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estepheiaYesterday the LoTR RPG narrator's screen arrived and I've started translating. Since then I've made about €50 - which is not bad. I did a bit yesterday and a bit today. By tomorrow I should be done and have some extra spending money (Last time I worked for the company they paid pretty quickly).
I made some appropriately dedicated noises towards the guy who gave me the job. So, hopefully more quickies like this will come my way. I wouldn't mind translating for Call of Cthulhu. I like translating books that have fringe benefits like interesting subject matter.
Also suddenly realized with a start that it's already March and that I have to get off my butt and do some organizing for my small role-playing convention to be held in August (a small affair for 100 people). And that there's a con in Braunschweig this month, where I should make an appearance and do the loyal thing for my publishers i.e. offer a role-gaming session.
Plus my flight needs to be booked. My booking agency just told me that I can't leave on the 15th July but have to take the 16th - but that makes my stay shorter. Ack. Now I'll try the 14th. Maybe the upcoming war will make flights cheaper? Jeez flying is expensive!
I also have to tidy up. Somewhere in that two yard radius clutter around my computer (to which I am glued like a Siamese twin) are forms that need to be filled in, so I can pay for Tina's cheerleading practice. *Shuffels papers and curses*
The movie last night was good, btw. Good fun. Dunno what it's called in English, but Hugh Grant and Sandra Bullock make a good romantic comedy.
Tonight we're boardgaming. That's always cool. Germans have the best boardgames in the whole wide world. Seriously. I'm not talking about strategic games where you have hundreds of counters representing tanks and troops, I'm talking about games like Settlers of Catan where you hava a variable map to build roads and villages and cities on, harvesting corn, wood, ore and bricks to build these things. That is not to say that there aren't good games by other people. Sid Sackson's games are good. Some of Alan Moon's games are nice. But in Germany we have a big thriving market...
Dear god, I just counted more than 70 boardgames on our shelf, the Catan-Games not included (there are several variants). And then we have about 20-30 different card games. And I haven't counted the games for the kids yet. I never realized we have so many! Ho boy...
And there are a number of games I'd really like to have... Oopsie.
I made some appropriately dedicated noises towards the guy who gave me the job. So, hopefully more quickies like this will come my way. I wouldn't mind translating for Call of Cthulhu. I like translating books that have fringe benefits like interesting subject matter.
Also suddenly realized with a start that it's already March and that I have to get off my butt and do some organizing for my small role-playing convention to be held in August (a small affair for 100 people). And that there's a con in Braunschweig this month, where I should make an appearance and do the loyal thing for my publishers i.e. offer a role-gaming session.
Plus my flight needs to be booked. My booking agency just told me that I can't leave on the 15th July but have to take the 16th - but that makes my stay shorter. Ack. Now I'll try the 14th. Maybe the upcoming war will make flights cheaper? Jeez flying is expensive!
I also have to tidy up. Somewhere in that two yard radius clutter around my computer (to which I am glued like a Siamese twin) are forms that need to be filled in, so I can pay for Tina's cheerleading practice. *Shuffels papers and curses*
The movie last night was good, btw. Good fun. Dunno what it's called in English, but Hugh Grant and Sandra Bullock make a good romantic comedy.
Tonight we're boardgaming. That's always cool. Germans have the best boardgames in the whole wide world. Seriously. I'm not talking about strategic games where you have hundreds of counters representing tanks and troops, I'm talking about games like Settlers of Catan where you hava a variable map to build roads and villages and cities on, harvesting corn, wood, ore and bricks to build these things. That is not to say that there aren't good games by other people. Sid Sackson's games are good. Some of Alan Moon's games are nice. But in Germany we have a big thriving market...
Dear god, I just counted more than 70 boardgames on our shelf, the Catan-Games not included (there are several variants). And then we have about 20-30 different card games. And I haven't counted the games for the kids yet. I never realized we have so many! Ho boy...
And there are a number of games I'd really like to have... Oopsie.
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Date: 2003-03-05 05:41 am (UTC)It's called "Two Weeks Notice".
Was wondering if you have been working on the next instalment of Perdition? I can't wait to read it.
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Date: 2003-03-05 04:58 pm (UTC)I couldn't agree more - in fact, we watch the German companies to see which games to buy. (And we also have a roomful of games - it's funny to see people's reactions, they either think we are weird or they love us even more!)
Some of our favourites are the Catan games (We're packing the Settlers of Catan cardgame in my labour bag for when baby Otto arrives), also Starfarers of Catan (the playing pieces are so gorgeous, Mr Babyotto and a friend spent 10 minutes playing with *them* before we even got the rest of the game out of the pack), La Citta and Carcassonne / Carcassonne Hunters & Gatherers.
You also make the best children's games. I'm still looking out for a copy of Ravensburger's Koffer Packen, which used to be everywhere. And the Enchanted Forest (Zauberwald?) - and I have this bizarre game I got in the early '80s called "Waldschattenspiel" which you play in the dark with tea lights.
The secret to all those games is, I think, that they're so easy to play. My 4 1/2 year old worked out what we were doing playing Carcassonne (I think fields are beyond her, but she enjoyed the map-making side of the game). But the strategic possibilities are vast.
A guy called Greg Kostikyan has written a lot about why the Germans are making such good games. I'll try to track down the link.
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Date: 2003-03-05 05:12 pm (UTC)Anyway now I look at his site, there's a whole heap more than the couple of articles I've already read. Guess I'm going to be a busy reader for a while...
Hey, another game freak!
Date: 2003-03-05 05:33 pm (UTC)I agree, "La Cittá" is great.
And I really have to play "Settlers of NÜrnberg" again. So many great games.
I will check out that Blog you linked to tomorrow when I feel a bit more awake. Thank you. :-)