Quick and Dirty can be fun. Some of the best times I've had playing AD&D is when we would roll up "pop-corn" characters and just hit the dungeon. The rules where simple, 4d6 rolled in order keep what you had.
The most fun I had with a character was with a dwarf with a INT 9, WIS 7, and CHR 6, with a drinking problem. No thinking involved just ran straight in to combat swinging his axe. What made it fun was having to think like I'm a dumbass drunk dwarf.
One of the rememberable events was when the thief and the bard where arguing over who would check the chest and open it. All the players where taking sides and arguing over it, except me. The exchange between the DM and Myself went like this.
Me: My dwarf walks up the the chest.
DM: The dwarf is walking over to the chest.
All the players where ignoring me and the DM at this point.
Me: I inspect the chest.
DM: The dwarf is kicking the chest and shaking it.
Me: (the players were still ignoring us) I prepare to open the chest.
DM: The dwarf is rasing his axe over the chest.
At the same time.
player 1: What? (looking at the dm)
Me: I open the chest.
player: stop!
DM: to late! the dwarf slams his axe down on the chest shattering it into million pieces. setting off the trap... Let me see those saving throws please.
for the record we all survived but nothing int he chest did. it became common practice to hog tie the dwarf at that point.
I can sort understand what you are talking about here. I dated a girl who was a diabetic. She would get depressed because she would read about all these amazing cures that where supposed to be almost here but would never come. You know, we where supposed to have cured diabties 20 years ago.
I doubt there is any real to the conspericty theory about them keeping the cures for diabities in some hole some where, or cancer. But there is enough curcumstatual evidence out there to make you wonder.
Your brain compensates for flaws in your vision more than people think. People would be suprised how shitty their eyes really are and how much the brain makes up for it. I saw a show on the discovery channel. It illistrated how your vision, esp. behind your optic nerve, has holes in it. They demonstrated how much your brain just fills in that part by what it thinks should go there.
it was pretty amazing, and pretty scary. i had to drive the next day.
Actually he is not far off base but most of the time it's not the feds, it's the local 5'o that overreacts. There was a case where a local family took some pictures of dad playing with his 3 and 5 year old daughters. He was tickling them doing that blowing on the belly thing.
The pictures where processed and since the pictures contained nude children the local police were called. That afternoon the children were taken by child custody and the parents were arrested for child molestation and production of child pornography.
After a few months the case was dismissed because the judge saw it for exactly what it was. It took another year for the parents to get their children back. Bullshit about being accused of child molestation, being proven innocent of the said charges had no bearing on the case. It took a court order and threatened jail time from the same judge to get that done.
So it's not always the feds. Sometimes it's just some local prosecutor with a bug up his ass to ruin a family. Ask the Duke lacrosse players if you don't believe me.
I guess we all have our bitch's about it then. For me evil rangers, sword swinging wizards, and magic using dwarves just go against the nature of the game.
I think that wizards took the soul of the game for a fast buck. I may peek through the covers of the new books but I doubt that I will invest in them. The best times for me playing the game where version 1.0. I think I'll just go back to my happy place.
Excatally. And there is a very good chance that the only reason it was able to do that is because you where 15. I don't know how old you are today but I doubt that at my age I would be able to do that.
It's not over till the fat lady sings. She has sung yet but I hear her warming up in the wings. I think we can call this one at this point. Sony wins. Sad, because I swore that I would never buy another sony product again.
Oh well I guess I can always get a third party br player. Good thing about this is now we can concentrate on cracking all the br encryption and not be distracted by HD-DVD's. Or is HD-dvd no longer a problem?
So you mean they are going to fuck the game up even more? How about this, you scrap 3.0/5 and go back to 1st edtion? Then you work from there.
My friends and I had been playing AD&D for over 20 years. We started with chainmail. Went through basic, not the red and blue books, 1st editon and into 2nd. Frist edition was a mess. Inconsistan rules, typos, and shitty book construction but we had a fucking ball with it. 2nd edition was better, less rule problems and some needed rule changes.
3rd edition is crap. Most of the soul of the game is gone. The books look nice but it's not D&D. It's a bad imitation with D&D on the cover. Come on, magic using dwarves, evil rangers, and wizards carrying swords. That goes against the very core of the game.
