit of Prince Valiant. We do not mean that everyone must contribute the same number of words or ideas in order to enjoy the game — in fact we expect everyone to contribute what they are able. But the style of play is to provide color and richness from many independent sources, such as the Prince Valiant comic, Arthurian literature, favorite medieval novels and movies, history and most importantly, the imagination of the player
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An interior shot of the QuestWorlds book, one page has an illustration of a T-Rex fighting a crew of adventurers in 17th century attire, dragging a canon. One of the crew is in the T-Rex’s mouth.
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A packet of UK crisps or potato chips if you are in the US, with the logo Hedgehog Flavoured Crisps. This is a real packet, not a fake.
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