Rychord just gave me a copy of Witcher 2 in exchange for a copy of DOTA2 that I don't even remember why I had it and that I certainly didn't actually pay for, so, you know, he's excellent.

Why do game night folks keep giving me singleplayer games you are tearing me apart

Holy crap, I really need to learn how to stop streaming. At least I got story time with Deni. That was fun. But yeah I need to not do this until 5 AM. It is dumb.

I can't get over how awesome jump kicks were with friendly fire.

It's because we know that the person who is most likely to outwit Pang is Pang himself.

So basically, for purposes of torture.

About Runebound, I had a chance to play 3 or 4 games over the holidays (some with variants), and it is entirely possible for it to work within one game night session.

The setup/rules explanation is really not too big of a deal, just getting a grasp on combat, which is simple enough yet not so much so that the results are telegraphed, and learning about attributes, challenge, and shopping, basically. Think Hero Quest in terms of simplicity, with maybe a slight bit of complexity added the first go round. The game is also pretty much idiot proof, except for a few situations which we may have to house rule. My brother's GF and another one of my brothers, both without any real RPG experience were both able to join in just fine and follow the action.

We just need to make sure we adjust experience requirements for leveling so that the game doesn't take too long to get interesting. As an example, the first game we played (4 players) took about 5 hours with lots of breaks for drinks and such. On the other hand, the last game we played (again 4 players) lasted 8 hours, and we didn't even complete the end phase. This is precisely because we didn't adjust leveling properly owing to the two rather complex variants we added, which multiplied the difficulty and hence made it very difficult to survive even mid level challenges.

Since we are playing the base game, with proper leveling it shouldn't last more than 3 or 4 hours though, and I'll make sure we set the leveling to match up with the time frame and the number of players.

Just to remind everybody after the long break, we're back in business tonight at the usual time. I can't think of a better way to start a new year of Game Night than to clumsily bumble through a game we don't understand via an application we've never used before.

(Is there any chance to squeeze the game down to 3 hours? Cuz, y'know.)

Even though the game rules say 2 to 4 hours with suggested experience curve, I say we knock it down, as I can tell from experience that it doesn't apply when everyone is new.

Experience really is the key factor in determining length, so I say we settle for levels starting at 1 XP for the first few (the exact number of levels depending on how many people show up), 2 XP for the next few (ditto), and then 3 XP thereafter. That should make it largely possible to have a winner within 3 hours.

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We can also add runes to the board to make it go even faster, especially if 4 or more of us show up.

Since i'm back at school and working tonight, i might show up late, assuming i make it back in time for showing up to be worth it. Took a poke around ZunTzu though, and it looks amazing. once you get used to the controls, it seems like it could be really smooth and a solid game night platform for whatever we feel like doing.

Disappointed by the fact that the Formula De link didn't work to the point that i actually signed up for the forums there and asked if anyone would fix it. Which i never do. So yeah. Excited. :eagletear:

Yeah the file curating on their site is terrible and totally dependent on users uploading shit to random places and passing the links on. So if anyone sees a game they'd like to try sometime and the link still works, I'd advise grabbing it now because it might not be available tomorrow.

I understand why they don't want to be directly responsible for hosting a full copy of, say, Chaos In The Old World, but damn, the number of dead links on the file page is disgusting.

If you're desperate to give ID money, you can get the Doom 3 BFG edition (Includes Doom 1 and 2) for Xbox 360 for under a tenner pretty much everywhere online now too.

You guys have a grand time. I won't be making it tonight.

Whatever you guys end up playing please make an NPC a garden gnome and tell me the results. <3~

wait what are we playing

I thought we were playing chivalry

shit what do I have to download

turns out i don't have work this evening, so i'll be back in a bit after taking a look at a friend's computer

We're playing Runebound, and there are three things you need, all in my post here.

Pang always lists the coming events in the first post of the thread, just so you know. :cmb:

I am so handswim.

I'm so hungry :(

Jokes, you know? I am good at them.

Ok so um for the benefit of.... well Skills, I guess, let me just reiterate that we're going to try to finish this business next week. Hopefully now that we (mostly) know what the fuck we're doing we can play a little more aggressively.

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I saved the gamestate as I saw it the next morning before turning the thing off. Hope that's ok.

Also I'll host again, but what are we doing w/r/t players. I can sit out if Acer wants my guy (and promises to kill Rychord)

Well, nobody was really close to winning, so I figured we could just give Acer his own dude and then give him whatever the average number of gained levels is.

Keep beating your head against that rock son. Surely it'll turn to pudding to exalt you soon.

I can promise you'll run out of stameena before I do