My grievance does not change... a week later my hurt foot and ankle are still swollen and painful, and in this weather, wearing my splint/cast is monstrously uncomfortable.
Stewart Wieck died...
Oh, that's a good motive to grieve.
I had read it on another post before but I didn't know it was so recent...
I love Mage: the Ascension. It's one of my favorite games ever.
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Never thought of it like that. I just like the concept. The drow like creatures I have played were actually pale as dead as they lived underground.See, the pale skin makes sense. I wonder why the original drow creators didn't go with that...?
Also, as an aside, Tolkien's "dark elves" were so known not because of the color of their skin, but because they had never directly seen the light of the Two Trees of Valinor. Which is an entirely different theological matter...
I know I'm coming late to the party but the Drow in D&D aren't based on the dark elves of Tolkien's writings. They're based on Norse legends. And in the Prose Edda, Snorri Sturluson wrote about the black elves: "[...] the dark elves however live down below the ground. [...] while the dark elves are blacker than pitch. (citation - Wikipedia's Drow entry).
And Gygax was looking for a powerful, underground race to serve as antagonists, so there you are. I think there are a lot of people who also think their matriarchal society has something to do with his divorce at the time...
Stewart Wieck died...
Yeah, bummer, especially for those of us who are waiting for the completion of KS projects he sponsored... I hear his brother will continue his work, but am waiting for more official notice.
Last night's session...
Age, failing eyesight and people forgetting their reading glasses meant three players sharing a pair of specs...Like the ancient gorgons sharing their single eye. Asking others sitting on the otherside of the table to read out numbers, holding PC sheets up to their nose to read what their saves are... *sigh*
Not only that the ghost BBEG roll a Nat 1...twice in a row.
And got pounded.
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Actually, it wasn't the gorgons, it as the Graeae, the gorgons were the ugly mugs with the snake hair...
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Last night's session...
Age, failing eyesight and people forgetting their reading glasses meant three players sharing a pair of specs...Like the ancient gorgons sharing their single eye. Asking others sitting on the otherside of the table to read out numbers, holding PC sheets up to their nose to read what their saves are... *sigh*
Not only that the ghost BBEG roll a Nat 1...twice in a row.
And got pounded.
I find it humorous to watch two or three of my players take off their glasses to read things up close. We've been at these games a long time and we're all aging. I often wonder how much longer we'll continue.
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I'm 50 and I'm not giving up yet... I hope we go on playing 15 years and more when my friends are retired and we can meet in the weektime.
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When my grandparents needed specialized care and we had to take them to an elderly people residence I always saw the old men and women playing cards and I thought how cool would it be to have all those retired people RPing instead of playing cards.
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I'm the oldest consistent player in our group. We used to have one player who was older than me but he dropped out several years ago. There's an intermittent player who's slightly older than I am. The group has been playing together for over 20 years. I've watched some of the other players get married, get divorced, get married again. I got married myself. We all have more gray hair (or less hair) than we did when I first met them. People have changed jobs and homes. One player might be moving to another state and playing by Skype. But I hope we can all keep playing until we lose all intellectual capacity. I'd happily keep playing in an assisted living center.
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...whut? How many? I DRAW MY SWORD AND CHARGE THE NEAREST ORC!!! I...
*falls asleep and snores on*
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When my grandparents needed specialized care and we had to take them to an elderly people residence I always saw the old men and women playing cards and I thought how cool would it be to have all those retired people RPing instead of playing cards.
That immediately reminded me of this story. ^_^
(YouTube version for the Facebook-phobic.)
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Awesome!
I used to play RPGs in social houses where most people were elderly people who reunited there to play cards, they also organized dancing sessions for them.
The Magic:the Gathering group and my RPG club were the only young people there.
We usually had a private room for us, but when we didn't we went to common rooms and too often elderly people would approach us with curiosity. Most times they seemed to be more scared of us, but some of them would be interesred and ask us questions.
Then there were the old ladies who tried to flirt with my male fellow players... xD
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I'm 50 and I'm not giving up yet... I hope we go on playing 15 years and more when my friends are retired and we can meet in the weektime.
I am 64 and still playing.
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I'm 53, yet I foresee members of my group dropping out in the coming years while I hope to continue playing as long as I can.
