Current events

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)

9/4/09.....MassEffect....????......Dieter gone to Portland, Gabe absent
9/11/09.....MassEffect....????......Matt gone on honeymoon
9/18/09.....Vamnp One Shot....Ben's condo......Dieter gone to Europe, Matt gone on honeymoon
9/25/09.....cancelled....????......Dieter gone to Europe, Matt gone on honeymoon
10/2/09.....Kingmakers one shot....bens......Dieter gone to Europe
10/9/09.....Kingmakers....Ben's condo......Dieter gone to Europe
10/16/09....Kingmakers....Ben's condo......Dieter late
10/23/09.....????????....????......
10/30/09.....????????....????......Ed likely absent, Matt likely absent
11/6/09.....????????....????......
11/13/09.....????????....????......
11/20/09.....????........?????.......Ed gone
11/27/09.....????........????........thanksgiving weekend
12/4/09.....????........?????.......
12/11/09.....????........?????.......
12/18/09.....????........?????.......
12/25/09.....cancelled...merry christmas!

Attendance and Food Preference

BEN: likely absent

Edmiao present. i presume we are doing kingmakers? where? when? magic beforehand?

--Gdaze 14:40, 20 October 2009 (MST) Pretty sure I will be present. My place is of course open. And I'd like some magic playingz.

--Matts 15:24, 20 October 2009 (MST)I've got a party to go to on Friday night, so it can't be kingmakers. Sorry!

Ed. So just gabe and maybe dieter and i? Should we cancel? Gabe want to do some magic?

--Gdaze 22:45, 20 October 2009 (MST) Yeah I might be down for that.

--Gdaze 09:10, 21 October 2009 (MST) Hey Ed, what about some magic tomorrow actually?

Edmiao busy tonight and tomorrow night. are you busy on friday?

--Gdaze 11:07, 21 October 2009 (MST) I may be. Not sure yet. I'll let you know by the end of today.

Edmiao no rush

--Dieter the Bold 14:10, 21 October 2009 (MST) My place is open, and I'd be down for a Magic / Boardgame night. If it's just the three of us, would either you be interested in suffering through a short one-shot using Burning Wheel rules? I'm interested in seeing how easy it would be to run someone through it.

Edmiao i'd be really interested to see a one shot run by you dieter! can you tolerate gabe and i playing a few rounds of magic to get our fix? what other board games we interested in? more space trucker? do you have battlestar? i'd like to try that.

--Gdaze 15:22, 21 October 2009 (MST) It is looking like I shall be busy Friday after all, but I may be able to do something until like 10, more to come later.

BEN: a dieter one shot? can we schedule that, or is it one of those "only when the moon is full and the stars allign" kind of things? And Burning Wheel? Shit bitches...

--Gdaze 09:54, 22 October 2009 (MST) I WILL be free tomorrow until about 9:30 to 10ish. I'm down for a board game, or magic then Burning Wheel. Dieter, Ed, can we all confirm tomorrow is on at Dieter's place then? At 6? Game on!

Edmiao I'm in. Dieter is this enough time to run your one shot? I figure its either one shot or board games, not time for both. I'll be there at 6 if Dieter will. Dieter if you need a ride from this side of the pond i can pick you up somewhere.

--Dieter the Bold 11:32, 22 October 2009 (MST) 6pm Friday at my place is fine. No need for a ride, as tomorrow is one of my days off, so I can just be home at the appropriate time. I have BSG, Carcassone, El Grande, Axis & Allies and Twilight Imperium at my place. And I apologize for getting people excited, but by 'one-shot' I meant more 'system test'. I'm having trouble wrapping my head around some of the mechanics for Burning Wheel and wanted a guinea pig or two to help me run a simple combat, some skills tests and the like. No real story to go with that.

--Gdaze 11:43, 22 October 2009 (MST) What a tease. Heck, could do a mock combat while doing some magic. That said I'll bring Galaxy Truckers as well. Some tme we gotta play some Rune Bound. I think Dieter would like the game.

Ed. If you guys can schlep over here Cheryl will join us for some board games and system test. We have runebound and expansions for it. She also wants to slaughter us with her kithkin deck and her goblin deck

--Gdaze 22:35, 22 October 2009 (MST) I'm okay with that, although I need to go pick up the car after work, and would you be able to give Dieter a ride back because I need to head off to Tacoma at 10.

BEN: that kithkin deck doesn't include any of those new-fangled, ridiculously overpowered cards, does it? And just for the record, kithkin=halflings=dookie. I'm sure that deck is nasty though, kithkin were a major force in tourney play for a long time. One of the few decks that was decent against faeries. Also, did you know that there is a new goblin lord that is pretty good? Also, siege gang commander is amazing.

Edmiao sounds like you are itchin for some magic there, ben. i'm totally going through withdrawals. got like 10 new decks and barely played them. her kithkin deck doesn't have any zendikar cards. but it is chock full of freakin ridiculous overpowered cards, like that 2/2 lifelink first strike for 2 mana. and the 2/2 for 1 mana if you reveal a card. i mean come on! are you referring to that goblin that comes into play with two tokens and sacrifices goblins for 2 damage?

Sounds good gabe, if you can bring dieter, i can take him home. whatcha doing in tacoma in the middle of the night?

Quote(s) of the week

Elemental: (to police chief, who thanked them for their good work) That certainly isn't going to help Viho's colossal ego. (or something like that...)

