Ray emailed this to our group, but didn't post it here.

ok, need to watch that whole thing after work. that is awesome.

That was funny ! Need to forward this to my RPing friends at once - and wait for the screams of outrage! Mwahahahahaha...

So, anyone else see what I see here?

Remember that video I linked to at the beginning of the page? Now you, too, can play the game.

My attempts to convert my writing group into a roleplaying group are progressing relatively smoothly. It's going to be interesting to story tell for writers. The game will be second ed. Werewolf, although a few players *NEED* to play vampires, so I have a first storyline that will make everyone happy, I think.

Two words, Tongster:

Awe. Some.

One of our gamers had a birthday two days ago. I'm thinking of ordering it for him.

Few moments are as precious in gaming as the first night you get drunk and, because your GM is leaving, you kill an annoying local celebrity and drink his soul

RIP, Ben Lee. You were... annoying, and we needed your soul to stop the Hare Krishnas' mind control songs. Plus, i got the theatre where you died named after me, so go Signifcant Urbanomancer Charged!

You will be missed. Kinda.

Man, i love Unknown Armies

Lawful Neutral is still off. Cmon, St Cuthbert is LN? Wee Jas is better, but still. Boccob is close, but too abstract.

I'm thinking cold amoral calculation, like the evil Beast. Something equally comfortable with LG or LE.

St. Cuthbert is about the administration of the law, regardless of its relative goodness or evil. He stands against destruction and, yes, chaos, and so often ends up working on the side of good as the evil side of chaos is far more destructive than the good side, but them's the breaks.

The difference is this: a cleric of Pelor and a cleric of St. Cuthbert are called to pass sentence on a man who has stolen one of the king's hinds. The penalty should be twenty years in prison and the death of the man's firstborn. The cleric of St. Cuthbert throws the man into whatever jail happens to be handy and draws his sword to killt he boy, knowing that justice will be done. The cleric of Pelor agrees, but asks if the court would consider hard labour in the farmfields of the Church of Pelor to be a sufficient sentence, and reminds the court that a youth who agrees to accept the robes of Pelor takes on a completely new identity and persona. In a sense, they "die."

Both characters seek to have justice done, but one has mercy, the other does not.

You're going to have to do better than "but still" for Wee Jas. She embodies magic and death, two things that have a tremendous number of rules. Yes, sorcerors draw on strange and eldritch powers, but they put on their boots of air one foot at a time, just like wizards.

Energy and entropy are innately rules-oriented, and so innately lawful. They're also innately amoral, and so innately neutral. Where's the "but still?"

Boccob has been changed in third edition, and in a way that I don't like. He's like the male counterpart to Wee Jas, when before he was the Archmage, but also the god of the balance and of foresight. His name was The Uncaring God, which is pretty much what you're looking for.

It's that St Cuthbert's still about vengeance, he still comes off as a do-gooder. There's that Saint bit in there, and the Abrahamic religions seem more CG than anything else. I'd like something more inhuman, implacable, like Nemesis or the Norns.

Balancing can go past emotion. Like someone does a good deed in secret and the forces of Order make sure that he's rewarded, even if he doesn't want payment.

Boccob and Wee Jas are so inert. How about something with more of an agenda, a god or a race that abhors and actively opposes chaos? There are lots of species from chaos planes, but the Lawful guys are such serene Buddhas that they just watch.

The Fomorians are interesting.

What about the Inevitables and the rilmani? They tend to punish particular acts against the order of things, and the rilmani are more neutral than anything else, but they both do about the same thing.

Then drop the "St." from the name and call him "Cuthbert" or rename him.

So, I thought I would ask the opinions of gamer dads on the board. How long after the birth of your child did you wait before gaming again?

I remember when Mike thought he'd miss one weekend, and be good to go two weeks after the James was born.

The rest of us laughed and laughed and laughed. And boy, were we shocked when we got an email from him cancelling that game.

I started gaming about a month and a half after Graeme was born. Of course, Graeme was a good kid even then, just eating, and then sleeping, and Christy was gaming with us, so both parents were present to help out.

I just discovered that one of TLOML's friends from childhood (whose wedding I attended) created a superhero-themed roleplaying game called To Be A Hero. Anyone heard of it? I took a look a t the book and there are some pretty interesting elements for character creation.

I don't generally go for superhero books that come with a setting, so, no, I haven't looked at it, though I have seen it.

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Originally posted by Matrix Destiny:
So, I thought I would ask the opinions of gamer dads on the board. How long after the birth of your child did you wait before gaming again?

I'm not a dad, but my husband is, and he's our GM.
I think we went for a month or so after Kasper was born when we both were just too tired to play.

I made my own gods. There's ten of them, and a few are heavily based on other deities. They are based on the elements, with four good and four evil gods, with a two neutral gods, a druidic life goddess and a god of death. The two air gods are basically Bahamut and Tiamat in all but name. Then, I patched the holes with a few hero-gods for flavor. Instant pantheon, and the best part is, you get to decide the personalities with as little or as much detail as you'd like.

Dweller: I'm thinking of pulling a play from your book and digitizing most of my game info before I leave for Japan. I'm thinking of making individual spread sheets for spells, items, monsters, npcs, towns, etc. Any advice?
Thanks!