I keep up on Heart of Journeys, I get a kick out of it. I'm just waiting to see how long it takes you guys to get tired of the rhyming speak.
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We'll never get sick of it...
Eventually Mobo will stowaway in Attalas' backpack...hillarity will ensue...!
We'll never get sick of it...
Eventually Mobo will stowaway in Attalas' backpack...hillarity will ensue...!
Congratulations he'll push a longarm out of there and Attalas will become a tank.
I played a 4 foot something tall creature person similar to a halfling in the game I use to play with my ex. She found herself in the company of a group of human barbarians after being exiled from her own village. The leader of said barbarians was nearly 7 foot tall, Keori (my character) was often seen riding around on his back. In battle, she would run behind him stabbing to death those that he left wailing in agony, dying on the ground, in his wake. I was reminded of them with the growing relationship between Mobo and Attalas.
'Master-Blaster' ala Mad Max 3.
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I just want to see the gore spread from the 27 points of damage that Attalas just did to a zombie. Figure that should cover more or less everything within about 30 feet.
How much damage would that be if Attalas accidentally drew Mobo instead of his greatsword. Is goblin+dogslicer = great sword? At the very least you should get a perform(comedy) free action to cause the enemy to fall down laughing.
Or could it be a thrown ranged weapon? Attalas throws Mobo over the enemy while Mobo shoots from above?
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What damage does a Mobo inflict when wielded as a weapon? and is it Light or One Handed?
Oh yeah, a great book!
Just returned home from a terrible work day, forgive me if I do only short updates.
Sounds like more than one of us needed a vacation :p
Somehow my spare time got attacked, but no worries, I will retaliate hrhr
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Cup of coffee and some time - oh sweet days :)
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How comfortable, posting without time pressure^^
It does make a difference.
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I love those moments, especially when the boards are active and the replies come quickly! I can easily spend hours in this other world. Unfortunately, work gets in the way far too often for that. It does make me yearn for a good tabletop game! However, this is a great substitute.
absolutely my thoughts!
Speaking of a good tabletop game . . . this week is my bi-weekly tabletop (Thursday). Last time my good buddy Russ (who taught me to play D&D back before it was cool) couldn't make it--this time he might. Fingers XXed!!!
Right on Vaugh. I got to play at my tabletop game Saturday. Great times.
I miss tabletop games. I have not played other than once of twice with DMHW in like 20 years. Although I started my boys, ages 5 and 7, playing last week. Not really the same, but it is still fun and they love it each time there is a new and different monster.
I also loved mosters most when I started gaming (I was like 10 or 11 and played The Dark Eye and the Ian Livingstone books)
My first campaign was with DMHW - The Keep on the Borderlands. We had not figured out minor details like not being able to cast spells every round and splitting experience points. As I recall, I walked into the Keep and just started killing people, without having to split exp, we leveled real fast - boy, the enjoyment when alignment and morals had no meaning.
Ian Livingstone books
As in Fighting Fantasy? - I still have about 30 of the original green spined FF books on my shelf. Along with a healthy selection of Sorcery, Lone Wolf, Grailquest, and other assorted choose your own adventure books.
Deathtrap Dungeon, Armies of Death, Trial of Champions, House of Horror, Warlock of Firetop Mountain, Appointment with F.E.A.R., the list goes on and on - many many happy memories from my childhood.
@ Mark: Exactly, Fighting Fantasy is awesome. Did you check out the new Cubicle 7 RPG Advanced Fighting Fantasy?
@ Fey: I like to use new monsters and tend do it quite often, I think.
@ Tirion: Great times. I once DMed a campaign where I let people level when they brought me sweets :)
Zyren, I'm oldskool... I have the original Advanced Fighting Fantasy RPG that they published back in the day :)
Maybe I need to check out the new one though... They came out with a Lone Wolf D20 system too.
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What Tirion did not tell you was that we use to get up at four a.m. before the sun came up and play for hours while the rest of the house slept! Man, those were amazing times. I wonder if I am still trying to relive that childhood!
my first game was with the red box circa 1986 or so. I played with the other kids from gifted class after school waiting for the late bus.
My first D&D experience was many years later in, 1997 I guess. Mostly played MERP/Rolemaster before.
ugh. I absolutely hated Rolemaster's weapon charts.
I loved "You stumble over a dead invisible turtle and decapitate yourself with your longsword" :)
But yeah, it was rather Rollmaster than Rolemaster - but I liked Middle Earth, so I had no choice^^
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I actually started with D&D because I couldn't take the 'system mastery' aka 'shameless munchkinning' of my rolemaster group (oh, i could gime my soul to that demon through the power of my high level friend and become an instand badass with a power that allows me to gain the favor of that demon so I can... urgh - yeah, and the use of the weapon tables became even more clunky with overpowered characters because you had to do some strange math once you got to attack results of 120+...
Good thing that group wouldn't want to change to D&D because "D&D wasn't real roleplaying" (That crap was going on a lot in germany especially in the vicinity of the GFR (German roleplaying guild - I was sadly very involved in the guild when they decided to dismiss D&D as well as (to a smaller extend DSA from their magazine and even discussed banning them from their cons because of that - instead starting to promote an independent (WOD like) game about rapists, mobsters and serial killers because of the depth of the roleplaying experience. I left the Guild right then and never bothered to look back)*. and I had to find a new group (that stayed consistent until one or two years after I left school in 1996.
That must have been around 1990 or so, mostly played MERP and Rolemaster before.
* To be fair, I mostly was involved with the GFR close to my hometown, I cannot say if this was going on in the whole guild.
