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Post by SirGuido on Jun 27, 2013 5:27:22 GMT -8
There's a big 'ol underground complex near where I live called "Inner Space"... I've been meaning to go down there. Though I have told not to go there during the summer because it will be filled to the brim with the childrens... Does Dennis Quaid live there?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2013 13:36:15 GMT -8
Don't forget Martin Short!
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Post by stork on Jun 28, 2013 8:05:25 GMT -8
Ah that's ok Stork...its not like you are expected to know all of Spinal Taps drummers... "you can't really dust for vomit..." "just a little green globule..." classic.
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Post by Stu Venable on Jun 28, 2013 8:25:43 GMT -8
I can recite damn near every line in Spinal Tap.
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Post by gina on Jun 28, 2013 14:44:10 GMT -8
Re: Tyler's camping & gaming: There is/has been such a thing, but I'm with off-camera Bill, a cabin would make it waay better. Bugs, eww.
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Post by SirGuido on Jun 28, 2013 15:04:32 GMT -8
A friend of mine held CabinCon a few months back. He and a few of his guy friends grabbed a cabin at the local state park(I had to work or Id have gone), and played board, card, and roleplaying games all weekend long. Sounds like bliss.
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Post by Stu Venable on Jun 28, 2013 15:07:34 GMT -8
That's. Not. Camping.
That's staying in a motel in the woods.
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Post by gina on Jun 28, 2013 15:38:33 GMT -8
That's. Not. Camping. That's staying in a motel in the woods. Indeed, it may be. :) "New York is where I'd rather stay. I get allergic smelling hay. I just adore a penthouse view. Darling, I love you, but give me Park Avenue."
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Post by D.T. Pints on Jun 28, 2013 16:29:31 GMT -8
That's. Not. Camping. That's staying in a motel in the woods. Smells like Boy Scout round here...
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Post by Stu Venable on Jun 28, 2013 18:29:53 GMT -8
Damn Straight.
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Post by sbloyd on Jun 28, 2013 18:54:06 GMT -8
Two weeks camping at Pennsic War, plus gaming. That was a good year.
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Post by D.T. Pints on Jun 28, 2013 19:19:19 GMT -8
That's. Not. Camping. That's staying in a motel in the woods. Smells like Boy Scout round here... Or maybe its just centaur I'm smellin...I recall smelling like a goat on many a jamboree. Now that's CAMPIN!
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Post by SirGuido on Jun 28, 2013 19:35:47 GMT -8
I was a Life Scout, I've camped rough. Fuck that shit. I'll take the motel in the woods version thanks.
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Post by gina on Jun 28, 2013 19:52:46 GMT -8
I was a Life Scout, I've camped rough. Fuck that shit. I'll take the motel in the woods version thanks. Woot! We can camp any time!
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Post by henryhankovitch on Jun 28, 2013 21:04:23 GMT -8
Alright, since Rogue Trader has come up a couple times now, here's your Quick Guide to 40k RPGs.
Basically, Fantasy Flight Games has been putting out a series of RPGs using roughly the same system in the Warhammer 40k universe. But as far as I know, it doesn't have any significant overlap with Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (though I haven't looked at the latest edition in any detail so I don't know what FFG is doing with it). All the games broadly use the same percentile dice system, stat and skill mechanics, etc. You could technically take a character from one game and plop him down in a different 40k RPG and play him; though you'd have to handwave the significant power differences and numerous small changes between the books.
Dark Heresy is the game where you're playing low-level minions of the Inquisition, looking for mutants, aliens, and heretics. I tend to call it "Call of Cthulhu in space." Characters are fairly low-powered--though they still have access to 40k gear like flamethrowers and rocket-pistols. But so do your enemies. Getting shot in the head is bad, and people with guns are scary.
Rogue Trader is the big spaceship game. A Rogue Trader is basically like a 40k conquistador: he has a Warrant of Trade that puts him almost completely above the law as long as he goes out into the unknown and conquers stuff in the name of the Imperium. PCs are the captain and senior officers of a ship, the smallest of which is over a kilometer long with more than 10,000 crew on board. Of course, the vast majority of the crew are illiterate, ignorant deck-swabbers and rope-haulers and are utterly beneath the notice of the PCs.
Deathwatch is the game where you play SPESS MAHREENS. With all that implies. You're huge, you have huge guns, you kill huge aliens and stuff.
Black Crusade is the game where you play the bad guys, the [would-be] minions of the Chaos Gods who want to wreck everything and cover it in spikes. It's noteworthy in that it's the one game that puts Space Marine and regular human characters in the same book, and expects them to more or less complement each other.
Only War is the latest game, in which you play Imperial Guardsmen. It's War Movie: the Game, and your PCs can be anything from the crew of a huge battle tank, to spear-wielding conscripts from some primitive colony world.
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