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Duck in a Top Hat

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  1. Huh, I probably should have re-read The Ice. It's one of the only ones I haven't played successfully which is why I was interested. But in hindsight, a complete failure to pull it off is probably a reason not to try again. Regina's wedding is fantastic. I have the Companion and could send you the additional pages you'd need to do the other 4 sets.
  2. Hopefully we'll find a time early in the first half, then. If not, sounds like we'll need a new calendar.
  3. It's been a long time since I used "when is good," so yeah... I know everyone's spread across time zones, so if the slots I suggested are too restrictive, let me know, but pretty much anything I haven't included here would be tough for me to work around. Fill out the calendar if you want to play Games are optimal with 4-5 players and we're going to need 2 groups with our current amount. We could use 1 more person to fill out a round 8 (my friend is in, but he hasn't filled out the poll.) If anyone else is interested, we could use you! We could accept up to 3 more people (giving 10 in all) without having to make a group of 3. (@Dinti: If you're anchored in a different time zone, maybe you should make your own calendar so a separate group can coordinate itself and we play the 2 games maybe at different times? In that case we'd both want to pick a playset beforehand, and I'd love to host The Ice if that's alright.)
  4. Maybe Slack would work as a client for everyone? It's online and supports Mac/Windows/Linux. All we'd need is to make our own channel (free I believe) and everyone would need to make an account.
  5. Hi everyone! A friend and I want to play some more Fiasco but our other friends aren't much for roleplaying games anymore. It's a delightful game if you enjoy movies where everything goes hilariously wrong, like Fargo and Burn After Reading. It's played in one-off sessions without a GM, in groups of 3-5. My friend and I know the rules, and Dintiradan has offered to brush up on them, so we could theoretically handle 15 people in 3 separate games with their own rules facilitators. But let's hope we don't have to. So check the game out. If it sounds interesting, give us your responses to the poll so we can get a feel for our potential group. Once enough interested players present themselves, I'll put up an availability calendar so we can schedule our first game. Hopefully we'll be able to get a session going in the next couple weeks. I've never played it online, but I'm guessing a single game will take a bit longer over IM than in person. Maybe 3 hours or so. Every game needs to run based on a premade playset which contains tools for character and story setup. I've included 8 official playsets from Fiasco and The Fiasco Companion in the poll up above, but there are tons of them made by players and if one of those sounds more interesting to you, post it here!
  6. I think I'll put up a topic for Fiasco then, and throw together a Google Doc template!
  7. I just read Lame Mage's description of Microscope and it sounds pretty fantastic. I'd love to try it--but I agree that both Microscope and Fiasco sound much more suited to real time play.
  8. @The Brazen Book: I did see Dantius's campaign thread, I just assumed it was already well underway at this point. My hesitation on joining that one is that I've never done sci-fi roleplay and it sounds much more involved than a normal AIMHack, as far as campaign goals and everything. Fair enough about the article title, although I do think they chose "Dungeons and Dragons" to convey the specific style of RPG it is. Fantasy, GM-based, etc. @Dinti: Perhaps I could help with setting up web services? My friend suggested we could pull off Fiasco with Roll20, which personally, I have never used. Or we could just try it without them, and see how it goes. I also have the Fiasco Companion which includes extra playsets we could use. I think Fiasco on AIM would work reasonably well, with at least a google doc for die rolls.
