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Role Playing Public Radio Podcast / Re: Episode 44: Don't Hate the Game

« on: April 20, 2010, 02:37:27 AM »

This guy above me knows what he's talking about. I approve.

Gal.

Two things:

1) If RJ wants to call you a boy, he can. Don't you know that RJ is always right? (please don't be offended by this comment as it is meant to make fun of RJ and not you).

2) Let's face it, in 99% of every other situation, RJ would have been right.

RJ: The reason there are no girls on the internet?

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General Chaos / Holy pissing shit balls

« on: April 12, 2010, 01:01:55 PM »

So guess what I just got my hands on?

That's right, cockmongers, my very own M-51 Engineer's Field Bag!!!!1!!!!!!!one!

And just so Ross and I can't ever get our bags confused (hur hur hur) in real life, mine is

OLIVE FUCKING DRAB, MOTHERFUCKER!

So now I just need to find some suitably epic pins'n'patches'n'shit to geek this fuckdamn King of Bags into the Megafucking Emperor of Gaming Bags and Shit.

SRSLY though, this bag is made of every bit of awesome that Ross'n'Tom said it was, so by all means, if wagging your gaming swag around in conformist totes like backpacks or recycled $1 Wal-Mart bags is getting your shit down, create an account w/ Uncle Sam's Army/ Navy Outfitters, wait for this thing to go on sale, and BAG IT THE FUCK UP, FIZZBITCH!

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Role Playing Public Radio Podcast / Re: Tom's Letters

« on: April 07, 2010, 08:03:17 PM »

Good lord I hope so. For my sake, too.

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RPGs / Re: Submitted w/out meaningful comment

« on: March 23, 2010, 05:32:23 PM »

Ugh.

Indie RPGs.

Ugh.

That's at least part of my reaction, but I'm trying, and I do mean trying, to take something meaningful away from it. Some of the other stuff on the website in question seems interesting, has potential, whatev. There's a Commedia dell'Arte RPG up there that has some interesting ideas, depsite seeming a little lacking in follow through.
Link-fu: http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/the-penguin-harlequinade

I've got this slow-dawning realization that this may be Who I Am as a gamer - I'm fine with conventional, d20/CoC/otherwise mainstream gaming as a player, but as a GM my likes/talents/whatever lean to the tap-dancing-on-a-landslide, control the chaos (but not too much) flavor of DRYH, rules-light versions of ORE, hopefully DItV.

Maybe it's just that gaming is inherently improv theater, and it's just deciding whether that's metagame/OOC dickjokes ala D&D, or whether it's the thrust of the game?
Maybe this is just the snow crash hidden in Normality slowly eating my conciousness?
Maybe I'll end each post in this thread with questions, or at least question marks?

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RPGs / Submitted w/out meaningful comment

« on: March 23, 2010, 05:24:45 AM »

http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/normality

So I'm forced to admitted that I 'read' through this beast and have no fucking clue what's going on.
Maybe that's the point? I'm not familiar with Dada beyond mustaches on the Mona Lisa and urinals as sculpture, but damn.

I mean, fuckin' damn.

If Dada is about ignoring social norms, then how can you have a Dada RPG? The Forge people are a pretentious load of twats as far as I've seen,
but all that social contract bidness ain't just whistlin' Dixie, neither. So if Dada is about breaking down social contracts, more or less, but an RPG starts with a contract, then what is a Dada RPG? Is it the bit that suggests the GM explicitly lie to the players about what happens in the game, et al? Is a Dada RPG an RPG at all?
C'eci nest pas une D&D? Graaaaaaaaaargh...

Ia! Normality ftaghn ftaghn!

Seriously, I'm thinking I could make a DRYH character that went insomniac just from reading this!
Failing that, a CoC cultist that takes this book as holy writ.

Ross, Patrick, anything literary to help me out here?
Can you explain this?
Can you explain life?

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General Chaos / Re: Introduction - In which It Is About Damn Time.

« on: March 23, 2010, 05:04:33 AM »

Well, Ross's DRYH books are setting across the room from me right now, and have been for a month, or maybe two.
It's just plain hard to organize much of anything with daywalkers these days - I work overnights, and 4x10s at that.
I do rather enjoy the game, though, and it's high on my list for when the RPG inertia pendulum swings my way again.
That and Dogs in the Vineyard, should my books ever arrive - need to email the author about that.


Edit: Acronym fail.

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Role Playing Public Radio Podcast / Re: Chatting with whores

« on: March 23, 2010, 02:56:47 AM »

*Cut to Camera #3, Anchor turns head 60° right*

In related news, the makers of Playing D&D With Pornstars, in association with The Escapist, bring you their further adventures, vlogged:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/i-hit-it-with-my-axe/1533-Episode-One-Meet-the-Party

Sources close to the creators have stated the second episode is set to be much improved, and at least a little fucking coherent, dammit.

And now, a word from our sponsors:

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*Cut to commercial*

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General Chaos / Introduction - In which It Is About Damn Time.

« on: March 23, 2010, 02:50:26 AM »

Hello the forum.

Bill here.
That Bill, yes.

Been ghosting since the new forums went up, got tired of making Dan be my occasional forum puppet.
Decided I needed to make myself known before a whole year got by me.

Things worth knowing:
Been gaming since sophomore year of college, so 2004. Dan brought me into the fold with Star Wars d20, back when many of us lived in Scholars Hall @ MSU.
Neti are a fun race Declarative sentences are declarative.

Met Ross (and Patrick) via Matt Howell (Orphan Bane, Matt-in-the-Hat Irl) junior year via a late winter break one-shot (Twilight 2000, IIRC). Collided a few times since, then left town for a couple of years. Came back, moved in w/ Dan (hurray low rent), played some 4e, got yelled at by Mike, ran my own game (this sentence is not chronological), let that game die in a pile of 'meh.' because I was tired of being unemployed, got a job that mostly keeps me out of gaming.
Hoping to correct that last bit soon.

True story: I can't listen to any actual play I'm in for more than about ten minutes before I get the Jibblies. It's not the whole voice-minus-skull-resonance thing, that I can handle, but I just can't be entertained by them. Things that are funny at the time, or are great from other people, just turn dumb when I know it's me.

Other true story: I haven't ever been an active, frequently-posting member of a forum before, but I'm trying to get comfortable writing by just doing more of it, so maybe you'll be seeing more of me around these here parts.