Well, my friend Micheal used to play in our group in High School, and he was African American. While I still talk to him once in a while, to the best of my knowlage he doesn't play anymore. As far as the rest of the recent thought goes though, two members of our gaming group were on the football team, and one was on the basketball team. I guess that makes me the geek, since I was in FBLA.
Half the gamers I played with in high school and college were hispanic. We have an Asian in our group of gamers, but he's in his senior year of Engineering and hasn't played with us since September. My wife is 1/4 Cherokee, but otherwise we're caucasoids.
My 3 year old is hearing impaired (among other health problems as well) and can sign "monster" "dragon" and "dice" in ASL. He got bone conductive hearing aids last year and is talking a lot more, so I don't know if we'll ever run an ASL game, but I've caught my wife finger-spelling secret messages to my sister-in-law at the gaming table.
No one in my gaming group is an arche-typical geek:
My wife (Silver on these boards) was a water polo star who disarmed an attacker armed with a rifle with her bare hands and has also cold-cocked two people in bar fights.
Two of my gaming friends have killed people in combat.
Two of our gaming group are police officers who have survived numerous street fights and a couple of gunfights. One of these had to have his face reconstructed after he beat three attackers single-handedly and got hit in the face with brass knuckles. All three of his attackers went to the hospital and the one with brass knuckles was permanently blinded when his eyes were gouged out this person (Ray'kal on these boards)
One played college basketball (My Sister-In-Law, Go Lady Miners!)
Two were high school wrestlers.
One served in the IDF in Lebanon before returning to the U.S.
See this is exactly what I was talking about. I call myself a geek proudly. But if someone pushes my limited edition PHB in the mud I'm going to try my hardest to make their face as ruined as my book.
F2K something tells me that this post is only a fraction of many amazing stories from an amazing group of people. I hope I end up meeting folks this exciting. And yes to my group who reads these boards this is a challenge. You may not have known it but we ARE in competition here and F2K's group is kicking our a**. Go out and do something impressive!
All kidding aside though these sound like some rather tough ordeals. I'm sorry your friends and family had to go through all of that but I'm glad to see they came out of it alive.
In the world of D&D there are people of all shapes, sizes, and level of violence. I just want the public to have a fair view of D&D.
In the next action movie I wan't the evil bad guy that has somehow, against all the celebrated laws of physics, escaped three exploding islands from the prequels to have his final showdown with Vin Deisel.
Vin pulls of a blinding fast Pi-Gua combo and pops a grenade into the baddies shorts. And right before he spin kicks the soon to explode stooge out a window he says his badass man line.........improved evasion THAT mother****er.
Thanks for calling us "amazing" Sexigolem, but we just happen to have come around the block a few times in our lifetimes. Some of us have checkered pasts and some of us just served our countries and communities and happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and managed to walk away. None of the two guys who have killed people talk about it. Every time I had to fight for my life I puked afterwards....adrenaline overload....(hey, is that a feat--spontaneous puker--after prematurely ending a barbarian rage, make a Fort save or spew chunks?) So, yeah, we're not the outside world's definition of typical gamer geeks, but Lord knows we ain't no heroes. I'm riding a desk now, by choice--got 3 years to go until I can retire....then, I'll go be an analyst or research assistant or some low-level flunkey somewhere.
... He got bone conductive hearing aids last year...That is some facinating technology! Is he bilateral or unilateral (if you don't mind me asking)?
I'm not sure, it's a headband that we put on. One side picks up the sound and then the small part that has to touch bone vibrates on the other side of his head. It amplifies sound through his whole head by turning his whole skull into an eardrum. It's not permanently attached, we put it on him in the morning. He usually only likes to wear it a few hours a day, as his hearing loss is only about 30db due to a congenital craniofacial deformity.
I would have to ask his audiologist about the bilateral or unilateral question. The hearing aid was about $1200. I understand the technology is not that new--it's been around for quite some time. It's mostly for people for whom cochlear implants are not an option--that's what my son's audiologist told me.
The digital ones are about $3000--we got the analog ones because our insurance plan doesn't cover hearing aids and my son "Mr. Destructo" habits have already sent the hearing aid back for repairs twice.
