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Post by Crimhthan The Great on Mar 2, 2023 22:12:02 GMT -5
Huzzah!! Huzzah!! Huzzah!! for mao!
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Post by Crimhthan The Great on Feb 26, 2023 20:03:40 GMT -5
I've been reading and following along TPD and I agree with you doing it on the fly is easier than writing it down cold by yourself. I get you are like me and could create at least half to all of that in a single 6-8 hour game session.
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Post by Crimhthan The Great on Feb 26, 2023 19:59:20 GMT -5
This thread is a fascinating read and I'm working on adding more to it. This is an oldie, but a goodie. I don't use demons myself, but this is a great how to thread.
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Post by Crimhthan The Great on Feb 26, 2023 19:57:26 GMT -5
I've never read any of the Pellucidar novels but I have seen the old movie. Now I want to read them even more. You should read them, they are a lot of fun, great world building.
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Post by Crimhthan The Great on Feb 26, 2023 19:56:30 GMT -5
IMO BtB is often absurd. Why some people think making the rules like cells with iron bars and locked doors and straitjackets is a fun way to play is something that I will never understand. YES! When I first picked up Villains & Vigilantes the first rule I changed was determining attributes. V&V wanted you & the GM to assess the players and base attributes off that. No thank you. We're playing larger than life superheroes. There's no reason we can't just roll 3D6 for abilities. That's what we did. Wow, I would hate to have to use my current real life stats in a game. That would suck.
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Post by Crimhthan The Great on Feb 26, 2023 19:54:35 GMT -5
I'm 85, I think this is all nuts, but you're not hurting anyone, so it's your business. I wouldn't kick an old friend out of my game nor end the friendship. I would set down with him and try to figure out where all this is coming from, but you don't turn on a friend unless they have actually done something heinous to someone else that did not have it coming. I didn't kick anyone out of anything. I was told I wasn't welcome around him and his family anymore. I was referring to what he did, he ended the friendship. I was saying I would not do what he did.
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Post by Crimhthan The Great on Feb 26, 2023 17:37:02 GMT -5
How is it not a problem? Super charged vampires, now that is nightmare!
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Post by Crimhthan The Great on Feb 26, 2023 17:35:53 GMT -5
Crimhthan The Great That rule is TOTAL CRAP! Even at our young ages back in the early 1980s, we could tell when it was best to just ignore something. We definitely ignored that one. I can remember reading it in the rules and thinking "Nope, not going to happen.". We always treated the end of the session like pushing the PAUSE button on the VCR or a video game. We would keep track of the overall passage of time in the game but it was more of "yeah, that sounds good" sort of thing. By the book is absurd in this case. IMO BtB is often absurd. Why some people think making the rules like cells with iron bars and locked doors and straitjackets is a fun way to play is something that I will never understand.
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Post by Crimhthan The Great on Feb 26, 2023 17:32:35 GMT -5
We(and I include myself) can derail a thread like nobody else. It's a talent! I guess what I am unartfully trying to say is that I came out to my friend as transgender at the ripe age of 52, which should have come as no genuine shock to anyone who knows me (I don't think it did to my wife). I've always kind of known but never really knew until a few months ago. Of course, to him it makes me a weird child sexual predator bugaboo, never mind everything else that came before. Okay, so be it. I am still me, I'll just be different on the outside, but he won't see that. Oh, and I'll be happy and whole for a change. Sadly, I know the OSR is full of that sort of thing, so I am afraid it sort of puts an end to gaming for me since I don't like newer editions and that really breaks my heart. Maybe I can spend time going back and playing classic computer games I never got to play? I don't know. I'm 85, I think this is all nuts, but you're not hurting anyone, so it's your business. I wouldn't kick an old friend out of my game nor end the friendship. I would set down with him and try to figure out where all this is coming from, but you don't turn on a friend unless they have actually done something heinous to someone else that did not have it coming.
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Post by Crimhthan The Great on Feb 26, 2023 17:22:19 GMT -5
The whole premise of the video stems from Gygax and his insistence that every moment between games is time that passes in the game world equal to the real world.
When I first read that years ago, my response was Gygax must be drunk. I have never used this at all. Zero time passes between games in my campaign. We play a game during the eight hours of the game we play through a couple of months of game time, then we spend about 4 hours (game time) in a dungeon and then the game needs to end for the day.
The 1-1 time folks take the position that if the characters don't get out of the dungeon and back to town before the game ends then they are in that dungeon or part of the wilderness for the next week or two weeks or however long it is in the real world helpless before all the random encounters that happen during that time period. He even tries to claim that it is more fair that way. He lies!
