OT: Gaming & D&D updates...

[Chang Style Novice]

Doofus.

by the way, I just took the "What horrible affliction are you?" test and rumandmonkey.com, and it turns out I'm rickets.

[txwingchun]

Originally posted by The Willow Sword
TWS: X-BOX

GAMES: HALO,,,,Medal of Honor,,,,,Ghost recon,,,,,UNREAL.

I am the Master of 1st person shooters and i will go up against any of y'all ANYDAY to prove it.

TWS

I just got my x box 2 months ago I'm loving it so far. HALO kicks A S S. Unreal is much better online though. I do bleed better than I shoot but i don't care it's fun.

[Sharky]

I used to be in a division 1 clan and was a on the UK Quakeworld team (never played though).

I don't like any games other than quake really. GT3 is good on the ps2.

q2 and q3 are gay. don't have a pc anymore, and qw id dead

Only thing stopping me getting better on qw was the phone bills i used to rack up!

Oooh la laa!

I admit. That was pretty sad. But i'll admit to anyone at anytime that quakeworld is the greated game ever built for multiplayer. Amazing.

[Mr Punch]

Interesting link cheers CSN (not sure about the Quenya pish but... I'm Eruanno too!).

According to this site , Matthew means 'Gift of God' from Hebrew, and James comes from Jacob ('the supplanter'), and this site says Hill comes from old German Hild meaning 'Battle'!!! We must fight!!!

Used to play Warhammer RP, Warhammer Battle, Runequest, MERP, T&T, and the best: Bushido. GMmed a lot. Modified MERP (to make it more Tolkienesque) and T&T (to give it a playing age older than 5!) a lot, and wrote one complete system based on the 87th Precinct novels of Ed McBain. It played well and was popular amongst my friends.

Never cried when a character died, but when GMming Bushido, my friend's 3 year, 6th level Samurai was ordered out of a building to investigate a strange noise by a higher level Samurai player and was summarily executed by a rogue psychotic ninja demon. This caused a major falling out between the kid whose character died and the other kid, and myself... including a near set-to and tears (not from me!!).

Then I hit 14 and 15 and discovered the entire contents of my signatures, and the games were history!!!

[GunnedDownAtrocity]

i have a ps2 and a puter. i have a habbit of picking a couple games i really like and playing those almost exclusively.

sadly i still play ultima online. i dunno ... no game can make my heart pound the way it doesn when pking someone in uo.

lots of tekken. lately been playing a little mk5. i think its definately the best fighting game since tekken tag.

"I am the Master of 1st person shooters and i will go up against any of y'all ANYDAY to prove it."

your on for sof2. my name is GunnedDownAtrocity and i usually play one of the earthquake deathmatch servers.

i have tried a lot of other shooters, but i always end up comparing them to sof2 and dont play them for very long. medal of honor is ok, but sof2 has better graphics, net code, feel, and aiming so just can't manage to get into it.

[JusticeZero]

HERO, D$D, whatever someone cares to put in front of me; since the 80's;Cry? Whaat? I yelled once after a 16 hour game and being awake 28 hours only to finish by having 3/4 of the party slaughtered by evil-aligned PC's though, if that counts.;No.

[FatherDog]

Originally posted by Oso
Ok, who games?
What do you play?
How long?

Since 7th grade. (that's roughly 11 years or so.)

I've played:

D&D, AD&D, AD&D 2nd edition, D&D 3rd edition, Palladium Fantasy, Rifts, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness, Marvel Superheros, GURPS, GURPS IOU, Delta Green, Call of Cthulhu, Kult (1st printing), Paranoia, Hunter Planet, Cybergeneration, Unknown Armies, Vampire: The Masquerade, Werewolf: The Apocalypse, Mage: The Ascension, Changeling: The Dreaming, Wraith: The Oblivion, Exalted, Mythus: Dangerous Journeys, All Flesh Must Be Eaten, Teenagers From Outer Space, Kobolds Ate My Baby, the official Buffy the Vampire Slayer RPG, and several different home-brewed systems.

Have you ever gone to bed and cried for a week when a
character died?

Lord, no.

Have you ever used an old character's name for an email, avatar
or some other purpose besides gaming?

Father Dogeron Patrick Christopher O'Reilly.


I own a PS2 and some fighting games and platform games, as well; they pass the time. I'm not much into first person shooters, though.

[Oso]

I was wondering if anyone had ever hit that game.

Wasn't it just gurps in a different wrapper? Never played
gurps so I don't know.

FTR, never cried over a character dying but I've never had a
character die permanently so I haven't tested that boundary.
But, I would be man enough to say so if I did.

I recycle old character names at this point. To tired to be more
creative.

I'd like to get back into d&d having finally accepted 3ed but after
checking out the only gaming store in town I will not play with
the punk freaks in there. I'm sure there are adult groups around
but they are probably long time friends. I scared the **** out of
the last group I tried to join and they were only an average of 5
years younger than I was. sissies.

[Marshdrifter]

Originally posted by Oso
I was wondering if anyone had ever hit that game.

Wasn't it just gurps in a different wrapper? Never played
gurps so I don't know.