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I imagine in the future we'll all be using necromancy to get our players back. Necromancy, and a lot of air fresheners.
I'm going to read again Clark Ashton Smith's story The Empire of the Necromancers
I'm going to read again Clark Ashton Smith's story The Empire of the Necromancers
It's good. At least I think so.
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I feel your pain. I started out DMing 1e then 2e, 3e, 3.5e, and now Pathfinder. I've been the primary GM for all these iterations of D&D for over 30 years. One friend of mine would start a game where I could be a player, run 3 or 4 sessions then quit. He does this all the time. I'd love to be a PF player. I tried PbP and suh-huh-hucked at it, and I don't really have any interest in PFS. So I just keep trucking along, being the chief clown in the car.
I get to be a player in a very occasional Call of Cthulhu d20 game and when that's finished we're going to play DC Heroes again (which we played throughout the 90s and ended in 2000). I'm very excited by that. I had many good times being a player in that campaign.
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I feel your pain. I started out DMing 1e then 2e, 3e, 3.5e, and now Pathfinder. I've been the primary GM for all these iterations of D&D for over 30 years. One friend of mine would start a game where I could be a player, run 3 or 4 sessions then quit. He does this all the time. I'd love to be a PF player. I tried PbP and suh-huh-hucked at it, and I don't really have any interest in PFS. So I just keep trucking along, being the chief clown in the car.
I get to be a player in a very occasional Call of Cthulhu d20 game and when that's finished we're going to play DC Heroes again (which we played throughout the 90s and ended in 2000). I'm very excited by that. I had many good times being a player in that campaign.
While only at 15 years of the same I still feel your pain, hell I would give PFS a shot if it were doable but down here that would mean me running PFS lol!
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My grievance today:
A cleric can take the Sacred Summons feat and reduce the casting time of summon monster to 1 standard action instead of 1 round. But that feat is only available to classes that have the aura feature, so a wizard can't take it. To reduce the casting time of the spell for a wizard, it seems the only option is Quickened Spell. But I hate those metamagic feats that make you use higher-level spell slots. That's too much bookkeeping for my preference.
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Only one of my player's characters died in last night's game versus nine liches. A few of the others came within single digits, but they managed to escape before the final blows were struck. They had all purchased 5,000 gp diamonds for Raise Dead spells as a precaution, but I was really hoping for more than one death. Ah well, it was the closest they've been to the edges of their mortality in a very long time, and there was some knuckle biting going on and everyone had a good time.
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I remember the time I tried running the old Lich Lords module back in AD&D days, the munchkins I faced killed an ancient red dragon in two rounds and the liches ended up coopting them as minions rather than killing them...
I'm feeling the urge to buy another Adventure Path, but since my birthday is in a month and I put the AP's I am most interested in on it, I can't buy any of them for fear that someone might be buying it for me. Guess I'll have to wait a while to see if it would have been okay to buy them anyway.
Semi-related: Awhile ago my grandparents sent me some money as a present and I want to use it. The problem is that my grandparents never got over the whole "Tabletop Games are EVIIIIIIIL!!!!" thing from the 80's so I'd feel kind of bad using it for something they wouldn't approve of, but on the other hand, Qadira, Jewel of the East is clearly begging for me to buy it, so I am at moral quandary.
The Glacial pace at which GRRM writes.......also Rothfuss.
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Black Leaf! NOOOO!!!!!!
Miss you, Mom.
Black Leaf! NOOOO!!!!!!
:) !!!
My grouch of the day is that a friend of mine is trying to start a Dr Who campaign, and I couldn't be less interested in any game... except for star trek, star wars, and his concept of a Supers the mascarade campaign for M&M3.
Mount it from the ceiling?
My grievance today is that work is frustrating. Not the actual job, just some aspects it. Babysitting is not what I was hired to do.
Black Leaf! NOOOO!!!!!!:) !!!
My grouch of the day is that a friend of mine is trying to start a Dr Who campaign, and I couldn't be less interested in any game... except for star trek, star wars, and his concept of a Supers the mascarade campaign for M&M3.
One of my players has tried to start a Dr. Who campaign for decades, despite the fact that he is the ONLY one in our group who watches it. He's the undisputed king of Whovian knowledge, having every known episode on either VHS or DVD going back to the very beginning of the series. He often ignores important emails about gaming in our PF group because he spends so much time on the Dr. Who messageboards.
