Ah! Bugger! Already
two articles in the press on Acheron!
The second is hot out of the rotary magazine JDR Mag "which is number 13 ...
Superstitious? Muhuhuhaha!
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Where Has Fakku Gone?
It's in the press!
Ah! Bugger! Already
two articles in the press on Acheron!
The second is hot out of the rotary magazine JDR Mag "which is number 13 ...
Superstitious? Muhuhuhaha!
Ah! Bugger! Already
two articles in the press on Acheron!
The second is hot out of the rotary magazine JDR Mag "which is number 13 ...
Superstitious? Muhuhuhaha!
Friday, February 25, 2011
Can I Stream Netflix In Uk
Bagneux, your ruthless world!
For those interested, the town of Bagneux is back with a new festival of "imaginary worlds" from March 4 to 6 next. This year, a beautiful part was made to role-play and all parties will be held during the weekend.
CDS and Acheron will be participating with me, as a bonus, clean shaven (or not) in the afternoon of Saturday ...
If you want to use this opportunity to learn the game or you do a messy scrawl, go there to 14h ...
Want to learn more about the festival? It there. 
For those interested, the town of Bagneux is back with a new festival of "imaginary worlds" from March 4 to 6 next. This year, a beautiful part was made to role-play and all parties will be held during the weekend. CDS and Acheron will be participating with me, as a bonus, clean shaven (or not) in the afternoon of Saturday ...
If you want to use this opportunity to learn the game or you do a messy scrawl, go there to 14h ...
Want to learn more about the festival? It there.
Monday, February 21, 2011
Using Vb.net Program With Dongle
"The ball is insane. The bayonet knows what it does." (Suvorov)
Let's face it, the players always find a way of coming to blows during a game, with unfortunate NPCs that may have nothing requested. Very
demand during those periods of war, social conflict and luxury, the gunsmiths of the time have developed a wealth of ingenuity Here are a few original examples: left to speak the iron and the powder, at least with the class, we are in the nineteenth damn!
cane sword
Contrary to popular belief, the cane-sword or "sticks stuffed" is not the prerogative of the nineteenth century because its use is found in the sixteenth anecdotally and especially at the end of XVIII, particularly in France after the Revolution, when all weapons were confiscated.
the nineteenth, she is having some success with the "refined" and the dandies, who can not bring himself to wear a sword, vulgar warlike symbol, without provided set alongside the "unexpected" (the streets at night are far from being safe) and "honor points" (Duels): Rimbaud himself would have to strike compromises, drunk, photographer Etienne Carjat cane-sword with his friend Albert Merat.
The popularity of the weapon, that may also be a wealth of elegance and cope easily with a business suit, since it is invisible, will grow and remain in bourgeois circles until the early twentieth century.
Most cane-sword rarely exceed 80cm (standard size of an ordinary cane) and consists of a case depths (in hazel wood or bamboo Malacca for more frequent, silver, ivory or ebony for the smartest) and a rigid stainless steel blade, about fifty centimeters. The closure system is "simple" (it releases the gun at a pressure), "double" or "twisting" (unscrew the handle to pull the sword from the scabbard) to avoid untoward accidents.
There are different styles of handles and sheath, the smaller the more elegantly carved, like, after all, a walking stick at the time. Sword-canes and walking sticks "stinger" (with a touch gushing at the end) were also common.
thing notable women could wear the most adventurous cane-sword, which was also back in fashion accessories.
Firearms personal
If the United States multiplied the revolutionary improvements in the field of firearms, Europe, she has rarely been more traditional models.
Collectibles, Luxury and defense, firearms are in high demand after the first industrial revolution and the dealers are not idle.
The first innovation to occur this century, when the saltpetre, unstable and prone to moisture, is replaced by fulminating powders, more explosive is the emergence of the first "platinum tube", the dog hits small capsules filled with fulminate brass and triggers the explosion that propels the bullet (ammunition) previously charged by the barrel.
The principle leads to the creation of one of the most common personal weapons in Europe: "pepper", has several rotating cannons, each armed with their own cap of fulminate: a flick of the wrist (as if one turning a pepper shaker) was thus sufficient to reload the weapon. The accidents were however rare fulminate is very explosive, several capsules could explode at the same time, releasing all the ammunition stored in the barrels at once.
The step towards the cylinder automatic, the "revolver" is made by the famous Samuel Colt in 1837 and a resounding success in the U.S., but remain "marginal" in Europe, where it will be considered a luxury item . It will decline in the traditional "six-stroke" but also "three strikes" for models or five bullets of a caliber greater: the dealer will in any case, plenty of time to arrange the weapons on request.
Other models of guns, as the "Volcanic" with the weapon reloading is done by activating a lever that the trigger is lowered quickly, enjoyed less success (the only model that really is the rifle pierced Windchester ). It Hits
will everyone!