  9. Hey everyone. Lately I've been itching for some good roleplaying, and quite frankly, my friends in the real world just can't scratch it. I only have one or two friends who can take tabletop games seriously. We went through a phase playing Fiasco, which supported gonzo play well enough to keep my friends interested for a little while. I adore Fiasco and would recommend it to anyone on these boards. We've also made a couple attempts at D&D campaigns which have all collapsed (I usually DM because I don't trust anyone else to do it well, but I don't have much experience myself, and frankly it's too draining for me to sustain for long). Naturally, my thoughts turned to these forums when I started thinking about roleplaying, and I started feeling a lot of nostalgia for the AIMHack campaigns we did. A friend and I have agreed to started looking for a good RP group online, because we're pretty fatalistic about finding good groups locally (we live in Salt Lake City). We could probably find a group easily on Roll20, but almost every open group uses voice chat, and I think I would prefer to play through IM. It's hard for me to inhabit a character with my voice, and I usually can't think fast enough to roleplay out loud. (That's another reason I have trouble DM'ing). So I guess I have a number of broad questions, ranked in order of descending idealism. 1) Would anyone here be willing to form a group and play some kind of RPG with us over IM? Me and my friend are really flexible in our schedules, but I understand that this is the most idealistic question because I honestly can't promise that either my friend or I will be able to take the reins as GM. We could still probably find some good GM-less games, even one-shots like Fiasco. Honestly I think it would be really great just to play some Fiasco with y'all. 2) Anyone planning or flirting with the idea of starting another AIMHack soon? Shoot me an email and I'll do my best to sway you 3) Does anyone know where besides Roll20 we might look for groups? How would we go about finding a good group to play on IRC or AIM? Know any good games for this? (I think it might be difficult to convince an outside group to adopt AIMHack especially if I'm not GM). 4) Is voice chat role playing really as bad as it sounds? I read about the game Ehdrigohr on Offworld (fantastic site for offbeat gaming news). It sounds really amazing, but might be a little tough to play online and would require a willing GM. Honestly, it's sounds awesome enough that I could maybe be pressed to fill that role. EDIT: A multitude of grammar, spelling, URL mistakes... squashed?
  10. I don't know if there's ever been a film counterpart to the "What have you been reading recently?" thread, but it strikes me that there should be one. I haven't been reading a lot lately, but I've been discovering increasingly profound stories in television and film, so maybe it's time we talked about some of those. I just finished watching Joss Whedon's newest movie, In Your Eyes. It's a touching supernatural romance, and you can rent it online. Its characters were well-developed and relatable. I really recommend it. And I'm currently watching quite a few old TV shows. I finally discovered The Wire at the start of this school year, and at my slow pace I've now almost reached the end of the fourth season. It's an incredible show. I watched the first season of Twin Peaks and really enjoyed it, but got sidetracked with everything else. I've also started Mad Men. The characters really pull me in and the show paints such a detailed and fascinating picture of the '60s. I love how the show makes you feel emotions that facts in a history textbook just can't convey. So, what have you been watching recently?
  11. I generally feel it's best to pick the field you really enjoy over the one that's been recommended to you. If you're only fine with it now - unless you discover a new passion after immersing yourself in electrical engineering - you're not going to become more enthusiastic over time. You can always find new mentors in any field you choose. With enough hard work and planning ahead, you will find success in anything you love doing. This is just what I believe, anyway. Maybe someone with more experience will back me up, or disagree.
  12. Thanks so much, Slarty, that means a lot to me. Hoping I'll have time to play Avadon 2 over the summer, also. Last Spiderweb game I played was Nethergate: Resurrection after I bought the SW Humble Bundle a couple months back.
  13. Well it's an atmospheric horror story, so the music, sound effects, visuals and writing may disturb you, but there's very little action and it's pretty slow-paced. [spoileralt=As for jump scares...]There's only one, at the very end. You've been warned.[/spoileralt] Don't worry about donating anything. I enjoyed making this, and I'm happy sharing it for free.
  14. Thank you! I know there were a few problems with the walking sections because there was nothing to discover or accomplish besides progressing the story by moving slowly to point B, but I included all of them to introduce the player to those mechanics, preparing them for the final walk.
  15. It's interactive fiction. You mostly read passages of dialog and view paintings (like in the screenshots) and in a few brief sections you walk around to advance the story. It's not really a game in the traditional sense.