I guess that's the ranting part so I don't stray off topic--how come insurance plans can just say they don't cover hearing aids for babies with birth defects? It's not like he lost his hearing from going to too many Judas Priest concerts like his dad!
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James, there was a Minorities and D&D thread a while back, here is the address (sorry, no l33t html skilz):
http://paizo.com/paizo/messageboards/general/offTopicDiscussions/minorities AndDD&page=1#30935
F2K: Just wondering, I know someone in our department who has a BAHA like the kind shown here... http://www.umm.edu/otolaryngology/baha.html and I there is another girl with the cochlear implants. So we've had some interesting discussions about the techs, the merrits and drawbacks of ASL, and other hearing related topics.
Gavgoyle,
Thanks for the link...e-mail me at farewell2kings (at) gmail (dot) com please.
....adrenaline overload....(hey, is that a feat--spontaneous puker--after prematurely ending a barbarian rage, make a Fort save or spew chunks?)
I imagine the adrenaline overload effects are reflected in the post-rage effects for the barbarian, though it might be interesting to add a Fortitude penalty...hmm...
Reading through everyone's stories reminds me that no matter what walk of life we have come from or what our experiences have taught us is that we all can come together on the neutral field that is The Game, and that we all have unique experiences that all contribute to making any game special and different from anything else in our lives.
So here's a question: while I've met a few counterexamples, the vast majority of gamers that I've encountered have been caucasian (not surprising, since I grew up a white-bread kiddie in the middle of a blindingly white suburbia). So what I want to know even more than who's a gamer badass is: who identifies with a different ethnicity?
I'm caucasian, but I have played with one or two African Americans. All of them seem to have come over from CCGs or video games to RPGs. I have known a lot of hispanics (I live in an area of California that is 50% hispanic) to play. I also regularly play with two native americans.
I think that there may be some cultural effects that encourage some people of various ethnicites towards certain hobbies; I'm not foolhardy enough to try to make any generalizations though. However, I would also argue that our culture(Americans) in general encourages us towards "stereotypical" hobbies as much as it does everything.
No one in my gaming group is an arche-typical geek:
*goes on to prove it*
You want to hear of a badass? One guy in my gaming group works with cell phones, and has three kids. Thats a tough bastard right there.
I hate people who hate rant threads.
Ultradan
I hate ultradan :(
*laughs and buys ultradan an ale
Yur my besht 'hic!' frwend!
Ultradan
I HATINGLY HATE THE HATING HATERS THAT HATE HATING HATRED............. I think..........
Screw it I'll have what Ultradans having
I HATE when a thread gets over 162 posts long! I'll freaking combust! It is soo stupid! what on earth could complete strangers be talking about that friggin much?
Has anybody ranted yet about how it can be so damn hard for four grown men to get together once a month to play game? Jeesh! Our group plays like four or five times a year. It sucks.
I HATE when a thread gets over 162 posts long! I'll freaking combust! It is soo stupid! what on earth could complete strangers be talking about that friggin much?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Nobody loves me,
Everybody hates me,
I might as well eat worms.
I hate hate.
But I love love.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
He isn't kidding he really did just combust I saw it.
*Grab his ale while he is being loaded into the ambulance*
You want to hear of a badass? One guy in my gaming group works with cell phones, and has three kids. Thats a tough bastard right there.No one in my gaming group is an arche-typical geek:
*goes on to prove it*
He'd be a real badass if he brought his kids over while he gamed. During our bi-weekly games we have two three year olds, a 1 1/2 year old, a 13 year old, a 15 year old, two 11 year olds, a 9 year old and a 14 year old....and we have only one videogame system in the whole house, HAAAAHHAAAAHHAAAHHAA!!
(Gaming with kids around was one of the hardest adjustments I had to make--now I hardly notice the screaming, fighting, spills, "quit touching me!", whining, crying, begging...anymore--no really, I don't....did I mention I look forward to gaming when I'm in a nursing home?)
