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    Game session abruptly canceled

    i agree with emrikol above most of us are married but dont game with a spouse half of us have kids, and we dont cart them around for gaming we have up to 8 players your group dynamic doesnt seem conducive to playing, though as you say you have played like this for some time I hoped it...
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    Does "Fantasy Role Playing" attract people who have a hard time in reality?

    ok...whoever said sports fans are socially adjusted please got to an english football match or, in my two month limited experience of being in canada a) any ice hockey game b) people who hunt, which is very scarey. Aside from that Canada was amazing and id move there if i had the chance. I RPG...
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    Seriously considering Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (2nd edition)

    well played this for the first time in ages (see posts above) the other day roll up for fairly easy. not 100% on how advancement works, but will sort that out as it becomes important random stat rolling seemed ok, except party mercanery had v low WS and S. we played the scenario in the back...
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    D&D 2 (WotDG) on British Television this Wednesday

    i own the DVD too its good for the cheap look it has. lots of D&Disms's, a few iconic beatsies and spells, and a good 'trap' or two John
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    Longsword PCs

    excellent weapon choice for a favoured soul we have two D&D campaigns running with 6 PC's in each. In one campaign only 1 uses a LS (my FavSou!) In the other no-one uses a LS so yeah, not as many as in 1st ed, which is good i guess John
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    Spider-Man 3 [may contain spoilers]

    not a great movie, but i was expecting this after all the reviews was betta than reviews made it out to be some good 5 or 6 comedy moments (bruce, spiderman boots, JJ blood pressure, john travolta, etc) final fight was good. spidey CGI was pretty bad, everyone else was ok Awesome trailer...
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    Have more fun with powergaming

    it can get a bit annoying when someone plays with a well thought out concept, is well roleplayed, BUT if your character actually stepped back and thought about it would say "this world is a dangerous place, would i really put my life in this guys hands?" Whether its an orc/dwarf Bar with all...
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    Just picked up RIFTs for the first time since 1993 ...

    Yeah at on point i got drawn in just by flipping through the book and reading the intro. The you buy it Then you read more and think, wow some very cool concepts but maybe a bit 'uber' in places. Then your tell your players, they go 'oh' too, then the glitter boys et al start to appear and then...
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    How long is the typical tabletop session?

    every wednesday from 7pm till just after eleven different group on thursdays from 7.45 to 10.45 wld do mor eif others cld and the wife wld let me. Im sure surfers and paragliders would like to surf and paraglide more, so its not geeky for me to wanna game more is it? john
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    Doctor Who, Episode 6: "The Lazarus Experiment"

    excellent all round "nothing more dangerous that someone choking on an olive" and the classic "it doesnt normally take this long to reverse the polarity, i cant have done it for a while.".....excellent throwback. Jon Pertwee was always reversing the polarity of stuff Like the suave 'mister...
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    Seriously considering Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (2nd edition)

    Hmm. still seems v old fashioned to roll up random stats, get a charcater you may not quite like only to have it die quick / be fated to die cos chaos 'wins'. It does sound like fantasy CoC. i didnt like that either, but that was probably not keen on 20's era USA. Not keen on 'fighting the...
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    third party adventure modules. what's worth buying?

    Hmm...the spear of Loghin i thought was pretty bad, as was theives in the forest. 3 days to kill was ok. Cant remember why know i disliked GMing them so much, i bought a stack of really early 3.0 stuff from 3rd party and was pretty underwhelmed. What was the utterly awful one, 'horror beneath'...
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    Eberron in a nutshell

    We played it for a bit (got to 8th level) but i dont think i ever fully 'got it' Its a lowish magic / power setting excpoet you know you have elemetyal powered craft and light rails and highly impressive skyscrapers and everyone knows featherfall.....and you get oodles of action points which...
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    Seriously considering Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (2nd edition)

    Coincidentally i play my first WHFRP game next week for the first time in about 19 years (i used to play with the GW developers / employees when i lived down the road in nottingham). My memory is that i didnt enjoy it very much and i cant recall why (well not much). I played loads of different...
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    New Trailer for Fantastic Four 2. Might not be awful?

    we like that trouble is the spidey 3 trailer looked good too
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    Good sources for Victorian adventures?

    I currently run an 'as real as possible' Victorian Campaign set in 1865. It is non-d20 This is an excellent resource http://www.victorianlondon.org/ So much stuff happened around this time i find it very easy to come up with plots. Wiki is very useful too. I have quite lot notes on stuff i...
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    Is gaming without map and minis really bad?

    i think minis werent neccessary when there where less rules and therefore less things to think about in combat Also my brain is now 25 years older than when i started playing and can no longer juggle so many things in my head at once. if i have a board with the tactical elements and such laid...
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    3.5 Without Minis?

    we do use minis. of course u still get some people who ask how far they are away from the nearest orc when its there turn, even though iof they had been paying attention and looked at the mat they could see they were 25ft away!
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    I'm burning out, again....

    I actually think non rules lawyers are worse than rules lawyers. Its when u write something specifically for a member of the party to shine and they just dont get it / or remember what they can do, even at low level OR they ask the same question / make the same mistake 5 or more times a...
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    Dr Who - Evolution of the Daleks (spoilers)

    absolutely loved the bit where the two daleks are colluding in the sewer, and one looks back to see if anyone is there before he starts whsipering revolutionary ideas. Almost fell of my chair laughing. ...and then there was one John
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