tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913319789564397699.post2021230603219983998..comments2024-03-28T17:48:19.196-05:00Comments on The Other Side blog: C is for CharmedTimothy S. Brannanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02923526503305233715noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913319789564397699.post-5717044162563650612011-04-05T22:43:04.066-05:002011-04-05T22:43:04.066-05:00Charmed is a dream license for me. I've been b...Charmed is a dream license for me. I've been building the system for the past couple years, mapping out how I'd do the book. I'm not sure there's enough interest to chase the license but I've thought of stripping the name and key elements, injecting some new mythology, and releasing my take on a witch-with-problems RPG.<br /><br />(That said, if I had the backing, I'd go official. Charmed RPG is at the top of my "want to design" games.)Jason L Blairhttp://www.littlefears.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913319789564397699.post-2294089433171682602011-04-05T08:45:55.047-05:002011-04-05T08:45:55.047-05:00I am late to posting this, but I absolutely LOVE C...I am late to posting this, but I absolutely LOVE Charmed. I never could really get into Buffy. Great post!NiaRaiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13245742876021926812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913319789564397699.post-18119381694849929342011-04-05T07:31:45.925-05:002011-04-05T07:31:45.925-05:00The certainly are easy on the eyes.The certainly are easy on the eyes.Angelahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12399082789777816445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913319789564397699.post-83553542140920971482011-04-04T14:04:30.970-05:002011-04-04T14:04:30.970-05:00I could never get into Charmed or Buffy, but yet I...I could never get into Charmed or Buffy, but yet I did watch Angel... weird I know<br /><br />stopping in from the A to Z<br />http://baygirl32.blogspot.combaygirl32https://www.blogger.com/profile/01355816922022246751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913319789564397699.post-59995206776014559942011-04-04T13:04:26.301-05:002011-04-04T13:04:26.301-05:00Charmed was chock full of eye candy... but I never...Charmed was chock full of eye candy... but I never warmed to the show at all (other than the How Soon Is Now title sequence). I vastly preferred Buffy for the writing and my attachment to the characters and to the underlying mythology of the show. Of course, it gave me my longest running RPG campaign I have ever played, so I'm a little biased..<br /><br />But each to their own. I find your your taste in female-focused SF charming and it's one of the reasons I keep coming back to your site. :)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17635116929490398699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913319789564397699.post-10267052778667866232011-04-04T10:35:40.587-05:002011-04-04T10:35:40.587-05:00Herb,
I am posting about the Dresden Files tomorr...Herb,<br /><br />I am posting about the Dresden Files tomorrow. I am actually getting ready to finish up "Turn Coat".Timothy S. Brannanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02923526503305233715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913319789564397699.post-8617045319627499502011-04-04T10:31:26.394-05:002011-04-04T10:31:26.394-05:00I have tried to get into Charmed twice. When it f...I have tried to get into <i>Charmed</i> twice. When it first ran and in 2008 via Netflix. I just couldn't do it. I made it one episode on the original run and two discs from Netflix but it never clicked for me. Given the huge <i>Buffy</i> fan I am I was surprised.<br /><br />Then again, I love the Hollows novels but beyond the first have often struggled to get through them and the most recent read (<i>Outlaw Demon Wails</i>) I almost didn't care for much of it.<br /><br />That said I do have the Unisystem version that was out on the net (not sure if it was one of the ones you listed).<br /><br /><i>Charmed featured, not just witches and demons (the typical fare in my book) but all sorts of other races, creatures and groups with agendas of their own; and just because two groups were working for the same side they didn't always get along. For example the Charmed Ones and the Elders or even the Valkyries.</i><br /><br />If memory ready you're somewhat early in The Dresden Files. This is a key feature of the Dresdenverse and one of the reasons it has such a pull on me.Pulp Herbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02486803457210325703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913319789564397699.post-16588288642933353642011-04-04T08:30:04.179-05:002011-04-04T08:30:04.179-05:00I think Buffy was a far better show in terms of wr...I think Buffy was a far better show in terms of writing and most other things, but I did love Charmed as a guilty pleasure.<br /><br />Charmed was also interesting as it is the closest I've seen to a Shojo manga, where fighting the monster wasn't as important as sorting relationships.Coronenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913319789564397699.post-59909166116207719022011-04-04T08:06:31.221-05:002011-04-04T08:06:31.221-05:00Yeah, that does sound like an interesting game.
I...Yeah, that does sound like an interesting game.<br /><br />I enjoyed Buffy more than Charmed overall, but Charmed did come ahead in certain ways, especially when it came to consistent wordbuilding. Joss and the other Buffy writers tended to put the story ahead of consistency, which is a reasonable approach, and in line with Emerson said about consistency being the hobgoblin of little minds.<br /><br />But Charmed made good storytelling out of being consistent. In each of the episodes where the nexus features and the Woogeyman shows up, for instance, they use the same facts, and most of the time the same spell. But the character circumstances are different, so that they're not doing the same episode over and over.<br /><br />Thanks for sharing!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com