CyberJesus: I'm so sick and tired of this bullshit Thomas Kinkaid police state!

Ashbury: I grow plants that may or may not be used for pharmaceutical purposes

Ed/Aefra: "I use Seduction on the baby"

"Galen, you're wearing a dress." "Yes, but I still look better in it than in you do in your clothes."

Ranting and Raving

Edmiao hey jason, want to see some wiki wierdness, check out the Kingmakers page, bottom of the page links section. Did you recover from your kidney stones ok?

JASON: The ones that dont work have extraneous ascii characters at the end of the words. They are probably spaces or tabs or something like that. You can put your mouse over the link and see where they redirect at the bottom and then verify what is different. The stuff with % in them are denoting characters that arent in the standard set, for instance %20 is ascii for space (because white space is not allowed in strict command line).

And on the kidney stones front, yes. They have gone and because of the nature of human memory I have no residual recollection of the agony. There is an entry in my head that says that was terrible, but in no way can I recall it. The bright side is that everything seems better now. No matter how bad life is, at least Im not screaming and suffering through kidney stones.

Edmiao ah ha! so there was an invisible character after the end of the word. neat. glad you are feeling better.

Kingmakers

Current XP as of 10/16 session: 1600

Edmiao I am going to redirect my character thusly: Entertainer -> Outlaw -> Highwayman. Two benefits here, we only have one spy and i get to have some combat effectiveness (eventually) but still be an entertainer who should be fun to rp.

--Gdaze 22:46, 20 October 2009 (MST) So we should jump up to a total of 1600 XP now?

--Matts 07:22, 21 October 2009 (MST)Yes, and furthermore, expect more XP when you reunite the Lowengeist family, and more XP after that when you take control of Reikland or otherwise restore it from its fractured state.

--Gdaze 09:09, 21 October 2009 (MST) We are gonna reunite the family? What all happened after I left?

--Matts 09:23, 21 October 2009 (MST)You guys cut a deal with the Jungfrauds, who are just to the north of Johann's city. They'll lend their military strength in exchange for help in the Altdorf markets for the goods they import from Brettonia.

As to ultimate goals, you certainly don't have to reunite the family - if you set some other goals you'll get xp for those, as long as they improve Franz Stadler-Lowengeist's political position.

--Gdaze 15:23, 21 October 2009 (MST) And how much time has passed since the last session and this one? At least a month or two? Or did those kinda pass after the whole thing happened between the families? I'd like it if a least a month or two have passed.

Edmiao could be years?

--Matts 10:34, 22 October 2009 (MST)We're picking up where the last session left off. If you left after the big fight, it's been a few months.

Of Amor, Armor, and Alchemy

Current OAAAA XP: 75 base + 352 XP; Followers: 15 XP (current as of 8/7/09)

ED: How long did you say the interim was between act 2 and 3 again, ben? 10 years would be great, time to fit a lot of goings on.

BEN: 10 years is correct. Some things for the next session of OAAAA:
1.) Everybody will get to spend their bonus "interim" XP as they please, I've changed my mind about forcing expenditures in a certain way.
2.) I want everyone to think about their interim adventures. At the start of the nextsession, I amthinking we may do Gemini style card "prologues" in which we explore people's adventures: the person we are doing it for presents the overall theme/happenings, and then we run through it, with the group contributing details. Group bonus XP will be assigned based on cool story effects people come up with in these. If this idea seems too complex or seems like it will give other players too much involvement in your interim events,we can can it and just let each person do a narrative, in character or out.
3.) I will clarify happenings in the world at the first session of book 3.

ED: Sounds fun. I wrote up a bunch of ideas, i think there's plenty of room for adventures in between the paragraphs. Brandon, what is your email so i can send you the Tithe sheet. I may not have done a great job on him, he was pretty low on the damage potential, but still could take hits quite well. you may want to remod him, i'm sure ben would be fine with that. although i really think you should keep the pegasus, since it played a major role in the fight with the dragon. Let you fly and catch Aeten, bring him back to the battle and Aeten immediately thereafter struck the killing blow.

--Brandon 20:53, 9 August 2009 (MST) Sweet. A pegasus sounds awesome, and I was totally thinking about getting a mount for Tithe anyway, so that's perfect. I'm glad that Tithe played a solid role. My e-mail is olsenb3 [at] u.washington.edu. I would appreciate a full recap at some point, if someone has the time. Gratz, y'all!!

--Dieter the Bold 15:41, 13 August 2009 (MST) I think such a prologue adventure thing would be awesome. I heartily approve. Also, I personally would like a little GM wild-card in how points get spent, but that's just me. Ben, do you have the time/interest to do that with Galen?

BEN: sure...or rather, if you want you can use your prologue adventure thing to drive your xp expenditure. Or I'm happy to take as heavy of a hand as you want. Also, if we do this, the player who was "on the spot" would have full veto power over any card played: this may sound like a cop-out, but the point is to generate a backstory for those 10 years that appeals to the given player, and that trumps. I don't anticipate this being a problem, but it's easier to enforce than a "don't be a dick" policy. Also, any given player can just opt-out and write/come up with his own background for that time.

--Gdaze 13:48, 16 September 2009 (MST) So is that exp at the top, all the exp we have? Or am I missing the extra bit for the last 10 years? Also, Ben, should I email you with what my guy has been up to? Or are we doing this card thing?