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Well I'm back and done. Technically theres more on Sunday, but I'm not driving all the way back to Tempe for a half-days worth of events. Especially not after getting in after 1AM.
But I mostly had fun. Got to sit in on a couple d20 Mafia demos with Tony DeGileremo, and I'm really looking forward to its release in the Fall. Then I hung out with my friends Noah and Miles for awhile, hitting the video game room and wasting some time on Wario Party or whatever it was called.
Saturday, I ran 1 of the 2 tables for the HackMaster demo tourney. That was great, got to kill two characters fairly and one got offed by the surviving party members. Note to those who play in D&D type games, when you're the CHAOTIC EVIL dark elf mage don't drop flaming oil on the Samurai and the Holy Knight (Squished together Paladin/Cavalier). Still even the people who got killed had fun and some seemed likely to hunt down the book.
Dan's table also seemed to have fun, and some even seemed intrested in getting in touch with him later as possible new group members.
Which will be great provided my Saturday group didn't just go bust.
After the Demo Tourney we got to have Tony run his module, Slaughterhouse: Indigo for several of us. Me, Dan and Jane from my Saturday game and three people I knew from a previous HackMaster group (one of them being Chris Carlso a friend from back in my LARPing days). During the course of the adventure Chris's character fumbles and accidently hits Dan's character with a sling bullet, doing a miserable 2 points of damage to him. Dan responds by ignoring the previous enemies and trying to castrate Chris' character. And things just escalate from there. Rather than watch the party self-destruct in the middle of a VERY deadly module I walked away from the table.
I don't know if Dan will feel insulted I didn't side with him or what. But this isn't the first time I've seen Dan overreact to a fumble injury against another party member. The previous time involved an NPC party member, but Dan's character ended up banished and almost executed over it.
And still Dan will always either play Chaotic Neutral or characters that slide into C.N. All so that he can act without really planning things or thinking of the potential consequences. And for a min/max style character creator type that gets old.
Dan's my friend and I'll keep playing with him for as long as he wants to. But sometimes he just pisses me off.
But I mostly had fun. Got to sit in on a couple d20 Mafia demos with Tony DeGileremo, and I'm really looking forward to its release in the Fall. Then I hung out with my friends Noah and Miles for awhile, hitting the video game room and wasting some time on Wario Party or whatever it was called.
Saturday, I ran 1 of the 2 tables for the HackMaster demo tourney. That was great, got to kill two characters fairly and one got offed by the surviving party members. Note to those who play in D&D type games, when you're the CHAOTIC EVIL dark elf mage don't drop flaming oil on the Samurai and the Holy Knight (Squished together Paladin/Cavalier). Still even the people who got killed had fun and some seemed likely to hunt down the book.
Dan's table also seemed to have fun, and some even seemed intrested in getting in touch with him later as possible new group members.
Which will be great provided my Saturday group didn't just go bust.
After the Demo Tourney we got to have Tony run his module, Slaughterhouse: Indigo for several of us. Me, Dan and Jane from my Saturday game and three people I knew from a previous HackMaster group (one of them being Chris Carlso a friend from back in my LARPing days). During the course of the adventure Chris's character fumbles and accidently hits Dan's character with a sling bullet, doing a miserable 2 points of damage to him. Dan responds by ignoring the previous enemies and trying to castrate Chris' character. And things just escalate from there. Rather than watch the party self-destruct in the middle of a VERY deadly module I walked away from the table.
I don't know if Dan will feel insulted I didn't side with him or what. But this isn't the first time I've seen Dan overreact to a fumble injury against another party member. The previous time involved an NPC party member, but Dan's character ended up banished and almost executed over it.
And still Dan will always either play Chaotic Neutral or characters that slide into C.N. All so that he can act without really planning things or thinking of the potential consequences. And for a min/max style character creator type that gets old.
Dan's my friend and I'll keep playing with him for as long as he wants to. But sometimes he just pisses me off.
</td><td valign="top">You are a geek liaison, which means you go both ways. You can hang out with normal people or you can hang out with geeks which means you often have geeks as friends and/or have a job where you have to mediate between geeks and normal people. This is an important role and one of which you should be proud. In fact, you can make a good deal of money as a translator.
