archermoo

Re: My character building technique (How to build Hero System Characters) I'm less concerned with someone who doesn't do a very good job of explaining what the campaign is going to be like than I am with someone who purposefully lies about what the campaign will be. What annoys me is the people who present a well planned campaign setting, and then part of the way through one of the first play sessions spring a catastrophic change of some kind. A change in how the reality works, one way time travel, one way dimension shift, etc. Generally something that will make all of our characters no longer useful, but certainly makes the campaign no longer resemble in any way what we as players were told to expect. I'm a great role player. I've been doing it a long time. I am perfectly capable of keeping player knowledge and character knowledge separate. I don't at all mind playing in a game designed to start as one type of campaign and then suddenly transform into something else. But I as the player want to know this from the beginning. I don't want to be lied to because the Ref will enjoy things more if he gets to spring that kind of change on us.

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Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I usually try to stick with "Never assign to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity". Though I'll certainly admit that I don't always succeed...

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Re: My character building technique (How to build Hero System Characters) Or someone stuck in the "Ref vs Players" mindset.

Re: Figured Char and increasing Main Char (5ed) In 5th edition, 15 Dex and 3 SPD costs 20 points. 17 Dex and 3 SPD costs 24 points. There isn't any difference in Hero between how much something costs when you first purchase the character and how much it costs after the game starts.

Re: My character building technique (How to build Hero System Characters) My solution to that is simple. Once the "switch" part happens I stop playing. I don't generally have much interest in gaming with people who I cannot trust. Nor for that matter with people who trust so little in my ability to separate my knowledge from my character's knowledge that they don't feel like they trust me enough to tell me what the game is about.

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Re: Musings on Random Musings I'm pretty sure the original is "in which we live in".

Re: The cranky thread One of the few song that I tear up at whenever I hear it. The tune seems to strike something directly in my brain, as it had that effect on me from the first time I heard it, and I heard it as an instrumental before I ever heard the lyrics...

Re: Which tools from the toolkit can be dropped in a low powered game? Start with the Basic Rulebook.

Re: The cranky thread I don't know about glamorous, but I generally have fun when I travel. I don't generally even mind the security floorshow, though I'd be happier if it were a bit more useful. My experiences at SFO have been pretty positive in general. We'll see if that is different in March, but I don't expect that it will be.

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Re: Foods for those that just don't care anymore Hmm...gizmodo. First flag for me. Not as big a flag as it would be were Apple to be involved, but still a flag. Their list of ingredients in the article not matching what is on the label that they show the photograph of is flag #2. And then putting forth the claim that it is only 36% beef based solely on the claim of the people suing Taco Bell, with no substantiation of any kind offered. That's flag #3. If we ever get to the point of any actual information showing up, please let me know.

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Re: Musings on Random Musings I mostly agree with you. The only exception I might make would be in regards to children. As I said, I don't agree with cases that one person is on a first name basis when the reverse isn't true. If it isn't okay for a child to call me "Gary", then it isn't okay for me to call them by their first name either. If I have to be Mr. Denney, then they should be Mr. {Surname} too.

Re: Toolkitting: Relative versus Absolute Never really saw the character sheet as the GUI for an RPG. To me it is more a reminder of the mechanics of the character I'm playing.

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Re: Musings on Random Musings I've known a lot more academics that insisted on people calling them "Doctor", even if you were interacting with them outside of their field, than military personnel that insisted on proper forms of address from non-military personnel. And feeding the random nature of the thread, one of my pet peeves in addressing people is people who feel that it is reasonable for them to be on a first name basis with you without you also being on a first name basis with them. I.e. people that feel that it is okay to call me Gary, but insist I call them "Mr. Whatever" or "Dr. Whatever" or somesuch.

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Re: Musings on Random Musings Actually, I bet you do. They just call it "natural gas", or possibly just "gas". But the gas provided by your local power company is methane. Which contrary to popular belief is an odorless, colorless gas. There is an additive that they put in it so that people can smell it when their gas leaks.