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Post by Stu Venable on Jun 13, 2014 10:17:00 GMT -8
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Post by HourEleven on Jun 16, 2014 10:56:40 GMT -8
Just wanted to say to the guy with the completely whacked out DND game who is about to start Gurps:
Take a look at Rifts. Every game of Rifts I played back in the day turned out just like the story you described.
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Post by SirGuido on Jun 16, 2014 13:25:11 GMT -8
In my current gaming group we have 7 members(and miraculously its not shit with that many its really nice actually), out of the 7 we have 5 GMs. All of us, I believe, became GMs due to prodding from someone else. We all love to do it now. If you have someone in your group that has a slight spark of interest in GMing, find something that they know well, are interested in... and hand them a game that does that thing. If you have to, help them prep it to some extent. Then let them run it.
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Post by joecrak on Jun 16, 2014 15:41:43 GMT -8
In response to the New Yorker looking for a convention in midatlantic region I offer to him DexCon Morristown, NJ, My favorite gaming convention. I know plenty of New Yorkers that take the train down to it. And In November, my Friends and I are doing Nerdvember for a full weekend outside Philadelphia!
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Kurt
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Post by Kurt on Jun 16, 2014 17:08:01 GMT -8
I miss ONE show and "Other Kurt" shows up, again! I'll have to listen to it tonight because the description sounds pretty good.
Rolemaster Kurt. Portland Kurt. The One True Kurt. Muffin.
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Post by ayslyn on Jun 16, 2014 21:00:53 GMT -8
I haven't been to DexCon in a long time, but it was a great convention when I was going.
Connecticut has ConnCon and Connecticon
Some of the rest of these may have stopped running,
Total Confusion Con of Five Nations PointCon
Diplomacy is a great game, and yes it can end relationships.... I don't remember if this is RAW or just something we did, but we also insisted that orders be carried out as written and not by their intent. We've seen some games swing on a miss-written order more than a few times.
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Post by Stu Venable on Jun 17, 2014 7:22:12 GMT -8
I think that is RAW. We did the same thing. "It's not what you mean, it's what you write."
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Post by Stu Venable on Jun 17, 2014 11:22:47 GMT -8
I remember some arguments about which 3-letter abbreviations were clear enough to distinguish one area from another. It was a little crazy at times. Most of us started writing out the whole names of the regions.
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Post by ayslyn on Jun 17, 2014 20:51:18 GMT -8
Yup. Better to be clear than crushed. ^.^
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Post by uselesstriviaman on Jun 18, 2014 4:54:20 GMT -8
I've only ever played Diplomacy once; I enjoyed it, but my cousin refused to speak to me for a couple of months thereafter.
On a related note, but at some point in the 70's my parents and aunt/uncle agreed to never play Monopoly again after a game nearly caused two divorces...
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Post by Kainguru on Jun 18, 2014 6:20:00 GMT -8
Aaron
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Post by HourEleven on Jun 18, 2014 9:31:37 GMT -8
My two cents about preludes, because no one has mentioned it yet:
I almost always run preludes. If we've played the system before, I run them in order for player to get their character sorted (Fate has a lot of "or leave it blank and figure it out while playing" which can happen during preludes).
If the system is new to my players, I use the prelude like a one-on-one mechanics tutorial, making sure they experience each type of skill contest in a system, a brief combat (even if it's just an arm wrestling match) and any special junk so all the plays feel comfortable with their character and the new system before the actual session.
My favorite way to prelude is to ask them for a moment in their character's backstory that isn't detailed in either what they wrote or in their mind and have them give me one vague sentence about it: "he stopped being friends with tony that summer in '87." And that moment (and the events leading up to it) become the prelude - so it's still full of surprises for the player.
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Post by fredrix on Jun 18, 2014 11:07:54 GMT -8
Ah talk of Junta and Diplomacy reminds me of my schooldays when we used to play quite a bit of Diplomacy between RPGs at the School Wargames Club. I only ever won once, and the trick it seemed to me, was work hard on getting your neighbours to trust you, and then when they leave a flank open march as are as you can into their hinterland. You have to move quick though, and get the requisite number of supply centres within a couple of turns, because after than everyone will turn on you. My only win was playing Turkey, allied with Russia to move west as far as Vienna then invading the caucus and North Africa in one move to meet the victory conditions (much to everyone's annoyance). If I hadn't won they'd have splatter me next turn.
Of course, Diplomacy in Kindergarten stuff. Real men play Machiavelli, set in Italy, it's Diplomacy plus resource management. I NEVER won at that game, and my schoolmate Dave Thompson won pretty much every time. Until he went to Oxbridge... One time I recall. I was playing the Vatican, he was playing Florence, and I was having trouble with Milan. He offered to reinforce me, so I let his armies over my border, and he invaded. I'm an idiot. But he was a brilliant diplomat.
Or course, even realler men play Supremacy - Diplomacy with resource management ... and Nukes.
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Post by Kainguru on Jun 18, 2014 12:20:57 GMT -8
Yes Machiavelli!!!! That one is the real relationship wrecker - voices always get raised and grown men cry . . . Aaron
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Post by RobMITC on Jun 19, 2014 7:27:32 GMT -8
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