kevinr
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Post by kevinr on Jul 16, 2012 17:52:08 GMT -8
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kevinr
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Post by kevinr on Jul 16, 2012 18:21:57 GMT -8
Oh and I also wanted to recommend for anyone looking for a rpg to play with children The Zorcerer of Zo. Fun little fairy tale world with easy rules even young children can pick up on fast and enjoy.
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Post by Kainguru on Jul 16, 2012 22:02:49 GMT -8
I thought it was purple spunk on the sword. As far as the books go, I can't read. Oh I read just fine, but I had my fill of Drizzt when a DM used him as an NPC. I remember your email about it . . . That really sucked (what the DM did). I read a couple of the early books and they weren't that bad, entertaining enough fluff for a quick read during ones lunch break, cliche despite the obvious twist . . . I don't understand the whole penis tugging fandom it's generated though. When GM's use fictional heroes as active NPC's surely they must realise that all they're doing is making sure that those players will never read/watch/listen to that sub-genre, ever. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2012 22:47:24 GMT -8
Hey, gents! I'm glad you guys enjoyed our audio intro...! It was fun. And, rather obviously, Stork was right... I was rather inspired by Stu's retired British Army officer.
I've taken to playing your show for the early arrivals on game nights... It's been pretty popular. Keep up the great work!
~ E.
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Post by CreativeCowboy on Jul 16, 2012 23:55:39 GMT -8
Back in my day, mercifully, no one wanted to straight jacket themselves with someone else's role to play. Of course, we still dressed in cowboy hats and genuine imitation pearl-handled six guns and went outside, phsyically pretending to be Matt Dillion  Thought it is because I stopped playing with 8-13 year olds, maybe, but I do not see that fantasy outlet happening now. The western theme parks I knew are gone, a shameful sign of the electronic times. The closest thing we came to using someone else's imagination in our game was to replay the Sarlac Pit scene from Star Wars with our own characters when Return of The Jedi had just been released. At my gamers' table in Poland, one player played literary characters. Like having Ditzit at your table, imitated by character and played by player. Everything would have been fine were I R.A. Salvatore I am sure. Not having read any of that particular author's output, it was hard for me to railroad myself into someone else's interpretation of someone else's role... and the more I think about the whole episode, the more I appreciate Walter Benjamin's observations about the affects of "mechanical reproduction" upon the art of our hobby. You think I chose the alternate opening for Gunsmoke by mistake? |
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HyveMynd
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Post by HyveMynd on Jul 17, 2012 2:48:39 GMT -8
Speaking for myself, I'm not offended by lingerie-sorcereress outfits, peekaboo nipples, or LOOK AT MY PUDENDA, YE MIGHTY, AND DESPAIR poses. I just don't want my porn on my gaming table. I like tits; but I don't have titty posters framed on my wall, because I'm a grownup. I'm immediately disinclined to buy any book with a cover like this, because gaming is a social activity, and gaming books are just as much a public display as a t-shirt or a table centerpiece. These are precisely my feelings as well, henryhankovitch. I think you summed that up very nicely. That Exalted cover is a fantastic image. I love it. But I would probably not buy that book specifically because of the cover image. The vast majority of people, even other gamers, who saw me reading a book like that would assume I was reading anime porn. This is why I have a problem with the prevalence of these types of images in gaming media, why I railed against that horrible Tentacle Bento game so strongly, and why I find bikini-clad booth babes problematic. Because it gives people the impression that all gamers are socially awkward, sexually frustrated deviants. As was said several times in the episode, a hobby is always judged by the worst example. This goes doubly so in Japan. When I first told my girlfriend (who is Japanese) that I played games, she got this odd expression on her face. She seemed reluctant to ask about my hobby and what I was doing on the weekends I spent with my gaming group. After living here for several years I found out why. It's because here in Japan, 99 times out of 100 games have the suggestively posed, bikini-wearing, bra-busting, gravity-and-anatomy-defying female character splashed all over everything. And because of that, your average Japanese citizen assumes that ALL games are like that, and assumes that ALL gamers are immature, socially stunted individuals who would rather collect plastic dolls than actually be a part of society. I posted an example of this in the Ace of Aces thread. Hobby Japan turned those old Lost Worlds combat books into a clothes-ripping cat fighting game, where immature guys can drool over anime girls in very suggestive "fighting" poses. Several people including Stork and sirguido have mentioned the Dominion card game before. Arclight Games got a hold of it and made Tantou Cuore, a deck building card game that has the theme of collecting a harem of cute, female maids for your mansion. They also made Barbarossa, another deck building card game based on Germany's military campaign into Russia during WWII. Except that the German characters and units are all depicted as lingerie-wearing anime chicks straddling tank barrels and machine guns in a suggestive manner. I've played the "special edition" of Barbarossa which uses actual WWII photos instead of the anime girls, and it's a great game. But anyone who looks at the "standard" edition would assume that the game is either juvenile or somehow bad, simply because of the choice of illustrations. Not even Dungeons & Dragons was spared from that over here. The Japanese language companion book (not any of the actual game books put out by WotC) has a half-naked, gravity-defying female elf splashed all across the cover. I'll see if I can snap a photo of it the next time I'm at the bookstore. |
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Post by jazzisblues on Jul 17, 2012 6:18:54 GMT -8
This has always been a gripe of mine (the prevalence of the bikini clad gravity defying ...). It ranks right up there imho with armor with spikes sticking out all over the place. I've worn armor you really don't want anything sticking out if you can help it. Things like that tend to grab weapons and guide them right to the tender bits you were trying to protect in the first place.