It is difficult to quantify the total pattern of self-defense weapon that has been produced throughout the nineteenth but it is certain that the progress of industry, economy, security issues inside and outside major industrialized countries and even the fashion has probably been the age Golden gun. Miniaturization of weapons in the form of canes, watches, rings, crucifixes, nothing seemed to stop the imagination of dealers and their customers, who seemed to want to combine luxury, modernity and security in the same subject: Francis Joseph, Emperor of Austria, also became one of making first-model mobile charger automatic pistol, which he never used, but was plated with gold and precious stones.
To give you an idea and finally, a small link sympathetic to these bizarre creations are sure to give you ideas for your future parties.
(Special Mention for the "Fatal Woman" and "Pistol crucifix" worthy of the greatest moments of pulp ...) 
Let's face it, the players always find a way of coming to blows during a game, with unfortunate NPCs that may have nothing requested. Very
demand during those periods of war, social conflict and luxury, the gunsmiths of the time have developed a wealth of ingenuity Here are a few original examples: left to speak the iron and the powder, at least with the class, we are in the nineteenth damn!
cane sword
Contrary to popular belief, the cane-sword or "sticks stuffed" is not the prerogative of the nineteenth century because its use is found in the sixteenth anecdotally and especially at the end of XVIII, particularly in France after the Revolution, when all weapons were confiscated.
the nineteenth, she is having some success with the "refined" and the dandies, who can not bring himself to wear a sword, vulgar warlike symbol, without provided set alongside the "unexpected" (the streets at night are far from being safe) and "honor points" (Duels): Rimbaud himself would have to strike compromises, drunk, photographer Etienne Carjat cane-sword with his friend Albert Merat.
The popularity of the weapon, that may also be a wealth of elegance and cope easily with a business suit, since it is invisible, will grow and remain in bourgeois circles until the early twentieth century.
Most cane-sword rarely exceed 80cm (standard size of an ordinary cane) and consists of a case depths (in hazel wood or bamboo Malacca for more frequent, silver, ivory or ebony for the smartest) and a rigid stainless steel blade, about fifty centimeters. The closure system is "simple" (it releases the gun at a pressure), "double" or "twisting" (unscrew the handle to pull the sword from the scabbard) to avoid untoward accidents.
There are different styles of handles and sheath, the smaller the more elegantly carved, like, after all, a walking stick at the time. Sword-canes and walking sticks "stinger" (with a touch gushing at the end) were also common.
thing notable women could wear the most adventurous cane-sword, which was also back in fashion accessories.
Firearms personal
If the United States multiplied the revolutionary improvements in the field of firearms, Europe, she has rarely been more traditional models.
Collectibles, Luxury and defense, firearms are in high demand after the first industrial revolution and the dealers are not idle.
The first innovation to occur this century, when the saltpetre, unstable and prone to moisture, is replaced by fulminating powders, more explosive is the emergence of the first "platinum tube", the dog hits small capsules filled with fulminate brass and triggers the explosion that propels the bullet (ammunition) previously charged by the barrel.
The principle leads to the creation of one of the most common personal weapons in Europe: "pepper", has several rotating cannons, each armed with their own cap of fulminate: a flick of the wrist (as if one turning a pepper shaker) was thus sufficient to reload the weapon. The accidents were however rare fulminate is very explosive, several capsules could explode at the same time, releasing all the ammunition stored in the barrels at once.
The step towards the cylinder automatic, the "revolver" is made by the famous Samuel Colt in 1837 and a resounding success in the U.S., but remain "marginal" in Europe, where it will be considered a luxury item . It will decline in the traditional "six-stroke" but also "three strikes" for models or five bullets of a caliber greater: the dealer will in any case, plenty of time to arrange the weapons on request.
Other models of guns, as the "Volcanic" with the weapon reloading is done by activating a lever that the trigger is lowered quickly, enjoyed less success (the only model that really is the rifle pierced Windchester ). It Hits
will everyone!
It is difficult to quantify the total pattern of self-defense weapon that has been produced throughout the nineteenth but it is certain that the progress of industry, economy, security issues inside and outside major industrialized countries and even the fashion has probably been the age Golden gun. Miniaturization of weapons in the form of canes, watches, rings, crucifixes, nothing seemed to stop the imagination of dealers and their customers, who seemed to want to combine luxury, modernity and security in the same subject: Francis Joseph, Emperor of Austria, also became one of making first-model mobile charger automatic pistol, which he never used, but was plated with gold and precious stones.
To give you an idea and finally, a small link sympathetic to these bizarre creations are sure to give you ideas for your future parties.
(Special Mention for the "Fatal Woman" and "Pistol crucifix" worthy of the greatest moments of pulp ...)
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Japanese Public Groping
"As you would please me oh night! Without those stars whose light speaks a language I know .."
emblematic figures of the nineteenth street, the gas lamps (or beaks gas) are an essential component of nightlife in the cities of the Industrial Revolution. Elements
recurring fantasy novels to their ghostly side ethereal light and descriptions of the urban era, mention their sometimes majestic brilliance, sometimes they give the wan's darkest streets.
go for a walk, if you wish, in the winding alleys of history, in light of the famous "gaslight".
