Timewaster's Guide Archive

I'd take a bow, but I'm against frightened people.

Thanks Harbinger,
 Eagle Prince, for an example I'll point to the present Hero Game I'm in (Marvel universe). The GM gives his standard experience out, plus one point if you've given bluebooking for the last session. His brother never bluebooks, so he's got none, ever. My roommate, making something every time, has twenty extra points from it. And despite him sometimes making entire adventures or three at a time, he still gets one point per adventure. He's having fun!

We enter games with bluebook rewards with the agreement that we may or may not get much out of it. Sometimes a player that is creative (see: roommate) will write things when there's no bb reward in the campaign, just to confirm to the GM that "this" is how the character thinks, that he's really Role Playing and not just Roll playing.

RPH

This reminds me of the "old days" of my gaming in the 80's at a Denney's restaurant. We played D&D or Champions, among other systems like Fringeworthy after ten once or twice a month. We didn't use miniatures much and it added to the amount of character work we did. Actually, we gamed there to do Role Play without too much of the "roll play". The manager let us game over night on coffee and sodas, knowing that we'd buy breakfast (for dinner) before we left. Also, more people filtered in overnight if the parking lot had a few cars.

We were normal teens and university students of the time. That meant loud color shirts, blue jeans, and one of the late joiners went Cindy Lauper. (Don't faint, we had three women gamers. Call Colleen a girl and she'll give you a frog!) Add to that being in Indianapolis. Most people at the time equated dice with gambling and we had loads of D6 on the table. It took two months before the cops became casual. One even said his son played.

At first we'd get a wide birth from having books with "Monster Manual", "Vampires" and "Villains" emblazoned on them. Sometimes there'd be "blue hairs" scowling from across the isle. We didn't get any other problems.

Funeral March of the Queen Marry. National Public Radio

... Did you just say Tool and Detox in that order? Without "from" between them in the reverse? What's the problem? Feeling too sweet?
Come down slow. Have some RAMMSTIEN!!! (POP!)

[Oh, I'll burn for that!]

I'm an old school gamer that's fallen out of the habit.

I have two favorite settings.
One- The old Element Masters gameworld (company forgotten) was a great world, maybe due to a sharp witted GM. Elf, human, dwarf and halfbreeds all hoping to stop a common invader. Plus the Half-Trons. Trons were the supper-sized genderless minions of the invader's shock troops. Born full sized from captured women, killing mom in the proccess. Half-Trons are from mothers that escape before the kid is big enough to be programmed (we hope) Incomplete, male, and grown to full thinking size in the last hour, with some of their mom's memories up to the last second of life.
In that world there's an invation into your magical world from forces of high tech power and some incidental other thingys get in too. You players are tapped by a great trainer to learn the lost art of Elemental Manipulation. THE most poweful form of magic. (It was lost when the other masters lept into the other demention to fight and the remainders were assasinated.)
My character, dwarven, lost an arm and foot to take out a great three headed dragon guarding a portal.  The hand was replaced with robot parts and dragon armor.
When we got to the end of the set cenario and literally blew the invading extradementional bad guy off the planet we kept playing.

The other Favorite Gameworld is R.I.F.T.S. due to it's versitility and "it's all inside" element.

RPH