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General => Site News => Topic started by: Spriggan on August 30, 2003, 06:16:06 AM
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Considering how successful are recent magic games have been for drawing in the people me and Fell decided that haveing a monthly TWG gamming night. We'll have one or two main things going on each time like magic drafts or mage knight/heroclix, and will most likely be takeing place the last weekend of each month at the cottentree. But if there are other activites that warrent a different setup then we'll announce it (IE my place for an anime or video game night). You don't need to be a staff member here or even a frequent poster, just someone who wants to have fun playing games. Next months will be the Mirage pre-release roadtrip unless people want to get together for something else. If you have ideas of what you want to do feel free to post them here.
For non-Utah TWGer's: We realise that you would want to come hang outwith us and have not forgotten you. Please apply for our TWG party pack that include such things as: A life size card board cut out of our beloved editor Fell as well as 5x10 glossies of Tage (left over from the Tage fanclub). note: subject to chage and all applications must include $1000 usda for consideration.
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There's also TWG-East, folks, which right now includes most (not all) of our little organization living outside of Utah on two sides of an ocean. It's hard for us to get together, but Jeffe and I live close, and keep trying to get our gaming group The Dirty Kobolds to meet somewhere in the Northern Virginia area. contact us if you're in the area and want to hang. I have a bunch of new stuff that needs playtesting (like Buttonlords, Duel of Ages, and some Cheapass Games).
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It's actually the Mirrodin pre-release, since Mirage is several years old.
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all applications must include $1000 usda for consideration.
So do I pay that in rump roast or flank steak?
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usda means US Dollar.
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no, USD means US Dollar. USDA is a food regulatory service in the US. As in USDA approved.
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Lol! Spriggan is the funny guy! He makes my socks knock off themselves. Sometimes I'll need a laugh and Spriggan pops in my mind and says something like "$1000 usda" and mean money. Heheheheh.
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I'd take a thousand bucks of USDA currency. Too bad Paypal doesn't accept meat.
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Fan of Venison?
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Just a reminder, the pre-release is this week, Saturday, in Salt Lake. If you want to go and haven't talked to Fell yet please do so.
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What time is it? I might not even be in town; I'm contemplating a trip to Idaho.
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ARR me maties we've be haveing a big group goin't't'prerealease. Expect some articles and pictures next week. Arrr.
T'next date be october 24, or 25. All you swags thinko'possible games. We'd liket'keep magict'at least every other month. T'same with paied activites.
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I'd like to congradulate Fell, EUOL, and Promethious for kicking butt at the Pre-release. Fell went 4-0 with 1 draw, EUOL 4-1 and Promethious 3-2.
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Considering that me and Fell don't have our RPG group for the next two weeks I think we need to have a TWG gamming nite sometime. Any takers?
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Two weeks? What's going on the second week?
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I'd be up fot it, but rehearsals got me booked.
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Actually, I'm here next week, just not the week after. (World Fantasy.)
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Just a quick tangent - at rehearsal tonight I learned how to eat fire! How cool is that?
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So, how?
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How do you eat fire? or How cool is it?
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Either.
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Is anyone up for something tonight?
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But start with how to eat fire, because I already know it's supercool
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Anybody in UT up for something this Friday night?
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Wait - that's Halloween. Well my wife's stuck helping out backstage with an opera at BYU and I'm not doing anything else. If anyone is up for something I'm game.
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I think 42 is planning on renting some scary movies or something like that on Halloween, your welcome to come over here. I'm sure Promethius would love to have an excuse to pull out his magic cards.
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Yes, I am thinking about renting some movies for Halloween, preferably horror flicks.
I'm having a hard time selecting the venue.
I'm strongly looking at the movie Willard. It has really good reviews and it fits the theme.
Promethues suggested the award-winning TV Mini-Series, Taken. However, it is 20 hours long.
Course, there is the stuff lying around the apartment, Signs, Sixth Sense, the Mummy, Vampire Hunter D, Buffy, Angeletc...
I also like really good classic horror/suspense flicks.
So suggestions are welcome.
Of course, there are plenty of games lying around the apartment as well.
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You know, the worst part about World Fantasy is the timing. I mean, who decided to have this thing on Halloween every year? Shame on you David Hartwell!
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To be honest, I never cared for horror flicks. I'm always up for a good game, though. Whatever.
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42, I suggest Hitchcock! He's my favorite!
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So how many of you locals are going to be around for New Years Eve? If there are enough of us we can get together at the Cotten Tree like we did 2 years ago.
