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Druidic wrote:I used to LARP vampire some years ago

Isn't it ironic that LARP stands for live action role playing yet vampire's are actually undead?!

G_Model101 wrote:

Druidic wrote:I used to LARP vampire some years ago

Isn't it ironic that LARP stands for live action role playing yet vampire's are actually undead?!

Sorry, couldn't resist

Lol

G_Model101 wrote:

Druidic wrote:I used to LARP vampire some years ago

Isn't it ironic that LARP stands for live action role playing yet vampire's are actually undead?!

NO!! what's ironic is that you just tried to rationlize the difference.....

Hrm.

Ok not a gaming moment per se, but inspired by Dawn of War, Soulstorm.

So I'm sitting at work and someone rolls up a bunch of boxes. Someone behind me says "Well we sure do have boxes!" or something equally assinine. I then growl under my breath (But with great verve and passion) while shaking my fists

"METAL BOXES!!"

Only to turn to see that someone was definitely within hearing range and.. is just staring at me. After a few moments of awkward silence they ask if i'll be alright. I feign ignorance...

Non-Warhammer again – this one is a dozy.

While I was in middle school a large group of people started playing a role playing game over the computer headed by a single DM. I don’t know how it was worked out, but the DM had many people playing characters but kept their identities concealed from each other. So a lot of people in my social circles were involved in this game, but they did not know the identities of the people they were interacting with, or even if they were interacting with a PC or a NPC. I was completely ignorant of the game despite many of my friends being involved. One day a friend of mine obviously upset approached me and immediately began the following dialog:

Friend: “Did you castrate, murder, and then hang a someone’s naked body from a tree yesterday?”
Me: “……Yesterday you say, no I can honestly say I did not such thing on that day”
Friend: “Do you know anyone who has?”
Me: “…No?”

Apparently many of the players where acting out their most sadistic impulses on each other. Because only the DM knew the real identities an in school witchhunt occurred by many players in attempts to confront their enemies. Stories would circulate about characters that would murder and defile other player’s characters. People would come into school enraged or near weeping. One friend’s character was murdered during his wedding to another character, his bride was also slain and her soul was trap in a jar preventing him from resurrecting her. Knowing the DM, I would not be surprised if he encouraged players to prey on each other.

Anyway the level of hurt feelings this game generated was rather remarkable. People where very angry and did not know which of their classmates were their foes. Despite having nothing to do with this game I was often accused of being an individual who performed heinous crimes on other players (I always thought people considered me as a nice guy). Many people where trying to sniff out who was who in the game an I was not the only person accused – like I said it was a witchhunt. It just created an unpleasant atmosphere amongst my friends.

Wow. If I ever go back to teaching high school, I am making this game a graded assignment. Long term project for the year.

AlexCage wrote:Hrm.

Ok not a gaming moment per se, but inspired by Dawn of War, Soulstorm.

So I'm sitting at work and someone rolls up a bunch of boxes. Someone behind me says "Well we sure do have boxes!" or something equally assinine. I then growl under my breath (But with great verve and passion) while shaking my fists

"METAL BOXES!!"

Only to turn to see that someone was definitely within hearing range and.. is just staring at me. After a few moments of awkward silence they ask if i'll be alright. I feign ignorance...

God dammit, I have the same problem.

It's too catchy of a saying.

BAWKSES!

Boxxy? Never played Soulstorm too much, what's this metal boxxy thing?

Gwar! wrote:
*Devided by Zero image.*
Sorry, couldn't resist

I passed that house every time I went to my friends house, it's in Houston, TX on the way to Hermann park from the Heights.

Edit:Located on Montrose Boulevard, Art League Houston called this work Inversion: A House Installation by Dan Havel and Dean Ruck. This building was demolished in 2006 to make room for a new Art League building.

Müller wrote:

What the friggin f**k do you guys play with such messed-up rules for to eve begin with? O_o

In my case it was a two day tournament I got bribed into to going to with the promise of good stuffs. There was a list of special abilities that you rolled for and we both got the 'Move the other guy's crap around' ability.

grizgrin wrote:Boxxy? Never played Soulstorm too much, what's this metal boxxy thing?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO3MttgvHUY

Here are the boxes my good Sir.

There's this one guy at my Gaming Club who's just so annoying that im veeeery reluctant to play him.

Firstly, it's his choice of armies... in WHFB he plays Woodelves, correction... he plays Wood without the elves. Usually three treemen, and then treekin and dryads to fill out the points.
Then we have his Empire army, Karl Franz on a dragon, and a gunline of cannons, handgunners, outrunners and hellblasters.
He has an army of skaven aswell, including two giants, as many jezails as possible Quik Headtaker and Deathmaster snickch. :(
In 40k he used to play necrons with three monoliths and a s**tload of destroyers.
Now he plays nids' with max boosted fexes and tyrants... yes i know that the lists are perfectly legal and such but wtf, we are talking friendly games here.

