I love how this thread has outpaced all of the console threads, music threads and even the 40k/WHFB threads in oDaM.
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Man, that's fucking awesome. I really hope it gets more people participating in the oDaM threads, too, that place can use an injection of new interest. Nothing against it at all, of course, but more voices are always welcome in a forum like that.
Also, man talking about all this actually has me looking at a new place to live. I just found a two bedroom place with a garage near my current house that might actually be a much better fit than the tiny place we have now. Oh man that would be fucking sweet.
Here's the setup we had at out old house. Now we have an even bigger pool table, except I've been burned out on playing and now the guys I used to play with play with some douchebags.
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UtsanomikoBros before DoesRollin' in the thlayRegistered Userregular
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Better picture. Model will need some touching up, and blood and the axe. I'm going back to work on my Thousand Sons next and maybe fantasy Bretonnains afterward.
done half my mordheim writeup, think i might be going into too much detail but i will reveiw it tomorrow when i have some piccys to go with it. WH40K is far more popular than WHFB but i have to say i prefer WHFB, it seems alot more gritter, plus there are no space marines!
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Man whenever we used to play D&D we would all be like lounged across the floor of some room, not sitting around a table. Occasionally the GM would be sitting in a chair if the computer at that house was a desktop, but more often I had my laptop with me so either I'd be running the game lounged across a futon or whoever it was that was running it would borrow my laptop from me.
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QuetziHere we may reign secure, and in my choice,To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User, Moderatormod
Man whenever we used to play D&D we would all be like lounged across the floor of some room, not sitting around a table. Occasionally the GM would be sitting in a chair if the computer at that house was a desktop, but more often I had my laptop with me so either I'd be running the game lounged across a futon or whoever it was that was running it would borrow my laptop from me.
I've done both. My wednesday weekly campaign is in this one dude's dining room, so we do actually play around a large table, at which I sit at the end with my DM screen and stuff.
My sunday weekly campaign we sometimes play at the same place (the same dude plays in both) but sometimes we can't play at his place, so we'll lounge around someone else's living room.
I have found in my experience playing at a dining room table is an optimum environment.
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RankenphilePassersby were amazedby the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, ModeratorMod Emeritus
The game will be a bit different from the first iteration
I've done some tabletop playtests with my buds, using the tiles and models from the Zombies!!! board game and printed out cards and stuff
I've found that the game is better with smaller groups, like a single party of 4-6 dudes per map, rather than the small platoon I deployed in the first game.
Also, that buildings need to be smaller and that searching them needs a mechanical overhaul.
And the classes need a complete re-do. Some are absolute shit in the long-term (like gunslinger) and some are so much more powerful than others they are way unbalanced (mechanic)
I would consider playing any of these games if I could play with some of you guys and/or not play with insufferable dorks.
This is why I haven't played DnD in almost half a year.
And now that I'm out in the real world I have more important shit to do with my weekends than spend 4-5 hours arguing about where exactly that orc was last turn and why didn't I get my attacks of opportunity and how come Kirk got that +2 dagger it's not fair.
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RankenphilePassersby were amazedby the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, ModeratorMod Emeritus
Man whenever we used to play D&D we would all be like lounged across the floor of some room, not sitting around a table. Occasionally the GM would be sitting in a chair if the computer at that house was a desktop, but more often I had my laptop with me so either I'd be running the game lounged across a futon or whoever it was that was running it would borrow my laptop from me.
I've done both. My wednesday weekly campaign is in this one dude's dining room, so we do actually play around a large table, at which I sit at the end with my DM screen and stuff.
My sunday weekly campaign we sometimes play at the same place (the same dude plays in both) but sometimes we can't play at his place, so we'll lounge around someone else's living room.
I have found in my experience playing at a dining room table is an optimum environment.
