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Post by **Joose** » November 11th, 2009, 17:51

Perversly, I find the fact that we are playing three at the same time helpful, as an update in one reminds me to check the others. Also I seem to have almost savant like abilities when it comes to RPG's: My memory is crap for normal stuff, but I could list off a potted history of shadowrun, and know most of the main rules well enough to not have to look them up all the time, and can happily keep track of several campaigns at once

Doggers, if you fancy concentrating on just one SR campaign, and dont think you would be able to make it to skype sessions, how about we move the other SR campain to skype? If we try and organise it so skype-happy players are in one and non-skypers are in the other, then we would get the best of both worlds. I was reluctant to start shadowrun on skype originally because I hadnt played it for years and had forgotten all the rules and most of the setting (and all the rules I could remember had changed

), but now im more up to speed with it I would be happy to give it a go if there is interest.

As for SLA: I would quite like to go contract or cloak or something, but im happy to stick with the stuff we are doing now if everyone else wants that.

Post by **Dog Pants** » November 11th, 2009, 17:57

I can handle playing two SR campaigns, just, but I was wondering if it was partly responsible for things slowing down. I think I'm mistakenly interpreting it as people losing interest. Well, I was interpreting it as that, I think I might have been mistaken. Might be a good idea having one SR game on Skype if you guys want to play a Skype game. I don't run either campaign though so it's not my place to say, and I certainly don't want it to seem like I'm complaining about them. Slightly lost as I may be, I'm still enjoying the interactions.

Baliame · Post by **Baliame** » November 11th, 2009, 18:06

Dog Pants wrote:I don't just chuck her into the garden and bring her in when it rains.

Post by **Roman Totale** » November 11th, 2009, 21:05

I'm finding it increasingly difficult to keep abreast of the various campaigns. I can't read them during the day, and by the time I get home I just can't brain properly.

For me the advantage of Skype was that I always wrote everything down on a notepad. Now I find myself scrolling back through several pages of dialog to try and remember something.

With regards to SR, I've always found the rules to be a bastard to remember, so why I picked a magic caster is beyond me.

Additionally I have to pretend to vaguely normal all day at work - it's difficult to come home and be three other people as well.

Post by **HereComesPete** » November 12th, 2009, 12:27

Are you still living for work Roman? I've found since my move to the warrants team that I'm spending a lot longer thinking about work than I was before and before was already too much. But I'm getting used to it now and I'm leaving work in work a lot better than I did.

I use my train journey home to plan things and then fall asleep, which whilst making me wooly headed for a bit actually helps me cut away from work by the time I step foot through the front door.

Pants - I don't think it's interest waning, more that it's being drawn away by other things (DAO being a case in point) and that there's only so much attention to go round.

I'm not sure if skype would help much given everyones difficulty with the rules. The time that forums allow mean everyone has time to check, it's just a case of people needing to do the checking and make a post instead of just saying 'I'll leave it until tomorrow' and then forgetting. I do this and end up missing any more updates so it goes a few days without any input.

I also have the additional problem of the pc that doesn't like to work, if a power cut wipes it out then it's a bitch to get a post from it, I can't get it to go again despite the money I've spent. So I now have no easy way of posting once I get in from work.

I just read that back to myself, I apologise for the utter random, I'm spaced on codeine because I've got blinding jaw ache from the anti-mentals.

Post by **Roman Totale** » November 12th, 2009, 18:11

HereComesPete wrote:I've got blinding jaw ache from the anti-mentals.

Ditto!

Thought it was a wisdom tooth at first. My jaw muscles are now unnaturally strong and the cheeks of my mouth are wrecked because I'm always biting down on them. No codeine though

Work has just become increasingly bad. Last night on way to cinema I got serious road rage on two occasions, and I'm becoming increasingly mental at work. I actually welcome the day I have a screaming breakdown in the middle of the office - I feel it would be cathartic.

Post by **Dog Pants** » November 12th, 2009, 18:40

Do you look like Minnie Driver now? If you do I'm in Manchester at the end of the month, we should get together. Wear something low cut.

