Re: General OOC Chatter Thread

by **Lady Corrine Marsten** Wed Sep 09, 2015 9:46 pm

Yoren longshore wrote:http://img.4plebs.org/boards/tg/image/1387/26/1387267162934.jpg
Here is a picture I found. I enjoyed the fact that it was detailed, while still being enjoyable just to watch.

Very pretty.

by **Yoren longshore** Thu Sep 17, 2015 7:37 am

So... As the forum has stilled a bit I'd be interested in knowing;
How did ya'll first come into roleplaying games?

by **Ser Jorah Holt** Thu Sep 17, 2015 1:27 pm

my dad is a wargamer, and he bought my brother and I the TMNT rpg back in the Eighties. Never looked back since

by **Gwyneth Drakeson** Thu Sep 17, 2015 3:16 pm

I used to mess around with Car Wars and Battletech just because I was a sci fi fan, and loved customizing and creating cars and mechs and stuff. Car Wars later branched into more RPG content, as did Battletech with Mechwarrior stuff, with options for characters and so on, and I found I really liked making characters too.

From there I got into Megatraveller and Rifts...still not actually PLAYING them, mind...just building vast swaths of characters. An endless parade. Each with stories attached, some in groups, some not.

It wasn't until I was in college I actually found other people to PLAY with. Smile

Started out with GURPS, and when I moved out of that area after college I found people interested in playing online. Once I tapped into THAT vein, my portfolio of systems exploded quickly, as did the sheer volume of games I was involved in.

by **Theomore Tullison** Thu Sep 17, 2015 3:30 pm

Friends in upper secondary was playing it, and they hooked me good.

by **Lady Corrine Marsten** Thu Sep 17, 2015 3:42 pm

Joined the roleplaying society at my University 7 years ago. Then, found rpg.net and got into PbP.

by **Septon Arlyn** Thu Sep 17, 2015 3:48 pm

I started playing a form of larp with just me and my cousins. They lived across town though so I was not able to play with them much. But they allowed me to barrow there dnd books and so I spent a lot of time creating stories that features as many plot twists as my 12 yr old brain could imagine. Then I got older and did the theater bit. But it was not until I got to my twenties that I started playing a rpgs regularly. Started a soiaf campaign and was viewing the boards and found this pbp.

by **Baelon Drakeson** Thu Sep 17, 2015 5:05 pm

My brother and I, inspired by Tolkien and the other fantasy books we read voraciously, started coming up with stories in which fantastical versions of ourselves were the protagonists - we called it 'playing dungeons and dragons' because all we knew about dungeons and dragons were the ads we saw for it (I mostly remember ads for the SSI AD&
D computer games).

Then came HeroQuest, in which we were never satisfied with the pre-written adventures, so we made our own.Then I had my first real experience with AD&
D 2e in high school - a one-off game. College saw my first campaign, and a plethora of system diversification and dabbling... as life moved me from place to place I had less time and knew less gamers in person, so I stared playing PbP.

by **Lady Corrine Marsten** Thu Sep 17, 2015 5:23 pm

As an aside, the forum would, perhaps, be a bit more lively if folks who said they'd do stuff for AtMC would do the things.

by **Baelon Drakeson** Fri Sep 18, 2015 1:08 pm

Lady Corrine Marsten wrote:As an aside, the forum would, perhaps, be a bit more lively if folks who said they'd do stuff for AtMC would do the things.

I'm not sure who you think we're waiting on;
as far as I can tell we are waiting for people to step up for map creation, not waiting for someone to do a task they already volunteered for.

by **Lady Corrine Marsten** Fri Sep 18, 2015 3:46 pm

Baelon wrote:
Lady Corrine Marsten wrote:As an aside, the forum would, perhaps, be a bit more lively if folks who said they'd do stuff for AtMC would do the things.
I'm not sure who you think we're waiting on;
as far as I can tell we are waiting for people to step up for map creation, not waiting for someone to do a task they already volunteered for.