From darkness to light
long associated with mine, coal gas, obtained by distillation of coal, has taken some time to attract scientists of the eighteenth century. He was regarded primarily as an obstacle to the use of basements around the dual threat he represented: its instability (the famous "gas explosions" that made many victims in the depths of coal mines) and toxicity (carbon monoxide, odorless, colorless and deadly).
It was not until 1733 that he be recognized as useful flammability and do not operate until the end of the century, very anecdotal.
The attention of researchers and it is sparked a race to the efficiency that will engage early nineteenth between France, Britain and Germany.
German Friedrich Winzer (naturalized English under the name Frederick Winsor) makes his first "thermolampe" from the flue gas timber, then it is the turn of Dr.Lebon in Paris to design the lighting his house entirely in coal gas, but it was William Murdoch, whose study of the various gases and launched the capture process, that we must truly public gas lighting.
The commissioning of the famous nose in 1812, is a revolution by itself: London installs its gas burners next to Westminster Bridge which extend their network into the entire center with the Westminster gaslight and coke company Founded by former German Frederick Winsor. The British capital will be immediately followed by Baltimore in 1816 and Paris in 1820.
But public lighting at a cost, as his supporters reject: previously, the laws of most European countries ordered the owners of the homes overlooking the main arteries lighting, each evening, a candle that would last all night, failing to pay a fine. "It's a country to bring light to his people and not the other way" say the defenders of modern lighting. Arguments to be heard, like those who predict huge profits over the long term.
The halos of artificial lights will make the streets safer and enable higher yields: the plants will now operate over 24 and never cease their production when the short winter days to complete.
We also associate the arrival of lighting to better education, Students can stay longer to read in the light of public lighting.
The appearance of the street lamps also created a host of jobs and restore luster (no pun) to the crystal. The craft remains the most emblematic of the lamplighter, who each evening, armed with his claw, triggered the release of gas, he then inflamed with a spirit lamp held at the end of a stick (The valves were in height to avoid pranks pranksters, but were sometimes lowered into the base of the lamppost).
The Lamplighter, as the gravedigger, become a figure of background recurring gothic novels: taking his position at dusk and dawn, he becomes witness to the strange night life of big cities and the curtain that opens and closes on the dark drama of the night .
"He who has never experienced the night may not know the joy of seeing the sun rise"
The night lights of the city delight as the advocates of modernism that some artists and novelists (like Proust in From Swann ) whose praise is no shortage in respect of this time recovered on the night. They give a new dimension to the lives of capitals, Paris and its particular nights sulfur, whose reputation will attract wealthy pleasure-seekers to Europe. The fall of darkness, it is also the brilliance and charm of neighborhoods amusements, cabarets and cafes lit terraces, open during the night ...
It should be noted that from 1830, the theaters and cabarets were using the oxyhydrogen light (from lime) much whiter, which had the advantage of not burning the oxygen in the air and does not vitiate, as did the city lights. Its possible risks of explosion, however, are larger and have caused serious accidents during the second half of the nineteenth century. The gas lights in homes remained strong rare, but it was not impossible for a mansion or a manor house are equipped with such modern facilities.
But for others, this trick and this pride is also a new challenge thrown in the face and a reflection of Heaven "two glass" which shines the dresses as much as it stresses the blackness poverty, by confining it in the shade, as described in Zola or Dickens ... Behind this curtain of light, the faces will be even more pale, dark circles and covered with dirt, as frightful specters that can approach the lights without ever going in and where all the "ugliness" are no longer concealed by darkness.
The light from gas burners takes for some romantic, a much less optimistic when it reflects, its light and ghostly white, another world, hostile, that should never have been revealed.
The shadows of the night widen and appear to move when the outlook does not ask about them, the faces of passers-by spotted in the streets half-lit are livid: Has it met a real person? A ghost? As a constant full moon, the glow of gas lamps is not reassuring warmth of the sun and illuminate that some parties while giving the impression of expanding areas of darkness.
The pallor of strange street lamps and shades that could take the gas combustion (blue, green or scarlet red sometimes, depending on its chemical content and impurities that sometimes crept into the bowl) then give the agonizing feeling of entering a ghost or hell territory and swing the unfortunate night owl into a nightmare world. A common effect of style which will appeal to many writers of fantasy novels, gothic and even police officers as Conan Doyle, Oscar Wilde and Villiers de l'Isle Adam (at this point that is sometimes called "Gaslight fantasy stories such blending fantasy, thriller and Victorian atmosphere). The famous "Scream " Munch or the "Evening street Karl Johan " also show these horrible lights when night and day merge, losing rights in its most basic benchmarks.
A habit that reflects well the concerns of the Romantics against the industrialization and modernization of the century, with the fear that this "spotlight" on human misery and the challenge forces of nature to awaken ancient curses or terrible grievances ...
