[CAR-PGa] Update from Canada

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I replied to Bryan's posting off line. Since he is sharing it online with no context among the readers (quite proper, but confusing), I thought I better post my comment to reduce that confusion.

Re: [CAR-PGa] Re: Update from Canada

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Paul Cardwell

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Bryan Campbell

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Friday, June 24, 2011 12:34 AM

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Nice card design. Traditionally, we used a D12, because like that die, we are rare. (This goes back to even before I was a member, which was in the late 1980s.) Also, numbers are preferable to pips as it gets around the "promotes gambling" charge which amazingly still exists - in every US state prison! I still can't get them to provide the rules for Craps with D20s, but then it is nothing but a power play on their part and rationality plays no part in it. Federal prisons either have no problem with dice (as long as they are Armory!), or they ban dice but permit the games, requiring the default use of spinners.

It is interesting that TSR threatened to sue (as they did habitually back in those days) over our D12 use, claiming it infringed on their RPGA world map on an icosohedron, even though we had eight fewer sides and no map. Ironically, a world map on an icosohedron is the copyrighted property of Buckminster Fuller and is called a Dymaxion Globe. They ignore that detail.

Also, good ideas on the Fact Checker.

I had a hard drive death on my old computer which permitted the use of PageMaker 5 word processing. So I am way behind on getting things transfered to my Mini Leopard. This is another reason to have hardcopy archives! Very little, if any, archival material was lost, although a lot of "current project" material exists only on floppy disc backup. This includes ongoing material like the Media Bias Study and my Role-Playing Game Dictionary, which covers lexigraphic materials such as etymology and date of first use as well as mere definitions. It will be awhile before I am back up to date, but still available for work on the backup data.

Paul

From: Bryan Campbell <bcampbe@ucalgary.ca>
To: CAR-PGa: The Committee for the Advancement of Role-Playing Games <car-pga@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 2:48 PM
Subject: [CAR-PGa] Re: Update from Canada

I added an updated card, as per Paul's request (d6 and pips apparently
symbolize gambling). I changed the die to a d12, which Paul said was a
more historic logo. I also changed the color to blue, thinking that it
is a less hostile color.

I uploaded the image to the same Facebook album, so please have a look
and let me know what you think.

Bryan

P.S. 3D modeling is a pain in the butt. Photoshop transform tools for
the win.

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