"Friends live the lives we don't have the aptitude for, or taste, or courage. What matters is that they live an alternative to one's own life." - Phillip Lopate

"If you can't explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood." - Richard Feynman

"Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!" - C. J. Cherryh

Today we continue the character a day with the first of a series of characters for Basic Fantasy I'm generating for a one shot next weekend. We start with Maria, Priestess of Hera 1/2

"If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman." - Margaret Thatcher

I didn't just start with Holmes basic. I bought another RPG the same day for what in retrospect seems like a silly reason. But, since with started the challenge with Holmes let's create a character for the game I bought the same day. 1/2

"To take your chance in the thick of a rush, with firing all about, Is nothing so bad when you've cover to 'and, an' leave an' likin' to shout; But to stand an' be still to the Birken'ead drill is a damn tough bullet to chew," - Rudyard Kipling, "Soldier an' Sailor Too"

I know today a lot of people are starting resolutions. I'm not. Instead, today I started the process of picking my Groundhog Day Resolutions. Are you curious about why I'm doing those instead of New Year's Day? More in the next tweet. 1/2

It's been nearly a decade since I wrote anything at "Places to Go, People to Be", but I think I'd like to get back to RPG blogging. So, I'm going to do the Character a Day Challenge for January to get back into the groove. 1/2

"If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing." - Margaret Thatcher

"As my late mother famously observed, the one thing to be said for growing old is that every year there are a few more things I don’t have to give a rat’s ass about." - Lawrence Block

I just finished rereading Alexander Macris's book Arbiter of Worlds and the appendix on alignment has inspired some thoughts. The first thing that really struck me was in his suggested mapping of Palladium's alignments to the nine-fold alignment of AD&D on. 1/8

"Every year there's a few more things I'm not sure of. I've decided that a wide-ranging uncertainty is the mark of the true maturity of man." - "Everybody Dies" by Lawrence Block

"Love your country, but never trust its government." - Robert Heinlein

"I am a programmer. On my 1040 form, that is what I put down as my occupation. As a programmer, I write programs." - Ken Thompson, father of Unix

"It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between." - C. S. Lewis

"Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else." - Margaret Mead

"Small isn't just a stepping-stone. Small is a great destination itself." - Jason Fried

"The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention." - Kahil Gibran

"It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it." - Dale Carnegie

"A year from now you may wish you had started today." - Karen Lamb

"I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself." - Arianna Huffington

"Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you." - Aldous Huxley

"Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind." - Eric Hoffer

"The only one who can tell you "you can't win" is you and you don't have to listen." - Jessica Ennis

"I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life." - Paul Coelho

"Be sure you put your feet in the right place then stand firm." - Abraham Lincoln

"Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past." - Karl Marx

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"If you’re afraid of what strong men will do, you should be very afraid of what weak men will do." - Glenn Harlan Reynolds

“You don’t talk dirty to make him hot. You 'talk dirty' to communicate what you need.” - Nina Hartley

"I've always been a misfit." - Tracy Ullman

"Put your ego aside and play as a team." - Sonny Bono

"Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible." - Larry Wall

"Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life." - Gary Gygax

"Nothing can be believed unless it is first understood; and that for any one to preach to others that which either he has not understood nor they have understood is absurd." - Peter Abelard

"Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality." - Les Brown

"That which can be destroyed by the truth, should be." - P. C. Hodgell

"Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting." - Haruki Murakami

"If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine." - Morris West

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." - Dale Carnegie

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." - Pablo Picasso

"To me, consensus seemt to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects." - Margaret Thatcher

“The greatest sound you can hear in football is the sound of the ball hitting the back of the net. Unless of course, you are a goalkeeper…” - Bobby Charlton

"People get annoyed when you try to debug them." - Larry Wall

"A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it isn't open." - Frank Zappa

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." - George Benard Shaw

"Computer Science: A study akin to numerology and astrology, but lacking the precision of the former and the success of the latter." - Stan Kelly-Bootle

"The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth." - Peter Abelard