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I'll see if I'll be free but barring any unknowns I should be good. I might be able to get atleast one of my friends, our local card shop was closed so I wasn't able to chat with anyone yet lol. I'll keep ya posted on that. In any case, I'll be wearing a dragon hat for easy ID.Very much so. Have you been able to get a start date and time frame (time everyone should be there to when we need to head out lol)? Oh, and if the times good would ya like me to see if a friend or two can join up? Nice! Check here before you leave, just in case of any last minute updates. Barring that, see you Thursday!
Very much so. Have you been able to get a start date and time frame (time everyone should be there to when we need to head out lol)? Oh, and if the times good would ya like me to see if a friend or two can join up? How about next Thursday 3pm? If that's too early, let me know. Store closes 9pm but will stay open to 10pm for us most nights. I like 6 hour sessions or so. And absolutely, friends of yours would be welcome. Let me know how many, as I don't want the table to be over 6. I think we're at 4 (including you - not including any friends) now. I'm getting excited!
Would Tr stand for Thursday? If so then I might have a slight prob as thats when I normally have my own game run lol. I could prob move it to Wensday. Either day should work out for me. Tr is indeed Thursday. Are you thinking you'd like to join the game?
I'm actually using the name of this book and its companion PC Pearls as the names of two regular features in Level Up. I find myself agreeing, Mr. Boomer. Lord Bedlam Havok has something to teach us all. A truly worthy paragon of adventuring expertise. A noble man. A great leader! All our children should honor Lord Bedlam Havok and use him for a role model. Here here! And yet...and yet... PC Pearls languishes, a mere 5-star popular copper pick on RPGNow. *sigh* Worse - Lord Havok's pearls languish, in need of loving attention from his adoring populace...er...that didn't come out right.
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Rise of the Runelords, the Skinsaw Murders takes place, largely, in a cornfield maze filled with killer scarecrows centered around a farmhouse. I wouldn't recommend the Richard Pett creepiness as is for an 8-13 year old, but the map should be exactly what you're looking for. You could probably tone down the horror and create a kid-friendly mission then use all the same stat blocks. Maybe the wizard/farmer fell and hurt himself and many of his scarecrows have been acting up in town and causing problems crazy, slapstick mayhem. No one knows what to do with them and the scarecrows can't speak, but really the scarecrows are trying to get help. Make a scarecrow gone bad villain and his cohorts holding the cornfield hostage. Throw in an injured bear beset by evil poachers. Let the bear befriend the kids on the way to the farm then help them rid the corn maze of the evil scrarecrow, free the wizard, and they all get invited to live with him in the farmhouse so he's never alone again. Something like that -- or whatever best suits your kids. Good luck!
Cool! Thanks for the feedback. One more Question...do you NEED the Great City supplement to run the adventures or are they just recommended? You can get away without the campaign setting, I think, but I really feel you'll enjoy it more with the campaign setting. Also, you'll be better able to riff and improvise, with the campaign setting background. But you can get away without it.
This sounds interesting! Just ordered it from Lulu along with the sourcebook yesterday. Cool! Can't wait to hear what you think. For what tis worth, The Jade and I wrote chpt 2, The Bloody Fix and chpt 4, Puncture the Blackened Vein. Daigle and Oppedisano did chpt 3
Well, I'll certainly let you know when the game is going to be, just in case. It's starting to look like a Mon. or Tr. In my happiest world it starts Tr at around 3 or 4pm. In my next happiest Tr. around 6pm and the the game moves to a second location and continues after the store closes. Still waiting to hear from players, but as of now it looks like 3 are lined up, including Greengrunt, who plans to drive 3 hours from Binghamton to play! That dude is one hardcore Paizonian!
Awww, thanks Deathboy. My wife would be the one to petition -- but only after she proposes on her dissertation! She's very supportive of my gaming, and I might be able to launch a Saturday game after that. We'll have to see. Hey, I always wondered if you took your board name from the Nightside books?
May I suggest also checking on www.nerdnyc.com for players? They have a big community of gamers in these areas.
I'm like, 1.5 hours away. But I might be able to drop in for a weekend or something! If there's a gameday or summat, please let me know. That would be awesome. Damn. You're such a tease. 1.5 north or south of me? If south, you should check out nerdnyc.com. They have Recess, an bi-annual game day, and its a blast. We could hook up there.
Dude, you're in Poughkeepsie? That's almost around the damn corner from me, and my wife's family lives in the area. Are you at Crazy Egor's, or the other gamestore? Varianor?! You're near Poughkeepsie?! AWESOME! I'm at the other game store, the Dragon's Den on Rt. 9, next to the Barne's and Noble. Oh please say you'll game with me!
