I'm a bit sad the rpol auto-deletes older games.  Storage is soooo inexpensive.

I had 1001 Games of Glory that I started with Doulos to play games like Chess, Checkers, Monopoly, and so on.  But since I was gone a few years, it vanished.

1001???  That's just madness!!!

Max I have eight games, and that's including ASWOT

not to mention I hardly play three of them

10 games for me, including ASWoT, and I'm starting to get better at managing them, yay

APEX 2014 is happening right now if anyone is interested!

http://www.twitch.tv/teamsp00ky
http://www.twitch.tv/8wayrun

Kingdoms of Amalur is $5.99 on steam this weekend!  Considering I read a ton of R.A. Salvatore when younger I can't say no to a game he wrote at this price.

What is the setting for this game?  Do your players play themselves?  Or do they create characters?

create characters. you basically make up a character that for all intents and purposes is a hacker; they can have whatever life you want based off that. then they get the message mentioned in the intro, your character for whatever reason goes to the address (most likely curiosity) and the game starts from there

I will send off a RTJ this evening.

I must caution you, while I have been known to flake out on games in the past and I haven't been part of an active RPoL game, (aside from here,) in a few years, I shall do my best to stay present in your game.

Dante, you're having people make the "adult game" statement in their RTJ, but it looks like your game is technically mature and not adult.  Did you mean to check the adult box?

Speaking purely from a position of ignorance, what is the difference between the Mature and Adult?

EDIT: I just looked it up in main site.  Let me see if I have this right.

To compare it to the MMPA
Mature is like a strong PG-13 or R
Adult is like NC-17 or X
This message was last edited by the GM at 22:11, Wed 02 Apr 2014.

As I understand it, yes.

Yeah it is mature technically I just put it in there because I wasn't sure of the rules. Guess I can take it out now though lol

I started a D&D 3rd edition game, Rappan Athuk.  It's the Dungeon of Graves!  Ooh, spooky. link to another game

Create a 3rd level character.  Use any WotC 3.5 book.  If I don't have a book, you may have to scan whatever you're using and send it to me (or cut/paste from your downloaded pdf).

When you die, you can make another character of the same average party level, and that character must either have a different feat somewhere, or have a different class somewhere.  Everything you own goes poof when you die (even if it was ghosttouch).

Make sure you use all errata for whatever you're doing, or I will kill you in game. :p  If I see any sort of Pun-Pun tricks like loops that could be continued forever if you wanted, or something that could obviously be horrendously abused, I'll just politely ask you to leave the game, so don't do that.  Pun-Pun is theoretical optimization and should never actually be played in a game.  You can't cast spells above your character level -- I don't care what feats or abilities you have.

You cannot have an evil alignment.

I expect people to post roughly every day.

In your RTJ, include the word "onomatopoeia" so I know you know how to read.  If you include an example of United States (American) onomatopoeia and tell me what it means then you can create a 4th level character instead of 3rd because I'll know that you know how to look things up (or that you have a nice vocabulary, either way).

Bart, I like your GM name.

Just got an Xbox, and it doesn't like me

I know this is belated, but I recently beat Dark Souls and it was amazing!

Anyone who loves strategy games or history should check out Crusader Kings 2.  It's an amazing game and the recent Horse Lord expansion late you play as nomads from the Steppe!

I am about to join a local RPG Meetup for the first time.  Does anyone have suggestions?  Newbie protocols?

Do you remember what it was?
I know that roleplaying is roleplaying, but when people are first meeting you, they often have trouble differentiating "you" from "your character".  So play a super easy-going incredibly-helpful character, or whatever persona you want to present.  Other than that, I've had a good time at every similar meetup that I've gone to.  People tend to like being bribed with food, so bring some snacks to share.  Your mileage may vary. :)

Ok, on a completely different tact... I just started in a DnD 5th edition game and we're starting at 5th level.  Among other things, my character has a pair of magical winged shoes.  Someone made a joke about them actually being wingtip shoes, so I did some quick Google searches today for some images and mashed them up.  This is now the canonical image of my character:


Oh, he wears the kilt because apparently humans have a problem with being too easily able to see how manly a person is and apparently your average loincloth doesn't conceal much when walking and doesn't conceal anything when running.  A Kilt allows about the same desirable breeze, and since it conceals slightly better than a loincloth it's more socially acceptable.

^^^See this is what your profile pic should be, I love me a sexy orc

In reply to FourLegged (msg # 201):

How was your meetup, FourLegged?

I don't look like that, though.  That half-orc only has a six-pack, not an eight-pack, and I don't need braces so badly. ;)  Of course my eyes don't glow and as a 36-year-old I dye my hair, but... my current profile image may be closer to me.

Shhhhhh in my head your a sexy Orc now...

If anyone is looking to connect with me on the XBox network, my handle there is Zaboem. I do not have a gold account, so keep that in mind when sending invites.

On an unrelated topic, I have began a week long exercise in interactive storytelling. On a Facebook page, I will posting a series of artwork pieces and within the captions, I will weave a story. When I write, "I will", I hope that I mean "we will" because I am encouraging the audience to participate and help guide the story by posting to the page.

On a Facebook page which I admin, I showcase various fictional characters, stories, and images which exist in the public domain. I call this page, Superheroes of the Public Domain. When the page was still new, I tried spinning a month-long original yarn about two villains in the public domain, Fantimos and Fu Manchu, in a conflict over who would control the underworld of a fictional city. That story bombed terribly with no interaction from the audience and no shares being made the entire time.

This is a couple of years later now, and the audience of the page is several times larger, so I am going to give this another shot. The story this time is named the Wonderland-Oz War. It takes place shortly after the events of the original The Wonderful Wizard of Oz novel and the subsequent claiming of the Oz throne by Queen Ozma. A spy from Wonderland learns about the political chaos in Oz and how three of its most powerful residents are dead or missing (the wizard and the two evil witches). A full invasion from Wonderland across an imaginary border into Oz will result.

Instead of devoting an entire month to this story, I intend to stretch it out for only a week this time.

So, that half-orc I linked to?  I'm pretty sure he's about to die.  I think the DM set up a "you all have to run, because you're fugitives from the law, and you're facing overwhelming odds" situation, but he neglected to tell us that there was a window in the "back of the tavern secret meeting room".  (Why would we have a secret meeting in a room that someone could so easily eavesdrop at?)  So my character charged up into the thick of things when we were attacked, instead of going straight out the window.  Plus I just rolled two crit fails on attacks and under the DM's house rules the character lost his two main weapons.  All he has are some daggers now.  FML. ;)

On the good side, I see chaos magic is PHB standard now and I'm jonesing to play that as my next character... never mind.  I just went and looked that up and apparently you only get to roll on the wild magic table 1/20 of the time.  Bleah.