tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post6631785833414418717..comments2024-03-27T22:32:17.055-05:00Comments on Jeffs Gameblog: a little less D&D, a little more boardgamesJeff Rientshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17493878980535235896noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-68598319320001597522010-08-17T21:40:46.972-05:002010-08-17T21:40:46.972-05:00@Joseph: In 1982, I laboriously typed in an Apples...@Joseph: In 1982, I laboriously typed in an Applesoft BASIC program from "Creative Computing" magazine to roll up AD&D 1e characters.<br /><br />One of the first things I did when I got my first computer, an Atari 400 with 16K of RAM and a cassette drive, was write a program to generate mutants for Metamorphosis Alpha. <br /><br />Computerization is old school!Lizardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11612692415592670468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-87518641837738268002010-08-17T21:33:56.828-05:002010-08-17T21:33:56.828-05:00Feh... still playing with goldenrod character shee...Feh... still playing with goldenrod character sheet. Text files? I say thee nay.Greyhawk Grognardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13929743865700766901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-63707541661251520022010-08-17T21:32:19.233-05:002010-08-17T21:32:19.233-05:00Makes sense, Jeff. I usually just played with my l...Makes sense, Jeff. I usually just played with my laptop and had the SRD in Windows Help format. It was a bit of a milestone for me when I took the link to that file off my hotbar. :)<br /><br />We also had one of those scary players that seems to memorize rules intuitively, right down to page numbers. He's a great player and not TOO much of a rules lawyer, but it's scary how FAST he basically inhales rulebooks. For Ghu's sake, he knows Earth Delta better than I do, already!<br /><br />When we played Mutants & Masterminds, which is just different enough from vanilla D20 to get us in trouble, there'd be times in the game when we'd all haul out our books at once to look something up, and I often said things like "Everyone, please turn to Page 57 in your hymnal", because that's what it looked like.<br /><br />PS: A written on character sheet is a thing of beauty. Mine are all plain text files these days, because I can't read my own handwriting anymore, but I miss the sense of "history" you have when you see crossed-out hit points, checkmarks by spells, etc.Lizardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11612692415592670468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-26147265478806532572010-08-17T21:25:07.891-05:002010-08-17T21:25:07.891-05:00Lizard: I cut and pasted every possible rule I wou...Lizard: I cut and pasted every possible rule I would need because I hadn't played with Dane at the helm before and I don't own any WotC rulebooks any more. Figured it would be better to show up with a four page charsheet than constantly bum PHBs off of people.Jeff Rientshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17493878980535235896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-59768355477664947402010-08-17T20:47:36.405-05:002010-08-17T20:47:36.405-05:00If you have the opportunity, give Rail Tycoon a go...If you have the opportunity, give Rail Tycoon a go. I've never won a game, but I still love to play it. For me, that speaks volumes.Greyhawk Grognardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13929743865700766901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-77103511216747490952010-08-17T20:38:39.693-05:002010-08-17T20:38:39.693-05:00Sadly, C-U is about four hours from me, a bit much...Sadly, C-U is about four hours from me, a bit much for a weekly game. But if you're even in the New Albany area...<br /><br />When we played 3.x/D20M, we rarely wrote down more than the basics of our abilities. Generally, about 10% of the rules for any mechanic covered about 90% of the situations. What WOTC decided to do in 4e was say, "Ah, to hell with the other 10% of the situations." (Having been "trained" in the era of AD&D 1e and the ludicrously detailed subsystems therein (see the rules for campfires in the 1e Wilderness Survival guide, for example), I often have trouble cutting down my own work to "the stuff that matters", because making up rules (as opposed to trying to remember and apply them all in play) is just fun. I'm weird.)Lizardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11612692415592670468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-84678734660859591812010-08-17T19:28:12.015-05:002010-08-17T19:28:12.015-05:00Good call. Better to still play something like a b...Good call. Better to still play something like a board game until things pick back up.<br /><br />Hope the tabletop gaming resumes soon!Zachary Houghtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01166638173640517627noreply@blogger.com