Filed under: Organized Event, Real Life Adventures, games | Tags: 4e, 4th edition, D&D, Rob is a monster
The software is working, the campaign is ready and we’ve got enough players now to run a game. There has been a slight change of plans though. There’s going to be a race against time in the games, which directly favours 4th edition over 1st. In 1st remember you have to rest normal to recover from certain types of wounds, no ‘at-will’ powers, and you have to study for a certain number of weeks (!) before you can even go up a level. In 4th you level as soon as you get that xp, mysteriuosly acquiring the new powers with no training whatsoever – tanks can heal themselves – magic users can cast magic missile continuously for days at a time (and beat down vault doors in a matter of minutes!) and you can have more than 1 000 000, 5-minute rests in one day.
As such I’m going to be running slightly different campaigns for 1st and 4th, but with similar themes. The 1st edition guys get a bit more time too.
Tentative date is Saturday Afternoon!
More info for character creation and so on soon.
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I now know why I haven’t seen Tim online another mystery solved. Only like 2 and a half months until I have finished paying off my car!!! boo ya. then I can do things again. Oh the yay. Then I can have money again. With the money I can do things!! Last night I watched a lot of Venture Bros, it was worth it. I don’t know what I am saying anymore. All Glory to the Questacon.
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When will people realise that animal photos are not funny?
So finished exams and a hellish week at work catching up after exam related neglect. So what is news? Two luxurious weeks of pwning fools, thats what! There’s some interesting projects on the cards too. I’m looking forward to the DnD run. Never having really played it before (believe it or not) – with the exception of a bad encounter with rats… but I think it will be a fun thing to do if we can get a regular group. I’m just trying to think up the most offensive character I can, something charisma based perhaps?
Clearly I’m familiar to some extent with DnD, even having never played it. Its not that I’m reluctant, DnD is not the final Otaku Frontier, that title is reserved for Star Trek (Space nerds… the final frontier). Really I’m looking forward to meeting up with long lost friends again, even if its not at the pub. Don’t think that won’t stop me from drunken gaming though!
TF2 continues to be red hot disco fun. I’ve finally found the joys of the scout and if you can enjoy the scout, you can enjoy any of the classes. A big thank-you to Mr D for helping me out with some of the achievements as well… though there is still some work to be done. The Demo Man has also revealed his secrets to me (Ka-Boom!). But my most favourite discovery has been the Scout. Who would have thought head shots would be so much fun?
Anyway, I’m out for now, this book isn’t going to write itself
Filed under: Organized Event, Real Life Adventures, games | Tags: 4e, D&D, Rob is a monster
I’ve mentioned previously that the new 4th Edition is out. A lot of people are having different reactions to it – unsurprisingly considering all the changes. Rather than complain or poke fun at every little change in the system however, I’ve decided to do something different. I’m going to run a campaign in both 1st edition and 4th edition. 1st being AD&D circa 1979.
The campaign itself is going to be essentially the same, with the same events occuring, the same antagonists and maps and so on. There will of course be some differences. For example monsters don’t always exist in the same manner in both / magic and magic items are very different, and there is the matter of pace. I wont get into the details however, because that would ruin the story.
What I will do is type up a rundown of each sesson along with any player comments I can get. At the end of each chapter of the adventure I’ll try to type up some notes too so that you can play the adventures yourself and see what you think.
Filed under: games | Tags: 4th, D&D, gaming, Sheriff Frogtooth and the Foxtold murders, tf2
I’ve been pretty disconnected from the rest of the CGH group lately, and with no reason other than the bewitching rasta of a busy life. During that time though, I have had time to explore a few things.
I have been driven to play TF2 to a great degree. The sheer variety of the classes, and the fact that all of them are useful, is a feat of design that I have not seen matched. Not even in those MMORPGs that some people get hooked on.
Valve have taken a page from microsoft and a lot of school teachers, by starting to use achievements. To this day I can still hand kids at school a sticker for completing a task, and they are happy. That’s all the motivation they need. Similarly, the average xbox gamer needs only the carrot flavoured achievement, the little ‘ding’ that sounds, letting them know they’ve completed some arbitrary task. As an experiment in psychology, it’s fantastic. Now it’s in Valve games too. Somehow, providing a heap of achievements for medic players is all that was needed to bring them back into prominence.
For some time I played an engineer, hunting for the 10 sentry kills achievement. I have yet to get that one. The medic achievements come hard and fast – but unless you have a good partner you’re somewhat ineffective. Few and far between are the medics that can help more than one player. In a social group the medic is the guy who isn’t so cool, but spends a lot of time with the most cool person. When the cool person isn’t there, they find that they have no social responses for most things. When the cool person is there, they can make snide remarks about those outside their cliche knowing they have the safety of Mr Cool to back them up. That’s how medics work.
4th Edition
If I need to say what it’s the 4th edition of, then you wont be interested in this paragraph. I’m eager to play it, but there are features I immediatly dislike. I don’t like the ‘class roles’ they’ve gone for. That’s nothing but a combat oriented approach to gaming, and doesn’t encourage people to take different groups into gaming.
There’s no place for non-combat characters either. How do you run a local sheriff trying to solve a series of murders in his small town? You don’t. not. in. 4th. You take a party with exactly one Striker, one Controller etc and hack the badies apart.
There are things I like about it too, but I’ll talk about them more after my campaign has started and I have a chance to playtest everything.
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Another Birthday another step closer to 30 and another stark realisation that I’m not as close to those seminal accomplishments that a person of my maturing years should be. But what’s a wigga got to do? 
That being said, its not really all doom and gloom – many thanks to all the well wishers, which was awesome (especially knowing how lax I am myself in this department)
On another note, finally cancelled by WoW account (again), hopefully we’ll have better luck in the future and more fruitious opportunities will arise that will be more accomodating for everyone.
Ja Matte!
