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Published: 2011-08-24 23:51:03 +0000 UTC; Views: 2104; Favourites: 17; Downloads: 14
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R.P.G. (Ransack People's Gold) is the tale of four D&D/Star Wars/RPG players and their DM, who wishes he were a player. These intrepid players are, from left to right:Kenneth, the over-achieving, yet under appreciated DM.
Adam, the guy who has a theater background but needs a girlfriend.
Barry, the munchkin power-gamer with a bad case of arrested development.
Josh, the straight-laced guy who just wants to play the game.
Kassi, Josh's homicidally-minded younger cousin, whom he regrets inviting.
The downside to having players at your table who still live with their parents is that those parents tend to take it poorly when you keep their kid up till the AM hours. If you really want to get banned though, do this when the house you are playing the game belongs to a somebody's parents. When I ran Star Wars Saga Ed, I used to keep my players up as late at 3AM, though to be fair, we often didn't start till 9:30-10pm and then we lost a lot of time to Monty Python references and the usual gamer socializing. This, obviously, did not ingratiate me with anybody outside of the gaming table.
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HEHEHEHE
I wish I could find some of my old RPG photos...
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I think I only have 3 or 4 pics from all the many groups I've been in. I wish I had one from my Star Wars group. I've missed "el Canadian" since he had to move back up north. He was a great player but his parents did not like him out too late and we were always out too late on game night.
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when I still lived with my parents we always gamed Sundays... there was a WW1 WW2 figure reenactment battle club in town... ... the 'men' meet on Saturdays... and us brats meet on sunday... I use to hitchhike into town on the hiway cursing all the christians for their inhospitality behaviour as they never picked me up even tho we were going to the same place... the D&D group meet in camber-rooms of town hall which was adjoined to the fire department and the police... which was right beside the 3 main churchs...
anyways... this meant we gamed all day sunday (by 11pm we been gaming 12hrs) and even we were willing to call it quits...
not to say we didnt generate a ton of aggro... we had a tendency to enact game play... (remember this was more than 10 years before LARPS)
one of the best times was Burns (huge guy) hanging Tracy (tight wirey militia guy) by his ankles out the 3 story window... as he arched his back spread his arms and propositioned girls across the street, "Im Emperor Buckley! come to my kingdom and I will give you good positions!"
we also chased ever other thru the connecting rooms, slammed doors, climbed out windowa, ran across the roofs... and did unspeakable things that had nothing to do with D&D on top of the city hall council table...
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Well I guess that would preclude you having the cops called on you when your group got lively (on account of them not having to go far).
The best location I ever had for vaguely live action RP was my pals David and Daniel's house. They had a decent sized walled yard with a big tree. We used to throw fake batarangs and swing cardboard swords and shields around there imitating things in NES games, this was before I got into D&D. Then again, playing airsoft in highshool was almost like LARPing since we all got dressed up in second hand army BDUs and fired BBs out of replica guns at each other in team scenarios. My friend, Kevin, had a lush mountainside attached to his property which was a lot like a Jungle (it was in Hawaii after all). Our group was pretty good but the group that was made up of mostly active servicemen, reservists and, ROTC kids was pretty intimidating (since they could all shoot better than we could, and had way better gear including smoke bombs and radios).
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sounds like funfun...
ive paintballed... for fun(started perform the game hit the masses... we began playing with hiomemade blowguns and slingshots and later in competion... local and across the border... the CANAM Games...
our 4 'man' team serious intimated the 'army boys' of 6 to 8... and I would morph each game from 'eeeww the girl' to 'hey! the chick with the smig!'
and LARPs... D&Dtype fantasy... also gaslight time themed... lovecraft/sherlock jackripper themes funfun...
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Well, a bunch of scrawny part Asian high school kids with a mix of spring and electric airsoft guns were pretty easily intimidated by the six and a half ft tall three hundred fifty plus pound Black Marines (the middle aged white Airforce reservist with bad knees were weren't so scared of) with machetes, airsoft shotguns, pistols, and rifles. I think a couple of our guys went into the Airforce as pilots later on I don't know about the rest because I moved a few years after.
I played a Deadlands game with a few old west Colorado history buffs and pair of white haired ladies who made their own costumes for steampunk events. I think I was the youngest person at the table. It was a very different experience than I'm used to. So I decided to play a scrappy Irish pugilist/rifleman and let everybody else be reasonable.
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you know I really think you'd be awesome fun to play with!
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I can be with the right group. The best part of that character, "Mad" Jack O'Bannon, was that he had the most ridiculous luck ever. Every single attack that included him was a failure, from bullets, to buckshot, to hexes, to bestial claws. He never once got wounded and he never shied away from gunfights. His shtick was that his mother came over to Ellis Island during the potato famine with him and his brother where the two boys were, like many Irish, conscripted into the Union Army right off the boat. When the Civil War didn't end (which I didn't in Deadlands) they both got into underground boxing. But after his brother was killed by a man who was not quite a man, Jack took his brother's gun and went hunting his killer. Now, among his weapons are twin custom made Colt Navy revolvers, one with an ivory handled in a black leather holster and one with an ebony handled in a white leather holster. He keeps ivory loaded with lead bullets and ebony loaded with silver bullets (just in case he meets another Loup Garou). He was a bit of a loose cannon but he was a gentleman, even to the Indian shaman lady. The funny thing about him and the supernatural elements we fought was that he read dime novels thorough the war and believed everything in them was true thus, zombies, sorcerers, werewolves, and angry Mexican gods were just more things that he already "knew" about.
