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Kevin Drum catches the BBC changing articles on the fly. Add another reputable news agency to the list of those who do this. There was a small tempest a year or so ago regarding bloggers who adopted this practice; it’s odd that fewer people seem to care when it’s journalists. Or maybe I’m missing something, dunno.
Apr. 16th, 2003
Do you ever reuse characters from game to game? When you reuse characters, what do you bring from game to game: a name and a personality, stats, or more? What kinds of characters do you reuse and why? If you GM, do you like to have players bring in existing characters? Why?
I don’t ever reuse characters… wait, that’s not true. I’ve used Mange (half-orc barbarian) more than once, but that’s because I intentionally use him as a test character for 3e games. Any time I don’t want to burn a “real” character concept on a game before I know if I’ll like it, I’ll trot him out. He served as my NWN character as well.
Hm, and you could say I’ve reused Constantine as well, if you again count computer games. But there’s not much roleplay per se in those. Still, OK: I’ll say I reuse characters for the purpose of coming up with computer game avatars. And now that I think about it, those two games are the only computer games I’ve played for extended periods of time. Maybe there’s a reason for that; I’ll have to experiment.
In pen and paper games, however, I don’t generally reuse characters. I do reuse concepts; I went through half a dozen iterations of the bright young noble before I went on to something else. In some ways, my travelling backwoods feng shui master from Rob’s UA game is very similar to my cleric of Mercury in Carl’s 3e game. I reuse (and remix) concepts, but not characters.
The buried mobile labs we found last week weren’t chemical weapon labs after all. It’s unclear whether or not these are the labs Powell was talking about in his UN speech — from the CNN article, it looks as though they’re cargo containers rather than actual vehicles, but those are designed to ride on flatbed trucks. I’m thinking they’re at least the same type of lab. Well, maybe Iraq had 18 mobile chemical weapons labs plus 11 mobile labs that had nothing to do with chemical weapons and it’s just a coincidence and we’ll find the chemical weapons labs later.
Or maybe we were suckered, just like we were suckered on the nuclear materials sale.
Robert Fisk has the most poignant things to say. I don’t know what I could add to what he wrote. An observation, perhaps, that this is a deeply apoliticial column. Frustrated? Oh yes. But not political. (Via Making Light.)