17 Responses to “I’d Hit That With My Axe”

1. Jack T Robyn Posted: Mar 18th, 2010 at 11:06 am

   1 What is it about girls playing rogues? And evil wizards? I suppose if you consider it as an empowering fantasy, played by those often oppressed by the rules, real and unwritten, of society, the need for the ladies to stick it to the man, in the crotch, and set him on fire becomes quite understandable.

2. CharmCityShinobi Posted: Mar 18th, 2010 at 1:35 pm

   2 I’ve actually been reading the blog of the DM in that (Zak) and he’s a solid writer with good ideas and concepts for D&D. As you suspect, and according to him, later episodes will be much more entertaining. Character creation is never fun, it’s more about the role playing. Granted, that doesn’t mean this is going to be a great series in its own right, but I think it’s worth giving later episodes a chance. For those interested, Zak’s blog is http://dndwithpornstars.blogspot.com/

3. Taellosse Posted: Mar 18th, 2010 at 2:08 pm

   3 I’ll second CharmCityShinobi–I’ve been reading Zak’s blog for about 2 months now, and it’s pretty solid. Despite the content warning when you load the page, there’s rarely anything NSFW. However, there IS such content occasionally. I can recall at least 2 occasions when there were photos of naked boobs in a post. Which, of course, is nothing to complain about–just something to be aware of.

4. brian Posted: Mar 18th, 2010 at 6:44 pm

   4 I call bull crap on character creation being boring. To watch? Sure. To do? No funner thing (for me.) I play Pen & Paper RPG games to make characters. I’ve made characters for games I’ve never played (couldn’t find anybody else to play) and really enjoy that part of the process. Also, True story, Jamie will play at least one One Shot D&D game I’m going to run sometime. I demand it.

5. Archon Posted: Mar 18th, 2010 at 10:42 pm

   5 I could barely bring myself to watch the entire thing. Actually, I don’t think I made it all the way to the end. Just way too boring.

6. FmF Posted: Mar 18th, 2010 at 11:40 pm

   6 I don’t know the we got in to a bar fight so we burn down the bar and kill a couple of guard’s was funny to me but most of it was dull.I all way want to try D&D but i don’t think i have enough friend willing to try it.

7. Jamie Posted: Mar 18th, 2010 at 11:50 pm

   7 Author Comment Ah, I should amend that. The time when I actually played, I do remember having a lot of fun creating my character. Watching that shit, though, boring. A group of friends and I tried to get a game started in college, but then life intervened and kind of kicked our gaming nights in the balls. Just haven’t had time to get back in to it. And now, all the people who might want to live no where near where I do. Booo!

8. advflynn Posted: Mar 19th, 2010 at 2:10 am

   8 sucks, just found out frankie is just a hairdresser

9. Amaniwolf Posted: Mar 19th, 2010 at 8:07 am

   9 I’ve been running table-top rpgs for the better part of 26 years, the character creation can be slow, but depending on who’s playing and who’s running it can still be a fun process. If you’re ever in the CT area Jaime, you got an invite. lol!

10. Jacques Lippman Posted: Mar 19th, 2010 at 8:14 am

    10 hmmm yeah i can roll with this aha

11. Burning Fool Posted: Mar 19th, 2010 at 11:05 am

    11 That was interesting. Though they were wrong about what a Tiefling is. As for watching people playing being boring, that’s a bit of a two edged sword (how appropriate). It’s fun to see the players reactions and conversations and whatnot, but yeah, it does get a bit boring when they actually start playing the game. Still, the PA D&D podcasts were damn entertaining, as were the Robot Chicken ones, so who knows. Using The Sword as background music was an awesome choice, considering I listen to them when trying to hash out campaign or character ideas. Awesome, awesome band. You should check them out. That is all.

12. Jamie Posted: Mar 19th, 2010 at 11:08 am

    12 Author Comment I think when it gets to the actual playing it’ll get more interesting. I’ll tune in for the second episode.

13. Kunoichi Posted: Mar 19th, 2010 at 12:49 pm

    13 Jack: just for the record, I am a woman, and my preferred class types are ranger, snipers, and martial artists. I just go against the corebook artwork and give my characters actual *clothes*. I don’t know why all of you have trouble making/joining a RP group. Surely you have a local gaming or comic book store that at the least has a little corkboard with “want to join” and “want to start” ads. And there are websites out there that cater to people in odd places wanting groups (I joined a english-language rp group in tokyo this way). And then, if you have far-flung buddies, several messaging programs have little dice-roller programs. I’ve played a lot of “table top” games over Ventrilo and AIM.

14. FmF Posted: Mar 19th, 2010 at 1:39 pm

    14 @Kunoichi Are you suggesting all regular commenter get together on vent for D&D?That sound like a confusingly massive game with a lot of swearing.I’m in!

15. CharmCityShinobi Posted: Mar 19th, 2010 at 2:06 pm

    15 GoogleWave is becoming increasingly more suited for doing long distance table top games. As of right now, it has a dice roller and is great for communal post by post games. I use it for skill challenges and story progression between in person sessions in my game. This allows me to flesh out the details more clearly when the players ask questions about an area or are progressing from waypoint to waypoint. The same goes for them when they need to decide what they want to do. Since skill challenges are almost nothing but rolling dice, it makes sense to keep them in a wave. That way, when we do get our chance to meet once a week, we can go straight into dungeon crawls or battle scenes. They also allow just about any sort of file type to be uploaded to the waves for everyone to download. If you had to have a game that was strictly long distance, the DM could (with a bit of extra effort) create the maps digitally, or scan them, and overlay a grid so everyone can determine their placement and movement. Sort of like a long distance chess game. Then after each round, the DM would just reupload the map with the new positions. Technology can be a beautiful thing.

16. Jamie Posted: Mar 19th, 2010 at 2:12 pm

    16 Author Comment @CharmCityShinobi, nice! The Wave turns out to be good for something!

17. Grinner Posted: Mar 20th, 2010 at 8:40 am

    17 I was using wave for gaming with some of our remote players, it was alright but required that everyone in the game understood Wave and had a repository of graphics at their disposal. Instead we use RPTools which is an open source collection of gaming tools written in Java. The main one is really slick, MapTool. It is a client/server map display/sharer which allows for both hex and square grids and does some cool lighting tricks as well. On a more related to the post note, a friend of mine hosts a site which is basically exhibitionist gamers and other geeky-activity-type ladies. Fun times really They’re still trying to determine how to make the site actually pay for itself and any suggestions input from anyone is totally welcome. (the site is gnymphs.net if you’re interested — certainly not work safe)