Use of "Gaslight" in Acheron.
Is it really worth it to dwell on the subject?
The light can easily contribute to the ambiance of your party and it is rather easy to integrate them into your descriptions without seeming too painful. The resurgence of these same images in the minds of your players: lanes wan Dickens harrowing corners of the grimy neighborhoods where Jack the Ripper progresses, all that remains familiar in the collective imagination.
The strange white light gas lamps will be the pretext for appearances and to optical illusions, shadows getting longer stretched in a supernatural way, when they will not just life. Figures and projections on the walls barely illuminated can be confusing and horrific scenes without projecting that the characters do not really see the opposite: an overview appalling murder through a sinister shadow theater, an inhumane form crawling in the streets which can not be seen as the contour by the play of light, a liquid uncertain dripping on the pavement illuminated by a pale shine a beam of light creating a surreal mist on the ground and a halo around the smoky lamp are all of stage effects that can disturb your sense of characters and plunge them into doubt. The game of
changing colors, caused by gas composition or by supernatural intervention, can also serve as an introduction to the intervention of the fantastic (the flame turns blue when the spout spectrum appears, the entry in fact change the Acheron lamplight ...) or reinforce a scientific thesis, according to the views of the characters.
Having nothing to do with the reassuring warmth of a candle or a fire, artificial light and cold will never bring the same comfort that could provide a real flame.
to you to use them as valuable allies in the nocturnal wanderings of your characters in the streets of major cities and transform these reassuring son of Ariadne in agonizing reflections illusory.
After all, turn off the lights might be less scary ... 
emblematic figures of the nineteenth street, the gas lamps (or beaks gas) are an essential component of nightlife in the cities of the Industrial Revolution. Elements
recurring fantasy novels to their ghostly side ethereal light and descriptions of the urban era, mention their sometimes majestic brilliance, sometimes they give the wan's darkest streets.
go for a walk, if you wish, in the winding alleys of history, in light of the famous "gaslight".
From darkness to light
long associated with mine, coal gas, obtained by distillation of coal, has taken some time to attract scientists of the eighteenth century. He was regarded primarily as an obstacle to the use of basements around the dual threat he represented: its instability (the famous "gas explosions" that made many victims in the depths of coal mines) and toxicity (carbon monoxide, odorless, colorless and deadly).
It was not until 1733 that he be recognized as useful flammability and do not operate until the end of the century, very anecdotal.
The attention of researchers and it is sparked a race to the efficiency that will engage early nineteenth between France, Britain and Germany.
German Friedrich Winzer (naturalized English under the name Frederick Winsor) makes his first "thermolampe" from the flue gas timber, then it is the turn of Dr.Lebon in Paris to design the lighting his house entirely in coal gas, but it was William Murdoch, whose study of the various gases and launched the capture process, that we must truly public gas lighting.
The commissioning of the famous nose in 1812, is a revolution by itself: London installs its gas burners next to Westminster Bridge which extend their network into the entire center with the Westminster gaslight and coke company Founded by former German Frederick Winsor. The British capital will be immediately followed by Baltimore in 1816 and Paris in 1820.
But public lighting at a cost, as his supporters reject: previously, the laws of most European countries ordered the owners of the homes overlooking the main arteries lighting, each evening, a candle that would last all night, failing to pay a fine. "It's a country to bring light to his people and not the other way" say the defenders of modern lighting. Arguments to be heard, like those who predict huge profits over the long term.
The halos of artificial lights will make the streets safer and enable higher yields: the plants will now operate over 24 and never cease their production when the short winter days to complete.
We also associate the arrival of lighting to better education, Students can stay longer to read in the light of public lighting.
The appearance of the street lamps also created a host of jobs and restore luster (no pun) to the crystal. The craft remains the most emblematic of the lamplighter, who each evening, armed with his claw, triggered the release of gas, he then inflamed with a spirit lamp held at the end of a stick (The valves were in height to avoid pranks pranksters, but were sometimes lowered into the base of the lamppost).
The Lamplighter, as the gravedigger, become a figure of background recurring gothic novels: taking his position at dusk and dawn, he becomes witness to the strange night life of big cities and the curtain that opens and closes on the dark drama of the night .
"He who has never experienced the night may not know the joy of seeing the sun rise"
The night lights of the city delight as the advocates of modernism that some artists and novelists (like Proust in From Swann ) whose praise is no shortage in respect of this time recovered on the night. They give a new dimension to the lives of capitals, Paris and its particular nights sulfur, whose reputation will attract wealthy pleasure-seekers to Europe. The fall of darkness, it is also the brilliance and charm of neighborhoods amusements, cabarets and cafes lit terraces, open during the night ...
It should be noted that from 1830, the theaters and cabarets were using the oxyhydrogen light (from lime) much whiter, which had the advantage of not burning the oxygen in the air and does not vitiate, as did the city lights. Its possible risks of explosion, however, are larger and have caused serious accidents during the second half of the nineteenth century. The gas lights in homes remained strong rare, but it was not impossible for a mansion or a manor house are equipped with such modern facilities.
