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[Execute/Dumbo.exe]

So, caellath roped me into making a character in a Rouge Trader game, and I swear to god, I will never again say anything bad about sign-up sheets again.
This shit is fractal, I swear.

[Tack]

Is rogue trader fun?
As in - as compared to the current Dark Heresy?

[scriver]

Yes! There are eye lazorz!

Dumbo, I saw you in the chat. If you name your character Mordeci then you've pretty much made the same character I made for Glowcat's old game.

[Tack]

Wait was this in the IRC?

[Execute/Dumbo.exe]

Yes! There are eye lazorz!

Dumbo, I saw you in the chat. If you name your character Mordeci then you've pretty much made the same character I made for Glowcat's old game.

I'm still uncertain how I had forced what should have been a high-born noble traverser of the Warp to become a quiet, brooding warrior tracker with a penchant for hunting rare creatures.
Especially considering I only have universal Pistol proficiency.

[kilakan]

Universal Pistol Proficiency is actually insanely good in wh40k... since that means you can use any pistol type weapon, as opposed to all the other pistol profs which are like specifically -bolter, laser, solid point, ect.-

Quite plausible you are a brooding warrior tracker who specializes in pistols with that prof.

[scriver]

Hunting with rifles are for cowards who want to cover behind distance. A real hunter approaches his prey like a duelist his rival!

[Tack]

Offered to play a game of 40k against my 'fuckaround' roomate. 'Play to win' roomate overhears, walks in saying "dude I've offered to play against you like ten times".
End up having a really awkward conversation about how much I dislike playing against him.

Basically most games against RM1 start with 'Dude pick up some models, I'll pick up some similar ones and we'll go ham for 20 mins'.
Games against RM2 involve 30 mins of point buy, warlord traits, outflanking, various counter tactics, him misinterpreting a bunch of rules I then have to get out the book and call him on, and me playing a bunch of rules as written in my favor so I can squeeze all of the advantage out of the game, and consequently the fun.

Which I've now explained to him in a brutally honest manner. So... *wrings hands*.
Next stop, Sad thread.

[scriver]

Ouch. Poor guy. Poor you :P

[Jimmy]

Meanwhile, in Pathfinder...

Our party has been stuck on a boat for five sessions. I am so damned sick of the same tactical map every single encounter (of which there are plenty). I've honestly been considering fireballing the boat and letting the damned thing sink just so we can have a new map for a change.

[Sergius]

Our group just infiltrated the underdark city of Menzoberranzan. Well, more like blundered into 50 guards/army thing then convinced them we're not completely useless so they escorted us inside. Our party of 4-5 (usually 3 per session active) of level 10 people have been really pathetic at this. Even 4 "peasants" with blowpipes are a challenge because we can't see anything and we're attacked from extreme ranges in those huge caves. Even with light spells, cantrips, cat eye goggles and shit.

It's pretty annoying. Luckily we're Evil Moustache-Twirling Villains so at least we can diplomacy with them, but I've never felt so uselessly overunderpowered.

(well, TBH this "50 NPC encounter" seemed pretty one-sided and not meant to be won by combat, but minor skirmishes shouldn't pose such a huge challenge, should they?)

[Tack]

Back in the strategy gamers corner of the tabletop, which is possibly just me.

Bought a bunch more imperial guard stuff, and finished my ministorum priest.

So yay!

[itisnotlogical]

From the DND thread:

The only thing more optimized than having Con as a caster stat would probably be Dex. At least at early levels. Thankfully, I don't know of any Dex based casters.

Sounds interesting conceptually, though. 
*nostalgia mode activate*
Like Firetop Mountain, the turn-based PHP or email game where each player-wizard would submit a gesture for each hand each round.  An example spell was
F S S D D
Wriggle-finger snap snap pointing-digit pointing-digit
Casts a fireball at a target!  Takes 5 turns, but does 5 damage and instakills a targeted ice elemental.  Woe betide you if there's an active ice storm, though!

Plus the formula for magic missile is S D (snap pointing-digit) which totally procs in turn 4 for 1 damage (thwarted by shields or counterspells, but useful for taking out summoned creatures).  Yep, gestures can work for multiple spells, only limit is you can only *complete* one spell per hand per turn.

There's also the c (clap) which requires both hands.  Good luck weaving that into your strategy!  Also, if you ever used the P (proffered palm) with both hands at once... even by accident... you officially surrendered and were ejected from the match.  Which was often a good idea, as dying had a hefty penalty (might have even been permadeath for your ranking).  A truly unique game, I'm amazed that the main site is still up and seems unchanged: http://www.gamerz.net/~fm/Main/

I also love the > gesture.  It's a dagger.  You shank the other wizard for 1pt of damage.  Weak but wonderful, and you can keep casting with the other hand.

Also, long shot and mostly off topic, but there was an old movie I saw long ago.  I think it was black and white.  Most wizards had to cast by speaking and waving their hands.  The more advanced wizards could cast through gestures alone.  I think the movie was about a wizard who managed to cast without either... through sheer thought.  Might have been a villain, not sure.  Wondering whether anyone remembers what the movie was called.

That sounds like exactly the sort of thing that would be going strong nowadays, with chat games like Mafia and dice-rolling plugins for Skype and all that. I'm surprised that cursory Googling hasn't turned up any variations or revivals of that game, although they may be buried under results for "Warlock of Firetop Mountain", a Fighting Fantasy novel.

EDIT:

I just emailed the server, and it's still totally up. According to the server, there's currently five accounts. That's it. No indication how old any of those accounts are or when they were last active, though at least one must be (relatively) recent since it's linked to a Gmail account.

[Toaster]

Back in the strategy gamers corner of the tabletop, which is possibly just me.

Bought a bunch more imperial guard stuff, and finished my ministorum priest.

So yay!

I'd totally be in your corner if anyone I knew played too!  Yay for finishing miniatures!

[Tack]

I have begun visiting the FLGS heaps. Like, many times this week.
They have been expensive visits. But I hold out hope that I won't spend money sometime. Plus i get stuff done.