Like good little players we bought 3rd edition and tried to play it. We ruled that it sucked so much and went back to 2nd edition. 3rd edition might have been a good game if it stood on its own but its not D&D.
I don't play anymore because of that crap and I know a lot of old time players who have stopped playing too. Wizards should go back to the roots of D&D. 3rd edition isn't D&D and neither will 4th.
How much of the damage that you did in 3.0 are you going to undo in 4.0? Are you going to fix the errors like wizards being able to use swords, magic using dwarves, and fixing the part where you left out the good alignment restrictions on rangers?
Don't pity me, pity yourself. You people just don't understand what the fuck is going on. We can't save africa. The africans have to do that themselves but they are not willing. You know why they are not willing? Because everytime there is a problem the West rushs in with food and supplies.
Do you know that in some african cultures there is no concept of the future? There are no words in their language for tomorrow. They live for the now. You give them well and tubing for irrigation. Let them grow food for one season, enough to feed them all. Come back a year later you will find they have sold off the pump and irrigation equipment. Why? Because they didn't need it anymore. You ask them why they didn't think to use it this season, by the way they are starving because they didn't save any food or seeds, and they will look at you like you are stupid.
Feed these people so they can breed and then there are more mouths to feed. So the game continues. We've been trying to change the conditions over there for 60 years and they just keep getting worse. Compare the africa today to the africa of the 1960s? When where the africans better off?
When is enough, enough? When they have breded beyond our ability feed them and ourselves? People like you are part of the problem. We have created a whole continent that is dependent on the good will of others. If that cycle doesn't stop.
The solution to Africa's problems are sort of complex, but they include more westerners who can go over there and keep their hands out of everybody else's pants. Economically and physically.
No, they are not. The most simple solution is to leave africa alone and let it tend to its own problems. They will ether get their shit straight or they will die.
More importantly why don't you ask me if I give a damn? I don't. Personally I think we should just wall up the whole damn place and let them kill each other. There maybe a few of them that are like that but for the most part everything south of the Sahara is a lost cause. The only thing that people seem to value is the gold and the diamonds there. Since I don't hold ether of those of any special value I see nothing in africa worth saving.
Then there is the animals, which I feel really bad for. Yes, for the most part I value the animal life in africa more than I do the people.
How is this for a plan? We wall the whole fucking place up for a 100 years. Nothing comes in or out. Then we let nature take its course. In a hundred years when they have killed each other, starved, or died off because of aids or some other preventable illness, we reintroduce the animals. Then we declare the whole god damn continent an animal preserve.
Wrong! It does't need to be spent on food and water. It needs to be spent on seeds and clean water supplies. Sending food only compounds the problem. The people need to be taught how to feed themselves, not there is a hand out for every problem. And that is what this is. A fat ass hand out.
You must give these people a laptop hand out, teach them how to build thier own laptops. Teach them that after you teach them not to shit in their own water supply. That AIDS isn't spread by evil spirits and raping a little girl doesn't get rid of that evil spirit. Teach them to relay on themselves instead of everyone else.
There are people in africa, ones with brains, that are saying just that.
Of course also for just walling up the whole god damn place and letting them ether work thier own problems out. That or letting them starve and kill each other. But, fuck, what do I know?
Yeah, you'll get attacked. I get labeled a troll everytime I suggest that this money for this thing could put to better uses. Such as seeds and clean water supplies. Teaching the africans how to use modern farming equipment and basic sanitary behavior.
There are to many dumb asses mod points out there.
No he has a damn good point that most fuckers are not willing to listen too. This is a feel good project that does nothing. The money spent on this BS could be put to much better use than buying a craptop that has no support and is for all practially useless. That 150 bucks for this shittop could pay for a clean water supply for an area. Seeds and fertilizer for a village to feed it for 2 years.
For what you pay for one of these... toys... could be put to much better uses.
Yeah, in my prevous posts I'm against almost all aid to africa but that doesn't change the fact that this money if its going to africa could be put to much better uses.
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Quick and Dirty can be fun. Some of the best times I've had playing AD&D is when we would roll up "pop-corn" characters and just hit the dungeon. The rules where simple, 4d6 rolled in order keep what you had.
The most fun I had with a character was with a dwarf with a INT 9, WIS 7, and CHR 6, with a drinking problem. No thinking involved just ran straight in to combat swinging his axe. What made it fun was having to think like I'm a dumbass drunk dwarf.
