Over a Mug of Ale [For A Better Age]

I had a look at those a couple of weeks ago, and they were rather handy. Good thing I got 'em in quite early in my Exalted-time, 'cause that means it's easier to get used to them...
 
MorkaisChosen said:
I had a look at those a couple of weeks ago, and they were rather handy. Good thing I got 'em in quite early in my Exalted-time, 'cause that means it's easier to get used to them...
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Yeah, be very, VERY grateful you got those in early, before you ended up going into a social encounter to convince a guy to farm on the other side of his village and having to spend an entire two hours of game time rolling down his Willpower.


Christ.
 
Gosh.


Now, if the other side of the village was where the MONSTERS lived, that'd be understandable, but... Yeah.


It all boils down to one question: "If you were playing that character, would you spend Willpower then?" 'Cause that kinda really isn't worth it.
 
MorkaisChosen said:
Gosh.
Now, if the other side of the village was where the MONSTERS lived, that'd be understandable, but... Yeah.
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Oh, the stories I could tell you. I've had a long list of terrible, boring, and poorly-run game experiences with Exalted, for as much as I love it. STs who insisted on rolling things not meant to be rolled, ones that insisted we roll for actions that didn't need it, ones that tried to run the game as if it were D&D, players who thought that attack spells were smart and valid options for putting out fires (to be fair it did put out the fire, it just also destroyed the place), misread charms, overpowered artifacts, freaks, geek, powergamers and whiners. I've had all of one good, enduring game, and even it was a trainwreck that took eight months to finally die. If you want a laugh, I might share a few experiences.


The upside is it's caused me to internalize just about every system in the game, and given me an encyclopedic knowledge of the lore.
 
Just wondering: Are we waiting on someone's post for our thread? Or are we waiting for Archivist to advance it?


I just want to make sure I'm not holding up the game inadvertently or something without knowing it, heh heh.
 
When I say "geeks" I mean the sort of people who show up in an Overfiend T-shirt (unironically) and a winter coat at the start of summer. It's not charming, it's not endearing, and the smell, appearance, and general feel hearkens back to the days of sideshow carnies biting the heads off of small animals.


I'm waiting for Archivist, myself. Maybe he's waiting on Four-Foot, or maybe he's just busy with something else. Didn't he mention somewhere that his posting might be erratic for a few days?
 
Tableface said:
When I say "geeks" I mean the sort of people who show up in an Overfiend T-shirt (unironically) and a winter coat at the start of summer. It's not charming, it's not endearing, and the smell, appearance, and general feel hearkens back to the days of sideshow carnies biting the heads off of small animals.
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Ah, fair enough, that's a little more extreme than most of the people I am who'd get called one.
 
MorkaisChosen said:
Tableface said:
When I say "geeks" I mean the sort of people who show up in an Overfiend T-shirt (unironically) and a winter coat at the start of summer. It's not charming, it's not endearing, and the smell, appearance, and general feel hearkens back to the days of sideshow carnies biting the heads off of small animals.
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Ah, fair enough, that's a little more extreme than most of the people I am who'd get called one.
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every session a new gofdamn tentacle T-shirt why was he not banned
 
I find it sad that I have seen such people. The warped half-beings that linger in the dark corners of convention halls...
 
Waiting on Archivist, I'm guessing work is piled high on his mighty shoulders.


@Tableface


Okay thats downright freaky.


My current DM is running exalted fairly DnD style though. "Oh you got past that encounter with no death well then see what we can do next."


Heroic Actions, in his dictionary, seem to be those things you try and do between getting slamed by powerfull crazy trying to kill you, and not having all your shit broken.


Actually his style is more running Everygame he runs as if it was Midnight.
 
Things to remember.


No matter how much prep you do players will always do something to catch you off guard, learn to roll with it.


If rules get complicated or there's a conflict, just make a judgement call and say "We'll sort it out later." Use the correct rules later or stick with your judgement if it works out better, after you know what the rules are.


