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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I have historically had difficulty gender-bending with avs (including tabletop RPG characters). My current Rock Band av is one notable exception.
I maintain that it's easier to have an avatar that doesn't look like me when I am a) not "inhabiting" the avatar but "observing" it (like Rock Band) or b) need it to do things that are more correctly done by a not-me (like if I'm playing a soldier in WWII I'll use a male avatar).
Where do the skeeved place non-human avatars? You know I'm occasionally a moth or a griffin in Second Life; is that more or less acceptable than if I were a bald black guy?
My Rock Band avatar doesn't look like me at all but that's mostly because I found the controls that change her appearance to be too confusing to mess with for very long.
I love that the wii has ranked me as an amateur at "Penguin Slide". This implies that somewhere there is a professional league of people who dress up in penguin costumes and slide on ice floes to catch fish in their mouths for the amusement of an all-penguin audience.
I don't know, Laga, I'm ranked a professional penguin slider, and that troubles me even more.
Just stay away from those avian growth hormones.
BackGames = Videogame plots in reverse:
Doom: A space marine brings demons to life, locking colour-coded doors behind him before falling asleep, as his colleagues close a portal to hell.
Katamari Damacy: A prince must hide the stars, by rolling them across the earth’s surface, until they break into small everyday objects.
Lemmings: The player drags Lemmings out of their home, makes them forget their abilities & sends them back to the previous level.
Tetris: The player must break apart a giant rectangle, sending the pieces into space.
Gillette markets a razor...for gamers [link]
Since I'm linking, we just got these awesome black cards [link] as well as this deck that looks like it's a hundred years old. [link]
I personally hate card games, but we've been dinking with using cards as randomizers in lieu of dice in some RPG systems. This is something Deadlands started, and it's been pretty decent depending on the system and what you are going for. The way the deck looks can help the whole flavor of the game.
Gillette markets a razor...for gamers
So THAT'S what today's PA was about.
