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Another one crumbles to dust...
Jan. 10th, 2006 12:34 pmIt looks like Patrick's game is officially on hiatus, which means 'permanently cancelled' in the monday group, likelier than not. As in, every time so far. Because Patrick's underlings were all outsourced to India, he keeps having to go fly to India to manage them, as managing them remotely is impractical -- when the cat's on another continent, the mice won't do much except surf the internet.
It looks like we're going to try out Exalted. I'm a bit leery of white wolf, but I've heard it's at least high fantasy, and not 'I'm a horrible monster who deserves death, but instead gets a fate *worse* than death, namely politics.'
Of course, the game intro started out explaining why we were considered horrible monsters who deserved death by the government of all creation. *cringe* The GM reassured us that we would not be forced to enter the actual empire if we didn't want to. And would only turn into horrible monsters if we failed to stick to the straight and narrow absolute standard of goodness. Still...
But the only real alternatives was having Ed run D+D (he's a reasonable but inexperienced GM) or having me run GURPS 4th ed (I'd like to think I'm a reasonable GM, but I'm still inexperienced in the same way Ed is -- the alternative is that I've GM'd too much to excuse my remaining failures as part of a learning curve }:).
Jen wasn't there, but her preference was for 'not hack and slash', which means Exalted would be the best choice even if Jeff wasn't the better GM, so it's extremely likely that we'll be playing that. Also, Ed wanted simple character creation rules, and Jeff didn't want to play GURPS unless he could powergame it to the hilt, and didn't know the system well enough to do that.
If I'm feeling especially surly during character creation next week, I might make a(nother) pokemon trainer. One of the character classes specializes in demon-summoning...
It looks like we're going to try out Exalted. I'm a bit leery of white wolf, but I've heard it's at least high fantasy, and not 'I'm a horrible monster who deserves death, but instead gets a fate *worse* than death, namely politics.'
Of course, the game intro started out explaining why we were considered horrible monsters who deserved death by the government of all creation. *cringe* The GM reassured us that we would not be forced to enter the actual empire if we didn't want to. And would only turn into horrible monsters if we failed to stick to the straight and narrow absolute standard of goodness. Still...
But the only real alternatives was having Ed run D+D (he's a reasonable but inexperienced GM) or having me run GURPS 4th ed (I'd like to think I'm a reasonable GM, but I'm still inexperienced in the same way Ed is -- the alternative is that I've GM'd too much to excuse my remaining failures as part of a learning curve }:).
Jen wasn't there, but her preference was for 'not hack and slash', which means Exalted would be the best choice even if Jeff wasn't the better GM, so it's extremely likely that we'll be playing that. Also, Ed wanted simple character creation rules, and Jeff didn't want to play GURPS unless he could powergame it to the hilt, and didn't know the system well enough to do that.
If I'm feeling especially surly during character creation next week, I might make a(nother) pokemon trainer. One of the character classes specializes in demon-summoning...
