Timewaster's Guide Archive

I go waaay back with Wilco...I was a fan when they were part of Uncle Tupelo.  They're from a town not far from my hometown so I've always hoped they'd do well.

Consequently, the concerts they put on here in St. Louis are always a blast as they have friends, family, and fans from waaaaaay back around here.  Their encores go on for over an hour usually.

Ah, so it does suffer the same fate as Earthdawn.

I ran a one-shot Earthdawn-esque game using Wheel of Time d20 rules a while back.  It went quite well...might have to think about following it up sometime.

Shadowrun is one of the (seemingly) few major RPGs I don't own and have never really gotten into.  Had a great concept though.  Maybe someday I'll pick up the core book.

How's the system though. Earthdawn was a wonderful setting with one of the most complicated dice mechanics I've seen.  Is Shadworun the same system (since they were set in the same universe, just many centuries apart)?

Sure, soccer moves fast, but with so little scoring there's little shift in strategy or gameplay...it's kind of like basketball for me:  The only part that I feel I need to watch is the last four mintues.  The rest of it just bores me.

I understand that not everyone likes football, but once you get into the depth of the game...play calling, formations, etc...it's really a great thrill to watch.  I'm sure you all feel that way about other sports (like soccer).  To each his own

Gold and baseball are actually both classified as games, not sports, officially.

Rugby is okay to watch, but I just can't do soccer.  Waaaaaay to slow paced for me.

I would have to argue about the conditioning and skill of American Football players.  Speaking as someone who played the game extensively in high school (I was captain of the team), it takes a great deal of both.  

I do agree that most NFL players don't have the best attitude, but at least they're not as bad as pro baseball or basketball players.

WHAT!!!! *Gasp* *Choke*  
*Wheeze* *Sputter*

American football is quite possible the most entertaining sport on the planet.  This is not an opinion, this is fact  

Hoody Hoo!   Basic D&D rocks!  Nothing like having elves and dwarves as classes.

Currently I am playing in a Hackmaster campaign where our adventureing party, The Iron Trifecta +1, is currently clearing out the Mines of Chaos in B1: Little Keep on the Borderlands.  Our GM is awesome and the players are really experienced.  We tend to spend the majority of every session just role playing in the Keep and it is only in the last session that we got into some real dungeon hijinks.  I'm having an absolute blast.

I also run a D&D 3E game that is kind of on hold (I think my profile has a link to the campaign site I put up).  My group for that game has been together for over 6 years.  We just finished up a year long campaign and have started this new one...which is not going very quickly.

In addition to that, I'm currently trying to modify AD&D 1E with some of the rules from Hackmaster and from 3E.  Not a huge makeover, but a few rules to smooth out gameplay (spontaneous cures for clerics, HM initiative and skill system).

As for the best game I've ever played in...that's actually hard to pick as I don't play all that often.  The best game I ever ran was a Deadlands (my favorite RPG) one-shot that literally gave people nightmares and everyone had fun...that's my high-water mark.  
This post has made me think of what a huge rpg collection I have and how few of the games I've actually played....  It might be time to clean out the closet