I wouldn't give it that much, but I also have no interest in Star Wars stories.
I was really into the Expanded Universe novels and the Dark Horse comics when I was a kid in the '90s, so I'm reasonably knowledgeable about the lore, and I've got some nostalgia for that era, but on the whole, I'm not super passionate about the franchise as a whole.
At this point, I'm up for pretty much any setting (for example, one of the other guys has expressed interest in running a Power Rangers game, for which I have precisely zero background knowledge) as long as whoever's running it has a good attitude and is willing to have fun with some collaborative storytelling. All the other players in the group are great people and fun to have around the table, but the new guy is giving at least a few of us bad vibes.
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Abomination Vaults is an Adventure Path. I think it's the first one for PF2E. It's also the first three-book AP.
Age of Ashes was the first 2nd edition adventure path. Abomination Vaults is generally considered the most popular.
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I wouldn't give it that much, but I also have no interest in Star Wars stories.
That’s sacrilegious! You inhuman heathen!
:)Just kidding, but I’m really curious, why not?
Getting a whole bunch of red flags popping up--
We wrapped up our Pathfinder pirate mini-campaign a couple weeks ago, and the new player decided he wanted to run a D20 Star Wars game. He insisted everyone play Jedi, but wouldn't give us any information about the campaign, so no one could really figure out who their characters were. Today, everyone showed up with their characters, and the guy told us they "weren't powerful enough," told us to change our character builds, then said he was feeling sick and left after 20 minutes. I'm going to give it one session, max.
I have to agree with David. I have always wanted to play a SWd20 campaign but not if it was gonna be like that. This has more than just red flags. It has red banners, the marching band is all wearing red, the floats in the parade are red...
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Abomination Vaults is an Adventure Path. I think it's the first one for PF2E. It's also the first three-book AP.
Age of Ashes was the first. Abomination Vaults is the fourth. The latest, Wardens of the Wildwood, is sixteenth (including the Kingmaker PF2E revision).
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This has more than just red flags. It has red banners, the marching band is all wearing red, the floats in the parade are red...
Chairman Mao is standing up on a balcony waving to everybody...
Happy Friday, everyone! Who's got a game this weekend?
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Only the game of LIFE, Cal!
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I shall also be alive (I hope), and have a PF2 game on Sunday.
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Happy Friday, everyone! Who's got a game this weekend?
D20 Star Wars tomorrow. I'll say hi to Chairman Mao for everyone.
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Only the game of LIFE, Cal!
Life...life, life, life...the word is familiar. I might have once had one of those...hmm...
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Only the game of LIFE, Cal!Life...life, life, life...the word is familiar. I might have once had one of those...hmm...
It's a board game! The kids love it.
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It's a board game! The kids love it.Only the game of LIFE, Cal!Life...life, life, life...the word is familiar. I might have once had one of those...hmm...
As does Mikey.
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First session of Star Wars went surprisingly well, ended up being mostly RP with a few skill checks thrown in, and ended on a cliffhanger involving a big space battle breaking out. Still not sure what the GM was on about when he said our characters "weren't powerful enough," because we barely used our stats, it was largely just in-character problem solving. Maybe future sessions are going to be way different? I still think the new guy is weird, but so far it seems like he's pretty good at running games.
That seems like a red flag to me. The GM should have inspected the character sheets first. If he did and didn't say anything, I dunno. I have a bad feeling about this.
(tractor pull announcer voice) Friday! Friday! FRIDAY! What's going on, everyone? Things here look busy for the weekend, but no gaming. Today I have a plumber coming by to hopefully fix my toilet and a friend I've only seen for about 20 minutes in the last 32 years is stopping by on his way to a music festival. Tomorrow I drive two hours for the memorial of my friend who died from ALS last October. Two of our friends from St. Louis are coming along, as well.
How about everyone else?
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It's my stepdaughter's birthday party tomorrow, so she's having some friends around for that - my involvement will begin and end with being a pizza courier.
It's my stepdaughter's birthday party tomorrow, so she's having some friends around for that - my involvement will begin and end with being a pizza courier.
In accordance with prophecy.
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Tomorrow: 5e Iron Gods - either finishing up character creation or first play session, depending.
Day after that: writing jam
Friday: NWN DMing
Saturday: more NWN
Sunday: nothing! so probably playing FF14.
Monday: Holiday! Also nothing!
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Wednesday: reading, as long as my ipad holds up. Then probably BG3 or an actual book.
Thursday: Doctor's appt. Clan Lord (mmorpg).
Friday: Bridge online, then reading.
Saturday: Bridge face to face, then reading. Maybe bridge online.
Sunday: Friends are throwing me a birthday party (my birthday was in March. I was three. Next year, I'll be two.)
Monday: damfino.
No PF/SF/HM in the works, unfortunately.
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I really want to run/play in a SA game one of these days. But most of my PnP group isn't super big into Lovecraftian style stuff.
Anyone doing anything fun this weekend? Our next game, scheduled for June 22nd (over three months since the last one) is now "tentative". I hope my prediction isn't coming true, that being the GM never runs a campaign more than three or four sessions. This one will be session three. Granted, he did run a fun Call of Cthulhu campaign off and on for a little over a year, but even then we didn't finish it and left the final chapter in the game hanging.
...sigh...
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I shall have the house to myself for most of tomorrow, cats aside, and shall hopefully be playing PF2 on Sunday.
No game this weekend-- we lost a player due to his wife not letting him come to game nights anymore (don't ask), then another guy got called into work, and a third guy is totally unreachable.