  16. Hello! I'm back to revisit Spiderweb because since I've drifted away, my life has changed in a lot of exciting new ways and I owe so much of what I've become to this community, and Jeff's games. With the advantage of the Internet's collective knowledge, I taught myself to program video games and I enjoy it so much that now I've basically dedicated my life to game development. So I drifted away from this community and into new ones, focused on game development. But this community taught me so many of the skills that have enabled me to enjoy life and push the limits of my creativity. You taught me to value intelligence and learning, discussion and debate. Through Blades of Avernum, I had my first experience with actually writing and programming games. Together, Jeff's games and the many Blades scenarios I played taught me good storytelling is just as important as fun, and that talented and dedicated individuals can make unique and beautiful creations. When I first came here as "Uber," this community taught me proper etiquette for forums and the Internet in general, which I use all the time when I write emails or use social media to connect with other game developers. I want to say sorry now for the immature way I acted and how I spammed the forums. I was much younger then, and those mistakes taught me some painful lessons, but I learned them, and I grew as a result. I'm also sorry I subverted the rules and assumed a new identity as Duck, although I still think the transformation was for the best. But the main reason I came back tonight is that I've made a game I'm really proud of, and I think it really demonstrates the influence of Jeff's games and the Blades community on my work. I want to share it with the community. I made this game for the Public Domain Jam. This was a week-long challenge to make games based on writings from the Public Domain. I chose to work from my favorite story by H.P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness. I think I mentioned the story on these boards once, because I love it. I adapted the story as an interactive fiction. It's mostly dialogue, with lovely painted illustrations by one of my classmates, and it has brief sequences of exploration in ASCII-drawn environments. It's free, of course, and you can download it here. I really want to hear your thoughts and reactions, though I hope to keep this thread as spoiler-free as possible, for those who aren't familiar with the original story. I'd also love to answer any questions you might have about the game's development, or anything else, really. I might stick around here for a few more days. EDIT: There are some incredible other entrants, and you can see them all at the bottom of this page. I'm also compiling a collection of my personal favorites here.
  17. I might come back to make another scenario if this gets released. I've been learning to program my own games with C# and XNA, but it would definitely be fun to work with BoA again.
  18. Depending on the book, I might join in. I'm slowly working through A Song of Ice and Fire along with several other books, plus my Steam library has grown to somewhere around 57 games, so it's going to be a busy summer. Edit: Come to think of it, A Game of Thrones could be a fantastic book to discuss, unless everyone here has already read it or it's too adult for some members.
  19. Originally Posted By: nikki. I get super-excited to see activity in the BoA forum, and then get all disappointed when it's just stuff like this. I have the exact same problem. I saw there were about 20 new replies in the BoA forum since last I checked and after reading through them I found that none of them were actually anything exciting.
  20. I picked up the first two games on Steam when they were on sale last October and I've finally beaten ME1 and started ME2. I absolutely loved ME1, but so far I think the gameplay and side missions are a lot more developed in ME2. I'm dreading when I beat ME2 and have to get Origin just to play ME3 without starting a new character on the Xbox and losing my choices.
  21. Quote: Ralph Bakshi's Wizards shows what happens when magic faces technology. In the end magic wins out over technology. This topic reminds me of a book I read by Ian Tregillis called Bitter Seeds. Basically it's World War II, the Nazis have supermen and the British have demons. The drawback is that the supermen are powered by batteries and the demons demand a steadily increasing blood sacrifice. It's actually a really cool alternate history. I highly recommend it.
  22. At my school on Valentine's day you can pay to have a flower delivered to anyone in the school with your name attached. The name that you give them when you pay, that is, so you can just say whatever fake name (or the name of someone else) and have a flower sent to whoever you want. There were some pretty good pranks with that. And at the end of the day there were fake flower petals all over the floor of the whole school, so that was fun too. I guess it wasn't the worst of days.
  23. I was working on something for a while, but I pretty much lost interest. It definitely won't be done in time for the deadline, and I've decided not to submit any of my older scenarios. Best of luck to everyone else, though!
  24. If you're interested in reading any others by Lovecraft, I recommend "The Whisperer in Darkness." It's my personal favorite.
  25. Bitter Seeds, by Ian Tregillis. So far it's fantastic.
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