The table I actually want to build has a projector shining up to a semi-opaque grid sheet that serves as the tabletop, hooked into a computer and cloning one of two LCD monitors built into the DM's area. This lets me have a full map on one monitor in photoshop with a layer masking it with a "fog of war" that I can slowly erase, revealing more and more of the map as it is discovered. The table itself is built into a hexagonal or octagonal shape (not entirely decided on which yet) that has a flat area for an open book, a series of clips on the vertical area for character sheets, a small dice rolling pool and a small shelf built into each area dividing each station and allowing storage for extra books. Additionally, it has a series of pipes that connect each station to the DM's station that I can roll a ball through with a note in it to give info to an individual player without everyone else knowing about it.
The whole system will also be incorporated into a sound system with a small mixing board with mood music running the entire time. The background track would have basic ambient sound effects - slow, mysterious music with drips and various echoed noises to provide background, but with four tracks or so of different other moods I could raise or lower - combat music, magical sound effects, things of that nature.
Of course, that's all in a best-case-scenario-I-win-the-lottery sort of situation, but a man can dream, can't he?
The whole Monitors cloned thing is totally what I had
A couple of the guys I played with worked at a glass shop, so they cut a pane of glass large enough to cover our battlemat so we could draw all over it without worrying about the markers staining it if we left them on there for too long.
Man whenever we used to play D&D we would all be like lounged across the floor of some room, not sitting around a table. Occasionally the GM would be sitting in a chair if the computer at that house was a desktop, but more often I had my laptop with me so either I'd be running the game lounged across a futon or whoever it was that was running it would borrow my laptop from me.
I've done both. My wednesday weekly campaign is in this one dude's dining room, so we do actually play around a large table, at which I sit at the end with my DM screen and stuff.
My sunday weekly campaign we sometimes play at the same place (the same dude plays in both) but sometimes we can't play at his place, so we'll lounge around someone else's living room.
I have found in my experience playing at a dining room table is an optimum environment.
The table I actually want to build has a projector shining up to a semi-opaque grid sheet that serves as the tabletop, hooked into a computer and cloning one of two LCD monitors built into the DM's area. This lets me have a full map on one monitor in photoshop with a layer masking it with a "fog of war" that I can slowly erase, revealing more and more of the map as it is discovered. The table itself is built into a hexagonal or octagonal shape (not entirely decided on which yet) that has a flat area for an open book, a series of clips on the vertical area for character sheets, a small dice rolling pool and a small shelf built into each area dividing each station and allowing storage for extra books. Additionally, it has a series of pipes that connect each station to the DM's station that I can roll a ball through with a note in it to give info to an individual player without everyone else knowing about it.
The whole system will also be incorporated into a sound system with a small mixing board with mood music running the entire time. The background track would have basic ambient sound effects - slow, mysterious music with drips and various echoed noises to provide background, but with four tracks or so of different other moods I could raise or lower - combat music, magical sound effects, things of that nature.
Of course, that's all in a best-case-scenario-I-win-the-lottery sort of situation, but a man can dream, can't he?
I actually did something similar to this.
When we used to play in my basement, my brother's computer actually faced away from most of the room.
So I'd be sitting at the computer desk, and the players would be dispersed around the room. I had two monitors hooked up to my brother's comp, one displayed my version of the map and another displayed the player's, with a photoshop layer of black I'd erase as they explored the dungeon. It was a good system, but it was cumbersome.
When we changed venues it was no longer practical.
Rank, if I win the mega-millions tonight, I will fund this ultimate gaming setup. You see, I have good odds for this because when the guy at the gas station gave me my change, I gave him back the extra $5 he forked over by accident. Karma, dude.
Everybody cross your fingers because my karma is in the positive right now.
I have a bunch of gaming projects on the go right now.
The weekly sunday game takes place in my own homebrew setting, which is always expanding and becoming more detailed as the players explore it.
I'm working on several projects for upcoming campaigns including:
Marvel Miami - a version of the Marvel Universe in which Avengers Disassembled, House of M, and Civil War didn't occur, and set in Miami, Florida
Dark Sails - A high-seas d20 Past adventure campaign set in the Carribbean in 1667
My weekly Greyhawk campaign, which is going on it's first year anniversary in a month.
Revising Dead Man's Road for tabletop and online play.
Working on a HL2 mod version of Dead Man's Road which will be online and multiplayer.
