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I agree with Skyman that this is very play-style dependent. Many players have not liked this type of game because there are no clear right choices and their role as "good guys" is not clear. It is a lot harder to imagine how to make this sort of player interaction work in a game where the players ar...

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I like to introduce player conflicts by presenting objectives that are both good and bad. In other words, present choices that aren't obvious "fight the orks!" but morally ambiguous "should we collaborate with the somewhat oppressive but generally benevolent elven overlords or side with the racist a...

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Skyman wrote:

Is it just me, or does the dude get pregnant and give birth in this series of images? And why is he having sex with a midget?

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One of the original Sword & Sorcery series is the Lankhmar books by Fritz Leiber. Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser. It should give a reasonable flavoring if Conan is too cliched.

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What would Conan do? He would infiltrate the Sorceror-king's lair and assassinate him. Seems more direct than an army. Of course, Conan and friends need to get the McGuffin that allows them to disarm the fiendish magical traps around the Sorceror King's lair. That requires a bit of a side journey to...

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Thanks for the game Skyman! Ivan died happy and valiant, and his brother Piotr will never forget him except when totally drunk.

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I'm in and my spawn will be coming along with my consort for some devilish fun.

Any idea how long you expect this to run?

And could you PM me your new address?

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I think Devlin's idea is a good one. While I also like the idea of writing connections based on background story, it always tends to get people stuck and slow things down too much. It would be better to have a set of 6 or 12 common background elements and either roll dice or choose from the table if...

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I'm interested, but will be highly constrained by baby unless you want to have a simultaneous playdate, depending on space/time preferences for said gaming.

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I would love to go but I'm pretty sure my 10 month old wouldn't sit still for 4 hours and would eat any dice that came within his grasp.

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I agree that immersion and the ability to act as the character would act are my favorite parts of roleplaying, but that certainly isn't the case for many. An example: My PC (standard dwarf type) got into an argument with another PC (dragonkind diplomat type) about the form of government that should ...

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Devlin,

I just saw your name on the Legends of Anglerre book. Congrats!

Do you happen to know if the hard copy is available yet? Or is it still just the PDF bundle pre-order deal?

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Devlin, Initially, you said this was a random city generator for hinterdorfen towns. However, the way you are describing it, the tables sound more useful for world building then for spitting out a random city 20 minutes before the session starts. Can you tell us more about how you want the table to ...

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[quote="devlin1"]I read this as "Eleven ear tax." "Consider yourself in debt for the other nine."[/quote] While a fun interpretation, I originally ripped off the Elven Ear Tax from the famous Warhammer FRP campaign "The Enemy Within". Elves are ridiculously overpowered in 1st Ed. Warhammer and the ...

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Who runs the place? Might they need assistance or dislike outsiders? What events are going on in town? (Halfling pie week! Harvest festival! Jousting tournament! High holy day for the Death god!) Why is this city/town/hamlet here? (trade route, good farming, gold mines, military outpost, etc.) Any ...

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I'm trying to decide whether there were more beards or glasses than I expected from roleplayers.

I think it was about what I expected.

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[quote="Count Zero"]So, let me be sure I am understanding the example. Normally dice would provide a binary result of + or 0. If you take damage, then you replace normal dice with fudge dice, so you have a -, +, or 0. So the minus may cancel out a 4, 5 or 6 on a normal dice, or provide the positive...

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[quote="Count Zero"]Well.. for one thing coins suck and aren't fun to "roll"... especially 8-10 of them. Secondly, I don't want to used specialized dice. While aspects of SoTS/Fudge have influenced this design, it is really a pretty minor influence. [/quote] Do you hate the idea of having damage/pu...

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Two ideas. 1. Why not use coins rather than dice if you want the binary solution of 1,2,3 vs. 4,5,6? Heads you win, tails you lose. Then you can use different denominations for the different types of dice. 2. How about if the successful attacks just get added as FUDGE DICE (+, 0, -) to the player? A...

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Well, he was in my gaming group at one point, although that has recently fallen apart.

I'll tell him to go to hyphen-con so he can get his game on.

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Example: Party splits up with group members A and B going to a bar while group member C goes to visit his Wizard master. During the bar scene, group member c is getting fidgety, so the GM scribbles some stats for Ronan the Barbarian on a scrap of paper, gives basic personality traits (large, angry, ...

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Desmond was born just before Turkey Day in what appears to be the same hospital Cecily was born in. I recognize the swaddling blankets and fake-hardwood floors.

My wife was trying to name him Benjamin, but after I saw that Devlin had a Benjamin, I knew I had to convince her otherwise.

