Gary Gygax dies

**Drunken Monkey** · 7th March 2008, 07:54

Originally Posted by Jim2

Gaaah! Imagine the bitch sessions!

How about web cam?

D&D by Skype? Could work!

Need to rely on the honesty system for rolls though. I suspect there will be an unusually high number of 20's rolled during combat...

**El Dopa** · 7th March 2008, 07:56

Originally Posted by Drunken Monkey

Play-by-forum-thread anyone?

OK, I'll start.

You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.

**jrandom** · 7th March 2008, 07:58

Originally Posted by Drunken Monkey

Need to rely on the honesty system for rolls though.

Just set up a roll server with hardware RNG and a chat bot. Piece of cake.

And you played Cyberpunk! Gosh. I remember that well from intermediate school lunchbreaks. That takes me back.

Anyway, I'll be in Welly over Easter. I'm sure I can borrow a set of dice if nobody else has 'em handy... which version are we playing?

**Big Dave** · 7th March 2008, 07:59

Originally Posted by El Dopa

OK, I'll start.

You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.

You are dreaming of having a girlfriend.

**jrandom** · 7th March 2008, 08:00

Originally Posted by El Dopa

You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.

> eat grue

**El Dopa** · 7th March 2008, 08:05

Originally Posted by jrandom

> eat grue

You hungrily devour the grue.
You suddenly feel as if you are in Soviet Russia.

**Drunken Monkey** · 7th March 2008, 08:10

Originally Posted by jrandom

And you played Cyberpunk! Gosh. I remember that well from intermediate school lunchbreaks. That takes me back.

Played it, then modded it slightly and played the mod version for even longer. All PC's were different classes of Cop and some of the FNFF rules were made a bit more complex, but in essence the same thing.

Actually we used to make a lot of our own ones from scratch. You'd take the things that worked from one game, add some new rules and change the theme. Rinse. Repeat.

**Mikkel** · 7th March 2008, 08:12

Praise Kalashnikov and Stolichnaya!
Time to flush out some dissenters methinks...

As for version - dunno. All of my books are stashed away in an attic in a very old villa in Denmark. Getting them here would take at least a month... and be about as expensive as buying it all new (not that you could - there's a Shadowrun 2nd Ed. rulebook amongst the lot).

**Steam** · 7th March 2008, 08:13

Originally Posted by El Dopa

You hungrily devour the grue.
You suddenly feel as if you are in Soviet Russia.

Originally Posted by jrandom

> eat grue

Originally Posted by El Dopa

OK, I'll start.

You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.

WARNING; THIS IS A NOTIFICATION FROM ORBITAL OBSERVATION PLATFORM OVERLORD 17. YOU HAVE EXCEEDED YOUR PERMITTED GEEK QUOTIENT BY BEGINNING AN ONLINE RPG WITHIN A MOTORCYCLE FORUM ENVIRONMENT. THIS IS A FORBIDDEN OPERATION AND HAS BEEN CLASSIFIED AS A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY. STAND DOWN IMMEDIATELY OR ORBITAL BOMBARDMENT WILL BE INITIATED. YOUR TERMINAL LOCATIONS HAVE BEEN TRACED. THIS IS YOUR FINAL WARNING.
Message repeats....

**Mikkel** · 7th March 2008, 08:29

Originally Posted by Steam

WARNING; THIS IS A NOTIFICATION FROM ORBITAL OBSERVATION PLATFORM OVERLORD 17. YOU HAVE EXCEEDED YOUR PERMITTED GEEK QUOTIENT BY BEGINNING AN ONLINE RPG WITHIN A MOTORCYCLE FORUM ENVIRONMENT. THIS IS A FORBIDDEN OPERATION AND HAS BEEN CLASSIFIED AS A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY. STAND DOWN IMMEDIATELY OR ORBITAL BOMBARDMENT WILL BE INITIATED. YOUR TERMINAL LOCATIONS HAVE BEEN TRACED. THIS IS YOUR FINAL WARNING.
Message repeats....

I ignore the voices in my head for once and start exploring the catacombs.

**El Dopa** · 7th March 2008, 09:32

Originally Posted by Big Dave

You are dreaming of having a girlfriend.

The irony of being cussed out as a geek. On an internet forum.

**Indiana_Jones** · 7th March 2008, 11:17

Well I'm no RPG fan etc, but I do read "Order of the stick", any of you RPG guys would like this I guess

here's a link to the tribute comic for Gary Gygax

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

-Indy

**gijoe1313** · 7th March 2008, 11:28

Game Systems residing in my closet ...

D&D (Basic, Expert, Advanced)
Runequest
MERP
Cyberpunk2020
Mekton
Twilight2000
Merc
Elfquest
Marvel Superheroes
Star Frontiers
Traveller
DC Superheroes
Underground
TMNT/Palladium
Robotech
Toon
GURPS
Ninja
Dragonquest
Paranoia

.... about all I can remember off the top of my head at the moment! Even got a ton of supplements/modules/DM/GM screens/miniatures/mapboards etc. floating about... used to play a lot of Cyberpunk2020 at uni on Friday nights (of course ... FNFF!

)

And I used to GM all the blardy time!

**gijoe1313** · 7th March 2008, 11:39

Originally Posted by El Dopa

OK, I'll start.

You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.

I cast continual light directly onto the thief's eyes so he can be blinded and looks like an idiot bouncing off into walls, I use the magic user's dagger to scratch "Kilroy was here" onto a wall,stick the dagger in a crack next to it and bind a rune of explosion onto it. I put a gold piece on the floor behind our party and cast delayed fireball on it... for 1 segment after it is moved...

I cast unseen servant to drag a 10' pole behind it which has 2 bags of oil on a roped trailing 15' back and a continual darkness spell on the pole ... (the oil bags so I can cast flaming arrow at one of them when monsters blithely wander through the darkness and shout)

Along the way cast cantrips to flick the ear of the fighter ahead wearing a full helm just to annoy him and another cantrip to loosen the clasp off the female clerics AC5 chainmail bra... use cantrips whisper to suggest that the elf ranger has a thing for the dwarven paladin .... and prepare materials for dimension door in case I've pissed off the party enough!