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Posted: Sun, 06 Oct 05:05:02
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October 6
October 7
October 8
October 9
October 10
October 11
October 12
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Posted: Sun, 06 Oct 05:05:02
by Steve
October 6
1820- Singer Jenny Lind (The Swedish Nightingale) [microbadge=2321]
1887- Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier [microbadge=34758]
1927- First 'talkie' film, The Jazz Singer premieres [microbadge=3218]
1960- Kubrick's 'Spartacus' premieres - "I'm Spartacus!" [microbadge=7838]
1993- USA basketball player Michael Jordan retires, saying "I have nothing left to prove", before returning in 1995 [microbadge=44027]
????- Chad Bowser
October 7
1571- Allied Christian fleets defeat the Ottoman Turks at Lepanto [microbadge=19786]
1870- Grand Ole Opry star Uncle Dave Macon [microbadge=1346]
1944- At the Dumbarton Oaks conference China, USA, USSR and UK sign the agreement to create the United Nations [microbadge=50235]
1951- American rocker John Cougar Mellencamp [microbadge=20966]
1952- Russian overlord Vladimir Putin [microbadge=2557]
1955- Yo-Yo Ma, one of the few cellists nearly as famous as Leonard or Wednesday [microbadge=10621]
1959- The Dark Side of the Moon seen for the 1st time (via USSR's Luna 3) [microbadge=1143]
1959- Pillow Talk, 1st of seven films featuring Doris Day and Rock Hudson [microbadge=54654]
1996- Fox News channel launched in the USA [microbadge=33174]
October 8
1897- Great Fire of Chicago kills 200 and destroys 4 sq miles of buildings [microbadge=5488]
1943- Comic actor/talk show host Chevy Chase [microbadge=28072]
1948- American guitarist Johnny Ramone of The Ramones [microbadge=3373]
1949- American actress Sigourney Weaver [microbadge=3125] [microbadge=3296]
????- Guyfumble
October 9
1604- Kepler's [microbadge=8935] Supernova[microbadge=5974] is the most recent supernova to be observed within the Milky Way
1940- Musician-songwriter & Beatle John Lennon [microbadge=1904]
1944- John Entwhistle, bassist for The Who [microbadge=12250]
1980- Pope John Paul II [microbadge=9347] greets the Dalai Lama[microbadge=10087] during a private audience in Vatican City
2006- North Korea conducts its first nuclear test [microbadge=34125]
October 10
1731- English chemist-physicist Henry Cavendish, discoverer of hydrogen [microbadge=24886]
1813- Italian Operatic composer Giuseppe Verdi [microbadge=3899]
1917- American Jazz pianist Thelonious Monk [microbadge=1985]
1954- Van Halen singer David Lee Roth [microbadge=2041]
1958- Country singer Tanya Tucker [microbadge=1346]
October 11
1759- Clergyman Mason Locke Weems [microbadge=3112] (Inventor of the story of George Washington and the cherry tree)
1821- Englishman George Williams, founder of the YMCA [microbadge=4183]
1948- Singer Daryl Hall (Hall and Oates) [microbadge=12650]
1975- Saturday Night Live premieres, George Carlin is 1st host [microbadge=36629]
October 12
539 b.C.- Cyrus the Great of Persia conquers Babylon [microbadge=34352]
1492- Columbus lands on an island in the Caribbean, thinks he's reached East Asia [microbadge=6356] (Columbus/Indigenous Peoples Day)
1872- English composer Ralph Vaughn Williams [microbadge=26488]
1935- Italian opera singer Luciano Pavarotti [microbadge=9813]
1968- Australian actor Hugh Jackman [microbadge=9524]
I'm sure this list can be improved. Feel free to offer suggestions for this and upcoming weeks. If you want your birthday included just add it to this geeklist: RPG Geek Birthday List
Reply: The Tavern:: Re: What are you drinking right *now*?
Posted: Sun, 06 Oct 03:59:16
Posted: Sun, 06 Oct 03:59:16
Moscow Mules!
Reply: Player's Handbook (2024):: General:: Re: Do feats make this game harder for beginners?
Posted: Sun, 06 Oct 03:41:53
I found that what complexity was added was mostly at character generation, and even then only when leveling up at level 4, at which poing players tend to understand the system and like the additional thing they can do with their feat.
To each their own of course!
Posted: Sun, 06 Oct 03:41:53
by Dutys_Fist
You're the first, but it's always good to hear a counterpoint.I found that what complexity was added was mostly at character generation, and even then only when leveling up at level 4, at which poing players tend to understand the system and like the additional thing they can do with their feat.
To each their own of course!
Reply: General Role-Playing:: Re: QOTD OCT 4: Character appearance: Have your characters or NPCs had any interesting hair styles or hair styles that had significant meaning in the game? How so?
Posted: Sun, 06 Oct 02:42:09
Posted: Sun, 06 Oct 02:42:09
by AZBarbarian
I had a character with a topknot. Just aesthetics.
Reply: General Role-Playing:: Re: QOTD OCT 4: Character appearance: Have your characters or NPCs had any interesting hair styles or hair styles that had significant meaning in the game? How so?
Posted: Sun, 06 Oct 02:28:39
Interesting hair styles? Sometimes. Mostly in CP2020.
My own varies. Currently hair just outside USAF regulation (bangs touch eyebrows, back touches collar, sides come halfway down the ears. The beard is about 4cm off the chin, 2 on the sides.
Plan is to shave it again down to 1cm everywhere but the chin in the spring.
