Plugh!
t tacklehug
Well, look who just popped open a fresh can of venom.
Xander ,'Empty Places'
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.
amych - Apr 26, 2008 6:07:57 pm PDT #185 of 26133
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
libkitty - Apr 26, 2008 6:09:37 pm PDT #186 of 26133
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
Welcome, knave!
JenP - Apr 26, 2008 6:10:32 pm PDT #187 of 26133
I think you are, in fact, a poster in the gamer thread.
Welcome, knave!
Laga - Apr 26, 2008 6:10:46 pm PDT #188 of 26133
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
and now a lurker
yr doin it wrong!
I mean, welcome knave!
omnis_audis - Apr 26, 2008 6:44:50 pm PDT #189 of 26133
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
welcome knave.
Oh, to the Backgammon/Facebook folks. There is a facebook app for backgammon! Anyone game?
Sean K - Apr 26, 2008 7:18:01 pm PDT #190 of 26133
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Welcome, knave!
Anne W. - Apr 26, 2008 7:56:58 pm PDT #191 of 26133
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Damn. I'm going to have to join Facebook, aren't I?
Kalshane - Apr 26, 2008 8:26:19 pm PDT #192 of 26133
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
Welcome, knave.
Never played backgammon. No clue how it works.
I've played a lot of Rummy 500. I've played Spades a few times, but it's so infrequently I need to be reminded how it works every time I play. I learned how to play Euchre 10-15 years ago, but couldn't tell you for the life of me how to play the game now.
Board games wise, we played lots of Sorry, Life, checkers and Monopoly as kids. My sister and I would play chess occaisionally, but I'd always win and she get angry and refuse to play me for six months at a time. In highschool and early college one of my best friends and I used to play Othello all the time and I got pretty good at it, though it's probably been a decade since I last played. We also played a lot of Talisman, Pirateer, Shogun/Samurai Swords and Minion Hunter.
As far as D&D 4th goes, I think it's going to be a fun and solid system. I actually got some friends together a few weeks ago to run through fan-written adventure that had been cobbled together from the information that's be released so far and it went pretty well. You definitely have a lot more to do at 1st level than in previous games, and your character feels less fragile.
That said, it feels like a different animal than previous versions of D&D. 3rd Ed, and 3.5, while changing a lot of the rules over 1st and 2nd still felt very much like improvements on those previous versions (problems with multi-classed spellcasters aside). D&D 4th feels like a very different game, to the point where I wonder if I'm going want to mix up between playing/running 4th Ed and 3.5 games, the same way I currently change up between playing D&D and games like Mage: The Ascension, Shadowrun, etc. (Of course, my gaming group's track record with anything that isn't D&D or White Wolf is pretty poor. I don't think we've ever successfully completed a Shadowrun campaign, and games like Deadlands, Call of Cthulu, Wheel of Time, Star Wars, Toon, and countless others I've probably forgotten rarely lasted more than a couple sessions. I'd love to give the Serenity game a try, but I have absolutely zero ideas for adventures in the 'Verse and while there are quite a few Firefly fans in our group, none of them are enamored enough to actually run a game based on it.)
Connie Neil - Apr 26, 2008 8:27:59 pm PDT #193 of 26133
brillig
Hey, knave's number is over 2000! When did we pass 2000 users and why wasn't there a party?
libkitty - Apr 26, 2008 8:53:22 pm PDT #194 of 26133
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
I haven't played backgammon for ages, but I'll give it a shot omnis. Maybe Sunday?