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--[[User:Edmiao|Edmiao]] 10:18, 3 December 2007 (MST) I'm on jury duty today. it's so fucking awesome. | --[[User:Edmiao|Edmiao]] 10:18, 3 December 2007 (MST) I'm on jury duty today. it's so fucking awesome. | ||
| − | + | BEN: so, I thought that given some of the things we discussed on friday, we should discuss them a bit further on the wiki before next session. First off, I know that Jason and Matt were concerned about our handling of the story: it seems we jumped the rails pretty early on. I'm sure all the players had a hand in this, and I think we are all open to suggestions as to how to stick more closely to the way things are supposed to run. Part of the problem may be that several of us (me, Dieter, and Matt, I guess) made fairly non-standard super heroes with, at least for now, fairly un-super-heroic motivations...Ed's character has this to some degree as well. So I imagine that until we develop more super-y motivations, we'll probably behave more like cyberpunk characters than superheroes. <br> | |
| + | On the other hand, I don't think this is all bad. For me, a very interesting part of gaming is the relationship formed with the other characters (which is why I, as a GM, thought Gemini was an interesting experiment, while most of my players chafed under long drawn out player-player discussions), and I am happy as a clam when we deviate from the plot in order to flesh these things out, particularly since they lend color to the characters and strongly contribute to group unity. As such, I was a little unhappy when we cut short several inter-character interactions...particularly since we had plenty of time left in the night. Also, these instances made me a little worried about the characters ending up as actors in a scripted play in which things have to happen in a certain way.<br> | ||
| + | This is sort of rehashing old stuff, and I've had this discussion in one form or another with several of you, and I think much of it just comes down to how each of us sees gaming...and how that vision interfaces with the group we have. There are lots of very different views on what gaming is in our group (possibly break-down-able using the gamist-narrativist-simulationist criteria? maybe?), and I really think that in the end we sort of have to agree to disagree, and do our best to compensate for what we know are going to be instances of dissonance when we try to shoehorn players with a different style into our game world. We all know, for instance, that Ben will make a character who likes to try to blab his way in and out of whatever he can get his grubby hands on, and that Ed will carefully crunch his numbers for maximum pwnzorness. I guess what I'm saying is that, in conjunction with my exhortation above that the players strive to adjust to what the GMs want to see, that the GMs must also adjust to the very well known shortcomings/idiosyncracies/whatever of our players.<br> | ||
| + | hope y'all have some free time today and tomorrow...I imagine this section could get very...wordy...soon (as if it isn't already...ben blabs a lot in real life too.) | ||
== Other [[Non-RPG]] gaming Events== | == Other [[Non-RPG]] gaming Events== | ||
Revision as of 15:43, 5 December 2007
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.
Contents
Schedule
Date...........game................Location..........(Advanced attendance)
8/03/07......Entertain yourself!
8/10/07......WHFRP....Gabe's
8/17/07......Gemini....Ben and Dieter's wonderful gaming wasteland
8/24/07......sucking nuts.....each to his own
8/31/07......WFRP......BnD WGW
9/07/07......WFRP......The BnD Gaming Wunderhaus or the Wasteland!?! (Only you can decide)
9/14/07......WFRP......The BnD Gaming Wunderhaus
9/21/07......WFRP......The BnD Gaming Wasteland
9/28/07......WFRP......THe BnD Gaming Wunderhaus
10/5/07......WFRP......The BnD Gaming Wasteland
10/12/07.....WFRP......The BnD Gaming Wissenland
10/19/07.....Board games............BnD ..........(Dieter and Matt absent)
10/26/07.....WFRP.......................BnD
11/2/07......WFRP.......................BnD
11/9/07......Board Games...Gabe's ............(Matt gone, Dieter gone)
11/16/07.....Exemplars prequil...BnD..........(Matt gone)
11/23/07.....Go see the family...???..........(Matt, Ed, Ben, Gabe gone)
11/30/07.....Exemplars...........Jason's house of curds...........
12/07/07.....Exemplars...........BnD...........
12/14/07.....Exemplars?....................???..........(Matt Gone to Japan)
12/21/07.....??????....................???..........(Matt Gone, Ben Gone, Ed maybe)
12/27/07.....??????....................???...........(Ben, Matt Gone, Ed maybe present + brother-in-law)
1/3/07.......??????...............????...............(Ben Gone, Ed present)
Attendance and Food preference
12/7/07
--Edmiao 15:16, 2 December 2007 (MST) present, no pizza as usual. gotta watch my girlish figure.
--Gdaze-- Well fuck that, I will be present. As my apartmetn complex will only allow a guest to spend one night every other weekend... and having them tell me that I was causing too many problems and she didn't want me there... I decided to take my business elsewhere. So no moving for me yet.
BEN: present, pizza. Brandon will also be in attendance this week, if that's cool. All hail the dandy one!
--Gdaze-- Awesome, somebody else to actually come along with my guy when he goes in.
Also, we gonna do magic at 6?
Ben: yup. magic at 6.
--Justin 18:43, 4 December 2007 (MST) I'll be there. If I get there early enough I'll let you all destroy me in Magic. Pizza, of course. I'll probably also be there for the next game, just depends on my work schedule.
