The oy of hex

May is Gamma World month at Grognardia! Comment of the day:

Here's a bit of GW map trivia. The rulebook notes that "the scale of a hex is roughly 43.7 kilometers (27.3 miles) from side to side." I once asked Jim Ward why such a ridiculous, useless scale was chosen, and he said "that was Tom Wham's idea of a joke."

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Tom Wham's web page was updated pretty recently...Can't remember if I've blogged about him (probably), but his games include the delightful File 13, a game about...game designing.

Who will run the chicken factory?

Naturally, as the adventure proceeds, the characters discover that they can do more than that: they can, through their discoveries, ensure the continued survival of Far-Go for years to come. That's because, among the places the characters visit is a La Prix Industries Automated Chicken Processing Factory -- inhabited by giant mutant chickens, of course! If the characters can defeat the mutants and communicate with the factory's computer, they can make an arrangement to get many months' worth of processed chicken patties to feed Far-Go and save the day. —Grognardia

Now I need to read Junot Diaz!

"Dominican American argot, hip-hop slang, Spanish patois and high culture words...swirl around sites as varied as Middle Earth, Gamma World..."

GAMMA WORLD?!!


(From the TLS review of Brief Wonderful Life.)