Re: [Audyssey] Combat descriptions

2010-05-05 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, Actually, that is the Iliad if you want to know. As for Homer being blind there is a lot of historical debates on who Homer was and weather he was really blind or not etc. Some Historians even have suggested Homer wasn't a real person, per say, but a pseudoname which authors used to write

Re: [Audyssey] Combat descriptions

2010-05-05 Thread Hayden Presley
..@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of dark Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 11:35 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Combat descriptions Well if you really want to be strict about it, you might go back to homers' iniad. over 2000 years ago, and they stil! knew how to descri

Re: [Audyssey] Combat descriptions

2010-05-05 Thread dark
- Original Message - From: "Hayden Presley" To: "'Gamers Discussion list'" Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 5:22 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Combat descriptions Hi, Also, remember that text has been here far, far, far, far longer than any audio or graphics

Re: [Audyssey] Combat descriptions

2010-05-05 Thread Hayden Presley
Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 9:42 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Combat descriptions Hi Dark, Yeah, that's what I'm talking about man. That sound

Re: [Audyssey] Combat descriptions

2010-05-05 Thread dark
, May 06, 2010 5:02 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Combat descriptions Hi, Where can you fine those? Sounds intreaguing! Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of dark Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 10:49 PM To:

Re: [Audyssey] Combat descriptions

2010-05-05 Thread Hayden Presley
Hi, Where can you fine those? Sounds intreaguing! Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of dark Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 10:49 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Combat descriptions

Re: [Audyssey] Combat descriptions

2010-05-05 Thread dark
language, --- that's not too surprising. Beware the Grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: "Thomas Ward" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 3:41 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Combat descriptions Hi Dark, Yeah, that's what I'm

Re: [Audyssey] Combat descriptions

2010-05-05 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, Yeah, that's what I'm talking about man. That sounds like one heck of a battle. I love text exactly for that kind of detail and description. Woo, that sounded cool! On 5/5/10, dark wrote: > With all the talk of rpgs and text games, I just came upon an absolutely > fantastic example of t

[Audyssey] Combat descriptions

2010-05-05 Thread dark
With all the talk of rpgs and text games, I just came upon an absolutely fantastic example of the power of text to transform a comparatively uninteresting combat mechanic into something fun. Sinse the next gamebook from www.arborell.com, a Murder of Crows is due out very soon, I decided to rep