Constitution Programme
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major_clangerMy programme schedule for Constitution in Cambridge this weekend is as follows:
Friday, 7pm: War in SF and fantasy
War is all too often a backdrop in fiction, a quick and easy way of shaking up your characters and getting the plot going. How do you escape the cliches and address conflict realistically and sensitively? {Steph Swainston, David Damerell, Simon Bradshaw, Hilarity Allen (mod)}
(I'll try not to have too many there-I-was-in-Basra-as-the-third-rocket-salvo-hit stories.)
Saturday, 1pm: I Rolled vs Law, and The Law Won
Your character has been hauled in front of the local magistrate, or is being sued for return of that valuable old book. Or maybe has to prove that she - or it - has rights rather than being available for sale, or even burning. Whatever's happened, it's courtroom time; Simon Bradshaw looks at whether there's more to gaming legal proceedings than rolling against Fast Talk.
(A slightly updated repeat of the talk I gave at Eastercon, but which only a few people saw because it was about the last item before the Dead Dog Party. Don't sit near the front if you're nervous about being called upon to help demonstrate cross-examination!)
Sunday, 2pm: Remakes and Reimaginings
Why are so many films and TV series remakes these days? Can you improve on the original or are remakes just a money-spinning exercise? {Judith Proctor, Owen Dunn, Simon Bradshaw, David Haddock}
(I imagine the words 'Battlestar', 'Galactica', 'frakking' and 'superb' may cross my lips. However, we'll probably end up discussing the new mini-series of The Prisoner, which from the footage so far released looks astonishingly non-crap.)
Friday, 7pm: War in SF and fantasy
War is all too often a backdrop in fiction, a quick and easy way of shaking up your characters and getting the plot going. How do you escape the cliches and address conflict realistically and sensitively? {Steph Swainston, David Damerell, Simon Bradshaw, Hilarity Allen (mod)}
(I'll try not to have too many there-I-was-in-Basra-as-the-third-rocket-salvo-hit stories.)
Saturday, 1pm: I Rolled vs Law, and The Law Won
Your character has been hauled in front of the local magistrate, or is being sued for return of that valuable old book. Or maybe has to prove that she - or it - has rights rather than being available for sale, or even burning. Whatever's happened, it's courtroom time; Simon Bradshaw looks at whether there's more to gaming legal proceedings than rolling against Fast Talk.
(A slightly updated repeat of the talk I gave at Eastercon, but which only a few people saw because it was about the last item before the Dead Dog Party. Don't sit near the front if you're nervous about being called upon to help demonstrate cross-examination!)
Sunday, 2pm: Remakes and Reimaginings
Why are so many films and TV series remakes these days? Can you improve on the original or are remakes just a money-spinning exercise? {Judith Proctor, Owen Dunn, Simon Bradshaw, David Haddock}
(I imagine the words 'Battlestar', 'Galactica', 'frakking' and 'superb' may cross my lips. However, we'll probably end up discussing the new mini-series of The Prisoner, which from the footage so far released looks astonishingly non-crap.)
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(though I may or may not be involved in the opening and closing ceremonies and I'd imagine I'll appoint myself as MC for some of the filkstream given I'm running it!)