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Haven't seen the movie yet. Hopefully will this weekend. Though with the previews, this portrayal seems more like the comics Joker than anything we've seen in movies or TV so far. I've always seen him as a much more dangerous than people were willing to show on screen.

Proof (?) of Ninja stealth powers.

Ladyhawke

The Karate Kid

Princess Bride

Current group... Expedition to Castle Ravenloft...

The party is moving toward the church to stop the inevitable zombie apocalypse. The DM tells us we hear hoarse chanting. In response, I made horse noises. Which got the group giggling every time chanting was mentioned.

The DM got me back. We found the priest's diary. When we went to read it...he made horse noises.

Out of curiousity, what are your views of roleplaying that you feel are so different from this 'younger' generation?

Looking over the early posts in the thread, I see a few common views:
1) Giving interesting options to characters, both in character creation and in encounters (both combat and non-combat.)

They had that. It was called skills, feats, and background.

2) Having monsters that are easy to run, but with unique and interesting abilities and flavor.

Umm... i don't know about any of you, but I don't hold conversations with the goblins before I kill them. Why do they need interesting abilities, flavor, and to be unique. Has anyone stopped to ask their motivations before they're ambushed by the little buggers?

3) Simplified mechanics, allowing for more emphasis on story and character.

We had that. It's called White Wolf WoD

And I hate to say it but some of those scanner copies are better than official ones.

I like that idea...Fred...

And in the spirit of the idea, I will now refer to you all as 'Bob'. Hi Bobs!

I do have to agree with Bob, though. 4e is like McDonald's Spaghetti. It has the Logo and the Golden Arches, but you reach in the bag, and it just doesn't feel the same.

Try it.

Pookachan wrote:

Tales from the Floating Vegabond! Ok, that's my obscure game. I'm out.

C'mon, surely noone can go past Advancved Fighting Fantasy!! ;)

hey I'm a big fan of any game where you can, with a straight face, introduce your character as Ms. Tinkles Fluffybottom. :p

Days of future past. Though that was an alternate future not history.

Ow! It just bit me! Bad bug!

Seeing if this makes the bug spit my post out.

Bad bug.

We've got threads on books you're reading and suggestions for books, but my question is...

What book disappointed you the most?

For me it was Stephen King and Peter Straub's Black House.

I loved the other book they wrote together, The Talisman. And consider that one of my favorite books of all time. And after seeing reviews, I was expecting a lot from this book. And the first part of the book delivered. It was suspenseful, terrifying, and very much a page turner. My issues came about at the end...

How many of our gaming characters have tattoos? (Not magical ones. Not psionic ones. Just permanent ink tattoos.)

I've had a few with tats over the years. One of my Star Wars characters is heavily tattooed. And one character is pierced.

Tales from the Floating Vegabond! Ok, that's my obscure game. I'm out.

[snip]

and/or experimented with (and by "experimenting" I don't mean in the drug use sense)

You mean you didn't have the red box bong?

I have 4. A crescent moon with a face on my ankle (for when I moved out on my own), an anhk on my arm (for when I stopped drugs), one of those red circle x-men symbols (long story... don't regret it though. it's my geek mark), and two leo symbols intertwined (one roses and vines one tribal...female with a male star sign...duality kinda thing)

They all mean something to me. I have plans to get more. Including one that is a strength (tarot) card a friend drew for a job (but with input to make it personal for me)

Oh, I realize there may have been sarcasm. I also realize that I may have come across as "talking down" to people. I just want to have a frank discussion and, realistically, almost none of you have played for as long as I have, or owned/purchased as many systems as I have. I am stating a fact. most of you don't have the experience I have. That in no way diminishes your qualities as gamers. I love the excitement of this board. I just want people to get beyond pettyness and bickering. I want to talk about what I have loved for so many years.

I don't want to offend anyone, and I don't think I am better than anyone else.

I'm here to talk about gaming. Use me for my experience and breadth of knowledge.

The issue is you don't know us. You don't know how much experience any of us has or how many systems we've owned/played. So yes, you are talking down to us and saying you're better than us.