--Matts 20:18, 4 December 2007 (MST)justin, great to hear you'll be there! Gabe, what the hell kind of apartment building was that? Did you move in there or had you not moved yet?
--Gdaze-- It was a low income housing unit. Yeah, I qualifiy for it on my own haha. But yeah, after I put downt he intial amount they requested they started changing some things they had said earlier. And after the way they treated me I decided living there might not be so great.
--Dieter the Bold 11:17, 5 December 2007 (MST) Present, and pizza please.
Ranting and raving or other random comments
--Edmiao 10:18, 3 December 2007 (MST) I'm on jury duty today. it's so fucking awesome.
BEN: so, I thought that given some of the things we discussed on friday, we should discuss them a bit further on the wiki before next session. First off, I know that Jason and Matt were concerned about our handling of the story: it seems we jumped the rails pretty early on. I'm sure all the players had a hand in this, and I think we are all open to suggestions as to how to stick more closely to the way things are supposed to run. Part of the problem may be that several of us (me, Dieter, and Matt, I guess) made fairly non-standard super heroes with, at least for now, fairly un-super-heroic motivations...Ed's character has this to some degree as well. So I imagine that until we develop more super-y motivations, we'll probably behave more like cyberpunk characters than superheroes.
On the other hand, I don't think this is all bad. For me, a very interesting part of gaming is the relationship formed with the other characters (which is why I, as a GM, thought Gemini was an interesting experiment, while most of my players chafed under long drawn out player-player discussions), and I am happy as a clam when we deviate from the plot in order to flesh these things out, particularly since they lend color to the characters and strongly contribute to group unity. As such, I was a little unhappy when we cut short several inter-character interactions...particularly since we had plenty of time left in the night. Also, these instances made me a little worried about the characters ending up as actors in a scripted play in which things have to happen in a certain way.
This is sort of rehashing old stuff, and I've had this discussion in one form or another with several of you, and I think much of it just comes down to how each of us sees gaming...and how that vision interfaces with the group we have. There are lots of very different views on what gaming is in our group (possibly break-down-able using the gamist-narrativist-simulationist criteria? maybe?), and I really think that in the end we sort of have to agree to disagree, and do our best to compensate for what we know are going to be instances of dissonance when we try to shoehorn players with a different style into our game world. We all know, for instance, that Ben will make a character who likes to try to blab his way in and out of whatever he can get his grubby hands on, and that Ed will carefully crunch his numbers for maximum pwnzorness. I guess what I'm saying is that, in conjunction with my exhortation above that the players strive to adjust to what the GMs want to see, that the GMs must also adjust to the very well known shortcomings/idiosyncracies/whatever of our players.
hope y'all have some free time today and tomorrow...I imagine this section could get very...wordy...soon (as if it isn't already...ben blabs a lot in real life too.)
Other Non-RPG gaming Events
--Edmiao 15:16, 2 December 2007 (MST)Just bought tix for golden compas next sunday 6pm. Ben, others, interested in some munchin/settlers/other before the movie? You're invited to our place for games beforehand, Cheryl want's to show off her christmas tree.
BEN: Kim and I are in, baring last minute emergencies. We can bring space munchkin and/or munchkin fu.
--Edmiao 23:05, 2 December 2007 (MST)Bring both. any time preference? want to show up at the movie at say 5-5:20?? thus leave here at maybe 4:30. so start games at noonish?
Looks like kim may be working a promotion from 9:30-1, I'll pick her up from that and then we'll be over between 1:30-2. You guys want to grill or do something for food as a group?
--Justin 18:45, 4 December 2007 (MST) Kim?!? Who's Kim? Is that your gay Korean boyfriend?
--Matts 12:50, 5 December 2007 (MST)Last minute emergency: Since we have guests on Sunday that I entirely forgot about, Rina won't be able to make it :( I'm going though!
--Gdaze -- Where did you get these tickets at, as in, which theater?
BEN: cinerama (www.cinerama.com), 6pm sunday.
Ed: We could do some food something for an early dinner, burgers? what time should we leave for movie if it takes say 20 minutes to get there?
Weekly Magic Whining/Complaining/Smack Talking
--Edmiao 14:00, 3 December 2007 (MST) Jason (or others), want to try out a little magic workstation this week? i could do wed or thurs evenings probably. If you have a microphone I use [www.skype.com skype] for online gaming, which might make it easier. the workstation looks funtional, but you have to do everything yourself (draw cards, target spells, throw things into the graveyard, etc), unlike magic online which does a lot of that for you. but the cards and program are free, so who's complaining. I guess I was. shut up bitch!
--76.164.21.217 14:38, 3 December 2007 (MST)I will try and download this in the next day or so and make a deck or two. What are our deck restrictions? Only cards we own or will own reasonably soon?
--Edmiao 19:01, 3 December 2007 (MST) who said that? i say mtg workstation, no restrictions. maybe limit to one dci restricted card if you know what they are. if you don't know, then you probably won't find the restricted cards anyway (like me). takes a little to familiarize with the program, but once you do, the filters and search functions are really nice.
--Jason 20:46, 3 December 2007 (MST)Its downloaded and installed. Now I just have to make some decks.
--Edmiao 19:29, 4 December 2007 (MST) if others are interested in this, it comes with world champions decks from the last several years, so you can just get it and roll with a champion deck.
The Next Step in WHFRP Reboot
