Life, Geekery, music and combinations thereof

[thebitterguy]

Feeling very poorly these past couple days. Hope I don't infect any fellow travelers.

Last night was the putative Iron Heroes playtest. In attendance, widdershins from the DM: kinra, mr_weasel, nottheterritory, rentagurkha, atomiks.

I pretty much fumbled the ball on it; properly excecuted, I should have forwarded the players the Stunts page from Malhavoc at the very least, or had some handouts/copies of the mechanics. As it was, we got to try token pools and related things, and a group of bandits were turned into tartare; by noting what we didn't get to try I got to absorb more of the challenge and stunt mechanics.

I also learned that we must take care grouping players, so as to avoid allowing nottheterritory to quote Ryan Dancey, and to support the newer players. The Confrontation minis kinra provided were pretty and pointy; mega props to rentagurkha for chips n' soda.

Finished Ranger for new D&D game around 12:30 last night (Neo Citran does NOTHING to put me down). Have taken a level of Cleric in anticipation of a specific PrC that would be appropriate for the campaign direction we've heard of. Have residual background to put together for reference.

Heard Synchronicity II on way into work today, and couldn't quite understand the lyrics; called mr_weasel for explanation. He gave me an appropriate summary, which included "I also do not know what is many miles away at the bottom of a dark Scottish lake"; someone needs to write a Wikipedia entry for that song. I think I need to get me some Police (which, I guess, goes into the queue with Sabbath and everything ELSE I gotta get me some of) as I think my only copies of their music I've ever had was a Turkish bootleg. God, you could get great bootlegs in Turkey; on tape, admittedly.

Comments

[pyat.livejournal.com]

What's this about turkey legs?

[nottheterritory.livejournal.com]

Oh atomiks is a big boy - I'm sure I didn't scare him off! And don't be so hard on yourself - you were up against a pretty tight time limit for a first session with an only partly familiar system.

[anidada.livejournal.com]

We have the Police. Lots.

What do you want to know about Synchronicity II? It is not specified what crawls to the surface, btw. Just "something" -- which could mean Nessie, Cthulhu, Bea Arthur, toxic waste, or the remnants of countless haggis. Or all of the above.

[mr-weasel.livejournal.com]

I pretty much fumbled the ball on it; properly excecuted, I should have forwarded the players the Stunts page from Malhavoc at the very least, or had some handouts/copies of the mechanics.

Please. You did a great job with the time we had. I'm ready to continue to play in the adventure.

[rentagurkha.livejournal.com]

As the others said, don't be too hard on yourself. You did fine, especially considering that you're dealing with a group of people who haven't gamed together before and a rules system none of us know well.

[rentagurkha.livejournal.com]

Although, you know what that game really needed?

Two words. Heavy Metal.

Seriously.

[kinra.livejournal.com]

In the golems sense, or the Sabbath sense?

[rentagurkha.livejournal.com]

In the hair band with Frank Frazetta cover on the album sense!

[thebitterguy]

Indeed, it would have helped. I should have put on some Rush while we played.

One drawback being, of course, that the thought of heavy metal role-playing instantly makes me think of SenZar. Which makes me shudder.