tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post3270067025050766063..comments2024-03-19T16:24:23.777-07:00Comments on Playing D&D With Porn Stars: What Are You Playing?Zak Sabbathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08812410680077034917noreply@blogger.comBlogger50125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-22967753536183180962021-05-06T10:33:16.309-07:002021-05-06T10:33:16.309-07:00@Anon
While that's very charming, anonymous c...@Anon<br /><br />While that's very charming, anonymous comments are not allowed.Zak Sabbathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08812410680077034917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-56434555429938510732021-05-05T13:36:45.633-07:002021-05-05T13:36:45.633-07:00@atarcante
glad to hear it!@atarcante<br /><br />glad to hear it!Zak Sabbathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08812410680077034917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-58113474073781759302021-05-05T13:34:31.842-07:002021-05-05T13:34:31.842-07:00Currently Dming a Demon city campaign set in 1987 ...Currently Dming a Demon city campaign set in 1987 Paris. Due to the pandemic, had to import a whole tarot set into roll20 which was a bitch.<br /><br />Currently my players have discovered where the horror lies.thanks to their ties with shady street thugs and crafty usage of interdimensional artifacts.<br />One pc has been captured and is being slowly fed upon and another one doesn't know they have been infected and could turn any moment if their calm reach zero. 😈<br /><br />Atarcantehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09930818745524623392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-78061111882634502052021-04-07T10:22:59.370-07:002021-04-07T10:22:59.370-07:001. An ongoing campaign that has started as The Vil...1. An ongoing campaign that has started as The Village of Hommlet played with OSRIC rules, and has after 3 years mutated into a globetrotting (well, Oerthtrotting) campaign to stop the spread of Elemental Evil, played with the DCC ruleset.<br />2. A Masks of Nyalathrotep campaign that keeps getting interrupted with player absenteeism. The cancelled sessions are replaced with a round-robin DM game of:<br />3. Old School Essentials sandbox, played to the hilt. PC casualties are high, but so is the level of fun.<br /><br /> Quipper Farmernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-70183472072358967892021-04-07T03:13:24.557-07:002021-04-07T03:13:24.557-07:00Indeed! Designing it to be low stress and high qua...Indeed! Designing it to be low stress and high quality to run, so if I can't handle running 3 good games at once I've failed. It's been fun to iterate the systems to find the balance of vibe/fun/easy-to-run/longevity.trentbnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-88811128942336128202021-04-07T02:23:31.460-07:002021-04-07T02:23:31.460-07:00damn Trent you do keep busydamn Trent you do keep busyZak Sabbathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08812410680077034917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-1418921459546290032021-04-07T02:22:40.141-07:002021-04-07T02:22:40.141-07:00Running 3 groups in New Feierland; the system is r...Running 3 groups in New Feierland; the system is really doing what I want it to now, I'm pretty excited to finish it:<br />Group 1 - Have just extracted an strange artefact/altar from ruins beneath the Winterward Mountains in the East. Currently scheming how to get the huge thing back to New Feierland through the New Forest that they desecrated a shrine in. Being stalked by three twisted monster-men who worship the altar.<br /><br />Group 2 - Just stole some documents from a the town hall of Thirteenth Wood, facilitating a fabricated claim by a neighbouring Knight. The evaded the Baron's Hogriders and escaped his jurisdiction over the hilltops. Currently awaiting the return of one Patterson Shukrani, presumably a liegeman, who brings another opportunity.<br /><br />3 - Have just taken a swaddled child from the sacrifical altar of the village Howling Hills, interrupting whatever ritual they were conducting. The consequences are unknown, but the storm as they fled in the night was pierced by the cries of wolves... They then gave the baby to some Emaciated Goatheads in the Frankenwood, in an attempt to appease the creatures for some pact the party inadvertently violated... They fled the wood with the clamour of rage and infighting behind them... Now, as they stumble through the mist desperate to escape whatever boils behind them, the party considers how to cross the torrenting river that hampers their passage north... the clods of hooves on forest floor grow louder to the south. <br /><br />Playing in 1 game of friend's homebrew Space Thing.<br />- We just (barely) escaped a crystal planet of millenia-old synthoids, who tried to destroy us with their advanced technology to defend their isolation and hidden world. We just tried the location of these escaped-synthoid-slaves to the Imperials for the location of a replicator to create our slain companion a new body.Trent Bnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-81478550357783982682021-04-06T22:02:31.537-07:002021-04-06T22:02:31.537-07:00@hams
play Warhammer--Daniel Fox, who did Zweihan...@hams<br /><br />play Warhammer--Daniel Fox, who did Zweihander, is an abuserZak Sabbathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08812410680077034917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-90930882034290354742021-04-06T22:00:54.846-07:002021-04-06T22:00:54.846-07:00Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 4e or Zweihander? Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 4e or Zweihander? hamsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-67401202108086800862021-04-06T11:40:35.281-07:002021-04-06T11:40:35.281-07:00I was unaware of J Harper, my apologies.
