... "Explaining how your religions work, and why" is not the same as defining the details of specific religions player characters will worship. The rulebooks...
Has anyone here had experience with running a campaign on a once-a- month basis? I think I might be able to pull together enough players to get a RuneQuest...
I play in a once a month Exalted game that has had about 6 sessions now. We took a break for December but we should jump right back this month. Joe ... From:...
We would like to remind you of this upcoming event. GAGA Game Day Date: Saturday, January 3, 2004 Time: 12:00PM - 5:00PM EST (GMT-05:00) Greater Attleboro...
bostongamers@yahoogro...
Jan 2, 2004 5:02 pm
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... I've been doing this for over a year now. (The first session was in December 2002....) Long sessions help. Plan on an 8-hour session at least. And if...
Currently I am running a bi-weekly game (which in the holiday season has stretched a bit longer between sessions.) Things I've found important in running games...
For those that are interested, there will be a meeting for planning gaming at the upcoming Worldcon at Dan and my apartment on Saturday the 10th at 10:00 a.m....
only works in larp and that still doesn't work nearly as well as bi-weekly or weekly. ... ===== ~Mike Dlott~ ~A good knowledge of quotes is a passable...
... I've been in a monthly tabletop game (same reason; out-of-staters) for the past 8 or 10 years. Works great. We usually have a typical "when last we met...
Mark Christopher
torrin@...
Jan 2, 2004 8:29 pm
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In a message dated 1/2/2004 11:21:24 AM Eastern Standard Time, peter@... writes: Has anyone here had experience with running a campaign on a once-a- ...
Scoff as you please -- although it's better if you don't put words in people's mouths -- but hack and slash ISN'T artful. You have the technical tasks of...
Bi-weekly certainly works without extra bells and whistles; I've been doing nothing shorter since 1981. I found monthly games work well with Scarlet Pimpernel...
My point is that as a GM creating a game for your friends tailored to their likes and dislikes is the true art of GMing. Once in college I was asked to run a...
... Well, um, I think this Sun Tzu guy would disagree with you about wargames not being art... :-) Frankly, in my humble opinion, anything can be "Art." If the...
Just in case some of you haven't seen this yet. Came out today: http://www.boston.com/ae/games/articles/2004/01/03/the_adventure_continues/ I'm also going to...
... com/ae/games/articles/2004/01/03/the_adventure_continues/ ... I thought that it was a really nice article too! Good to see some positive media coverage :)...
... Yeah, I found the lack of any women quoted as a bit annoying as well. There was, however, one mention in the article referring to gamers as "men and women"...
... [from another msg by same author] ... [descriptions of how a miltiary roleplaying campaign can be intricate and artful clipped] I do not believe those...
Okay. Let's define some terms. Can we agree that Hack and Slash refers to a game with very little time between initiative rolls? That works for me and its...
For those of you in the Boston area interested in Live Action Roleplaying, there are some excellent games coming up soon - Arisia (for the three or four of you...
<<If you use the term 'hack and slash', you have to at least consider the commonly held meaning of the term, which includes unartfulness in the definition.>> ...
... And that said, if they got their impression of gaming from game stores, they might not actually have *seen* a woman gaming. I'm firmly convinced that...
i ma not sure why peopel always assume that women do not go into gaming stores. i go into them all the time, more importantly, i usually see at least several...
... I'm not assuming. When I'm in a game store and there's a woman involved in a game going on there, it's unusual enough in my experience to be worthy of...
... How can characters fight tactically and yet not be strategic..? Do you consider the fight scenes in the Drizzt books or Lord of the Rings art? I sure do...
... It's a relative percentage thing. Most of the gamers you'll usually see at game stores are war-gamers and CCGers and both of those groups are even more...