In the past I've worn it long - back to below bottom of shoulderblades, once got a perm (and it was that long ; Didn't get tight curls, but had a hair-metal look - that was 1996). I've also often taken it down to 1cm. I've donated to Locks of Love thrice... but due to changes in their policies, won't do so again).
I am considering coloring the beard... the hair's not graying, but the beard's graying.
Posted: Sun, 06 Oct 02:28:39
by aramis
Significant meaning? Only in the shortlived Bab5 game...Interesting hair styles? Sometimes. Mostly in CP2020.
My own varies. Currently hair just outside USAF regulation (bangs touch eyebrows, back touches collar, sides come halfway down the ears. The beard is about 4cm off the chin, 2 on the sides.
Plan is to shave it again down to 1cm everywhere but the chin in the spring.
In the past I've worn it long - back to below bottom of shoulderblades, once got a perm (and it was that long ; Didn't get tight curls, but had a hair-metal look - that was 1996). I've also often taken it down to 1cm. I've donated to Locks of Love thrice... but due to changes in their policies, won't do so again).
I am considering coloring the beard... the hair's not graying, but the beard's graying.
Reply: General Role-Playing:: Re: QOTD OCT 1: Has a dream you've had ever inspired something in one of your games?
Posted: Sun, 06 Oct 02:17:11
Plenty of times...
But only one was particularly memorable. I had a recurring nightmare about a nuke, and so I tossed one into the following sunday's Traveller game.
I had a dream where I was drowning in a submarine... so I put a LS failure in to a Star Trek game.
Little things.
Posted: Sun, 06 Oct 02:17:11
by aramis
pdzoch wrote:
A question suggested by [user=Serpentine_C][/user]
Has a dream you've had ever inspired something in one of your games?
Has a dream you've had ever inspired something in one of your games?
Plenty of times...
But only one was particularly memorable. I had a recurring nightmare about a nuke, and so I tossed one into the following sunday's Traveller game.
I had a dream where I was drowning in a submarine... so I put a LS failure in to a Star Trek game.
Little things.
Reply: General Role-Playing:: Re: QOTD SEP 28: What's the ugliest RPG item you own with the best content?
Posted: Sun, 06 Oct 02:10:01
In the US (where RPGgeek is based), it’s perfectly legal to take and share pictures of a book. There are hundreds of thousands of pictures in the database like this.
Only in the context of a review or in an educational context.
Humor requires transformative use - got to do something to it.
Posted: Sun, 06 Oct 02:10:01
by aramis
dysjunct wrote:
tvrud wrote:
There are no images on RPGGeek, and I cannot take photographs and post here as that would be illegal
In the US (where RPGgeek is based), it’s perfectly legal to take and share pictures of a book. There are hundreds of thousands of pictures in the database like this.
Only in the context of a review or in an educational context.
Humor requires transformative use - got to do something to it.
Reply: General Role-Playing:: Re: QOTD OCT 3: Surprise Entrances: What was the best surprise entrance you experienced in an RPG? Who did it and what happened?
Posted: Sun, 06 Oct 02:04:02
PC's are in a small shadowport on Tatooine, picking up a crated Krait Dragon, young one. And, of course, they're there during a Tusken raid. I roll three triumphs, and bring in another minion group...
They roll two triumphs immediately following, and ask for an imperial patrol... of two TIE/gt - which of course, I didn't have stats for... so I just handed them two (for the moment) "ally" TIE/ln on patrol. The tuskens don't make it out. Sometimes the dice giveth, sometimes the dice taketh away. Sometimes both in one scene.
Posted: Sun, 06 Oct 02:04:02
by aramis
FFG SW...PC's are in a small shadowport on Tatooine, picking up a crated Krait Dragon, young one. And, of course, they're there during a Tusken raid. I roll three triumphs, and bring in another minion group...
They roll two triumphs immediately following, and ask for an imperial patrol... of two TIE/gt - which of course, I didn't have stats for... so I just handed them two (for the moment) "ally" TIE/ln on patrol. The tuskens don't make it out. Sometimes the dice giveth, sometimes the dice taketh away. Sometimes both in one scene.
Reply: The Tavern:: Re: What are you drinking right *now*?
Posted: Sun, 06 Oct 01:54:01
Posted: Sun, 06 Oct 01:54:01
by aramis
Decaf black tea. Lipton brand. Sweetened. No longer hot.
Reply: General Role-Playing:: Re: QOTD OCT 2: What tips and techniques have you found helpful for inspiring a creepy or spooky mood when playing RPGs? What ideas would you recommend avoiding?
Posted: Sun, 06 Oct 01:50:42
I found it counterproductive to try anything environmental other than non-bright lighting.
Music makes it hard for me to understand players. Creepy decorations distract, not help.
This may be because most of my groups range from most having mild to moderate neurodivergence to all being mild to just shy of severe neurodivergences.
What does work is, as @AZBarbarian notes, leaving things to their imaginations.. Evoke the images rather than building them.
Posted: Sun, 06 Oct 01:50:42
by aramis
pdzoch wrote:
A question suggested by [user=SeaofStars][/user]
What tips and techniques have you found helpful for inspiring a creepy or spooky mood when playing RPGs? What ideas would you recommend avoiding?
What tips and techniques have you found helpful for inspiring a creepy or spooky mood when playing RPGs? What ideas would you recommend avoiding?
I found it counterproductive to try anything environmental other than non-bright lighting.
Music makes it hard for me to understand players. Creepy decorations distract, not help.
This may be because most of my groups range from most having mild to moderate neurodivergence to all being mild to just shy of severe neurodivergences.
What does work is, as @AZBarbarian notes, leaving things to their imaginations.. Evoke the images rather than building them.
