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Re: Games you would run if you didn't have the players that you do
« Reply #30 on: May 04, 2009, 02:48:37 PM »
My RL character answers phones and arranges for people having medical devices inserted into them eight hours a day. Sometimes he eats a muffin. The muffin encounters are my favorite.

My RL character also lives for muffin encounters. Every Monday-Thursday he buys a Lemon Poppy-seed muffin from the coffee kiosk in the library, he usually washes this muffin down with some kind of hot tea, preferably green, and harasses his fellow colleagues about their projects.
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Re: Games you would run if you didn't have the players that you do
« Reply #31 on: May 04, 2009, 08:19:54 PM »
Wow, if only I had players.

One service worth mentioning for finding people is Nearby Gamers (http://nearbygamers.com/).  Depending on where you are, the penetration is OK, (though not here in 'Burque).

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Re: Games you would run if you didn't have the players that you do
« Reply #32 on: May 04, 2009, 08:28:55 PM »
Heh, welcome to a small world Klaatu. Another Albuquerque person right here.
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Re: Games you would run if you didn't have the players that you do
« Reply #33 on: May 04, 2009, 10:10:52 PM »
Wow, if only I had players.

One service worth mentioning for finding people is Nearby Gamers (http://nearbygamers.com/).  Depending on where you are, the penetration is OK, (though not here in 'Burque).

Penetration seems like an odd choice of words.

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Re: Games you would run if you didn't have the players that you do
« Reply #34 on: May 05, 2009, 03:06:09 AM »
Im up to trade RL character, I play a 23 year old engineering tech. trusted with highly sensitive, highly breakable, and very expensive microchips. your job is to sit in a "clean room" for eight hours and inspect each device at about 50X looking for scum, nitride delamination, and metal lifting off the N1 resistors. each wafer comes with over 1000 devices and about 18 wafers a box and you get about 10-15 boxes a day. you get to wear these spiffy out fits as a bonus...

http://lasp.colorado.edu/images/engineering/tech_cap/clean-room-suit.jpg

and have small Asian men yell at you all day, but its okay I have a pretty good "Dodge" and "Hide in Plain Sight".
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Re: Games you would run if you didn't have the players that you do
« Reply #35 on: May 05, 2009, 08:49:17 AM »
Since we are sharing RL characters, I figured I'd post the RL AD&D stat generator (at least one that I know about): http://kevinhaw.com/add_quiz.php

My RL stats by this one are:

STR - 9
DEX - 12
CON - 11
INT - 17
WIS - 15
CHA - 17

So, yes, I am a warlock.
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Re: Games you would run if you didn't have the players that you do
« Reply #36 on: May 05, 2009, 12:04:48 PM »
Level One Commoner for me thanks.

STR - 9
DEX - 9
CON - 12
INT - 13
WIS - 12
CHA - 8

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Re: Games you would run if you didn't have the players that you do
« Reply #37 on: May 05, 2009, 12:37:07 PM »
Str 15
Int 11
Wis 14
Dex 10
Con 13
Chr 12

Prety normal stats for me. slightly above advrage, im impressed I scored a 10 on dex haha!

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Re: Games you would run if you didn't have the players that you do
« Reply #38 on: May 05, 2009, 02:10:00 PM »
STR 7
INT 13
WIS 13
DEX 17
CON 9
CHA 17

BORN TO BE A SORCERER!!!
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Re: Games you would run if you didn't have the players that you do
« Reply #39 on: May 05, 2009, 02:29:03 PM »
STR:16
INT:13
WIS:15
DEX:12
CON:11
CHR:7

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Re: Games you would run if you didn't have the players that you do
« Reply #40 on: May 05, 2009, 04:40:28 PM »
I moved all of our prestatted characters to this thread.
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Re: Games you would run if you didn't have the players that you do
« Reply #41 on: May 06, 2009, 02:37:04 PM »
I'd love to play/run Houses of the Blooded.  Or anything other than 4th edition.  At my local shop we have a game every day of the week, but there all 4th edition  :P

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Re: Games you would run if you didn't have the players that you do
« Reply #42 on: May 06, 2009, 02:38:27 PM »
I don't know House of the Blooded. What's that one about?

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Re: Games you would run if you didn't have the players that you do
« Reply #43 on: May 06, 2009, 02:54:06 PM »
Www.housesoftheblooded.net

Created by John Wick, you take the role of nobles with land and peasants as opposed to dirty adventurers.  Gameplay focuses more on the social and politcal.  The system is unique in that you don't roll for success or failure.  You roll to take control of the narrative.  For example, if you attempt to jump from roof to roof, you  would take a "risk" and set aside some if the dice as wagers.  If you roll hits a target number, you get to dictate what happens plus a nmber of details equal to your wagers. So you might say
"I miss the other rooftop. I fall onto the balcony below.  A servant walks by and lets me in."
If you had three wagers and a successful role.  A failed role doesn't mean you fail, just that the GM dictates what happens.

Fighting has more specific rules to keep things in check but that's the basic idea.

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Re: Games you would run if you didn't have the players that you do
« Reply #44 on: May 06, 2009, 04:25:26 PM »
That sounds pretty cool. And it also sounds like something my players would never go for.

Also reminds me of another game I'd like to play: the ultra-rich variant in nWoD presented in City of the Damned. It was designed for Vampires: The Requiem but works for any of the systems. You play characters who make movements on the city scale, seizing, controlling, and protecting property, wealth, and influence.