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see i wish my son would have that kind of imagination... *sigh* I do believe my mother is laughing at me! she got stuck with me....
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When I got started I made a human ranger whose whole family was killed by orcs, who also came to hate wizards and women, and was constantly angry with something and I was like 14. The longer you RP and the more back stories you are exposed to the better you get at making interesting characters.
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yeah yeah you are preechin to the choir... I was writing fanfics and original (very campy sexualized marysue) storys at age 9!
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The point is, you get better.
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I dont know... he is almost 12 now... we havent seen much improvement since he was 5... in any of his artist skills... reading writing drawing painting sculpting...
since he been playing wow since he was 5 he is hell on wheel in a battleground... but he can barely read the quests...
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My brother has always been mediocre at character development but we discovered that his mathematically inclined mind makes him a good tactical player and a better power gamer. We also discovered he does pretty well with Forrest Gump type characters whom he really seems to enjoy playing. As for me, I learned how to make more interesting characters by being thrust into the role of DM, reading articles and aids for characterization, reading literature, and plain old trial and error. But I wanted to get better and that is key.
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Im just hoping since he is sooo interested in playing D&D that he will improve... but I think he takes after my mom and hubby more than me
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There are more ways to be creative than we may think.
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I only got to play Munchkin once and that was mostly because it was preceded by the group I was with draining the house dry of all traces of alcohol.
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HAHA
That's funny! How true that is, when you're somewhere and they KNOW where you are but worry when it's passed the time you were going to be home. You're trying to wrap things up and call them but then the cell phone starts to ring.
"hello?"
"WHERE ARE YOU?!!!"
"I'm about to leave and come home."
"Okay I was wondering where you were and how much longer you're going to be out!"
"I'm trying to wrap things up and call you when I'm about to leave anyways."
"Well you should have called me to let me know you were going to be running late."
"It's like 15 mins till midnight and it takes like 15 mins to get home.."
"Oh well I thought you were going to be home at 1130!"...
*sigh* "Okay but I'm on my way home."
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Naturally it is parents of comparably responsible people who are sober, reachable by phone, and not doing anything illegal. Of course, if you weren't responsible, sober, etc there's a good chance that your parent(s) never cared were you were or what you were doing.
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Very true. I never had a curfew, I just told them I'd call them when I was on my way home. I hated having a cell phone since they would call me. Or I had to call them when I was going to another friend's house. But now being older and my current job, I understand why they wanted to know where I was. Heaven forbid! But now text messages are so much easier to do. Phone calls suck.
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Texts do make it far less awkward for everybody.
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Yes but when we were in highschool we didn't have text messaging... Now that we do, life is so much easier!
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No more two minute, "dude where are you" calls.
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Yes I love text messages, way more private and less time consuming!
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Mom aggro can be hardcore.
How many comics have you done?
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It sure can.
I've done over a dozen so far, which is not too shabby given that I have absolutely no update schedule and generally kill most projects of this sort in six months.
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This is why we crash at the house overnight when having games. No foul then, and we can player til 3am
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With my groups that would have the nasty side effect of encouraging all my munchkin power gamers to bring alcohol. Let me tell you, they act nutty enough sober.
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hehehehe we bring mead and types of ales! ... yes we go that far!
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We have guys whose characters drop trou in the middle of combat and moon/urinate on baddies when their players are sober. I'm afraid if they were three sheets to the wind it would not be their PC doing it. I saw one of them drunk try to douse another with vodka and set him on fire. Also, I'm fairly sure that renter's insurance does not cover acts of Bob.
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ROFL!!!!
Thats side splitting stuff! have you seen dorkness rising by the gamers? your group sounds like them!
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I've only seen the first gamers movie. My group is nutty enough that most of my RPG comics are tame compared to what they get up to. They once spent a month harassing one player about a situation with his character and a Wookie wrestler that they nearly broke my minis trying to illustrate to everybody.
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Know what you mean, I've had a lot of games go to about 5:00 A.M. usually because we start about 10:00 P.M. and get side tracked with in game jokes and such.
I've never pulled mom aggro, but I have pulled wife aggro from time to time.
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We had a guy drop out for a while because of wife aggro. I guess he must have sorted it out though, since he's back to his regular somewhat spotty attendance.
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And thanks to you, I have now learned that the dated surfer slang "aggro" has somehow resurfaced in the world of MMORPG's. Well, thanks to you and urban dictionary. But seriously, I haven't heard that word since my buddy's Sega Genesis used it in California Games.
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Wow, wasn't that early 90's? "Drawing aggro" is much easier to say than the long sentences to that effect we used to use back in the days of Doom and such. Back then we used to have to run through a room shooting in order to get the baddies to follow us into secluded hallways where we could kill them one by one. Now there are active and passive abilities that cause enemies to attack the tank and leave the glass cannons alone.
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It could even be worse if Adam has to give Josh a ride home
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It sucks when you have to give other players a ride home in the AM. I've had to do that many times myself.
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Yeah, I was getting calls from Mom whenever the game had me out too close to midnight. Though that was less "Mom aggro" and more "DID YOU GET INTO AN ACCIDENT AND DIE??"
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Yeah, I remember those. I've had other players get worried calls late at night too.
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She'd actually worked herself into a nice little panic.
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There are more strips of this comic in my gallery.
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cool man. like the style by the way. keep it going.
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