Resistance

Oh, that's always a nightmare - Nimbus took about two and a half hours and the setting we decided on didn't fully please anybody. Should I create a poll?

We don't normally have a problem with people playing games on a certain day, if they can play the game then they can GM on that day. If they can't make it then somebody else takes the post for them. 100 314 adventure ideas: http://www.dandwiki....eas_(DnD_Other) I would say about 50% 30% are unplayable and only 20% are actually very good but considering that one adventure hook can take two sessions we probably won't run out in a very long time. Personally, I don't think worldbuilding will be a problem - every GM collaborating makes the work required only a fraction so possibly it will result in a richer world than one person would be capable of. We're not restricted to Golarion content and the internet has massive repositories of 3.5 and other homebrew content that's all really interesting.

Idea: We run a rotating GM pathfinder game, we all know the system - I've ran one campaign so far and so have others. I don't really care about setting or specifics however I think level 5 would be an ideal starting level. Definitely an evil campaign though.

http://forum.tip.it/topic/307753-odyssey-to-alcor-vii/ They are a lot harder than they look, drawing gets very depressing after a while. Please do run one though.

Tempest works for me now. Retech get on it. Alg, how will it work? Dice-rolling system, Partially-Dice (Dungeoneering, Space), pure roleplay or something like hegemony which doesn't rely on chance. It would be a nice idea to have something like hegemony without any dice rolls, it's better for tactics. Tactical thinking is fun :)

Somebody run a game. Merry Christmas.

Each episode is an hour long though. LotR is a thousand pages (not including the appendix and all the information at the back which probably makes it about 1300 pages) and only took 9 hours. I think Game of Thrones is a special exception, although it's very long it's got a lot of heavy description - Martin describes a fairly inane meal for about fifty pages whereas LotR doesn't do things like that as much. Also, bloody hell Mather. A month on Anime! That's 730 hours of solid watching, I don't think I've ever spent so much time on anything.

They're supplementing knowledge from LOTR and The Silmarillion. In terms of detail, one sentence is enough to do a two minute panoramic shot so the length of a book doesn't really make any bearing. In high fantasy like the hobbit, more things need to be shown. In low fantasy like Harry Potter - they can just skip over the locations in London.

That's missing the whole point, of course it could fit into one film but it can have more detail and be more exciting if it were three. It's also very silly to pretend that the detail in a book is measured by the number of pages.

That's not going to last long, just wait for the first argument that gets a bit nasty. Experience has shown it hasn't worked. I thought it was fantastic. A lot of people I have talked to have said that they thought it dragged on a bit or that they can't stretch the hobbit into three films but I personally think most films are too short. Watchmen (3 hours) and Lawrence of Arabia (3.5 hours) are some of the best films ever, a lot of films really skimp on the detail so that they can keep the runtime down. I think LOTR would have been better done in 1/6th's like the book, although like with the book the first sixth would have been a bit boring and that's probably why they cut most of the first sixth out of the book. Also, pathfinder session today: People woke up in wagon Took over wagon, interrogated wagon owner Found out that they were arrested Tried to sneak into a city Wagon owner let off secret distress signal Level 7 wizard comes in, attacks glass cannon party They manage to defeat the wizard, one player is unconscious. They loot an artefact from the wizard. The party heads into the forest, stealthily find a resistance base. Get captured by druid Druid takes the ring. Session ends on cliffhanger. I'm going to expand on the ring next session and its powers, I'm worried that by choosing a ring as an artefact it's too reminiscent of LOTR. The ring isn't a dominate person ring but it does sort of give leadership powers over everybody rather than simply the wearers of lesser rings, it's more like the Ring of the Nibelung in that sense.

Why was Serephurus banned from Tip.It?

Actually it is. The time scale of evolution from our apelike descendants was 2.3 million years so if you imagine that if there was one family from the start of that to now it would have about a fifty thousand generations except they're all interbreeding so the number of people involved is even higher. We haven't stopped evolving, and so if somebody dies because of having average skin whereas Mather (or anybody with an attribute that will aid their survival, no matter how small) lives on and passes on his genes then this attribute will be passed on. This is why evolution takes such a long time, because it's not just waiting for the mutation - it's waiting for the mutation to come into affect and make you the 'fittest', also why selectively breed animals can change so quickly - because we're not waiting for one to die off, we're simply basing it off aesthetics. I'm sure that in the grand scheme of things though, it won't do a thing. The concept that we're talking about is evolutionary drift.

Delete.

'our games'

You got yourself blacklisted, at least From what? And if it's something that I care about/actually do, why?

So nothing really happened in the end?

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Actually, I requested operator because I felt that it would be better to have an impartial host owing to Archi not being here. You, being one of the most partial members of this forum just isn't a safe choice. Especially considering your random on-board executions way of dealing with things rather than reasoned discussions.

What happened to the game you were GMing, Nex?

Archi threw a bit of a tantrum, stopped his game and Nex is attempting to stir it more for some reason. :wacko:

I agree completely, personal attacks don't contribute anything to an argument. They're just poor form.

Oh God, if only you had spent those 730 hours on learning a new skill.

http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Redstone_Circuits I read all of that in 15 minutes. Please explain how minecraft is superior.

Took me three seconds to read all of that. In minecraft it would take me about half an hour.

Psht, artistic value. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84G6RRBnJEY