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I like your elaborate plan and will sign on! Wait, is enr0n 40 already? Jesus!
Remember when Over 40 was the name of a magazine filled with old-seeming women? Now it's your peer group. The future is here and it's: flapping ball sacs.
(I was thinking the paragraph above could be the caption on some sort of humorous Facebook image? Which would get plenty of likes? I'm not really a visual design guy, though.)
I was in Hawaii for a few days! It was awesome. I ate a lot of plate lunches. Unfortunately, I also got a pretty bad cold. But loco moco has a price! And that price is: flapping ball sacs.
(That one could work too, over a picture of a luau, a spam musubi, or something like that.)
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
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Life Expectancy > 50 years
As long as we all make it past 50 (at least ONE of us would need to live a little longer) we will make up the cost in on-site registration fees, no problem. For those of us that remember to pre-reg, I don't remember how much that is, maybe $45(?), so then we'd need to live to be 53.
I like those odds, and I hope to all that is good any right in the world, you all do too!
To better those odds of life expectancy, I plan on bringing a giant-size bottle of tequila and mix and triple sec to Kubla.
I like those odds, and I hope to all that is good any right in the world, you all do too!
To better those odds of life expectancy, I plan on bringing a giant-size bottle of tequila and mix and triple sec to Kubla.
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
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Khansanity?
You have to also figure in our L.H.O.D.- likely hood of death. It's sort of like buying life insurance at this point. How much is the pass verse how many years we have left. Maybe we also need to start placing bets. 🎲💀🎲
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Kublanity...
...is not a very good conjunction between Kubla and Insanity.
Quick! Someone (Enron) get some Google Glass and we'll live-stream the whole thing! We can output sound to some neck mounted speakers and attach a boom mic to Enron's head so that no audio will be missed!
Lifetime Passes as 40th BDay Gifts
So, I have a plan for all of us to get a Kubla Lifetime Badge, all for the low, low price of a full-price Kubla Lifetime Badge (deferred)! Hear me out. Sure, we could all blow our money and each get a badge ourselves, but then many of us would need to explain that one away to our significant others and tell our kids they can't eat this month because daddy spent the money on a shiny piece of plastic that can only be used once a year... so no one wants to do THAT, right??
So instead, as each of us turns 40 (yes, there would be at least one retro purchase :) ) we buy pool our money and buy each other a pass as a birthday present! In the long run, we would all be spending the same as if we bought one ourselves BUT instead we did it for each other! Pals!
I broached the subject with the Mrs. sometime ago and she was totally, 100% on board with it. It might help that she just turned 40, so she gets it, but either way - success!
Now we just need to decide who's in, and who's out, then sign a pact and enjoy!
Also, this
Dark Dungeons trailer
It's pretty good!
"RPG! RPG! RPG!"
And I wonder if blackleafgames.com will now be worth millions on the resale market. Thank you, Jack Chick!
Quick! Someone (Enron) get some Google Glass and we'll live-stream the whole thing! We can output sound to some neck mounted speakers and attach a boom mic to Enron's head so that no audio will be missed!
Lifetime Passes as 40th BDay Gifts
So, I have a plan for all of us to get a Kubla Lifetime Badge, all for the low, low price of a full-price Kubla Lifetime Badge (deferred)! Hear me out. Sure, we could all blow our money and each get a badge ourselves, but then many of us would need to explain that one away to our significant others and tell our kids they can't eat this month because daddy spent the money on a shiny piece of plastic that can only be used once a year... so no one wants to do THAT, right??
So instead, as each of us turns 40 (yes, there would be at least one retro purchase :) ) we buy pool our money and buy each other a pass as a birthday present! In the long run, we would all be spending the same as if we bought one ourselves BUT instead we did it for each other! Pals!
I broached the subject with the Mrs. sometime ago and she was totally, 100% on board with it. It might help that she just turned 40, so she gets it, but either way - success!
Now we just need to decide who's in, and who's out, then sign a pact and enjoy!
Also, this
Dark Dungeons trailer
It's pretty good!
"RPG! RPG! RPG!"
And I wonder if blackleafgames.com will now be worth millions on the resale market. Thank you, Jack Chick!
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CONVENSHUN
I can't believe you guys got a Kubla coming up :/
Wish I could go! Damn the children.
Play some new games and tell me all about it!
Wish I could go! Damn the children.
Play some new games and tell me all about it!
