Awake, and already bored...

[swestrup]

I think I need to find some regular social activity to get me out of the house. The bowling, was much fun, but it would be good to find something a bit cheaper that I could do at regular intervals.

The only thing that comes to mind right now is roleplaying, but my last attempt at that fizzled. Any ideas?

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[wintersweet.livejournal.com]

Well, try role-playing again, maybe? It takes a magic combination of your mood and personality and the right game and the right GM and the right fellow players. *G* Alas, I don't think I know anyone else in Quebec.

[thebabynancy.livejournal.com]

And I was gonna suggest bowling... ah well, I am taking up kickboxing... relieves frustrations kicking the crap outta something... regularly.


:) Nancy

[swestrup]

Bowling is a definite improvement upon what I am doing now. It even purports to be an excercise. I can justify the cost of the games, but the booze gets a bit pricey...

So, I *would* go bowling.

[http://users.livejournal.com/hub_/]

catane ?

Damn, I need to buy it. One more thing on my very long shopping list... but not the most expensive, far from it.

[swestrup]

Yeah, it would be fun to play again.

[blacksquiggles.livejournal.com]

think we could start some kind of gaming night in the wastes? doesn't have to be as involved as role playing but board games (cranium is so cute) card games..stuff

[swestrup]

That might be fun. Do you know anyone else in the wastes that we could rope in?

[blacksquiggles.livejournal.com]

I don't know a damned person here :(

[http://users.livejournal.com/hub_/]

the burb effect....

[blacksquiggles.livejournal.com]

I know every one of my neighbour's names and life story..but none that would game :)

[swestrup]

Well, we could probably manage four folks, if we could rope in our SOs

[maytricks.livejournal.com]

I play Yugi-oh!

*hides*

[swestrup]

I'm just gonna pretend that you didn't post that; we shall never speak of it again, okay?

[maytricks.livejournal.com]

Speak of what?

[gmarc.livejournal.com]

I'm having a blast with Ballroom dancing.

MLG

[swestrup]

I suspect that costs a heck of a lot more than bowling.

[skjalm.livejournal.com]

Role-playing is always a nice thing, especially combined with a nice dinner or something like that.

You're welcome to join our regular biweekly wednesday group, buuuuut... ;-)

Or if "real" roleplaying requires too much preparation and/or energy you might settle for board games or card games. There are a lot of good ones around that can be quite addictive. In particular you might want to look at some of the games where your character actually carries over between games. They aren't actual RPGs as it plain and simple boardgame hack'n'slash style games, but it's still nice to be able to have some continuity.

A few examples:

• Blood Bowl (American Football in a fantasy world with monsters and magic and so on)


• Crimson Skies (1930s style air pirate/hero plane combat)


• Various table-top strategy games like Void, Celtos or Warhammer Fantasy/40K


• Pretty much anything by Steve Jackson Games ;-)

One major problem with table-top strategy games is that the Games Workshop games are usually played by (obnoxious and rule munchkinning) pre-teen, spoiled boys whose parents and grandparents spend too much money on birthday and christmas gifts :-S

Alternately, if your friends find those things amusing, you can get together a couple of computers and play some of the slower games like Neverwinter Nights etc. The pace of those games are a lot slower than other typical "LAN party games" (i.e. RTS and FPS) so it's possible to sit around and joke, brag or tell weird stories.

Hope you find something nice to do!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_grey_knight/]

Hey - not ALL WH40K players are that bad - just the loud ones in the stores tend to be - but that is more a function of the age / testosterone than it is the game. We've got a pretty decent 40K gaming group out in Scarberia that suffers not from those problems.

Neverwinter Nights is a poor substitute for real face to face, but if that's all there is, give it a shot.

I agree

[skjalm.livejournal.com]

There are definitely a lot of non-obnoxious 40K players. It's just not the majority so I guess my warning was that if he wanted to play 40K he shouldn't judge by what he sees in stores and at gaming conventions.
(Disclaimer: I've only been to Danish conventions and stores plus one or two GW shops in London so I don't know how things are in Canada ;-)

Neverwinter Nights is a poor substitute for real face to face

NWN is, imho, not a role-playing game. It's a Third Person Shooter. But it's great fun to sit around and enjoy some good company, various snacks and bragging about how your small Bag'O'Pixels beat up that big Bag'O'Pixels :-)

Re: I agree

[swestrup]

> (Disclaimer: I've only been to Danish conventions and stores plus
> one or two GW shops in London so I don't know how things are in
> Canada ;-)

Yeah, and we all know about the moral chaos engulfing Denmark.

[azrhey.livejournal.com]

you know I would pick up role-play with you at the first hint of it, but you live faaaaaaaar.

Now I have all my week-ends free so that wouldnt be a big problem but, did i mention you live faaaaaar?

board games are fun too, and such...

[swestrup]

Good point. The only reason you weren't involved in the last effort was that you had a schedule that I couldn't figure out, even with calculus.

Maybe now something could be arranged.

[azrhey.livejournal.com]

yes. indeed.