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Merry Christmas guys! (10pm Xmas eve here! soooooo full of barbeque, ermergerd!)
Happy 7 days before New Years all. - Or it will be in another 4 hours.
Merry Xmas...terrible news from the US now every week here...who ambushes firefighters?!
Don't even get me started.
On the other hand, in China there was yet another attack on kids. Some guy made a car bomb and drove it into a group of kids, essentially filled his car with fireworks and a gas cylinder, coved it in fuel and set fire to it.
All the kids survived, some had minor injuries. As I was saying earlier, 99% of people would have no real clue how to actually make a meaningful weapon.
Would be nice if these people with an issue would seek a bit of help though... goodwill to all mankind and all that?
Why can't we all just be friends? :)
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On a happy note, the Hobbit was really good!
Tirion imagines inlaws willing to babysit so that the Hobbit can be watched.
Last night I saw the Hobbit in 3D. I didn't think it made that much of a difference. Anyway, I think it's the story, the music, and suspense that makes it!
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Time pressure to prepare for my oral exam, migraine, a brother who nearly died when having a seizure (but is, thank gods, better now) all made up for a pretty taxing holiday. Sorry for the irregular posting, I hope things get better now!
(Actually, they already do, a late santa from the post just delivered my warhammer rules set.)
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Thought I might get a few posts in... but ended up just eating myself into a stupor on Crab Curry.
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Ouch@Fey!
Off to my second vacation - back on the 2nd!
I'm glad to hear your brother pulled through, feytharn.
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Thank you, Twilightrose.
I actually heard about the incident when my brother was already out of the hospital. His wife, a nurse, resuscitated him. They found no cause for the seizure and believe it was stress induced (probably combined with dehydration). He won't be 'allowed' to work for a few month, hopefully all is going to be well.
For a few months? Wow. Well, I hope that it wasn't anything serious and it isn't reoccurring. My uncle and my mother have non-epileptic seizures from time to time. They live relatively normal lives, though, the seizures are pretty rare and they can usually feel them coming on before they start. It is pretty scary to see one happen, though, especially when it's your mom and you're a kid!
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Its more his line of work - he is a salesman for hospital beds and his main job is driving from hospital to hospital - I think he is spending far mor time in his car then out of it (probably one of the reasons for the dehydration). This was the first time my brother had a seizure (as far as he knows, that is) and that one was serious enough to stop his breathing and his heart. The doctors are cautious to put him behind a wheel for now, to say the least.
That is understandable and my goodness that would have to have been a very strong seizure! I hope he's got enough money saved up that his not working won't hurt them too badly.
yeah hope all turns out ok for your brother Feytharn
Truly scary stuff feytharn. Best wishes for your brother. A friend of mine started having seizures a couple of years ago and they havent found anything, meds or even brain surgery; to help alleviate the problem. He cant drive or work and it drives him absolutely mad.
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Happy New Year to one and all... currently watching a tragic 80s disco movie on TV after watching the Sydney fireworks.
Shifty - will be touching base in the next day or two.
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Happy New Year, to you too!
Happy new year all.
So you saw that Disco movie too huh? 'You cant stop the music' starring the Village People and Steve Guttenberg.
Apparently the Village People movie is an 'Australian New Years tradition'.... I think I missed that memo.
I thought they did Xanadu last year.
Campy roller-disco seems deriguer though, I suppose its a nod to what used to be the biggest New Years party in Sydney for many many years which were the New Years RAT parties, which later gave way to the PRIDE parties (and then I think they dropped after that) - certainly very Campy.
Happy New Years everyone.
Happy New Year everyone! Well, I am approaching my two year anniversary of playing online with my first character Solaric on January 7th. Where has all of the time gone?
happy new year everyone! All the best in life and game !!! :)
Yeah about time some of you guys joined us in 2013, stop being so 'last year'!
Too hot and I'm too brittle from last night, so have spent today doing assignment work.
Just putting the finishing touches on a paper to submit tonight, and my last one should go out on Friday.
Now only 10 days before my big fun timey adventure.
Happy New Year! I have been playing in online PbPs for over a year now too, sorry to say none that I was in then are still active. Hope the the ones I'm now in are still around next year! Have a great year!
Happy New Years - the USA is a little behind the rest of you, but finally caught up to the right years.
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Happy new year, I'm back!
Happy New Year and welcome back!
I moved on to Laos today, hopefully internet will remain easily-accessible. Will have about a month here, split between cities and jungles, and then likely on to Cambodia or Vietnam.
Laos? Weren't you somewhere in Europe last time you told us?
He went to Thailand for a bit,ZZ.
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Gosh, didn't notice that - but that explains why he's in Laos now :)
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Some more words on nostalgia:
For me it was also the second christmas on these boards :) HOD and HOL are running for about 25 months now I guess.
Very nice!
What is the best Wild West rpg out there that any of you folks have experience with?
I played Boot Hill with DMHW, but that was probably 30 years ago, so not much help.
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What is the best Wild West rpg out there that any of you folks have experience with?
I think either Deadlands system will work pretty well even without the presence of the supernatural. I really like the 'poker for duels' rules.
Another good option is All Flesh must be Eaten + Fistful of Zombies. Again: just scratch the supernatural stuff and you have a pretty solid ruleslight system (and a backup universal system with great zombie mechanics if you don't ;-) ) (but then, I am a real sucker for the Unisystem games...if you want to check before spending money, the Witchcraft game is free - it has nothing to do with western, but the basic rules are the same in AFmbE.
I have All Flesh Must Be Eaten,but never really looked it over. I don't mind the supernatural stuff being there either. What ed. of Deadlands is best? I hear that Reloaded is good if you are new to the setting, but can be bland. Thoughts?
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That really depends on your preferences. Classic Deadlands is the more rules heavy game, while Reloaded uses the pretty light Savage Worlds rules (with some variations like the mentioned duel mechanics). I like the reloaded rules better, but I use much of the setting material from classic Deadlands. I never considered Reloaded bland, but there is much less setting material available for the new rules.
If you are looking for more mainstream western feeling, even with supernatural elements, you would need to change a lot from the deadlands setting anyway - there is more Steampunk in that than a giant robot spider could carry ;-)
I just took a quick look through my collection and came up with the following:
Deadlands
Sidewinder/Sidewinder Recoiled (D20 based)
Aces & Eights
Dogs in the Vineyard
OGL Wild West (D20 based)
Colonial Gothic (but only to a certain degree)
I would surely vote for Dogs in the Vineyard or Aces & Eights.
The lack of little fears saddens me.
Really? Never read Huckleberry Finn or Tom Sawyer then? :D
Granted Mark Twain is very much an american author. So it's doubtful the aussies and germans here have.
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I read most of Mark Twains novels and essays - including of course Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
But clearly, Little Fears is pseudo-medieval fantasy with string-world elements - haven't you read 'The Dark is Rising?'
Joking aside: I love 'Little Fears' more than I do love Wild West if that is any consolation ;-)
Lol, I hope to gods feytharn appreciates your sense of humor, love.