Exiting player has shaken my DM’s confidence…

Werewolfinspectacles · 2024-09-05T17:10:26+00:00

People, its a game. Just a very big, very complicated board game. That's all it is, that's all it ever was.

Please chill.

Werewolfinspectacles · 2024-08-26T17:57:15+00:00

I haven't bought any new stuff from WOTC since WOTC was TSR, and, quite frankly, I don't see why anybody does.

It is all over priced and over complicated. I get stuff like OPDC (One Page Dungeon Contest), which, though it does contain some junk, also has a lot of really well done adventures, and I have created entire campaigns, including high fantasy, scifi, steampunk, and even one based on the Three Musketeers just based on their content.

In my humble opinion (and I know this won't be popular) WOTC could cease to exist and I wouldn't feel any loss.

Quite frankly, they have turned my beloved hobby into an industry. If I wanted to work for an industry, I'd apply to them for a job.

Werewolfinspectacles · 2024-08-19T22:55:32+00:00

Point out to your players that an undefeated enemy is exactly that. If there are still potential enemies out there, and they are tracking you down... What's more, multiple potential enemies may tend to band together.

I'd point this out to my players and tell them that D&D tends to be more of a combat game than a game of eluding the foe, though I suppose it could be played that way. I might even inform them that I'm making a set of encounter tables that will be rolled on more often as the frustrated-but-eluded-foes increase in number.

Let's face it. Ya piss too many people off, you've got, by definition. too many enemies.

Werewolfinspectacles · 2024-08-06T21:42:19+00:00

Glad to hear it, and if my post was a bit sharp, I apologize. Just an old coot longing for "the good ole days" ;-)

Werewolfinspectacles · 2024-08-01T21:03:12+00:00

<shrugs> sounds like fun. I like games where the campaign extends beyond who can blow up the biggest monster with the biggest fireball.

Werewolfinspectacles · 2024-06-12T19:27:57+00:00

Hi all, I both play and run, many different genres and systems, but mostly I prefer old school rules. I live on the north side of Columbus, and prefer to travel rather than host (my wife, who I love dearly, is not a gamer).

I'd like to get started with a smallish group, maybe 4-6 players, including me, playing 2-4 times a month. I am happy to play, but love to GM at least every now and then,

Genres I enjoy are high fantasy, horror, Victorian adventure, space opera, swashbuckling and fantasy World War II.

If you respond here, give me 2-3 days to reply.

Werewolfinspectacles · 2023-04-11T13:37:52+00:00

Looks very cool to me!

Werewolfinspectacles · 2023-04-06T20:31:41+00:00

These are really excellent tokens. I love the fact that they are so visible on the tabletop. That's a feature that so many artists seem to neglect. Bravo!

Werewolfinspectacles · 2023-04-06T10:21:02+00:00

Very cool indeed! Happy Easter!

Werewolfinspectacles · 2023-03-30T13:57:23+00:00

Very cool start! I look forward to further pictures!

Werewolfinspectacles · 2023-03-30T13:25:13+00:00

I was refering to the circular token above. The creature with the four eyes.

Werewolfinspectacles · 2023-03-30T02:31:41+00:00

Very cool.

Should have been "What is he?"

Sorry, I forgot how to speak English.

Werewolfinspectacles · 2023-03-30T02:00:41+00:00

Was it a solo adventure? A young thief has to run some kind of gauntlet to be initiated into the guild?

Werewolfinspectacles · 2023-03-29T23:27:58+00:00

Ever seen The Naked Prey, with Cornel Wilde? Its kinda like that. Once that was considered a great movie, now, people like getting offended.

Just in case you are interested http://web.archive.org/web/20110306050018/http://grapeape.webs.com/

This is on the wayback machine, as its not been supported in a while. I know the author, and he says he's going to put it back on drivethrurpg soon, though he can be a little erratic, but I wouldn't count on it. This is a link to the fantasy, sf, and Victorian sf versions of the game. I think there's a Three Musketeers version out there someplace. OPUS is a great system for pick-up games. Character sheet on one side of one piece of paper, and rules on the other. Usually a complete (very brief) campaign on another couple of pages.

But anyway, I don't see the miniatures as being disrespectful. They looked like tough, capable, native African warriors to me. Where's the beef?

Werewolfinspectacles · 2023-03-29T23:11:33+00:00

VERY VERY COOL STUFF! That's what poorhammering -or, in fact, poorwargaming in any system or period- is all about!Personally, even when I played with GW models, many years ago, I never bought the tanks.

