Woo-hoo! That’s the ticket. I spent just days drawing up the ship’s floorplans & thinking up strange mutations for players & monsters alike.
I started losing interest in these games when they began making prefab modules. I thought that being a GM & designing the advanture was the best part.
Do they still make the Monster Manual? Player’s Handbook? DM’s Guide?
opus wrote:
I don’t know how far back you’re looking at, but let me tell you, we now have something called 2nd edition. The player’s book got bigger, and the DMG got smaller. There are no assasins, or half-orcs, but you can start a 1st level bard. Unearthed Arcana is gone, replaced by The Tome of Magic. The monster manuals and the fiend folio came in a huge 3-ring binder for a while, but now they come in a hardbound book with softbound annual supplements.
But, I imagine the food is the same. Pizza, chips, cookies.
(I, um, heard this from a…friend)
::The small group of people looks expectantly but with acceptance at the newcomer. His sponser gives him a gentle nudge::
“(Hesitantly)Hello, I-I’m Kooka L…”
“(the rest, in unison) Hi, Kooka L!”
“…and I play Role-playing games. At first,
(trails off, mumbling)”
Sponsor:“Speak up, please, you’re amongst friends”
“…at first, I was just doing it to, y’know, be one of the guys. I thought I could meet girls this way.”
A pudgy hand jolts upward, “gir-uls?”
“A different kind of humanoid, like us, but less approachable and more graceful, High Charisma Stats” answers another.
“Kooka L.”: “(continuing) I started with AD&D, then Traveller, then Champions, I even played MERP (Middle-Earth Role-playing), Star Wars, Star Trek. But, they werent enough after a while.”
He looks for and sees the encouragement he needs to continue.
“soon I started playing the more …exotic games, Toon, Teenagers from Outer Space, Star Ace, and once in a moment of desparation,…Mythus.”
There was a shocked silence, a look of horror on the assembled masses, pizza crusts and graph paper fall to the floor.
Sponsor: “Run! They’re reaching for character sheets and–DICE!!”
Kooka L. and his sponsor clear out of the oldest teenagers basement as fast as their Dexterity stats will allow, the vestigal motor skills of their pursuers not enough to slay their quarry.
There is a pause,
Player 1: (flipping through rulebook, 9th edition, looking after the departing duo)
“You know, I don’t think they’re allowed to do that.”
Player 2: “Who cares, as long as we get the experience.”