DMHW and I would play at his home, and then load our bikes with about 30 pounds of books, lead figures, stereo, and whatever else we had, and then bike to my house, it was about 9 miles and uphill both ways - DMHW will confirm this, there was a mountain between the two of us. We started in about 80 or 81 with AD&D.
Oh man, talk about nostalgia! This is true, especially the part about uphill both ways. I was probably in the best shape of my life back then. That must have been around 1983. I certainly remember hauling the AD&D books, dice, and lead figures, but I do not remember hauling the stereo on the back of the bike. I remember that old Sony box you had. It was great! Did you really put it on the bike rack? We use to listen to Asia, UK and Yes 90125 on it. When we had too much of D&D, we would play Gangbusters instead. That was fun too, but we always went back to D&D.
Oh man, talk about nostalgia! This is true, especially the part about uphill both ways. I was probably in the best shape of my life back then. That must have been around 1983. I certainly remember hauling the AD&D books, dice, and lead figures, but I do not remember hauling the stereo on the back of the bike. I remember that old Sony box you had. It was great! Did you really put it on the bike rack? We use to listen to Asia, UK and Yes 90125 on it. When we had too much of D&D, we would play Gangbusters instead. That was fun too, but we always went back to D&D.
I still have Gangbusters, Star Frontiers, GammaWorld and Boot Hill in their boxes I think. As I recall, it was Asia on one side of the tape and Rush-Hemispheres on the other side.
Hah! Wasn't Star Frontiers teh one where you had to make a check in order to turn on a computer???
Hah! Wasn't Star Frontiers teh one where you had to make a check in order to turn on a computer???
Possibly - mind you this is a 25 year old memory - I think that Gamma World is the one where you had to check stuff like that. Star Frontiers was on space ships and alien worlds as a recall, don't remember much else.
"As I recall, it was Asia on one side of the tape and Rush-Hemispheres on the other side."
Yes, but I think I committed sacrilege by erasing the Rush Hemisphere side because I wanted to record Asia Alpha it. Little did I know I would become a Rush fanatic in the years that followed!
Hah! Wasn't Star Frontiers teh one where you had to make a check in order to turn on a computer???
That was true. You needed a computer check simply to use a computer. We really didn't have a clue that computers would be involved in every aspect of our lives back then. Actually, aside from the computer skills, I really liked Star Frontiers. I remember becoming a pilot and being able to fly my own assault scout spaceship. We fought space pirates and reptilian space creatures called Salzarians if I remember right. I felt a little like Han Solo.
1983 here for me... and yeah, up in the dark to play.
We'd have group sleepovers at each others houses, but at least we'd break a few times to get out and play sport.
Will be interesting to see what my kid makes of the Beginner Box too, there's an interest in the game (has watched some and wanted in) but will see how all that unfolds... and finding a new group :P
"back before it was cool"
You mean it is now?! Why hasn't anyone told me? I'm pretty sure people still look at me like I'm a total nerd when I tell them I play D&D. ;)
On a side note, I wasn't even born until 1983. I didn't really start gaming until 2002(ish). My first experience with rpg's was the game my ex created that I will always mourn the loss of. Otherwise, just the bit of D&D here, an even smaller amount on a pbp game Sable put up on MySpace a few years back and a handful of sessions covering two campaigns in 2003 (ish).
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"back before it was cool"You mean it is now?! Why hasn't anyone told me? I'm pretty sure people still look at me like I'm a total nerd when I tell them I play D&D. ;)
Perhaps "cool" was too strong a word. "Before the genre was mainstream" is probably more accurate. Back in The Day, they were making movies warning of the dangers of gaming (Tom Hanks movie that I never saw--Mazes and Monsters) and it was definitely vogue to assume all gamers were drug-using satanic baby eaters (thank you, Jack Chick you farging bastage).
Now you've got Lord of the Rings movies that win awards.
On a side note, I wasn't even born until 1983.
You were six years old wehnI graduated high-school.
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Yeah I (sort of) finished High School in 1990...
and it was definitely vogue to assume all gamers were drug-using satanic baby eaters (thank you, Jack Chick you farging bastage).
... you mean we're not? :P
If it makes you guys feel any better, Sable's even younger than I and Illusees is even younger than he.
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And I am only 23. Started gaming when I was about 12 I think. So I didn't even exist when Shifty finished high school.
Ive seen Mazes and Monsters. It was ridiculus to say the least.
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23? so you were 2 when I finished the 10th grade in 1990 (which is when I bailed on boring highschool!)
Mazes and Monsters was funny as back in the day... hokey much!?
Mind you, there are some really good RL doco's of Gaming Lifestyle these days, some kinda sad though.
It's so nice not being the youngest nor the oldest person around.
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You guys ARE making me feel old. I was listening to Yes, Asia and Rush in high school and college. Graduated HS in '84.
I was in 6th grade when my dad came back from a business trip and brought me back the AD&D DM's Guide. He said it looked like something I would like. If you remember, it has a giant efreeti (ie. flaming devil looking guy) holding a naked woman while people attacked him. He said it looked like something I would like...How COOL was THAT????
I read and reread the book, but it didn't make a lot of sense till I picked up the blue box and started a little simpler.
Mind you, there are some really good RL doco's of Gaming Lifestyle these days, some kinda sad though.
Even though it's (arguably) not a documentary, no movie experience will ever compare, methinks, to viewing the premier of The Gamers 2: Dorkness Rising at GenCon in, what year, 2009 I think? With the Dead Gentlemen in attendence as well.
It was awesome. I laughed so hard I thought I was gonna bust a nut. We all did very suitable and reverent Mystery Science Theater 3000 action, for example: every time the protagonist's girlfriend did something (from about halfway through the movie on), I'd shout out "I *LOVE* her!!!"