I missed the session after going blind. I guess I'm more peeved at HOW I got blind than the fact that I did. I thought about Open RPG, but I'd much rather play with REAL people.
I can't do forums because Dice aren't on the forums and you can't tell that everyone isnt just claiming to make nigh invincible rolls. I've seen some online games, and unless its in a system like open rpg where rulesets are possible, its like whoever types fastest wins the combat, or they are drawn out like 1 session over a month. Neither idea appeal to me.
Maybe if I start a new campaign as dm I can have something more enjoyable. I'd like a chance to actually PLAY in a game that is fun (which I almost never get to do here in Southwestern Ontario - I have to run the campaign for it to be any good it seems).
It's not that there's alot of combat in this game, it's a combination of players acting like idiots, and the DM having incredibly bad things happen to players for no conceivable reason. And this occurs on a regular basis. Reflex saves are meaningless, because he dishes out so much damage from random things at once, that if you make your save for half, you still need to have a d10 hit dice to have more than -10 hit points when youre hit.
Someone threw an alchemist fire flask into a coal mine, for example. He ruled that the fumes from the coal are flammable (They are, but not when that diluted), and he had an entire mountain blow up on us. We saw the guy throw the flask, and even though we were 30 feet away from him when he threw it (30 feet AWAY from the mine, and he threw it another 20 feet into the mine), we didn't even get an action before he ruled the entire mountain exploded and fell on us. Reflex for half (this was our level 5 characters). Half damage was like 56 damage or soemthing retarded. The fighter lived because he made his stability check and came back from -8.
If someone who is running a serious D&D game in the london ontario area, and can use another playr, let me know. Otherwise I'm going back to DMing because nobody I know seems to have the competence to run a game. :\
Come to think about it, I'm not that picky. I like white wolf too, I like FR, I like Spelljammer, Planescape, most types of homebrew, I'll try to learn 2nd if thats whats around. I'm so desperate I'll play the healing cleric in an eberron game (Some of the few things I hate is Eberron and playing healing clerics - healing clerics just aren't fun, and I'm not sure why I dont like eberron, I just don't).
Note: I'm not being really picky here, I just want some amount of seriousness, and I dont want to feel like the DM is just victimizing the players the entire game. If a character owned by the same player dies more than once in like 20 sessions, without them acting like an idiot and doing something to deserve it, then it just doesn't seem reasonable to me. I don't know. I'm just fed up with this GM's ridiculousness, and the GM in the other town i was in - whose games had no plot they were just combat, which is ok I guess, just not my thing. I want to find a dm who dms similar to me. with a plot, and some combat sometimes, and dialogue, and maybe a puzzle occasionally, and maybe even characters who last long enough to have character development.
I don't mind good campaigns, evil campaigns, low magic, steampunk, etc. It's all good, but I usually don't want to play d20 modern. If I want to play a modern game I usually use oWoD rules, just because thye make more sense to me when youre only going to have one race.
