Bill the barbarian

Just about to watch a few events, what are you going to watch tonight or do or have already done?

08 8 monsters leaping ever so much better than gold!

Missed this somehow (the hour might have scared me), Thank you!

Made a great discovery! The news section lists the day's event highlights and then gives the URLs where missed content might be seen again if it has been uploaded somewhere. I just watched the orientation again for hints and just before I dozed off and missed the concert I had tried to stay awake and see. Good thing I might be able to see this again, later! That is not dead which can eternal lie. https://online.paxsite.com/news

Okay. I will start. Those of you who read my intro to PAX in Wind Whispers #8 know where I am going today. But where have I been? Well` the panel on PAX orientation was great, you could feel the hippy hugs arriving by packets through your browser!. Nice vibes. I was happy to see I would be in good hands for the week & a bit!. The talk on avoiding murderhobos was fun. as was the collaborative world the panelists made to show that if players have a hand in the creation—even if they still burn it down and loot it they will at least appreciate it! SO watching Pretty cool so far... let me get back to it! Loving the insights and the tunes!

Alas, well thank you for your sagacious response M. Professor!

Yes, yes sir Loic, very erudite, very learned, but let me ask. Why do the ones on the ground with arrows sticking of them not wear red shirts?

09 ...and have we told ya about the millions of dollars in prizes*? * Warning reading this caveat might cause eyestrain, irritation, annoyance. quoting of all too familiar Monty Python sketches, headaches, psoriasis, dandruff, communism... really... You're just making this up aren't you? I can have you up on charges, mate, in fact I have a good mind to do just that.... Pssst, If ya believe we are giving away millions, might I interest you in a really bad internet scam? Hmmwhadayasay?

Hm, alas, GEN CON was a failure for me. Bad Wi-Fi (when I tried looking at the millions of entries in the schedule, I despaired as my browser chugged on valiantly) and so much work to do for Wind Words (mostly online, so what connectivity I had was devoted to working not playing). I love the work so easy choice. Now this time around I had an ulterior motive behind writing Wind Whispers #8. I wanted to create a schedule for me that I could use to navigate the 24/9 of PAX and if I like it, turn it loose on my unwitting victims... er... readers. Turns out I liked it, it works for me and though it will not replace the big schedule at PAX.it does what I need on bad connectivity days and keeps my guests at what I which to wee bear at hand at my hand little email. copy that comes from subscribing. So, in combination with Wind Whisper’s i though I would create an interactive topic here about a Noob’s (very) rough guide to navigating PAX... I am enjoying the experience o far. And with my first two choices I have been happy... Who else is attending PAX Online today and what are you watching or doing? Are you using my guesses of what to attend and are they working for you? CAVEAT, I had written a module for my very first con and only one of two I have been at for wargaming or FRPing and then was one of the DMs for the module that I wrote at the con It was fun, but in a way I missed the con, in another way I was very much there! I also attended a confused little CoC con in my new Home town 5 yers later that did not what my appetite and this was all decades ago So I guess I was a Noob at my failed attempt at GEN CON so I am still a NOOB at PAX, which has started much better Cheers

No worries, have you a friend that could not write his way out of a wet paper bag and a golden voice? Take care good lordabdul, if you say that too loud we will have people rushing to enter and we will not be able to make that guarantee anymore.

10 Have we mentioned the incredible prizes and the love, as well as the respect of the masses your entry might gain?

Thank you for the response! It has one come up once, and knowing the limit, I can act accordingly. Cheers

GHT? minus 11 days and counting... prepare ignition countdown.. repeat... GHT? minus 11 days and counting. Commencing countdown, record button on. 11

Make that 2 weeks...

Oh my. I see the topic has changed to "Lower the Lethality" for experienced monsters😎.

