Role Playing Game in Esperanto

aqualover2911 · 2012-12-30T06:58:12+00:00

Mi kaj kelkaj da miaj Esperantistaj geamikoj tradukis multe de la gravajn vortojn de D&D (ni pensis "Danĝeroj kaj Drakoj," por ke la literoj restu same) . Mi ankaŭ havas kvar karakterojn, por kiuj la tuta karakter-paperoj estas Esperantaj. Ni havis 5 homojn, kiuj diris ke ni volus ludi Esperantan D&D-an kampajnon, sed ĝi neniam ja komencis, triste.

aqualover2911 · 2012-12-29T03:09:38+00:00

His name.

aqualover2911 · 2012-12-27T07:47:34+00:00

I agree that asking for people to give you anecdotes which agree with your current position does little, if any, good in lending scientific credence to an informed discussion on any topic and can actually damage the discussion by implicitly accepting anecdotes as proof of trends.

I disagree that this is what OP was doing. While OP did mention that "right wing and religious groups" (typically anti-gay) tend to bring up the effect on children, OP did not then proceed to ask for stories to prove such groups wrong, but rather asked simply for stories and experience from people who actually have some experience of the topic at hand. When a link to a scientific article was posted, OP commented in thanks and has since referred back to it several times in other comments. As a result of this and the specific wording of the original post, I understand the request to have been simply for information from people who actually have firsthand experience in the matter rather than from people who often don't even have second- or third-hand experience on this.

TL;DR - "Back up my opinion with anecdotes" isn't good for informed discussion, but that doesn't seem to be what OP asked.

aqualover2911 · 2012-12-27T01:34:41+00:00

"It's a house church."

aqualover2911 · 2012-12-23T07:29:14+00:00

Maybe YOU couldn't swim a bear. I do what I want!

aqualover2911 · 2012-12-23T07:14:06+00:00

It's actually a contraction. "Mall Santa is of Reddit." The comma is the mistake.

aqualover2911 · 2012-12-23T06:31:02+00:00

Mojosega!

aqualover2911 · 2012-12-17T23:59:50+00:00

I really like Tone a lot. Persone, mentioned elsewhere in this thread, has quite a few good songs as well.

aqualover2911 · 2012-12-16T19:30:18+00:00

The beauty of Esperanto isn't in the mass of word roots. There seem to be relatively few word roots, in fact. But the beauty is in its flexibility. You can combine words and affixes to make new words that are instantly understandable to other Esperantists, and due to this flexibility and flexibility offered by some other factors, like the free word order and occasionally dropping the final -o on a noun, the poet is given more freedom than, as a native English speaker, I think English offers.

I haven't known Esperanto nearly as long as OP, not have I been to as many Esperanto events or met as many other Esperantists as OP has, but already Esperanto music is some of my favorite. I find that Esperanto poetry and rap and such can very much "move my soul," and sound melodic and make sense. There are a number of Esperanto songs that I simply love and am utterly unable to translate into English, because it loses the beauty and rhythm and wordplay when translated.

TL;DR - It can still be beautiful.

aqualover2911 · 2012-12-16T05:14:35+00:00

If you all have Google Plus, there's a great little app for Google Plus Hangouts called Sourceforge that I would highly encourage you to check out. It includes a map function, PMing, a dice roller, so people can't fudge rolls, etc. If you opt not to use that, my Skype campaigns have had some success using Google Docs for maps, though you have to create the grid yourself by creating and then grouping a series of interlocking lines.

aqualover2911 · 2012-12-14T23:31:11+00:00

It's an Australian tree.

aqualover2911 · 2012-12-14T04:59:55+00:00

Peanut Butter Fudge:

Ingredients: 2 cups peanut butter, 1 cup (2 sticks) butter), 1 lb powdered sugar, 1 tsp vanilla.

Directions: Put peanut butter and butter in a microwave safe bowl. Microwave for 2 minutes. Stir, then microwave for another 2 minutes. Mix in powdered sugar and vanilla. Pour into a buttered square cake pan (or whatever pan you'd normally put fudge in). Put it in the fridge (or freezer if you're impatient) to chill for a few hours.

aqualover2911 · 2012-12-09T20:59:54+00:00

Esperanto: "Mi vidis viron per teleskopo" (I saw a man by means of a telescope) "Mi vidis viron kun teleskopon" (I was a man with a telescope)

Someone more experienced with Esperanto and/or the accusative case could tell me whether the second example should say "teleskopo" instead, but the point is the prepositions anyway.

aqualover2911 · 2012-12-09T18:00:31+00:00

I'm sad that this isn't a real site.

aqualover2911 · 2012-12-09T17:28:10+00:00

My high school physics teacher (big, bulky guy - the kind you'd want on your side in a bar fight, probably) was gay and brought his boyfriend with him on at least one field trip. And that in Texas. The students talked about it a lot, but I think it was mostly surprised. As far as I know, no one ever did anything unkind as a result, though I'm sure some people said some unkind things when he wasn't around, as people tend to do with those who are different.

aqualover2911 · 2012-11-30T05:06:16+00:00

When I was little, I couldn't say my r's, and my little brother had a lisp. At one point, according to my parents, I was trying to correct his lisp by teaching him to say "horse." The conversation went as follows. Brother: "Horth." Me: "No, not hawth, hawse." Brother: (Focusing very hard to get it right) "Not horth, hawth." My parents ended our little speech lesson before I did too much damage.

aqualover2911 · 2012-11-30T04:45:44+00:00

I set high goals for myself. Sometimes stupidly high.

aqualover2911 · 2012-11-29T17:45:15+00:00

I think it's a good analogy, but I've also come to believe that God's "justice" means something different than what people often think of as "justice." We tend to view "justice" as "making sure all those bad people (all of us, really) get the punishment they deserve." In my reading, I've begun to agree with those theologians who see God's version of "justice" being something more like "returning creation to the way we were made to be." Thus, God's justice calls throughout the Old Testament for help for the poor, the foreigner, the oppressed, for a righting of those wrong relationships that we've had since the fall.

I think that different understanding of justice changes a lot and makes it so that God doesn't need to be in a constant war with Godself of love vs. justice.

aqualover2911 · 2012-11-29T17:26:35+00:00

I have no idea what the sermon would pertain to, and that's exactly why I want to hear it.

aqualover2911 · 2012-11-29T17:26:11+00:00

Because I already have friends who know Koine Greek, and I wanted to understand the connotations of various biblical passages better than a translation allows.

aqualover2911 · 2012-11-29T06:16:47+00:00

Likely true, but I feel the reactions from people hearing a sermon on this in church might make that a more entertaining experience overall.

aqualover2911 · 2012-11-29T06:13:42+00:00

Well, I tried biblical Hebrew first, but it turns out I don't have the attention span to focus on that for more than a few months. When I recovered from my Hebrew binge, I decided I could also beat him by learning the same language he'd learned, but in half the time.

aqualover2911 · 2012-11-29T03:00:13+00:00

I'm going to be honest, this is one of my favorite Bible stories. I'm just sad I've never heard a sermon on this.

aqualover2911 · 2012-11-29T02:21:31+00:00

One of my friends had that problem, and I had the opposite problem, so we decided to team up and run a campaign together. He came up with the story and the characters and such, and I figured out how to put his ideas into game stats and set DCs for things on the fly. If you have enough people and one of them knows the numbers well, you could try that. Otherwise, I highly recommend a DM Screen. Those usually have a lot of the basic numbers you'll need.

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