Recent publiceerde ze een boek-essay over de ziel: De ziel opnieuw. Amsterdam: Sjibbolet 2013. Daarnaast is van Riessen actief als dichteres; vier dichtbundels verschenen bij uitgeverij Prometheus (o.a. Krekels in de keuken, Amsterdam 2008). NDe lezing wordt gehouden in het sfeervolle museum Elburg. Jan 7, 2018 - Dpcalendar Prometheus. Spanning three centuries — “Prometheus” is set in 2089, “Alien: Resurrection” in 2379 — and more than one life.
DRAGON 13D R A G O N 6 5Theres only one aspect of Mayfairs DCHEROES game that disturbs me: the ideaof unlimited growth. Using the gamesrules, you can start with 250 Hero Pointswhen you create a character, then buildhim up indefinitely. Granted, a comic-bookuniverse is not supposed to function likethe real universe, but its stretching thingsa little too far when the rules let a 98-pound super-heroic weakling growthrough his adventures to eventually rivalSuperman at 41,000 + Hero Points!Unlimited growth works fine for a gamelike the D&D game, in which powergrows linearly, but the DC HEROES gamemeasures power logarithmically; each one-step increase in power level doubles theamount of power existing before. Thedrawback to unlimited growth is that youwind up watching every Hero Point withan eye to increasing your characterspowers still further, which can make youreluctant to use Hero Points when theyreneeded which can lead to the death ofyour character through miscalculation.The game rules say that if you want tobegin with a more powerful character,have everyone in the group multiply thebase 250 Hero Points by 2 or 3 (or someother integer), and start with that. But thismethod ignores the possibilities arisingfrom different characters starting at dif-ferent levels. Sometimes its more fun tobe the weakest character because youhave more reason to learn how to useyour powers effectively in order to keepup with the powerhouses. The D&D gameachieves this by its use of dice to deter-mine a characters starting attributes.For players who would rather take therisk in starting with a randomly selectednumber of Hero Points, or who dont wantunlimited growth in their DC HEROESgame campaign, the following Origin Tableis presented.
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A player rolls percentile dice,generating a random number from 1-100.The table row that contains the percentile-dice result (1d100) also contains an option-al origin background result for use byplayers who have a hard time thinking uporigins for their characters, as well asgiving the Additional Hero Points result.All characters still begin with a base HeroPoint amount of 250 Hero Points, but theadditional Hero Points resulting from the1d100 roll on the Origin Table are addedto the 250 points.Normally, a player makes only one rollon the table to try to get more HeroPoints. But the origin-background resultthat reads Multi-origin means that theplayer rolls 1d10 to determine the numberof additional rolls he receives on the table.If another multi-origin result comes up,more rolls are allowed, racking up stillmore Hero Points for the character (this ishow heroes like Superman come about).Example: A player rolls a 22, whichrenders a result of Multi-origin. He gets a3 on the die roll and receives three rollson the table. The first roll is an 87 for1,100 points. The second roll is an 18 foranother multi-origin. The player then rolls1d10 for 2, resulting in two more rollsplus the roll he still has remaining fromthe original multi-origin roll; in otherwords, a total of three more rolls (unlesshe gets another multi-origin result).
Theplayer now rolls 27, for 50 points; a 45 for5,000 points, and a 92 for 2,000 points. Headds all these points to his base of 250Hero Points for 8,400 Hero Points to use increating his character.The Unexplained origin (minor) resulthas the player roll 1d10 and multiply theresult by 10 to yield the number of HeroPoints won. The Unexplained origin(major) result has the player roll 2d10 andbecome the mightiest hero in the universe)and a scientific origin (due to Kryptonsadvanced civilization). Cyborg has apersonal-injury origin and a scientific ori-gin.