In fairness, colinabrett did say situational. That does make it difficult and adds rules rather than elegance. I have yet to see a good all encompassing rule that would require a morale check. A berserker talking more damage would have a better chance of making his roll, a peasant who has no skin in the game, much less so! Non-intelligent undead never make morale checks while a vampire might never admit to being outclassed by obviously inferior mortals unless he can overcome his ego. What wold a soldier roll against for a mundane circumstance or a magical one? This problem of morale might be so circumstantial, so lacking in elegance it will always require and erudite and wise GM to adjudicate. Cheers

High level vampires would have to overcome their ego to run away

Mmm, fudge!

Slightly over two weeks to go, I hope to see those wonderful ideas you are percolating very soon! Don’t wait to long or life might just get in the way. Record you contest winner today!

Yep, I will say it again, seneschal. I believe you must be fun to game with!

The Dreamlands was one of my favourite ideas to see implemented in a BRP game!

This is a tough subject and though it should be old and familiar, it is not. We are all finding our way forward (yes one can say “all”? Optimistic, yes but I like it that way) and with luck we are also holding out a helping had to bring those of us who are having trouble navigating it along with us. Without redmoongoddess Ian and myself taking a position and Crel and others taking another this might not have come to the good (better?) point . Without Exubae admitting a problem we would not have this learning experience moving in a good direction Baby steps, folk!

I played a BG in Melisande’s Hand, and I played her cold and methodical in her dealings in this wonderful adventure, but I will not say more to prevent spoilers! I do not think I played her incorrectly but I see a lot of folk by the postings here, seem to indicate I should haver been death incarnate. Seems to me it was the results that mattered.

I got lucky, Pendragon games is what I recall the name of the shop was that I really found my grail. It was run by a sergeant in the militia and his wife. I showed up and starting playing war-games, sci-fi games, novelty games and, of course, ad&d... met a long term girlfriend there and played with anyone who wished to play most anything, In that time, one did not ask many questions playing with a girl, no problem, with a kid, sure here's the book learn the rules. Sci-fi, fantasy or WW III, sure! When the store moved we all went in to help paint, install walls for hanging things, putting up stock We are a cool little group with many enthusiasms, skills and world views We played in napoleonic games that last years both by post and in person (the same game) we played weekend long "defend the Rhine" against the hordes of Warsaw Pact divisions that fell apart as the soviet hip and hind helicopters hit the field on the third day... For a year we all had the same D&D characters and played in a series of games starting with Keep on the Borderlands that I ran and included Tegel Manor (I cameoed a very confused Kzinti as the stats had just come out in WD or Dragon), City of the imperial Overlord and many other Judges Guild modules that somehow hung together. These games last a few years and after leaving home and travelling afar I always looked for something like that. In the late 80s and early 90s the hobby entered the mainstream and I found a last pocket of true geeks (they still talked about Python and computers but included Dr. Who...who... and many were punks and goths, hey no worries these were entering the mainstream at the time too) in a far city from home that lasted over a decade but since then... no more campaigns just one shots and then nothing for over a decade until now, life got delightfully in the way and I had my own adventures, so no tears! So in conclusion, to start I played a silly game (d&d) and a lot of very serious games for a few years in camping mode. the silly game had to become a campaign to live up to our other games. Serious RPG gaming, RQ, would have wait to wait until I was well grown up and my new gaming friends far from where I was raised were as well. We ran a series of one offs and 3 RQ 2 and 3 campaigns that knitted well together with only one PC casualty (and the way that went was epic enough that everyone was quite chuffed). We played from 89 to the early 21st century on and off until it finally broke up. Currently waiting to start an HQ game (by him) or an RQ game (with me as GM) with his adult daughter playing as well Throw in a few upcoming online games to come as well... Talk to me I might have room for intrepid adventures. seneschal, I believe you must be a lot of fun to game with... Happy gaming however you do it!

I agree! For instance passions are a stat that influence a character in RQ G more than control one’s actions. You can always choose to ignore a passion but there will be consequences for that passion ( A loss of the passion's percentage). Ergo, I believe morale should be a stat for the NPCs more than for the players themselves unless one could come up with a consequence for ignoring a morale failure if one were to use morale in a game. I have always thought mooks would break and run before death and have always wanted a system, a la ASL, to provide a way to represent this.