I believe it was the Palladium system, like the one they use for
Rifts, but I'm not totally sure about that.

I've been gaming for 18 years now.

I've played AD&D, Star Frontiers (dear God, make the pain stop!),
Runequest, Cyberpunk 2020, Feng Shui, SWAN (my homebrew),
and a host of others. The biggest problem with a homebrew
system is that all other systems, even the ones I always loved,
seem to suck ass afterwards. I've lost plenty of characters, but
it doesn't really bum me out that much. OTOH, in the last
campaign I was playing in, one of the players lost his character.
In 15 years of gaming, he had never lost a character before
(probably because he plays really conservatively) and was
visibly shaken up. I felt sort of bad, but not too much as it wasn't
directly my character's fault.

[txwingchun]

Yes TMNT uses the palladium system. It took me a while to accept 3e I'm still not totally sold on it but most of my players like the system.

[Oso]

yea, it took me a while to accept 2ed as well.
I like some things about 3ed

what bugs me about bigtoycompany/wizards/tsr is that they have
taken all the imagination out of the game with all of the extra
stuff (like kits). Who doesn't play w/ house rules? To me
they are now just coming off like they are just trying to make the
money and nothing else. Maybe I'm just romantic for my old pink
box. ( )

fav house rule:
generate stat's by using a base of 7 and rolling
a d4. (8-11) Every level gained roll a d100+50 for class prime
requisites and d100 for all others. Do this through 9th level
(which, as you know was the old "name/title" level.

fav char
Phaid
a half elven druid/thief. Illegal class under 1ed/2ed rules but
was able to justify it to the dm.

[Sharky]

I ain't heard of any of the games u mension

[Marshdrifter]

Originally posted by Oso
what bugs me about bigtoycompany/wizards/tsr is that they have
taken all the imagination out of the game with all of the extra
stuff (like kits). Who doesn't play w/ house rules? To me
they are now just coming off like they are just trying to make the
money and nothing else. Maybe I'm just romantic for my old pink
box. ( )

You sort of have to consider the economics of the situation. A
game company has a game. People buy the game. Unless you
come out with another game or supplements, they'll never buy
another thing from you. Even with a popular system, the company
will still fail. There are only a finite number of gamers. I sometimes
feel bad because I rarely buy any games to keep my game store
open. Luckily they also sell comics. It's important for a game shop
to stay open in the area because it's the only way other people
will start gaming, they've got the only local games bulletin board,
and what if a new game comes out that I actually want (e.g.
Munchkin which is actually worth the cost -- really).

For what it's worth, I think the D20 system was a much needed
overhaul to a really poor (yet easy to play) system. I haven't
played the D20 system, but some of the changes sound like a
step in the right direction.

As for house rules, I never changed the rules for AD&D (either
1st or 2nd ed), however I did use some I found off the net for
CP2020. My homebrew was my first honest attempt at creating
my own rules.

Ah someone brought up the ol' favorite character thread. Oso,
you really are a gamer geek.

I once had a ranger I was pretty fond of. Played him for roughly
4 years. Don't remember much about him, though. More recently,
I had a blacksmith. Most of the other players had trouble dealing
with him because he was a blacksmith. A little brawling, but
other than that, no combat skills.

The best character concept I've seen in a long time was played
by a friend of mine in Feng Shui late last month. He was playing
a Japanese ninja who wanted to be a cowboy. That was fun. I
don't like Feng Shui's combat system. It seemed to take way too
long for one player to kill off another. Maybe I misunderstood the
mechanics of the system.


Sharky:
Most of the games mentioned on this thread are "dead tree and
ivory" (aka paper and dice) games and not electronic games.

[Oso]

Oh, I understand the economics of it. I'm a bit anti-coporate
having worked for a couple of large companies.

It won't prevent me from from playing but I was really dismayed
to hear that Wizards was bought by MB or Hasbro one.

The gaming store here sucks...there's this idiot kid who works
there that I just want to pinch the head off of.

He's just to arrogant and tries to talk the talk and obviously
(at least to me) couldn't walk the walk. He's let the games give
him the idea that he could do some of the stuff his character
could......ooops, sorry, mild rant about a punk that shouldn't be
bothering me.

[Marshdrifter]

Originally posted by Oso
Oh, I understand the economics of it. I'm a bit anti-coporate
having worked for a couple of large companies.

It won't prevent me from from playing but I was really dismayed
to hear that Wizards was bought by MB or Hasbro one.

Yeah, there were also the rumours about the reasons Hasbro
had bought Wizards and what they were planning on doing with
it, of course, I was pretty much done with any of their products
(except maybe Roborally) by that point, so I didn't care all that
much. Well... maybe a little.

I was more dismayed with Wizards bought out T$R. I never liked
T$R, but I disliked Wizards more.

He's let the games give him the idea that he could do some of the stuff his character could

Hey, my friends and I resemble that remark. My friend who always
played the ranger now teaches wilderness survival classes for the
Air Force. I have better (imo) hand to hand combat abilities than
quite a few of my characters, not to mention having more common
sense than a lot of my characters ("Well... it's bound to be a
trap... aw hell, let's do it anyway.").

But, yes, I understand.