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Post by joecrak on Feb 11, 2014 7:03:20 GMT -8
In regard to the first email on the show: You can let people play whatever they want... as long as it fits in the style and feel of your game. I always tell people to make what they want to play and not play whatever they think the party needs. The reason I do that is that I don't want people to feel shoehorned into a role. However, when someone comes to me with a cleric of the god of love who's holy item is their character's boobs and she has to unlace her bodice every time she casts a spell... well no that doesn't fit into my mostly serious, fairly puritan game. So yes anding aside, I will shut them down and say no... start again. In regard to MY email on the show: Gummi Bears was easily my guilty pleasure for many years I remember watching it as late as 1995 when I was 17 years old. I even searched out and watched the entire first season to prep for this con game. The game worked out fairly well, I took a few minutes to explain the basics of Gummi Bears with the juice and everything. I don THINK anyone felt alienated, if they did they never said anything. andreasdavour, Forresst, @cursingbulldog, did you guys feel at all alienated? The reveal wasn't the big thing, the reveal was more because I was afraid no one would play if they knew what the subject was. Am I the only one who almost choked on his lunch when stork said he wanted Stu Venable to play with his ball? If you ever want to run and need some one to be dashing, daring, courageous, caring, faithful, and friendly. I totally have some stories to share. Also I'm in the camp that finds Savage Worlds way more crunchy than cortex.
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Post by D.T. Pints on Feb 11, 2014 7:28:55 GMT -8
In regard to the first email on the show: You can let people play whatever they want... as long as it fits in the style and feel of your game. I always tell people to make what they want to play and not play whatever they think the party needs. The reason I do that is that I don't want people to feel shoehorned into a role. However, when someone comes to me with a cleric of the god of love who's holy item is their character's boobs and she has to unlace her bodice every time she casts a spell... well no that doesn't fit into my mostly serious, fairly puritan game. So yes anding aside, I will shut them down and say no... start again. In regard to MY email on the show: Gummi Bears was easily my guilty pleasure for many years I remember watching it as late as 1995 when I was 17 years old. I even searched out and watched the entire first season to prep for this con game. The game worked out fairly well, I took a few minutes to explain the basics of Gummi Bears with the juice and everything. I don THINK anyone felt alienated, if they did they never said anything. andreasdavour, Forresst, @cursingbulldog, did you guys feel at all alienated? The reveal wasn't the big thing, the reveal was more because I was afraid no one would play if they knew what the subject was. Am I the only one who almost choked on his lunch when stork said he wanted Stu Venable to play with his ball? If you ever want to run and need some one to be dashing, daring, courageous, caring, faithful, and friendly. I totally have some stories to share. Also I'm in the camp that finds Savage Worlds way more crunchy than cortex. Every time that fuckin' song finally shakes loose out of frontal lobe and I quit finding myself humming it while I push ever increasing piles of snow around, do the dishes, walk the dog, work on the boat...Gahhhhhh! Thanks joecrak...thanks for that. But in the end I know who to really blame...*squints menacingly towards Cincinnati*. Take that Jackers! Now we are all rather mad down here aren't we! Yes...Here...There...EVERYWHERE!
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Post by mook on Feb 11, 2014 9:45:53 GMT -8
Nope, even after the theme song, I have never, ever heard of this cartoon!
Only half way through this episode so far, but lovin' it as always.
I think I've been very lucky in the players I get at my con tables. In the past 18 months I've run GURPS games based on Jem and the Holograms, GrimJack, the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon, and the great majority of those players had at least some knowledge of the source material (in addition to being awesome, of course).
Also wanted to make a recommendation on a GURPS book from Third Edition called, oddly enough, "Time Travel." The current Fourth Edition book "Infinite Worlds" touches on some of the same stuff, but I think "Time Travel" gives a more comprehensive (and generic, mostly divorced from the Infinite Worlds setting) take on time travel in RPGs: Does changing the past alter your timeline? Or does it create an alternate timelines? Is it even possible to change the past, or does The Universe prevent that from happening? Does your physical body time-hop, or do you swap consciousnesses with a temporal local? What about alternate dimensions? And on and on.
It gives great advice on using time/dimensional travel in your games, whatever ruleset you use, in particular ways of minimizing the chances reckless PCs will destroy the setting. It's one of my favorite gaming books of all...time!
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Post by fredrix on Feb 11, 2014 11:00:49 GMT -8
Well that video DID remind me who the Gummi Bears were. Not that I watched it, I was a bit old for that, but I go recall it being on telly here in the UK. I did wonder though if it came with a different name (in my day Top Cat was called Boss Cat here, to avoid advertising a certain brand of catfood) do I googled it and found their ubderstated quote from Haribo's official history:
1939-1945 The years 1939-1945 found Germany with the unfortunate task of making tanks over gummy bears, and HARIBO experienced setbacks, primarily due to the shortage of raw materials.
Made me laugh...