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You want to hear of a badass? One guy in my gaming group works with cell phones, and has three kids. Thats a tough bastard right there.No one in my gaming group is an arche-typical geek:
*goes on to prove it*
He'd be a real badass if he brought his kids over while he gamed. During our bi-weekly games we have two three year olds, a 1 1/2 year old, a 13 year old, a 15 year old, two 11 year olds, a 9 year old and a 14 year old....and we have only one videogame system in the whole house, HAAAAHHAAAAHHAAAHHAA!!
(Gaming with kids around was one of the hardest adjustments I had to make--now I hardly notice the screaming, fighting, spills, "quit touching me!", whining, crying, begging...anymore--no really, I don't....did I mention I look forward to gaming when I'm in a nursing home?)
Nursing homes with D&D players.....God I can't friggin' wait! That will be the coolest d*mn thing ever! F**k bingo!
(FH goes off to age quickly)
(FH goes off to age quickly)
I suggest a couple pre-3rd edition haste potions.
Ok, just a short one....
If I give you experience points enough to level up at the end of the session, FOR THE LOVE OF HEXTOR level up your F*$cking character BEFORE the next session. I, and the other players don't want to wait 45 minutes for you to decide if you want to select sleep or fear as your bonus spell this level...WE WANT TO PLAY!!!!
My God, I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one with this problem.. It so freaking annoys me. There is one mage in my campaign that just refuses to level up between the sessions. At one time, she even didn't write down her spells.. grrr. Result, everytime we start a new session, I have to grr her and she has to grudgely level up while everyone is watching and waiting.
And yes, I'm at the edge with her.. believe it or not, she is a good friend of mine, she just doesn't she the 'necessity' of levelling.
My rant is this:
Why do so many D and D gamers take it personally when someone does not like the 3.x system. I have played the game in one incarnation or another for going on 24 years now. I play other systems as well.
I do not take it personally if people do not like the rules set I use, yet on some boards (usually not these) it is considered heresy to dislike 3.x. And if you have an opinion on the rules that they do not agree with then you must just not understand how things are.
I enjoy the game.
I am, however, starting to actively dislike some of the personalities who participate in it. Ironically, it is usually these same people that complain that the gaming industry is on a downward trend.This is not meant to offend or start a flame war. Do not take it personally as it is not aimed at anyone in specific.
Hooray...Darkwolf has hit it right on the head...
****RANT WARNING****
I absolutly, totally, and completely despise uncreative players who think that just because they create what they consider to be the UbberMunchkin character I as the DM should allow them to dominate the game and then these total 'tard monkeys get upset to the point of epileptic seziures when they get killed by a tiny bug...These full blown wacko-loons throw temper tantrum, slam books, swear at you and then have the nerve to say..'I'll never play in this group again' like it actually friggen means some all important thing that they do not want to play any more...ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
So here's a question: while I've met a few counterexamples, the vast majority of gamers that I've encountered have been caucasian (not surprising, since I grew up a white-bread kiddie in the middle of a blindingly white suburbia). So what I want to know even more than who's a gamer badass is: who identifies with a different ethnicity?
Actually, while we're at it, anybody here Deaf? I'd love to see a D&D session run entirely in ASL....
I'm Hawaiian. Well my moms white my dad is Hawaiian. But I am stocky, dark skin and have thick wavy hair, so where I live(Maui) I am recognized as Hawaiian. I view my self as Hawaiian. So if you ever plan to come to my country Hawaii, let me know "I goin' take good care of you bra"
I actually now a number of Hawaiian gmaers, we like games and we like stories.
What I don't like,
totally despise,
Hate,
Hate a whole lot
Players with no charisma playing charismatic players.
DM: "SO what does your bard say to the lovely serving wench?"
Player: "I roll bluff to get laid, a huh. he he he."
DM: "Yeah but what does your bard say?"
Player: "UUh. I rolled a natural twenty!!!! total of .., 34. Cool!!! Juan Hunglo just got some a huh. he he he."
Don't get me wrong, I like rollling dice to find out how a NPC will react (The randomness keeps me on my toes as a DM and is fun). But it is D&D is a role playing game not a roll playing game. If you ain't got the mojo to play a role of a chrismatic charater, doon't even try!