Sunday, May 18, 2014
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TV, or MMMM Consumption
True Detective's 8-episode run has been over for a awhile now, but we just started watching it again. 4-episodes down, it's a pretty awesome show! It's like a REAL slow burn, so it was tough to get through the first couple episodes, but it's getting pretty gnarly. I've avoided spoilers to this point, so it's gonna be fun to get through the rest. HBO GO peeps, watch that shit.
Also, Silicon Valley is super funny. I think it's also only 8-episodes but they're 30 minutes, so that can probably be binged in a night or two.
I don't know if any of you have Showtime, but they've got a good new show called Penny Dreadful. Set in Victorian England, it's very similar to League of Extraordinary Gentlemen in that it mashes-up literary characters into one story, but it's pretty friggen dark and scary. There's some Dracula, Frankenstein, and Dorian Gray characters in there, but it's not as wink-wink as the League books. Only 2 episodes have popped so far, but they're GOOD. There was this long seance scene at a high society party where the shit got real, and it was just awesomely tense. And for you Dr Who fans, one of his companions is on the show playing a hooker with consumption - so there's some hot sex/bloody-coughs scenes for your enjoyment. MMMM, consumption.
Or go outside and ride a bike, you couch potatoes.
Also, Silicon Valley is super funny. I think it's also only 8-episodes but they're 30 minutes, so that can probably be binged in a night or two.
I don't know if any of you have Showtime, but they've got a good new show called Penny Dreadful. Set in Victorian England, it's very similar to League of Extraordinary Gentlemen in that it mashes-up literary characters into one story, but it's pretty friggen dark and scary. There's some Dracula, Frankenstein, and Dorian Gray characters in there, but it's not as wink-wink as the League books. Only 2 episodes have popped so far, but they're GOOD. There was this long seance scene at a high society party where the shit got real, and it was just awesomely tense. And for you Dr Who fans, one of his companions is on the show playing a hooker with consumption - so there's some hot sex/bloody-coughs scenes for your enjoyment. MMMM, consumption.
Or go outside and ride a bike, you couch potatoes.
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
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another thing
You may or may not have already considered this, but since the reality of our gaming group is that we're mostly decentralized, maybe keep in mind ways to make the game chatroom friendly. Or at least easily modified for those e-friend gaming situations.
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
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having really only knowing
By saying the rpg idea is gonna die here on the blog, you're setting yourself up for failure! Delete that line from your post or at least from your heart.
Run with it!
Some quick thoughts:
Fiasco is pretty hard. Really more improv than rpg, so totally not a system for most people. I'd say the best thing to gleam from it is the "playset" feature. Come up with a solid system underneath, then you can plug in your "When Cthulhu Cthalls" playset/deck/dice/module. Next time, it can be the "Dungeon Crawl" set.
DCC: I wish we had played more. I felt like there were too many people to successfully pull off an online sesh with that game. I forget - is it made to be played with a tons of dudes? I also don't remember how much player-input there was when it came to "telling the story". Wasn't Jawn a DM for that?
Run with it!
Some quick thoughts:
Fiasco is pretty hard. Really more improv than rpg, so totally not a system for most people. I'd say the best thing to gleam from it is the "playset" feature. Come up with a solid system underneath, then you can plug in your "When Cthulhu Cthalls" playset/deck/dice/module. Next time, it can be the "Dungeon Crawl" set.
DCC: I wish we had played more. I felt like there were too many people to successfully pull off an online sesh with that game. I forget - is it made to be played with a tons of dudes? I also don't remember how much player-input there was when it came to "telling the story". Wasn't Jawn a DM for that?
Monday, May 12, 2014
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TL;DR - I have an idea that will die on this website
So, I've been thinking about roleplaying games. I suspect I will likely never get into a meaningful campaign again in my lifetime unless I start playing with Wy, which is fine because RPGs are a lot of work and a lot of commitment! That being said, I still totally like RPGs!
Right now, I'm really interested in the dice mechanics for Star Wars and WFRP 3rd ed, where you basically roll a grip of dice all that once that includes difficulty dice, dis/advantage, skill dice, and 'other' specific dice as well. Once you roll all them dice, you interpret the results. Successes vs. failures to see if you pass the test, but then some other results based on the dis/advantage results. The long and the short of the system is that there is some narration on every roll. I think our group would have a blast playing a system like this, and I know jr0n and Enron (maybe Mykenloft?) have already played WFRP some and I'd like to hear their thoughts and experiences on the system.