On the s...I was unaware of J Harper, my apologies.<br /><br />On the subject at hand, the primary thing I've been currently playing (with the same group I've been playing with for 25-ish years in one form or another) is a 5E hack that incorporates a lot of B/X for some old-skool play. Our group has built up a campaign setting from the ground for about 10 years (from a sad foray into 4E then a happier delve into 5E) and we take turns GMing, each person adding their own thing to the world. I'm currently GMing (and the group is mostly around level 7) so since I'm into Weird Lovecraftian-esque Horror, and Strange Fae, there's a lot of that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-85382567095073718562021-04-04T07:30:51.101-07:002021-04-04T07:30:51.101-07:00I'm currently running isle of dread with basic...I'm currently running isle of dread with basic fantasy for some work friends. They were chased by pirates and should land on the island next session. Prior to that we had a brief 5e homebrew game.<br /><br />Weekly I play in a old school essentials game. It's a homebrew hexcrawl. We took a,brief break to playtest a zinequest submission. shanepatrickwardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09779728578574223142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-53051758910924840952021-04-03T10:30:05.959-07:002021-04-03T10:30:05.959-07:00@Simon,
HOW could I forget the blindheim??? I am...@Simon, <br /><br />HOW could I forget the blindheim??? I am of course referring to the Elemental Princes of Evil, everyone's SECOND most favorite FF monster. Fonkinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11936510908865843127noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-47466696757519018762021-04-03T00:00:21.536-07:002021-04-03T00:00:21.536-07:001) Dungeon Crawl Classics in a really weird gonzo ...1) Dungeon Crawl Classics in a really weird gonzo post-apocalyptic setting<br />2) We're camped by a healing spring where we're recovering from the last adventure, so we're exploring the surrounding area in shifts. The wizard (me) and our cleric went out exploring while the thieves held down the fort and rested up. We found a candy-themed police state ruled by clockworks, an archaeological dig site, and a literal hedge-knight (made of shrubberies) who's guarding a 600 foot stretch of road that was a holy site before the apocalypse Em from Yuggothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05210504361060221269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-71115738794373895502021-04-02T21:30:10.429-07:002021-04-02T21:30:10.429-07:00Fonkin,
you mean that the cults are summoning the...Fonkin, <br />you mean that the cults are summoning the BLLLLINDHEIM?!Simon Tsevelevhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17713339519093556701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-76624286900836272992021-04-02T10:57:48.171-07:002021-04-02T10:57:48.171-07:001. Taking a break from running my old Pathfinder c...1. Taking a break from running my old Pathfinder campaign (the party is breaking into a safehouse owned by a kabal of rakshasas and about to get an education in evil quasi-Hindu monster lore). <br />2. Teaching myself Stars Without Number to build a possibly ongoing adventure heavily borrowed from Peter Watts and Vernor Vinge.<br />3. Playing in two 5E games: Princes of the Apocalypse and a homebrew campaign as a modron-patronized warlock ex-sailor and a dissolute, wet-brain alcoholic fighter, respectively. The PotA group has investigated all four elemental cults and is heading underground to stop them from summoning everyone's favorite Fiend Folio monsters. I'm still not sure what the homebrew group is trying to accomplish... but there's fighting and undead cyborgs are involved! My bottle is empty. Why is my bottle empty again? <br />4. Playing in my 30+ year AD&D group in a border setting that blendsg Oriental Adventures and Lyonnesse-like, Arthurian rules. We have blundered into a conspiracy of various factions trying to keep/destroy a world-wide magical ban on gunpowder. It's complicated. Fonkinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11936510908865843127noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-40074397220195117122021-04-02T05:33:47.196-07:002021-04-02T05:33:47.196-07:00AD&D2E. The party has just lifted the curse on...AD&D2E. The party has just lifted the curse on the crew of 'Phantom's Wake' and is now exploring a treasure island ruled by ape pirates. I'm looking forward to use the goofy Ape King figure I got from a dime store,it even has an expandable ribcage to snatch unwary attackers with! Deep Onehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16948611193374800079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-57082944789626486952021-04-01T22:01:01.051-07:002021-04-01T22:01:01.051-07:00Update on the D&D game... our first encounter ...Update on the D&D game... our first encounter was with some intelligent chimeric monstrous roosters who charmed us one by one into serving them. We awoke two days later in an alley smelling awful, (they had us clean the coop up and then help them escape the dungeon as they were disinclined to serve the cult there) and had spent the last couple days handing out flyers and literature on the benefits of accepting your rooster overlords.Adamantyrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14962009901412877763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-4107956857484998712021-04-01T15:13:55.605-07:002021-04-01T15:13:55.605-07:00@alephus
all good -- no problem@alephus<br /><br />all good -- no problemZak Sabbathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08812410680077034917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-60005799765245952912021-04-01T15:10:50.069-07:002021-04-01T15:10:50.069-07:001. I don't know.
