Aug. 11th, 2015 05:05 pm
The next thing
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vianegativa announced that he hoped to wrap up the current campaign in about 8-10 weeks. JB is willing to run Apocalypse World but won't have time until near the end of the year. So the question is how to entertain ourselves in the interim. Right now we're talking about doing some one-shots. These are particularly well-suited to horror, so Dread, Final Girl, and Zombie Cinema have all been mentioned. I'd like to try out the GUMSHOE system, so I'm looking at Fear Itself myself.
Whatever it is, I'm looking forward to the change since I've never been a fan of supers. To the extent that I read comics at all when I was younger, it was mainly less-conventional stuff like Sandman or Ralf König. The only honest-to-goodness four-colour superheroes comic I ever read was Uncanny X-men back when I was in high school.
Since we were playing later than usual, we planned to do dinner together afterwards, but in the end it was just three of us at Rocky's Tacos, known for their "super tortas futboleras". I had the Chicharito, not knowing at the time that he played for Man U. They also sell generous plates of meat and fixings which I gather from the name (huateque, Mexican slang for "party") are intended to be shared. These all bear the names of stadium catcalls, some of them rather rude. One of my companions had the Pinche Árbitro Ciego, essentially the native equivalent of the Spanglish Fack Ju Referi.
One thing we all agreed is, whatever game we end up with, we hope the group can hold together. Neither of them has had much luck staying with one longer term. I, of course, had something of the opposite problem: roughly a decade with my one gaming group, three years or so with another, and then nothing for another decade. (What is it they say about the recovery time for a breakup being roughly the length of the relationship itself?) It's interesting to see how that shapes you: I'm always prepared for the GM to be so much more punitive than either JB or VN have shown interest in being.
vianegativa announced that he hoped to wrap up the current campaign in about 8-10 weeks. JB is willing to run Apocalypse World but won't have time until near the end of the year. So the question is how to entertain ourselves in the interim. Right now we're talking about doing some one-shots. These are particularly well-suited to horror, so Dread, Final Girl, and Zombie Cinema have all been mentioned. I'd like to try out the GUMSHOE system, so I'm looking at Fear Itself myself.Whatever it is, I'm looking forward to the change since I've never been a fan of supers. To the extent that I read comics at all when I was younger, it was mainly less-conventional stuff like Sandman or Ralf König. The only honest-to-goodness four-colour superheroes comic I ever read was Uncanny X-men back when I was in high school.
Since we were playing later than usual, we planned to do dinner together afterwards, but in the end it was just three of us at Rocky's Tacos, known for their "super tortas futboleras". I had the Chicharito, not knowing at the time that he played for Man U. They also sell generous plates of meat and fixings which I gather from the name (huateque, Mexican slang for "party") are intended to be shared. These all bear the names of stadium catcalls, some of them rather rude. One of my companions had the Pinche Árbitro Ciego, essentially the native equivalent of the Spanglish Fack Ju Referi.
One thing we all agreed is, whatever game we end up with, we hope the group can hold together. Neither of them has had much luck staying with one longer term. I, of course, had something of the opposite problem: roughly a decade with my one gaming group, three years or so with another, and then nothing for another decade. (What is it they say about the recovery time for a breakup being roughly the length of the relationship itself?) It's interesting to see how that shapes you: I'm always prepared for the GM to be so much more punitive than either JB or VN have shown interest in being.
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