North Carolina Game Day VI: January 29

[Clueless]

Jon's great that way And I'm hoping that I see him grace my Shadowrun table the next time I run. We're gonna work on that troll's initiative before next game.

 

[Jon Potter]

I knew that my sleep-deprived brain would leave out someone in the list above and that lucky person is...

Jon Potter - Jon, I just wanted to offer a personal word of thanks for being the North Star that I can count on in my Game Day games.

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Jon's great that way And I'm hoping that I see him grace my Shadowrun table the next time I run.

What have I ever done to earn such praise. It brings a tear to my eye. (Well... a smile to my face anyway). Thanks to you both.

And, FWIW, I really don't do much besides show up and have fun. If that's praiseworthy, then I accept, but the real thanks should probably be placed elsewhere. (I'm looking at the many DMs who've run games that I've played in.)

And now, the only quote I can remember at the moment.

In Henry's morning "Against the Giants" game:

I think it was die_kluge who said: "I guess now I know why nobody wants to play a cleric." The comment was in reference to the lengthy casting times for clerical spells. He was, of course, playing a cleric.

 

[der_kluge]

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What have I ever done to earn such praise. It brings a tear to my eye. (Well... a smile to my face anyway). Thanks to you both.

And now, the only quote I can remember at the moment.

In Henry's morning "Against the Giants" game:

I think it was die_kluge who said: "I guess now I know why nobody wants to play a cleric." The comment was in reference to the lengthy casting times for clerical spells. He was, of course, playing a cleric.

Yea, it was good to put some faces to some names. I enjoyed meeting everyone, and having good conversation (even if it wasn't necessarily about gaming) at the dinner table(s).

Yea, that was my comment. Clerics in 1e kinda suck, that casting time is just brutal. "Excuse me while I go make a sandwich. When I come back, I'm gonna kick some major butt!" Oh well, it was an interesting exercise. Henry and I commented that were about 6/7 years old when that 1e PHB was printed. That was sobering (and I hadn't even been drinking anything!)

Next time, I'll definitely plan on running some stuff. Oh, and it's only about 3.5 hours from Richmond to Raleigh. I guess it's closer to 4.5 for Cthulhu's Librarian since he's coming from C'ville. It was a nice drive since CL and I chatted about everything from the Family Circus comic strip to Jackson Pollack on the way there and back.

 

[Mark Causey]

Thanks, everyone, for making it worth it for the bad weather wishing.

It was the best birthday present in a while!

Henry, your game was great; you remind me of a little nuance of DMing that I'd not realized: confidence in your voice makes the game more fun. I can't even begin to start to think about the psychology of it all, but it's a great trait that made the game even more fun.

The little time we had (even though we ran over!) didn't give us much chance to focus on everyone, but I'd like to say thanks to the group for fun for all. The friendliness was not necessarily unexpected, but was appreciated.

Thanks to all for taking a liking to my new miniatures and putting up with my 3e references.

To the player of Arcane, thanks for bringing the glory of 1e magic to life!
To the player of the Fighter/Thief/Magic-User, now I know what it means to multiclass AND be effective.
To Cthulhu's Librarian, the Giant Decapitator, thanks for roleplaying that scene with female giant in bed!
To Corlon, thanks for all those damn good rolls, and being the best halfling thief I've seen in a while!
To the player of the Monk, here's to never really hitting but being *this* close to killing anyway!
To die_kluge, thanks for putting up with the game hating your character class.
To Jon Potter, thanks for bringing your humor to the table and for being such a great dwarf. Especially when tasting potions!
To Toras, thanks for helping save the dwarf, and to never hitting with your spiritual weapons.

And thanks to my Cave Bear and 16HD Fire Elemental for making me feel special.

Hopefully, see y'all in April!

P.S. die_kluge and Cthulhu's Librarian: I've been checking out HARP and am interested. Maybe we could do something next time? Are there any game days up in your area?

 

[Rel]

Henry, your game was great; you remind me of a little nuance of DMing that I'd not realized: confidence in your voice makes the game more fun. I can't even begin to start to think about the psychology of it all, but it's a great trait that made the game even more fun.

I've said before that I think Henry would make a good radio announcer. Something about his voice commands attention and makes you want to hear more. Maybe not quite as much as Demi Moore but there are mitigating factors there.

 

[Henry]

I've said before that I think Henry would make a good radio announcer. Something about his voice commands attention and makes you want to hear more. Maybe not quite as much as Demi Moore but there are mitigating factors there.

Yeah, I'm way more attractive. Well, to my dogs, at least. I was also recently drafted to voice the promotional video for my manufacturing company, oddly enough. But given the number of re-takes I had to do, that wasn't a great accomplishment.

As for the gameday, my thanks to the many kind words; I have far more for all of you, both Rel and those in my games. The AD&D game had a stunning NINE players, and here I was worried at first about making quorum! We all I think had a pretty good time as a one-shot, and a reminder that the quality of fellow gamers overshadows whatever game you're running.

