tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2465863144787683153.post114175360413726629..comments2024-03-27T19:02:58.368-04:00Comments on BARKING ALIEN: Not In A House. Not With A Mouse.Adam Dicksteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840144928096089178noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2465863144787683153.post-88494140896919760792012-11-16T13:26:48.173-05:002012-11-16T13:26:48.173-05:00But the beauty of Disintegrate is that it doesn...But the beauty of Disintegrate is that it doesn't _need_ to be pointed at your head! Even your foot will do just fine! <br /><br />: )<br /><br />I deal with this as well. From 2000-2009 my main group was 6-9 people that had widely varying tastes in gaming with D&D being the only common like among them. One female player in particular required special handling to be talked into anything that was not D&D. I pulled off 6 months of Shadowrun and about 2 months of Rifts, mostly because there was enough fantasy to keep her interested, but then it waned and we went right back to D&D. <br /><br />Now I like D&D just fine but I like a lot of other things too. Most of the other players trusted me to run something we would all like, but they could only rarely agree on what that should be. So we ended up playing other stuff on a different night with a smaller subset of that group - we managed sustained campaigns of Star Wars, Traveller, Twilight 2000, Gamma World, Shadowrun and others with that and had a blast.<br /><br />So maybe part of the answer is to work on a second group? Blacksteelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16289298640828309072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2465863144787683153.post-44119358396795573972012-11-16T09:12:10.004-05:002012-11-16T09:12:10.004-05:00I certainly have done this but again, because of t...I certainly have done this but again, because of the nature of my current group, it's not that easy to pull off.<br /><br />Usually they default to the same two or three things since they don't all like the same things.<br />It's like this...<br /><br />Dave is going to suggest A, B and G<br />Marcus is going to suggest A, G and L<br />Ray is going to suggest A, G and P.<br />Lee is going to suggest F, H and X. But he's OK with G if everyone else is.<br /><br />Dave isn't so into H and X and neither am I.<br />Marcus isn't into B.<br />Ray doesn't like B, L, P or H.<br /><br />So in the end it's A or G. Again. Given the option to try again, we end up with A and G, the same old favorites.<br /><br />Sigh.<br /><br />This would not happen with my old NJ group or even my old NY groups from HS to about 15 years ago. Those guys and gals would be like, "Well we all like at least a dozen of these letter choices each so there's bound to be more than two match ups."Adam Dicksteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04840144928096089178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2465863144787683153.post-46061055185406137222012-11-16T09:00:23.334-05:002012-11-16T09:00:23.334-05:00Indeed.
And What?!? ;)Indeed.<br /><br />And What?!? ;)Adam Dicksteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04840144928096089178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2465863144787683153.post-61412602623119354722012-11-16T08:59:54.482-05:002012-11-16T08:59:54.482-05:00I know how that goes my friend.
The game I am ask...I know how that goes my friend.<br /><br />The game I am asked to run more than any other but more players than I can count is my D&D homebrew world of Aerth.<br /><br />Have you read my blog ever? Do you know my opinion on D&D and D&D style fantasy? Yeah.<br /><br />Makes me want to put a Phaser to my head and press disintergrate.Adam Dicksteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04840144928096089178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2465863144787683153.post-66107756545461713792012-11-16T06:12:46.555-05:002012-11-16T06:12:46.555-05:00This kind of situation is what led me to one of my...This kind of situation is what led me to one of my funnest games ever. Fed up with trying to interest my players with a variety of games, I put the emphasis on them. I said "With this here Savage Worlds ruleset, i'm confident I can pretty much run an rpg game in any fictional world. You tell me the setting and i'll deliver a one or two session game. They went away and agonised about it for ages and then came back to me that they anted to run a Thunderbirds game. I went off and wrote up character stats and a short adventure in a week or so and then ran it. The guys had a great time with it because they'd pitched the idea. I had fun coming up with the stats for it so it was win-win. As an exercise, i'd recommend it to any GM. steveraceukhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12165254861436321648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2465863144787683153.post-18568821511977433932012-11-16T02:01:18.963-05:002012-11-16T02:01:18.963-05:00I'm currently struggling with being a typecast...I'm currently struggling with being a typecasted GM. I've been running a "zombie apocalypse" game on and off for over a year. <br />Whenever our other GM needs a break they all beg me to continue my Z game. I really want to run something else, but this game is insanely popular. Im kind of stuck for now. <br /><br />What I really want to run is a DC Adventures game. Pre Crisis on Infinite Earths, world hopping game. The enthusiasm begins and ends with me. )-:Teresahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01213481870704579199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2465863144787683153.post-58014845598291568742012-11-16T01:41:20.835-05:002012-11-16T01:41:20.835-05:00Quite diverse gaming group you have there.
BTW: I...Quite diverse gaming group you have there.<br /><br />BTW: I don't like Star Wars too.<br /><br />Regards<br /><br />KaiKai S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/03839585852861939546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2465863144787683153.post-23246319792037898102012-11-15T22:25:21.800-05:002012-11-15T22:25:21.800-05:00UPDATE:
It turns out that the whole of this post ...UPDATE:<br /><br />It turns out that the whole of this post may be moot.<br /><br />With Dave not available this Saturday (the reason for the one shot instead of our normal Ars Magica game in the first place) and Marcus now telling me via text that he really isn't in the mood for a one shot, this Saturday may consist of me staying home to work on other stuff.<br /><br />We'll see. Keep you posted.Adam Dicksteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04840144928096089178noreply@blogger.com