Hey there, I'm so glad that you are interested. Let us see if you are still interested after I give you the scenerio. Let me start with the history to get you...
From Jeff Dougherty: You forgot William Gibson: "The Isengard sky was the color of a television screen tuned to a dead channel. 'It's not like I'm evil,'...
... in ... or ... Worlcon is the World Science Fiction Convention, held in a different place each year. It is a very large event, usually five days, and ...
... introduced ... That's a really interesting question... I have seen a fair number of gamers who regularly mock the smaller races in D&D (dwarves, halflings...
My last campaign had, at its peak, 9 members. Knowning everyone's schedule, I routinely expected only 6-7 people to show up at any one session. However, no...
Hi there, Our D&D group (7 players plus 1 GM) recently had an email discussion about this topic. We decided that it was highly desirable to have everyone...
... Whoa! Nine is a lot. I played a game with nine, but it disintegrated due to a large number of things, though mostly GM and player inexperience and one...
... This is funnier than it ought to be. Just thinking of a Foster's ad that shows Stormbringer in all its glory with a caption that reads, "TOOTHPICK." Jason...
... This is just a random thought, but what's the most rediculous/kickass/insane weapon people have found in A) Literature and B) RPG rules? In books, I'd...
... pretty ... just ... were ... In books, my personal favorite is "Changeling" from C.J. Cherryh's Morgaine series (essentially a small black hole set into...
The most obviously stupid RPG weapon in existence is the one carried by that dinosaur-boy guy in the 1st edition Deities and Demigods. I can't remember the...
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... Ahhh....forgot about those! My personal favorite was Sightblinder (or whatever it was called) that made you look like whoever was most influential to the...
I firmly believbe that a game, to keep its memebrs, eneds to be flexible. And the players, in all fairness, have a duty to the group to be there as much as...
Or what about the weapons the Waldorf the magnificent wielded in that Dragon magazine article about absurd power-gamers (he had like Death Stars and such) many...
... I ran a Mage game a few years ago that maxed out at 10 players. We had frequent absenteeism, so that, after the first two months or so of gaming, we...
... It really depends on the group, and why they're playing. Some people realy get into roleplaying; other groups roleplay to be social, and the game is...
Come on you fantasy nuts. Nothing out does the Macross Cannon. Be it from the anime, the novels, or even the Palladium RPG. From the text, "Damage: Absolutley...
... group ... It's also important for the GM & players to be on the same wavelength as far as the commitment level that's expected for a given game. Some games...
Except the weapons/armor that allow complete and total invulnerability to a given attack form, *no exceptions*. Once we get to this level, there's a whole lot...
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Hello again everybody, I would like to know what's up with the WorldCon thing and if anyone is invovled with it. I am interested in being invovled with the ...
I just got the email. Deb has scheduled a meeting with the Worldcon committee on: Saturday March 2nd 1 p.m. NESFA Clubhouse in Somerville It is on Medford St....
Elric could take Conan. ... From: "Susan Dohnim" <bibadoo@...> To: <bostongamers@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 12:33 PM Subject: RE:...
... first PCs ... Easy: Sura El-Khadijah, my Muslim weapon master in the first campaign I joined after moving to Boston. I had played GURPS before, but only a...
... Worldcon ... Gah, scheduling a meeting was a bad idea. Now we have one month to pull together a proposal that, quite frankly, hasn't even reached beyond...
Gods with cheaty swords > Giant Robot guns. Theoretically. Arguing the theory is what makes us different from normal people, I s'pose. K. ... ...
Susan Dohnim
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Some good ones are the swords from Fred Saberhagen's "Complete book of Swords". Soulcutter, the Mindsword and Farslayer are particularly nasty ... Adrian ... ...
... I don't think it will be too much of a problem, Jer. We have a month, and I don't think she's going to be expecting a fully realized gaming schedule or...
