TygerLily

Re: Double The Hero Excitement! Darren, that's like your mom tell you (when you were younger) all your Christmas presents are hidden in the basement but "No Peeking!" then she leaves to go grocery shopping... the torture!

Re: Answers & Questions

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Comfortable Liar by Chevelle

Re: Answers & Questions Q: Why do my eyes feel like sandpaper? A: Boredom is an interesting motivator.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Let's Get It On by Marvin Gaye It's what popped up on the random shaffle

Re: Characters favorite manuever A character I played in college was named Raven and she would shape shift into a raven. She would fly to the feet of her attackee (half move), release her shrinking (zero phase), and then punch with all of her strength. I'm not big on the numbers, but I know with the knock back bonus of shrinking and her strength she normally knocked them out in one punch. Oh and normally, I played it as her first attack in a combat, so she would catch the person off guard as well, since she tried hard not to have a rep as a bird. They weren't expecting a bird; they were expecting a woman.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: How will you know which house is Basil's? A: The lock was broken.

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? We saw The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything yesterday.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: You seriously think you can handle some of this? A: Wow, so the sky really is blue!

Re: Champions Universe: The Unresolved Questions/Plots

Re: Champions Universe: The Unresolved Questions/Plots I can see where you're coming from with this answer, and I agree individual GM should have room to change and develop settings. But at the same time, I read Champions Universe or Villians, Vandals, and Vermin (the one I'm currently reading), and I want to read the rest of the story about the backgrounds or how some of the character development pan out. Maybe it's the writer wanna-be in me, but I want to know how the characters felt about things. If Morgaine the Mystic (VVV Crimelords) gets too gutsy in her attempts to get Tiger Lily out of the picture, will Dreadnaught step in and put her in her place, or would he set back and watch the women fight it out? Does Tiger Lily feel Morgaine's a threat enough that it affects the decisions she makes as leader of the Crimelords? just a couple of examples.

Re: Why should I care? I agree with this take on the situation!

Re: City of Heroes - Online Hero Game

Re: Ps238 Ok, I have to add another plug for Dice 'n' Diapers (That's "and" not "in") website. The website is gear just for Gamer Parents. As we get older, start having kids, our gaming style changes, our time to devote to games changes, and then we have the challenge of introducing our children to the games. The website tries to cover all those areas. Being involved with the Gen Con Forums has shown me just how many parents want to bring their children to gaming conventions but they need children activities they can do with them. Origins last year had a wonderful Kids Room for the kids to play games, read books, etc. Not sure how Gen Con's was, because we are local and school had started so our kids wasn't at Gen Con and thus needing children activities. Another thig I have noticed is more people are realizing that gaming isn't a hobby limited to high school and college. At least, from my impression, it was ok for teenage boys/girls to play an RPG and even into college, but once they got married, got a job, and had kids, people seemed to think they needed to "grow out of it". Granted it's harder to schedule a 4-6 hr gaming session when kids have bedtimes and your spouse wants time, and you have to be at work in the morning, but it doesn't mean your hobby is a childish activity to be "grown out of". Gaming fathers, and mothers, have figured out that gaming teaches the children a lot of valuable lessons for life, so they are not only encouraging adults to keep up the hobby but to introduce their children to it as well. I don't want this post to go forever, but just think of the problem solving, logic, and cause and effects lessons that comes from playing RPGs.

Re: Ps238 I'm not a comic book/strip followers, so I have never heard of this comic book series, but I love the idea of an RPG geared toward children and young adults. Our 9 year old daughter was expressing interest in RPG after we allowed her to create a few characters and play City of Hero with our supervision. So, we got the Teen Champions book, and started a campaign where the characters are all pre-teen to teenagers. We haven't had a lot of sessions, unfortunately, because another family who is joining us have been unavailable since Aug. But the girls (ours and a 10 yr old in the other family) seem to enjoy the game a lot. In fact, if you're interested, I was doing a blog/forum discussion of the challenges and learning curve of teaching children an RPG at Dice 'n' Diapers website.