Comments on: Munchausen by proxy server http://www.spaaace.com/cope/?p=128 Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 26 Aug 2010 10:32:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Peter Cobcroft http://www.spaaace.com/cope/?p=128&cpage=1#comment-609 Peter Cobcroft Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:16:47 +0000 http://www.spaaace.com/cope/?p=128#comment-609 Arrived on my doorstep today. Very nice. Only one problem - it has the same ISBN as the PDF version I bought earlier (not something librarians like) Needless to say, it's going up on my LibraryThing - I just need to find a cover image of the spiffy black scheme. Arrived on my doorstep today. Very nice.
Only one problem – it has the same ISBN as the PDF version I bought earlier (not something librarians like)
Needless to say, it’s going up on my LibraryThing – I just need to find a cover image of the spiffy black scheme.

]]> By: Stephen Tavener http://www.spaaace.com/cope/?p=128&cpage=1#comment-608 Stephen Tavener Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:05:49 +0000 http://www.spaaace.com/cope/?p=128#comment-608 Great stuff! Now, if only someone could do the same kind of thing with a murder-mystery setting; maybe in the style of PG Wodehouse... I've been waiting to play something like that for years. Great stuff! Now, if only someone could do the same kind of thing with a murder-mystery setting; maybe in the style of PG Wodehouse… I’ve been waiting to play something like that for years.

]]> By: Uglifruit http://www.spaaace.com/cope/?p=128&cpage=1#comment-607 Uglifruit Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:31:31 +0000 http://www.spaaace.com/cope/?p=128#comment-607 Eee gads! This tomb has landed on my doormat today. I shall settle down for a read at the weekend methinks. Then get some friends and play / invade Belgium. Eee gads! This tomb has landed on my doormat today.

I shall settle down for a read at the weekend methinks. Then get some friends and play / invade Belgium.

]]> By: Peter Cobcroft http://www.spaaace.com/cope/?p=128&cpage=1#comment-606 Peter Cobcroft Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:53:59 +0000 http://www.spaaace.com/cope/?p=128#comment-606 As James said above - it's to help with the tracking from one page to the next for the reader. It's a style choice. Much like starting a chapter with a summary of what is in the the chapter. The same was done with the prologues of plays. Kind of "in house trailers" of what is to come. Anyhow, as to the PDF - I've bought it, intend to read it ASAP, and have played the first version and many variants thereof via email and wiki as well as face to face. Much fun was had by all. It was the first game to make me realise that storytelling and roleplaying have much in common, which lead to my investigation of narrative games, and storytelling as a game outside of wordgames for kids. As James said above – it’s to help with the tracking from one page to the next for the reader. It’s a style choice. Much like starting a chapter with a summary of what is in the the chapter. The same was done with the prologues of plays. Kind of “in house trailers” of what is to come.

Anyhow, as to the PDF – I’ve bought it, intend to read it ASAP, and have played the first version and many variants thereof via email and wiki as well as face to face. Much fun was had by all.

It was the first game to make me realise that storytelling and roleplaying have much in common, which lead to my investigation of narrative games, and storytelling as a game outside of wordgames for kids.

]]> By: james http://www.spaaace.com/cope/?p=128&cpage=1#comment-605 james Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:33:39 +0000 http://www.spaaace.com/cope/?p=128#comment-605 The extra word at the bottom of each page isn't a layout glitch, it's the way that books were laid out in London in the early nineteenth century. Weird, I know. The extra word at the bottom of each page isn’t a layout glitch, it’s the way that books were laid out in London in the early nineteenth century. Weird, I know.

]]> By: Distractions » Blog Archive » If you read one game in your life http://www.spaaace.com/cope/?p=128&cpage=1#comment-604 Distractions » Blog Archive » If you read one game in your life Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:15:53 +0000 http://www.spaaace.com/cope/?p=128#comment-604 [...] delivered as it is by the Baron himself in his inimitable style. And it is now available for download in a new, expanded [...] [...] delivered as it is by the Baron himself in his inimitable style. And it is now available for download in a new, expanded [...]

]]> By: Dotan Dimet http://www.spaaace.com/cope/?p=128&cpage=1#comment-603 Dotan Dimet Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:23:35 +0000 http://www.spaaace.com/cope/?p=128#comment-603 At the bottom of each page in the sample PDF there's the word that opens the next page. 'dedicate', 'The', 'cunning', 'nature', 'that', 'tess', 'BEGINNING'. I assume that's a layout glitch and not a hidden message or a bug on my machine? I notice the same problem in the sample PDF on e23. At the bottom of each page in the sample PDF there’s the word that opens the next page. ‘dedicate’, ‘The’, ‘cunning’, ‘nature’, ‘that’, ‘tess’, ‘BEGINNING’.
I assume that’s a layout glitch and not a hidden message or a bug on my machine?
I notice the same problem in the sample PDF on e23.

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