Away From SQL
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Role-playing refers to the many paper-and-pencil games where you take on a personality of your character to interact with the "world". It's similar to an interactive story where there is no script. It uses dice and maps and some of them also employ miniature rules similar to a strategy board game. The most popular is Dungeons and Dragons, but there tons of them out there covering science fiction, fantasy, super heroes, the Old West, spy-thriller, vampire/goth, etc.
Given the right group of people, role-playing can be great fun! And yes, to do it properly you must eat a lot of sugar, salt, and caffeine so the junk food is pivotal to proper role-playing.
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RE: JT lovell ...I wasn't surprised; not even on an 1 on a d6.
I'll search for secret doors this round.
Loads of fun, that stuff, rpging, I should have included that in my hobbies.
I just don't have the time for it, sadly anymore.
And Shushy .. think "Lord of the Rings" but you as the 'rpger' make the decisions the character makes. broken up into well now 10 second periods of time.
LARPing seems to be all the rage these days. Too much running and swinging for the likes of me.
I preferred Sunny Delight and Sour creme and onion rippled pototo chips for the marathon length sessions. All time record in my youth was 28 hours, dammit I didn't think my dming for warhammer was that good but well the good old group wasnt going to let a silly thing like sleep interfer with a good amount of dice rolling.
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I'm in the same boat. Enjoy it when I have the time, but it's been almost a year since I've played. Even that was intermittent at best.
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as soon as I read JT's post it triggered memories of the other one long ago where you met a gruesome death....and I believe it was Brian (kelley) who set it off with "it is pitch black you are..." and I thought the same thing...wonder how GPF...missed mentioning this on his list...
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My main hobbies are Aikido and computer graphics.
After a day at work it's great to step onto the mat and forget everything except the partner you're working with and the technique that's been done. I made shodan last year (1st degree black belt) and hence I get to teach from time to time now.
I've been doing 3d graphics since varsity days. Much of my older work is up on my website, though the site's very out-of-date.
In addition I do archery and spend every other saturday afternoon out on the range. Most sundays are taken up with role-playing. I play in a Forgotten Realms campaign and GM a d20 modern campaign. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role-playing_game)
I'm trying to get into writing but I'm usually short ideas or time or more usually both)
Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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and just one 3.5 D&D comment... where did the weapon speeds go
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Weapon speeds? What the hell are weapon speeds? (coming from someone who started with D&D 3.0)
Pleae, don't let this deteriorate into a 2nd ed vs 3rd ed argument. There's better places for that.
Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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I'm not arguing it. It just made more sense that it might take longer to swing a (heavy damage causing) polearm or sword around rather than take a stab with a dagger.
But weapon speeds are applied (usually added...+2 short sword I think to +8 for a two handed) to initative rolls, there were spell modifiers for casting spells and such as well. And magic items that could improve that further by lowering the number hoping your action would more likey transpire first.
But I also enjoyed initiative every round not just once a combat.
There I got it off my chest.
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Wow, used to be a D&D'er back in the early eightys and loved it. Tried to get my 13 year old interested a couple years ago, but it wasn't "cool". I would have thought Harry Potter would have made it so, but apparently not around here.
I personally preferred the analog gaming to the computer gaming. Just hard to get 3 or 4 people together and a decent dungeon master willing to run the game without playing.
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Fine.
I'll DM the game.
But were playing version 3.5 with some sort of weapon speeds system and rolling intiative each round.
PM if you are interested, we can set up some sort of web cam chat system. I'm willing to do it if we play once a week. Obviously the weekends are best.
Maybe I can build or find some sort of whiteboard app where we can all draw out moves each round.
Changes from version 2 - 3.5
give or take...
no more one minute rounds...
rounds are 10 seconds..
you travel past an opponent they get a free swing at you.. shushy would love that... i think she specialised in it.
to be continued.... work calls...
