Giles: I'm sure we're all perfectly safe. Dawn: We're safe. Right. And Spike built a robot Buffy to play checkers with. Tara: It sounded convincing when I thought it.

'Dirty Girls'


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.

PLEASE TO WHITEFONT SPOILERS for video games, RPG modules or anything for which foreknowledge of events might lessen one's enjoyment of whatever gaming experience.


megan walker - Sep 08, 2008 7:51:58 am PDT #1267 of 26132
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

From Lucasfilm and starwars.com it seems to be Jedi Knight and stormtrooper. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

Also, in the category of "more than I needed to know about stormtrooper armor", I present the following:

"The soldiers of the Empire struck with frightening anonymity, their faces completely obscured by unmistakable white armor. While the 18-piece armored shell offers limited protection from blaster fire, it also serves as a weapon of terror.
The bone-white armor fits over a black temperature-control body glove. Built-in helmet comlinks supplemented by belt-mounted hand-held units ensure that stormtroopers are always in touch with their superiors. Standardized utility belts offer ammunition for blaster sidearms, and helpful tools such as grappling hooks and cable. Stormtrooper armor also serves as a limited space suit for protection against hard vacuum."


Gudanov - Sep 08, 2008 7:58:51 am PDT #1268 of 26132
Coding and Sleeping

While the 18-piece armored shell offers limited protection from blaster fire,

You know all the stormtroopers are thinking, "Sure, they'll spend money to build a planet sized space station, but they won't buy us decent armor"


Volans - Sep 09, 2008 12:39:25 pm PDT #1269 of 26132
move out and draw fire

just got this email:

Oh yes, for those of you who haven't played it, they made a game out of the first book in the Game of Thrones series. It's a little magic-ish but the turns take much longer and you spend 5 minutes trying to remember where the characters were when you first met them (Winterfell) and where they are now (dead). Then you try and talk about them to the other players who haven't read the books yet. A friend of mine picked it up at GenCon where he also got a card game entitiled "We didn't play test this at all" where no single game we've played yet has lasted more than 2 minutes, and about half of them were over before I got a chance to play. Great fun. These two games combined created the idea for another game where you are a house, a telepathic house that has the ability to influence the actions of the city in direct proportion to your market value. After a certain point yuo can choose to continue on as a house, or diversify into an condo or into a neighborhood of houses. We developed attack systems (crack dealers, termites) and defense systems (gated community, maintainence staff) but I can't seem to come up with a victory condition.


amych - Sep 09, 2008 12:41:43 pm PDT #1270 of 26132
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

where they are now (dead)

AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!


hippocampus - Sep 12, 2008 10:58:28 am PDT #1271 of 26132
not your mom's socks.

placed here so that Raq will see it because I've sent her enough emails today. [link]


billytea - Sep 18, 2008 5:58:40 pm PDT #1272 of 26132
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

Finally, finally, finally it looks like I'm going to get a game of 4E. My home campaign (which is on tonight, won't they be surprised when they discover the entire city has started talking like a pirate) will take a break next session for a session of Living Forgotten Realms.

My character will be a dragonborn fighter. Write-up:

Malus got his name for eating one of his siblings while still in the nest. He lives to eat. He got hold of a bestiary of all sorts of strange and wonderful creatures in the world – no details, just basic name and description – and has determined that his life goal is to sample each living creature on the list – except plants, because “do these teeth look like they were made for rabbit food to you?”

Honour means less to him than a full stomach, a fact which caused him some friction with other dragonborn growing up. Not that he’s contemptuous of the notion or of the foes he faces, but he doesn’t hide that his primary interest in them is how they’ll go with a red wine sauce after he’s killed them. Not surprisingly, he’s developed a fair degree of culinary skill. He dreams of opening a restaurant – The Meat ‘n’ Greet – once he’s eaten his way through the entire bestiary (thus, as he sees it, developing the wide experience in food preparation to make his establishment truly great).

He grew up in Tymanther, but moved to the Dragon Coast as soon as he was able, largely on the strength of the name. He was rather pissed off to discover it put him no closer to eating an actual dragon. Still, it looks like a promising place for his restaurant – meat is most definitely on the menu for the people of the Dragon Coast.

Malus favours hammers in combat, as he finds it tenderizes the meat and improves the flavour. As gods go, he likes Kelemvor, who he believes understands that the lesser races were meant to be eaten.


Laga - Sep 18, 2008 7:47:47 pm PDT #1273 of 26132
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

won't they be surprised when they discover the entire city has started talking like a pirate

holy cripes that's tomorrow!

determined that his life goal is to sample each living creature on the list

that is such a wonderful character trait. I may have to steal it.


billytea - Sep 18, 2008 8:01:19 pm PDT #1274 of 26132
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

that is such a wonderful character trait. I may have to steal it.

You know, the new races (dragonborn and tiefling) really didn't appeal to me much initially. So I flipped through the books looking for some kind of inspiration on how I'd play one, and it turned out to be their teeth. "Ok, what sort of diet would a creature be on with teeth like that?" Grew from there. Could make for fun PC conversations. "Oh, don't look like so worried. I've already tried elf."

If ever I create a tiefling, he's going to be Victor Meldrew in a Halloween mask. Apparently my flavour of emo is geriatric and pissy.


Gudanov - Sep 19, 2008 4:59:35 am PDT #1275 of 26132
Coding and Sleeping

That is a great character description.


Volans - Sep 19, 2008 3:14:21 pm PDT #1276 of 26132
move out and draw fire

It inspires me to quote from "Avatar": That's pretty much all I got...meat and sarcasm guy.

Except dragonborn probably don't do sarcasm.

It also reminds me of a conversation I had third-hand about 10 years ago: my friend's brother was a scientist in Antarctica, and a couple new scientists arrived from [country deleted for the protection of all involved]. The first thing they did was go out and kill two penguins (emperor I believe). When the other scientists found out and reacted with "WTF?!?!?" the two newcomers said, "But...we've never eaten penguin before."