2. I understand your reasonin...1. I don't know.<br />2. I understand your reasoning.<br />3. I was not meaning to imply anyone was not an abuser, but you have designated them so, hence the reason their products will not be mentioned on your blog. Since, as mentioned in #1, I don't know, I am unwilling to hang that label to them myself. Should I feel compelled to post here again and include the name of a product or creator, I will email you beforehand.<br />4. Solid agrument. I recind my suggestion fully.<br />5. Agreed.<br />6. I will.<br /><br />I try to be careful with my words. I regret my use of quotes on the word: promotion. I feel it reads counter to my attempted use, which is to say it reads as a complaint or dismissal of your claim. I only meant to identify the precise grounds on which you objected to my commentAlephushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11144441785374822765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-9187340277488052562021-04-01T14:45:14.144-07:002021-04-01T14:45:14.144-07:00@Alephus
1. It's not your fault if you didn&#...@Alephus<br /><br />1. It's not your fault if you didn't know.<br /><br />2. If even one human being reads the name of the game and then looks it up and then either plays it or tells someone it exists, you might have (even accidentally) "promoted" it and ended up putting money int he pocket of abusers. That's a terrible outcome for everyone.<br /><br />3. They're not people "I've designated" abusers, they are, 100% totally and objectively abusers. They committed abuses that are easy to prove and there is no dispute that they committed abuses. If you're unaware, again, that's not your fault. If you're curious, check the names of the authors and their internet behavior in february 2019. Or just email me: zakzsmith AT hawtmayle dawt calm .<br /><br />4. Since one of the abusers literal harassment tactics is to say that listing them is "harassment" and make dark allusions to Nixon's "enemy's list" making a public list is a rhetorical risk which I don't need to take right now (they are so busy cancelling each other at the moment that it would be silly to risk more harassment for the sake of call-outs that will be moot in a few weeks or months).<br /><br />5. In this case, since the inconvenience was minor (you posted, it got erased, we are talking about it, no harm no foul) it doesn't seem to require a radical solution.<br /><br />6. However if you ever have a question about whether an RPG person participated int he smear campaign, just ask me.Zak Sabbathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08812410680077034917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-18304934234527802862021-04-01T14:31:16.218-07:002021-04-01T14:31:16.218-07:00I was not aware that answering the first question ...I was not aware that answering the first question with the name of a product by someone that you've designated an abuser constituted "promotion". Perhaps a master list of abusers you've identified would be helpful? I'm not being glib or sarcastic. If my answer to question #1 is the entirety of the offense, I would not be offended by it's exclusion from my post. If the knowledge that my game uses these mechanics is enough to render my answer unproductive or otherwise offensive, so be it. Alephushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11144441785374822765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-74695794833858412602021-04-01T10:52:44.412-07:002021-04-01T10:52:44.412-07:00@anon
No anonymous comments@anon<br /><br />No anonymous commentsZak Sabbathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08812410680077034917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-15422662031483021322021-04-01T09:55:13.837-07:002021-04-01T09:55:13.837-07:00@alephus
unfortunately, I can’t publish your comm...@alephus<br /><br />unfortunately, I can’t publish your comment due to the “don’t promote abusers’ matterial” rule.Zak Sabbathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08812410680077034917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-23677494182402133062021-03-31T21:12:44.537-07:002021-03-31T21:12:44.537-07:00Playing ACKs but with pirated material.Playing ACKs but with pirated material.Arfarfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08824267347868090873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-58557965614522545582021-03-31T15:21:42.294-07:002021-03-31T15:21:42.294-07:001.Running Pendragon with eight players.
2.I'...1.Running Pendragon with eight players. <br /><br />2.I'm in for the long haul in the Great Pendragon Campaign. Right now most of the players are coming back from a successful pre-Arthurian military campaign against East Anglia, while one split off to follow an ordained quest to slay Black Annis.Kyle Tnoreply@blogger.com