Professor Tanhauser
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Any gamers here?Ok, are any of the cats here into the gaming scene? Anyone here know what "3d6" or "character sheet" means?
I'm totally into gaming, and would like to find if many other people into the beatnik scene are too.
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CaptPeterBlood
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Just fell into the scene here daddy-o. I've been hip to the gaming scene since 1979. What's worse is the term gamers now means if you play on-line like World of Warcraft as opposed to Tunnels & Trolls or Stalking the Night Fantastic et al.
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Professor Tanhauser
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| CaptPeterBlood wrote: | | Just fell into the scene here daddy-o. I've been hip to the gaming scene since 1979. What's worse is the term gamers now means if you play on-line like World of Warcraft as opposed to Tunnels & Trolls or Stalking the Night Fantastic et al. |
So what games do you play? RPGs?
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CaptPeterBlood
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Which RPG "DO" I play? Currently our local group has been playing Tunnels and Trolls for over 20 years and Stalking the Night Fantastic for just under 19 years. We used to play Vampire: The Masquerade but sort of fell out of that for several reasons the least being new comers to our group didn't like the fact we played it our way and not the way White Wolf did, i.e. not everyone was friends with a city Prince and we didn't play in Chicago. The funniest time we were playing was when our home was bursting with the seams with people. Our group played the vampires and some people we knew in a Klingon club played Werewolves. That was a fantastic weekend if not ages ago. I first learned AD&D when I was at OSU in 1979. After moving and getting married my wife and I then started gaming together, the list seems endless, Call of Cthulhu, Man, Myth & Magic, Morrow Project, Tékumel: Empire of the Petal Throne, Bushido, Runequest, Star Trek (different versions), Thieves Guild...I'm sure this feeble old cat is missing several this late at night. Just a bunch of over feed lazy old cats that still play games on weekends.
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Professor Tanhauser
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| CaptPeterBlood wrote: | | Which RPG "DO" I play? Currently our local group has been playing Tunnels and Trolls for over 20 years and Stalking the Night Fantastic for just under 19 years. We used to play Vampire: The Masquerade but sort of fell out of that for several reasons the least being new comers to our group didn't like the fact we played it our way and not the way White Wolf did, i.e. not everyone was friends with a city Prince and we didn't play in Chicago. The funniest time we were playing was when our home was bursting with the seams with people. Our group played the vampires and some people we knew in a Klingon club played Werewolves. That was a fantastic weekend if not ages ago. I first learned AD&D when I was at OSU in 1979. After moving and getting married my wife and I then started gaming together, the list seems endless, Call of Cthulhu, Man, Myth & Magic, Morrow Project, Tékumel: Empire of the Petal Throne, Bushido, Runequest, Star Trek (different versions), Thieves Guild...I'm sure this feeble old cat is missing several this late at night. Just a bunch of over feed lazy old cats that still play games on weekends. |
Oh man, if only we lived 300 miles closer together....
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CaptPeterBlood
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The story of my life, keep hearing that from people from time to time.
You haven't ever been to a Michigan convention called MediaWest?
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Professor Tanhauser
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| CaptPeterBlood wrote: | The story of my life, keep hearing that from people from time to time.
You haven't ever been to a Michigan convention called MediaWest? |
No, I go to Archon in Collinsville, Ill.
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CaptPeterBlood
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Interesting subject came up at my local comic shop today. Seems there is a large trend nation wide in the gaming industry has a large slump. I wasn't really surprised with the exception that it only now seems to be a subject that others are discovering.
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Professor Tanhauser
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| CaptPeterBlood wrote: | | Interesting subject came up at my local comic shop today. Seems there is a large trend nation wide in the gaming industry has a large slump. I wasn't really surprised with the exception that it only now seems to be a subject that others are discovering. |
Yeah, sadly a lot of gamers tend to be marginalized by society despite their usually superior intelligence due to ridiculous issues like "charisma", so they tend to suffer disproportionately in bad economic times.
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billy braindead
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what is upsetting to me is that alot of my former rpg friends have almost all switched to video games it is insanely hard to find a good D&D game in buffalo anymore if anyone knows of any going on in the area drop me a line i have a ridiculous amount of sheets and i always have dice to spare
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CaptPeterBlood
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Unfortunately I believe we are in the midst of witnessing another generation gap, this one very different in origin. There are some very enticing things that video games offer to their target audience as well as some of the interesting figures that are being circulated about the "creative" effects they have on the players. I for one am not convinced that video games increase the creativity in "all" people. A matter of a fact one of my friends in my gaming group has within the past year brought his two sons into our group. One is fourteen and the other is seventeen. The hardest thing is keeping their attention and secondly they seem at the same time like deer in the head lights about this "gaming" without a visual screen giving you all the action. In simpler language I believe the imagination of an entire generation or more is being taken away by instant gratification of video...video anything. We are so digitally connected. I hate cell phones, not simply for their rudeness in public, but also for the far reaching effect they have in our lives. My wife has one for work, the thing goes off when you don't want to be bothered. She's always turning it off and then told, nut we can't get hold of you. Well, duh...can't anyone understand the concept of "not wanting to be gotten hold of?" Maybe I'm anti-social but I do treasure my personal time. I think of two things in this reference, 1) the movie "The Paper Chase" with Timothy Bottoms, Lindsay Wagner & John Houseman. There was a scene where Bottoms character and Wagner's heard the telephone ringing and Bottoms was going to answer it. Wagner said something to the effect "You're a person you have a mind and will of your own, ignore it you don't have to answer it, it's just a machine not a person like me. 2) A moment when I had my son listen to an episode of the radio serial "The Shadow", Cranston was across town in another office than Margo on the other side of town They were on the phone talking, I asked my son what he saw in his head while listening. Of course he said 2 people 1 in one office and another in another office. I asked him to think of that scene being pulled off on TV or a movie screen the same way it looked in his head "without" a split screen" effect. He said you can't...I told him what a revelation, imagination! Something technology can not beat! Okay the older generation when I was growing up was concerned about the young generation destroying their brains on drugs, well the digital age is the new drug. Video didn't just kill the radio star, it killed a nation...the imagination.
