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If anyone's interested, Son of Gameforce is on this weekend:

Son of Gameforce - Sunday 24th March

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(Copied from the Yahoo Group)

The next SoG is this Sunday, March 24th. We are starting with brand new Star Wars game using the brand new Star Wars system so it would be a great time for brand new members to join!

SoG is a spin off of Gameforce. We meet on 4th Sunday of each month to play roleplaying games at the Antelope pub near Sloane Square from 12:30 to 18:00..

The address is:
Eaton Terrace,
London,
SW1W 8EZ.

Regards,

James
 
I'm tempted, but weekends tend to be the time to cram in as much time with fiancée as possible.

I might see if I can drag her along as well, if that happens I predict absolutely no plot related events will occur though
 
juJu making final plans. Have to do the weekly shopping first, but will turn up. Bringing ICONS and a couple of other things as I don't know what will be going on.
 
Where the chuffin' fuck would one acquire D&D miniatures from? Does anyone even make them any more? My brief Googling turned up nothing concrete, just bits here and there.

E2a: These seem to make some pre-painted stuff. But it's hardly a wide range.

Seems to be stuff here too if you're willing to rake through for things you want.
 
Right, Son of Gameforce will be on this Sunday, about 12:30 to 6pm. I plan on going, barring a horrible accident,and I hope some of you will too.

I think they're planning to run Star Wars: Edge of Empire. If more people turn up we'll probably split into two groups. I was thinking of bringing ICONS (superheroes!) and maybe something else as a backup.

The address is:
Eaton Terrace,
London,
SW1W 8EZ.

Regards,

James
 
I've just got involved with a few anime style RPG. so far the best looking for fun is

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randomly roll up a anime maid and have fun

there are some translation issues... the dialects roll is a bit broken you can't really roll play an osaka-ben in english. the replacement is a bit.... meh...

however overal;l it looks fun if you know the kind of anime it's referencing/parodying
 
We've been playing the excellent "Toon" round ours.

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Amazing amounts of fun & quick to play and learn. The 6, 8 & 9 year old love it, as do us mide thirty somethings. Highly recommended :cool:
 
Quartz said:
The Paranoia books are still a scream all these years later.
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The only time in my life that I've actually been worried that I'd pee myself from laughing so hard was playing 'Das Boot' (the submarine without a manual where most of the buttons you can press kill you) with a bunch of people who were smoking really fucking strong Kerali weed.
 
My bug for this has come back strong. When it's done right, despite the flaws in the mechanics and the generic nature of most settings, D&D can be awesome.
 
My thought is the generic-ness of the setting doesn't really last that long.. because the players usually subvert/ignore it anyway!! The amount of verbal abuse meted out to local dignitaries in Fallcrest recently has been appalling, and they were fighting in the temple and the wizard blew up the children's Sunday school display with his lightening pillar...
 
My gaming group are presently working their way through Pathfinders Rise of the Rune Lords. I think we have almost done the first of six modules.

If any london peeps are interested I think there could be an opening. Weekly, north london with a nice group of lads...PM me.
 
we are doing ravenloft atm for a good bit of old skool. My Cleric (Fthr Jaques Haquett) is developing some nice psychoses at the moment which are all pointing to an inquisition themed future for the good citizens of 12th century hasting (where the campaign is set)
 
ska invita said:
.......nostlagia.....Between the ages of about 11-14 i played with my two neighbours a bit of
Dark Future
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Blood Bowl, which i was very good at IIRC


Happy days on the whole
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I remember playing Dark Future, I enjoyed it if I recall... a really good game, but you needed so much space for the road!

I still play Blood Bowl and have been playing one a week in a league for about 4 years now. Saying that it is the computer game, but its 95% faithful to the board game. Being able to play online is fantastic.

In fact I'm actually bringing my laptop on a holiday to Ibiza to visit a lady friend specifically so i can get my weekly game in.

I'm pretty sad.
 
Streatham_Mao said:
Vampire's a funny old thing. The books are all full of 'exploring man's inhumanity to man' and 'questioning expediency over morality', which is pretty damn cool, and I love them for it. In real terms though, what I actually got was people treating it as an excuse to be a git. I do know some real horror stories about the Camarilla, but that's because I asked for the horror stories (I haven't played Vampire in a while and was curious about the rage going on). On the other hand, my mates have a good game going, but they're a pretty tight-knit bunch and can shrug off in-game bitchiness.

EDIT: That said, lots of people still go, so they must get something out of it.

It's like Cyberpunk2020 all over again - it promised wailing guitars, sticking it to The Man and a combat system that required thought to come out alive, but what you got was people just wanting to smash through using bigger and better weapons.

And it's why I stick to Fading Suns, despite it's extreme niche-ness; it's so much easier to wax philosophical and you don't have the levels of player bastardyness going round.
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PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE tell us the stories of general bitchiness!

I really want to know. I never played Vampire, but I loved reading the background books, so I'm interested...
 
Moronik said:
I remember playing Dark Future, I enjoyed it if I recall... a really good game, but you needed so much space for the road!

I still play Blood Bowl and have been playing one a week in a league for about 4 years now. Saying that it is the computer game, but its 95% faithful to the board game. Being able to play online is fantastic.

In fact I'm actually bringing my laptop on a holiday to Ibiza to visit a lady friend specifically so i can get my weekly game in.

I'm pretty sad.
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Neverwinternights has been the only computer game that gave me any sense that you could genuinely D&D online.
 
Moronik said:
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE tell us the stories of general bitchiness!

I really want to know. I never played Vampire, but I loved reading the background books, so I'm interested...
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Unfortunately I asked about a year ago and can't remember much beyond the one story about a female player who used having boobs as an excuse to get whatever she wanted, ic and ooc.

I don't even think she was knocking anyone off, but could trust certain gms round her little finger.
 
Santino said:
I never managed to complete that. :(
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You fool! That's one of the easier ones!

House of Hell (number ten) was fucking impossible! :D

Gamebooks - better than a monthly subscription to World of Credit Card.

I don't DnD,but I do other games. Have done for years. Sad that, even these days, it's still misunderstood and sneered at.
 
Streatham_Mao said:
Edge of Empire is great, although that should be the Rebellion book as EoE has been out for ages.

It's pretty simple, has lots of customization and the dice system is pretty indie for a mainstream game, designed to give a strong level of narrative control to players.
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The composition of the dice pack is a bit of a shit though; you need more!

The book looks amazing, and FFG always do great production values, but i find them a bit of a viper's nest these days. Having 3 different SW games? Seriously?
 
Awesome Wells said:
The composition of the dice pack is a bit of a shit though; you need more!

The book looks amazing, and FFG always do great production values, but i find them a bit of a viper's nest these days. Having 3 different SW games? Seriously?
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I got the starter box so dice weren't an issue.

As for three games,yes and no. They're supposed to be different (and when they did the same with 40k they really were different games) but we'll see.
 
The dice in the starter set the same as you get in the pack? 1 red, 2 yellow, etc.

Because 1 red is not really enough.

The 40k games are good example of why I don't fully trust FFG canymore: the games are broken broken broken!
 
Awesome Wells said:
The dice in the starter set the same as you get in the pack? 1 red, 2 yellow, etc.

Because 1 red is not really enough.

The 40k games are good example of why I don't fully trust FFG canymore: the games are broken broken broken!
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Honestly can't remember but sounds vaguely right.

And the 40k games were based on a broken in house system. From what I heard (I kinda stopped giving a shit about 40k ages ago) they were incrementally improving the system.
 
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