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Add at least one baby, but I don't crow about my awesome baby that can eat your babies.

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Systems with damage rolls often have two problems that annoy me. 1. Ablative damage is boring. I'm looking at you HP . 2. Damage rolls and accounting adds significantly to length of time spent resolving combat/encounters and usually don't add significantly to the role-playing bits. What I like most ...

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Hi Arcaine!

Glad to hear about your game. This post should probably be moved to the "Gamers Wanted" section.

Best of luck in finding players!

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[quote="Dragonmaster Zoc"]The key word is "likely"; even your standard prince or wizard is [i]unlikely[/i] to be a hero. The odds are like four to one against. A peasant is a whole different degree of unlikely. We're talking a million to one chance. Now which one strains disbelief? Which one, to co...

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[quote="Dragonmaster Zoc"]I expect players to treat their characters as people, rather than as game pieces. I expect everyone to promote the suspension of disbelief by not exploiting poorly written rules. Some systems are not written with the intention of facilitating one or both of these expectati...

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[quote="Dragonmaster Zoc"]I honestly cannot say that I've ever even seen a book for it. If [url=http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WarhammerFantasyRoleplay]this[/url] is accurate, then I don't think I would like it. I'm looking for something more traditional, like Lord of the Rings. Warhamm...

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[quote="Dragonmaster Zoc"] Even more so, I wish there truly was a product out there that catered to my needs: something that gets rid of the old, redundant, and nonsensical stuff but keeps the feeling of mundane wonder where magic feels truly magical. [/quote] Have you ever tried Warhammer? Magic r...

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Well I happen to be in agreement with Czernia here on the scene idea issue. I took a page from Devlin1 and ran a SoTC game where I started the game by asking each of the players and myself to write down 3 things/scenes/ideas they wanted to see happen and then I mixed and matched those things as made...

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I try to impart to Noobs that they can do or try anything in any situation. If everyone else thinks fighting the orc is a good idea but you want to run away, you can do that. Most Noobs don't grasp that concept or are familiar with games that provide only a limited set of options in any situation. C...

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Maybe someone can post here just to make me feel a little less unloved...

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Long-term gaming group that predominantly plays in La Jolla/UTC area is looking for an additional player. The schedule fluctuates to accomodate people's schedules, but we're currently trying out Tuesday nights starting between 6:30 and 7:00 PM. There are two alternating campaigns in progress and we ...

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Is there any reason not to use different systems for the different eras? That might promote a shift, although it might be more work as well.

The golden age description screams Spirit of the Century to me. However, I'm not sure that it would scale well with your description of the other ages.

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I'm at a wedding next weekend and won't be making it today either.

See you boys in a month...or so.

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So are we playing Throne on Sunday? At the clubhouse? At 3 pm?

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Are we on for this week to finish up the Delta Green game?

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I haven't seen this movie, and I don't intend to. However, I did see the previews for TF2, GiJoe, and Terminaor:Salvation all in a row while waiting for Batman to start. That was an overwhelming 12 minutes of robots, robot-suits, explosions, and buildings falling over that almost sent me into an epi...

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I was booked to go to the county fair on Sunday and will miss the roleplaying festivities again.

UPDATE: I should be able to make it, albeit fashionably late. See you at the clubhouse.

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Jimmy, just imagine bearded long-hair freaks and you'll be in the right ballpark.

I can make it if it is on...Let me know when and where.

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Message read. Unfortunately, due to the Sunday issue mentioned n posts back (which was duly ignored by Sadohara and D&D in their scheduling) I cannot do Sunday this week. I have been to two consecutive games, so I think I should be at least 3/5th of a vote now for future scheduling considerations......

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Sunday is no good for me, but I can do Saturday.

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Speaking of game:

Is there a game this weekend?

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Was there a game today?

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Indeed, I had a good time.

I hope I can make the next session.

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I am a coffee drinker, though haven't had much in the way of local coffee. Having spent a good deal of time in Berkeley, I became a Peet's loyalist. Buy the beans whole and grind 'em yourself and you have a fine cup of coffee, especially Major Dickason's and Fair Trade Blends. There are plenty of lo...

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[quote="JALU3"] I do see why some would oppose the usage of the name which these protest were held under, just as some would oppose the usage of the term Minutemen by anti-illegal immigration groups. However, they are free to use that term as they see fit, just as anyone is free to change their leg...

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I think the original poster was amazed that people were calling their protests, "Tea Parties" when the original Boston Tea Party was a protest against taxation without representation . Protesting the size of the federal government or the tax rates on individuals is fine (albeit kinda dumb in my book...

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