I've Moved!

I will be leaving this blog up for now, since it's free, but I have decided to try to consolidate my online writery and geekery on my new site, [doughagler.wordpress.com]. I migrated all of my posts from this blog, as well as a couple others that have been floating around out there, so everything here can be found there, plus everything I write going forward.

As I think about it, I will actually probably close this blog down at some point, but for now it's staying up. As I said, though, there's really no reason not to go over to the new site and read things there.

The Lumpley Games PDF Library

Ever wanted to main-line awesome directly into your veins?

It's never been this accessible before.

$25 for PDFs of Apocalypse World, Dogs in the Vineyard, kill puppies for satan, In a Wicked Age, Mechaton, and Poison'd.  That's...$4.17 per game.

Stop what you are doing and buy Vincent Baker's games.

From Neil Gaiman's Journal

This post from Gaiman is very interesting to me because it discusses issues at a nexus of interestes of mine - rights and the law, sexual ethics, and religion. It is a good articulation of Gaiman's position on rights as they apply to Art, and I think it is worth a read because it will make you think. This is a thorny issue. Gaiman says that if you believe in the freedom of speech (including various kinds of artwork and not just verbalization) then you will ultimately end up defending the indefensible.

Do you think that's true? Why or why not?

I'm inclined to tenatively agree, but I definitely want more time to think about the matter. I want to find a more elegant solution, but that might be entirely beyond the purview of the Law, which is, as Goblins in D&D games I run are wont to say, "threat of force". A bludgeon, Gaiman would say, and I have to agree.