I hate it I hate it I hate it!
UHHHH PUck, chock!! @#@#@#@#!!!
Actually, now that I think about it, all of my friends who are hardcore into martial arts or body composition are also gamers - go figure. Maybe it's because both gamers and ultimate fighters secretly want to be action heroes. : )
Seriously, though, I think that the correlation between gaming and staying in shape makes a lot of sense - for me, going to the gym feeds the same addiction as something like World of Warcraft. With either activity, I really enjoy 'grinding' (spending my time doing repetitive things in order to level up/improve my stats and abilities)... the only difference is that I don't have to haul my computer around to show people the results of the gym. : P
WHen I was in college the group I played D&D with were all competative weight lifting. I fact I met them in the Gym before I knew they were gamers.
What, you don't think you will pick up any women at the club that might be impressed by your well developed set of encouters, or your fully defined stat blocks?Ya never know... with WoW suddenly taking the world by storm, more and more attractive gamer girls (and boys!) are coming out of the closet or getting into gaming for the first time. Admittedly, I live with 6 college students, but it's still not unusual to hear a girl in our house say something like "Dude, I'm totally going to make level 60 tonight", "when are you getting the next Battlestar Galactica DVD?" or "w00t! Sorry, sweetie, but I totally pwnt your ass!"
Speaking of which... is there anything hotter than a girlfriend/boyfriend that whispers sweet nothings in l33t sp33k? I contend that there is not....
If a chick is into you D&D is cool and creative
I think most people should not be offended by being called a dork, or a geek, or whatever, anyways. If that's who you are (I know it's what I am), be happy.
Listen playing D&D is Dorky
and being DM is like the penacle of D&D play (sort of)
SO all you DMs out there are at the pinnacle of dorkyness
Accept your inner dorkyness
you Dork.
I hate when Vampire/World of Darkness players tell me that D&D is a game for munchkin players while their shitty games is just about power , powerful classes and stupid esoteric mimicry that hides only hack n'slash !!!!
I hate that today people think that RPGs are like online-games , as it will NEVER-EVER-NEVER be the same !!!
I hate the 1000000000 feats , the 22654456456464646 spells , the 54566514787889564311321231313 XP points that you can earn in 3 monthes of game time , and I hate the 5645645646441211123 additional rules that are often useless !!!!
I hate Franck Miller for being the most overrated author of all times...You suck , your books suck , your characters suck , your stories suck , and your cinema adaptations suck ...You're a joke buddy !!!!
I hate my ex-players for making me nearly quit roleplaying games because they were boring , always arguing about 1 XP point or their poor character lying dead after stupid actions , their total lack of roleplaying skills......Burn in hell (and away from me !!!)
I hate the economy of my country that is so bad that I had to leave to find a decent salary and the impression to be happy wih my professional life and career objectives !!!!!
And I hate my lazyness when I have to work on my adventures and campaigns !!!!
Man , that was good !!!!!
I hate the economy of my country that is so bad that I had to leave to find a decent salary and the impression to be happy wih my professional life and career objectives !!!!!
Hello fellow Canadian!
Ultradan
(hahaha!!!)
I hate the rules-lawyer who likes to "keep it fair" by pointing out everyone elses flaws in tactics/creation/decisions but doesn't apply the same courtesy to himself.... "Just Shut the F%#@ Up!" I mean, your mom never told you the "if you can't say something nice..." rule?
I hate overbearing party members who b*#ch at you for role-playing your character...
I hate DM's who pinpoint the flaw in your character creation and throw it at you every-freaking-adventure! WTF! knock it off already, you wise-@$$!...
I hate true Lycanthropes in the past 3 campaigns all before the party was level 3, usually before level 2...
I hate having the lowest HP in the party and being a front-line cause of random weird character creation ideas...
I do kinda enjoy my low will save though {I've already tried to kill members of my party a couple of times >:)}...
I hate that when you come up with an original idea to save the day, everyone looks at you like you've lost your mind and ignores your plan <often leading to party death> in favor of the lets just charge 'em routine...
I hate Caffeine-free soda... why not have oxygen-free air... 'Cause God didn't want it that way!...