I'd wager that many more of us have the same experience you do and the same 'breadth of knowledge' than you think there are. Personally, with that fact, I'd rather use the knowledge and experience of people who are not being insulting and uppity, than one who is.

The Right to Privacy by Caroline Kennedy and Ellen Alderman

Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

it's a historical novel, but one that's more scary because it really happened.

2. The Horrific PR Campaign.

If it was so bad why didn't they sell absolutly zip product? Comparing this to new coke is wrong because new coke tanked more or less immediately from what i know.

Comparing this to other rpg advertising is also a bit of a misnomer, I have never seen a Rpg add for anything but wizzies on the tv, and for the most part never before on the youtube ( I can think of maybe one exception). Advertising is a tricky business, but as I can understand wanting to cut ties with the old edition, and myself genuinely having problems with the old edition, and watching rabid fan boys post genuinely unhelpful, flameful and generally badmannered crap on wizzies board I don't blame them for banning them either.

You obviously don't understand marketing at all. Just because something is offensive to one person, doesn't mean it is to all. Bad PR won't IMMEDIATELY put a company under, they'll still make sales.

And new coke is still sold in parts of the country, or was for years after it's debut. My aunt prefers it to old coke. But I digress.

(following example is HIGHLY offensive. It is meant as an example and not to offend anyone in particular.)

Let's say a popular fast food chain puts out a new commercial. In this commercial, they use swearing, vulgar hand motions, and one african-american is called a particularly insulting racial slur.

Now, just because the ad has been released, doesn't mean everyone has seen it. Or that everyone's offended. The fast food chain will not IMMEDIATELY stop getting sales. The backlash will take time.

In the case of WotC, it's not that they've sold games. It's how many? It's about how many would have bought the game and didn't because of PR? I know a lot of people who were excited about it. Hell, I was willing to see before that grapple video. So it had nothing to do with staying with 3.x or going to 4e. That was the end of the line for 4e, no matter what it had in it.

I cannot believe they do not have Dire WarGeese as mounts for halflings! I demand a furious, honking, waddling, flapping goose to take into battle or I quit!

Honestly, I'm glad everyone wasn't insulted by the ad. However, for the ones that were, sometimes that's all it takes.

Would you be likely to buy a hair product that's commercial blatantly told you that not only could you not read the directions of other products, but that you could not even find the directions? Most people wouldn't I would think.

The same is true for the ad. Sure the fake bad french accent was humorous. But the constant insinuation that the people who played previous editions couldn't find their ass from a hole in the ground (and I have many ranks in Distinguish Ass from Hole in Ground) was horribly insulting to the people who had put their hard earned money into a company for years, some decades.

Now if we are going to play at trying to guess what the root reason why some fans are unhappy and some are not I'll throw in my two cents on that topic. [snip]

Did the marketing really offend you? If so then I suspect that there is a good chance thats because you were not planning on giving up 3.x. They were insulting you mainly because you were not moving on. Saying '4E will play so much better then 3.5 it'll blow your booties off' sounds fine if your heading for 4E and sounds insulting if your planning on sticking with 3.5. It does not really offend most pro 4E posters, even the ones that played and loved 3.x in their time.

I think that you missed the first part of their marketing. Posters, saying it's a better addition. That's like Kraft saying their mac and cheese is now cheesier. It's advertising. Word of mouth, maybe but advertising.

But the first marketing they had was a promo video in which they insinuated that people who played the previous editions were so stupid they could not read or follow the rules that are pretty simple in the books. Having played AD&D and 3.x, I know I can find the rule in books that I have used for years. And for that matter can find the index and table of contents. Something the video makes perfectly clear they DO NOT think we can do.

So yes, I'm offended. Please don't call me stupid then expect me to shell out my hard earned money to you. No, thank you.

(Disclaimer: anger directed toward WoTC for their bad marketing decisions. NOT at other posters. Enjoy your game.)

[sing-song schoolyard tone]Somebody's sleeping on the couch!

My main concern here is that I have one session with them essentially - if they make their own characters then thats a big chunk of the session with them right there.

