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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Boethermsbrukan" data-source="post: 6484369" data-attributes="member: 6786578">Re: New Year's Update (Thank you for waiting for me!)Exile, good evening, and I apologize for taking all this time to get back to you!I appreciate your saying so, chummer; I've had a good while to work my feelings on it through, and I think I can safely say there are no hard feelings now that I'm feeling towards the local chapter, if there were any beforehand. I think like most of the fandoms I've been a part of, I have to keep in mind that I really didn't 'train' under anyone, really; it was more learning by rote and personal experience. For a very long time I really envied the people posting in Dragon's (TSR era mag, although I believe Paizo kept the print edition going for a while after they took over) letters page who had been part of a longtime gaming group since junior high. I felt like I was reading about movie stars, if that makes any sense! ^_^ I designed her to be a Wolfen initially, but I toyed on more than one occasion making her the lead in a story I was writing as a Flind Gnoll blacksmith; it's great to hear that Golarion does in fact have gnolls! That was the idea I got, at least what little I got, anyway. I've rarely had anyone mention to me their interest in playing a Gnoll PC (much less a Flind); usually it tended towards more 'exotic' versions of PC race variants (like Drow in 3.5, for example, and racial level/class restrictions going out the recycling bin door) and not races that would usually be found as small-time monster encounters.<chuckles> Given what I remember set down as Wolfen spoken and written language in Palladium Fantasy, that would be entirely possible! ^_^I think this is a good enough place to say this, seeing as how the posters in this thread have encouraged me to give it a go: I went to the website of a local gaming store (they're more CCG oriented, but they carry a lot of gaming supplies in general _and_ they have an occasional Open Gaming Night for book-and-paper) which is all of 15 minutes away along the tram quote I live near here at home, and checked the price tag on a copy of the Pathfinder Core Rules. Thus: when I have the money available, I intend to buy a copy of the Core Rules there and get into the Gaming Nights they have at that store.Thank you for giving me the psychological boost to jump in the pool! ^_^ Pickin_G; good evening, and thank you for your patience regarding my lengthy silence!Oh, yeah. I found that out the hard way when I was getting into BBSing around 1993 or so (dial-up modems, and text rather than anything like what we have graphics-wise now) and assuming the new boards I joined were more often than not oriented towards role-playing IC interaction. Even after getting my first and current persistent ADSL connection in 2001, I took a bit more care in looking around a given online 'board before I jumped in thus.We're definitely on the same level on both those points: enjoying in-depth IC roleplaying and seeing many modern fantasy games tend to low-IC/semi-wargaming play. It surprised the heck out of me when I got my 3.5 shelf set and went over the game grid/attack setup...I admit I have never played a huge amount of D&D with a face-to-face game troupe, but it felt more like Warhammer 40,000 (no offense to 'Hammer; I love the feel of that wargame but it's not at all Palladium or D&D in style) than Dungeons & Dragons. I know playing pieces and game grids in some permutation were always an option, but now it seemed to be required use.I got that impression as well; I think that's what has had me stick with Palladium Fantasy and Rifts for so many years: that you end up being stuck on which PC race to play because you've so many choices and you're not sure which of two or three you want to use. That, and there's more than a continent of interrelations between the governmental bodies that form the bureaucratic and social core of many of the 'big' races (like Wolfen and Humans, who at this point are gearing up for The Big Fight', if you dig).That's what I'm hoping may pan out with the store I mentioned to Exile earlier in this message; even if it's an occasional Pathfinder game at their Open Game Night, I'd be happy with that; it's on a subway line that runs into the wee hours and failing that I wouldn't feel unsafe walking home from where the store is. Should I find myself a regular group to play with, so much the better! ^_^ That's why I'm getting myself a copy of the Pathfinder Core Rules at that store when the dough is available; thanks to the encouragement you, Exile and the rest of the folks who've posted in this thread have sent my way. This is the kind of enthusiasm that keeps me loving gaming, even though I haven't been in a sit-down game session for quite some time.Believe me, having grown up in the era prior to being able to play good MMOs on your cell-phone (or even having a cell phone, mind you) and pixel-animation on a computer screen if you had one, I know how you feel. I've been catching up a bit with the tech, I admit, but even so I get that feeling from a lot of the 20-ish crowd; I don't fault them for it, it's what they grew up with. 37-year-old feeling nostalgia...sigh. BTW, my birthday was on the 27th of December. Old pup!Still, it's great to have a rig that can run Skyrim and Oblivion and Neverwinter Nights well! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> As for regular play, I guess I've been rusty at it for as long as I have that I would be much more receptive to having an offered seat, if I found one, than another younger chummer might be, but it's great to know that the next wave of squirts are keeping the flag high, even if they don't all wave it the same way I did. Or tried to, anyway.I'll let you know how the Open Gaming Night at the store I mentioned goes the next time one crops up; they keep an updated calendar of events going regularly, so I can at least plan out heading to the next one.Thanks again for posting me here, mes amis; it means a lot to me to be able to rap with like-minded folks on gaming.-Boe.</blockquote>

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