Schedule of the Schedule (I couldn't decide)

devlin1 · Post by **devlin1** » Fri Sep 11, 2009 3:53 pm

~~[quote="jimmy corrigan"]~~i won't know until tuesday, but chances are slim for me. carry on.[/quote]
So is that a no, then?

jimmy corrigan · Post by **jimmy corrigan** » Fri Sep 11, 2009 4:37 pm

i'll try my best to make it. sorry i can't do better.

SpaceMonkey · Post by **SpaceMonkey** » Fri Sep 11, 2009 10:54 pm

so, we are planning on gaming tomorrow (jimmy or no)>?

devlin1 · Post by **devlin1** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 8:50 am

~~[quote="dnd3eplayer"]~~so, we are planning on gaming tomorrow (jimmy or no)>?[/quote]
Yeah, it's on, small group or no. Bring your SotS characters -- I'm going to put my random adventure generator to the test.

devlin1 · Post by **devlin1** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 11:30 pm

Good times, guys. Thanks!

jimmy corrigan · Post by **jimmy corrigan** » Sun Sep 13, 2009 12:54 am

thanks for running it, mike. i had a great time!

devlin1 · Post by **devlin1** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 5:58 pm

Just wanted to touch base with you guys. We're two days from Baby Day, so I guess this confirmation that October is out for me. And probably November. As for December... well, I'll get back to you. Whenever we game again, expect the plot to involve poopies and a Dire Barney that must be killed at all costs.

mordraine · Post by **mordraine** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 6:34 pm

Coming down to SD might not be in the cards for you anymore, but I'm more than happy to go up to Irvine for a game.

devlin1 · Post by **devlin1** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 6:44 pm

~~[quote="mordraine"]~~Coming down to SD might not be in the cards for you anymore, but I'm more than happy to go up to Irvine for a game.[/quote]

I think that may be possible in a while, once we're settled in. I'll keep everyone posted.

cczernia · Post by **cczernia** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 6:47 am

I wouldn't mind going to Irvine to help bring down the Dire Barney.

jimmy corrigan · Post by **jimmy corrigan** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 9:53 pm

same here, brother.

devlin1 · Post by **devlin1** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 10:35 pm

*blows dust off forum*

What do you guys say to some pre-Hyphen-Con gaming on Friday the 23rd?

cczernia · Post by **cczernia** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 7:41 am

~~[quote="devlin1"]~~*blows dust off forum*

What do you guys say to some pre-Hyphen-Con gaming on Friday the 23rd?[/quote]

I think I can do that.

SpaceMonkey · Post by **SpaceMonkey** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 9:38 am

Wait, this forum doesn't have new things in it.

I guess I could put my party shoes in the closet for one friday night.

Cthulhu · Post by **Cthulhu** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 9:55 am

I'm down for that. Assuming work doesn't send me to some god forsaken part of the country again.

mordraine · Post by **mordraine** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 10:16 am

This would be good. What would we play though?

devlin1 · Post by **devlin1** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 10:28 am

~~[quote="mordraine"]~~What would we play though?[/quote]

I dunno. We could get back to our "Spirit of the Sword" game, or someone could run something they pitched for Hyphen-Con that didn't get voted in, or whatever. Like, I know Chris had an interest in playing that FATE Supers game, but it doesn't look like I'll be doing it at Hyphen-Con, so if people were into it I could run it that Friday instead.

jimmy corrigan · Post by **jimmy corrigan** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 1:35 pm

too far out for me to say for sure, but i think i can manage. we'll see.

cczernia · Post by **cczernia** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 5:02 pm

~~[quote="devlin1"]~~FATE Supers game[/quote]

I vote for this... again.

devlin1 · Post by **devlin1** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 5:04 pm

~~[quote="cczernia"]~~I vote for this... again.[/quote]

It's funny -- the pitch for that game ended up being very similar to last year's Four Weapons and a Funeral, in that I thought up a goofy title without having any idea what the game would actually entail.

cczernia · Post by **cczernia** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 5:15 pm

~~[quote="devlin1"]~~It's funny -- the pitch for that game ended up being very similar to last year's Four Weapons and a Funeral, in that I thought up a goofy title without having any idea what the game would actually entail.[/quote]

Sometimes a good title is all you need. Seems to have worked for Sam :razz:

devlin1 · Post by **devlin1** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 5:53 pm

~~[quote="cczernia"]~~Sometimes a good title is all you need. Seems to have worked for Sam :razz:[/quote]

And Andy -- they're both pure concept! "Post-Apoc Strawberry Shortcake." "Gothic Victorian Horror." They're also both PDQ, now that I think about it....