But for others, this trick and this pride is also a new challenge thrown in the face and a reflection of Heaven "two glass" which shines the dresses as much as it stresses the blackness poverty, by confining it in the shade, as described in Zola or Dickens ... Behind this curtain of light, the faces will be even more pale, dark circles and covered with dirt, as frightful specters that can approach the lights without ever going in and where all the "ugliness" are no longer concealed by darkness.
The light from gas burners takes for some romantic, a much less optimistic when it reflects, its light and ghostly white, another world, hostile, that should never have been revealed.
The shadows of the night widen and appear to move when the outlook does not ask about them, the faces of passers-by spotted in the streets half-lit are livid: Has it met a real person? A ghost? As a constant full moon, the glow of gas lamps is not reassuring warmth of the sun and illuminate that some parties while giving the impression of expanding areas of darkness.
The pallor of strange street lamps and shades that could take the gas combustion (blue, green or scarlet red sometimes, depending on its chemical content and impurities that sometimes crept into the bowl) then give the agonizing feeling of entering a ghost or hell territory and swing the unfortunate night owl into a nightmare world. A common effect of style which will appeal to many writers of fantasy novels, gothic and even police officers as Conan Doyle, Oscar Wilde and Villiers de l'Isle Adam (at this point that is sometimes called "Gaslight fantasy stories such blending fantasy, thriller and Victorian atmosphere). The famous "Scream " Munch or the "Evening street Karl Johan " also show these horrible lights when night and day merge, losing rights in its most basic benchmarks.
A habit that reflects well the concerns of the Romantics against the industrialization and modernization of the century, with the fear that this "spotlight" on human misery and the challenge forces of nature to awaken ancient curses or terrible grievances ...
Use of "Gaslight" in Acheron.
Is it really worth it to dwell on the subject?
The light can easily contribute to the ambiance of your party and it is rather easy to integrate them into your descriptions without seeming too painful. The resurgence of these same images in the minds of your players: lanes wan Dickens harrowing corners of the grimy neighborhoods where Jack the Ripper progresses, all that remains familiar in the collective imagination.
The strange white light gas lamps will be the pretext for appearances and to optical illusions, shadows getting longer stretched in a supernatural way, when they will not just life. Figures and projections on the walls barely illuminated can be confusing and horrific scenes without projecting that the characters do not really see the opposite: an overview appalling murder through a sinister shadow theater, an inhumane form crawling in the streets which can not be seen as the contour by the play of light, a liquid uncertain dripping on the pavement illuminated by a pale shine a beam of light creating a surreal mist on the ground and a halo around the smoky lamp are all of stage effects that can disturb your sense of characters and plunge them into doubt. The game of
changing colors, caused by gas composition or by supernatural intervention, can also serve as an introduction to the intervention of the fantastic (the flame turns blue when the spout spectrum appears, the entry in fact change the Acheron lamplight ...) or reinforce a scientific thesis, according to the views of the characters.
Having nothing to do with the reassuring warmth of a candle or a fire, artificial light and cold will never bring the same comfort that could provide a real flame.
to you to use them as valuable allies in the nocturnal wanderings of your characters in the streets of major cities and transform these reassuring son of Ariadne in agonizing reflections illusory.
After all, turn off the lights might be less scary ...
Saturday, February 19, 2011
White Mucus No Period
Hear ye! Hear Ye! The Marauder is out!
For the curious who want to learn more about Acheron and those in shortage scenario, the E-Zine Free, the Marauder is downloadable for $ demented point of 0 nothing here.
Besides the headlines in recent months in the RPG, writers for lots of other games (Techuma Gulch, BIA ..), critics and helpers game, you'll find a section devoted to Acheron and the writer who goes with. 
For the curious who want to learn more about Acheron and those in shortage scenario, the E-Zine Free, the Marauder is downloadable for $ demented point of 0 nothing here.
Besides the headlines in recent months in the RPG, writers for lots of other games (Techuma Gulch, BIA ..), critics and helpers game, you'll find a section devoted to Acheron and the writer who goes with.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Compare Printer Running Costs
"Pistols for two and coffee for one"
is the first in a series of small articles of context, which you will, I hope to go deeper into the atmosphere of nineteenth Acheron and add a little grist to your games.
First, let's take a look at a practice still prevalent at the time, the duel between gentlemen ...
"Sir, on the meadow!"
If theater and vaudeville singers continue to mock the ridiculousness of the dueling frenzy that seizes the whole of Europe at the turn of the nineteenth century, one wonders why men of letters and mind as Hugo, Dumas, Ledru Rollin, Lamartine Gambetta or have ventured on the grass for some really trivial reasons (some, like Pushkin and Alexander Hamilton, found there even death).