One of the rememberable events was when the thief and the bard where arguing over who would check the chest and open it. All the players where taking sides and arguing over it, except me. The exchange between the DM and Myself went like this.
Me: My dwarf walks up the the chest.
DM: The dwarf is walking over to the chest.
All the players where ignoring me and the DM at this point.
Me: I inspect the chest.
DM: The dwarf is kicking the chest and shaking it.
Me: (the players were still ignoring us) I prepare to open the chest.
DM: The dwarf is rasing his axe over the chest.
At the same time.
player 1: What? (looking at the dm)
Me: I open the chest.
player: stop!
DM: to late! the dwarf slams his axe down on the chest shattering it into million pieces. setting off the trap... Let me see those saving throws please.
for the record we all survived but nothing int he chest did. it became common practice to hog tie the dwarf at that point.
If the african cared about their kids they would stop making more till they could feed the ones they have.
I can sort understand what you are talking about here. I dated a girl who was a diabetic. She would get depressed because she would read about all these amazing cures that where supposed to be almost here but would never come. You know, we where supposed to have cured diabties 20 years ago.
I doubt there is any real to the conspericty theory about them keeping the cures for diabities in some hole some where, or cancer. But there is enough curcumstatual evidence out there to make you wonder.
Your brain compensates for flaws in your vision more than people think. People would be suprised how shitty their eyes really are and how much the brain makes up for it. I saw a show on the discovery channel. It illistrated how your vision, esp. behind your optic nerve, has holes in it. They demonstrated how much your brain just fills in that part by what it thinks should go there.
it was pretty amazing, and pretty scary. i had to drive the next day.
Actually he is not far off base but most of the time it's not the feds, it's the local 5'o that overreacts. There was a case where a local family took some pictures of dad playing with his 3 and 5 year old daughters. He was tickling them doing that blowing on the belly thing.
The pictures where processed and since the pictures contained nude children the local police were called. That afternoon the children were taken by child custody and the parents were arrested for child molestation and production of child pornography.
After a few months the case was dismissed because the judge saw it for exactly what it was. It took another year for the parents to get their children back. Bullshit about being accused of child molestation, being proven innocent of the said charges had no bearing on the case. It took a court order and threatened jail time from the same judge to get that done.
So it's not always the feds. Sometimes it's just some local prosecutor with a bug up his ass to ruin a family. Ask the Duke lacrosse players if you don't believe me.
I guess we all have our bitch's about it then. For me evil rangers, sword swinging wizards, and magic using dwarves just go against the nature of the game.
I think that wizards took the soul of the game for a fast buck. I may peek through the covers of the new books but I doubt that I will invest in them. The best times for me playing the game where version 1.0. I think I'll just go back to my happy place.
Excatally. And there is a very good chance that the only reason it was able to do that is because you where 15. I don't know how old you are today but I doubt that at my age I would be able to do that.
What? Someone agrees with me?
It's not over till the fat lady sings. She has sung yet but I hear her warming up in the wings. I think we can call this one at this point. Sony wins. Sad, because I swore that I would never buy another sony product again.
Oh well I guess I can always get a third party br player. Good thing about this is now we can concentrate on cracking all the br encryption and not be distracted by HD-DVD's. Or is HD-dvd no longer a problem?
I think I'll just stfu and sit over here an lick my wounds.
Ahh yeah.. right... I got nothing.
Aren't you dead?
Okay guys your supposed to be agreeing with me. Not beating my bullshit with logic and reason.
Common guys, lets get with the program.
Because that was the way it was written in 1st and 2nd edition by Gary himself. Anything else is Bullshit.
Yeah, lame answer but its supposed to be funny.
So you mean they are going to fuck the game up even more? How about this, you scrap 3.0/5 and go back to 1st edtion? Then you work from there.
My friends and I had been playing AD&D for over 20 years. We started with chainmail. Went through basic, not the red and blue books, 1st editon and into 2nd. Frist edition was a mess. Inconsistan rules, typos, and shitty book construction but we had a fucking ball with it. 2nd edition was better, less rule problems and some needed rule changes.
3rd edition is crap. Most of the soul of the game is gone. The books look nice but it's not D&D. It's a bad imitation with D&D on the cover. Come on, magic using dwarves, evil rangers, and wizards carrying swords. That goes against the very core of the game.