Anyway, I also really like the Mythic GM Emulator which sort of puts the story into the hands of some charts and LOTS of interpretation by the players to drive the story. When we played DCC using the GME, it added quite a bit of interest because we were sort of writing the story as we played it. We generally knew the plot because the GME lays it out for you to a certain extent, but the details were determined by our play.
And then there is The Armitage Files supplement for Trail of Cthulhu. This is basically a sourcebook for all sorts of different NPCs, groups, locations, tomes, etc. for the ToC game, but with a very interesting twist: Each one is detailed and then additional details are listed for if the 'thing' is friendly, neutral, or opposing. Basically it means any group that uses the sourcebook will likely use it in vastly different ways. There was a pretty good blog out there about one groups experience running a game derived from the Armitage Files and it sounded rad!
And THEN there was our mixed experience with Fiasco! I had fun, but couldn't muster the creativity to really perform like I should have during those sessions. Maybe I didn't quite 'get it', maybe playing in character seems weird to me in my old age, whatever it was, I wasn't totally into it, but I did really like the idea of joint story telling with a purpose.
ANYWAY, all of these things combined with how much fun we have RPing as a group when things go off the rails, got me thinking about combining them all together into some sort of GM-less Cthulhu/Investigative RPG where decks of cards define the overall story, but to keep it fresh, each scene or something rotates through the players as they sort of interpret and run the game based on a set of instructions they received from their card pull at a certain point in the game.
I don't know narrative/plot/story arc devices, terms, or structure, but it seems you could somehow combine a generic set of narrative cards with specifics from the genre (Cthulhu) combined with elements of the GM emulator for 'chaos and chance' WITH interpretation of dice during rolls, you could make a pretty fun, structured, but bite-sized RPG experience where no one has to do all the prep work and everyone gets to contribute AND join the ride.
I'm still tinkering with some specifics, and like the title says it will likely die right here, but it's been fun to think and fantasize aboot.
Right now, I'm really interested in the dice mechanics for Star Wars and WFRP 3rd ed, where you basically roll a grip of dice all that once that includes difficulty dice, dis/advantage, skill dice, and 'other' specific dice as well. Once you roll all them dice, you interpret the results. Successes vs. failures to see if you pass the test, but then some other results based on the dis/advantage results. The long and the short of the system is that there is some narration on every roll. I think our group would have a blast playing a system like this, and I know jr0n and Enron (maybe Mykenloft?) have already played WFRP some and I'd like to hear their thoughts and experiences on the system.
Anyway, I also really like the Mythic GM Emulator which sort of puts the story into the hands of some charts and LOTS of interpretation by the players to drive the story. When we played DCC using the GME, it added quite a bit of interest because we were sort of writing the story as we played it. We generally knew the plot because the GME lays it out for you to a certain extent, but the details were determined by our play.
And then there is The Armitage Files supplement for Trail of Cthulhu. This is basically a sourcebook for all sorts of different NPCs, groups, locations, tomes, etc. for the ToC game, but with a very interesting twist: Each one is detailed and then additional details are listed for if the 'thing' is friendly, neutral, or opposing. Basically it means any group that uses the sourcebook will likely use it in vastly different ways. There was a pretty good blog out there about one groups experience running a game derived from the Armitage Files and it sounded rad!
And THEN there was our mixed experience with Fiasco! I had fun, but couldn't muster the creativity to really perform like I should have during those sessions. Maybe I didn't quite 'get it', maybe playing in character seems weird to me in my old age, whatever it was, I wasn't totally into it, but I did really like the idea of joint story telling with a purpose.
ANYWAY, all of these things combined with how much fun we have RPing as a group when things go off the rails, got me thinking about combining them all together into some sort of GM-less Cthulhu/Investigative RPG where decks of cards define the overall story, but to keep it fresh, each scene or something rotates through the players as they sort of interpret and run the game based on a set of instructions they received from their card pull at a certain point in the game.
I don't know narrative/plot/story arc devices, terms, or structure, but it seems you could somehow combine a generic set of narrative cards with specifics from the genre (Cthulhu) combined with elements of the GM emulator for 'chaos and chance' WITH interpretation of dice during rolls, you could make a pretty fun, structured, but bite-sized RPG experience where no one has to do all the prep work and everyone gets to contribute AND join the ride.
I'm still tinkering with some specifics, and like the title says it will likely die right here, but it's been fun to think and fantasize aboot.
Friday, May 09, 2014
I made it to the Full House theme before bowing out. I'm sure it's purposefully awful, but there's also like an earnestness in how bad it is that's kind of compelling. I "get you" jorn, but I just can't do it. AV CLUB also posted a youtube link to a 9-minute loop someone made of the breakdown in the Spindoctor's song Two Princes. Same thing - awful yet compelling.