Persistence Ordeal, Judgement of God, the duel takes a heavier meaning of meaning in the century of progress.
Entered the mores of the bourgeoisie and aristocracy, a duel (with the sword, saber and the gun most often) is the guarantor of honor and of speech: there is evidence of his good faith in more hesitant to risk his life for a given word, then what better credit for them? Furthermore husbands violated ridiculed the theater is mostly authors, military, politicians and journalists who are more "fond" of the duel, symbolizing the full commitment of their word.
Respecting the "Code of Duel of Chateauvillars, men compete in front of witnesses (two swords, four for the gun and sword), having observed a minutes establishing the reasons for the duel. The offended them choose weapons and we define victory conditions, often in the first blood.
code even includes details of disability: a penguin has to be faced with one hand tied behind his back ...
Justice condone this practice, recognized as useful by the people themselves and several bills to ban it are ignored. Duels stir the passions of the public and the reputation of "Cheaters" is undermined: the duel by Guizot, is something "good, moral and beneficial" because it is a justice that achieves the powerful, without they can not play their influence. According
Maupassant, it is "Prefer duel with pistols, because it leaves more room for the blind fate", renewing what was divine justice supposed to represent the duel.
"If you want to fight, to beat you out!"
Success the duel, including France, Germany, England, Russia and Italy (under the United States where they were firing to kill) for several reasons including the fact that all countries represented at a time, a powerful romantic figure.
We see the triumph of Cyrano de Bergerac Rostand or Three Musketeers by Dumas that some form of romance pervades the minds of the time, facing industrialization, pragmatism and aridity of Progress. "Let's be fools, but let's face it with honor." The crowds are moved to these fantastic heroes who die for the honor of the name of their partner, despite promising careers, like Armand Carrel or Evariste Galois ("Keep my memory, since fate has not given me enough life to that country know my name").
The duel is also a way of revenge against the regime changes or invader: some "half pay" for the French military defeat caused in Paris, the foreign officers more possible to wash the affront to their homeland injured.
Finally, it is also a way to reach the level of the old aristocratic elite, by posing as a knight: journalists seeking to install fencing in the premises to the feminists who ask the right to fight, the duel becomes the ultimate symbol of commitment.
Finally, the duel is the will of the individual against the mass culture, the triumph of "I" romantic side to the masses described by the liberal and pragmatic policies.
Use the duel in Acheron
The duel is a good opportunity to add a touch of drama to your scenarios and move a little your PCs. Mess with your players the most arrogant and least provocation diplomats with an NPC exceeded by their odd, magnify your PCs by bringing them face their responsibilities in a brief moment of glory and adrenaline: the duel, the symbol romance! Besides most of the time, do not necessarily ended by the death of the vanquished opponent. A humiliated
NPC may well feed a plan of revenge against their conqueror, an ancient story of a duel could also bring back memories of black: there are a thousand and one way to use this small piece to give a little wealth to your scenarios.
Thanks to Jean-Noel Jeannenet for his colossal work on the subject.
A small example of what could give a pistol duel (the movie dates from the late nineteenth)
Veyre Gabriel - Dual pistol
is the first in a series of small articles of context, which you will, I hope to go deeper into the atmosphere of nineteenth Acheron and add a little grist to your games.
First, let's take a look at a practice still prevalent at the time, the duel between gentlemen ...
"Sir, on the meadow!"
If theater and vaudeville singers continue to mock the ridiculousness of the dueling frenzy that seizes the whole of Europe at the turn of the nineteenth century, one wonders why men of letters and mind as Hugo, Dumas, Ledru Rollin, Lamartine Gambetta or have ventured on the grass for some really trivial reasons (some, like Pushkin and Alexander Hamilton, found there even death).
Persistence Ordeal, Judgement of God, the duel takes a heavier meaning of meaning in the century of progress.
Entered the mores of the bourgeoisie and aristocracy, a duel (with the sword, saber and the gun most often) is the guarantor of honor and of speech: there is evidence of his good faith in more hesitant to risk his life for a given word, then what better credit for them? Furthermore husbands violated ridiculed the theater is mostly authors, military, politicians and journalists who are more "fond" of the duel, symbolizing the full commitment of their word.
Respecting the "Code of Duel of Chateauvillars, men compete in front of witnesses (two swords, four for the gun and sword), having observed a minutes establishing the reasons for the duel. The offended them choose weapons and we define victory conditions, often in the first blood.
code even includes details of disability: a penguin has to be faced with one hand tied behind his back ...
Justice condone this practice, recognized as useful by the people themselves and several bills to ban it are ignored. Duels stir the passions of the public and the reputation of "Cheaters" is undermined: the duel by Guizot, is something "good, moral and beneficial" because it is a justice that achieves the powerful, without they can not play their influence. According
Maupassant, it is "Prefer duel with pistols, because it leaves more room for the blind fate", renewing what was divine justice supposed to represent the duel.
"If you want to fight, to beat you out!"