JiB
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2012 7:55:16 GMT -8
MEDDING? Seriously, Stork, you thought it said "MEDDING kids?" Because Scooby-Doo trademarked "Meddling," so you figured rather than a synonym, they just took out a letter, and that would make sense.
*headdesk*
--Pukka Tukka
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Post by bloodsparrow on Jul 17, 2012 9:27:44 GMT -8
When I first started playing Tabletop RPGs, I was coming off playing Infocom text adventures. So any time the DM mentioned something as flavor I was all over it. I picked EVERYTHING up at first. I eventually calmed down.
Secondly, I would be down with running for Afganicon.
I also agree with "living your life out loud", as my friend Brett likes to call "not giving a shit if people know what a nerd you are".
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Post by bloodsparrow on Jul 17, 2012 9:31:02 GMT -8
I agree that Gen Con So Cal was pretty good for a while. I got to play True Dungeon. That was a blast.
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Post by Kainguru on Jul 17, 2012 9:59:52 GMT -8
I also agree with "living your life out loud", as my friend Brett likes to call "not giving a shit if people know what a nerd you are". Yeah abso-fucking-lutely . . . |
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Post by jazzisblues on Jul 17, 2012 10:08:35 GMT -8
When I first started playing Tabletop RPGs, I was coming off playing Infocom text adventures. So any time the DM mentioned something as flavor I was all over it. I picked EVERYTHING up at first. I eventually calmed down. Secondly, I would be down with running for Afganicon. I also agree with "living your life out loud", as my friend Brett likes to call "not giving a shit if people know what a nerd you are". I couldn't possibly agree more ... Because my interests are somewhat varied ... In addition to tabletop rpgs, I play music (badly but I play), and I'm a USA Hockey Official I can assert with a large degree of certainty that most everyone is geeky about something. The question is what are they geeky about? Own your geekitude people wear those horn rims with pride. JiB |
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Post by bloodsparrow on Jul 17, 2012 10:21:56 GMT -8
Re: Tyler's story about beer.
That is exactly what Tim Chetlet sounds like when he talks.
I had something similar happen to me with Bass Ale.
Also, Angry Orchard is awesome!
Somebody handed me an MGD Light Cider the other day... The best I can say is that it's not offensive. It's not good or bad, it just is.
I think Boddington's would make a good Snake Bite with some Angry Orchard... I should try that.
Shiner makes a prickly pear beer in a limited run that comes in the Shiner "family packs". That one is interesting.
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Post by uselesstriviaman on Jul 18, 2012 2:40:02 GMT -8
RE: The email from Zach, the listener stationed at Camp Red Cloud in Korea: HOO-AH!Back in 1991 I was stationed just up the road at Camp Essayons (in the 6/37 Field Artillery). It was less than ten minutes' drive, or about half an hour's walk if you walked it. I spent some quality goof-off time over there at CRC. (Tangent: I just googled Camp Essayons, and I'm a little saddened to discover that Essayons was shut down and has been empty for a few years now.) -Best of luck to you Zach! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Awesome-sauce kudos to kevinr for his Goblins webcomic reference above. Goblins! is hands-down my absolute favorite webcomic, gaming or otherwise. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *sigh* Drizzt Do'urden wields two scimitars. His blade Icingdeath was recovered from the hoard of a white dragon, and is a +3 Frost Brand. His blade Twinkle was a gift from a wizard, and is supposedly either a +5 Defender or a +2 Defender (depending on which D&D edition you prefer), and it glowed blue Sting-style, but it didn't actually have any fire abilities whatsoever. (Yeah, I've read the whole series. I got burned out on 'em a long while back, but my buddy is still scooping up every single new story as soon as it's released. He loans them to me as soon as he's done with 'em, even though I really don't have any interest in them any more. I force myself to read them for the sake of our friendship.)  |
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HyveMynd
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Post by HyveMynd on Jul 18, 2012 4:29:59 GMT -8
Nope. Stop right there. Who names their sword fucking Twinkle, even if it does actually twinkle? Maybe a 6-year old girl, but that's about it. I've never read a Drizzt book in my life (and I don't intend to), but I'm starting to suspect that he actually got kicked out of Menzoboranzen (or however you spell it) because he was a fucking sissy boy. |
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