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I also wanted to point you to my brother's resurrected blog, Mewsings. Murray writes wonderfully thoughtful and well-reasoned articles and reviews on all kinds of things fantastical - well worth a read. Recent highlights have included a series on fantasy-themed albums and some thoughts on current vampire literature. Not to mention this terrific drawing of two well-known but unusually-paired adventurers!

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I were my Polka dot shirt all the time!

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Philly locals! I will be doing a book signing next Friday July 17 at Philly’s Dr. Sketchys Event! Complete with ADVANCED copies of the new Bellen! collection These Dreams Keep Me Going These Days.  More info here.

Also: I did a guest strip for the Unshelved Book Club.

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A metagame is the overall context in which a game is played. In many situations, this can lead to insights or strategies that one could not come up with by considering the game itself in isolation.

For example, the game of chess is apparently self-contained. Your best move in any situation is dependent only on the current board position, and nothing else. But in reality, there is a metagame associated with chess, involving the personalities and playing styles of the pool of opponents. If you are playing chess against someone who has a distinctive playing style, you may be able to use that to your advantage by making moves designed to counter that style, rather than simply just taking into account the board position.

Metagaming is the term used to describe the action of attempting to take advantage of a metagame. In some situations, metagaming actually becomes very important to one's overall chances of winning the game itself.

For example, the card game Magic: The Gathering involves players constructing decks of cards from a large pool of different cards with different capabilities. In a tournament situation, you come across several players who have all constructed their own decks in an attempt to have powerful decks. If the card pool contains a strategy that is very powerful, then that strategy will bcome popular. In this case, it can be advantageous to construct a deck not to be powerful in its own right, but specifically powerful against the popular deck. Many of your games will be against some version of the popular deck, and so you will gain an advantage.

Of course, this leads to the popular deck becoming less popular, and other decks designed to counter the deck that you have built. So at any given time you need to use your overall knowledge of the entire playing environment to make a judgement as to what decks will be popular in the general population, and build your deck accordingly. To many people this metagame aspect is an important and enjoyable part of the overall game experience.

There are other places where matagaming is frowned on. For example, in a role-playing game, one's actions are generally supposed to be dictated by the fictional events occurring around the character you are playing in the game. When fleeing a goblin, you should decide whether or not to jump a pit based on whether your character is confident he can safely make the distance or not. It would be metagaming to consider your character's Strength and Dexterity scores, cross-reference them against the Jumping Distance Table, determine that you have a 45% chance of making the jump, and that if you fail you will fall 30 feet and take 3d6 points of damage, which you can survive since you have 23 hit points.

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Aoede has created a beautiful website about HERO!! thank you so much Aoede ;____;

a secret fanbase

I'm looking at the fanworks section and tearing, I didn't realize so many beautiful pieces of art have been created for love of Valentine and Eira/Lost. some I haven't even seen before and omg Cathy why did you not tell me you wrote a fic about Valentine. how could I have missed it. how could I have missed all of this I am a horrible person EXCUSE ME WHILE I SIT IN A CORNER AND CRY

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Medium Large Sunday Movie Edition!

The Transformers juggernaut continues…alas…

Please check it out at Hollywood on the Run at Hollywood.com!

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That's one of those proverbs you always expect to be figurative, not literal.

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Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1184, originally uploaded by Ape Lad.

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SDCC 2009 bookplates, originally uploaded by Ape Lad.

I won't be at San Diego Comic Con, but these will be. Look for the Abrams ComicArts table, where my book will be available for purchase.

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Yeah, see, this is where the real MythBusters is a serious letdown. Why don't they ever test myths like that?

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