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Post by Forresst on Aug 2, 2012 18:24:41 GMT -8
When were you thinking of starting up exactly? I have 3 more weeks of not being able to pin down a schedule, then a week of moving and uproar, and then all of a sudden I will be in school with a nice, reliable, normal people schedule.
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Post by Forresst on Jul 31, 2012 19:49:00 GMT -8
If you're into edible bennies, there's this awesome Japanese snack food called Cuttlefish snacks. They're made out of... well, they kinda look like Chex cereal in the shape of an octopus. And they're delicious. I would use them for a Cthulhu game.
As for the Slipstream one, I saw little pencil erasers in the shape of rocket ships at Staples the other day. Maybe that would work?
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Post by Forresst on Jul 31, 2012 19:37:13 GMT -8
After all this, I have to admit a little hesitation about getting involved here. But, on the other hand, this is the internet, and I can look as stupid as I want I guess.
We know, and have established the general image of tabletop gamers. Ok, great. We also have established that at one time, video gamers had a similar image. And that it changed. What happened? Well, in the case of basic PC gaming, technology caught up to what people could imagine and people grabbed hold of it and ran like the wind. In the case of console gaming, there was a giant console war, a bunch of companies folded or had to radically alter their bailiwick, and other companies won out, which was cool and all but the more important thing was what the winning companies did when they won. They started magazines. They bought exposure through mainstream media and portrayed their product as a means to be cool that was accessible to people who'd never before had that shot. Don't believe me? I'll slog through wikipedia and show you the publishing information of some of the first generation PC gaming or console-specific magazines. I'm pretty sure if I tried real hard I could find some paper trails for how Esquire Magazine started to give a crap about gamers.
Nowadays? Everyone wants a slice of the "gamer market". Except, they want the xbox frat boys. They want the PS3 guys. They want the Wii families. They even want every last bored facebook click slave. They don't know that tabletop gamers... hell, even miniatures war gamers, board gamers or anyone else exists.
You know what started the World of Warcraft crowd down a path of slighty-less-unacceptability? This guy:
Yeah, that's right. Some college kid (at the time) who goes by Oxhorn. He makes little movies using video game guys. That one? Went totally viral and ended up everywhere. And all of a sudden everyone saw these characters and realized it was probably just silly fun. And things got a little easier for the skeptics to swallow.
I'm not convinced we need a movie. We need some creative, talented individual to make a similar set of youtube videos. Or maybe a podcast. Or maybe some enormous company with a bunch of product to sell could reach out to some of the cooler magazines and convince them with a wad of cash (or however it theoretically works) that hey, all them smelly nerds have a bunch of money and would love to buy a bottle of Old Spice Drizzt Flavour.
My point is, whatever one person is advocating here, I don't believe that acknowledging it as a valid avenue makes any other avenue less valid. I.e. I don't think for a second any one thing is going to work by itself. That's not how it worked for the video gaming industry. It's not how it's gonna work anywhere else. It all has to happen, not necessarily at once, but we as a hobby (hell, as a market) are going to have to hit a bunch of beats from a bunch of directions if we want to grow the hobby like you all seem to want. And frankly, even getting the wider hobby to admit it wants to see tabletop games go mainstream is a bit like pulling teeth out of a cobra.
I think I've said enough.
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Post by Forresst on Jul 26, 2012 17:48:38 GMT -8
I hope i didn't go overboard with my formatting and stuff. I made it all spiffy. I hope spiffy isn't a bad thing.
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Post by Forresst on Jul 25, 2012 17:37:39 GMT -8
I've played (And ran) a fair number of virtual/remote games, and I personally like to have my character sheet somewhere I can access it quickly |(like a google doc or an obsidian portal tab), but at the same time, especially when I'm running the game, I *HATE* tabbing back and forth everywhere more than I have to, so I usually end up printing it out. It's a big waste of paper, sure. But it's convenient for me.
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Post by Forresst on Jul 24, 2012 10:50:51 GMT -8
You could always think up some grand arc (for example, my favourite campaign I GMed had a grand arc that went "these guys start out trying to find some treasure, but end up swept up in events that take them to the dawn of time to save the creator of the universe from a horrible evil trap") but then run it like tv show seasons. So, my campaign, the first "season" was finding the treasure. That worked good, people were into it. The second season rose out of the first, when the PCs learned that this treasure was being used to fix some terrible mistakes by a secret society (ooo) that was in a civil war, so the second "season" was about the PCs picking a side, and bringing the secret society back into functioning order. Then the third "season" involved a grand tour of the neighboring countries, to establish a new trade agreement and also to subtly allow secret society people to access some of the troubled parts of the world and keep it all together. This is where my campaign ended because my gamers got bored. But had they continued, there would have been more stuff to do, until they were fighting the ancient evil tried of gods, and figuring out how to unravel time so it would choke the universe out of existence.
tl;dr try stringing together a bunch of "little" campaigns into a "larger" campaign, so if it falls apart, it's still pretty complete.
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Post by Forresst on Jul 21, 2012 20:01:17 GMT -8
Happy Birthday! Yay!
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Post by Forresst on Jul 18, 2012 15:32:11 GMT -8
If I saw that in real life without any preparation... I think I would be terrified for a minute at least.
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Post by Forresst on Jul 18, 2012 15:25:05 GMT -8
To continue in the vein of silly names for awesome weapons... I had a friend who was playing a paladin with a GIANT FUCKING MACE. He named it "the Board of Education".
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Hobos
Jun 29, 2012 14:14:00 GMT -8
Post by Forresst on Jun 29, 2012 14:14:00 GMT -8
I bet that whole site smells a lot like cottage cheese.
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Post by Forresst on Jun 28, 2012 20:39:11 GMT -8
AHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA oh god ahahahahaha that's brilliant. I am so putting this everywhere.
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Post by Forresst on Jun 24, 2012 20:28:06 GMT -8
The tangible objects I've made have been craft-based. I made a pop-up thing that was a paper representation of a talisman/locket thing my players found on a dead bad guy. It was supposed to introduce a lost creation myth which was a huge component of the story. I know my one artistically-inclined player loved it and kept it. I'll see if he will take a picture.
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Post by Forresst on Jun 22, 2012 19:06:23 GMT -8
Oh, can I donate a prize to the prize bin? I work for starbucks, I get free coffee every week, if you want a pound of coffee for the prize bin I could give you one
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Post by Forresst on Jun 15, 2012 12:51:54 GMT -8
I MADE MINE! I MADE IT! It's in the hopper! I even asked on twitter!
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Post by Forresst on Jun 9, 2012 13:30:06 GMT -8
BAAAHAHAHA I love it! There's so many things that could apply to in the gamer world too.
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