I think we all need better meetings.
Anya: It's lovely! I wish it was mine! Oh like you weren't all thinking the same thing. Giles: I'm fairly certain I wasn't.
'The Killer In Me'
Gaming 1: You are likely to be eaten by a grue
A thread for the discussion of games: board, LARP, MMORPG, video, tabletop RPG, game theory etc. etc. and all attendant news, developments and ancillary subjects thereof, as well as coordinating/scheduling games either online or IRL. All are welcome to chime in, talk about their favorite games or learn about gaming of any sort.
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amych - Aug 12, 2008 9:23:51 am PDT #1194 of 26132
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
hippocampus - Aug 12, 2008 9:25:38 am PDT #1195 of 26132
not your mom's socks.
I think we all need better meetings.
or more flaming cows.
amych - Aug 12, 2008 9:26:32 am PDT #1196 of 26132
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
or more flaming cows.
They would be an improvement.
Sean K - Aug 12, 2008 9:29:51 am PDT #1197 of 26132
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I have used the flaming cow falling from the sky, and had it used on me. Actually, it's kind of a fun way to design an encounter -- a flaming cow flies into the party. Why?
Most of the time, with most players, we don't need a CTRL Z. And even with really stupid tricks that turn out not to work, we can live with the consequences.
I've had two incidences (back under D&D 2.0), where a particular fight led to a TPK, which each time prompted the DM to open the next session with the words, "Okay. You all wake up from the terrible shared nightmare where you all died."
I had one Shadowrun session where Joe had to do a retcon for something that would have severely messed up my spellcaster, after we all remembered *several* minutes after the fact that my character has been invisible, and that couldn't have happened that way.
hippocampus - Aug 12, 2008 9:31:00 am PDT #1198 of 26132
not your mom's socks.
amych, insent.
amych - Aug 12, 2008 9:33:04 am PDT #1199 of 26132
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Sox, received, and "yes" to the first, will have to respond after work to the second.
Miracleman - Aug 12, 2008 9:53:20 am PDT #1200 of 26132
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
I had one Shadowrun session where Joe had to do a retcon for something that would have severely messed up my spellcaster, after we all remembered *several* minutes after the fact that my character has been invisible, and that couldn't have happened that way.
Well, yeah, but that wasn't several *sessions* later, so I had no real problem with it.
I've had two incidences (back under D&D 2.0), where a particular fight led to a TPK, which each time prompted the DM to open the next session with the words, "Okay. You all wake up from the terrible shared nightmare where you all died."
Then there was the GURPS Supers game wherein we all died, and it turned out to be a "Danger Room" session.
Laga - Aug 12, 2008 11:45:57 am PDT #1201 of 26132
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I played with a guy who did whatever the hell he felt like regardless of whether it fucked with other players and the GM did nothing to correct him. I don't play with that GM anymore.
hippocampus - Aug 12, 2008 2:52:04 pm PDT #1202 of 26132
not your mom's socks.
I just read a passage in an MIT pub that invokes the "nuh-uh factor" in explaining games. Am amused.
Pete, Husband of Jilli - Aug 12, 2008 3:12:06 pm PDT #1203 of 26132
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd
Blimey, that's a lot of posts...
"Remember when I did that thing that didn't work out so well and it led us to this course of action and ultimately to where we are now? Well, you read the rules wrong and we should re-do it from there."
I stand here boggled.
"A flaming cow falls from the sky!"
Mooteor!