Originally Posted by chirine ba kal
Just for you costume fans, out there...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eulh_mgsTt8
How that, my General?
DISCIPLINE is what wins battles!
Just for you costume fans, out there...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eulh_mgsTt8
How that, my General?
DISCIPLINE is what wins battles!
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Love it!I think so, too. I'd run this as a timed event, with each team allowed ten to fifteen minutes of real time to search the room. I'd also isolate each team from the others, so that all of the players would come to the room 'cold'. 'The Rules' would be Free Kriegspiel, with a GM - preferably Gronan, for the most laughs - in the room and adjudicating as needed. I'd have the traps, if any, done with Post-it notes, and turn the players loose. Between each teams' runs, I'd have the stagehands reset the room to the start position, so that each group would have the same chances.
It'd be a scream; it'd be 'The Adventure of the Mummified Pot-roast' writ large, and my kind of gaming in all it's glory. After the first few runs, and word got out, we'd have them waiting in line clear round the block.
And, just to make it ever funnier, I'd invite all the D&D etc. people to run their own PCs and groups through the game. I think it'd be hysterical, watchign the mayhem. And, speaking of watching, I'd use my video gear and wire the room like the proverbial pinball machine, so that non-playing spectators could see and hear all the screaming and shouting. (I have a good stick of rubber scorpions, remember.)
Did a trial run of this too, where the people in my group were trying to get into a locked chest. I simply handed the antique Chinese lock to the party, and told them to have at it. Best eight minutes and thirty-four seconds of gaming you can imagine, as one player worked the lock over - she did get it open - while I had the rest of the party roll percentile dice every sixty seconds to see if the guards happened by...
Oh, I am such a nasty man...
Blaise
The Ermine Street Guard is even more impressive in person; I had the chance to hang out with them at the Corinium Museum in Cirencester, and it was a grand time.
DISCIPLINE is what wins battles!
I think my favorite memory of Bovington - home of The Tanks - and topping seeing Little Willie and Mother was getting a wonderful book in the gift shop:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...or_Photographs
(Back in the day, we all knew how to move our legion in battle; we'd all seen "Spartacus", with 8000 Spanish infantry men all dressed up in lorica. It's on YouTube, too.)
Thank you! This is the gaming tradition that Gronan and I come from. We'd do a big game like this a couple of times a year, and they were pretty big and well-attended events; word would get out that Chirine was running one of his epic games, and people would clear their calendars.
These days, my games are even more epic; I've had forty years of game play to learn from, and forty years of collecting to build the kind of inventory that big conventions can only dream about. The looks on people's faces when they turn the corner into the game room is always worth it...
And speaking of discipline, here's a clip suggested by Fourth and Fifth Daughters - from what I gather, this festival happens just down the road from them...
DISCIPLINE is what wins battles!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTMy2fPJQfs
What I like is when the Late Imperials (playing the Goths, or somebody) hit the line and one guy breaks through, the line holds and two troopers break back and dry-gulch the would-be hero. Might this be a lesson in tactics, as you are often heard talking about?
Warms the cockles of my heart, it does.
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It does, doesn't it?
Had a very interesting discussion with Fifth Daughter last night about the sense of 'culture shock' I feel when I think about modern gaming. She pointed out that a lot of my (and your, for that matter) 'reflexes' in gaming come from both the fascination with historical events and the easy availability of epic 'historical' films (like "Land of the Pharoahs" of "Fall of the Roman Empire" which, in combination with the then-popularity of things like the Lankhmar series, really primed the pump for our gaming. Admittedly, I do lean to the Technicolor epic in my games, but then I think we all did. The emphasis on rules over rulings, as some have put it, seems to come from a different cultural viewpoint and probably explains why I have difficulties with getting the hang of things like 5e.
Different times, different styles.
"Different times, different styles" indeed.
It's been very educational playing here in SD with a group of chaps (and a chapess) who started with later games.
I've realized when I run a game, it's not that they're stupid, it's just that we are speaking a drastically different language.
For instance: In Original D&D, any character opens a door on a 1-2 on a d6. You can put up to 3 characters on a door, each of whom gets a roll. In the later versions, it's a "Skill Check" with a "Difficulty Level," so the player with the best "Disable Device" skill tries to open it, and numbers don't count.
A VERY different paradigm.
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Oh, yes, very much so. I still like Phil's "roll percentile dice" for things like this, and you either get the door open or you don't - and then everybody in the party can have a try at is. I think it keeps play moving along smartly - the way that both Phil and Dave liked it, in the games I had with them - and the number of times in the 5e campaign where I've had time to take a turn through the store while the GM crunches the numbers is just a little too much for me.
Interesting. When I've run my usual style of fast and furious, it seems to go over well with even the most devout of modern gamers. I wonder why - genuine question, this, as I have no real idea why people seem to like my games (no matter what the setting might be) and keep asking me to run them for them.
Hmmm. Something to contemplate.
Well, Brian, that bright young lad you met at the Thornleys', expressed it thus: "I like that I say I want to sneak up behind the guard and knock him out, you roll the dice, it happens or it doesn't, and we get on with the damn game."
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