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The Gorilla King Wants You to Game!

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

I've been a gamer for most of my life, starting with 1st Edition when I was a wee lad. A couple of years later I distinctly remember walking into a Save-On (now CVS) Drug to buy the original Red Box edition. After that I gamed throughout junior high and high school, (Go Gondos!), and even when I was in Argentina for a couple of years and didn't have the opportunity to game, I thought about gaming a lot, and when I got back and went to college, the gaming continued. Since then I've continued to game, including after I got married and even after the arrival of the various members of the Savage Horde. (Hi kids!) I'm currently playing in Sean K Reynolds's high-level drow game, playing Daeanu Azrinae, a 15th-level drow noble rogue (swashbuckler) who's working for the Matron in an attempt to keep the other PCs focused on who attacked us; I'm co-GMing Kingmaker with Lisa and her group at Chateau Stevens-Wertz; I'm gearing up to run a Gamma World game during lunch using the new version just released by WotC; I've just made a character for a 4e game being run by some new friends here in Redmond; and I'm in the planning stages for a Pathfinder game tentatively titled The Dregs, where the PCs will be made up of adventuring group outcasts created by rolling 3d6 for stats, straight down the row, old school style. In fact, just about everyone in the office plays in a ton of games somewhere, with Rob McCreary and James Jacobs the current leaders, with somewhere around 20 hours a week each spent gaming.

Why am I telling you all of this? It's because I'm a firm believer in the importance of actually playing games, and I'm hoping to have this The Gorilla King Wants You to Game! blog idea become a semi-regular feature were I talk about the various games going on here at Paizo. After a decade in the industry, it's become clear that too many game designers and industry folks don't play games anymore, of any kind. But that's not how we roll here at Paizo. We're all HUGE gaming geeks and we love all kinds of games, from boardgames to TCGs, to video and standard card games. There's even talk of setting up some Warhammer 40k battles once the craziness of the holiday season settles down. It's refreshing to work for a company where we not only make games, we play them too. (I also think that playing games helps you make awesome games, but that's for a blog on another day.)

So this holiday season try to get some gaming in, of any kind. Don't have a local group? Head down to your local store and play in a Pathfinder Society scenario or two. Don't have a local store nearby? Try Infrno, d20 Pro, Skype, or some other virtual tabletop. Technology today makes it easier than ever to find a way to game. If all else fails, I bet your Aunt Martha knows how to play Monopoly. Although I bet she might like Settlers of Catan better.

And while you think about ways to get your gaming grove on, check out this very cool piece from the upcoming Inner Sea World Guide hardcover, due for release in February.

Illustration by Mauricio Herrera

Hyrum Savage
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So the Gorilla Grodd .. er, King articles are blogs giving the run down by games by the Paizo staff ?

I thought we already got that from time to time : )

But hey the new art's great Hyrum.

The Gorilla King looks like The Flash just spoiled one of his plans for world domination.
baron arem heshvaun wrote:

So the Gorilla Grodd .. er, King articles are blogs giving the run down by games by the Paizo staff ?

I thought we already got that from time to time : )

But hey the new art's great Hyrum.

The Gorilla King looks like The Flash just spoiled one of his plans for world domination.

Actually that will be the PCs once the adventure ends.

Hey, if the Gorilla King wants to come over and run something Saturday night, I'm all for it. I could use a break!

-The Gneech
The Exchange

My Thursday group is a holdover from college, with players living in Lansing, Kalamazoo, Livonia, and Canton Michigan, with the DM in Virginia. All made possible by the folks at rptools.net and Skype, our Legacy of Fire game lives on!

Ryn, who loves the interwebs
Dark Archive

Yes, gaming is really really useful for any DM or player. I can't even imagine how much useful is for real game designers.

Inspiration, good ideas, new concepts, pitfalls, bad ideas (yes, them too), they all seem to pop out of nowhere at the gaming table, even when playing the same old adventure for the tenth time over.

Playing a slew of different games (in rules or campaigns) be they RPGs or boardgames is even more useful.

Go Paizo!
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baron arem heshvaun wrote:

So the Gorilla Grodd .. er, King articles are blogs giving the run down by games by the Paizo staff ?

I thought we already got that from time to time : )

But hey the new art's great Hyrum.

The Gorilla King looks like The Flash just spoiled one of his plans for world domination.

Suffering succotash ... you beat me to the clever Grodd reference!

I, for one, welcome our new ape overlord.
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Rynthief wrote:

My Thursday group is a holdover from college, with players living in Lansing, Kalamazoo, Livonia, and Canton Michigan, with the DM in Virginia. All made possible by the folks at rptools.net and Skype, our Legacy of Fire game lives on!

Ryn, who loves the interwebs

Psst, tell your players in Livonia & Canton to come to RIW Hobbies and play Pathfinder Society with us Sunday, December 19 @ 10AM.

John Robey wrote:

Hey, if the Gorilla King wants to come over and run something Saturday night, I'm all for it. I could use a break!

-The Gneech

Only if you ask nicely. :)

Hyrum.
Hyrum Savage wrote:
John Robey wrote:

Hey, if the Gorilla King wants to come over and run something Saturday night, I'm all for it. I could use a break!

-The Gneech

Only if you ask nicely. :)

Hyrum.

Well look, he's the one who wants ME to game. The headline says so! Gorilla King or no Gorilla King, I don't see why a little compromise isn't in order here.

Although I bet he totally puts a Mary Sue NPC into the game.

-The Gneech

I dunno ... I get more of a Solovar vibe from his looks ... ;)

Awesome pic :)
Scarab Sages

I know I have been wanting to play new RPGs but there is usually no one to run a new game available. So this last local con I ran a CthulhuTech game. Much fun was had by all. This next local con I am co-GMing a Wild Talents game and co-GMing a Dresden Files game (in a Tribe 8 world). Looking forward to more fun for all.

Hyrum,
Keep letting us know what else is out there so people know they have options. (If you're ever around Palm Springs look me up and we can play some games that still need to be punched out of their cardboard.) :]
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