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I will be, and I'd certainly be up for a nerd party on New Year's Eve.
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Sounds like a good idea to me, though I can't guarantee anything until I talk to my wife. And find a babysitter.
On a similar note, I'm in the mood for some Magic, having just HTML-ized another one of Prometheus' articles. What do you say we show up early for D&D tonight and play a game or two? Make sure to let Prometheus know, and anyone else (such as Kije) is free to come as well.
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I haven't seen Kije in an eternity! I hope he reads the thread and decides to stop by.
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Vermin. I guess this is what comes of not getting home till nearly 7 PM. I'll likely be around at New Year's, more 'cause I don't have anywhere to go, but hey...there is there.
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Sorry I missed, folks. One of these days.
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Ok a little more info on the NewYears eve Party.
At the cottentree
probaly starting around 8-9 (if you want to start ealier for some reason let me know)
we'll order food from the Pizza factory useing my discount.
The people that have showen intrest in comming are
me
Steve (my old roomate, some of you know him)
Fell
Tage
micha
I'm assumeing my rommates 42 and Promethious will be there to.
anyone else? Fuzzy and Brenna? Kije?
We'll be watching movies and playing games. Steve just bought the Civilization board game (based of the VG) and it looks fun, the game baord is huge. And I;m sure we can get Fell to bring his new Axies and Allies game (if he has it by then). I'll being my Mage Knight 2.0 figs. I'm sure there will be plenty of MTG going on as well, however it wont be a booster draft so bring your own cards.
So if you're thinking or planning on comming and have a game you'd want to bring/play list it here too plz.
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I'd like to come but we'll still be in Ohio. Kinda bummed, because it would be nice to have a NYE party that J.T. and I *both* enjoy, since our ideas of the term "party" are surprisingly different.
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I'd like to come too, but we'll still be in Florida. Ah, well.
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Just a note, Sprig: Earl is throwing a big Christmas party at our house, and last I heard, Tage and Micah were being tempted away from the Cottontree to join in the festivities here.
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christmass party after christmass?
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Whoops. I meant New Years party.
Anyway, I'm on my way to the gym, Sprig, if you want to come.
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ya, I'll meet you there.
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I so want to be there...
Alas, I married outside the faith. That is to say, my wife doesn't like games. Not even party games or social games. And I don't think I could convince her that she needed to come play with all of us, or that she should go somewhere else while I play at the "nerd party" as Tage so lovingly put it. Alas...
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Poor Kije, he has to miss out on the fun. I'll play on in your name.
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Kije, yeah, I feel your pain. You need to move out here. Then you and I can waste time while our wives watch Jane Austen movies or soemthing.
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Oh Kije... why didn't you learn from Eric's example like the rest of us?
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You have to find out about gaming before you fall in love. If you do it after it's too late.
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Hey, all that angst and conflict make for a better gamer. Right, Saint?
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yeah, right... that's it.
To be honest, though, my gaming and SF interest were in remission when I courted my wife for the final time. You guys are all directly responsible for reawakening all of it. When we came back to Provo after our marriage, I saw the poster for TLE, so I showed up. The rest is history.
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Oh dear. Does this mean your wife blames us?
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let's just say you've all become my little behavioral rationalization.
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;D
*points to new sig*
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/me laughs
I need to start collecting your quotes SE.
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I guess that means it goes into the lemur droppings file (the list of things I've said that other people tell me are funy enough to repeat)
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One thing we could consider for the New Year's party is having a bout of Emperor games. MTG.com has been sporting a number of articles about Emperor games over the last few weeks, and that seems like it'd be an interesting change to the standard chaos format our games typically run.
Anyone interested? The articles I've been reading are here:
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgcom/columnarchive&column=SeriousFun
and they give a good enough explanation of the format that we could figure out the rules. We could set up teams ahead of time. If extra decks are needed I could provide a few.
As long as we're talking about various games we could play, I'd be up for a short RPG session too. I'll get more people to agree if I leave the game system we would use open, but even if it is just a high-power character brawl, it could be great fun.
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How come every time I post on a thread it dies? ???
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we had a committee meeting while you were out. That was the decision.
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it's not you Promethious, it the fact that Earl is haveing a party at his house and with out the people that will be going to that there's only 3 people that would come to the cottentree. So TWG newyears is pretty much dead.
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You're a Student of Death, Prometheus. You should expect to kill threads, and be pleased. :)
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Yeah, but killing threads isn't much fun. It's like playing solitaire on a message board.