NC Game Day - Important new info!

[Clueless]

BTW, I can't believe I almost forgot to say what a great time I had yesterday at Game Day III! I gamed in two systems I've bever played before and had an absolute blast! Thanks to both Rel and Clueless for providing such memorable adventures; I'm already looking forward to Game Day IV.

Thank you so much I enjoyed watching the looks on your faces when you saw the bullet hole in your delivery. I don't get many chances to run in my current group (school, and the fact that we'd probably assault Shemmie if he stopped running Planescape). So it's always wonderful to have the chance to unleash the evil upon people. Thank you for the advice (I'll be using that for next Gameday that I run), and thank all of my players for coming out.

 

[Pielorinho]

I want to chip in my thanks to everyone who helped organize this, to the two tremendous GMs I had (Henry and NCSUCodeMonkey), and to the other players in my games, who were uniformly great.

Some of my favorite moments:
* Discovering how truly and really flexible AU magic is. When it came time to pull out the big guns for a fight, I found myself casting a heightened web spell, incidentally giving it the electrical template, which, when combined with my electrical mage specialty, gave it yet another ability. Although it took us a minute or two to sort out all the spell's effects (entangling, damaging, and stunning), it was a lot of fun.
* NCSUCodemonkey prefaced his Grimm game with an apology for not having had much time to prepare it. Inwardly I groaned and thought, "Great, a sloppy seat-of-the-pants game. This is gonna suck." Later, when he pulled out the twelve-line poem that he and his fiancee had written together as one part of a multi-part riddle, I thought, "What the heck was he talking about, 'not being prepared'?" And then still later, when he pulled out a box of Connex (sp?), silly putty, Play-doh, rubber bands, and bendy-straws for us to use in-character to build a contraption for the adventure's climax -- when all us players shouted in unison, "You brought play-doh? YAYYYYY!!!!!" -- I decided that if this was NCSUCodemonkey's idea of unprepared, I desperately want to play in a game that he actually takes the time to prepare for. I expect he must write odes in the original Sumerian and build life-sized sets .

My two favorite quotes from the day:

"Unfortunately, you have to be a level six Nerd to do that." -NCSUCodemonkey in the Grimm game, answering a player's question about what his Nerd character could accomplish.
"Don't think of yourselves as losers!" -- The woman running the raffle, speaking to those losers who didn't win anything.

Thanks again, all!
Daniel

 

[Belen]

I wanted to thank everyone who participated in my game. It was the first time I had played/ GM'd modern and you all made it a success! I had a lot of fun and I shall always remember that "Mook who wouldn't die!" I still can't believe that he had one hit point left and no one could hit him for three strait rounds!

Rel!- Christy and I had a great time in your Sky Galleons game. Good stuff and I was quite glad for the chance to play. I know that Christy thoroughing enjoyed having the chance to boss my character around.

I truly enjoyed NC Game Day and I play to attend the next one.

Of course, I will be running Fallen Earth II....

Dave

 

[Ruined]

Allow me to chime in and say how much fun I had at the Game Day: LOTS!! Henry's AU game was a great session, and an excellent way to learn the system. Ah, if we only had you closer Henry, I'd blackmail my way into your gaming group. And the players were awesome as well. I walked in late, and there were only two remaining characters out of the seven. Great, I'm thinking. But as I looked at the characters and played later, the Greenbond I played is the one I would have chosen had I had first pick. How often does that happen? Terrific group, I'll say.

Unfortunately I had to bolt out halfway through the day. So I'm wondering: TogaMario, who won our copies of Prince of Persia? =)

 

[Pielorinho]

I won one of the copies of Prince of Persia, and I was really excited: $5 of raffle tickets got me a monster book that Monte Cook had recommended AND a brand-spanking new computer game!

And then I noticed that my video card isn't good enough to run PoP.

That $5 video game is gonna cost me close to $100 in computer upgrades, I'm guessing....

Daniel

 

[Henry]

I won one of the copies of Prince of Persia, and I was really excited: $5 of raffle tickets got me a monster book that Monte Cook had recommended AND a brand-spanking new computer game!

And then I noticed that my video card isn't good enough to run PoP.

That $5 video game is gonna cost me close to $100 in computer upgrades, I'm guessing....

Toga's cryin' for ya.

I came about 10 tickets away from winning the Draconomicon, myself. Based on the winning number, I realized that if I had bought just $5.00 more dollars in tickets, I would have won the thing! Ah, well, at least it went to a good cause. Wherever there will be a gamer trying their first RPGA session, my $0.50 will have made it happen!

Maybe I can coax some of those camera pix out of T. when he gets a chance.

 

[Belen]

All Fun and Games

Hey all,

I just wanted to mention that we have a new game store open up in the area. The former Games Galore on Kildaire Farm and Tryon Road (in the Walmart Shopping Center, Cary) is under new ownership.

The store is now All Fun and Games. Basically, the manager, Bobbi, and the manager of the Raleigh Games Galore, Vivian, bought the store from the old owner. They are revamping it to become a Gamer Friendly place. The back of the store is being rebuilt into a Game Room!

Also, Bobbi and Vivian, are giving us a 20% discount on pre-orders and special orders. I'll admit, that Games Galore has not been a gamer friendly recently as the old owner wants to move into the toy store biz, so I am really happy that Bobbi and Vivian are the new owners.

However, All Fun and Games is now owned by fellow gamers, so I wanted to let you guys know what was happening.

Dave

 

[Henry]

Cool to hear! You know the one thing I have not yet done, is to shop in a Game Store in Raleigh. I usually arrive at 7 or 8 at night, I game all day on Saturday, and then leave Sunday morning, when everything is closed! One of these days, say, next gameday, I'm going to have to leave early enough to do a little shopping first, because you've just mentioned, oh, about two more game stores than my local area has. (I'm not counting Books a Million as a Game Store. )

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

Henry, I sent an email to the address in your profile regarding the AU adventure you ran. Don't know if you've read it yet, but if I could get a copy of that adventure (assuming you have notes on it), I'd really like to take a look at how you set things up and maybe run my group through it to give them a taste of the AU system. Did you use any other AU books besides the core book for it? I thought the adventure was a great demo of the setting and the system!

 

[NCSUCodeMonkey]

Man was that ever a blast I get this feeling that each Game Day goes better and better. A special thanks to Rel and Neal, who made this setup super easy, and to my Grimm players who leapt into the adventure head first. That was, perhaps, the most uproarious three hours of roleplaying I've ever had the pleasure of DMing. Oh and Henry, is there any way we can kidnap you for a weekly North Carolina AU game? I don't really have the free time, but some things are worth making time for .

Last but not least: Quotable Quotes, all from the Grimm game:

"It's like gnome Karma Sutra!" -- LGodamus, an out of character comment about the naked gnomes in "The Secret Lives of Gnomes"

"Yeah, but who's gonna fight the dragon?"
"Spiderman!" -- Pielorinho, man...that was classic.

"No. Please. Help. Rescue me." -- David, in a flat, monotone voice, while playing his part (in drag) as the Princess in the children's play.

"Is the German gril talking to me?" --wolfen, as Trevor, "The Popular Kid."

Can't wait until next time, guys. Just to let you know, the secret meetings are underway to pick a date. I'll let Rel tell everyone when to start watching for the next planning thread.

NCSUCodeMonkey