[TML] Ditzie Spofulam: The Later Years

[The Sayat Menace]

On Aug 4, 2008, at 11:27 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
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> <ka-snippo>
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> ROFLMAO!
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> I ran off to Wikipedia and I suspect you've increased my reading  
> load for a while. Off to find some of Sharpe's books...

The earlier publication date the better -- IMO he never recaptured  
that fever pitch of disgust and carnage he let loose in "Riotous  
Assembly" and "Indecent Exposure". His issues with women start to  
grate after a couple rounds, too.

Both his South African novels, and "Blott on the Landscape" too I  
suppose, are fine raw materials for a particularly cynical, brutish,  
and depraved Traveller game -- that is to say, one bearing no  
resemblance whatsoever to the PBEM I'm back to planning...

I was meaning to dust off my copy of FF&S2 and stat up "the Ming"  
described in those excerpts (see Ch 3/4 for source of name), but  
didn't get around to it. Besides, I'm not sure anyone uses those  
rules for anything any more. I'll reckon I'll leave the  
enGURPSification, Mongoosizing, whatever, to someone more in touch  
with today's Spofulam data sheet format :)

K.