Secondly he's a paragraphrider, always checking stuff up in the rulebook if it's not in his favor and gets cranky when someone else want to check something up.

And finally all his armies are unpainted... and has been so for the last two years.


I just want to bring my GN Grand-Master and slay his fexes with one blow and see how he reacts to the "slain outright rule"

fabbes wrote:I just want to bring my GN Grand-Master and slay his fexes with one blow and see how he reacts to the "slain outright rule"

Yes, do let me know when Sweden burns to the ground

I had a pretty awkward d20 gaming moment that at least ended on an amusing note a few years ago. My fiancee (girlfriend at the time) was among the four girls playing out of eight players. Seeing the unusually high 1:1 ratio of genders, one of the players, whom after much deliberation after the fact was declared a complete gakker, decided it was a great idea to seduce one of the female characters each game night. The GM let him go ahead with this for some reason, but when he got to my girlfriend's character he was exuding far too much smug satisfaction in making her character cheat on me with him. When his dice were rolled to seduce her, though, it turned out he wasn't smooth enough, and she told my character the next morning. When I called him out on it, he immediately decided to challenge me to a duel, with the unsaid idea that he would take her for his own if he killed me.
"As a sorcerer of illusion and charm, I will have you fighting shades that don't exist!" he told me. After I finished melting him into a misshapen organ pile, I told the corpse "Yeah, they taught me how to deal with that in the warmage college." Soon thereafter, his antics broke up the campaign, and he hasn't been allowed into another one since.

Mellon wrote:@Wittzo and Druidic: Gaming events can be a pretty good equalizer for different age groups. Maybe because it brings out the child in us all, maybe because it is less about what you do with your "normal" life, and more about what you do with the hobby. It does give me a bit of a strangely mixed feeling of "awww, that's so cute" and "my god, I'm getting old and Alzheimers" when I get beaten by opponents that are younger than my models. But that age equalizer effect also makes it a bit risky to flirt with people at gaming occasions. Last time I hooked up with someone at a larp event, it later turned out that one of the defining moments of my student years, (namely when Curt Cobain shot himself in -94), happened while he was still in diapers. That felt really awkward.

I met a bunch of younger guys playing and brought them into the fold this last year. We were playing at a Pizza place with a huge party room we had to ourselves all day. He plays Tau, I play Dark Angels. He had just killed my Chaplain in hand to hand with one of his crisis suits and I picked up the figure and said,"Daaak, I..am..your..father! Take my mask off son, so I can see you with my...own..eyes." He then said,"Noooooo!" I sobered up and said,'Yeah, but Dak I am your daddy!" I do that all the time to mess with him.

To all the Vampire LARPers: I heard so many horror stories about people getting sucked into the game, I didn't want anything to do with it. My friends lived in the country near a very small town. If the general populace saw them playing, they would get their ass beat at school or work, so they were very private, playing in the back yard so their neighbors wouldn't see. They told me about one guy who dressed like Crow with a trenchcoat and white facepaint. This guy started acting like a jerk and cheating like crazy. He got pissed and went to his car in full makeup and got a BB gun and started "shooting" the other players, breaking the rules of Vampire as well as basic gun safety; no weapons of any sort are allowed at all, guns are always to be treated as loaded, don't point a gun at something you don't want to destroy. The game fell apart, he wouldn't leave, they forced him to his car, but he kept cocking the pistol and "shooting" them in the front yard and the group broke up. The host was worried someone would call the police if they saw him dressed like the movie character/wrestler shooting a pistol at people and they definitely didn't want that aggravation.

Darkreaver55 wrote:I had a pretty awkward d20 gaming moment that at least ended on an amusing note a few years ago. My fiancee (girlfriend at the time) was among the four girls playing out of eight players. Seeing the unusually high 1:1 ratio of genders, one of the players, whom after much deliberation after the fact was declared a complete gakker, decided it was a great idea to seduce one of the female characters each game night. The GM let him go ahead with this for some reason, but when he got to my girlfriend's character he was exuding far too much smug satisfaction in making her character cheat on me with him. When his dice were rolled to seduce her, though, it turned out he wasn't smooth enough, and she told my character the next morning. When I called him out on it, he immediately decided to challenge me to a duel, with the unsaid idea that he would take her for his own if he killed me.
"As a sorcerer of illusion and charm, I will have you fighting shades that don't exist!" he told me. After I finished melting him into a misshapen organ pile, I told the corpse "Yeah, they taught me how to deal with that in the warmage college." Soon thereafter, his antics broke up the campaign, and he hasn't been allowed into another one since.