Hey dude, thanks for the awesome pictures! When I'm down in NYC to run, I'll let you know. I'll probably run Cthulu. If you friend me on facebook or join the RPGAggression fan thing/blog, I'll have a way hold of you. Also, you might dig on nerdnyc if you don't know it already. They give some good game all year long.
Good questions Ross. Some speculations... Spoiler:
What was Charles's plan for the mothership before he found out about the experiments? I had the impression this was a failed attempt to establish a colony. His original plan may have been simply to repower the mothership to move colonization forward, birth a queen, or just leave, colony seeded. Dump and go. Only he couldn't dump and go if humans were slicing and dicing his people.
The command ship was shot down and rescued by that tractor beam. Why didn't Charles just activate that beam after getting enough fuel to activate the command ship? He didn't need to fly.
How did the prawns get so many weapons (given that they still had enough to sell 20 years later, as their primary means of income)? If they were building them, where did they get raw materials, given their impoverished state? If they came from the mothership, how did they get down from the mothership, given that the prawns had to be ferried down in helicopters? I'm with you on retrospect. This is a tough one. I never thought they were building them. I figured the prawns just clung to them or hid them when they were all originally shuttled down. I'm just not sure where that mechbot came from! Although, the mechbot did function on its own without a driver, maybe some of the tech brought itself down from the mothership? If the command ship broke down, how is it that it just happened to land where District 9 was going to be built? If it was flown down (and if so, why?), why bury and hide it? As someone else said, the command module went immediately to ground. District 9 just grew up around it. D9 didn't need to be part of the plan. Keeping the command module (and therefore the mothership) out of human hands was required. District 9 was an accident. This feels to me like light support for my thought that the original plan was to dump a colony of workers and leave. A thought further supported by that ominous end note of how the colony size had doubled. Charles and Wicker formed a warrior's bond at the end, but that doesn't mean Charles' intentions for earth were always good. Even if his kid was cute. In fact I think he manipulated Wicker's emotions, deliberately, more than once and deftly dodged some questions.
Spoiler:
I thought they covered that when a human commenter mentioned a belief in a hive mind being dead and most prawns being workers. They do show a worker or two firing a weapon, but the workers were clearly too stupid to put up any organized resistance. I felt like the worker or two with a weapon was operating more on memory than drive. It's like the ship lacked a queen.
Lou, if I weren't so far/beholden to public transportation, I would jump on this game like [inappropriate metaphor removed for the benefit of the children]. Any way to run it half-way between Poughkeepsie and NYC? Unfortunately, not. Gah. It'd have been awesome to have you. *sigh* This has been my problem after moving up here. My home, child, wife responsibilities make the travel time so insurmountable for me. The travel time makes it insurmountable for my friends, NYC folk, etc. f it weren't for John Stavrapolous coming up every now and then, I'd only write and never play. @Fatespinnner - thanks, my man. "I've been with my horse in the desert no-game...if felt bad nearly drove me insane...in the desert, your character ain't got no name...it felt bad to have no game..."
Well, we read for many reasons, of course. Like most readers of modern speculative fiction, I prefer character stories. I also like them laden with idea and plot drivers. For example, I adore Martin. I petered out on Jordan a few books in. I'm still making up my mind about Erikson. Give me a Dresden novel for my fun any day of the week. I also believe the dictates of story arise from the grounding of our cognition and therefore remain, for our lifetimes at least, largely immutable. I also believe its higher art to deliver a deep message AND fun at the same time, that its not an either or proposition. I guess I mean I don't feel you need to worry about the stuff you love vanishing from the scene (if you are worried). Are you looking for suggestions?
Thanks man. I'm so isolated up here and can't sell my house. :^(I feel your pain. I'm at the far north end of the Bronx, and I don't think I could pay people from other boroughs to come up here to game. It seems tempting at times to pay an extra two grand in rent a month to get a place in Manhattan so that I could recruit new players. Are you on Nerdnyc, and have you heard of the GGG? Maybe they could be useful to you. - Lou
I'm waiting for confirmation from the game store, but it looks like they're offering me Monday nights.That would put the kibosh on it for me. The two hour train ride from the Bronx to Poughkeepsie would be lovely on a Saturday morning, but on a week night I'd have to be insane to try it. Good luck getting a group together, LA. Thanks man. I'm so isolated up here and can't sell my house. :^(
Wow! That is really trippy! Good on Ol' Mother Logue!For me it was an old Imagine fanzine adventure where the PC were shrunk in size and sent off down the sewer system to find a ring a mage had lost when washing his hands. I know my description doesn't give it justice....That sounds really cool! I'd have to say it was a game this gencon. Logue running. Boomer, myself, Tordek, Shirak, and my friend Julian at the table. Blog post/play report about it here. It was a really wild spontaneous group improv.