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Post by joecrak on Feb 11, 2014 11:34:48 GMT -8
Time travel games aren't that difficult, just need a good premise behind them, like all the pcs being part of a police organization like in TimeWatch.
Oh, and if any were wondering about the samurai film Stu was refusing to mention, I'm pretty sure it was from the Hanzo the Razor series. The are pretty crazy.
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Post by jpk on Feb 13, 2014 0:54:34 GMT -8
As far as the Gateway Arch in St. Louis goes, if it were just the top half, it wouldn't make a circle or a sphere. The "visible" part is a modified inverted catenary curve, where a pure catenary curve is what you'd get if you hung a chain between two anchor points.
An ellipse is what you get when you identify all the points whose distance from two fixed points is constant when added together (or if you take a string, tie its ends to two nails, and use it to trace a shape).
I'll now let us all get back to stuff you're way more likely to care about. ;-)
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Post by druggeddwarf on Feb 13, 2014 8:34:57 GMT -8
In regard to MY email on the show: Gummi Bears was easily my guilty pleasure for many years I remember watching it as late as 1995 when I was 17 years old. I even searched out and watched the entire first season to prep for this con game. The game worked out fairly well, I took a few minutes to explain the basics of Gummi Bears with the juice and everything. I don THINK anyone felt alienated, if they did they never said anything. andreasdavour, Forresst, @cursingbulldog, did you guys feel at all alienated? The reveal wasn't the big thing, the reveal was more because I was afraid no one would play if they knew what the subject was. THAT BLOODY THEME SONG! I feel I am the cause of SirGuido's email - I'm the Ghanaian native who was in the show. I did know the gummi bears Cartoon (I also know the themesong by heart now thanks a lot you ass),and in Ghana, they showed half of the first season every saturday evening right before Captain Planet around the early 90s. The only real problem was, I didn't speak much english (aka At all) at the time, so most of the show was lost on me. But who needs to understand a language to really know what's going on! I may have been frustrated at not remembering certain character tropes, but I really enjoyed the game to its fullest. It was a great game, fun times, and you should totally run Power Rangers at Jackercon.
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Post by Kainguru on Feb 13, 2014 8:48:49 GMT -8
Gummi bears cartoon . . . . thinks . . . nope not a single trace in my cortical registers. It shall forever be a mystery to me. Late 80's early 90's cartoons that do register? repeats of 'Danger Mouse' by Cosgrove Hall and Bananaman, Count Duckula and MANGA!!!!!!!! (Anime as it is called now) Aaron
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Post by D.T. Pints on Feb 13, 2014 8:53:38 GMT -8
Gummi bears cartoon . . . . thinks . . . nope not a single trace in my cortical registers. It shall forever be a mystery to me. Late 80's early 90's cartoons that do register? repeats of ' Danger Mouse' by Cosgrove Hall and Bananaman, Count Duckula and MANGA!!!!!!!! aARON Crumbs Chief!
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Post by druggeddwarf on Feb 13, 2014 8:57:15 GMT -8
Guys, are you kidding me? Do you know the fun that could be had with a Trapdoor fate accelerated game?
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Post by maxinstuff on Feb 13, 2014 13:15:21 GMT -8
Gummi bears cartoon . . . . thinks . . . nope not a single trace in my cortical registers. It shall forever be a mystery to me. Late 80's early 90's cartoons that do register? repeats of 'Danger Mouse' by Cosgrove Hall and Bananaman, Count Duckula and MANGA!!!!!!!! (Anime as it is called now) Aaron Don't forget every childs favourite steroid abuser - Roger Ramjet
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Post by maxinstuff on Feb 13, 2014 13:17:14 GMT -8
Guys, are you kidding me? Do you know the fun that could be had with a Trapdoor fate accelerated game? *sings*Don't you open that TRAPDOOOOOOR!*/sings*
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Post by Kainguru on Feb 13, 2014 15:11:23 GMT -8
Gummi bears cartoon . . . . thinks . . . nope not a single trace in my cortical registers. It shall forever be a mystery to me. Late 80's early 90's cartoons that do register? repeats of 'Danger Mouse' by Cosgrove Hall and Bananaman, Count Duckula and MANGA!!!!!!!! (Anime as it is called now) Aaron Don't forget every childs favourite steroid abuser - Roger Ramjet . . . and Batfink - "with my wings of steel" . . . . . I used to so love Roger Ramjet it was hilarious: Aaron
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Post by ericfromnj on Feb 14, 2014 16:16:15 GMT -8
Was I the only one excited Dan made an Athol Fugard reference?
I remember Saturday mornings of drinking beers with friends and cracking up to the Gummi Bears.
Nice having the Fear the Boot crew back.
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Post by arturick on Feb 15, 2014 9:03:48 GMT -8
Maybe the DM with the asinine PC's should try Savage Worlds.
"You want an ineffective character? Ha! In this system you're all mechanically identical!"
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