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Anya: We should drop a piano on her. It always works for that creepy cartoon rabbit when he's running from that nice man with the speech impediment. Giles: Yes, or perhaps we could paint a convincing fake tunnel on the side of a mountain.

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Gaming 1: You are likely to be eaten by a grue

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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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billytea - Dec 22, 2020 4:01:22 pm PST #26104 of 26133

You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

I'm not sure if- it'd be directly applicable, but I think there was a game put out a decade or so ago, Android. It's based around solving a murder. There's also apparently an actual conspiracy that one is trying to uncover, but the main thing that brought it to mind is that you're not really trying to solve the murder. Rather you have a suspect in mind and you're trying to 'prove' it was them, regardless of whether it really was. (I think the conspiracy theory aspect works similarly.)

I haven't played it myself, and overall it's certainly a very different beast; but its notions of the truth being not what is but what you can make plausible, and what you want to make plausible being what benefits you, could have some application.

Volans - Dec 22, 2020 4:57:58 pm PST #26105 of 26133

move out and draw fire

Oh, that sounds likely! Thanks!

(I also just added Paranoia and Dead of Winter to my list for him).

billytea - Dec 22, 2020 9:31:22 pm PST #26106 of 26133

You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

I also just added Paranoia and Dead of Winter to my list for him

As games, or just brainstorming themes for 2021?

chrismg - Dec 23, 2020 9:53:48 am PST #26107 of 26133

"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade

Snerk.

Volans - Dec 23, 2020 2:43:10 pm PST #26108 of 26133

move out and draw fire

And...COMM'd

Kalshane - Dec 30, 2020 10:34:15 am PST #26109 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.

So my son is asking me to run D&D for him again. I'm already running a homebrew Campaign for my friends (started in-person, moved to Roll20 because of the pandemic and now possibly moving to Foundry because Roll20 is annoying me) so I haven't really had time to put anything together.

I'm thinking about possibly starting an online game with him and his cousins and running Sunless Citadel into Forge of Fury into Red Hand of Doom (the last would require converting to 5E, but it looks like a lot of people have done it and posted their work online.) I haven't run any of them before, but from what I've read it's easy enough to tweak them to chain them together fairly smoothly.

My other thought would be Temple of Elemental Evil, which I've also never run, but I played through the video game about a million times and helped out with some modding on it, so I'm pretty familiar with the overall plot.

megan walker - Dec 30, 2020 1:38:15 pm PST #26110 of 26133

"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

PANDEMIC

Um, are we still playing?

Volans - Dec 31, 2020 12:00:47 am PST #26111 of 26133

move out and draw fire

Kalshane, those are all good choices! Red Hand of Doom is one of the best campaigns ever.

billytea - Jan 01, 2021 8:01:27 am PST #26112 of 26133

You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

Um, are we still playing?

Ryan and I are still happy to do so, but I don't know where things stand with the other players

chrismg - Jan 02, 2021 8:07:38 am PST #26113 of 26133

"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade

I'm good, but Hec may be taking some time off. Someone in Natter said they'd checked with him recently.

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