For me it was an old Imagine fanzine adventure where the PC were shrunk in size and sent off down the sewer system to find a ring a mage had lost when washing his hands. I know my description doesn't give it justice.... That sounds really cool! I'd have to say it was a game this gencon. Logue running. Boomer, myself, Tordek, Shirak, and my friend Julian at the table. Blog post/play report about it here.
My favorite T-shirt was spotted while Lou and I panhandled for change and harrassed the participants outside the entrance of the Interactive. All it said was, "Your Retarded."That is like my Tshirt... I see dumb people...The Mariott Hotel Staff loved that one and they all wanted pictures of it.. that was odd. Awesome! No, my friend, its not strange. Imagine working in a service position at a hotel. Just imagine how many, many dumb people you HAVE to be nice to. OF COURSE they loved it!
Hey all, I'm thinking about running a PFRPG (or N-PFRPG, a little something secret and special) campaign at my FLGS in Poughkeepsie. I expect I'd need the group to help me with some intermittent playtesting, too. Anyone local enough to Poughkeepsie, NY to have an interest? Haven't picked the day yet. Would like to hear from potential players. - Lou
Gah! As people post, so any pivotal and life-influencing books come back. I feel guilty, awash with a sense of having betrayed my love for the books because I didn't remember them. Revamped list to expiate my crime of forgetting... Twilight of the Idols, F. Nietzsche
First off this sounds like a blast! It also sounds like a perfect setup for the movie Pitch Black! If you haven't seen it, its awesome. Vin Diesel at his mightest. You might want to take some inspiration from that and not make everyone a prisoner, then slam them with a disaster that forces them to retrieve/deal with the relics to survive/escape. Or not. Just riffin'. Here are a few quick noodles. Feel free to tell me they are poo. Barek, CN Kellid barbarian from the Land of the Mammoth Lords (no female version of this one) He got caught colluding with orcs to sell baby mammoths to the Katapeshi for resale and entertainment in Absalom Galadon/Euphemi, CG Taldan bard from Galt He wrote a song about a powerful political figure in Galt. And his noble, inbred wife. And their low-IQ lazy son. Bad idea. The noble has connections to Katapeshi and likes to buy baby mammoths for his zoo. Devor/Kifah, LN Half-orc cleric of Pharasma from the Shackles
Tengluki/Trig, NG Gnome druid Isn't being a gnome druid enough? Believes imprisoning animals is slavery. This didn't fly even in Andoran. Caught freeing a baby mammoth, aka stealing it. Irakli/Maddela, LE Half-elf fighter from Varisia
Gendo/Reika, LG Tian monk from Absalom
Kaleb/Bellis, CG Halfling ranger from Andoran
Variel/Opara, CG Elf rogue from the River Kingdoms
Igmar/Torra, N Dwarf sorcerer (earth bloodline) from the Mindspin Mountains
Pavo/Pavanna CN Chelaxian illusionist from Cheliax
Some of thats a tad gonzo and none too well interlinked, but maybe it'll get a few juices flowing. Good luck!
Twilight of the Idols, F. Nietzsche
The 9 hour game of Call of Cthulhu with Lou Agresta, Eric and Greg. NOEL!! My man, you rocked. Thanks again for the Scotch. We were hours into the game at that point, and I was a bit fried. One of my regrets this con was not having a chance to run for you. You were a great time travel cop. Maybe next con? Or maybe sooner if I'm down in NY with Stavrapolous, Nick and company. - Lou
The Lady of PainSeeing the group of people dressed up as characters was Blazing Saddles was damn awesome, but not to be outdone, seeing Avianna dressed up as the Lady of Pain was great too.Pics for us poor deployed soldiers or it didn't happen! XD Avianna, you rock! Next year for the win! Eric and Greg: we should have just let the two of them argue until they shot each other, then you could have solved the mystery on your own. By the way, the "King" says hi!
It's certainly not the same, but for anyone interested I'm blogging the con over here. Thought some of you might enjoy. Thanks much! That's cool. I'm starting to feel glad I passed on a t-shirt I saw at the con. It read, "More People Have Read This T-Shirt Than Your Blog" If you find you like it and are on facebook, consider fanning the RPGAggression page, maybe? All the blog posts show up in the page's notes, and I use it less for reviews and more like a design blog. More on Gencon to come in the next few days. Hoping to get some pictures up there too! Thanks again and glad you enjoyed.
It's certainly not the same, but for anyone interested I'm blogging the con over here. Thought some of you might enjoy. And for those of you who prefer Facebook, all the blog posts appear in the notes of the RPGAggression facebook page. Later!
It's certainly not the same, but for anyone interested I'm blogging the con over here. Thought some of you might enjoy.
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