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billy braindead
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| CaptPeterBlood wrote: | | Unfortunately I believe we are in the midst of witnessing another generation gap, this one very different in origin. There are some very enticing things that video games offer to their target audience as well as some of the interesting figures that are being circulated about the "creative" effects they have on the players. I for one am not convinced that video games increase the creativity in "all" people. A matter of a fact one of my friends in my gaming group has within the past year brought his two sons into our group. One is fourteen and the other is seventeen. The hardest thing is keeping their attention and secondly they seem at the same time like deer in the head lights about this "gaming" without a visual screen giving you all the action. In simpler language I believe the imagination of an entire generation or more is being taken away by instant gratification of video...video anything. We are so digitally connected. I hate cell phones, not simply for their rudeness in public, but also for the far reaching effect they have in our lives. My wife has one for work, the thing goes off when you don't want to be bothered. She's always turning it off and then told, nut we can't get hold of you. Well, duh...can't anyone understand the concept of "not wanting to be gotten hold of?" Maybe I'm anti-social but I do treasure my personal time. I think of two things in this reference, 1) the movie "The Paper Chase" with Timothy Bottoms, Lindsay Wagner & John Houseman. There was a scene where Bottoms character and Wagner's heard the telephone ringing and Bottoms was going to answer it. Wagner said something to the effect "You're a person you have a mind and will of your own, ignore it you don't have to answer it, it's just a machine not a person like me. 2) A moment when I had my son listen to an episode of the radio serial "The Shadow", Cranston was across town in another office than Margo on the other side of town They were on the phone talking, I asked my son what he saw in his head while listening. Of course he said 2 people 1 in one office and another in another office. I asked him to think of that scene being pulled off on TV or a movie screen the same way it looked in his head "without" a split screen" effect. He said you can't...I told him what a revelation, imagination! Something technology can not beat! Okay the older generation when I was growing up was concerned about the young generation destroying their brains on drugs, well the digital age is the new drug. Video didn't just kill the radio star, it killed a nation...the imagination. |
i agree with you 100% people need to learn that reading a book or listening to a radio show is far more entertaining than watching the tv or pluging yourself into a video game. true yes video game can help increase hand eye coordination. but at what cost if your mind cant function enough to realize that something is headed straight for you it doesnt matter how good your reflexes are you wont know enough to move. television is the reason that shows like coast to coast are on am stations only. and the same goes for modern horror movies. in the scariest movies, you never saw any of the deaths actually happen you simply saw the camera move up and the person scream and thanks to imagination and the human psyche it made it far worse than it actually was. you were left wondering what happened. horror books give the same effect because it leaves the imagary completly up to you. people need to unplug themselves. and imsure that not far off in the future there will be rehab centers for video game addicts.
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hellbender
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I have played a variety of rpgs, currently playing Castles & Crusades by Troll Lord Games after escaping the beast that was the new Dungeons & Dragons. The edition of D&D coming out in June will be so close to a video game that it is almost disturbing. I will stick with C&C, which has that old school basic D&D/AD&D feeling from the 70's-80's. Converting all my old gaming material is actually easy. Anyone that wants to feel the nostalgia of the original rpg experience should look up C&C. Actually, I came here to find out the title of the movie that ran a few weeks back with the guy who had the sword and was fighting the cyclops and other monsters so I could pick up the dvd to play in the background for the next rpg session.
I also agree with the way technology/the digital age is laying waste to people interacting and being normal. People might have thought we were geeks or nerds for playing AD&D years ago, but at least we were sitting down, talking and working with others.
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stu2000
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So what would youse guys think of a site that offered an audio track that could be cued up with some of these great public domain drive-in classics, featuring observations and commentary from gamers' points of view. Additionally, links would be available to fun gamer documents relevant to the picture--maps, characters, etc. Perhaps this could be done in its own generic format, or using a broad, generic game like FUDGE.
Fun and useful, or a colossal waste of time and energy?
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Poe Man Poe
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When I consider the drive-in classics, I often remember the time when Hank Spluvda dropped his lit cigarette in the hair of Mavis Lomax as she was 'pleasuring' him at the Super 71 Drive-In in the late summer of 1963. As a result of her hair catching fire, Mavis instinctively bit down hard with the result being Hank's severed member. Many of the patrons that night still can recall seeing Hank leap from his '61 Nova and running, with said member in hand, to the concession stand while screaming, "My weiner, my weiner!" The consession attendant mistakenly interpreted Hank's remarks to mean that he was not satisfied with his frakfurter purchase and offered him a refund. This one made the papers. The Valley Independent. Evening edition, Sept. 8, 1963. Page 9. I framed a copy of the article.
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