And most of all, I HATE feeling useless in a party when I'm one of the base 4 classes, because everybody tries to out-shine you in your chosen field of expertise! that really sucks, when you can miss a session or two and come back to hear "You weren't here last week?"
I do however, like this thread..... alot! >:)
6 Random Things I Hate in no specific order:
1) Squirrels
2) Zombies
3) Bosses (the work variety)
4) Uber-Religous Zealots bent on conversion to their ways
5) Cheating Gamers (if a d20 has 20 sides, how do you always
roll a 18,19, or 20? statistically impossible man)
6)Uber-Religious Zombie Squirrel Bosses that Cheat while
Gaming and drink Caffeiene-free soda! They're the Worst!!!
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If you crunch the numbers when buying/making healing wands cure ligth wounds is the most cost effective one to buy at 750GP and curing an average of 5.5 HP per charge that is 2.73gp/ HP.
So as long as you have the time for after combat healing it is the only way to go.
I assume the characters and the players know this so why buy anything else?
It all comes from the formula to make wands and a broken magic system.
Just my rant.
Freaking dumb, tweaky, skinny, anorexic salesclerks that don't know their ass from a hole in the ground, saying "Just remember, violent video games make for violent reactions in real life!" While I'm buying a game! From their store! As well as several DVDs! Shut the hell up and just say "thank you for shopping here" because you can't hold an intelligent conversation if your life depended on it! Stupid, ignorant sheep!
Make me feel very violent. I seem to have an allergic reaction to stupid people - it makes me want to do violent things that are illegal in most states. And while I'm at it, force feed her a box of Twinkies and Ho-Hos.
Okay, now I'm feeling marginally better. Stupid sheep people...
Freaking dumb, tweaky, skinny, anorexic salesclerks that don't know their ass from a hole in the ground...
A while back when Champions of Norrath 2 came out, every store I went to was out of stock. So as i'm passing in front of a store called Radio Shack (I don't know if you guys have that chain in the states, but it's basically a cheap-ass chain of electronics that carries all the "inferior" brands) in my shopping mall, I say to myself "Gee, NOBODY shops here, maybe they still have a copy...".
So I walk in and immediately get harrassed by a youg, tall, dorky-looking sales clerk in a tie. I ask him if he still has a copy of Champions of Norrath 2 for the Playstation 2. He tells me that he's pretty sure that that game came out only for the Game Cube. So I tell him that I'm pretty sure that it came out for the Playstation (since I had that copy at home). And, the idiot, assures me that the first game only came out on the Gamecube also.
So I looked at him in disgust and just left. I swore NEVER to encourage that chain of stores again.
I know how you feel, Lilith.
Ultradan
Thanks, Ultradan. Yeah, we have Radio Shack, but I liked it better when it actually had radio and electronics stuff in it. Now all I see are cel phones and RC cars.
I also hate it when I walk into a computer store and am immediately patronized by the male staff, who immediately assume that because I am a woman, I don't know a damn thing about computers. Mind you, I have been around computers all of my life, my dad was a computer programmer in the Air Force, and I used to read Computer Shopper (when it came in big phone-book sized magazines) for FUN. I have been in my company's IT department for four and a half years, three of those which have been in the "Head of IT" seat. I'm not a feminazi by any stretch of the imagination, but goddamn it, don't make assumptions about me simply because I'm female! GRRRR....
The same thing goes for game stores, both the computer and RPG kind. I'm proud of my "gamer grrrrl" title, thank you very much.
I also hate it when I walk into a computer store and am immediately patronized by the male staff, who immediately assume that because I am a woman, I don't know a damn thing about computers. I have been in my company's IT department for four and a half years, three of those which have been in the "Head of IT" seat.
Now imagine that dumb-ass clerk, finally getting his diploma in 'computer-something' and ending up in your company, in your department, under your rule. I can imagine you running this guys'face through the mud for a couple of years.
Ultradan
My Rant: There is no way, no way at all to balance classes and abilities in this new 3.5 version. Some things are like OMG powerfull; and some things are like; what is this, a joke? and some classes are just down right wimpy and not useful. I like how open the game is and how expansive; but sheesh, it is a gm nightmare converting a whole world over from 2nd ed.This game has ludicrous drive; clean and simple and I feel like Lord Helmet.
