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It’s about 1pm last Sunday and I’m involved in my usual Sunday routine; sleeping off a massive hangover. My slumber is shattered by the high pitched ringing of the telephone, which I answer to find my friends Todd and Allison calling from GenCon.

Me: Uhhh…Hello?
Todd: Dude! Dude! It’s the last day of the con and like everything is half off! Can you recommend anything to get?
Me: I’m doing what now?
Allison: What are some games we should get!?!

After a couple minutes of further explanation and finding a PBR in the fridge, I was able to comprehend exactly what they were wanting of me. Despite the overwhelming urge to recommend the worst games possible (“Brohan, Gygax’s real masterpiece was a little game called ‘Cyborg Commando,’ not D&D. Oh, and I think you’ll really love The World of Synnibarr…”)I ended up recommending Maelstrom, Children of the Sun, and Tunnels and Trolls; all because they are games that I wanted to play. Nothing like tricking your friends into buying games that you want, but don’t want to pay for…

Damn, it’s been a while since I’ve updated.

And, yes, I do call people “brohan”.

Tags: GenCon Booze Brohans

Over my years as both a DM and a player, I’ve been exposed to some amazingly stupid PC names.  We're not even talking stuff like "Carlos the Dwarf," but names with a level of idiocy that just boggle the mind. 

Glazkok – Rolled up by our DM as a ‘back-up’ should one of our PCs die mid-adventure, this PC became a long running joke due to his name sounding suspiciously like ‘Glass Cock’.

FACERAPER – About a year ago some friends lost a player from their 3.5 FR game and asked if I was interested to join in his place.  The one stipulation was that I’d have to use the former players PC; not a problem. That is, until I saw the PC’s name: FACERAPER (yes, in all caps). The game went on with out me.

Roscoe Tealeaf – This one actually came from the list of pregenerated Halfling names on the PC creation cd that came with the old 3.0 PHB.  Needless to say, letting a player run a PC named ‘Roscoe’ resulted in several NPCs getting pint-sized bitch slaps.

 

Necrobutcher – I’m actually guilty of perpetrating this one, giving this name to my PC for a gritty game of Shadowrun. Living up to his name, with in 10 minutes of play, Necrobutcher had beaten an uncooperative informant to death and then set him on fire to cover the crime.  The blaze spread throughout the apartment building, resulting in the untimely deaths of numerous NPCs.  The DM awarded me a whopping -75 Karma points and ended the game. And, just to clarify, I named the PC after Mayhem’s bassist, not that idiot wrestler who stole the name…

 

Tags: PC Names Stupid Gaming Shadowrun Freaks And Geeks

Occasionally some of the gaming things I’ve acquired over the years amaze me. Case in point, digging through some old paperbacks I came upon copies of ‘Dungeon of Dread’ and ‘Mountain of Mirrors’ from TSR’s Endless Quest series. The books are as old as I am and it has to have been 16 or 17 years since I read them, yet I’m still hanging on to them.  Sure, they are, uh…’classics’ in the realm of interactive fiction, but c’mon.  Although, over the years I have toyed with the idea of converting ‘Dungeon of Dread’ into an adventure for a game of BD&D, I’ve always wanted to try that whole water weird & key-suspended-from-the-ceiling-over-it’s-pool trap.



Dungeon of Dread did teach us one of the fundamental rules of frping, when a thieving halfling says he can lead you to “all the treasure in the world” in exchange for his life, you should trust him and go for it.  It’s called an adventure hook, people.  Besides, BD&D only gives you like 5 or 10 xp for wasting a Halfling…

Tags: Retro TSR Endless Quest BD&D Halflings