Back when my first group was playing AD&D/2nd Edition, M & D were married. T's character had a thing for D's character, so he tried to seduce her all of the time. M worked at a plant, so he got tired and sleepy and sometimes would fall asleep during the roleplaying parts. When that happened, T's character would really put the mack on D's character. Later we figured out that T had a real crush on D, and she crushed back on T...When she got a divorce, T had married someone else by that time, but he thought about D all the time. And then the music starts And These Are the Days of Our Lives....

When we had just started playing D&D, our DM got called by his wife to the bedroom to "fix a shelf" real quick. We started reading the PHB so we could tweak our characters with spells and gear after we rose a level or got gold for the adventure. After waiting about ten minutes or so for him to get back, one of the guys went to the door. He said,"Well, I guess we're done for tonight, they're not fixing shelves." "Well, crap!" So we went to town to find something else to do. Luckily, we didn't hear anything, that would be too gross.

@wittzo - that last one was really funny, thanks for sharing.

That said, you're aware of the multi-quote option, right?
- click on the [""" ] button for each post you want to reply to, then
- click on the [post reply] button
They'll all be there for you to reply to.

It's always the idiots that gets all the media and rumour attention.

I ended up playing a really good friend of mine in the second round of a local RTT. I was playing 'Scars and he had his Nurgle marine army (this is WAYY back in 3rd edition). I went first, hit & wounded almost everything I shot at & he failed alomst every save he had to make. His turn and he either couldn't hit me/wound me or I saved everything. Second turn, went same as the first, except I was in HtH also. By the end of the second turn, he was COMPLETELY tabled - nothing left. I thought he was going to cry. Worst part was the ride home - together. VERY uncomfortable....

Oops! Double post....

wittzo wrote:To all the Vampire LARPers: I heard so many horror stories about people getting sucked into the game, I didn't want anything to do with it. My friends lived in the country near a very small town. If the general populace saw them playing, they would get their ass beat at school or work, so they were very private, playing in the back yard so their neighbors wouldn't see. They told me about one guy who dressed like Crow with a trenchcoat and white facepaint. This guy started acting like a jerk and cheating like crazy. He got pissed and went to his car in full makeup and got a BB gun and started "shooting" the other players, breaking the rules of Vampire as well as basic gun safety; no weapons of any sort are allowed at all, guns are always to be treated as loaded, don't point a gun at something you don't want to destroy. The game fell apart, he wouldn't leave, they forced him to his car, but he kept cocking the pistol and "shooting" them in the front yard and the group broke up. The host was worried someone would call the police if they saw him dressed like the movie character/wrestler shooting a pistol at people and they definitely didn't want that aggravation.

I call shenanigans.

A bit awkward moment this weekend...

I was bored, fiance was busy, nothing to do. So I finally decided to run up to my somewhat local GW and check out the mega-battles that they run on sundays. Well I get there and it was all 6-12 year olds (I'm 23). It quickly turned from me participating in the battle, to me helping the other with rules, etc. along with the Red-shirt organizing the battle. Overall it wasn't horrible, and the kids actually were pretty well behaved, but some of the questions and actions that happened during the game were just LOL. Some of the questions:

"If my Carnifex has strength 9 and his marine has strength 4, how many attacks do I get?"
"How many terminators can fit in a drop pod?"
"Hey, I forgot to deep strike my units. Can I go ahead and deep strike them now?" (During opponents turn)
..countless "What is the str", "how many attacks", etc. questions.

It didn't bother me too much, mainly since I was so desperately bored beforehand, but also since it kinda gave me a chance to help some of these kids learn the rules better. However, one thing that did bother me, and I'm sure many other people, is when kids want to pick up and touch all your painted stuff that you worked hard on. I'm always worried they are going to drop it or mess it up in some way.

I'll go up there again, but I'm probably going to try to avoid their mega-battles from here on out.

40K related

When I was in middle school I went to my local game store to pick up a copy of WD. I met someone I knew and had a nice conversation with them while holding the magazine. I then proceeded to walk out of the store with the magazine. While opening the door I hear a gruff voice say, “Are you going to pay for that?” I froze; it felt like waking up in a room holding a smoking gun with a body on the floor. I apologized and gave the man his coin. He was well humored about it and even made a joke about me missing a necessary step in commerce. It’s good to be a person in good standing and an established customer. Everyone there knew that I was not a shoplifter just forgetful, I would rather be thought of as idle brained than a theft.

