User talk:BenofZongo

--Matts 09:49, 23 October 2007 (MST)Cleaned out old discussion. I really like the high-seas idea, though I'm never sold on "high" fantasy (says the guy with the pillar thing). But boats are awesome. I'm a fan of swashing buckles in general, and cannon are also neat!

--Dieter the Bold 13:22, 24 October 2007 (MST) I always love me some high fantasy as well as the high-seas. But I'm starting to sour on the "small fish w/ super-awesome advantage in huge bowl" theme. In your currently imagined setting, I wouldn't mind playing a regular coastal vessel in vicious competition with larger merchant costers for nothing more exotic than regular cargo (and obviously smuggling). We don't need to be the one exception to a rule, pitting us against vast and unimaginable powers. We could be regular, yet awesome, Joes trying to turn a buck against mercantile monopolies. We have to watch out for sabotage and harassment, hustle people to get them to ship through us, scour the ports for jobs, contacts and materials, etc., etc. I could see a totally awesome game being run just trying to survive as a regular merchanting vessel. Of course, maybe this is just because I see shades of Gemini in the general set-up, but I'm wondering what it would be like to have a strictly mid-power level focus for the group. We're not absolute beginners who must fear pwnage at every encounter, but we don't have the resources or abilities (besides our own intelligence and imagination) to plot the take-over of entire cities and empires. Still, loves me some high fantasy and seas. So, Yahhhrrrr!!!

BEN: that game idea was posted pre-gemini, so it was essentially "gemini in fantasy". I haven't edited it or thrown it out because I just want to keep the idea written down somewhere, but given that we are a.) playing fantasy and b.) the gemini setup clearly is not well suited for our group, I don't anticipate that running this game would be a good idea any time soon. The last three ideas are the main ones I'm tossing around as "near- to not-so-near-but-not-far-either" future games.

--Edmiao 15:58, 24 October 2007 (MST) is this wiki-activity all kind of daydreaming, or are you getting the itch? and relatedly, what's going on with Exemplars? maybe i should post that on the main page

BEN: its not daydreaming but I don't have the itch. consider me in a perpetual state of GM readiness. I'm actually more eager to play than to GM right now (gemini left me with a bad taste in my mouth), but if the time comes when people say they want to see one of my games implemented (ie they are excited about one of the ideas I post) and there is a time slot open, I will happily step up.

--Edmiao 18:37, 24 October 2007 (MST) see because we could get excited about one of these games if we wanted to, but i don't want to get excited about a different game if exemplars is about to start. if it is not about to start, then i will read your ideas more than a skim and think about them.

BEN: word.

--Edmiao 17:22, 30 October 2007 (MST) i find the light vs dark fairy tale idea #5 interesting. alice in wonderland / pan's labarynth game. Ever play that computer game called Alice? visually a very interesting and twisted take on wonderland.

BEN: that game idea would lend itself well to quick, one shot adventures. The system would be very DITV-esque though, with an emphasis on story creation as opposed to power balance. As I may have mentioned on the page, it would revolve around some sort of cooperative spell casting system.

--Edmiao 13:48, 1 April 2008 (MST) high fantasy go! i want to kill a dragon. wait, we just killed a giant squid monster, but there was no magic lootz! wait, there was magic lootz daggers! sweet. How would you adapt gemini combat to high fantasy? seems kind of lethal for the genre. or you could break the mold and do DnD 4th edition and make Deiter have a mess in his pants induced by sheer extasssy.

GABE: DiTV is dogs in the whatever, isn't it? So not Gemini which was basically cyberpunk ED. Kekeke.

While I do like D&D, even 3.5 with some tweaking is fun, the Hero system lends its self very nicely to high fantasy. Also it goes well with the group. Its actually pretty fun the one time I ran it. Plus you don't have to keep track of like off the wall figures, most people don't have a speed higher then 3.

BEN: yeah, the high fantasy may be moot...fundamentally I just want to try a game where xp goes to buying your loot and your stats, with super fast advancement. anyways, they are just there mostly so that I don't forget about them and to let people know what I am thinking.

--Matts 14:53, 1 April 2008 (MST)I like both the one shot and the campaign. I also like the idea of smaller, contained adventures.

--Edmiao 17:40, 1 April 2008 (MST) perhaps you misinterpreted my above comment. i would love to do high fantasy. and i don't think wfrp is high fantasy, i was being sarcastic in that wfrp isn't really high fantasy, but has some tones of it, which is fine, cus that's what it is. so High Fantasy Go!! and i love the hero system.

BEN: cool, I'm glad you like the ideas I've put up. I'll flesh them out whenever the fancy strikes me, particularly that one shot idea, since I can imagine there might be a place for that in the near future...although I think that overall our group isn't too hot on one shots, so maybe not.

JASON: We should figure out a way to do some regular one-shots. Screw those haters.

BEN: for me that is largely a time consideration...but Kim is going to be traveling a lot for photo shoots in the next few months, so I expect that I will have time for some one shots, depending on how things go at work.

JASON: Heck, even if we did one once a month that would be cool. I need to try out some new things to see what I actually like and what just looks good on paper.

--Edmiao 13:16, 2 April 2008 (MST) i enjoy the one shotz and might attend some. but in general my preference is longerRPG or board game > one shots. that said, i enjoy the distreet short shot RPGs, like a discreet story line that lasts 6-10 sessions (a la Jin dynasty) I would enjoy very much, because there would be a beginning and an end and an actual objective to unify the group.