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RPGs / Re: Games you would run if you didn't have the players that you do

« on: April 29, 2009, 05:20:07 PM »

Anything that requires any kind of minimal bookeeping/rule remembering/math.  My players are artsy flakes.

I'd love to do a Rogue Trader/Mercantile empire builder -type of game using GURPS.  Actually, I think I would prefer to play than run that.

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General Chaos / Re: So do you guys like Star Wars The Clone Wars on Cartoon network?

« on: April 20, 2009, 08:39:58 PM »

Character animation is awesome.  Very fluid for the Jedi, even more so when using their Force Jump and Force Tumble. 

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RPGs / Re: A Study in the Logic of Gaming

« on: April 13, 2009, 01:08:00 PM »

Let me tell you about my group.

First, there are 5 members, 3 male and 2 female, plus me, alpha dude.  Four persons work in the video game industry, for three different companies, one's a doctor (MD) and another is in IT.  I'm usually stuck being the GM, because even if I'm the least creative person in the group, I'm the only one not too flaky to learn and remember the rules and to create and plan a whole campaign instead of a single game then forgetting everything.

I often record the gaming sessions,  to listen later on and see things that the players respond to and to shape out the overall story.  So, one night we are playing a game of D20 Future, and most of the players have infiltrated a space pirate base and are looking for the hostages (and loot) before blowing the place up.  I have one player that is a coward, he always play drivers/pilot/scientist or types like that and almost never fight.  Let's call him, the Captain (because on his desk at work he has an old sea captain's hat).  So the Captain is sitting at the end of the table, not participating while the others are dodging guards and being short for stormtroopers.  The game ends, everybody's happy with the scenario, they saved the ambassadors, looted the valuables off the pirates and blew up the station.  I go back home, to listen to the tape, when I hear something very strange in a low voice when the big tense scene in the pirates' base happen: [In french, this is the translation, bad Sulu accent and all]

-"Concept for a TV show:  the Japanese Judge.  Courtroom reality show where the Japanese Judge is also a Japanese chef with a heating pate instead of a desk.  If you are found guilty, he throws you burning shrimps in your face.  The theme song:  Japaneeeeeeese Judge!  If you guilty he burns face with shrimps on TV!  Japaneeeeeeeese Judge!  Makes awesome sushi for you innocent!"-

So, now you know the level  of flakery I'm faced with.

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General Chaos / Re: Intoduction

« on: April 13, 2009, 12:26:05 PM »

Ubisoft for the last 8 years.

Lucky you. I always tell my friend how he should be working for Ubisoft Montreal as they make wayyy better game. Did you work on Sands of Time? Assassin's Creed?

No.  For a long time I was working on Clancy games.

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General Chaos / Re: Intoduction

« on: April 12, 2009, 05:47:06 PM »

Hey, a fellow Montreal! Awesome. I've got a friend who works at EA. You work at EA, Ubisoft, Bioware or what?

Anyway, welcome to the forums, Jean-Francois (I assume. )

Ubisoft for the last 8 years.

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General Chaos / Re: Intoduction

« on: April 10, 2009, 06:04:39 PM »

Hi.  I'm JF.  And on occasions, I'm Awesome.  I have an Awesome job.  I live in Montreal, Canada and work in the interactive entertainment media industry (vidio games).

I've started roleplaying in the early 80s, my first game being a french translation of the Dark Eye.  Graduated to Advanced Dungeons and Dragon, where I've learned English as a second language.

Right now, I'm running an episodic game of nWoD Mortals/Hunter with a cast of 5 players who played for a few years, but are all new to nWoD, so they know nothing about the backstory and monsters of that system.  They've faced their first ghoul last episode, and tonight it's master will start looking for it.

Ross, I need at least one episode of the New World Campaign to listen to at work while reviewing my minion's shit, or else I'm going to kill one of them in a fashion only that Cody character would be able to imagine.  Maybe that Tom character also could.  Whatever.  Please...