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    Chicago Gameday XX was June 14th: AFTERMATH

    Dieter says: "Ja! Mein gravity-enhancer wast effektiv in un-pimping die efil sorceror. Und now ist the time vee tanz to the majesty of Donnie und Marie!" Reality: the session ended not much after you left due to the sorceror boss botching his roll. Ow!
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    Chicago Gameday XX was June 14th: AFTERMATH

    Crap! I gave everyone all the hints I could already... I mean, I was hoping that the bad tabloid-esque article about people getting their internal organs removed "like an apple being cored" was all the hinting I'd need to give. Oh, and also a bit of a reminder: there's quite a bit to go over...
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    Chicago Gameday XX was June 14th: AFTERMATH

    Compromise: Limit the online signups for ADatR to six (which we have) - leaving room for 2 walk-ins. The way I read it from the front page, we have - as of Wed AM - 8 open slots for walk-ins. Total. Which doesn't do much for opening up the event to people who don't already know about us...
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    Chicago Gameday XX was June 14th: AFTERMATH

    Umm... I thought I had 2 seats left for ADatR - 8 PCs are ready to go as we speak. Not that I mind having a smaller group, but we're running out of seats for walk-ins... Second the reservation idea.
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    Chicago Gameday XX was June 14th: AFTERMATH

    New victim er, offline signup: Donna C. would like the eggs benedict at breakfast, a seat at the morning Feng Shui game and a seat at my game in the afternoon. TiA BTW - is there wifi anywhere near Games Plus? I think that having Google Maps on hand might prove extra cool...
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    Chicago Gameday XX was June 14th: AFTERMATH

    Hints (or not) for "Day at the Races": http://www.alienvideo.net/0805/alien-abduction-mutilation.php (NSFW) http://www.crowdedskies.com/human_mutilations.htm (again NSFW) http://www.ssa.gov/history/ssn/misused.html http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080522/ap_on_hi_te/identity_fraud_flap...
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    Chicago Gameday XX was June 14th: AFTERMATH

    DAGON addons & intro Obviously, you never watched the blooper reel for "Rockstar"... Lo, I wer damageded by that... Attached are the previously-threatened house-rules (semi-official as Mr. Harper described them in the sources) and Intro to what Delta Green is (and isn't). Yes, there will be a...
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    Chicago Gameday XX was June 14th: AFTERMATH

    There's a whole house full of 'em in sunny Ingleside (that little place that's between Round Lake, Fox lake and Long Lake). After I kept going on and on about Sorceror, Agon and Hero's Banner - Donna and Jim C. signed up for Forge and we've been scheming to have Forge MW South sometime soon...
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    Chicago Gameday XX was June 14th: AFTERMATH

    GD Antioch had at least 3... ;) while d100 isn't conventionally "forge-esque," part of the point of a self-contained resolution system is to be able to eliminate fiat-based GMing and the adversarial dialectic... The competitiveness of Agon is what renewed my interest in Forge - but I still...
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    Chicago Gameday XX was June 14th: AFTERMATH

    Realistically, 8 is waaaay more than will probably sign up. I'm just being prepared in case the curiosity of others proves me wrong. Again, the main scenario focuses on 3 "real" agents with a possible cast of up to 5 "friendlies"... Ruleswise, Agon can handle that large of a combat - but it...
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    Chicago Gameday XX was June 14th: AFTERMATH

    RSVP 1 ekb for breakfast & am Feng Shui (I'm too slow and old for ToC <sniffle> - unless a chair opens up for that)... Buzz, can we clarify the description for "Day at the Races": aDatR is a competitive game using Agon's rules and the Delta Green (modern horror espionage) setting. No...
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    Chicago Gameday XX Planning thread: June 14th is our date

    Agon/Delta Green blurb \sorry for the tardiness - I'm enjoying a mild sinus infection and the medications are really fun in that huffing paint sort of way\ A Day at the Races Not everything in the life of a DG cell is so exciting... but it still needs to be done. After the massive shakeup...
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    Ability Score Arrays

    Well, at 1st level, they're not really heroic - yet. They're kids who WANT to be these things and so they try to do them without really knowing what they need... No, it's not realistic in the least. It's not supposed to be. However, that mulligan rarely comes into play when we are running 5d6 -...
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    Ability Score Arrays

    "can't cast anything"? We're doing just the 3 archetype classes (Warrior - Expert - Adept), so Wis is what counts here and Int only adds bonus spells. We do have a mulligan rule - if you're at a negative modifier for your class' key stat, we roll everything again, limit one such do-over. <Stat>...
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    Ability Score Arrays

    Or, you could use randomized stats as a way of showing how people can rise over challenges... Come to my house to play D&D and I'll hand you 5d6 (drop 2 lowest)... But you can only roll after you've decided class and race based on the rest of the party and the setting information. ANd we take...
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    Chicago Gameday XX Planning thread: June 14th is our date

    So, play Trail of Cthulhu and mug my character when I go down the wrong dark alley... Similar enough to the 9mm Retirement Plan. ;)
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    Chicago Gameday XX Planning thread: June 14th is our date

    The graphic designer in me engaged in much self-abuse when first I saw it... almost as much as the game designer in me abused myself when I saw the mechanics for Trail of Cthulhu/GUMSHOE. That is the almost exclusive reason for why I'm choosing afternoon - I want in on the ToC game as a player...
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    Chicago Gameday XX Planning thread: June 14th is our date

    Loose pitch So... the way it looks, there's open tables morning and afternoon... Still taking pitches? If so, I've got one for you: Agon, using Delta Green as the setting... Basically, the players are posing as a USDA team investigating a series of cattle mutilations. Run-of-the-mill stuff...
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    Help needed ASAP: Hospitality rituals

    1 - An exchange of "Stormpeace?" while looking in each other's eyes. 2 - Within my kindred, whenever we greet a stranger wanting to join our rites we clasp hands AND embrace. The hands are fully seen and nothing is going on "behind the back." 3 - More formally at dining, we'll each take turns...
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    Test your D&D (and medical) knowledge

    15/16 I'm not sure if that's saying I've spent too much time reading D&D or reading about dermatology.
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