Thats just a couple of things, there's other stuff that gets more system specific or medium Specific.


One thing I learned, when running a live game, ALWAYS have a list of generic NPC names on hand.


Number of times I've had to stop the game for 5 mins to come up with a name, it adds up.


gets worse when I forget it altogether but the players want to go back and talk to him. >_>


"You know that Fence we sold our shit to, we want to sell to him again.."


"Oh er... What's his name... Well his NEW name is..." Yea that uh sounds as good as it reads
 
I've got a little general experience- I've run a D&D game and a touch of Dark Heresy- so the general advice is the sort of thing I've already hit. Thanks anyway!


NPC names were a little easier given the tone of the D&D game, though- the party encountered Dave the Kraken and his friend, the wizard Gelignite.


The DH game definitely hit the "No matter how much prep..." thing; the first session had the players investigating disappearances in the Spire of a Hive World, and I had a load of background for all the families and stuff, including a couple of red herrings. Naturally, I forgot to plan the one thing they really went for- sneaking round and trying to draw out whoever was disappearing people- so I pulled a bit out of my backside and it worked. So yeah, I can do the basics; the question is whether I'm awesome enough to do Exalted...
 
Sorry for the delay. My internet has been down for the past two days, so as a result my ability to post has been slightly curtailed. But it appears to be back now. So I plan on getting up a post later today after work if possible.
 
Alright, got some updates up. Everyone should be on the same thread now!


I hit a bit of a time wall today. So I was not able to get into the battle or anything yet. I plan on getting things rolling with my next post. Just didn’t have the time to do it properly this day. Next post I should be able to go into more detail on exactly what is going on, and be time for you guys to be making some decisions and possible some combat.


Thursday should be a much less hectic day for me, and assuming my internet doesn’t disappear on me again, we should be in good shape.
 
MorkaisChosen said:
I've got a little general experience- I've run a D&D game and a touch of Dark Heresy- so the general advice is the sort of thing I've already hit. Thanks anyway!
NPC names were a little easier given the tone of the D&D game, though- the party encountered Dave the Kraken and his friend, the wizard Gelignite.


The DH game definitely hit the "No matter how much prep..." thing; the first session had the players investigating disappearances in the Spire of a Hive World, and I had a load of background for all the families and stuff, including a couple of red herrings. Naturally, I forgot to plan the one thing they really went for- sneaking round and trying to draw out whoever was disappearing people- so I pulled a bit out of my backside and it worked. So yeah, I can do the basics; the question is whether I'm awesome enough to do Exalted...
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From sounds of it you should be fine. Exalted isn't really that much harder to dm then any other games.


It just puts the focus wider. Instead of focusing on people you pull back the scale a bit and work on a higher plane. What people can accomplish is great, and it's all about letting people accomplish really cool thing while giving them anequaly interesting challenge... As long as it's not somethign along the lines of "You exist and happen to walk past someone with essence sight they send their most senior Wyld hunt team on your ass even though your greatest accomplishment was sailing to some lost islands no one ever heard of and saved the Censor of the West's girlfriend. And one guyh in your team left his toes behind for a group of islanders to worship....
 
Grrr, the internet at my apartment is down again today. I’m currently working on my next post but considering the library I’m using for internet is closing here in about 5 minutes I don’t have time to complete it. I plan on finishing writing my post up, and posting it either Friday morning or evening depending on when I can get access to the internet again (I’m going to have a couple unkind words for my internet provider tomorrow morning), or Saturday at the latest if there are more unforeseen delays.


Sorry for the delay, and thank you for your patience. Believe me when I say I am really annoyed by how my stunted internet access is really messing up my ability to post for this game.
 
No worries. I think I speak for everyone when I say we understand and are eager to play, so I don't think we're in any danger of losing anyone.
 
Pop a wheelie, bless my soul...


Seriously, though, listening to that music and reading your post... All I can say is that it almost comes off as him being playfully condescending towards Glass. Is Anoke being romantic towards Glass, me wonders?
 
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