My favorite moments were not so many quotable quotes, but some fun events in-game:

• Corlon playing the most effective halfling thief in all existance with 1's and 2's on multiple percentile rolls.
• Die Kluge's Cleric locked in a life-and-death struggle for about 6 rounds with a hill giant (life and death meaning NEITHER could hurt the other for that long)
• Toras fricasseeing 3 stone giants & Adamantine Angel's fire elemental with a near-max damage flame strike, while the elemental just soaks the damage and keeps going
• Corlon's brave halfling thief holding the line against a cloud giant while Jon Potter's dwarf, near death, flees for healing.
• Corlon drinking a super-heroism potion, only to have ALL the bonus hit points hacked off a round later.
• Cthulhu's Librarian, with an enlarge spell, pretending to be a hill giant through half of the adventure, and pulling a Lizzie Borden on an amorous hill giantess. Well, that one might qualify more as creepy, but it was definately dramatic.

As for Rel's Sky Galleons game, Carlotta is a fun, evocative character, though I may not have done former player Lola justice in her character, as my Carlotta was a little more... confrontational. But hey, oppressed Venusian natives were at stake! Something had to be done, and that Captain Umbridge was certainly doing nothing about it! Favorite moments:

• Carlotta attempting to seduce sailors guarding a sky-boat. With me in the role, I pretty much had the savoir-faire of a nun trying to seduce a bunch of sailors.
• Captain Umbridge saving Carlotta from falling from a tree: "We need nothing fancy, woman, just CLIMB!"
• Carlotta FAILING to save Captain Umbridge from falling seconds later. "Sorry!"
• Budrajah the bodyguard, trying to same his charge, Governor's Daughter Lizzie Jameson, by getting into a Triceratops Howdah unexpectedly quickly - the triceratops mauled him and tossed him into the air INTO the howdah. "We shall speak nothing of this to your father, Miss..."
• And running over a velociraptor while driving a Triceratops was fun, too...

 

[Belen]

And I must thank Henry for his effective use of a camera flash. Just as the crew of the RCS Carolina turned on the searchlights to blanket the hull of the derelict USS Constitution, we received the the flash (which helped to heightened the fear factor in the science fiction horror game I was running).

Henry definitely received MVNPC!

 

[NCSUCodeMonkey]

Many thanks to Neal, Rel, and all those that played, DMed, and pitched in for making this yet another great Game Day! It always amazes me that in one day you can meet so many great people and learn so much about the hobby. Mucho wisdom is handed down at these gatherings, I can tell you that!

To everyone in the Underoo Avengers game, thanks for being such a great set of players! That game was the fruit of a year of pent-up DMing creativity, since I haven't set in the hot seat since early February of last year. It was a great way to return to the sport! I only remember one quotable quote from the Avengers game, at the moment. After neutralizing the organ grinder:

Organ Grinder (in fez cap): "I couldn't help it! They sucked out my brains!"
(surprised pause)
Organ Grinder (in fez cap): "But I'm feeling better now."

Oh, and another related one,

Jared Dorf (played by my guest, Aaron): "The fez is mine!"

BelenUmeria, what a great intro to d20 future I don't know if you expected us to use an action point for every round that we had to make a roll, but you ceratinly handled it with style. It was a great idea for a one shot, and would probably make an excellent campaign, especially if (and I'm only guessing here) that's just the tip of the ice berg. I'm banking on the next set of heroes having to defend Earth against an entire fleet of those suckers. The only quotes that I'm remembering right now were from Captain Elliot, played by yours truly:

"You'll be fine!" As Pedro (Kylekatern) was sucked out into space through a hole in the hull.
"We'll be fine..." When we discovered that some disgusting, invisible alien beings had taken over an abandoned ship and initiated a plot to destroy the Earth.
"What could possibly go wrong?" Uttered mere minutes before running into a group of space zombies.

Oh, and not breaking 5 on a Will save all afternoon was offset by TempleTroll not socring below 25 on a navigation check and myself not scoring below 20 on a single pilot check. You can just rename the R.C.S. Carolina the R.C.S. Untouchable

Henry, man I hate that I didn't get to hob-nob a bit more. Hopefully, I can get in to your April game, because I'm sure it'll be good regardless of the system. Until then, everyone stay safe and start cooking up your RBDM schemes for VII

Oh, one last thing. It's a good thing that sholz skipped out on this one! We had our first Game Day birth yesterday! Sholz and his lovely wife are proud parents of a healthy baby boy, born just about 30 minutes after Game Day got into full swing. Congrats!

NCSUCodeMonkey

 

[der_kluge]

P.S. die_kluge and Cthulhu's Librarian: I've been checking out HARP and am interested. Maybe we could do something next time? Are there any game days up in your area?

CL was trying to organize a Charlottesville Game Day. Who knows, maybe a Charlottesville/Richmond game day could be a possibility some day. I could always run a HARP game next time I come to an NC game day. That'd be third in a list of games I'd like to run!

 

[der_kluge]

Speaking of quotes, there were a couple of good ones that came out of the Gerzel's Planescape game.

"I changed my mind, Instead of a Sensate, I'm gonna be a Cipher, but that part about being bi-sexual still stands." - me

"True strike on the cleric, and then I fire the ballista!" - Clueless