Nerd Night Revived
I'm not sure why it's taken us this long to get back together to have a game night.
Maybe because I moved away and our group was large enough to begin with. Maybe it's because trying to share a real table top game over skype and the remote person not being really able to see the map made it difficult.
But I sit here tonight up way past my bedtime at my computer with my headset on having an awesome time with my "guild". We're all sitting around laptops with webcams and headsets in a Google Hangout with the roll20 application. And we're on a new adventure.
I absolutely love it. I miss them all so much, and I'm terrible at keeping in touch. The time differences that we're in aren't helping either. I'm the furthest one out with a 3hr time difference (at max).
I'm rather impressed with this setup. We're definitely still figuring it out, trying to remember where all the buttons are, trying to understand how the maps are layed out and on top of that we're trying to figure out this gaming system. I'm pretty sure only 2 people have touched it before.
We're playing Pathfinder for the first time. Shocking to not have played it already, I know. Since Josiah is running this game, we were encouraged to be super creative and make ridiculous characters. Therefore, I'm a Kitsune Spellblade. Yeah, the Kitsune race is a real thing. How could I pass that up? What makes it even better is that my avatar for the roll20 application is a Vulpix - I needed to find something on short notice. I figured it was as good as any.
The spellblade is interesting because it's a battlemage. I'm still a bit hesitant about spellcasting, as I didn't like it much in 3.5 to begin with, and the casting rules are very similar so I'm hoping that my proficiency in weapons can save me if needed. I'm actually really excited about this character. I'm excited about everyone's for that matter.
I think our biggest growing pain (and it always has been this pain) is that we're never ready on time. The same thing happened to us when we were raiding, and usually happened on IRL NN. I'm fortunate enough to have my Keurig and enough coffee and creamer to keep me awake at night.
I'm also fortunate enough to have an understanding and loving husband, who understand that I need my friends. Ken tried to stay awake tonight, but I don't blame him for going to bed. He was also very close to just joining our hangout to hear how we play so that way he can be introduced to tabletop and see how it works.
I've found that tabletop games generally have a lot of freedom in terms of what you can do with a character, and for some people that's very hard to understand. It's hard to be creative in that fashion if the only thing you've done is hit keys on a keyboard or press buttons on a controller where your actions really need to be governed. I'm pretty sure that once he sees it's just a bunch of dorks coming up with retarded ideas that'll probably get us killed, he'll see that anything goes and it's more fun that way. At that point anything can happen in the adventure and that's the point. He'll warm up to it. He just needs time and to feel like he's accepted. He feels bad enough for taking me away from them. I won't pressure him. Hopefully I can just encourage him to join us.
Aside from the time difference I really think this is going to work out for us, at least I'm hoping because this is hilarious. :)
Maybe because I moved away and our group was large enough to begin with. Maybe it's because trying to share a real table top game over skype and the remote person not being really able to see the map made it difficult.
But I sit here tonight up way past my bedtime at my computer with my headset on having an awesome time with my "guild". We're all sitting around laptops with webcams and headsets in a Google Hangout with the roll20 application. And we're on a new adventure.
I absolutely love it. I miss them all so much, and I'm terrible at keeping in touch. The time differences that we're in aren't helping either. I'm the furthest one out with a 3hr time difference (at max).
I'm rather impressed with this setup. We're definitely still figuring it out, trying to remember where all the buttons are, trying to understand how the maps are layed out and on top of that we're trying to figure out this gaming system. I'm pretty sure only 2 people have touched it before.
We're playing Pathfinder for the first time. Shocking to not have played it already, I know. Since Josiah is running this game, we were encouraged to be super creative and make ridiculous characters. Therefore, I'm a Kitsune Spellblade. Yeah, the Kitsune race is a real thing. How could I pass that up? What makes it even better is that my avatar for the roll20 application is a Vulpix - I needed to find something on short notice. I figured it was as good as any.
The spellblade is interesting because it's a battlemage. I'm still a bit hesitant about spellcasting, as I didn't like it much in 3.5 to begin with, and the casting rules are very similar so I'm hoping that my proficiency in weapons can save me if needed. I'm actually really excited about this character. I'm excited about everyone's for that matter.
I think our biggest growing pain (and it always has been this pain) is that we're never ready on time. The same thing happened to us when we were raiding, and usually happened on IRL NN. I'm fortunate enough to have my Keurig and enough coffee and creamer to keep me awake at night.
I'm also fortunate enough to have an understanding and loving husband, who understand that I need my friends. Ken tried to stay awake tonight, but I don't blame him for going to bed. He was also very close to just joining our hangout to hear how we play so that way he can be introduced to tabletop and see how it works.
I've found that tabletop games generally have a lot of freedom in terms of what you can do with a character, and for some people that's very hard to understand. It's hard to be creative in that fashion if the only thing you've done is hit keys on a keyboard or press buttons on a controller where your actions really need to be governed. I'm pretty sure that once he sees it's just a bunch of dorks coming up with retarded ideas that'll probably get us killed, he'll see that anything goes and it's more fun that way. At that point anything can happen in the adventure and that's the point. He'll warm up to it. He just needs time and to feel like he's accepted. He feels bad enough for taking me away from them. I won't pressure him. Hopefully I can just encourage him to join us.
Aside from the time difference I really think this is going to work out for us, at least I'm hoping because this is hilarious. :)