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andrewducker) wrote2003-06-04 10:28 pm
andrewducker) wrote2003-06-04 10:28 pm
Interview
The way this works is: I answer the interview questions I asked for elsewhere.
Then if you want, you can ask me to interview you.
These questions are courtesy of the ever-delicious BirdOfParadox.
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becksifer talks to me about the stunning landscape in your area: what's your favorite part of Edinburgh?
That would be Arthur's Seat
Nothing to do with King Arthur, the name comes from Ard Tor, the derivation of which escapes me. There's a picture of me (with brother and father ) up it here.
2) What's your favorite RPG system and why?
I'm very fond of Amber. And Nobilis. Both bring nice mechanics to diceless gaming. FUDGE is nice and simple mechanic. Theatrix is delightful. Nohing beats rolling a bucket of D6 in Shadowrun.
But my favourite system of roleplaying is to get a bunch of smart, cool people around a table and pretend to be things. Systems never work right for me, and I have a distinct tendency to forget to ask people to roll things and to just get on with the lets-pretend. I like the system nice and simple, and so long as I don't notice it too often, it's fine by me.
3) Completely throw out all restrictions: you have a few days' vacation... Your budget is only limited by your imagination. Where do you go, and what do you do?
Hire a castle. Get as many friends as can face it together for the weekend. Lay on 'entertainment'. My idea of a good time is hanging out with a few friends and having fun. There's nowhere I'd rather visit than somewhere my friends are. Of course, visiting new places with my friends is also cool. But a castle, where we wouldn't be disturbed and could lay on alcohol, drugs, computers, bouncy castles and marching bands would definitely be good.
4) If you could pick up and change your profession overnight, what would you do?
I'd write. Programs. Short Stories. Comics. Poetry. Instruction Manuals. I just like producing things in text.
5) Tell me a childhood story, please?
One December the 26th. I was woken by my mother, who insisted that I and Michael (my younger brother) get dressed immediately. We were then ushered downstairs, along with her, into an ambulance, which drove through the streets of Leicester. I sat in the back and fired my torch-gun out of the window, illuminating my own reflection in various shades as I changed the filter from red to green to yellow. When we arrived at the hospital, they found the two of us a bed and we collapsed back into sleep (although not before I could inform a lady dressed in white that she couldn't possibly be a doctor, because she was a woman). Later that day, my youngest brother Hugh appeared into the world. And that's both the earliest story from my childhood that I remember, and the start of his.
Right, who wants to be interviewed?
Then if you want, you can ask me to interview you.
These questions are courtesy of the ever-delicious BirdOfParadox.
1)
becksifer talks to me about the stunning landscape in your area: what's your favorite part of Edinburgh? That would be Arthur's Seat
Nothing to do with King Arthur, the name comes from Ard Tor, the derivation of which escapes me. There's a picture of me (with brother and father ) up it here.
2) What's your favorite RPG system and why?
I'm very fond of Amber. And Nobilis. Both bring nice mechanics to diceless gaming. FUDGE is nice and simple mechanic. Theatrix is delightful. Nohing beats rolling a bucket of D6 in Shadowrun.
But my favourite system of roleplaying is to get a bunch of smart, cool people around a table and pretend to be things. Systems never work right for me, and I have a distinct tendency to forget to ask people to roll things and to just get on with the lets-pretend. I like the system nice and simple, and so long as I don't notice it too often, it's fine by me.
3) Completely throw out all restrictions: you have a few days' vacation... Your budget is only limited by your imagination. Where do you go, and what do you do?
Hire a castle. Get as many friends as can face it together for the weekend. Lay on 'entertainment'. My idea of a good time is hanging out with a few friends and having fun. There's nowhere I'd rather visit than somewhere my friends are. Of course, visiting new places with my friends is also cool. But a castle, where we wouldn't be disturbed and could lay on alcohol, drugs, computers, bouncy castles and marching bands would definitely be good.
4) If you could pick up and change your profession overnight, what would you do?
I'd write. Programs. Short Stories. Comics. Poetry. Instruction Manuals. I just like producing things in text.
5) Tell me a childhood story, please?
One December the 26th. I was woken by my mother, who insisted that I and Michael (my younger brother) get dressed immediately. We were then ushered downstairs, along with her, into an ambulance, which drove through the streets of Leicester. I sat in the back and fired my torch-gun out of the window, illuminating my own reflection in various shades as I changed the filter from red to green to yellow. When we arrived at the hospital, they found the two of us a bed and we collapsed back into sleep (although not before I could inform a lady dressed in white that she couldn't possibly be a doctor, because she was a woman). Later that day, my youngest brother Hugh appeared into the world. And that's both the earliest story from my childhood that I remember, and the start of his.
Right, who wants to be interviewed?
no subject
2) If you could change one thing about yourself (mentally or physically) what would you change?
3) If you could holiday anywhere, where would it be?
4) What's your favourite music, and why?
5) Where do you intend to be in 10 years time?
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no subject
Learning stuff. Enjoying that somebody else is paid to do all the tedious stuff (e.g. housework, getting my bike out)
2) If you could change one thing about yourself (mentally or physically) what would you change?
Bigger breasts of course :-) Seriously? I'd like to have a bit more patience/higher frustration tolerance/better attention to detail (they are all really the same thing). Or normal skin.
3) If you could holiday anywhere, where would it be?
Another planet. One that I could breathe and eat and generally survive on.
4) What's your favourite music, and why?
I'm not that into music these days. Generally stuff with loud guitars, interesign bass,a vocalist that can sing and lyrics that aren't cliched (though I waive the last if the rest are good enough).
5) Where do you intend to be in 10 years time?
Who knows. Wherever I (at that time) want to be.