BTW, Jilli, congratulations on your shiny post number. Who says we need a gaming thread anyway?

Who says we need a gaming thread anyway?

Hee. I was thinking the same thing when I saw what the numbers were getting to.

There was a knock at the door, and player A answered it. The figure asked if he could come in, and the player said "sure". As one, all the other players turned and looked dumbstruck at player A who was like "What?

Hah! When we played the combined we had the exact same thing happen. except when Player Asshat said, "Sure!" the rest of us yelled "WHAT?!?!?"

cold pizza:

P-C, how really very cool! I've been doing a little bit with ARGs for work, and she is the bomb diggity.

And that was them on Cute Overload?!?!

Wow the world gets small sometimes.

P-C, how really very cool! I've been doing a little bit with ARGs for work, and she is the bomb diggity.

Nice!

And that was them on Cute Overload?!?!

Hee, yep!

So, my 4E PHB came today. I haven't had time to do anything but crack the cover, but even just a cursory glance through the book left a bad taste in my mouth.

The interior layout is, for reasons I cannot put my finger on, off putting. And while the game and book layout may not be the best for new gamers (according to the blog post I linked to above), the writing style isn't helping, either. Several bits, primarily the bullet points on why you should play a given race if you want character type BLAH, read as if they were written to condescend to brain damaged children.

Okay, okay, this really should be about the rules of the game... It's gonna take a few days for me to read the book and give my impressions of the game (unplayed as yet).

Okay, I'm not ten pages into the character creation chapter and I'm already ready to club my own brains out with the book three or four times over.

First, I'm really loathing the idea of roles. I find it limiting as a player and as a DM, and while I agree that groups should be well rounded, formalizing it in the rules like this is anathema to me.

There's a sentence near the beginning of chapter two about imagining any kind of hero you might want to play, that comes just before the rules start laying out some very narrowly defined kinds of characters to play.

There's the crappy ability score generation section that leads off with the "everybody gets the same set of generic numbers" section, follows with a point system and attending chart that is needlessly complicated in a silly way.

And then there was the multiple plugs for the RPGA on a single page.

Oh, and the sidebar in the first chapter about the history of D&D, that ended with a paragraph on the new edition (you know, the one you're reading) that called (itself) "new, exciting, bright and shiny." That made me want to choke a bitch.

The interior layout is, for reasons I cannot put my finger on, off putting.

I agree. The DH and I actually had a long discussion about this. He's happy the lines and weird fonts of 3e are gone; I miss the parchment and the sketch art. And the layout is just bad feng shui.

I skipped all the patronizing shit at the front because I always do.

Alex, my Gay Stunt Husband, gave me the 2-book slipcase for Vampire: the Masquerade. The one that has the original core rule books for V:tM and the Sabbat. I foresee gothy gaming nostalgia in my future, and much whining about why will NO ONE run a Vampire game for me. Consider yourselves warned.

Added today to the list of things I am really NOT liking about 4E -- the binding is for shit. I've had my book for ONE DAY, and the shit glue they used to bind the book is shedding pages in chunks.

What. The. Fuck.