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I'm tempted to buy this just for the Horatio race alone.

Those eyes don't look very healthy. I'd say they needed sunglasses...

...but who wears shades in the cold night of space?



Get it? Cause they're in space? That's all I got.

People come into conflict all the time. They act like they're still your buddy because they are.

I thought I was going to like it, because I'd always wanted a generic RPG (this was back when I was 14 or so and still really getting into RPGs that weren't D&D). My biggest issue was that the books were too complicated, but then when you had the characters made and were doing things, it was almost too simple. It also didn't really hold my interest, since the system itself wasn't exactly exciting or innovative (which is understandable, since it is an older game - but it's been many generations now, and they could have improved on it).

For generic roleplaying, Savage Worlds won for me. SW might not be everybody's cup of tea, since it's geared towards action and combat, though I used it to play an espionage themed game (Agents of Oblivion was, sadly, not that great a help in that regard). When I'm doign modern settings, I'll either do WoD or SW, depending on what I want the tone to be.

What I do like about GURPS is all the setting books. I read the hell out of those alternate universe sourcebooks.

Conversely, I never understood why I would want to play GURPS Traveller.

This is a big thread. What is a hookerbot?

On the topic of the poll - I already am a professional writer.

Of marketing materials.

We know that the seasonal transitions in Westeros are not different or more rapid than the ones on Earth because it has been Autumn since at least the end of Book 3. There are frequent mentions in Books 4 and 5 of the dangers of the sea during the Fall. There is mention in Book 1 of the seasons having once been normal (and, according to GRRM, the seasonal shifts are magical in nature), so the best conjecture is that they had already invented their calendar before the seasons started to last for too long a time. Old Valyria is an obvious Roman Empire allegory, so it is entirely plausible everybody is using the Julian Calendar.

It is somewhat clear to me that this society has the capacity to understand astronomy, as well, considering they have professional academics. Nobles (the main characters in this story) would have no difficulty following a calendar.

As for the peasantry: somebody probably just tells them, if they can't count it for themselves.

I was elected leader of a thirty year-old science fiction club.