Austin, TX - Starchildren, SAS, In Nomine, UA, Adv! - Looking for players or Group

[Funksaw]

Play Location/Method: Austin, Texas

Game/System: Almost all RPGs except for D&D, RIFTS, and Call of Cthulhu.

Hoping to play: Unknown Armies, Adventure!, Starchildren

Possibly will run: Starchildren, Bronze Age SAS game, In Nomine. (At Dragon's Lair, pending permission from owner)

Time/Frequency: Not sure yet, but schedule is pretty open for the month of August.

-- Funksaw

[Qwerty]

I'm always up for a good game of Adventure! and I'm willing to try just about anything else! Located in south Austin but willing to travel. I'm not currently in any games or group.
Will play: anything
Will GM Adventure, Aberrant, Trinity (and when released) Gamma World.
Age: 32 with 22 years gaming experience(they got me young).
For an example character I made for Adventure see the GM'd by irc Adventure thread here.
mail me with any other questions at

qwerty@austin.rr.com









edit-clarified played games etc...

[Tao Jones]

Based on your subject line, I initially thought you wree running the most ludicrous crossover game evar.

[Futilitarian]

What about Bronze Age Starchildren? :)

You can definitely count me in. Perhaps we should compile a database of RPG.net Austinites and their likes/dislikes.

(PS: What makes you like AU and dislike CoC? The setting, the system, the voices in your head, or all three? Don't worry about a flamewar; I've very nonconfrontational when it comes to people's entertainment preferences :))

[Futilitarian]

Originally posted by Qwerty
I'm always up for a good game of Adventure! and I'm willing to try just about anything else! Located in south Austin but willing to travel. I'm not currently in any games or group.
Will play: anything
Will GM Adventure, Aberrant, Trinity (and when released) Gamma World.
Age: 32 with 22 years gaming experience(they got me young).
For an example character I made for Adventure see the GM'd by irc Adventure thread here.

Saaay, we've now got three RPG.netters known to be living in SW Austin (you, me, and Absenthe_Minded).

We ought to do something about that. :D

[Qwerty]

Originally posted by Futilitarian
Saaay, we've now got three RPG.netters known to be living in SW Austin (you, me, and Absenthe_Minded).

We ought to do something about that. :D

Last time somebody said that to me I wound up in a LARP of "The Most Dangerous Game"


at least I think it was a LARP....

:p

[Harlequin Jones]

Originally posted by Futilitarian
Saaay, we've now got three RPG.netters known to be living in SW Austin (you, me, and Absenthe_Minded).

We ought to do something about that. :D


Hey, I live on Barton Skyway. That's sorta south.


*smirk*
HJ

[Qwerty]

Is that east or west of Mo-Pac?
I live just across from the Broken Spoke on S Lamar...

[Funksaw]

Originally posted by Futilitarian
What about Bronze Age Starchildren? :)

You can definitely count me in. Perhaps we should compile a database of RPG.net Austinites and their likes/dislikes.

(PS: What makes you like AU and dislike CoC? The setting, the system, the voices in your head, or all three? Don't worry about a flamewar; I've very nonconfrontational when it comes to people's entertainment preferences :))

Two things:

UA is about people making a difference, for good or ill

CoC, humanity is really insignificant.

Other than that, Cults really freak me out - and it makes me too uncomfortable to play.

-- Funksaw

[Harlequin Jones]

Originally posted by Qwerty
Is that east or west of Mo-Pac?
I live just across from the Broken Spoke on S Lamar...

Neither. It's technically east of the freeway, but the only way in or out of the place is MoPac. Spyglass Drive is a strange little loop.

http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?country=US&addtohistory=&address=2900+barton+skyway&city=austin&state=tx&zipcode=&homesubmit=Get+Map


HJ

[Qwerty]

You're right... I meant to ask east or west of the greenbelt, but never went back and edited it...I must admit it is both annoying and cool that there was opposition to completing the skyway.
Yes its good to preserve as much of the greenbelt as possible, bad in that we need more East/West streets in that area. As it is now you're stuck with no way east except to kludge down to Capitol of Texas highway or up top Barton Springs road.

[Funksaw]

Originally posted by Qwerty
Last time somebody said that to me I wound up in a LARP of "The Most Dangerous Game"


at least I think it was a LARP....

:p

You know, this is what I don't get.

How come everyone's like... "Game in Southwest Austin" or "game in northern Austin"... I mean, people, it's not like the town is freaking huge. You've got, what, 20 minutes to cross from the north end to the south end if traffic's good to fair?

-- Funksaw

[Rod Anderson]

Originally posted by Funksaw
You know, this is what I don't get.

How come everyone's like... "Game in Southwest Austin" or "game in northern Austin"... I mean, people, it's not like the town is freaking huge. You've got, what, 20 minutes to cross from the north end to the south end if traffic's good to fair?

