Monday, May 21, 2012

Kleromancy

Kleromancy is the art of divination using the casting of objects that develop random numbers -- lots, dice, or some sort.  This has been a passion of mine for nearly twenty years, and along the way my tastes have shifted quite a bit.  I cut my teeth on Vampire: the Masquerade, MUDs, and adventure games, survived countless edition changes, and sampled quite a bit of the little bits of nothing on the internet.  For the better part of those two decades, I've been primarily relegated to running quite a few of those tabletop games.

For my purposes, kleromancy represents deriving meaning from the interpretation of tiny plastic cubes.  That, and because playing games using haruspicy can get a little messy.  Sure, it's not Kate Middleton's nude topless photos, or or the panda cub at the National Zoo dying.  This is not something that gives away a free iPhone 5.  It's not a Kim Kardashian nude naked sex tape or the Hulk Hogan nude sex tape.  It's not even the Miley Cyrus nude naked sex tape.

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