No game this weekend-- we lost a player due to his wife not letting him come to game nights anymore (don't ask), then another guy got called into work, and a third guy is totally unreachable.
Man, it's like watching a Jenga tower fall!
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No game this weekend-- we lost a player due to his wife not letting him come to game nights anymore (don't ask), then another guy got called into work, and a third guy is totally unreachable.Man, it's like watching a Jenga tower fall!
Nah, this kind of thing seems to happen in cycles. We're all a bunch of guys in our mid-30s, most with jobs, or families, or health problems, etc., so we're often missing a player or two per session. The general rule is that if half or more of the group (3 or more players) can't make it, then we'll cancel. Based on our track record, we'll be back next week.
Two weekends ago, parts of Houston was hit by a derecho that knocked out power in various neighborhoods for days. Can you guess if I was in one of those neighborhoods? Can you?
Good guess! I was!
We lost power Thursday night and didn't get it back until late Sunday afternoon. We didn't get internet back until Tuesday. The kids' schools were closed without power (and then without A/C) through Wednesday.
We tossed out pretty much everything from the fridge and freezer, and we save a few bucks on our power bill.
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This weekend, we went to a friends' party celebrating their daughter's graduation from high school. Other than that, it's been low key.
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Two weekends ago, parts of Houston was hit by a derecho that knocked out power in various neighborhoods for days. Can you guess if I was in one of those neighborhoods? Can you?
Good guess! I was!
I had to look up derecho. Holy cow!
Nah, this kind of thing seems to happen in cycles. We're all a bunch of guys in our mid-30s, most with jobs, or families, or health problems, etc., so we're often missing a player or two per session. The general rule is that if half or more of the group (3 or more players) can't make it, then we'll cancel. Based on our track record, we'll be back next week.No game this weekend-- we lost a player due to his wife not letting him come to game nights anymore (don't ask), then another guy got called into work, and a third guy is totally unreachable.Man, it's like watching a Jenga tower fall!
I get it and I apologize if I sounded sort of off-putting there. From our thirties onward scheduling became extremely difficult. Even now, the average age of the party is mid-50s (I'm the oldest at 60) it's virtually impossible. Our monthly game will be three months late when we hopefully get to play June 22nd.
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Wednesday: NWN DMing, it's our off week for Iron Gods
Thursday: writing jam
Friday: no plans, so FFXIV
Saturday: hanging out with Vanykyre, hopefully!
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Pirate Borg yesterday, or how to completely bamboozle your GM with spontaneous accordion practice.
"Then came the last days of May" -- Blue Öyster Cult
It's a rainy Friday morning here at Sweet Home Calabama. No game, though I have been tinkering with ideas for a one-shot I'll run in July.
What are you doing this weekend?
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FFXIV and NWN tonight.
Lunch with Vanykyre tomorrow.
NWN on Sunday.
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Not much this weekend. I'm doing a whiskey tasting with some other dads from my daughter's school tonight. I'm more of a scotch guy, but it should be fun.
My friend is interested in restarting his Call of Cthulu game once the summer is over, so I have that to look forward to.
Work tonight and tomorrow. Probably an air show on Sunday at the local airfield. Our little 4 year old nephew loved it last year so the plan is to go again this year.
That'll be fun!
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Not much this weekend. I'm doing a whiskey tasting with some other dads from my daughter's school tonight. I'm more of a scotch guy, but it should be fun.
My friend is interested in restarting his Call of Cthulu game once the summer is over, so I have that to look forward to.
That sounds like it would be pretty cool. I don't have a very discriminating palette, and couldn't tell you whiskey from scotch from rye and back again. In my 20s I was a heavy, heavy drinker and honestly didn't care what I drank or how it tasted — I kind of regret not learning more about such things now, though. My old college roomie just retired from 41 years in the Arkansas National Guard and said he and a couple of his friends are starting a bourbon club, mostly as a hobby.
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Right now, trying to stop the cat from getting himself stuck behind the bath.
The plan right now is to cover essentially three shifts at work by myself. The plan after about 9.5 hours of this is to go home and have a couple of beers.
Well-earned!
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May be doing character creation today.
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Not much this weekend. I'm doing a whiskey tasting with some other dads from my daughter's school tonight. I'm more of a scotch guy, but it should be fun.That sounds like it would be pretty cool. I don't have a very discriminating palette, and couldn't tell you whiskey from scotch from rye and back again.
Well, it's common knowledge that scotch, rye, and bourbon are all types of whiskey, but I had assumed that the tasting would be all bourbons, because that seems to be what's popular right now. However, it turns out there was a good spread of bourbon, scotch, irish whiskey, and japanese single malt (which they're not allowed to call scotch because it wasn't produced in Scotland). They were very small pours, so there wasn't much danger of drinking too much. What I wasn't anticipating was how my taste buds would be shot by the end of the night. Still, it was fun.
I'm sure it was! We have a couple of fairly good wineries here in Arkansas but I've never been to them. I wouldn't enjoy them as much as most people (see non-discriminating pallet above lol) would. And after having COVID 3x, my sense of taste comes and goes at will anymore.
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Only one more day of work this week, then Thursday starts the weekend. I don't take days off work outside sickness regularly, but my and Scint's birthdays are the two main exceptions, along with extended Thanksgiving and New Years (since less people compete for that than extended XMas).
Another funky Friday! Everybody get down (and get back up again)!
Who's ready to boogie? What's going on with your bad selves?