The thing about D&D that gets under my skin more than any book or rule or marketing technique is the people who play D&D. Why is it that 90% of gamers in general are flighty or flaky or antisocial or irritating or airheads or inconsiderate or dysfunctional in some other way?! What is it about human psychology that links the gaming trait with all of these negative traits?
I've wondered about this sometimes myself, then I remember that most people in general are jerks. Does that make me antisocial?
I'm tired and I'm going to go to bed now, but this is a great thread. I'll save the rant for tomorrow.
I'll admit out front, I've only DM'd kids, I've always been a player in either WolfClaw's, WhiteToyMaker's or Thanis' games.
However I have a few peeves that come up from time to time.
When it is agreed that D&D will run every other Saturday from 4- midnight, when I collapse on the floor at 5 am I consider it only fair that I NOT wake up to find out that I was NPC'd and missed a major battle and now that I'm awake they want to keep playing... even though it's noon on Sunday. Luckly this doesn't happen much anymore, but it happened often enough.
I hate it when other players do not pitch in their $5 in food, but eat pratically everything in the house without asking.
I hate it when I roll my charater perfectly honsetly and by the book to find out that if we used a point by system my charater is 30 points below the rest of the party (I approximately had 24 point by with this charater too) and because of this the DM had send high encounters and after that game refused to roll stats and always used point by. Point by is fine, but changing to it due to players having d6's that never roll below a five... just a bit annoying.
I hate it when we level up mid-session and just because everyone else has the PHB memorized they get grouchy with me because it takes me longer to level up.
I hate it when I can't find a mini to paint that fits my charaters... I love drawing a picture and having a mini of a charater, it adds a certain flair for me.
I do love it however when I find out my fiance has spenting hours while I was asleep pouring though spells because I told him I wanted a spell that would do *insert description here* or has come up with a charater build to fit a drawing I did.
Thankfully for me most my major rant items fixed themselves when I moved and had a heart to heart with my hubby. We now set a set stop time for game so that after 8 hours of gaming I can rest. After all, I must rest to regain my uses of minor wish for the day so I can spice up my cooking... ~_~
For the records: Deep Fryer + 10lbs of Potatoes + ketcup = enough food to feed an army and the best gaming food right next to pizza ever! Potatoes are so cheap and SO good.
Ah finally, a thread for me. Where to start? Oh so much anger...
I hate people who are quite happy to give in to peer pressure and start teasing the little nerds, even when said nerds have actually gone out of their way to be nice to that person.
I hate it when the jocks at school try and take our Magic the Gathering cards, and expect us to sit there and let them get away with it in front of our eyes, when their friends are pushing us around. (Man, I loved the look on that guy's face when I dropped him with a knee to the stomach). I hate it even more when they try and pass it off to the teachers like we were the ones that started it. (Lucky most of the teachers are to smart for that). I hate it when they say "They're just cards". Well, they have a value to me and my friends, and those valuse can be in excess of $20, and to some students, that's a lot. If they want us to start helping ourselves to their belongings, they're going the right way about it.
I hate Physical Education teachers. They've been to University for something like four years to get a Teaching degree, and apparently they slept through most of their lectures. I hate how that when I question their task, they respond in terms they think I can't understand. I did Neurology as an Extension Study, along with Genetics, and Physics. I'm doing discussions on the writings of Immanuel Kant and Karl Marx with university students at Philosophy Collouqiums.I CAN F&%(ING UNDERSTAND ANY OF THE DAMN TERMS THEY THROW AT ME, BUT THE DAMN SYSTEM GIVES ME A DETENTION IF I EVEN TRY TO CHALLENGE THEIR VAUNTED INTELLECTUAL SUPERIORITY!
I hate Jack Chick and all Christian zealots like him. (Not normal Christians or any people from other religions). They're intolerant, and ignorant people. They create stereotypes, and reinforce them without even vaguely considering what they're doing. Jack Chick said Allah was a pagan moon god, and is not the Islamic equivalent of the Christian God. ALLAH IS THE ISLAMIC WORD FOR GOD, JACK! DID YOU STOP TO THINK ABOUT THAT!?