Success the duel, including France, Germany, England, Russia and Italy (under the United States where they were firing to kill) for several reasons including the fact that all countries represented at a time, a powerful romantic figure.
We see the triumph of Cyrano de Bergerac Rostand or Three Musketeers by Dumas that some form of romance pervades the minds of the time, facing industrialization, pragmatism and aridity of Progress. "Let's be fools, but let's face it with honor." The crowds are moved to these fantastic heroes who die for the honor of the name of their partner, despite promising careers, like Armand Carrel or Evariste Galois ("Keep my memory, since fate has not given me enough life to that country know my name").
The duel is also a way of revenge against the regime changes or invader: some "half pay" for the French military defeat caused in Paris, the foreign officers more possible to wash the affront to their homeland injured.
Finally, it is also a way to reach the level of the old aristocratic elite, by posing as a knight: journalists seeking to install fencing in the premises to the feminists who ask the right to fight, the duel becomes the ultimate symbol of commitment.
Finally, the duel is the will of the individual against the mass culture, the triumph of "I" romantic side to the masses described by the liberal and pragmatic policies.
Use the duel in Acheron
The duel is a good opportunity to add a touch of drama to your scenarios and move a little your PCs. Mess with your players the most arrogant and least provocation diplomats with an NPC exceeded by their odd, magnify your PCs by bringing them face their responsibilities in a brief moment of glory and adrenaline: the duel, the symbol romance! Besides most of the time, do not necessarily ended by the death of the vanquished opponent. A humiliated
NPC may well feed a plan of revenge against their conqueror, an ancient story of a duel could also bring back memories of black: there are a thousand and one way to use this small piece to give a little wealth to your scenarios.
Thanks to Jean-Noel Jeannenet for his colossal work on the subject.
A small example of what could give a pistol duel (the movie dates from the late nineteenth)
Veyre Gabriel - Dual pistol
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Online Games Like Fantage
The Horror returns from
very nice weekend at Royan Acheron where both parties have been played at the convention of the Lair of the Dreamers, Dreams and evenings.
Several authors were present including Willy Favre (Z-Corps, the Brigade Chimeric Dugourd ...), Daniel (Hex 3rd ed.) Nelyhann and shadows of Esteren and ambience was nice to meet you ...
An initiative to support, given the welcome we have received and the availability of Lensers ...
thanks to them ^ ^
We look forward to seeing you in Caen, for the convention to play History V, 26 and 27 March next:) 
very nice weekend at Royan Acheron where both parties have been played at the convention of the Lair of the Dreamers, Dreams and evenings.
Several authors were present including Willy Favre (Z-Corps, the Brigade Chimeric Dugourd ...), Daniel (Hex 3rd ed.) Nelyhann and shadows of Esteren and ambience was nice to meet you ...
An initiative to support, given the welcome we have received and the availability of Lensers ...
thanks to them ^ ^
We look forward to seeing you in Caen, for the convention to play History V, 26 and 27 March next:)
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Does Malox Make Your Poop Black
wide opening of the library
- The library opens its doors to Acheron! This new page dedicated to downloads will grow over time to aid game scenarios, Preprints, and new inspirations.
You can already download free Preprint and a new one. 
- The library opens its doors to Acheron! This new page dedicated to downloads will grow over time to aid game scenarios, Preprints, and new inspirations.
You can already download free Preprint and a new one.
Sunday, February 6, 2011
How Much Flake Do You Need
English gentlemen, Preprint first ...
good news from here soon, you will first Preprint provisions of Acheron, downloads for your lazy players and / or pressed.
Initially, it was the Anglo-Saxons who will be honored with a half-dozen PCs locked and loaded ...
It is not beautiful, our dandy? 
good news from here soon, you will first Preprint provisions of Acheron, downloads for your lazy players and / or pressed.
Initially, it was the Anglo-Saxons who will be honored with a half-dozen PCs locked and loaded ...
It is not beautiful, our dandy?
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Peliculasen Espanol Online
smells like paint ....
Hop ...
That said, it is the official forum of Acheron is open here:
http://acheronforumoff.xooit.fr/index.php
"What for?" I tell you, your eyes filled with candid questions ... Just make a nice little community around the game and make the range livelier, thanks to your suggestions, your feedback and your criticism of parties ... Have you door? 
Hop ...
That said, it is the official forum of Acheron is open here:
http://acheronforumoff.xooit.fr/index.php
"What for?" I tell you, your eyes filled with candid questions ... Just make a nice little community around the game and make the range livelier, thanks to your suggestions, your feedback and your criticism of parties ... Have you door?
Sunday, January 30, 2011
My Dog Throw Up With Ring Worm
Errare humanum est ...
Horror! After a couple of players back (Thanks David and Daina), it seems that the first version of Acheron has a bug. Indeed, nowhere is it written with how many points Conviction and Fate starts a GP, despite the vigilance of our elite referees.
