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PapersAndPaychecks wrote: Oh, it's not that big a drama. I had a septoplasty, which is an operation to straighten the septum. On a skull, if you look at the nose, there's a thin slice of bone running up between the two nostrils. That's the septum. On most skulls it's straight but in my case it was sort of S-shaped, which was blocking both my nostrils.

The operation involved opening up the flesh and cartilage of the nose to get to the bone behind, and it was meant to clear the passages in my nose. In the short term it has completely the opposite effect--right now, the inside of my nose is a mass of stitches, my sinuses feel like they've been packed with English mustard and the tip of my nose is swollen and bulbous. I look like Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer with a bad head cold.

But it was a routine, planned operation and in the end I should be able to breathe better. I'm off work for a couple of weeks in the meantime because I'm not supposed to have contact with anyone who might give me a head cold, and I was hoping to get some writing done, but unfortunately I can't think straight enough at the moment.

Werral wrote:More importantly, I'm glad Stuart is doing fine. Hopefully your head will either be feeling clearer or full of feverish inspiration! The Rudolph look is seasonal at least.

Werral wrote:@tholian:

Say you write an AD&D module for your friends and play through it. One of your players says "that module was the fucking dog's bollocks, you should publish it". OSRIC will let you legally do that without breaching copyright. Maybe many who buy it will play it under AD&D (as did you and your group), but that's not the point.

More importantly, I'm glad Stuart is doing fine. Hopefully your head will either be feeling clearer or full of feverish inspiration! The Rudolph look is seasonal at least.

Mythmere wrote:

geneweigel wrote:

T. Foster wrote: I know if I were producing commercial product (which, thankfully, I'm not) I would be going out of my way to make it very clear to everyone that James Raggi does not speak for me and I have never been a part of and want nothing to do with his "movement," .

Again... news to me. Where does all this nonsense go down on blogs or something?

Yes, it was all on blogs - first Jim Raggi's blog, and then Tim Kask posted a rejoinder on RJK's blog, and then RJK did a follow-on post. Plus all the commenters weighing in. It was a big little tempest for a while.

T. Foster wrote:The flip-side of the terminology problem is that at least one "OSR" publisher (James Raggi) very much has tried to co-opt the term not just to indicate a publishing phenomenon but as a "movement" that he is the lead proponent and poster-child and #1 cheerleader of, and which he curates the membership-list of.

T. Foster wrote:So to people who don't want to be on Raggi's bandwagon -- who might, in fact, viscerally hate James Raggi and think he's an annoying self-important douchebag fuckstick -- the burden is on them to distance themselves from being de-facto part of a movement they want nothing to do with but have been included in without their consent.

Odhanan wrote:

Werral wrote:More importantly, I'm glad Stuart is doing fine. Hopefully your head will either be feeling clearer or full of feverish inspiration! The Rudolph look is seasonal at least.

Ditto! Get well soon, Stuart. Don't push it, mate.

PatW wrote:Let's not mince words - how do you really feel?

Say you write an AD&D module for your friends and play through it. One of your players says "that module was the fucking dog's bollocks, you should publish it". OSRIC will let you legally do that without breaching copyright. Maybe many who buy it will play it under AD&D (as did you and your group), but that's not the point.

oldgamergeek wrote:I like the retro clones they allow new players to try old style play for little or no money. (many can be downloaded free) I also play OD&D, AD&D, all Traveller including Mongoose and the dreaded 4th edition sure there are new games that are good, even the latest D&D has a following
what we need to remember is this is not Original vs retro clone vs modern. I game to have fun if a game is not or group is not fun I will do something else. Remember we are all GAMERS now lets slay some Orcs.

Wheggi wrote: Wheggi scratches his belly, fishes something from his teeth with his tongue. Chicken gristle? Yes, definately chicken. Then he cracks his fingers, and types. . . [/i])

Their game sucks. My game is better.

- Wheggi