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Poker; I love poker, mainly texas hold-em ring games. Been playing for about 6 years. It's been super popular lately, which is fun (lots of fish!). New hobby is watching Poker on DVD.
Movies; adore movies. I like all movies, but lately I've been in to Japanese and Korean films (Old Boy, Oasis, Bright Future). They are doing pretty cool things with film. I love dogme style movies as well; Julian Donkey Boy (Harmony Korine) is probably my favorite movie.
Total, I have 500+ DVDs and VHSes. Trying to get them organized, but I'll probably never get it done until I can use a database (I find organization in the analog world more difficult than it should be).
I read at least one book a week; sometimes more. I read all types, from John Irving to Stephen King. I'm particularly fond of the new sci-fi (Neil Stephenson and Cory Doctorow are particular faves), but I also love the old masters (PKD and Heinlein in particular). As long as it's good; if I want my brain numbed I watch TV. I'm currently reading the Otherland series by Tad Williams. I usually don't like his style, but this series is pretty darn good.
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Calvin,
I have the same problem with analog organization. Here's something that *really* helped me to get organized: http://www.thepapertiger.com/
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The paper tigers's initiative is 3 ... with two claw attacks 1d6 x2 and a bite for 1d8... whats everyone doing this round.
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Thanks for the tip, JT; I'll have to check it out.
Honestly, I'm annoyed I have to organize my movies at all. I mean; come on...here's how I would like to be able to alphabetize my movies:
select Name
from Movie
Order by Name
Or....
select c.Name, m.Name
From Movie m
JOIN Genre g on m.genreid = g.genreid
where g.Name = 'science fiction' and m.rating > 5
order by m.rating
Or whatever...you get the point. And probably a nice GUI or something would be appropriate, with some web service hooks into imdb to pull down meta-data about the movies.
I've actually started setting this up, but it's only so useful while my DVDs are sitting on a shelf instead of on my hard drive. It's really annoying that it's illegal to organize your DVDs in a non-analog way (Jukebox? Please!). Welcome to Brazil, ladies and gentleman. OK, maybe not that bad yet, but just wait.
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The best thing about the Paper Tiger system isn't their software app, it's their methodolgy. Basically the premise is that there's really no need to alphabetize or even order things at all. You just assign a number (PK anyone?) to an item and put it in a location (FK anyone?).
For instance, my paycheck stubs for 2005 are in F3 (financial location, #3 folder). If I run out of room and need a new folder for 2006 then they may end up in F27. The files aren't sorted at all, only the index is that I use to find my files.
The biggest challenge I had in my office were papers and CDs (application discs, backup disks, project files, etc). So I bought 6 CD binders, and labeled them with their subject, such as GAMES for my games CDs, WORK for my work backups, etc (these are new locations). Then each slot in the binder gets a number. Then You put CDs in anyway they'll go, label the CDs themselves (so if you remove them you an find their slot again) and put the info in the database. So you want to find every copy of Windows you own, run a search and you'll find everything from Windows 95 to 2003 and the binder/slot number they're in. You can use the same method for DVDs by naming a particular shelf/cubboard, box, etc and then numbering the DVDs inside.
The cool thing is that you never have to re-order anything. For instance, if I clean out my CDs and toss out everything older than 1998, that leaves empty slots in my CD binders. The next time I get a new CD, I can just stick it in the first empty slot, update the database, and I'm done. No more sorting!!
Sorry for the commercial, but this has worked out great for me! Everything on my PCs are organized: email, databases, file structure, etc, but the real world was kicking my butt until I found this system. Now, even my real world works like a database, so it's fast an easy!
If you don't want to buy Paper Tiger's software, you could probably rig up the same type of database in an evening. Their software is very convenient though and it comes with "video lessons" explaining how to setup locations and ways to organize and label things. It's saved me loads of time, made my office much neater (without pain -- I hate cleaning), and I no longer lose things due to forgetting where I put them.
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