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    Oh, and Order of the Stick of course has a tribute to the G-man today:

    http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0536.html

    Quote Originally Posted by pzkpfw View Post
    "Falling damage". How many articles in Dragon magazine were titled "A better way to calculate falling damage?"!
    Quite a whole lot actually!
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    Quote Originally Posted by pzkpfw View Post
    Geez, I'm in a group right now that still meets once a week to play. (Currently the D20, 3.5. version.)

    Tip: "Dungeons and Dragons" in the "hobbies" section of your C.V. can be a good ice breaker.

    Motorcycles and D&D (and family and job and ...). They can all go together.


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    "THACO"! Oh you young folk.

    "Falling damage". How many articles in Dragon magazine were titled "A better way to calculate falling damage?"!

    Cheers,
    No worries if you be a high level monk and within 10' of the cliff surface!

    And besides, once we decided we wanted more gritty fantasy there was always Runequest (ouch impaled by an arbalest bolt in the neck!) and the infinite tables of damage complexity with class criticals of I.C.E. game systems (oooh a E slash and C crush crit secondary... gotta hurt!)
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    The boys at Penny Arcade hit the right note.



    Mr Gygax is single-handedly responsible for millions of happy hours and the flowering of countless youthful imaginations. I can't think of a better reason to rest in peace after a life well spent.
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    There is a corker of a retort there too - I defer in respect.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Big Dave View Post
    Poor Jim.
    I was the tallest person at brainiac school by 3rd form - teachers included.
    Never bullied anyone though. Too busy chasing girls.
    I will insist to my dying day that the hair loss from the front of my head was due to a Jockey waistband restricting blood flow to my scalp. Along with me never needing a Brazilian.

    Would that all Yetis could chase girls instead of boys.
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    Ahh the memories .. Keep on the Borderlands, Shelob's Lair and all those classic modules.

    If I didn't have those diversions, I wonder what sorts of mischief I would have got up to? (Oh wait, I did it anyway! )

    Now, where did I put those dice ... might spend some time rolling up some characters for some of the amassed RPG systems I merrily spent my student allowance on!

    (Heck, I still do it now! Dang Warhammer40K and Fantasy!)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jim2 View Post
    A point we TRIED to make at the time and what did we get for our troubles? I'll tell you; Atomic Wedgies.
    You seen 'Broadcast News'? I'm thinking of the flashback scene at the beginning where the nerd gets beaten up by the jocks, and as they walk aways yells something like: "you might have won this round, but here's a thought that will haunt you to your dying days: none of you will ever earn more than $25,000 p/a!"

    Of course, they all walk away going 'hmmm, $25K, eh? That's a pretty good score.....'

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hitcher View Post
    One feels like getting liquored one evening and, with an entourage of the like-minded, dusting off a D&D box and seeing what happens next. For old-times' sake.
    Liquor, sounds good.

    Oh yeah, D&D would be good as well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kendog View Post
    Liquor, sounds good.

    Oh yeah, D&D would be good as well.
    Then we're three so far. Anyone wanna be DM?

    It is preferential to refrain from the utilisation of grandiose verbiage in the circumstance that your intellectualisation can be expressed using comparatively simplistic lexicological entities. (...such as the word fuck.)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mikkel View Post
    Then we're three so far. Anyone wanna be DM?
    Mikkel, you live in Christchurch!
    I'd be keen if I was still in Welly.
    Keep me appraised of a possible date and I may be up that way. I need an excuse to use up a Bluebridge ferry + motorcycle return ticket I bought a while ago. Plus I quit university so I have some free time now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Steam View Post
    Mikkel, you live in Christchurch!
    I'd be keen if I was still in Welly.
    Keep me appraised of a possible date and I may be up that way. I need an excuse to use up a Bluebridge ferry + motorcycle return ticket I bought a while ago. Plus I quit university so I have some free time now.
    Fuck living in Chch. Plane tickets to Welly are cheap - besides, as you say, an excuse for a longish bike ride wouldn't be a bad thing!
    It is preferential to refrain from the utilisation of grandiose verbiage in the circumstance that your intellectualisation can be expressed using comparatively simplistic lexicological entities. (...such as the word fuck.)

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    We had an almost all-motorcyclist D&D session last year; the two players were me on my CX400 and a non-KBer friend and his wife on his Triumph Triple. The DM didn't ride though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mikkel View Post
    Then we're three so far. Anyone wanna be DM?

    "dust off" implies there's manuals around to be dusted off. I gave up D&D long before I gave up RPGs. I still have Cyberpunk 2020 in my cupboard for some reason, I thought I had Twilight 2000 as well, but someone appears to have nicked it. I can't fathom why.

    But I digress. You don't forget the rules, I think I could still play without any manuals, to a fair degree of canonical accuracy. Sad, innit?

    We're a bit geographically spread. Play-by-forum-thread anyone?

    PS - Just had a thought; we could use the kb chat function, lol!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Drunken Monkey View Post

    We're a bit geographically spread. Play-by-forum-thread anyone?
    Gaaah! Imagine the bitch sessions!

    How about web cam?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jim2 View Post
    How about web cam?
    Not a bad idea... except: You'd miss out on that crucial sweaty mucky smell that comes from being 4-8 people in a smallish dark room drinking too much coke and eating too many chips... It ain't roleplaying without it!
    It is preferential to refrain from the utilisation of grandiose verbiage in the circumstance that your intellectualisation can be expressed using comparatively simplistic lexicological entities. (...such as the word fuck.)

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