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[dewinged]

-11:16 AM

This Friday appears to be slow. Not sure if I'm cool with that or not.

I've managed to get a few things done so far. Some bboard posts I wanted to do, as well as finishing a character for a game beginning tomorrow. It's not my usual level of work, but I know the group: on the average, me putting as much energy into characters for RL as I put in online is a wasted effort. The last character I made as such is in a game I am going to drop. This is because most of the players are unwashed, common assholes (note to usagi_k1: Eric is not one of those. I enjoy his company in any game I play very much. But the rest of them in John's 2nd week game? You know who I mean.). Hell, I'm scared about tonight's game. I know some of the players are jumping to another game, and there's still a few folks-without-games-that-week creeping about, and...well, it's folks I want to not deal with.

Besides, I got a better offer: Chris is, in OCtober, starting up a Storyteller System Aberrant game. I *heart* Aberrant, despite the 'it's kewl to be teh evil' vibes the system gives off. (This can be fixed. All it needs is a little guidance from yours truly.) He e-mailed me last week telling me about running the game. Once I got the confirm it was Storyteller/D10 and not the D20 Aberrant that just came out (Hey, if there's a d20 Aberrant, fine. I like d20, but sometimes I do wanna play different systems. Still waiting to see if someone starts a Big Eyes, Small Mouth Tri-stat game), I found my Aberrant main book, and I've been re-learning it. That was one e-mail. The other came yesterday from Ami, where he said they knew I was having troubles with the other game (bigoted assholes. Yeah, you /think?/), and they would love to have me there. It's nice to feel wanted, yo.

I'm rambling, and I know a few folks won't be able to make heads or tails of this. Sorry about that; gaming does become a code, after a while.

Comments

[usagi-k1.livejournal.com]

Duh, of course Eric isn't one of them. Eric my be a little self-centered, but he's not the knuckle-dragging, sheep herded moron that is D&D's gravy train nowadays. Since the cardfloppers are continuing their boycott of RPS, I've had plenty of time to study the dynamics of that game. Other than you and Eric (and possibly Stewart?), that game is the embodiment of all the D&D games I saw at college that convinced me to pick up the then unknown game called Magic. Munchkin is the same game with less frequent and shorter rules arguments.

Speaking of Munchkin, I think we topped the game at Gene's Realms boffer LARP party last night. I got Steve the Train Guy to laugh with the Game Store Manager story. This is the man who won't take the boxes from my game distributors off the UPS truck because he doesn't want our cooties.

As for the Aberrant game, Chris has been trying to force a in/out answer from me, and I still don't know. Superpowers have never captured my imagination, and a character concept is nigh impossible for me to produce without a rule book in front of me. My Harry Dresden inspiration, IMO, will not work in Aberrant (but maybe Hero and, to a lesser extent, M&M). A fiction character that's been percolating in my head since college, maybe earlier, came to the fore last night, but it's a really strange concept that is not going to be easily nailed down to rules. The best way I could describe it to Chris was a "expression of will" telekinetic. That very fact that he skateboards probably violates the spirit of Tim's "18 and older" rule.

[elsewhere7.livejournal.com]

And as I told John in not so many words Friday, I'm tired of a) the knuckle-draggers, and b) him doing very little to stop them. One of those players...I still don't know how he got the signatures for membership. I certainly didn't sign it. :P

As for the Aberrant game...I'm still trying to nail down a wandering concept and use it. Also, between Chris and I, we can help fit the concept to the basic system, or close enough.

Also, what 18 and older rule?

[usagi-k1.livejournal.com]

I also can't feel sympathy for John when he gripes about how fast the k.d.m.'s fall over when he refuses to adjust anything on the fly. I don't even think he is doing it out of spite, he just hasn't made the mental leap that the players a) cannot read his mind and b) will naturally follow the one trail you give them that leads directly to their demise. It's a lesson Dwight hasn't grasped either, but he's at least learned to plug the dyke when the dice decide to take their vengeance upon us.

As for your other complaint, one of the few perks of being an officer is that I can't sign. So you can't blame me. :)

E-mail me about Aberrant if you'd like. I'd rather not heap the insult of RPG mechanics on to your audience along with our healthy dose of boring interpersonal politics.

[usagi-k1.livejournal.com]

elsewhere7 says:

Also, what 18 and older rule?

I can't believed I missed that. I'm talking about the rule in the RPS constitution that states anyone under 18 must be accompanied by an adult or given a special exemption. You know, the one we all broke when we complete missed the fact that Ryan wasn't 18 (for possibly obvious reasons.)

The official reason it exist is so we don't have to worry about the contents of our games in a church basement (and thus summon all the demons we want, be vampires, and have Illusionary Nookie). I call it Tim's Law because I just see Tim saying, "Can we get rid of these fucking kids so I can play a game of Magic in peace?" and putting it to a vote. Which I can understand, because one of the reasons I stopped playing that game was M:tG podlings soliciting trades like street walkers while I was in the middle of a game (including during a tournament match in Red Bank), often for the cards I was playing with at that very moment.