ticklishirl87
Registered User
- Joined
- Nov 30, 2008
- Messages
- 35
- Points
- 0
Ah izzy stop shouting lol
hun make the evil lady stop waking me up
Ah izzy stop shouting lol
Hmmm... a TT D&D session, we have a chatroom or there's always ventrilo...
It's a thought.
I'll never forget sitting in with some players who accomplished NOTHING for, like, 6 hours. Okay, their characters bought some stuff, so there was alittle haggling and bartering, but that was IT. I've never in my life been so terminally bored.
I dunno why but right now i dont feel like being here...
where would you rather be...a dark, and lonely alley?
I ran a campaign last summer where a whole sessions was basically that. The group had just gone through a rather large battle and then came to a large metropolis where they could buy/steal/kill/do anything, a lot of note passing. Mine was just a 3 hour we jumped right into, but my players had a blast having the ability to run around and act like kids in a candy.
Im only there when im ready to "attack" but right now theres nothing to "attack" so its getting kinda boring there. XD
Hmm..and what pray tell...do you usually "attack" while in a dark, and lonely alley??
There's a slim chance that it was the same story with this group, but I sincerely doubt it. I tried to take them through an adventure of my own that I and the original group I had gamed with had a rollicking good time with...and they barely got out of the starting gate. Just a different style of play, I reckon.
As for gameplay, sometimes we just screw around, but it is in game and at least accomplishes something. Although there hasn't been much of that lately. We have a pretty awesome storyteller who has really put some work into the campaign.
Is "the storyteller" what they call the moderator/rule-monger/whatever these days? You know, what we used to call the dungeonmaster? Or is that just what they call it in WoD? Honestly, I'm so out of it, I don't even know what the acronym(WoD?)* stands for.
I didn't even know people still actually got together in meatspace and you know, like Rox said: Eat pizza and have a little mutual storytelling adventure together based on a fantasy construct. Add that to the few "genuinely good things to know" for 2009AD.
And, contrary to the title of the thread, I have probably successfully put the majority of the thread's readers to sleep.
*Well sure. I could look it up, but I'm just that lazy.
Yes, I actually enjoy realspace.
Looking it up is no fun. Plus it would deny me the chance to be a smartass. Yes the "Storyteller" does equal the person in control of the module for WoD. In D&D it is the Dungeon Master. It is called the Game Master in other systems. So if you would like to get your geek cred up you need to use the correct terminology.
WoD is the World of Darkness game system. It is a game system primarily revolving around Vampires, WereWolves, Changlings, Mages, etc... The game mechanics are unique and very different from D&D. I personally really like the game system. Our campaign is set ten years in the future so it is modern. If you have seen the series think True Blood. It will give you a rough idea.
There's no stupid emo bullshit in the game. That is what everyone thinks when you are playing "Vampire". That is probably why when they updated the rules they pushed to change the name to World of Darkness.
We currently are all normal humans though we already have chosen our supernatural forms. It is not easy trying to stay alive when you are just a normal dude. It really makes for a fun game. I am playing a priest who is truly a Changeling (a fay being) but doesn't know it. He was a former combat medic who served in Afghanistan but is now a Chaplain. He is probably the coolest guy I've ever cooked up. :cool
"Storyteller" sounds more appropriate, anyway. I wonder if D&D might have avoided some confusion among it's detractors if they had hit on that name instead of "Dungeonmaster" early on. I mean, in a sense, that's what these games are (at least to me). Group storytelling. It's a pursuit that's probably as old as mankind itself, and can be wonderfully entertaining done right.
Ah! So this WoD USED to be the old Vampire game? Gotcha. Yeah, the whole vampire genre has really taken a hit these days, what with the Twilight franchise aiming for the I,Carly crowd.
Anywho, it sounds not unlike this Neil Gaiman book that I'm afew chapters into called Neverwhere, at least in some respects.
Yes FeatherDaemon..you have done your duty...go in peace..giggles..