I got the Serenity RPG recently, been thinking about running that when my Greyhawk campaign ends.
:O
Yeah. I'm undecided to do one that's strictly slow zombies only, ala World War Z, or doing one that is more of a HL2 universe RPG, and putting the party through weekly scenarios and stuff.
Right now I'm in the lengthy process of learning LUA scripting n shit.
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RankenphilePassersby were amazedby the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, ModeratorMod Emeritus
Rank, if I win the mega-millions tonight, I will fund this ultimate gaming setup. You see, I have good odds for this because when the guy at the gas station gave me my change, I gave him back the extra $5 he forked over by accident. Karma, dude.
Everybody cross your fingers because my karma is in the positive right now.
I have a bunch of gaming projects on the go right now.
The weekly sunday game takes place in my own homebrew setting, which is always expanding and becoming more detailed as the players explore it.
I'm working on several projects for upcoming campaigns including:
Marvel Miami - a version of the Marvel Universe in which Avengers Disassembled, House of M, and Civil War didn't occur, and set in Miami, Florida
Dark Sails - A high-seas d20 Past adventure campaign set in the Carribbean in 1667
My weekly Greyhawk campaign, which is going on it's first year anniversary in a month.
Revising Dead Man's Road for tabletop and online play.
Working on a HL2 mod version of Dead Man's Road which will be online and multiplayer.
I got the Serenity RPG recently, been thinking about running that when my Greyhawk campaign ends.
:O
Yeah. I'm undecided to do one that's strictly slow zombies only, ala World War Z, or doing one that is more of a HL2 universe RPG, and putting the party through weekly scenarios and stuff.
Right now I'm in the lengthy process of learning LUA scripting n shit.
I am signing up for it right now because either way that would be fucking awesome
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RankenphilePassersby were amazedby the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, ModeratorMod Emeritus
I havn't played D&D since September and i'm starting to miss it. My GM was going to start a new Hunter campaign, but I havn't heard anything from him about it lately.
And I havn't played a game of Battletech in almost as long. We used to play that every Saturday night for a year almost and then people started getting burned out. I've got probably a Cluster of Clan mechs, vehicles and infantry, and probably 2 Battalions worth of Inner Sphere mechs, vehicles and infantry, plus Aerotech stuff for both sides.
I like the expanded miniatures rules FANPRO came out with a few years ago that made large scale engagements move more faster. It eliminates critical hits, internal structure, missile hits are now an automatic 7 on the dice roll, and other rules that slow down the game tremendously.
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No we pretty much only talk about Warhammer 40k, despite all appearances that we have other things to talk about.
Here's the setup we had at out old house. Now we have an even bigger pool table, except I've been burned out on playing and now the guys I used to play with play with some douchebags.
Well that sucks because Zombies!!! and it's expansions are a very awesome board game.
I am working on v2 of Dead Man's Road.
Might be ready in a couple weeks.
Oh I agree. I love the game.
Rad.
I've done both. My wednesday weekly campaign is in this one dude's dining room, so we do actually play around a large table, at which I sit at the end with my DM screen and stuff.
My sunday weekly campaign we sometimes play at the same place (the same dude plays in both) but sometimes we can't play at his place, so we'll lounge around someone else's living room.
I have found in my experience playing at a dining room table is an optimum environment.
I am signing up right fucking now, you hear me?
Also I tend to prefer the at a table style because when everybody is lounging it tends to lead to people being inattentive.
I've done some tabletop playtests with my buds, using the tiles and models from the Zombies!!! board game and printed out cards and stuff
I've found that the game is better with smaller groups, like a single party of 4-6 dudes per map, rather than the small platoon I deployed in the first game.
Also, that buildings need to be smaller and that searching them needs a mechanical overhaul.
And the classes need a complete re-do. Some are absolute shit in the long-term (like gunslinger) and some are so much more powerful than others they are way unbalanced (mechanic)
So I'm re-assessing all that.
I think I'd rather see more Thousand Sons, though.
And yeah, I'm in on run two of DMR of course.
This is why I haven't played DnD in almost half a year.