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Que Horrible!
I have no idea what just happened, but it was entirely torturous. In its defense, I did NOT listen to the whole thing, so maybe it gets rad at some point, but not the parts I heard...
Yeah, I'm gonna have to ask you to keep your recommendations to yourself? Mkay?
Although, I do sort of love the cover along with just how horrible it was... sort of like a performance art piece.... like that guy that played one note on a piano for like 8 hours....
Change of heart! What else can you recommend, J-Pets*?
And I LOVED Dredd! I've seen it a heck of lot of times and like it every time! It's one of those movies where it's way better than not watching anything at all and staring off into space, but at the same time it's not much more taxing than staring off into space. I did really enjoy it.
*J-Pets is another cool nickname for you, along with "Shtoops", "Mongo", and "The Tan, Hatted Man from Manhattan."
Yeah, I'm gonna have to ask you to keep your recommendations to yourself? Mkay?
Although, I do sort of love the cover along with just how horrible it was... sort of like a performance art piece.... like that guy that played one note on a piano for like 8 hours....
Change of heart! What else can you recommend, J-Pets*?
And I LOVED Dredd! I've seen it a heck of lot of times and like it every time! It's one of those movies where it's way better than not watching anything at all and staring off into space, but at the same time it's not much more taxing than staring off into space. I did really enjoy it.
*J-Pets is another cool nickname for you, along with "Shtoops", "Mongo", and "The Tan, Hatted Man from Manhattan."
Thursday, May 08, 2014
Have you guys seen Dredd? It's an honest-to-blog good movie. The plot is basically that Bones from NuTrek teams up with Juno's friend to fight Queen Cersei and Avon Barksdale. First movie I've started and finished in one sitting in quite a while.
I kinda hate to recommend this, but fuck it. This is an hour-long mashup that is simultaneously hilarious (to me) while also being totally irritating and occasionally tortuous, and sometimes sort of amazing. I think it's some kind of commentary on pop culture? Especially '90s nostalgia? But I'm not sure? All I know is that I have an all new appreciation for "All Star".
I kinda hate to recommend this, but fuck it. This is an hour-long mashup that is simultaneously hilarious (to me) while also being totally irritating and occasionally tortuous, and sometimes sort of amazing. I think it's some kind of commentary on pop culture? Especially '90s nostalgia? But I'm not sure? All I know is that I have an all new appreciation for "All Star".
Monday, May 05, 2014
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rad dream
I had a rad Action Team co-starring dream this afternoon.
Me and Jael were taking a test in this "Learning Annex" type of board room with a bunch of other people. The rest of the gang, specifically Jawn and Elrick, (but vaguely everyone else) got the room and were waiting for us to play board games and rpgs. So there was all this pressure to hurry up and finish the test. Jael finished before me, and I was having an anxiety attack because high school-era Elrick (hat and pony-tail) and Jawn were sitting right behind me, with their games in a stack, waiting for me to finish.
I wish I remembered the test, because it was so convoluted and weird, but ALMOST doable. I was one of the last people taking the test, and I feared the teacher wasn't going to let the gang stay to play games, so I was even MORE anxious. Then it ended when I realized I was sleeping and didn't have to finish the stupid test. I woke up, SO RELIEVED.
Me and Jael were taking a test in this "Learning Annex" type of board room with a bunch of other people. The rest of the gang, specifically Jawn and Elrick, (but vaguely everyone else) got the room and were waiting for us to play board games and rpgs. So there was all this pressure to hurry up and finish the test. Jael finished before me, and I was having an anxiety attack because high school-era Elrick (hat and pony-tail) and Jawn were sitting right behind me, with their games in a stack, waiting for me to finish.
I wish I remembered the test, because it was so convoluted and weird, but ALMOST doable. I was one of the last people taking the test, and I feared the teacher wasn't going to let the gang stay to play games, so I was even MORE anxious. Then it ended when I realized I was sleeping and didn't have to finish the stupid test. I woke up, SO RELIEVED.
Sunday, May 04, 2014
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I too, am tenatively excited for Straw Wargs
Unrelated: Just had a run in Payday that is worthy of the blog. 1.2M cleared in net pay and over 500k in xp in a single run, lawls. (Firestarter after stealthing a jewelry store the mission previous). Guy on the team had a saw for max loot on the bank at the end. Crazy.
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