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#Dune

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Zur Relevanz von #FrankHerberts #Dune. Für mich war schon seit Erstlektüre als Teen/Twen die Missionaria Protectiva der Bene Gesserit (der dunkle Arm des Aberglaubens) eine treffliche Analogie auf ideologische Ausrichtung im Kalten Krieg.
Wie gut die gegriffen hat, merkt man bis heute am komplett verschrobenen ungleichen Umgang der ›Mitte‹ mit den beiden Hufeisen-Enden.
—Oh, ein Kommunist. Verbrennt ihn!

The boys were looking for a boardgame to play tonight, and on a whim we pulled out the old, old Avalon Hill Dune boardgame. Probably hasn't been opened in decades, but I vaguely remembered how to play it from childhood. Where I rarely played it for real.

Simon, as the Harkonnens, won in the third round as my attempt to oust him from a third stronghold failed because Lady Jessica was his traitor. Still, it may have some potential. (And it makes a change from "Root"...)

A question for my fellow Game Marshals and Dungeon Managers: How thoroughly do you playtest encounters before you drop your players into them?

Context: I have a substantial battle coming up in the #Dune #TTRPG campaign I'm running, involving like 20 characters in total (Fremen, Harkonnen, and my players caught in the middle). I've run through the scenario twice now, and I've tuned it to where I'm pretty happy, but I think I'll do a couple more runs just to make sure. Is that normal?