-- Funksaw


Yeah, I've always thought that was weird myself, having lived in Houston, where it takes 20 minutes to get *anywhere*. Maybe people are just that frightened of having to get on I-35. :p

[Qwerty]

Well Funksaw you see its like this...yes Austin isn't flipping huge like Houston or even San Antonio, but it does sprawl a fair bit. Also with great regret I do have say the town is not laid out in most well thought out way when it comes to cross town movement. Of the 5 roads that do travel contigously from extreme south Austin to extreme North Austin, 2 are major highways (hwy183 & IH35). Highway 183 swings right across town in a stair step pattern and IH 35 is well...IH35 one of the most heavily trafficed interstates in the country. 2 more are also highways. Loop 1(which follows the tracks of the Missouri/Pacific Rairoad for most of its length hence the name Mo-Pac) is styled as the sole freeway in Austin and is heavily used as an alternate to 35; Capitol of Tx Highway also stretches north/south but swings wide to the west passing into the scenic hills west of town before bowing back and hitting north Austin. The last, Lamar blvd is a simple 4 lane street. The other diffculty is of course traffic. I see good to fair traffic sometime after midnight and before 6 am. Othertimes is usally moderate to worse. That simple trip from one end of town to the other is more like a 40 minute trip or more....sorry.

Of course we could also just be lazy....

[Mapache]

At one point in time, though it may no longer be true today, the lower deck of the stretch of I-35 running through Austin had more fatalities per mile per year than any other chunk of highway in the country. Those narrow lanes, short enter and exit ramps, and concrete walls just make for a bad place to be.

[Harlequin Jones]

Originally posted by Qwerty
You're right... I meant to ask east or west of the greenbelt, but never went back and edited it...I must admit it is both annoying and cool that there was opposition to completing the skyway.
Yes its good to preserve as much of the greenbelt as possible, bad in that we need more East/West streets in that area. As it is now you're stuck with no way east except to kludge down to Capitol of Texas highway or up top Barton Springs road.

It is a minor pain inna butt. On the other hand, it's nice that there isn't a lot of thru traffic in the neighborhood.


HJ
(Though it does turn into a parking lot on weekends.)

[Futilitarian]

Originally posted by Funksaw
You know, this is what I don't get.

How come everyone's like... "Game in Southwest Austin" or "game in northern Austin"... I mean, people, it's not like the town is freaking huge. You've got, what, 20 minutes to cross from the north end to the south end if traffic's good to fair?

-- Funksaw

We're talkin' the greater Austin area, which is *huge.* I live in Lakeway, which is a southwestern district of Austin in the Hill Country. It takes me 45 minutes to get *anywhere* let alone the opposite end of Austin, such as Round Rock.

[Funksaw]

Even so, we're talking, what, 45 minutes to an hour?

I suppose it's just the way I was brought up - here in Jersey, *everything* is 45 minutes to an hour away. FLGS is a good 45 minutes, I used to commute 50-90 minutes to college, shopping centers are 20-30 minutes away, the really *good* shopping centers are 45 minutes away, the beaches are at least 2 hours away, and Atlantic City is 3 hours away... okay, maybe not everything...

A 45 minute drive for gaming is peanuts - I used to drive 4 hours round-trip for Improv comedy, three times a week.

It astounds me that I'm so used to everything being so far away that I'm shocked that everything's so close together.

-- Funksaw

[Rod Anderson]

Originally posted by Futilitarian
We're talkin' the greater Austin area, which is *huge.* I live in Lakeway, which is a southwestern district of Austin in the Hill Country. It takes me 45 minutes to get *anywhere* let alone the opposite end of Austin, such as Round Rock.


Oddly, Fute, Lakeway is actually west-northwest of Austin city center. :)


-R

[Harlequin Jones]

Originally posted by Funksaw
Even so, we're talking, what, 45 minutes to an hour?

I suppose it's just the way I was brought up - here in Jersey, *everything* is 45 minutes to an hour away. FLGS is a good 45 minutes, I used to commute 50-90 minutes to college, shopping centers are 20-30 minutes away, the really *good* shopping centers are 45 minutes away, the beaches are at least 2 hours away, and Atlantic City is 3 hours away... okay, maybe not everything...

A 45 minute drive for gaming is peanuts - I used to drive 4 hours round-trip for Improv comedy, three times a week.

It astounds me that I'm so used to everything being so far away that I'm shocked that everything's so close together.

-- Funksaw


I could never live there. Drive two hours every day and you spend two point five days per month driving. Two and a half days of your life! :)


HJ

[Absinthe_Minded]

I live in the part of SW Austin that's so far south it's often reffered to as "North San Antonio" - around Bowie HS (Slaughter and Brodie area).

[Futilitarian]

Originally posted by Rod Anderson
Oddly, Fute, Lakeway is actually west-northwest of Austin city center. :)
-R

Not in my house it ain't! :)

(I live about 20 minutes from the intersection of 71 & 620)

[Funksaw]

If I ran the game, does anyone here have a problem with Tri-Stat DX conversions? There's some games where the system really fits the setting well. (Most of those games were written by Greg Stolze.) But most games have interchangable systems.

Rather than trying to teach everyone a new game system each time, would anyone mind if I just did a game conversion to Tri-Stat for each game? The biggest advantage is that it's free to anyone via PDF, so everyone has a copy of the rules.

