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[hafrogman]

The house we were living in at the time, in London, was built in 1871 or so. We were not terribly impressed with the Miami house.

In the Miami house's defense, houses on the Thames very rarely have to contend with hurricanes. Thus oldest in Miami is more a measure of survival than true age.

I was reading the Mental_Floss History of the World lately, and I was surprised to discover just how new some countries are. Italy and Germany, in particular. You think of them as old like England and France, but although the people may have been there a long time, as nations, they're really newcomers.

 

[hafrogman]

Buildings need to be at least 200 years old to be old, for me, I think.

This really did strike me when I was visiting my Aunt and Uncle, and I learned how old their house was, right there among many similar houses in the middle of this fairly nothing village. Of course, their house is also fairly useless.

Phoenix may not have a whole lot of history, but at least you can be sure your home was designed with electricity and internal plumbing in mind.

 

[The_Warlock]

...saw a sign to go see "Miami's oldest surviving house!" Turns out it was built in 1918 or something.[/color]

Well, you have to give them some credit, I mean they did build said house in what equates to Mother Nature's "Nuke and Pave" neighborhood.

"What's that? It's a hurricane. What about that? It's a hurricane. Ok, that one? It's a hurricane. Jeez...and I thought today was going to be temperate."

As to defining a country as old...when it starts calling other nations "whippersnappers", informs them in no uncertain terms that it means war if they "don't get off my lawn", and it's military vehicles come equipped with Emergency Depends dispensers and Combat Canes (for the vehicles, not the crew).

 

[Ginnel]

Whats older than old? ancient but I agree with Matt on catergorisations of old, also your awareness of how old something is does depend a lot on where you live.​

Stafford Borough Council - The Ancient High House​

Thats in my town where I grew up, just down a bit and 10 foot to the right as you look is a McDonalds ​

and infact this piccy proves it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stafford-ancient-high-house.jpg

 

[CleverNickName]

Got some sleep, ate some oatmeal, and my disposition has improved remarkably. I'm feeling much better now. Thanks for putting up with my late-night exhausted ramblings.

I'll send out an e-mail later this afternoon to everyone in our gaming group, letting them know that I regret the way that things turned out with our guest DM and 4E, and that I hope that we can give it another go this weekend.

And I'll make sure that I am very clear on this next part:

We are done "testing" 4E and Pathfinder...we have tried each of them many times, and for whatever reason they did not work out well for us. So we will be sticking to the edition that we have enjoyed for more than six years.

Hopefully this e-mail will be met with cheers and sighs of relief from everyone...but I'm afraid I will end up losing at least one player over it. Which sucks, but it might be for the best.

 

[Ginnel]

Sounds like a very reasonable plan CleverNickName, I really don't understand people who roleplay and then say but not with that system, to me its all about the interactions with the other people in the group, namely my friends.


And the quote of the day from Birmingham City Council (England)

"Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit".
(= There has never been great ingenuity without a little madness mixed in)

Seneca

 

[hafrogman]

I really don't understand people who roleplay and then say but not with that system, to me its all about the interactions with the other people in the group, namely my friends.

I can understand it to a point, but it's not like he's asking them to play Synnibar or F.A.T.A.L. here. I think the worst part is that it looks like people are getting angry over it. If my group wanted to stop playing D&D and switch to Vampire or something, I'd be like "Well you chaps have a great time, not my cup of tea. Call me when you want to go do some karaoke together or something."

If this guy only wants 4e, that's his call. But if he lets it hurt a friendship, that's uncool.

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

Sounds like a very reasonable plan CleverNickName, I really don't understand people who roleplay and then say but not with that system, to me its all about the interactions with the other people in the group, namely my friends.


And the quote of the day from Birmingham City Council (England)

"Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit".
(= There has never been great ingenuity without a little madness mixed in)

Seneca

[Bill & Ted]That's us, dude![/Bill & Ted]

Goodnight, Hive! See you tomorrow.

 

[hafrogman]

It's not like he's asking them to play Synnibar or F.A.T.A.L. here.

Oh wow. Now that I think about it, this is EXACTLY what you need to do, CleverNick! You say in your e-mail that you've tested Pathfinder and 4e, now there's only one last game to test. Then get yourself a copy of the World of Synnibar. Familiarize yourself with it as much as is healthy, and then invite them all over for a rousing session of character generation. By the time their brains have finished melting and oozing out their ears, the ones with any modicum of sanity left will be CLAMMORING to play 3.5 again.




. . . g'night Freeman.

 

[Dog Moon]

Wow, MerricB has a lot of experience points. I know this only because they decided to put what I assume to be the highest XP people on the right side of the screen. Looks like some people DO pay attention to giving experience points.