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This page is for discussion of stuff related to the game coming up this week, no matter when that actually is. For instance, we can all assume Nate isnt coming for some lame reason and that Ed is sick of pizza and is bringing teriyaki or some other crap. They can post something here if that happens to be untrue.

Schedule

Date...........game................Location..........(Advanced attendance)
1/4/08.......WFRP............BnD...............(Ben Gone, Ed present)
1/11/08......WFRP............BnD...............
1/18/08......totally cancelled
1/25/08......W-Wolf..........BnD...............
2/1/08.......W-Wolf..........BnD...............
2/8/08.......W-Wolf .........BnD...............
2/15/08......WFRP............BnD............... ed gone
2/16/08......bday one shot..BnD...............
2/22/08......???.............BnD............... Matt at GDC
2/29/08......???.............BnD............... ed 75% chance to attend; LEAP YEAR, bitches!!
3/07/08......W-Wolf
3/14/08......W-Wolf..........BnD............... ben gone
3/21/08......W-Wolf..........BnD............... .ben gone
3/28/08......WFRP............BnD...............

--Matts 13:11, 6 February 2008 (MST)That means ed is missing the fireworks party, cause I'm not putting it off any longer!

GABE: What about coming for maybe just the first hour or so?

--Edmiao 20:26, 6 February 2008 (MST) seems likely that i will be able to come. i just need to choose the right timing of asking the master for my leave. Turns out Cheryl is coming to the conference with me, so i think it'll be ok. This conference is at Keystone, Colorado. the talks are like 8-11am with a brief break unitl 5pm when they resume until 8pm. total ski vacation. Oh wait!! confused. I will be gone for sure on the 15th visiting my sister. i was talking about the 29th. Enjoy the fireworks, bitches! feel free to NPC me.

Attendance and Food Preference

2/8/08

Ranting and raving or other random comments

--Edmiao 20:35, 6 February 2008 (MST) Hey brandon, when you make minor edits to the wiki, use the check box at the bottom of the edit page that says "this is a minor edit". that way we all don't have to look at them thinking they will be interesting. Jason, can you get the wiki to add another check box that says "this is a Gabe's mom joke" so that we can all avoid those as well?

--Jason 21:07, 6 February 2008 (MST)While it is probably possible to put in a check box for Gabe's mom jokes, I think we should all be subjected to them. Plus, I dont want to do any extraneous programming anyway.

Brandon 00:00, 7 February 2008 (MST) Ed, none of my edits are minor. None of them! I am VERY important! Everything I do should be recorded so that future generations will learn of my greatness. (Thanks for the tip, btw)

Other Non-RPG gaming Events

GABE: Soooo, would anyone be interested in some Heroscape? Not this week of course. But would anyone be down? I got a nice big table we can use. Weekdays are fine too. I was also thinking maybe a Sunday.

GABE: What, no more love for Heroscape???

--Edmiao 10:12, 5 February 2008 (MST) Anyone up for some board games this weekend? Gabe? Cheryl's itchin to play Puerto rico. I could probably con her into half puerto rico and half heroscape.

BEN: Kim and I might be interested...not sure yet.

JASON: Depending on time Rumi and I may want to do this. I have a ton of new games to try as well. And as for Heroscape, even though I havent tried it yet, once I get my board set up (and now that I have my truck back its any day) you guys can use it anytime. Its 4x8 and I have a ton of terrain.

GABE:Sweet, I got a big ol'table as well although seating may be a problem... Um that aside if we want to do heroscape I'd like to do it at my place to just so you know, don't have to spend time putting the board together. And yeah I'm down this weekend.

--Edmiao 12:49, 5 February 2008 (MST) sweet. we'll plan for at Gabe's new place this weekend. any preference for Saturday or Sunday? either is fine for Cheryl and I.

Who is Rumi?

GABE: I believe that would be Jason's new woman, although not really that new. Okay sounds good... um this sounds ghetto but if you have like 2 folding chairs to bring it'd be good... I only have 2 chairs with maybe one more coming for this weekend.

JASON: Gabe would be correct. She likes games and stuff.

GABE: Coo', so like Saturday or Sunday works fine for me, I ain't doing nuttin' this weekend. I guess Sunday would work okay if that is alright with everyone else? Saturday is all cool too. Oh, I just got the 40k rp, seems pretty cool over-all though I'm not seeing rules for the floating head servators, lame.

--Edmiao 15:23, 5 February 2008 (MST) Is she the one from Portland that we met at ben's that last time?

JASON: No, that would be Amy. She and I go way back.

GABE:So has for gaming, will Sunday work for people? I'm most likely taking Monday off next week JUST CUZ. So if Sunday works lets shoot for that. Otherwise, let me know.