While I wouldn't use Tri-Stat for, say, Unknown Armies (The system just fits the game so damn well) or Godlike, some games (Starchildren in particular) might be better off converted.

[Qwerty]

I don't have an issue with that...I'm willing to try most anything.

[Funksaw]

Okay, I'm probably going to start with In Nomine, and if they allow it, I'll probably run it at the Dragon's Lair.

I'm probably going to use the core In Nomine system, the only change I'd do is a "roll-high" instead of "roll-low" method so that humans can be competent.

I don't know theme, mood, or plot yet, so if you can tell me how you'd like to play the game, I can see if I can deliver it...

-- Funksaw

[Qwerty]

I've never played In Nomine but I've heard of it, (not to give a quote that will be relegated to the "DISPARAGING DESCRIPTIONS OF GREAT GAMES" thread) but thats the one where you play angels or demons and "kick ass for the Lord"- whomever that turns out to be...sounds interesting. I think I have a character concept...you tell me if its doable or even appropriate. I was thinking in terms of a Clarence Oddbody/Mr. Bevis-gaurdain angel kinda thing only not so flashy. A nebbish of an angel if you will. He's not into the thunderbolts but he always has change for a dollar or the phone or the bus for you. In the pouring rain he can find you a cab or point out your lost pet. He'll help you carry your large packages or give a bum a dollar that will buy a hot cup of soup in the nearest diner. He's sort of a wandering avatar of that small kind of luck too many people take for granted. eh its a start...I'll do some more research...

[Funksaw]

Originally posted by Qwerty
I've never played In Nomine but I've heard of it, (not to give a quote that will be relegated to the "DISPARAGING DESCRIPTIONS OF GREAT GAMES" thread) but thats the one where you play angels or demons and "kick ass for the Lord"- whomever that turns out to be...sounds interesting. I think I have a character concept...you tell me if its doable or even appropriate. I was thinking in terms of a Clarence Oddbody/Mr. Bevis-gaurdain angel kinda thing only not so flashy. A nebbish of an angel if you will. He's not into the thunderbolts but he always has change for a dollar or the phone or the bus for you. In the pouring rain he can find you a cab or point out your lost pet. He'll help you carry your large packages or give a bum a dollar that will buy a hot cup of soup in the nearest diner. He's sort of a wandering avatar of that small kind of luck too many people take for granted. eh its a start...I'll do some more research...

No need, the game supports that kind of angel. Probably a Cherub (Guardian Angel) or Mercurian (Friends of Man) As you're describing a character that doesn't actually have a *specific* thing to protect, Mercurian seems like a better choice.

That's assuming, of course, that the group chooses an Angels game.

-- Funksaw

[Mapache]

Sounds like a Mercurian if I ever heard of one. As to archangel, I'd say probably Yves.

Edit: Oops, simultaneous posting of observation...

[Qwerty]

Originally posted by Funksaw
That's assuming, of course, that the group chooses an Angels game.

-- Funksaw

OOO! Never thought of playing a devil....can I be an Imp of the Perverse.

[Funksaw]

Originally posted by Qwerty
OOO! Never thought of playing a devil....can I be an Imp of the Perverse.

Impudite of Lust? I don't see why not, unless the group decides to play Angels.

-- Funksaw

[Qwerty]

Originally posted by Funksaw
Impudite of Lust?

Lust? Well okay perverse is the root of pervert...but i was thinking more along the lines of "off of true" "not right". Actually dictionary.com's # 4 definiton of perverse fits perfect...Cranky; peevish. You know those days where nothing goes right..your alarm didn't go off, the stop lights are slow, that jerk didn't hold the elevator, your 25 minutes late to work but your boss is meeting clients in foyer so he sees you coming in late. In your mail there is notice that the employee you hate just got a letter of commendation or some such. You email craps out but the help desk is SURE a techy will be able to come by sometime next week.
that day that is full of minor annoyances, nothing life changing but together they make you wonder why God hates you (which is the point after all) that sorta thing...
well I guess I'll have to see if I can find a rule set at half price....

[Funksaw]

Originally posted by Qwerty
Lust? Well okay perverse is the root of pervert...but i was thinking more along the lines of "off of true" "not right". Actually dictionary.com's # 4 definiton of perverse fits perfect...Cranky; peevish. You know those days where nothing goes right..your alarm didn't go off, the stop lights are slow, that jerk didn't hold the elevator, your 25 minutes late to work but your boss is meeting clients in foyer so he sees you coming in late. In your mail there is notice that the employee you hate just got a letter of commendation or some such. You email craps out but the help desk is SURE a techy will be able to come by sometime next week.
that day that is full of minor annoyances, nothing life changing but together they make you wonder why God hates you (which is the point after all) that sorta thing...
well I guess I'll have to see if I can find a rule set at half price....

Actually, the demons are a bit more specialized than that. If you'll looking for a demon of minor annoyances, I'd probably go with a Kobalite (Demon of Dark Humor)

-- Funksaw

[Qwerty]

Demons of dark humor eh? That sound right up my alley...depending of course on whether we're singin' with the angels or cursing with the demons...well time will tell an all that...