The Hive is (realy) Dead! Long Live the Hive Mind!

[Darth K'Trava]

Well, I'd just gotten home from work, hadn't really had the chance to relax yet, and I'm exhausted, and this is completely different from my group. Almost nothing is banned in my group. If we think it's too powerful, we'll tone it down and let someone play that. If the flavor isn't right, we change it. So someone going 'No' without anything else added to the above reasons just kinda hit a wrong nerve. Didn't mean to jump on ya.

We're pretty loose about what we can play and what we can't. Rarely we get a "no" to something. As long as either the DM has the book or someone lets him/her read the text, they don't mind.

 

[Mycanid]

True, true. Very understandable ....

[Extends his hand to shake and apologize - watch the acid secretions! ]

 

[Darth K'Trava]

Well, I WAS a little annoyed, but tried not to let it show if possible. Guess it really wasn't.

::shrugs:: Since I don't know what it was about [thread text], then I can't judge one way or another....

 

[Mycanid]

Very interesting that both you and Darth have the same group playing "dynamic".

My gaming "style"/taste was always much more specific and even "strict" when it came to DnD. SO maybe it is just a bit of that pouring over. What can I say? I'd prolly be classified as an old school gamer who has DEFINITELY retained his old school tastes and even aesthetics.

So I hope you will be understanding for the old crotchety fungus' "rantings and ravings". I'll try not to be such a grump.

 

[Darth K'Trava]

And most of my group "migrated" over from 2e. The only times I've played an earlier edition was Henry's AD&D games he's done at the NC Gamedays.

 

[Mycanid]

[Looks around on the floor through a monocle on a stick]

Where DID I put my false teeth?

 

[Mycanid]

And most of my group "migrated" over from 2e. The only times I've played an earlier edition was Henry's AD&D games he's done at the NC Gamedays.

Yeah ... I skipped 2e and all its accoutrements almost entirely. I DID try to play it a few times but somehow it never "caught" and I withdrew from the gaming scene for a long while, nurturing the memory of my "1eADnD, Basic/Expert set, and pre- these games DnD" experiences.

I got into 3e mostly through video games. It was the 3.5 edition of ToEE and the 3.0 ruleset game of NWN that "hooked" me back into gaming actively some time ago.

I had kept tabs on things through reading about things, talking to others in the scene and such during those 12 years or so.... But it only goes so far.

 

[Dog Moon]

Very interesting that both you and Darth have the same group playing "dynamic".

Guess our group has always been about options. I've seen people talking about Core Only games and my friends and I just cringe.

Replacement Class Features is a big hit at our game.

 

[Mycanid]

Guess our group has always been about options. I've seen people talking about Core Only games and my friends and I just cringe.

Replacement Class Features is a big hit at our game.

Ah ha. THIS explains much. I could definitely be considered a member of the groups you and your friends would cringe at.

Well then! It will be a learning opportunity for BOTH of us then.

 

[Mycanid]

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[Siamese cat plays notes with chopsticks]

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