SpaceMonkey · Post by **SpaceMonkey** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 6:25 pm

PDQ must not be constrained by straightjacket concepts and explanations. It must run wild and free.

devlin1 · Post by **devlin1** » Thu Apr 15, 2010 1:39 pm

So hey -- we still on for this?

And FATE Supers, or something else? I have this Smallville RPG playtest document just burning a hole on my hard drive. Also, Heroes of Metropolis, a supers version of Barbarians of Lemuria. S'posed to be playtesting that, too. And something else -- what the hell was it... or Derelict Delvers, a small-press retro sci-fi game in the vein of Mazes & Minotaurs (right down to the "this is actually an old game!!!" gimmick). Or someone else run something. Or whatever.

mordraine · Post by **mordraine** » Thu Apr 15, 2010 1:44 pm

Any of those options sounds fine to me (although I'll be frank, Smallville sounds less interesting than any of the others).

SpaceMonkey · Post by **SpaceMonkey** » Thu Apr 15, 2010 1:48 pm

I should still be able to attend. I would lean towards a familiar game/system due to the twin barbs of time and 'we're running a shit ton of random stuff the next day already'.

cczernia · Post by **cczernia** » Thu Apr 15, 2010 2:41 pm

I can still make it. I vote for one of the superhero games.

devlin1 · Post by **devlin1** » Thu Apr 15, 2010 2:46 pm

~~[quote="mordraine"]~~Any of those options sounds fine to me (although I'll be frank, Smallville sounds less interesting than any of the others).[/quote]

Understood. I don't give a shit about Smallville the show, but the game is pretty nifty, IMO.

devlin1 · Post by **devlin1** » Fri Apr 16, 2010 7:34 am

So FATE Supers it'll be, then. I'll bring, like, four or five pre-gens. It'd be cool to do chargen -- certainly it'd be a better test of the system -- but that'd probably take more time than we want to spend on that sort of thing.

SpaceMonkey · Post by **SpaceMonkey** » Fri Apr 16, 2010 9:10 am

just have Albert do 'em. that's like, his thing.

devlin1 · Post by **devlin1** » Mon Apr 19, 2010 5:11 pm

So who's in for this? I'm getting the pre-gens together, and I don't want to have to do any more work than is absolutely necessary.

jimmy corrigan · Post by **jimmy corrigan** » Mon Apr 19, 2010 11:10 pm

i regret to report that i cannot make it.

devlin1 · Post by **devlin1** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 12:59 am

~~[quote="jimmy corrigan"]~~i regret to report that i cannot make it.[/quote]

You'll be missed.

jimmy corrigan · Post by **jimmy corrigan** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 1:07 am

hold the phone. what time were you guys thinking of gaming? i might be able to make it after all.

devlin1 · Post by **devlin1** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 1:18 am

~~[quote="jimmy corrigan"]~~hold the phone. what time were you guys thinking of gaming? i might be able to make it after all.[/quote]

I dunno. Whatever's good for Andy. I'm figuring around 7 or 8.

cczernia · Post by **cczernia** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 6:59 am

~~[quote="devlin1"]~~So who's in for this? I'm getting the pre-gens together, and I don't want to have to do any more work than is absolutely necessary.[/quote]

I'm in!

SpaceMonkey · Post by **SpaceMonkey** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 8:56 am

I will be 'dere.

mordraine · Post by **mordraine** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 9:12 am

I'll get back from Irv around 7-ish. So y'all can get there around the same time.

jimmy corrigan · Post by **jimmy corrigan** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 9:22 am

cool. see you all at 7!

devlin1 · Post by **devlin1** » Mon Apr 26, 2010 5:07 pm

Hey hey, fellas -- belated thanks for the All-Hyphen's Eve playtesting. The hack still feels really solid to me (with the exception of Temper getting perma-Blocked), but if anyone has feedback or suggestions or anything, I'm all ears.

cczernia · Post by **cczernia** » Mon Apr 26, 2010 5:22 pm

~~[quote="devlin1"]~~Hey hey, fellas -- belated thanks for the All-Hyphen's Eve playtesting. The hack still feels really solid to me (with the exception of Temper getting perma-Blocked), but if anyone has feedback or suggestions or anything, I'm all ears.[/quote]

I thought it was a great system in play. I liked how powers worked and that it was your best application of subbing a dF for a d6.

