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2 years ago ::
Nov 24, 2010 - 7:38AM
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.... But we ran the intro adventure in about 3 hours, and that was with throwing in an extra encounter that wasnt scripted in the book.
It isn't unreasonable to accept a player taking 20 seconds a turn in a Gamma World, but nine twenty minute encounters in a row is just amazing.
To be fair, 3 hours is an estimate of actual encounter time - it doesnt actually include the set up times. We played from about 3:00pm (which really means we started at 3:30) and ended at about 7:45...,
Now that I can believe, thanks for the clarification. Most of the people I play with aren't going to think about what to do on thier turn until its there turn. I can ask, I can couch but in the end, there at the game to have a good time, goof off and have fun. So we get a lot of side discussions and players not ready when it is there turn. I think we can do those encounters in the rule book in about 40 minutes after we learn to play. After three sessions we are starting to get comfortable with the cards and how to use them in play. I have to new players, with little experience in table top, they both take a lot of time deciding on what to do, as they fear making a mistake. But at this time we are at 1 hour an encouunter.
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2 years ago ::
Nov 24, 2010 - 10:47AM
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I can ask, I can couch but in the end, there at the game to have a good time, goof off and have fun. So we get a lot of side discussions and players not ready when it is there turn. I think we can do those encounters in the rule book in about 40 minutes after we learn to play.
Sure, I get that. Like I said, its not at all unsual for that sort of time for a group - but thats not a problem of the system, which the OP seems to be feeling. Thats just because people (gamers especially) get distracted easilly and go off on tangents about things. Thats all I'm really getting at. (Though we appear to have lost the OP, so it seems more like its just yet another disguised complaint thread. Oh well, those still generate entertainment for me and can create discussion between people who DO care :P)
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2 years ago ::
Nov 24, 2010 - 11:12AM
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Chandrak, are you and your players just going "i move here, i'm attacking this guy with Eau de Roach. 16 vs. Fort. Does that hit? yes? he takes 12 acid damage.
if so, i'm happy i'm not playing in that game.
I can do the same thing in Warhammer Fantasy or Warhammer 40k without having to deal with a DM at all....i just roll and know if it hit the other player's army.
Gamma World is an incredibly loose system with LOTS of room for LOTS of description. "i attack, hit, and deal X damage" just gets boring and repetitive. if you are doing a lot of roleplaying between encounters then at best i would see your game as horribly jarring, where you go from descriptive to utterly bland when the initiative dice are thrown. At worst, its just a bland game where players get together to throw dice.
With the lack of mechanical character customization, the description of WHAT is happening becomes even more important.
We spend a good deal of the game being descriptive because the VAST majority of the players would have no fun just sitting around pushing minis, rolling dice, and calling out numbers.
For example, my first character had street signs pasted all over his body for heavy armor, and smacked people with a "Route 66" sign. He also had a gun in the form of a car engine/tailpipe assembly.
My second character (giant) wears....a car...as his armor. His shield is one of the doors, and his weapon is a tire boot on a chain. He looks a bit like a transformer when readying his weapons. Its a hell of a lot more fun for our group to describe what happens, rather than "i hit him with my heavy 2h melee weapon."
Furthermore, we were all experienced D&D players, but having two engineered humans in the mix for the first game (wierdest race roll-ups EVER.....i rolled up 2 and 2 and got a cockroach human, and my wife rolled 4 and 4 and got an electro-human) slows things down greatly with extra attacks.
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2 years ago ::
Nov 24, 2010 - 2:13PM
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Chandrak, are you and your players just going "i move here, i'm attacking this guy with Eau de Roach. 16 vs. Fort. Does that hit? yes? he takes 12 acid damage.
Not at all actually. We spend a fair bit of time making up what happens as a group, often adding things like knocking people prone or pushing/pulling/sliding when its not called for by the powers based on what makes for more entertaining storytelling. We also use charges, grapples, trips, and other things that arent in the base game but that we use other rules' systems for - namely 4E when we can, or rely on simple dex vs reflex attacks and such.
For example, one encounter, on the virtue of a number of KO-crits, ended with almost every enemy OUSIDE the building they started in - they were knocked off balconies, pushed out windows, knocked through walls, and so on. Some of that was the TK guy, but other instances were critical kills. We didnt even realize we'd knocked everyone out of the building til it was all over.
Of course, that made hiding the bodies kind of difficult, and caused the party later problems ;P
I completely agree with it being a loose system that lends itself to description.
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2 years ago ::
Dec 05, 2010 - 2:09AM
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Gamma World is an incredibly loose system with LOTS of room for LOTS of description. "i attack, hit, and deal X damage" just gets boring and repetitive. if you are doing a lot of roleplaying between encounters then at best i would see your game as horribly jarring, where you go from descriptive to utterly bland when the initiative dice are thrown. At worst, its just a bland game where players get together to throw dice.
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InQuest Magazine (I think it was InQuest) had an oversized Chaos Orb which I totally rooked someone into allowing into a (non-sanctioned) game.
I had a proxy card that was a Mountain with "Chaos Orb" written on it. When I played it, my opponent cried foul:
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2 years ago ::
Dec 06, 2010 - 7:10AM
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Thought I'd make a list: These are the healing methods I'm aware of: Did I miss any?
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