Chicago Gameday XIV: Aftermath...

[FCWesel]

Thanks one and all for suffering...er, playing...in my games.

 

[TracerBullet42]

Wow...where do I begin?

Thanks to Reidzilla for more M&M goodness. I learned that being a psychic is not always a good thing. My next character will be sure to have a few ranks in Not Wrapping the Jeep Around a Pole. I think that's a craft skill or something...

I especially enjoyed Mr. Cro-Magnon Man's inner-monologuing as I read his mind..."Stupid homo-sapiens...they'll never find me. They're so stupid!"

Good times.

And to my afternoon group...you guys cracked me up. Why is it that nothing seems to be able to get accomplished with this group without innocent plants and animals being interrogated??? Regardless, having conversations with sw3333 from the perspectives of a bunny and an oak tree was very amusing. Other highlights included:

-That poor, poor, slowed hill giant.
-Tomato to the face for minor sneak attack.
-What? The king's horses that he arranged aren't good enough for you?
-The 15 year old princess disarming the hill giant barbarian, and then standing up to the ensuing bull rush.
-Skewered giants and bears
-Tree interrogation
-Fluffy bunny interrogation
-Pinapples!
-Standing-on-horse, leaping through the air, power-attacking with longspear death attack (I so want a picture of that)
-"So, the super powerful magic sword is at my feet? I grab it up and dim-door!" (Silly kobold...)

I'm sure that there were many, many more hilarious moments scattered throughout the game, but my frazzled mind is struggling to come up with more at the moment. Perhaps I'll figure some more out later.

But I'd like to thank rvalle, Diremeade, Painfully, MrsFCWesel, Redwind, and sw3333 for playing so awesomely. I was very impressed with the way you tactically handled that last (should have been very huge and very tough) fight. The sword illusion, web, and wall of stone combo was very devastating to the poor, invisible necromancer.

That's all I got for now...so long, buttface.

 

[Ninjacat]

Thanks one and all for suffering...er, playing...in my games.

I can safely say that for me, the suffering was a complete and total pleasure!
[/masochism]

Seriously, the morning "D&D" Unisystem slot was an absolute BLAST.
Good Lord, the memories that brought back. Bwahahahahaa. Good Times.

FC, I can't thank you enough for that one! Unisystem is always fun, and the flashback to the childhood inspiration of my love for fantasy/gaming was stupendously awesome. Hank was always my favorite of the kids, and playing him was way too much fun. Even if my role-play was mostly making Survival and Leadership checks, heh. Too bad there weren't any people to interact with besides the rest of the party! (Then again, all the kids ever ended up doing with ANYONE else was "saving them" or "misunderstanding and fighting before realizing and helping them", heh. Hank's secret lies safe. *g*) The initial Buffy-ness was great, capturing the "gang of adventure-savvy (more-or-less) kids" aspect of the group and blending it with the D&D kids beautifully. I was really impressed by how well they translated into Unisystem stats; I think Hank worked GREAT, very much "feeling" exactly like the show yet being fleshed out into a full "adult" character that would fit nicely in a BtVS setting. The summary of how he relates to the other party members was spot on as far as I'm concerned, and I'm willing to bet the others were all just as good. (Actually, didn't you say you =did= have those available as PDFs or something? Where could I find those; I'm very interested in seeing how the rest of the party was worked out.)

Weee, lookit me ramble...

Redwind, Nazriel, Yort, Der Spot, and Salmacis -thanks for making this game so much fun! It was an absolute blast, truly. And I'm sorry I shot the dragon's egg, it seemed like the thing to do at the time... ..oops..... *fingers twitch feebly*

And thanks to everybody in the Serenity game, too. I was only in for the end and mostly just witnessed, but it was clear and obvious that people were playing something they had a passion for, playing beloved characters to the best of their abilities. I've been telling myself I need to watch Der Spot's Firefly/Serenity DVDs for a while, but this definitely kicked it up my "Need To Do" list!!

 

[Ninjacat]

Cripes, I talk a lot...

And for anyone who doesn't want to wade through the above:

Here are links to the old 80s D&D cartoon's opening intro and closing credits, and as I mentioned the "Lost Episode" script, which was written but never produced (the show was cancelled before the final go-ahead was given.)

Thanks Again, Everybody (and to mark, pvt. patterson, Reidzilla and Curt for the Space Race fun) and I'm already excited about doing it all again in a few months! W00t!