The shell is now corrected in the new impressions, but for the first 100, here's the fix: A
PJ begins with
- A single and unique point of Fate
- Two points Conviction.
For reviews party, comments and better communication (with you, the public, yes, you!;)), next week will be born a forum off 'of Acheron ... laudatory or critical, you expect ^ ^ 
Horror! After a couple of players back (Thanks David and Daina), it seems that the first version of Acheron has a bug. Indeed, nowhere is it written with how many points Conviction and Fate starts a GP, despite the vigilance of our elite referees.
The shell is now corrected in the new impressions, but for the first 100, here's the fix: A
PJ begins with
- A single and unique point of Fate
- Two points Conviction.
For reviews party, comments and better communication (with you, the public, yes, you!;)), next week will be born a forum off 'of Acheron ... laudatory or critical, you expect ^ ^
Friday, January 28, 2011
Popeye's Chicken Wallpaper
PAUSE
I'm going to break my blog in a while, I do not have much time or desire to update it.
I will dedicate myself to Lina and the launch of the association Lin'Avenir: http://linavenir.wordpress.com/ for now, it's been great!
I just wanted to say thank you:
Thanks to all moms who have contacted me to tell me that Lina was doing well.
Thanks to all those who have followed closely or by far the adventures of Lina and Solenn.
Thanks for all the comments made on this blog that made me very happy toujorus!
page turns, I'll talk can be .....
Saturday, January 22, 2011
What To Write In A Wedding Card For A Gay Couple
Acheron on TV! The Acheron
For a small preview of the book, go through the box gamer TV: they opened for you!
For a small preview of the book, go through the box gamer TV: they opened for you!
Monday, January 17, 2011
Naturalist Families Vedios
invaded Coast Beauty!
will be available to play Saturday, February 12 Acheron Royan next to the convention and vigils organized by Dream Lair dreamers: in the afternoon or during the night. Beware! 
will be available to play Saturday, February 12 Acheron Royan next to the convention and vigils organized by Dream Lair dreamers: in the afternoon or during the night. Beware!
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Taste Of Coins In My Mouth
Here's a sample of this Christmas: the girls were super spoiled as usual! Everyone was happy! We have done 3 times in 3 days Christmas and Santa Claus is coming here to make a quick visit.
The children sang "Santa's Little Helper" in front of him! After all the training done, it was used lol!
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Where Can I Buy 18 Year Old Birthday Cards
breaks and Reflections
You have been likely to get Acheron and we thank you!
All that to say that stocks are zero and we will do a reprint; It will be available in early February, the time to chase any typographic reprint.
On top of that the author is already working on the first supplement that will launch the range
> The Reflections: Shanghai
All returns are good so do not hesitate to take ...
nb: do not forget to store addresses for Lyons
TROLLUNE
25 Rue Sebastien Gryphe
69007 Lyon
April 1978 69 85 56 
You have been likely to get Acheron and we thank you!
All that to say that stocks are zero and we will do a reprint; It will be available in early February, the time to chase any typographic reprint.
On top of that the author is already working on the first supplement that will launch the range
> The Reflections: Shanghai
All returns are good so do not hesitate to take ...
nb: do not forget to store addresses for Lyons
TROLLUNE
25 Rue Sebastien Gryphe
69007 Lyon
April 1978 69 85 56
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Departure Times From Pier Head, Liverpool
Where Acheron?
Apart from invoking her four times before the mirror and have a good command of CDS, it is possible to obtain through various means Acheron quite honorable in going to buy, for example in boutiques RPGs following
- The Lair of the Dragon
44 Boulevard Magenta 75010 Paris
Channel: http://www.lerepairedudragon.fr/
- Starplayer
16 Rue Lagrange 75005 Paris
Channel: http://www.starplayer.fr/
- LudikBazar
6 Rue Messonier
75017 Paris Website: http://www.ludikbazar.com/index.php ? cPath = 4207_4213
- For our friends from Bordeaux, all new, all beautiful Fever Game
which sells by mail: http://www.game-fever.fr/
If you want to join this elite club shops role-playing that the super class home in their dark and obscure the book shelves cursed Acheron, simply go directly to CDS editions and / or download the order form shop. 
Apart from invoking her four times before the mirror and have a good command of CDS, it is possible to obtain through various means Acheron quite honorable in going to buy, for example in boutiques RPGs following
- The Lair of the Dragon
44 Boulevard Magenta 75010 Paris
Channel: http://www.lerepairedudragon.fr/
- Starplayer
16 Rue Lagrange 75005 Paris
Channel: http://www.starplayer.fr/
- LudikBazar
6 Rue Messonier
75017 Paris Website: http://www.ludikbazar.com/index.php ? cPath = 4207_4213
- For our friends from Bordeaux, all new, all beautiful Fever Game
which sells by mail: http://www.game-fever.fr/
If you want to join this elite club shops role-playing that the super class home in their dark and obscure the book shelves cursed Acheron, simply go directly to CDS editions and / or download the order form shop.
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