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[fechtbuch]

Had a good time yesterday.  Went over to Simon's, where he, Iain and I played B-17 together.  Weather was lovely - downright summery - and there was a real holiday atmosphere in Wandsworth Common when I came out of the railway station.  I love London at times lke this.

Gaming went well.

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[bexfiles]

omg, didn't know Outback had made it to the UK!

[semioticghosts]

Ooh, geekfest! I'm not into wargames at all, partly because my strategic thinking is as fuill of non-sequiturs as my everyday speech, and thus somewhat deficient. But your battlereport sounds fun, and so does your gamer gang. Have you come across that new pirate game simulation where you get to do seabattles with ships intricately constructed from flatpack? Chris [my fellow gamer boyfriend] is very much into it and the models look great.
If you haven't heard of it, it's called Pirates of the Crimson Coast.

I've just started playing Dragon arriors on a Sunday night - very different, but nice, especailly asI've never played a proper fantasy game before. I'll post an update on my Vampire game sometime soon, too, as I better get cracking - Easter Weekend means extra gaming opportunities!

[fechtbuch]

B-17 isn't too strategic at all, actually. It's the most RPG-like wargame I've ever played. Simon's starting a website for our squadron.
That pirates thing sounds interesting - I must look out for it when I go to Leisure Games tomorrow.
Is Dragon Warriors the old RPG in the form of 5 or 6 kids' paperbacks? I used to have that, and remember playing a notably ruthless Elf sorcerer in it.
I envy you being able to get gamers together so frequently - I find it's like herding cats.

[semioticghosts]

Yes, Dragon Warriors is said RPG in 6 paperbacks, though I would question the "kids" bit. Mind you, I was a gamer without calling it such ever since I can remember, and always loved extremes, so maybe "kids" is very appropriate after all. I'm Hroslind, a female Woodsman/Ranger with a background in saddlery; more the sneaky-sneaky, stealthy, perceptive type than a fighter, but damn good with a spear [and her weighted whip] nonetheless.

The reason I can get gamers together is due to luck - I moved back here, within easy reach of my old university gaming crowd in Colchester, and Chris has his local gaming crowd here. My game runs at friends' houses in Colchester and we go there. It's all remarkably easy. While I lived in London, gaming was near-impossible though, so it's maybe a combination of big city distances and availability: remember there are not as many ionterestings thigns to do out here in the provinces!

[fechtbuch]

I wasn't implying that DW is just a kids' game - but I do remember it being on the same shelves as the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks and suchlike when I bought it. As I remember, the monster descriptions were pretty good - quite atmospheric and interesting, with lots of ideas which could lead to adventure hooks in them. Elsinore was my character; I tried to play up the scarily inhuman side of being an Elf, and his persona was good for putting me in the right mindset for lateral thinking and problem-solving, but overall he was too much of a ruthless swine, and a misanthrope, to be much fun playing.

Wow!

[yokospungeon]

>weighted whip

Resists the temptation to go there...

This is a whole new world for me. I want to see you lot in action at the unconvention. Is the action strictly cerebral, or do you dress up / have props and things? Is all teh action determined by dice roll?

Re: Wow!

[fechtbuch]

do you dress up / have props and things? Is all teh action determined by dice roll?

No, the people who dress up and act in character continually while playing are LARPers (Live-action roleplayers). Most RP sessions can be likened to an improvised radio play (I've usde this analogy before). There are also LARPers who physically act out all the fights etc, but as they use rubber swords, I discard them utterly. The dice are only there to simulate the results of the actions player-characters take. Some game systems are more complicated/detailed than others - it comes down to the preferences of the players.
And the board and card games SG mentioned, like Settlers and Fluxx, are very different animals from RPGs.