Teflon Billy
Explorer
pogre said:
Are we getting old?
"Eat Your hearts out my fellow gamers" Vol 2
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Are we getting old?
Ankh-Morpork Guard
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No no no.Teflon Billy said:Are we getting old?
You've leveled up so much that you can't deal with low level encounters without completely annihilating your opponent. Kind of like using a 9th level spell on a Commoner.
Teflon Billy
Explorer
Moridin said:Billy,
It was great seeing you at the used bookstore. Please give your wife my best.
-Rodney
"Kid?..."
green slime
First Post
Teflon Billy said:
ROFL!!
That was the funniest thing I've read in a long while.
Great purchases, shame I have no heart to eat. But you did sort of temporarily dislodge the stone that has taken its place.
TarionzCousin
Second Most Angelic Devil Ever
Gastown?Teflon Billy said:
Don't read this too quickly.
This is the funniest thread I've read in X time increments.
Arrgh! Mark!
First Post
Awesome purchases!
Pity about the conversation. Perhaps it's just me, but I actually find non-written stories about fantasy games as boring as all heck. Were they telling me a story (One day, a dragon raided a village..) I could listen. But generally the conversations go - "And then I rode the cart through the village and hit it for nineteen points of damage, just enough to bring it down. Level up time!"
Listening to rules exploitation even more so, and comparing the air elves to the cloud elves just doesn't do it for me.
On the other hand, if someone comes up and mentions the book I'm holding is awesome, and then waits for my prompt to ask him for a review, I'm perfectly happy to listen. Being talked at is a difficult proposition for anyone, especially when they are slightly socially disfunctional at the best of times.
I've nothing against random conversations with people who share my hobby. I'm just happy that most of them tend to be normal, well adjusted types.
Pity about the conversation. Perhaps it's just me, but I actually find non-written stories about fantasy games as boring as all heck. Were they telling me a story (One day, a dragon raided a village..) I could listen. But generally the conversations go - "And then I rode the cart through the village and hit it for nineteen points of damage, just enough to bring it down. Level up time!"
Listening to rules exploitation even more so, and comparing the air elves to the cloud elves just doesn't do it for me.
On the other hand, if someone comes up and mentions the book I'm holding is awesome, and then waits for my prompt to ask him for a review, I'm perfectly happy to listen. Being talked at is a difficult proposition for anyone, especially when they are slightly socially disfunctional at the best of times.
I've nothing against random conversations with people who share my hobby. I'm just happy that most of them tend to be normal, well adjusted types.
Chaldfont
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Teflon Billy said:
See, that's one of my favorite things about going to game stores--when the freaks try to strike up conversations with me about their 32nd level monk/assassin/paladin that took over Greyhawk with an army of gnoll illusionists.
That stuff SLAYS me!
Sadly, I so rarely go to game stores anymore and the one I do go to is in a hoity-toity "fashion mall" that scares off all the gamer geeks. So I miss these nice little conversations.
francisca
I got dice older than you.
Oh yeah, I know what you mean.Teflon Billy said:
I had some guy following me around Half Priced Books in Greenwood, Indiana because I was "HAWGING ALL THE GOOD STUFF!!111!!", and he drove all the way down from West Lafayette to buy books here, and I ruined his day, and now he'd have to go bid on e-bay, and pay 10 times as much...etc...
He nearly pooped his pants when I told him I drove down from West Lafayette as well, and that he should get out of bed a little earlier next time. Then I told him I was headed to one of the stores on the northside as soon as I was done with the current store. He yelled, "NO WAY! I'll beat you there and buy up EVERYTHING!", then he ran out the door.
I had already been to the other two HPBs that morning and cleaned them out.
WayneLigon
Adventurer
francisca said:He yelled, "NO WAY! I'll beat you there and buy up EVERYTHING!", then he ran out the door.
I had already been to the other two HPBs that morning and cleaned them out.
Gold Medal time.
Man, I wish we had a Half-Priced Books here, or some kind of outlet/remaindered store. My best deal of this type was at Cool Stuff in, I think, Norfolk VA; people trade in RPGs and computer games. Picked up a spotless copy of the new Werewolf code book for $8.00, and a new FR hardback for the same.