Someone was supposed to do that ages ago. Why is it even important? Can't we just roll for each unit against each clan unit and find out who wins? It all seems needlessly complicated.

by **Baelon Drakeson** Fri Sep 18, 2015 11:08 pm

Lady Corrine Marsten wrote:Someone was supposed to do that ages ago. Why is it even important? Can't we just roll for each unit against each clan unit and find out who wins? It all seems needlessly complicated.

It was talked about ages ago, but no one volunteered. Sure, we could do a dicefest roll off to determine the winner or even just toss a coin... but where's the fun in that? We could do the same for everything, but it would be kind of boring. Like trying to play chess by Just pairing arbitrary pieces and seeing which wins.

by **Lady Corrine Marsten** Fri Sep 18, 2015 11:13 pm

Well, then who is getting conscripted to make maps?

by **Daveth Coldbrook** Fri Sep 18, 2015 11:59 pm

I actually dipped in and out in my childhood. At one point I actually ran an adventure from a Fighting Fantasy book for a group of my friends, but they didn't enjoy it enough for it to be more than a 1-off thing. At another point, I played a couple of sessions while at an activity holiday. In one that I think was D&
D, I was killed by the remains of my own party when we realised we were doomed because I was cowardly;
in a modern military one, I had my head cut off by machine gun fire. Needless to say, after that, I was definitely interested in the hobby, but it wasn't until university and I joined the roleplaying society (with a Feng Shui game that had something like 9 players at its peak!) that I really got hooked.

The old Infinity Engine PC games almost certainly played their part, as well. Playing Baldur's Gate was an incredible experience for me at the time, and Planescape:Torment is probably still my favourite game.

by **Septon Arlyn** Sat Sep 19, 2015 6:11 pm

So Ser Benjen escaped... I see a lot of problems for Septon Arlyn in the future. At least he will not have the backing of his house anymore.

by **Gwyneth Drakeson** Sat Sep 19, 2015 6:37 pm

The open backing of his House. I'm sure they'll secret him all the help they feel they can get away with. Rolling Eyes

by **Septon Arlyn** Sat Sep 19, 2015 6:48 pm

True. But if they get caught I'm sure Lord Tully would LOVE to impose some fines

by **Ser Jorah Holt** Sat Sep 19, 2015 8:36 pm

Next time Ser Jorah will just have to kill him. I'm waiting for the 'I told you so' from Ser Theomore

by **Septon Arlyn** Sat Sep 19, 2015 9:26 pm

I hope that Septon Arlyn is still alive to hear those words from Ser Theomore to Ser Jorah.

by **Theomore Tullison** Sun Sep 20, 2015 4:37 am

Well, to be fair, Theo did not exactly anticipate Benjen escaping...or rather, anticipate anyone wanting to *help* him escape. And him taking the black works just as well as him being dead for his purposes. Dead at the hands of Lord Bracken would add a certain political touch to it, though.

I sorta want to have Theo/Raff with a finger in the escape pie, but I sadly cannot really think of any IC reason as to why either of them would even consider such a thing, though Raff might say some choice words about how easily the crows could be ambushed on account that they mostly worry about their recruits deciding to run for it that Hamish might overhear just because, he's Raff, and he'd like to see if Hamish would act on those words.

by **Yoren longshore** Sun Sep 20, 2015 6:05 am

Just a suggestion: if Benjen gets to the wall and starts contemplating. If he contemplates too much, he may suspect foul play. He may then see a clear Tullison appearance through the tournament. Even the chance of him telling this to his father is best avoided, so you aid his escape, so you can take him out;
)

by **Lady Corrine Marsten** Sun Sep 20, 2015 3:40 pm

He's escaped en route to the wall, so if he does any contemplating, it'll be elsewhere.

by **Theomore Tullison** Sun Sep 20, 2015 7:22 pm

Benjen is too daft for Theo to consider whatever might go through his mind as a threat. Plus, the septon and the Lucases amongst others made a good job at directing the rage their way.

by **Kevan Lyras** Thu Sep 24, 2015 10:47 am

Athelstan is back and deadlier than ever!

Will we get ab offseason story from you as well, maybe a tale on the consequences from the tourney after returning back home?

by **Yoren longshore** Thu Sep 24, 2015 11:05 am

That second destiny in axe fighter is lethal, and he managed well to kill people even before he got it :?

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