Bob does not like cameras during his games, but you can see one of his games being partially shown in "Secrets of Blackmoor". We are going to record his talks before the game sessions, though, and they'll eventually be up on the Internet.
This is exactly what I mean. Great post!
What I see locally is that GMs have no idea about how their world works, because it isn't 'their' world; it's a world that they picked up off the shelf, and run like a game of "Chutes and Ladders". I don't see any independent or original rersearch - the...
Yep. That was me.
Bob Meyer will be running games all week at Gary Con this year; he's been invited there for the 50th anniversary of the publication of Dave and Gary's set of house rules.
Speaking as the rabbit who lives in this particular rabbit hole, I am finding this thread to be pretty entertaining.
Back when we started this gaming lark fifty+ years ago, pretty much all of our games were run in this manner; being 'war gamers'. we knew what 'Free Kriegspiel' was and how it...
That's good! Very typical of the odds and ends of organizations that existed at that time. Nobody had any real idea of how the regime was actually organized - see also the muddle over who was in control of the V-1 and V-2 programs at any given moment.
It does making painting up any particular...
Thank you all for your replies.
What we're looking at is a game group meeting here at the house, with the option of people playing remotely. Games could be all in-person or all-remote, depending on what people wanted to do. Audio feedback is not an issue; in a previous career, I installed video...
I'm not sure if this is the right forum to post this question, so feel free to move it...
I'm in the throes of doing the wiring design for the game room, and I'm trying to build in the hardware for remote gaming. I have several ways to do this; I have three of the PolyCom speaker phones - the...
I just love these intellectual discussions. You all sound so literate and educated; you'd all never make it in the local gaming scene, 'cause you all is just too edumacated as Private MacAuslan would say. Me, I prefer high-brow humor like ""Allo!, 'Allo!"; which also can serve as a source for...
No, he hasn't. :smile: One of the Shieldmaidens is an expert on dinosaurs, so I keep my mouth shut. :)
Very, very funny clip, too. :smile:
Seriously, though, I've done way too many conventions in my time where all the horror stories about retail customers and generally clueless people have...
And in the same jugular vein as B&B, we have my adventure module "Gen Con X, The Fantasy Role-Playing Game of Fantasy Role-Playing Publishing", set in Lake Geneva back in the day. Players play RPG authors and publishers, trying to get their latest creation published. NPCs include the hotel...
That, and putting on clean underwear. Oh, and bathing, too; that's a lost art for many local male gamers, which is why I support women in gaming. Besides being (on average) smarter, more creative, faster, and more clever than the vast majority of male gamers I have dealt with over the decades...
I run RPGs with miniatures, for one thing, and I play the way I learned from Dave and Phil which is "too hand wavy and loose-goosy", for another; I don't have massive sets of rules at the table for people to memorize and finesse - and worse yet, I don't play all the wonderful new sets of rules...
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