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Jan. 29th, 2004 06:36 pmLast night was the first session of the first actual campaign I've played in at school. (There was Sundered Realms last summer, but that somehow didn't feel like a real game.) Steph and Dan, this is certainly no fault of yours, but part of me was subtly disappointed, for several reasons that I think I've found.
The largest groups I've felt comfortable in were groups of five or six players. Any more than that and it gets disjointed and hard to follow - the DMs, however, were doing a damn good job of keeping track of exactly who did what when, so it was helped. It didn't help that several people, instead of shutting up on anybody else's turn, were being ooc chatty and not paying attention.
Maybe I'm arrogant and elitist, but I felt like Arthur was trying to play his sheet rather than his character. Most notably, when I was about to attack a unicorn in a rage, rather than trying to stop me as his character, he asked the DMs if he could roll a Diplomacy check or the like to calm me down. He didn't seem to understand the concept that if he said something to me, I would interpret it as his character talking to my character and respond in kind. I was guilty of the same thing when I started playing, yeah, but I think I got the idea of talking IC into my head pretty quickly. Also, it really bothered me when - without asking - he leaned over and looked at my character sheet.
The party balance is also just plain hideous. Two arcane casters, a druid, a rogue, and four fighter classes. The first thing to notice in this is the distinct lack of cleric. I might still be convinced to remove Tom and play a cleric, but I came into this game wanting to try something new, and I've never played a distinct tank before. Barbarian is very much new territory for me, and I think it'll be fun, but I don't feel right trying to convince other people to change. Also, two of the last three characters I've played with high school friends have been clerics, including one that went all the way up to epic levels and another that may still be active if that game finds time to play; barring that it'll pick right back up this summer. I suppose that after playing the stomp-cleric and the creepy-evil-cleric it still leaves the support-healer-cleric to play, but... well... I dunno. We'll see how the next session goes.
Are there people interested in a game of Illuminati Brainwash tonight? I vaguely want to go into a large and intricate game of it, but I don't want to advertise on Schmack for fear of attracting people that wank instead of playing The Way I Want. But maybe I'm just too picky.
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The largest groups I've felt comfortable in were groups of five or six players. Any more than that and it gets disjointed and hard to follow - the DMs, however, were doing a damn good job of keeping track of exactly who did what when, so it was helped. It didn't help that several people, instead of shutting up on anybody else's turn, were being ooc chatty and not paying attention.
Maybe I'm arrogant and elitist, but I felt like Arthur was trying to play his sheet rather than his character. Most notably, when I was about to attack a unicorn in a rage, rather than trying to stop me as his character, he asked the DMs if he could roll a Diplomacy check or the like to calm me down. He didn't seem to understand the concept that if he said something to me, I would interpret it as his character talking to my character and respond in kind. I was guilty of the same thing when I started playing, yeah, but I think I got the idea of talking IC into my head pretty quickly. Also, it really bothered me when - without asking - he leaned over and looked at my character sheet.
The party balance is also just plain hideous. Two arcane casters, a druid, a rogue, and four fighter classes. The first thing to notice in this is the distinct lack of cleric. I might still be convinced to remove Tom and play a cleric, but I came into this game wanting to try something new, and I've never played a distinct tank before. Barbarian is very much new territory for me, and I think it'll be fun, but I don't feel right trying to convince other people to change. Also, two of the last three characters I've played with high school friends have been clerics, including one that went all the way up to epic levels and another that may still be active if that game finds time to play; barring that it'll pick right back up this summer. I suppose that after playing the stomp-cleric and the creepy-evil-cleric it still leaves the support-healer-cleric to play, but... well... I dunno. We'll see how the next session goes.
Are there people interested in a game of Illuminati Brainwash tonight? I vaguely want to go into a large and intricate game of it, but I don't want to advertise on Schmack for fear of attracting people that wank instead of playing The Way I Want. But maybe I'm just too picky.
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