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| kismetrose | Dec 6 2005, 11:17 AM Post #1 |
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Is it just me, or is it pretty much impossible to keep a regular game going during the holidays? Even if the folks you play with aren't religious, chances are they have families. Not to mention finals being around the end of the year, as well. Am I the only one whose gaming schedule has December effectively blocked out? |
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| Kesht | Dec 6 2005, 12:03 PM Post #2 |
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You see a drunken hobo. Roll for initiative.
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It's not just you. I've had 3 games just plain run out in the last few weeks, and I'm still trying to START that play by chat game. Good thing I'm patient, eh?
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She hung up! I'mf going to die alone and nakeds!
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| Lionheart | Dec 22 2005, 07:45 PM Post #3 |
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Well, they are, in less you opt for my patented solution: Teach your family to RP. I go to my family home for Christmas, and I have 6 younger brothers and sisters, so finding things for them to do, that’ll hold their interest *AND* don’t involve the possibility of bodily injury and/or mass property damage can be… tricky. Step forwards the simulated violence and mass damage of D&D! I got the idea because my well-meaning grandmother had brought me the “Dungeon’s & Dragons” children’s board game, a much stripped down version, but still recognisably D&D, as a Christmas gift. And I can honestly say, it is a *great* tool for teaching the very basics of the mechanics to the younger children. And it’s been a lot of fun! I expected it to be purely hack and slash, but it hasn’t, actually. The adventure guide book thing in the set does a pretty credible job of explaining the concept of adventuring, making your character your own, and so on and so forth. And, my siblings at least, *really* enjoyed it, having gone so far to get their own copy, and even buy the “add-ons” for it. In fact, the only problem with having a family that plays D&D together… is that you have a family that plays D&D together. For example, my youngest brother and sister refused to talk to each other for a time, because she refused to help him out with the troll he was fighting until she looted the chests in the room. Fortunately, that one resolved itself, when she saved him with a timely backstab in a later dungeon. Getting my core books back from the older siblings, when they “graduated” to the full game… now, that was trickier. And expensive. Kids, eh? They grow up *so* fast. David. |
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