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Virgobrown72
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 Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 9:45 pm Post subject: Bad weather makes for good gaming!!! |
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This hurricane Sandy has the east coast fugazied, but if I'm shut in, I'm gaming!!!
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JCDenton28
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You are so right!
Best thing about role playing is that you need no electricity.
Some of my favorite gaming moments are by candle light on a stormy night. |
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Takeda
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| JCDenton28 wrote: | You are so right!
Best thing about role playing is that you need no electricity.
Some of my favorite gaming moments are by candle light on a stormy night. |
I totally agree. Every time the power goes out (which is not uncommon for some reson in our area) I want to flight candles and PLAY! 
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Lord Karick
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We don't even play in the summer. I find it too distracting, plus I'd rather be outside adventuring myself.
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Best thing about role playing is that you need no electricity.
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Actually, I'd be lost without my laptop. Almost all my gaming material is on there now.
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JCDenton28
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Man, I remember roleplaying with my boy scout troop at night by the campfire, rolling dice in a small box. No rulebooks, just dice, memory and imagination.
Good times.
Admittedly, I like using a laptop, but I like the ease of books and memorization.
I am new to SW, but so far I love the ease of it's ad hoc system. |
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Sitting Duck
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| Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2012 8:21 am Post subject: |
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| Takeda wrote: | | Every time the power goes out (which is not uncommon for some reson in our area) I want to flight candles and PLAY! |
Flying candles sounds pretty dangerous. 
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Sean-Khan
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| Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2012 8:35 am Post subject: |
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| Lord Karick wrote: |
| JCDenton28 wrote: |
Best thing about role playing is that you need no electricity.
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Actually, I'd be lost without my laptop. Almost all my gaming material is on there now. |
I would also have been before, when I played D&D 
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VonDan
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Lord Karick
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I would also have been before, when I played D&D |
Normally yes, but I've recently discovered MS OneNote and I'm finding it invaluable for keeping everything at my fingertips. Normally I'm not a big corp fan, but in this case... I can create documents with links to rules text, maps, character info. It's really upped my GMing game.
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tigerguy786
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| Lord Karick wrote: | | Sean-Khan wrote: |
I would also have been before, when I played D&D |
Normally yes, but I've recently discovered MS OneNote and I'm finding it invaluable for keeping everything at my fingertips. Normally I'm not a big corp fan, but in this case... I can create documents with links to rules text, maps, character info. It's really upped my GMing game. |
I can't imagine trying to GM without OneNote. It's so helpful for keeping track of EVERYTHING, including all of the "Someday" game ideas I have.
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Sean-Khan
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| tigerguy786 wrote: | | Lord Karick wrote: | | Sean-Khan wrote: |
I would also have been before, when I played D&D |
Normally yes, but I've recently discovered MS OneNote and I'm finding it invaluable for keeping everything at my fingertips. Normally I'm not a big corp fan, but in this case... I can create documents with links to rules text, maps, character info. It's really upped my GMing game. |
I can't imagine trying to GM without OneNote. It's so helpful for keeping track of EVERYTHING, including all of the "Someday" game ideas I have. |
Well I'm using evernote too for notes but I'm trying not to be too dependent on it... I think the best way to manage a campaign plans is to scetch the main structure on a paper to get the big picture, although I prefer to have details on the computer.
But the difference between SW and D&D(4e) when it to comes to computers is that I could easily prepare and run a session of Savage Worlds even without my electric notes, but for D&D, I REALLY couldn't do without the computer - which I hated as I use computers way too much outside gaming.
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tigerguy786
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| Sean-Khan wrote: | | tigerguy786 wrote: | | Lord Karick wrote: | | Sean-Khan wrote: |
I would also have been before, when I played D&D |
Normally yes, but I've recently discovered MS OneNote and I'm finding it invaluable for keeping everything at my fingertips. Normally I'm not a big corp fan, but in this case... I can create documents with links to rules text, maps, character info. It's really upped my GMing game. |
I can't imagine trying to GM without OneNote. It's so helpful for keeping track of EVERYTHING, including all of the "Someday" game ideas I have. |
Well I'm using evernote too for notes but I'm trying not to be too dependent on it... I think the best way to manage a campaign plans is to scetch the main structure on a paper to get the big picture, although I prefer to have details on the computer.
But the difference between SW and D&D(4e) when it to comes to computers is that I could easily prepare and run a session of Savage Worlds even without my electric notes, but for D&D, I REALLY couldn't do without the computer - which I hated as I use computers way too much outside gaming. |
I could run SW without the computer if I had more physical books.
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ValhallaGH
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I once ran a non-arcane core rules session without the book.  Bloody awkward when I forgot it.
I have learned that my players need my books a lot more than I do. They're useful reference, especially when I'm using an established critter or spell, but they aren't really essential for myself. Of course, then I misremember or forget something and have to dig them out again. 
I find that I like putting all my session notes, including critters, into a word document and then printing a hard copy of that for use at the table. Creating the document forces me to cover everything again, including how things work and what they can do. Then having hard copy lets me scribble notes as things come up during the session.
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Sitting Duck
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On a sort of related note, our local paper had a somewhat tongue-in-cheek editorial this morning about how hurricanes have such namby-pamby names and they need some punching up. Among the sources of inspiration suggested were the works of H.P. Lovecraft. Certainly a Hurricane Cthulhu or Hurricane Nyarlathotep would send them running to the evacuation centers.
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