Like good little players we bought 3rd edition and tried to play it. We ruled that it sucked so much and went back to 2nd edition. 3rd edition might have been a good game if it stood on its own but its not D&D.
I don't play anymore because of that crap and I know a lot of old time players who have stopped playing too. Wizards should go back to the roots of D&D. 3rd edition isn't D&D and neither will 4th.
How much of the damage that you did in 3.0 are you going to undo in 4.0? Are you going to fix the errors like wizards being able to use swords, magic using dwarves, and fixing the part where you left out the good alignment restrictions on rangers?
Don't pity me, pity yourself. You people just don't understand what the fuck is going on. We can't save africa. The africans have to do that themselves but they are not willing. You know why they are not willing? Because everytime there is a problem the West rushs in with food and supplies.
Do you know that in some african cultures there is no concept of the future? There are no words in their language for tomorrow. They live for the now. You give them well and tubing for irrigation. Let them grow food for one season, enough to feed them all. Come back a year later you will find they have sold off the pump and irrigation equipment. Why? Because they didn't need it anymore. You ask them why they didn't think to use it this season, by the way they are starving because they didn't save any food or seeds, and they will look at you like you are stupid.
Feed these people so they can breed and then there are more mouths to feed. So the game continues. We've been trying to change the conditions over there for 60 years and they just keep getting worse. Compare the africa today to the africa of the 1960s? When where the africans better off?
When is enough, enough? When they have breded beyond our ability feed them and ourselves? People like you are part of the problem. We have created a whole continent that is dependent on the good will of others. If that cycle doesn't stop.
Oh fuck it.
No, they are not. The most simple solution is to leave africa alone and let it tend to its own problems. They will ether get their shit straight or they will die.
Simple.
More importantly why don't you ask me if I give a damn? I don't. Personally I think we should just wall up the whole damn place and let them kill each other. There maybe a few of them that are like that but for the most part everything south of the Sahara is a lost cause. The only thing that people seem to value is the gold and the diamonds there. Since I don't hold ether of those of any special value I see nothing in africa worth saving.
Then there is the animals, which I feel really bad for. Yes, for the most part I value the animal life in africa more than I do the people.
How is this for a plan? We wall the whole fucking place up for a 100 years. Nothing comes in or out. Then we let nature take its course. In a hundred years when they have killed each other, starved, or died off because of aids or some other preventable illness, we reintroduce the animals. Then we declare the whole god damn continent an animal preserve.
Or you could just get called a cocksucker by some jackass who is to afraid to log in.
Sir, you handled that with style and grace. I salute you. or something like that.
Wrong! It does't need to be spent on food and water. It needs to be spent on seeds and clean water supplies. Sending food only compounds the problem. The people need to be taught how to feed themselves, not there is a hand out for every problem. And that is what this is. A fat ass hand out.
You must give these people a laptop hand out, teach them how to build thier own laptops. Teach them that after you teach them not to shit in their own water supply. That AIDS isn't spread by evil spirits and raping a little girl doesn't get rid of that evil spirit. Teach them to relay on themselves instead of everyone else.
There are people in africa, ones with brains, that are saying just that.
Of course also for just walling up the whole god damn place and letting them ether work thier own problems out. That or letting them starve and kill each other. But, fuck, what do I know?
I've been reading over this post and it excapes me. What the Fuck does this have to do with OLPC? Please explain. I really want to know.
Yeah, you'll get attacked. I get labeled a troll everytime I suggest that this money for this thing could put to better uses. Such as seeds and clean water supplies. Teaching the africans how to use modern farming equipment and basic sanitary behavior.
There are to many dumb asses mod points out there.
Someone mod this fucker up because if any one just summed up OLPC he just did.
Why don't you just skip the blackjack?
No he has a damn good point that most fuckers are not willing to listen too. This is a feel good project that does nothing. The money spent on this BS could be put to much better use than buying a craptop that has no support and is for all practially useless. That 150 bucks for this shittop could pay for a clean water supply for an area. Seeds and fertilizer for a village to feed it for 2 years.
For what you pay for one of these ... toys ... could be put to much better uses.
Yeah, in my prevous posts I'm against almost all aid to africa but that doesn't change the fact that this money if its going to africa could be put to much better uses.