No, the fair way is that no time passes in the game world between games under normal circumstances, you are in the dungeon and you pick up right where you left off. Now if you were back in town and you characters planned to do something during the time between games, nothing wrong with having time pass for that, but to have time pass between games if you are in a dungeon just means that even though we have two hours of time to play the game, because that is not enough time to go into the dungeon and get back out before we adjourn for the day, we have to stop playing because we can't get caught in the dungeon. Stupid rule, shame on Gygax and his soapbox and the St. Gygax zealots that think his word is law.
What you do is handle time in a way that benefits the game, the campaign and the players. If what you are doing does not benefit all three, then you need to fix it.
Now in my case I ran one group of players, I did not have multiple groups that I ran in the same real estate and those groups had a different mix of players in each session, so that having the groups out of sync would be a problem. But I think the "1-1 out of game Time" is a silly way to fix the problem. After all one of his points is to have more characters per person. You don't need "1-1 Time" for that. Just tell the players that we keep track of where you are and if you in one adventure right now, then to play in this game session you have to play a different character.
Now as far as having the various players out of sync, if the players want two specific characters to game together, then one will hold that character out until the other character gets back if he survives.
We also had another rule, if you character was part of an ongoing adventure and you could not make the game, then the other players ran your character for you. I can see some people reacting to that with horror. But you have to remember that we were in our late thirties when D&D came out and we were life long friends. We could trust each other. Few people these days, especially among the new school crowd know even one person they can trust.
Yes, we played a lot of pranks on each other in and out of game. But that never extended to getting a character killed or damaging their place in the game.
So much of what I hear and listen to and read these days just boils down to "these people just need to grow up."
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Post by Crimhthan The Great on Feb 26, 2023 16:56:23 GMT -5
This guy says "The Most Important D&D Rule You Missed: 1-1 Time" I beg to differ, but watch the video and then I will post my thoughts in the second post in the thread.
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Post by Crimhthan The Great on Jan 1, 2023 13:08:47 GMT -5
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Post by Crimhthan The Great on Jan 1, 2023 13:07:29 GMT -5
Happy New Year! to one and all
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Post by Crimhthan The Great on Dec 6, 2022 11:53:08 GMT -5
Been playing OD&D for 48 years and have yet to find anything else worth giving any time to.
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Post by Crimhthan The Great on Nov 24, 2022 9:50:04 GMT -5
Welcome to our new member @naoh ! Welcome @naoh!
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Post by Crimhthan The Great on Nov 24, 2022 9:48:14 GMT -5
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Post by Crimhthan The Great on Nov 10, 2022 12:26:17 GMT -5
I got really quick service at the fish and chip shop. It was very e-fish-ent
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Post by Crimhthan The Great on Nov 10, 2022 12:26:03 GMT -5
Had a bowl of scotch broth for lunch today... It was souper hot.
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Post by Crimhthan The Great on Nov 10, 2022 12:25:43 GMT -5
I'm thinking about getting a new haircut... I'm going to mullet over.
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Post by Crimhthan The Great on Nov 10, 2022 12:25:33 GMT -5
My wife just split up with me because I've got a pasta fetish. I'm feeling cannelloni right now.
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Post by Crimhthan The Great on Nov 10, 2022 12:25:19 GMT -5
Last night me and my girlfriend watched three DVDs back to back. Luckily I was the one facing the telly.
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Post by Crimhthan The Great on Nov 10, 2022 12:24:11 GMT -5
It was really hard overcoming my addiction to the hokey cokey. But I turned myself around and that’s what it’s all about.
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Post by Crimhthan The Great on Nov 10, 2022 12:23:28 GMT -5
My wife said to me "Your lack of originality is pathetic."I said "Yeah, well your lack of originality is pathetic."
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Post by Crimhthan The Great on Nov 10, 2022 12:23:15 GMT -5
Was kept awake last night by someone flashing a light in my face. It was torch-ure.
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Post by Crimhthan The Great on Nov 10, 2022 12:23:05 GMT -5
I've deleted the phone numbers of all the Germans I know from my mobile phone. Now it's Hans free.
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Post by Crimhthan The Great on Nov 10, 2022 12:22:42 GMT -5
A girl walks into a bar and asked for a double entendre. So the barman gave her one.
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Post by Crimhthan The Great on Nov 10, 2022 12:22:31 GMT -5
I like sea food. I often just have it for the halibut.
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Post by Crimhthan The Great on Nov 10, 2022 12:22:15 GMT -5
I'm glad I know sign language, it's pretty handy.
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Post by Crimhthan The Great on Nov 10, 2022 12:22:03 GMT -5
Breaking news! A hurricane has just hit the the main cheese factory in France. All that's left is de-Brie.
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Post by Crimhthan The Great on Nov 10, 2022 12:21:52 GMT -5
A red and a blue ship have just collided in the Caribbean. Apparently the survivors are marooned.
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