Post by **HereComesPete** » November 12th, 2009, 22:20

Roman Totale wrote:stuff

I find myself with clubbers jaw a lot at the moment, but I woke up a while ago to find I'd snacked on my tongue in the night, thankfully it doesn't happen often.

I suggest a doctors note before you pull a merkin office type and go on a kill spree. But if you do, remember to video it and make an utterly baffling preface for it where you blame pork eating jews and decadent japanese businessmen (or similar bullshit) it'll look great on the news.

Post by **Dog Pants** » November 12th, 2009, 22:30

HereComesPete wrote:I suggest a doctors note before you pull a merkin office type and go on a kill spree. But if you do, remember to video it and make an utterly baffling preface for it where you blame pork eating jews and decadent japanese businessmen (or similar bullshit) it'll look great on the news.

Don't do that. They'll find out you played a shooter once and blame videogames.

Post by **Roman Totale** » November 12th, 2009, 22:33

I'll blame MW2

Post by **HereComesPete** » November 12th, 2009, 22:34

They would anyway.

Keith Vaz was up in parliament a few days ago trying to get cod42 banned for being filled with guns and death. I'd much rather he tried because they were knobbers toward the pc gamers.

Post by **Dog Pants** » November 12th, 2009, 22:38

HereComesPete wrote:Keith Vaz was up in parliament a few days ago trying to get cod42 banned for being filled with guns and death.

Yeah but Keith Vaz is, as his Wiki page correctly stated for a while, a twat.

Post by **HereComesPete** » November 12th, 2009, 22:40

I'd forgotten that, they shouldn't have updated it, its entirely true.

Post by **Dog Pants** » November 12th, 2009, 22:46

They can also add corrupt, hypocrite, reactionist, and liar in that case.

Post by **Dog Pants** » November 14th, 2009, 16:06

I do most of my thinking in two places - the shower and the kitchen (while washing up). I just finished washing up and had a thought - there isn't a problem with too many campaigns or players, there's just not enough GMs. Running more than one forum game at a time is hard purely because of the amount of time you have to put in to writing material, otherwise I'd do something else myself. But I don't see why we couldn't have a couple more games going. There are a few people interested in playing something who aren't in a game, and the three games we do have could be considered oversubscribed. As usual I've got campaign ideas for half a dozen systems slopping around the bilge of my brain, and not having the time to put pen to paper (well, finger to keyboard) is frustrating. Playing something different might just give me that fix.

Anyone been thinking they want to give it a shot, but didn't want to cram any more games in here? I could write a GM guide on the Wiki if it would help.

Post by **Joose** » November 14th, 2009, 17:44

Dog Pants wrote: not enough GMs.

GMing takes waaay more effort than playing. I could probably happily keep track of a half dozen stories that im only playing in, but one at a time is plenty for GMing.

Post by **Grimmie** » November 14th, 2009, 17:52

Curious about it, but I struggle with the limited knowledge of the SLA and SR I have already. Don't know if I could actually GM one successfully.

Post by **Joose** » November 14th, 2009, 17:55

Grimmie wrote:Curious about it, but I struggle with the limited knowledge of the SLA and SR I have already. Don't know if I could actually GM one successfully.

The most important thing for a GM is knowing the setting. As long as you have a good grasp of the setting, you can always look up rules.

Post by **Dog Pants** » November 14th, 2009, 18:05

Joose wrote:
The most important thing for a GM is knowing the setting. As long as you have a good grasp of the setting, you can always look up rules.

This ^. Although I probably wouldn't recommend something already being played for reasons mentioned earlier. Being less familiar with a game's background than your players can cause frustration. Running something nobody has played before might not be a bad idea if you don't know any system too well - every time a GM starts a new system he has to learn it along with the the players, so it's not unusual. In my experience it's generally everyone, players and GM, working things out together, and the GM has carte blanch for interpretation of the setting.

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Where should SLA go?