I hate people that give sermons about how wonderful their religion is on loudspeaker at public transport terminals. Sure, you have your religion, great, I don't need to know about it. I hate the fact that they haven't even thought out their own argument.
"So what makes you so sure the Jesus is coming soon?" "The time is now!"
"People said that in the year 1000, and they said that in th year 2000. What makes you so sure?"
"THE TIME IS NOW!"
"Ummm...O..K..."
I hate the fact that people can degrade other people until they see others as just things, and things of no consequence. I hate that when a million Africans die, there's a minor note on the news, and when four Americans die, there's a week long spate of reports detailing their hideous tragedy. I hate that in a world with HIV, people still waste money that could be used for research on buying an influenza vaccine. I hate that in Australia, the indigenous population is so marginalized, there are more people of African descent in Australia then Aboriginal people. I hate that our government once tried to commit genocide, and still hasn't given back all the sacred Aboriginal land.
I hate that the Catholic Church in Australia tries to block anything it doesn't fully approve of. NOT EVERYONE IS CATHOLIC! WE ARE ALLOWED TO BE DIFFERENT! I hate that RU 486 has come under such huge attantion when it doesn't deserve it. I hate that RU 486 isn't controlled by the TGA.
I hate that I have to go to Personal Development at school. I'VE DONE THE SAME MATERIAL EACH F&*^ING YEAR SINCE YEAR 4! I KNOW THAT DRUGS ARE ILLEGAL IN AUSTRALIA, AND I KNOW MARIJUANA IS A DEPRESSANT! YES, I DO KNOW WHAT HIV IS! I DON'T NEED TO SPEND AN HOUR A DAY IN A ROOM FULL OF IDIOTS LEARNING THE SAME DAMN THING OVER AND OVER AGAIN!
I hate the tiny number of elective subjects at my school.
My (incredibly off-topic)two cents.
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Things I could do without
People touting Eberron as the intrigue setting. In village of Hommelt the owners fo the general store are an Assassin, and a high level thief. How's that for intrigue? Something that is not only never noticed by the players, but DMs as well.
PCs: Why're you locking the doors? you closing early today?
That was what? back in the 70s? just because you're breaking into a prefab warehouse built by a construction golem doesn't make it any less a dungeon. Theres nothing new under the sun, so get over it, in fact most of what I've seen is pretty lackluster.
Why isn't there a Mongrelman majority in Eberron?
People that assume adjectives are creativity. Just because you have a Fiendish, Vampiric, Drow, Assassin/ Shadowdancer doesn't make you creative, or powerful. IMO it takes more effort making just a plain character interesting. I further could go without people that take offense when told this humourlessly
Me: so what character do you play in your game?
Him: A half giant psionicist
Me: I played one of those too
Him: really
Me: yeah , it was Marvel super heroes though.
Him: /Scowls
I could do without the people that go on about "cool new setting" but resent the fact that I have better stories in my "plain old" fantasy setting.
I could do without the inferrence that Video games/MMORPGs are the root of all munchinism. If a MMORPG culture can come up with the terms and tactics in dealing with monster population in under five years is it out of the question that world spanning empires not have the same ideas in 500? If there are kites, pullys and Front loaded weapons in the game world then theres as much chance of there being a mentel parrallel drawn. The only munchkinism that video games introduced was vast amounts of disposble magical items being sold in general stores IMO.
more later to be sure. Rant posts always make me need a nap.
I hate that the Catholic Church in Australia tries to block anything it doesn't fully approve of. NOT EVERYONE IS CATHOLIC! WE ARE ALLOWED TO BE DIFFERENT! I hate that RU 486 has come under such huge attantion when it doesn't deserve it. I hate that RU 486 isn't controlled by the TGA.
Well, there are more Catholics than any other sort of Christians. And you are not allowed to be different.
I hate D'v'us (kidding)
What I really hate is being stuck in a class with someone shouting "look! The pope!" and pointing behind me