Any chance to use email. have them create their characters and any questions can go through the internet? then you can approve them as you go along.

Let them create their own characters. If you can do it as a group activity, great. If you need a point buy calculator Try this one provided 4e uses the same table as 3.5. I've found it highly useful and you can give them each a couple minutes to try it out.

From experience, when I first started I didn't even have a book. The DM made my character. What resulted was a serious snafu in confusion because I didn't know my character had rope. (In my defense, it was listed as a standard starting kit. Without a book, no clue what that included!)

But if you let them make their own characters (My 8 yr old just helped create his first character recently), they know their characters abilities much better than a pregen one.

Welcome Ms. Cunningham. I haven't read any of your books yet, but they're in my bookself waiting their turn. Unfortunately I'm years behind and yard sales and Goodwill books haven't helped me catch up.

Back to the topic. WoTC boards tended to be very flammable. I was nearly banned from the Community boards. Apparently an all female relationship that was far more chaste than any of the male/female ones was far too offensive to be allowed.

I guess a bookshelf.

(I don't plan on buying it. But nobody said bookshelf.)

I haven't read comics since the late 90's at that point it got so ridiculous I couldn't do it anymore. I'm sticking to my theory that everyone's a skrull. Everyone... even the writers.

The secret is in the crop circles. They raid farms and produce a superior form of ethanol from the crops they steal. The geometric shapes are just to screw with our minds -

"Hey Glarb-netz, they'll never figure this one out."

Actually it's methane. Hence the cows and the anal probes. They're mining.

Magical candy! And Rainbows! And a unicorn in a giant hamster wheel ridden by a leprechaun!

Ok. Just saw this movie today.

First things first....if you have any photosensitivty or get virtigo, wait for video. There were times in the movie where I just couldn't follow what was happening right then because of it.

I have to agree that the character development was sorely lacking. No real explanation of the backstory. Or who or what they were. Very much more action movie than a movie with a cohesive plot.

http://plothook.net/RPG/profiler/view.php?id=34

Sorry so late. I'm here though

Hate: Drizzt.... Salvatore should be beaten with his own books. :P

Does anyone know who is doing the art for the books?

elnopintan wrote:

If you buy some kind of product you are supporting the whole company.

I don't feel that way.

For example, I've stoped ordering meat from fast food places because they deal with massive meat-factories that I feel treat their animals inhumanely. But that doesn't stop me from ordering a fry every now and then.

They never hurt the potato.

French Fries are potato murder! That's why you put ketchup on them... it's like fake blood on furs.

While it might not be the most viable reason to completely abandon Pathfinder, perhaps Paizo could investigate possibility of printing their products in a more .... democratic location ? Eastern Europe maybe ?

Or Switzerland! You can have the books made of chocolate!

Reappears in a puff of Vancian magic

Dopple was not a troll, that was just me getting angry and posting badly. Goes to show why you should never get sucked in to these bad karma fests.

disappears once again

Yes I know... I just couldn't help thinking of that story.

And yet another troll comes lurking out of the nearby bridge ...

I thought the story was one troll and three billy goats...???

flash_cxxi wrote:

I can think of worse things to be a "holic" of.

Demetri Martin wrote:

I've heard of many chocoholics, but I ain't never seen no "chocohol". We got an epidemic, people: people who like chocolate but don't understand the rules for word endings. They're probably "over-workaholed".

Mmmm godiva martinis (chocohol :p )

Pookachan wrote:

That a company would tell me that they think I'm too stupid to find the index of their book, a book that I've owned for 5 years... obviously they don't want my business.

Yeah, I warned them that they were going to piss you off, but they said they did not care about you.

Strange, somehow I knew it was personal. :p

My breaking point was easy. Remember that video promo they put out last year? This one?

That was it. That a company would tell me that they think I'm too stupid to find the index of their book, a book that I've owned for 5 years... obviously they don't want my business.

Yay!

Of course the new Better Joy Cookbook will have corrections within a week.

I talked myself into it... Air Genasi Fighter going into dervish eventually.