And now that I'm out in the real world I have more important shit to do with my weekends than spend 4-5 hours arguing about where exactly that orc was last turn and why didn't I get my attacks of opportunity and how come Kirk got that +2 dagger it's not fair.
The table I actually want to build has a projector shining up to a semi-opaque grid sheet that serves as the tabletop, hooked into a computer and cloning one of two LCD monitors built into the DM's area. This lets me have a full map on one monitor in photoshop with a layer masking it with a "fog of war" that I can slowly erase, revealing more and more of the map as it is discovered. The table itself is built into a hexagonal or octagonal shape (not entirely decided on which yet) that has a flat area for an open book, a series of clips on the vertical area for character sheets, a small dice rolling pool and a small shelf built into each area dividing each station and allowing storage for extra books. Additionally, it has a series of pipes that connect each station to the DM's station that I can roll a ball through with a note in it to give info to an individual player without everyone else knowing about it.
The whole system will also be incorporated into a sound system with a small mixing board with mood music running the entire time. The background track would have basic ambient sound effects - slow, mysterious music with drips and various echoed noises to provide background, but with four tracks or so of different other moods I could raise or lower - combat music, magical sound effects, things of that nature.
Of course, that's all in a best-case-scenario-I-win-the-lottery sort of situation, but a man can dream, can't he?
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The whole Monitors cloned thing is totally what I had
A couple of the guys I played with worked at a glass shop, so they cut a pane of glass large enough to cover our battlemat so we could draw all over it without worrying about the markers staining it if we left them on there for too long.
I actually did something similar to this.
When we used to play in my basement, my brother's computer actually faced away from most of the room.
So I'd be sitting at the computer desk, and the players would be dispersed around the room. I had two monitors hooked up to my brother's comp, one displayed my version of the map and another displayed the player's, with a photoshop layer of black I'd erase as they explored the dungeon. It was a good system, but it was cumbersome.
When we changed venues it was no longer practical.
Yesssssssssssssssssssssssssss
also
yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
The weekly sunday game takes place in my own homebrew setting, which is always expanding and becoming more detailed as the players explore it.
I'm working on several projects for upcoming campaigns including:
Marvel Miami - a version of the Marvel Universe in which Avengers Disassembled, House of M, and Civil War didn't occur, and set in Miami, Florida
Dark Sails - A high-seas d20 Past adventure campaign set in the Carribbean in 1667
My weekly Greyhawk campaign, which is going on it's first year anniversary in a month.
Revising Dead Man's Road for tabletop and online play.
Working on a HL2 mod version of Dead Man's Road which will be online and multiplayer.
I got the Serenity RPG recently, been thinking about running that when my Greyhawk campaign ends.
:O
Everybody cross your fingers because my karma is in the positive right now.
CROSS THEM, GODDAMMIT!
Yeah. I'm undecided to do one that's strictly slow zombies only, ala World War Z, or doing one that is more of a HL2 universe RPG, and putting the party through weekly scenarios and stuff.
Right now I'm in the lengthy process of learning LUA scripting n shit.
crossed so hard
also
and
I'd like to know what exactly you plan to do about this rock solid boner you've given me with these pictures.
I am signing up for it right now because either way that would be fucking awesome
c'mere big guy
:winky:
Yes
Sort of like playing NWN online with a DM.
Plus, the HL2 mapping community is motherfucking awesome
I'm not even bothering to learn Hammer. I won't need to make maps. I can take what the community regularely churns out and adapt it to my purposes.
And I havn't played a game of Battletech in almost as long. We used to play that every Saturday night for a year almost and then people started getting burned out. I've got probably a Cluster of Clan mechs, vehicles and infantry, and probably 2 Battalions worth of Inner Sphere mechs, vehicles and infantry, plus Aerotech stuff for both sides.
I like the expanded miniatures rules FANPRO came out with a few years ago that made large scale engagements move more faster. It eliminates critical hits, internal structure, missile hits are now an automatic 7 on the dice roll, and other rules that slow down the game tremendously.
MENDOZAAAAAAAAAAA!
God my first encounter is going to be so cool though.