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[drcuriosity]

Gaming tonight was fun: roleplaying a character who didn't realise he was a traitor, because he believed some people when they said they weren't the enemy. Somehow he even managed to survive the night with an exile rather than being killed outright. Other people enjoyed the performance, and it's helped the story a long a fair bit, so it's all good. I'll jus haff to shake the habit to tork like I'm from Souf Auckland, eh cuz ;-)

Kurt Vonnegut's dead. That sucks, but he spent a lot of his life being awesome, so it's not really a waste as such. In just over a year I'll be 30 - an age at which Vonnegut's writing career was just starting to take off. It's enough to make me wonder what achievements I'll have made and what wonders I'll have seen by the time I reach 84, assuming I last that long. If it goes so for me, then I shan't be too unhappy.

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[(Anonymous)]

There was some great roleplaying there tonight. I tried hard (and ultimately failed) not to crack a smirk as the shit went down.
Beautiful.

[leidan.livejournal.com]

Sorry that was me but logged out.

...fills my cup, like four seasons in one day...

[drcuriosity]

Smiling as the shit comes down
You can tell a man from what he has to say
Everything gets turned around
And I will risk my neck again, again

The Crowded House lyrics seem remarkably apt, all things considered :-)

It was indeed difficult not to grin when all that came out. And it'll be interesting playing a new character next time and seeing all the fallout from a fresh perspective.

[norectangulars.livejournal.com]

Ah, roleplaying, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways: 1d6, 2d6, 3d6...

I have to say, I'm a dedicated larper myself. Especially the Auckland One World By Night game (V:TM). Things have just gotten a WHOLE lot more interesting there. Mmmm, secret revelations, espionage, serious diplomatic incidents, threat on interclan war (well, cold war not killing people war). So delicious!

[drcuriosity]

We're not doing OWBN, and we're only onto the second session, but it seems to be starting out pretty well. There seems to be a good amount of planning going on behind the scenes, and we're already getting some good player-initiated plots coming through, I hear.

[c0unt1nt3rupt.livejournal.com]

Vampire Ehhh. Any of the people out there ever get into Mage? Its my personal favorite of the WoD games, and to me the one with the potential for the most character depth.

[drcuriosity]

There've been a couple of Mage games that I know of in this neck of the woods, but it's a bastard of a game to do live properly, with all the reality-bending that seems to go on. The Shining Host (i.e. Changeling Live) is bad enough when it comes to things chimerical.

Before the advent of Mage, there were a few people playing Ars Magica, too. Not too big a stretch from one to the other, I gather.