Boston Gameday - Sat, March 15th (FULL!)

[Thornir Alekeg]

Hey, DestroyYouALot, will we be doing this quick and dirty character generation at the game day?

Hmm, I should dig around and try to find my Basic and Expert set rulebooks and brush up...

 

[scholar]

right SM, one copy of jon hauer coming up

 

[Eridanis]

1. Eridanis (Dr. Leonard McCoy - Star Trek)
7. Thornir Alekeg - (Alfred Bester - Babylon Five)

I can't wait when the characters first meet each other. "Bester - you look awfully familiar..."

At present I believe that I am writing up the character sheets for Eridanis...

Thank you for that. No way I'm going to have time to get my d20 Modern knowledge up to snuff to build the character myself. I appreciate it!

 

[DestroyYouAlot]

Hey, DestroyYouALot, will we be doing this quick and dirty character generation at the game day?

Hmm, I should dig around and try to find my Basic and Expert set rulebooks and brush up...

So far, I'm leaning towards "day of," with the caveat that I'm going to go down the line and ram everybody through it. I'll have spell lists and equipment lists already drawn up (with a basic "dungeoneering package" already included), and with Classic there really isn't much more to do than "roll six scores, pick a class, roll hp." And make up a funny name. So I think we can get away with doing it on the spot.

I'm going to have, at the very least, one mission for you guys to try your hand at (maybe more, if so you can all vote on what you want to shoot for), but for all I care you folks can just pick a direction in the dungeon and go - I'm down for whatever. Maybe I get to discover some new territory. (For my money, nothing beats the feeling, as a GM, of not knowing what the hell's gonna happen, and having the players surprise me.)

 

[Ao the Overkitty]

Well, now that I have mostly fought off the plague and done a little finagling, it looks like I can make the morning of the gameday. I'll have to leave orchid to fend for herself, but I figure she could probably bribe people with baked goods.

If I can still count, it looks like there is a slot left for Classic D&D. If so, please sign me up.

 

[Umbran]

Don't forget to stat up JarJar in case he doesn't do it in time.

Well, pblththplbt! to you!

I am really sorry I haven't been on top of this - a larp project I'm involved in wound up eating most of my free time this month. The game runs Friday, and then I'll have my brain back.

So, let's see. I note a general tendency to wackiness in this bunch of misfits. The first thing that comes to mind is probably not well-represented by a 7th level character. So let's go with the second - John Crichton, from Farscape. Smart, multi-talented, and not too dependent on details of mechanics I'm not familiar with

 

[Silver Moon]

let's go with - John Crichton, from Farscape. Smart, multi-talented, and not too dependent on details of mechanics I'm not familiar with

Thank you!

And let me say how AMAZED I am that we've had eight Sci-Fi/Fantasy characters chosen and NOT ONE from the Fanboy favorite's of Battlestar Gallactica, Firefly or Star Wars!

 

[Umbran]

And let me say how AMAZED I am that we've had eight Sci-Fi/Fantasy characters chosen and NOT ONE from the Fanboy favorite's of Battlestar Gallactica, Firefly or Star Wars!

Well, Mal Reynolds or Han Solo and Ripley in the same game would be redundant

If it matters, the first thing that came to mind was The Doctor, from Doctor Who - but as I said, he probably doesn't work as a 7th level character.

 

[Silver Moon]

If it matters, the first thing that came to mind was The Doctor, from Doctor Who - but as I said, he probably doesn't work as a 7th level character.

Agreed - wonderful character but he probably wouldn't fit very well with this module as strange new worlds and odd people are the norm for him.

 

[Nellisir]

Well, Mal Reynolds or Han Solo and Ripley in the same game would be redundant

How exactly does Ripley make Han Solo redundant? Totally different archtypes. I could see a game with Mal Reynolds, Han Solo, and John Crichton getting a little redundant, but not because of Ripley.