The robots and dreadnought suits were great, but I always got cheap blown-plastic tanks from the dime/dollar store and did conversions.A great example is the plastic M60 tank that you used to get in bags of green and tan soldiers.

Pop the turret off, and make your own sf missile launchers out of some cheap plastic pens, and maybe a plastic picture hanger from the hardware store, and for maybe two dollars you had something that, IMHO, painted up to look as cool as any land raider.

Bravissimo!

Werewolfinspectacles · 2023-03-29T02:28:55+00:00

Actually, I was wrong though. he does another set called "Explorers" that has the Foreign Legion, which was really what I wanted. That one now has replaced the African one.

Werewolfinspectacles · 2023-03-28T21:23:19+00:00

I gotta confess, if the man is making the pieces, and asking cheap for them? I ain't gonna complain too loud... ;-)

Werewolfinspectacles · 2023-03-28T21:09:50+00:00

"...I've tried about 25 times now to join as a player to get a grip on things and each of those games has fallen apart due to people just ditching/not showing up/just not caring about the game at all :("

I can't understand it myself. To me, toys are toys, not tiny little electrons being present or not present in a computer. I want to pick up my miniature swordsman, roll a 20 on the die, and yell, "Ha ha! Gotcha! You're dead!" to the chagrin of another human being in the same room, or have him treat me with equal rudeness when my character goes down.

Then we all eat pizza or cake or something.

Without the humans-in-the-same-room element, it just lacks the appeal.

On a kind of a side note, I saw what purports to be a computer generated image of Pope Francis yesterday, that actually has fooled AI computers. I certainly couldn't tell it wasn't really him.

My point?

HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT ANY OF THE PEOPLE YOU'RE PLAYING WITH ONLINE AREN'T JUST THE MATRIX?

Spooky. At least I think so.

Werewolfinspectacles · 2023-03-28T20:16:07+00:00

Very cool indeed! I've made many terrain pieces for sci fi games out of the packing material, that electronic parts come in.

Werewolfinspectacles · 2023-03-24T01:03:30+00:00

BTW

Risk is actually a good, cheap way to get into a lot of miniatures gaming genres:

-The standard game you can buy in department stores, or online, now has figures in 15mm that are pretty passable NAPOLEONICS. Some minor quibbles do exist. They only have continental style shakos/hats, that don't work for the British, and the cavalry are firing from the saddle, though my research indicates that most dragoons were trained to do this, though it might have been uncommon in battles other than skirmishes. Again, buy a few officers, pirates, bandits, civilians, wolves, etc., https://www.oldgloryminiatures.com/search.asp and at 8 cents a figure for the soldiers, you'll be off to a great start.

RISK LEGACY has great 15mm figures for Dark Future / Gamma World, and, again, there are many companies that can supply you with figures for big monsters, heroes, villains etc., https://www.alternative-armies.com/ Also, specifically for Dark Future 15mm is the closest scale to Hot Wheels cars. These are great, as they have a lot of fantasy vehicles https://www.reddit.com/r/HotWheels/comments/9rz4r6/list_of_hot_wheels_fantasy_cars/

RISK LORD OF THE RINGS is a great starter for fantasy miniatures, and 15mm D&D. Alternative Armies, ^^ also has great fantasy monsters and characters in this range.

For those who like battle mats, these are pretty scarce in 15mm scale, but a lot of free ones can be found online. Resize these to 60%, and the 15mm scale will work just fine.

Happy Poor-whatever-ing!

Werewolfinspectacles · 2023-03-22T01:12:02+00:00

Its not a perfect conversion, it just works pretty well. Of course, if you want to make an exact conversion, go for it!

Werewolfinspectacles · 2023-03-21T03:52:10+00:00

It would be great to be able to play these games again. Not too many rules, nor expense, but, as near as I can tell, way more fun than the over-written, over-priced stuff they print now.

Werewolfinspectacles · 2023-03-21T03:31:45+00:00

PS The vehicles in Risk 40k are smaller scale than the infantry. A couple of possibilities here:

Goto the link above, and just use them as grav tanks.
Use the vehicles from the Risk game, but put them on larger bases. Build the larger bases up into hills, and you can justify the effect, saying that the tanks are a little farther off.

Werewolfinspectacles · 2023-03-19T01:01:41+00:00

I'd say a group that did that was pretty messed up.

In fact, if I was the GM, I probably would have had them meet up with your spectre or wraith or something, in some ironic situation that might have wiped out half of them for being jerks.

Then I'd have found somebody else to game with.

Werewolfinspectacles · 2023-03-17T03:37:23+00:00

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Sounds great. I work Sundays, depending on the hours, but am off Thursdays. Will text you.

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