[Roleplaying] Tonight's game [Rowan Tree and Red Thread]

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Tonight's game included wingless griffins with the temperaments of cats, a library with a secret door, headless badger spirits intent on mischief, a caldera lined with ice, tobogganning down a sheet of said ice on the rib cage of a steer, mighty magics sufficient to turn an entire caldera of ice into a lake - incidentally freeing the trapped heart of a primal dragon entombed beneath the ice - and for one character at least, being bent over a chamomille bower and rogered by the king.

In short, a good night.

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Kewl! Whatcha playin'? 4e?

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Risus at least theoretically. It seems to have evolved (devolved?) into roll a bunch of dice and see, with the occasional Everway Fortune Deck card for the GM to focus his mind.

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Ah! That kind of thing would not work in my groups; I'm glad they work for you. After only 2 and a half decades of playing, I've come to the conclusion that my groups really do need traditional simulationy rolegames to have fun. Almost every single attempt we've made to play one of the new style of narrative indy games has been so-so or fishtailing all the way down to unmitigated disaster (probably the one shiny exception was HeroQuest, for a brief time). From now, I think we'll just stick to our HERO or BRP or Traveller or (now) 4e, thenksveddymuch. Everyone seems happier that way... 8/

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Hah! My group is still a bit split-brained on indie-style games. I think we get the most mileage out of high-trust games with enough crunch to amuse the mechanics geeks in group (which includes me) but that don't require a degree to master.

The problem's compounded by my urge to change systems every few months, which runs contrary to the groups general interest in longer-term campaigns with plenty of character development.

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you had fun with out me???????

whimper!!

:-(

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Well we did manage to rescue you and get ourselves in serious shit while doing it. Although I bet you'd be sorry to miss the improvised sledge made out of a steers ribcage?

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glad to be rescued at least... look forward to finding out why I needed to be rescued!

was the ribcage clean at least?

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Cleaned and dressed and summoned from the palace larder.

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We can have fun with you as soon as you're back in the country - and well rested.

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gulp!

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Ok, that last bit needs to be expanded on for those of us who weren't there:)

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One of the PCs is a manifestation of the flow of magic through the chain of worlds, and takes on the form of a sort of local average human when he/she/it manifests in that world. Pete's character this time turned up in the quasi-Arthurian world of the week as a maiden in need of rescuing. She was duly rescued, presented to the king and rogered over a bed of chamomile. It happens.

Hey, I never said the king was Arthur himself.

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I second the good doctor O.o

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See above.

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I love evenings like that! I hope the person in the last bit doesn't get hayfever.....

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I rather liked the enticing possibility that, if pushed, Bob could actually kill the King by keeping him at it long enough. I'm sure fast-learner Bob could keep him, er, occupied long enough.

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You know, that might just work.

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Cool!

::B::

P.S. Were these the same interesting looking folks depicted on your recent Flickr posting"

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Sounds like an excellent night!

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