 

[FCWesel]

I'll see about PDFing and posting up a link to the D&D/Buffy Character sheets for anyone to DL, should they care/want to.

Ninjacat, glad you liked the game and the translation from cartoon to Buffy!

 

[FCWesel]

Okay!

Here's the Buffyized D&D Cartoon Character sheets (all in one zip file) for anyone who wants to DL them.

http://home.comcast.net/~wavesintheblack/Buffy-DnDCartoon-char.zip

(Ninjacat, I went in and fixed the name switch I accidently had on the sheets. All is as it should be, name wise. And BTW, I would check out Firefly, I think you'd like it...most folks seem to when they get a chance to watch them all.)

 

[sw3333]

Regardless, having conversations with sw3333 from the perspectives of a bunny and an oak tree was very amusing. ... I was very impressed with the way you tactically handled that last (should have been very huge and very tough) fight. The sword illusion, web, and wall of stone combo was very devastating to the poor, invisible necromancer.

Yeah, yeah, the bunny and the tree. I never did get to talk to that vase.

You need a good game to have fun, but even more so you need a good group of people. Both sessions I played in had just that. Great day of gaming. Maybe next time TracerBullet will even get us to the final battle with more than 13 minutes before we have to go home.

Good job, buttface.

 

[rvalle]

Maybe next time TracerBullet will even get us to the final battle with more than 13 minutes before we have to go home.

Good job, buttface.

Maybe he would if you didn't question every plant and animal we came across.



And thats Mr. Master Chief Super Kobold Buttface to you.

 

[rvalle]

Wow...where do I begin?

Thanks to Reidzilla for more M&M goodness. I learned that being a psychic is not always a good thing. My next character will be sure to have a few ranks in Not Wrapping the Jeep Around a Pole. I think that's a craft skill or something...

I especially enjoyed Mr. Cro-Magnon Man's inner-monologuing as I read his mind..."Stupid homo-sapiens...they'll never find me. They're so stupid!"

Good times.

And to my afternoon group...you guys cracked me up. Why is it that nothing seems to be able to get accomplished with this group without innocent plants and animals being interrogated??? Regardless, having conversations with sw3333 from the perspectives of a bunny and an oak tree was very amusing. Other highlights included:

-That poor, poor, slowed hill giant.
-Tomato to the face for minor sneak attack.
-What? The king's horses that he arranged aren't good enough for you?
-The 15 year old princess disarming the hill giant barbarian, and then standing up to the ensuing bull rush.
-Skewered giants and bears
-Tree interrogation
-Fluffy bunny interrogation
-Pinapples!
-Standing-on-horse, leaping through the air, power-attacking with longspear death attack (I so want a picture of that)
-"So, the super powerful magic sword is at my feet? I grab it up and dim-door!" (Silly kobold...)

I'm sure that there were many, many more hilarious moments scattered throughout the game, but my frazzled mind is struggling to come up with more at the moment. Perhaps I'll figure some more out later.

But I'd like to thank rvalle, Diremeade, Painfully, MrsFCWesel, Redwind, and sw3333 for playing so awesomely. I was very impressed with the way you tactically handled that last (should have been very huge and very tough) fight. The sword illusion, web, and wall of stone combo was very devastating to the poor, invisible necromancer.

That's all I got for now...so long, buttface.

Pineapples (and coconuts)! I'm so happy!
That was one of the best thrown tomatoes in the history of tomato throwing. I really thought I was going to 'save' the princess by having the giant chuck her at me.

I kinda like the... uhhh... aquired magic arrow of undead bane/singing bass idea.

Oh man. You know its a good game when you are still laughing about it in the morning.


Thanks for the game! It was a good group of people. It was nice to have a real female princess at the table (though I could have done without 'The Looks').

rv

 

[sw3333]

Maybe he would if you didn't question every plant and animal we came across.

I guess we're just keeping up with Leather's quota - picking up one plant or animal per game. The poor guy carries around a fern and now has an assassin-turned-bunny following him around. The freakin' bunny even likes his carrots steamed!

I'd hate to play that character at a game day two years from now. I can see his equipment list:
Huge fern
bunny rabbit
bonsai tree
Blast-Ended Skrewt
venus fly trap
portable koi pond (the largest koi is a reincarnated friendly storm giant)
raspberry bush
Yoda

It's gonna be crazy.