Regarding the 40k RPG, I must say it looks really cool. Granted the career system isn't around any more but their new method is pretty neat, it reminds me of a level up system from a console rpg. Basically you buy advances and once you spend a certain amount of exp you become the next rank. You can buy any advance in your current rank or any rank you've held. Also each career forks in it so you can go down certain paths. One thing that is new is that raising charateristics now has become more expensive. Your starting career determines how much each advance costs, an example is 250 for the first +5%, then 500, then 750, etc. It seems expensive but then you realize that you should be getting 200 exp per sesson.

Two things I'm disappointed about is they don't have the skull drones or the people who are pumped out on drugs and cybernetics that were in the previous book. Also the equipment section is kinda small.

Oh! One more thing I found really cool. When you create your character you get to roll for what your fortune is. They include things from starting with insanity points to gaining 2 (!!!) extra fate points.

--Edmiao 09:53, 6 February 2008 (MST) saturday is better for us, turns out cheryl has something to go to at 7pm on sunday. but if we can do earlier sunday until 7. depends on how late we might go. also if we did sunday i could stay later if someone gave me a ride home.

re 40k above, that seems way too random for my taste, when fate points rule the game and they put in that kind of random range. i'd rather have a random 1000 xp than random 2 fate points if you want to make character power completely randomized. I know some folks think that playing weak characters is fun, more power to you

GABE:Saturday is cool too.

I don't think fate points "rule the game". I mean when you burn them they are pretty much gone. And why do you assume random=weak? Thats a rather large jump to reach that conclusion isn't it? I enjoy it more then characters with polar stats. Remember, fate points can NOT be used to affect other people, thats just a home-rule (and one I dislike).

I mean really, where are you getting random characters equal weak anyway?

Another thing that is nice is you get to pick your home planet. Home planet selection makes some starting stats higher, and others lower. For example Ferial planet origin gives you a base starting wounds of 9 (the highest) +2D5 (I think 2...), plus your WS, S, T, all start at 25. Of course you can only start with a maxium of 2 fate points.

Its pretty neat cause you can start with corruption points too.

GABE: OH ALSO! The new talents are really cool, only problem is they seem at first to be very similar to Feats from D&D. I'm about to reach that section though so we'll see.

--128.95.211.116 13:23, 6 February 2008 (MST) random means some characters will be more powerful than others is all i meant. take the northman, for instance. and I think the temp fortune point and fate points strongly affect game play. you can take more risks if you know you have rerolls and safety from death.

GABE: Right, it means you can play a character who can take more risks, that doesn't mean your more powerful, just maybe luckier. Yeah, thats why when I run WH rpgs I at least let the players assigned their rolls. Cause usually you'll get some good ones, some bad ones. At least let the player be good at some things they want. That said I believe the randomness is to enforce the grim nature of their worlds. And yeah, some character might have better stats, but eh, so is life in the grim future/past/whatever. Spending points is too much like D&D and you end up with combat people taking tons of crap in agi, toughness, str, and int characters taking high fel, int, ag. I'm just surprised you said "if people like playing weak characters", kinda makes it sound like random equals weak, which it really doesn't.

The northman was also powerful because he had that ungodly good sword and his two random talents were very lucky. I thought it was cool, even more so that he rolled them. Born to fight! If someone picked them it'd be like "Oh... you were just trying to make a combat monster..."

GABE:Hey quick note, so would we be playing Heroscape? If so I want to start working on the board... Not sure I even have the time though, haha. But yeah, if you guys think we will be playing let me know. I have 2 master sets, 1 master set 2nd edition, 3 castle sets, 2 road/forest sets, 1 ice set, 1 lava set, should be able to make something pretty cool with that, I was thinking two castles or something.

--Edmiao 20:23, 6 February 2008 (MST) I think we've previously exhausted the random character generation debate, however, like the case of crabs that i caught from Gabe's mom, just can't seem to shake it.

Heroscape: depends on who's coming and what they want to play. Cheryl's ok with trying it out, and i like it. up to you. we'd be just as happy playing puerto rico. We'll bring the magic decks. One thing, i was thinking about going to the caucus on saturday, which starts at 1pm and goes to who the fuck knows when. even though it's a fuck all stupid ass way to exercise "democracy", that seems to be the only game in town. so what do you think about maybe 3pm or later into the evening until we get tired?

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--Edmiao 20:32, 6 February 2008 (MST) Elrin will ask Dimentis to act as MC at the fireworks show. He'll tell Dimentis the story as best he remembers it of the Big Dragon and the Little Dragon, and try to get Bro's help in recalling the story, since Bro was there for the show in that other city whose name I naturally forgot. Elrin intended to give away all the little pop rocks and the boom sticks to the kids in town, saving one of each for himself for a rainy day. Given the opportunity, he'll introduce you all to the Japanese guy he met who is going to help set up the fireworks, and who is interested in investigating that haunted cave. Mr. Jap-O is staying at one of the inns in town, i think the one that Shang hangs out at.

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