Here’s a topper it involves the police and it’s another vamp one.

A group of my friends drive by my house and tell me to get in we’re going laser tagging, and to bring my bunny necklace (long story, but it is a necklace I made out of a stuff bunny as a gag). They said that they wanted it for intimation. We took two cars and the guy I was riding with was not a vampire himself but dated one and had LARP stuff in his car. The first car took off and we headed off ourselves.

While we’re driving my friend decides to gun past one of his buddies house blasting the horn. Two seconds later flashing lights are behind us; we pull off to a shoulder. Two cops approach us and start talking to the driver while my friend reaches for his registration, when he opens the glove box a plastic baggy falls out with some weird residue on it. (Completely innocent guck). The cops take the bag and ask if we have any weapons in the car – we say no, the driver forgot about the LARP stuff he was towing around for his girlfriend.

They take us out of the car and ask us to empty our pockets onto the ground. Out comes the rabbit necklace. The cops flip out and kept going over it with their flashlights. “What is that, what is that!?!” I stated that it was a bunny necklace; they didn’t want to talk me after that. Right now the two cops seem a bit jumpy and nervous, they are keeping their hands on their guns, we were a grimy lot after all. When our driver asked them if they knew the time the officer responded, “I not telling you anything until you explain to me why that guy has a rabbit necklace”, my friend responded “…For intimidation”. After they search us the cops open up the car.

They produce, and I am might be a little off here, seven baseball bats, seven bibles, an excess of duct tape and rope, eyeless hoods, and a starter pistol. At this point the cops are really freaking out and my friends in the first car started to wonder what’s taking us and loops around. My friend in the first car pulls in behind the cops, which really freaks them out. Not that I blame them, this is the part in the movie where the cultist swarm them and tear them to pieces. I don’t remember if the cops pulled their guns or not, but they seemed close to it.

They yell at the second car, you really should not pull up behind a cop with a car full of people. The situation deescalated after we got a chance to plea our case and the cops realized that the necklace was crafted from a toy rabbit not a real one. They took the starter gun and the plastic baggy for testing. They let us go with a warning. We then went laser tagging and I let one of my friends were the necklace at his request.

What?? Really?

That's crazy Grunt 13, that is scary.

Still, glad that you got away safely


Another Awkward Moment: Gaming

Ok, so I'm playing a game of Fantasy, 'bout 1,000 points, when all of a sudden my friend (not the HE player) walks up and asks if we're gonna play 40k

I said yes, and eventually I was playing with my friend (Tau) and I (Orks) VS. Space Marines (Dark Angels) and (Black Templar)

The Tau player, though not new, isn't used to playing the game. Therefore, I often gave him some advice. The Dark Angels player goes on ranting that "I'm basically playing the game for the Tau Player"

I took great offense at this. I mean, he rarely plays the game. Besides, it's not like he didn't do anything at all. He often took out key targets (Sword Bretheren, etc.) without my telling him so.

JohnHwangDD wrote:@wittzo - that last one was really funny, thanks for sharing.

That said, you're aware of the multi-quote option, right?

I am now, thank you.. Now I don't look like a hijacker.

Nydhog wrote:

I call shenanigans.

Honest, they still burn people at the stake for playing D&D around here, much less running around pretending to be vampires..Rock, Paper, Satan!

Grunt 13 about creative shopping: I walked out of my accountant's office after he did my taxes a few days ago. We were chitchatting and I forgot to pay for the tax prep. He came to the door as I was getting into my car and asked if I wanted him to send him a bill or what..I told him that I forgot all about it and wrote out a check right there..

Grunt13 and the po-po: Me and some buddies were coming from my friend's apartment to go to another friend's house. We had my NES and a bunch of games and other consoles and a whole lot of stuff. For all intents and purposes, we looked like we were either going to a gaming party (which was a new concept in the early 90's) or we just stole some stuff. A cop pulled us over because Mike bought the car that day and didn't even have a temporary tag. I'm sure if we were of another ethnicity, our systems would have been impounded until we produced receipts. That sort of nonsense still happens.

@wittzo:

Back in the late '90's my friend's mom had a real estate office, and there was a lounge in the back where we used to hang out and play video games. I was on post-bootcamp leave from the Navy and we were hanging out there.

We were leaving at about 2 in the morning, with I think a Playstation, an N64, and a TV. A cop pulled up thinking we were stealing a bunch of electronic equipment from a business. They didn't seem like they believed out story, and by the time they finally got ahold of my friend's mom, there were 3 cop cars there, and I was pretty much just joking around and being a smartass with the cops.

willydstyle wrote:and I was pretty much just joking around and being a smartass with the cops.

Always an advisable strategy...