Building Beliefs from MG Recruitment (Pt 2)

Here is the second part of what I began with the origin-skill-trait chart. The idea here is to go through the "lifepath" to borrow Burning Wheel term of your guardmouse, building up a history as you...
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Building Beliefs from MG Recruitment (pt 1)

I think the Mouse Guard recruitment section is well done (as is all of MG) but it is missing two things to make it really great. First, it's not apparent from the text that this should be a...
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The Crone’s Illusion

Below is a repost, salvaged from the olden days, of my thoughts on the film Agora, which I most heartily acclaim. My reaction to Agora was highly charged, and I wanted to let myself cool down long...
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Hammurabi’s Muse

Below is a (very slightly edited) repost of something I wrote on the basis of morality, salvaged from the olden days. It is reasonable to expect social animals to have social rules. It just makes...
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