Semi-related: Awhile ago my grandparents sent me some money as a present and I want to use it. The problem is that my grandparents never got over the whole "Tabletop Games are EVIIIIIIIL!!!!" thing from the 80's so I'd feel kind of bad using it for something they wouldn't approve of, but on the other hand, Qadira, Jewel of the East is clearly begging for me to buy it, so I am at moral quandary.
Do eeet. Doooo eeeeet.
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Why is it so hard to find a doctor?
I moved to a new home two years ago, and haven't been to a doctor in that time. I know, I know, I should be having annual checkups. But it would be an hour+ drive to go back to my old doctor (who I'd only seen a couple of times and wasn't that attached to), because I'd usually be going before or after work during rush hour, and it's in the opposite direction of my office from my home.
So now I have a minor health issue, not major enough to go to an emergency room or anything, but I'd like to get it checked out in the next couple of weeks. But I can't find a primary care doctor close to home who's taking new patients and has appointments available in the next month. One receptionist even gave me attitude on the phone.
I thought it would be a simple matter of going to my insurance's web site, searching through a list of doctors in my area on their plan, and making a phone call to one of them. Apparently, it's far more complicated than that, so it's not something I can do on my lunch break. I think I'll have to call my insurance's help line and hope they can do something after hours, because I can't spend any more time at work on this today.
That's terrible. Do you live in a small town? I live in fairly large town for Arkansas (about 65k population) and it's not that hard to find a doctor. I hope you find one soon!
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The opposite, actually. I'm in a decent sized suburb of a very large city. There are a ton of doctors around. It's just a matter of finding one that takes my insurance and isn't booked up through the next decade. Preferably with office hours outside of 9-5, to accommodate someone like me who works 9-5 every week day. But even that's negotiable - I can get away with coming into work late or leaving early if I tell my boss I have an appointment.
In my area there are "after hours" that you can walk in for and see the on staff doc. If you have a minor ailment maybe you can try looking for an office like this? If its something that may need several visits with the same doc then it probably wont help.
Hi, Jiggy! Glad to know you're still among the almost living (working OT will slowly kill ya!)
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I just feel like I'm incapable of running a good, hard, and challenging game anymore. I'm not the same DM/GM I was 10 years ago and for various reasons I don't process information well anymore. I've had other players here on the boards help me out with wonderful advice and even create NPCs for me to challenge the PCs and they just stroll right through everything because I'm unable to think ahead and anticipate their actions and plan the actions of their foes like I once did. This particular campaign is in the 16-18 level range and Mythic, but that shouldn't be a problem, though it is. It's been going on about 3 years and I know I'm getting burned out on it, for one thing.
But I'm planning the next campaign already (which won't start until this fall or winter) and I'm so excited about it I can barely stand it. It'll start at 1st level and the lower to middle levels are by far my favorites. So maybe that'll recharge my batteries and allow me to get back to my old self somewhat.
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Kinda feel bait and switched. Finally got in a group to play semi-regualarly, GM asked that no-one pick the same class to start out with, still no issues. I talk to the gm about a specific prestige class I want to do and that I will probably pick cleric if that druid isn't what he is looking for. He says that should be fine. Last session we all got class related artifacts that will level up with us, but they only gain abilities off of the base class we had at level 1.
Dang. That sucks.
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I hate it when a tabletop RPG company site makes me have to download a free resource by "buying" it for $0.00 on their store.
Pressed for time, I went to download a character sheet for The Strange RPG from Monte Cook Games. After having to click through three pages to get to player resources, the link to the character sheets redirected me to a page on the site's storefront. Then, I had to add the freebie character sheet to my cart and proceed to checkout. There, the site demanded I provide billing information with my name, address, email, and home phone number. I then gave up because -- seriously -- my address and phone number for a character sheet?
seriously -- my address and phone number for a character sheet?You look at it as a simple character sheet, they look at you as a potential customer.
I'm already a customer. I bought the core rulebook! It's why I want the character sheet! And it took several links to get to the store page.
Dang. That sucks.
Got resolved at our session last night. He went ahead and did a full reveal of the item powers. Not going to be a huge hit if I skip on druid levels. However our cleric is no longer among us so might be full druid since we need heals now.