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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.


Sean K - Jun 02, 2008 11:31:36 am PDT #839 of 26132
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

I've liked much of what I've seen but I've also seen a few things recently that really gave me pause.

Even the things that seem okay are coming across as incredibly bland to me. That having been said...

I have seen more than one review now that says that you just can't judge the snippets accurately and that when you've read the whole thing it begins to sync much more and plays really well.

I do plan on reserving final judgement until I read the PHB all the way through. Now having said that....

I already know 4e is not the game for me for one primary reason -- I wanted to see d20 revamped, and made more generic, I guess. Particularly in ways that gave me much, much different options for magic and magic items. I wanted these things to make it easier to adapt the system to my ideas for homebrew worlds. It is painfully clear from even the little snippents I've seen that they have, in fact, done the opposite. If anything, they've added even more stuff I'd have to gut, change or ignore in order to run the homebrew ideas I'd really like to run.


CaBil - Jun 02, 2008 11:33:12 am PDT #840 of 26132
Remember, remember/the fifth of November/the Gunpowder Treason and Plot/I see no reason/Why Gunpowder Treason/Should ever be forgot.

Near future tech is hard. I mean, hot fusion tech has seemed right around the corner for decades, and now it looks like people are having more luck with some of the bubble fusion techniques. Traditional nanotech still seems a long way off, but bio-nanotech (think cyborg cells) is starting to get close. And quantum computing could be tomorrow or never, depending if the physicists ever agree...


Pete, Husband of Jilli - Jun 02, 2008 11:41:37 am PDT #841 of 26132
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd

If anything, they've added even more stuff I'd have to gut, change or ignore in order to run the homebrew ideas I'd really like to run.

True, but as you said that's your needs. The game needed to focus, I think. Becoming broader would have made for a momentous page count and a lot of compromises that would have left no one happy.

Megan, yes, probably, though I'm going to refrain from mentioning any card titles as I try to keep my B.org presence from showing up on typical Magic card searches.


Pete, Husband of Jilli - Jun 02, 2008 11:42:43 am PDT #842 of 26132
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd

CaBil, any recommendations for where I can read up on a bunch of this stuff?


Sean K - Jun 02, 2008 12:00:23 pm PDT #843 of 26132
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

True, but as you said that's your needs.

Yeah, it's kind of tough. To really do some of my homebrew ideas justice, it would require a system more or less of my own creation, which requires work I ultimately don't want to do all that much.

Savage Worlds shows promise, but I'd still be creating a lot of my own stuff, in order to keep people from having to shell out good money for yet more gaming books.


CaBil - Jun 02, 2008 12:10:33 pm PDT #844 of 26132
Remember, remember/the fifth of November/the Gunpowder Treason and Plot/I see no reason/Why Gunpowder Treason/Should ever be forgot.

Enhanced reality is also more commonly known as Augmented Reality (Learnt it the other way and still haven't managed to unlearn it)

I picked it up piecemeal, but I know at least one author has written about it, give me a day...


megan walker - Jun 02, 2008 1:40:20 pm PDT #845 of 26132
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Megan, yes, probably, though I'm going to refrain from mentioning any card titles as I try to keep my B.org presence from showing up on typical Magic card searches.

Should be easy to find as, of course, they are all organized in a binder... by color... then category... then cost....


Sean K - Jun 02, 2008 1:47:33 pm PDT #846 of 26132
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

As if I couldn't love megan more. You have Magic cards!


megan walker - Jun 02, 2008 2:01:14 pm PDT #847 of 26132
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Not just any cards, a complete revised edition set!


Sean K - Jun 02, 2008 2:06:19 pm PDT #848 of 26132
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

That's dead sexy.