The only thing I was curious about was character creation.

jimmy corrigan · Post by **jimmy corrigan** » Mon Apr 26, 2010 5:45 pm

i had a blast. it was a good system-to-setting fit. i liked your df/d6 substitution and scale of relativity as well. woo hoo!

devlin1 · Post by **devlin1** » Mon Apr 26, 2010 5:46 pm

~~[quote="cczernia"]~~I thought it was a great system in play. I liked how powers worked and that it was your best application of subbing a dF for a d6.

The only thing I was curious about was character creation.[/quote]

I would ~~[i]~~love[/i] to playtest character creation, but I didn't want to potentially take up the whole session with it.

Short version: It's point based. Skills cost rating in points, Refresh costs 5 points per point (but you start with 1 Refresh), and super-skills cost 10 points per tier above Mundane (so Extraordinary costs another 10 points, Superhuman is another 20 points, etc.). Custom super-skills are comprised of individual trappings and toppings (sort of add-ons to the trappings), mostly culled from the SotC skill list. You get two trappings for free (so you could have a super-skill of, say, Optic Blast that's just the Attack trapping and the Range topping, and it'd cost points equal to its rating plus the tier cost). Every super-skill requires a constraint of some kind, usually in the form of an aspect, so the more super-skills you have, the more they impact your life, as it were. Clique had "Complication: Must Maintain Cool Reputation," for instance, because of her Duplication power.

That's about it, really. The bear was coming up with the list of trappings.

The characters you played were built on 80 points. The Headmaster was built on something like 100, and his students were about 45 each.

devlin1 · Post by **devlin1** » Mon Jul 12, 2010 10:10 am

Who wants to game during Comic-Con weekend?

SpaceMonkey · Post by **SpaceMonkey** » Mon Jul 12, 2010 10:34 am

I dunno... I'm really into ComiCon, but not that into gaming.*

*this is the reverse of true. I wish to game.

jimmy corrigan · Post by **jimmy corrigan** » Mon Jul 12, 2010 3:50 pm

i'm down, provided that i'm free then. won't know for sure until the next couple days. either way, i firmly support this idea.

cczernia · Post by **cczernia** » Mon Jul 12, 2010 3:50 pm

~~[quote="devlin1"]~~Who wants to game during Comic-Con weekend?[/quote]

I want to game during Comic-Con weekend!

mordraine · Post by **mordraine** » Mon Jul 12, 2010 4:01 pm

~~[quote="cczernia"][quote="devlin1"]~~Who wants to game during Comic-Con weekend?[/quote]
I want to game during Comic-Con weekend![/quote]

All together now!

Who wants to game during Comic-Con weekend?

I want to game during Comic-Con weekend!

Who wants to game during Comic-Con weekend?

We want to game during Comic-Con weekend!

Who wants to game during Comic-Con weekend?

YEAAAAAAH!!!!!

devlin1 · Post by **devlin1** » Mon Jul 12, 2010 5:19 pm

~~[quote="mordraine"]~~All together now!

Who wants to game during Comic-Con weekend?

I want to game during Comic-Con weekend!

Who wants to game during Comic-Con weekend?

We want to game during Comic-Con weekend!

Who wants to game during Comic-Con weekend?

YEAAAAAAH!!!!![/quote]

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devlin1 · Post by **devlin1** » Mon Jul 12, 2010 9:52 pm

So we seem to have a consensus here. What're we going to play? Who's going to run? And when? Keep in mind we'll have McAree, too; he'll probably be up for anything, just to be a mensch, although he won't have familiarity with new-school indie games like FATE or any of that junk -- not that he wouldn't give it a shot, I'm sure.

I don't have any gimmicks in mind, or I'd run something myself. Although... the 4E Tomb of Horrors comes out on the 20th....