Age of Worms in Tuscaloosa, AL
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Indeed. That would be cool.
My extended gaming group -- a group of about 12 to 16 friends across Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee -- have 3 big get-togethers -- we call 'em home cons -- each year where we basically just hang out and game. We just recently had one in Birmingham.
My extended gaming group -- a group of about 12 to 16 friends across Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee -- have 3 big get-togethers -- we call 'em home cons -- each year where we basically just hang out and game. We just recently had one in Birmingham.
HeapThaumaturgist
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Guess I'll have to do some investigation when I get there. Thanks to everybody that's been keeping up with this thread and feeding me information.
It looks like we'll be moving down the end of the first week in August, so rather soon now, really. Thus things have been a little mad on this end. (One of my comittee members forgot when I wanted to do my exam, and left town, and now I can't get my degree until December. So I'm going to be sitting in T-Town for 4 months without an MA. GRRRRRRR)
It'll be interesting to meet some ENworlders, so I'm definately in support of some sort of 'Con or get-together in the area. Especially since we'll be missing GenCon this year, what with moving and whatnot.
--fje
It looks like we'll be moving down the end of the first week in August, so rather soon now, really. Thus things have been a little mad on this end. (One of my comittee members forgot when I wanted to do my exam, and left town, and now I can't get my degree until December. So I'm going to be sitting in T-Town for 4 months without an MA. GRRRRRRR)
It'll be interesting to meet some ENworlders, so I'm definately in support of some sort of 'Con or get-together in the area. Especially since we'll be missing GenCon this year, what with moving and whatnot.
--fje
Stormborn
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HeapThaumaturgist said:
Oh, Heap, I am soooo sorry. Can't tell you how miserable it is here now. August is a terrible time to be unloading for a move. Well, best of luck, maybe we can muster up a freak low humidity week for you.
EDIT: Let me add for anyone thinking about starting up a local 'con: you must get the most recent issue of Dork Tower. Funny and Scary all at the same time.
HeapThaumaturgist
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Oh, you can tell me. I know very well. 
I've lived in 'Bama for 13 of the last 15 years. The weather down there is a miserable cuss about eight months of the year, and August is the Grand High Poobah of Miserable Cusses.
It's no picknick up here right now either. I'm thinking of it as endurance-training for what's to come. Dennis swirled a great deal of humidity into the area and it's been 90s and HUMID for the last few days.
--fje
I've lived in 'Bama for 13 of the last 15 years. The weather down there is a miserable cuss about eight months of the year, and August is the Grand High Poobah of Miserable Cusses.It's no picknick up here right now either. I'm thinking of it as endurance-training for what's to come. Dennis swirled a great deal of humidity into the area and it's been 90s and HUMID for the last few days.
--fje
ledded
Herder of monkies
Oh, I dunno, I've always felt that September was the biggest copper-plated b*tch of them all.
See, it's like August, but usually a little more humid, except that you see on the news where it's starting to get cool and all Fall-funsy everywhere else, and by this time you're seriously looking at brochures from "brisk Autumn in Alaska" and thinking, "yeah, I could do that". If you're lucky, you get that first spurt of fall, where the temp unexpectedly drops down into the 60's or 70's for a week before you get blasted in the face by 2 more weeks of 95+ summer.
Any folks here not from LA (that's Lower Alabama, where I believe Heap did his time) or other nice southern spots like Houston, New Orleans, etc, listen up: sometimes it gets so humid here in the summer that the humidity will be in the upper 90 percentile, close to 100%, yet it's still hot as heck and sunny. In most places, humidity that high means that it's actually raining, and here it would be also, except that it's so hot the rain evaporates before it gets anywhere *near* the ground and just settles in like a nice, toasty sauna.
But hey, we've got lots of lakes and spots to hang out and get cool on the weekend, plus we can play sports outside all year 'round. Plus, Autumn is the best here, all 9 days of it.
See, it's like August, but usually a little more humid, except that you see on the news where it's starting to get cool and all Fall-funsy everywhere else, and by this time you're seriously looking at brochures from "brisk Autumn in Alaska" and thinking, "yeah, I could do that". If you're lucky, you get that first spurt of fall, where the temp unexpectedly drops down into the 60's or 70's for a week before you get blasted in the face by 2 more weeks of 95+ summer.
Any folks here not from LA (that's Lower Alabama, where I believe Heap did his time) or other nice southern spots like Houston, New Orleans, etc, listen up: sometimes it gets so humid here in the summer that the humidity will be in the upper 90 percentile, close to 100%, yet it's still hot as heck and sunny. In most places, humidity that high means that it's actually raining, and here it would be also, except that it's so hot the rain evaporates before it gets anywhere *near* the ground and just settles in like a nice, toasty sauna
.But hey, we've got lots of lakes and spots to hang out and get cool on the weekend, plus we can play sports outside all year 'round. Plus, Autumn is the best here, all 9 days of it
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Old Drew Id
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I went to school in Tuscaloosa from 92 to 95, and back then, there was an active student gaming group of about 10-20 people that met every other week to play 2e, but that was student-only. (And that was only advertised in occasional notices in the student paper. )Other than that, there were no publicized gaming groups that I was aware of.
The "campaign" we were in was pretty much 90% random wilderness encounters with no discernible plot and no clear destination. Kind of like Wagon Train with swords. (I never DM'ed back in those days). But, there were still some shining gaming moments that I recall fondly, and it taught me a lot about what I wanted out of a game and showed me what I wanted to do when I decided to DM years later.
The "campaign" we were in was pretty much 90% random wilderness encounters with no discernible plot and no clear destination. Kind of like Wagon Train with swords. (I never DM'ed back in those days). But, there were still some shining gaming moments that I recall fondly, and it taught me a lot about what I wanted out of a game and showed me what I wanted to do when I decided to DM years later.
HeapThaumaturgist
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My hope is that I'll be able to find as good a collection of people to spend time with as I've found here.
I've been into RPGs for the last fifteen years, but the last two have been the only time that I've been able to game on anything resembling a regular basis.
--fje
I've been into RPGs for the last fifteen years, but the last two have been the only time that I've been able to game on anything resembling a regular basis.
--fje
ShaggySpellsword
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If you are willing to play with college students, last I heard, there was a number of gamers at the Mallet Assembly on campus. Its the freaky student-governed honors dorm behind the president's mansion.
HeapThaumaturgist
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Freaky honor's dorm?
Sounds like where I spent most of my undergraduate career. And I didn't even LIVE there.
I've been playing with college kids for the last two years ... 'course I was sort of still a student, myself, but still.
I'm hoping to find a meeting-ground where I can get to know people and build a group. My wife will be a graduate student there and we're looking into helping put together some sort of student group that would be able to get together in a campus building for playing board games, card games, and the like.
--fje
Sounds like where I spent most of my undergraduate career. And I didn't even LIVE there.
I've been playing with college kids for the last two years ... 'course I was sort of still a student, myself, but still.
I'm hoping to find a meeting-ground where I can get to know people and build a group. My wife will be a graduate student there and we're looking into helping put together some sort of student group that would be able to get together in a campus building for playing board games, card games, and the like.
--fje
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