First- it's been too hot here to spend
too much time in front of my computer blogging, one of the AC units
is installed now, so it shouldn't be too bad for a little while
longer, then we'll install the smaller, helper AC unit, but I imagine
I'll still keep my computer in suspend mode for most of the day every
day until the cool season approaches again. Partly out of energy
consciousness, I like to be as green as possible and I hate paying
too much to National Grid every month.
Second- I looked through the pictures
of the stuff I have bought on Ebay recently, and if you just judged
what I was planning for a game on that alone, I think you'd have to
assume I was planning to set a Star Wars campaign up where all the
PCs were stranded on a feudal Japanese type planet. Theoretically it
could work, they both use the D20 system, and I have always mentioned
whenever I picked up a WEG D6 module or supplement that it was for
conversion to the WotC D20 Star Wars system. Nearly every purchase I
have made, especially recently, for Legend of the Five Rings RPG has
been for the dual statted 2nd edition/D20 Oriental Adventures
edition. I think it could work.
Third- I grounded my son John from his
4th edition D&D game, indefinitely. I have several reasons for
this, and both he and I and his mom know they are all good, valid
reasons; but he's pretty pissed off about it anyway. His DM is a
teacher and rescheduled the games for a school night too because he
likes to go camping on the weekends, what was he thinking? He could
have at least waited until school was out for the summer before
making the change to Wednesday nights. To make up for it I offered to
DM a game for him and his buddies on Friday nights, but he wasn't
interested.
Fourth- Do you all think that Monte
Cook left the D&D Next project because they wouldn't just let him
do a rewrite/upgrade of 3.x D&D? That thought has been rattling
around in my brain since he abruptly left the project. I haven't been
keeping up with all the D&D Next stuff going on, although I have
the playtest packet I haven't gotten around to more than skimming the
first few pages of the "How to Play" booklet and I looked
at the Cleric of Moradin character sheet
I got this in the mail today too.
Ironically, I think John would love
playing a Ninja, but lately it's been difficult to get him to even
play a game here at the house. He claims to hate the fact that his
mom is always the de facto party leader and he never gets to show any
initiative; sadly, usually when he attempts to "show
initiative", what he's really doing is showboating and trying to
play the game by himself. One example: the entire party had been
captured by pirates, we used team work to get him out of the pit we
were stuck in. Rather than lower a rope, so the rest of us could
escape the pit while the pirates were distracted (torturing one of
our party members), he decided to explore the entire pirate camp and
then come back for us, and then without any weapons or anything
useful; he had just scouted the area.
That is spectacularly bad judgement on the part of the teacher.
ReplyDeleteI thought so too.
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