Sunday, 14 February 2010

Game tomorrow

Tomorrow is Washington's Birthday, a Federal holiday honoring the first U.S. President under the U.S. Constitution--seven presidents served before George Washington under the Articles of Confederation. Commonly known as, though incorrectly albeit some local municipalities make it official, President's Day, it is a that allows the grognards to gather round a kitchen or basement table for some WFRP.

The Silent Isle awaits.

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A Reading From CAS

It might seem that I'm reposting a lot from James Maliszewski over at Grognadia, I'm not, but he recently shared a mere 150 words penned by Clark Ashton Smith. 150 words that simply conjures phantasmagoric worlds I hope, as a GM, my players desire to explore:

The nostalgia of things unknown, of lands forgotten or unfound, is upon me at times. Often I long for the gleam of yellow suns upon terraces of translucent azure marble, mocking the windless waters of lakes unfathomably calm; for lost, legendary palaces of serpentine, silver and ebony, whose columns are green stalactites; for the pillars of fallen temples, standing in the vast purpureal sunset of a land of lost and marvellous romance. I sigh for the dark-green depths of cedar forests, through whose fantastically woven boughs, one sees at intervals an unknown tropic ocean, like gleams of blue diamond; for isles of palm and coral, that fret an amber morning, somewhere beyond Cathay or Taprobane; for the strange and hidden cities of the desert, with burning brazen domes and slender pinnacles of gold and copper, that pierce a heaven of heated lazuli.

--Clark Ashton Smith

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