Scheduling - July 15

Hi all,

I (Sean) should be present for at least the end half of this upcoming session, so if Pete can let people in for the beginning I would be happy to host in the Dungeon Master Bedroom. 

Blair, if you wouldn't mind accommodating I'd like to run the evening slot. 

There's a good chance I will be back from Seattle the night before and therefor will be present for both slots, but can't say that with absolute confidence.  At worst I will be back by 3, I would imagine.

Feel free to chime in y'all.  It's been a bit lonely on this blog of late.

Scheduling July 1st & reminder

Hey all,

I'm not in town and Pete has other plans or work tomorrow so there will be no session at our house. I hope you guys can find a place to play. I will be back in the action next week, running a Black Woods session for FLAILSNAILS characters for half the session and playing Lofo the Aloof, thief 4 for Fortress Eibon. Stoked.

Also, I was a little disappointed with the level of cleanliness after the last session or two. I've expressed my frustration at having to do people's dishes after sessions I've partaken in, but having to clean up a bunch of empties and garbage from a session I didn't attend that took place in my BEDROOM is LAME. It's definitely a factor to me deciding that you all can't play here if I'm not here to police you. Please respect my space.

Thanks,
Sean

D&D Tomorrow

Me (Blair) DMing the usual. Get your piece of the surprising run of level advancing luck the players have somehow stumbled into.

1 pm.

Scheduling - The next few weeks games (June 17, 24, July 1)

Hi all,

 

I (Sean) just wanted to remind everyone of the upcoming scheduling for Sunday sessions.

 

I'm away the next 3 sessions.  You are all welcome to use my Dungeon Master Bedroom if someone is home to let you in (Pete, please chime in with your availability here).

 

June 17 - Blair / Peter or Johnstone

June 24 - Lester / Johnstone / Peter

July 1 - Peter or Johnstone / Blair

 

 

From my understanding Lester can't run a game except maybe on June 24th.  Blair, is that the one you are away for?  If so that works out quite elegantly.

 

Peter has expressed an interest in running a Corporate Ladder session which I am sad I will miss.  Jack McGuigan will no doubt be off on a tour or week day gig in Boston (actually at the college bar in Cambridge) with his band Fast Money.  Or maybe a family emergency in Missouri will be his excuse...

 

Johnstone has previously offered to run a game (all of them sound awesome BTW) so maybe you all can co-ordinate and get one of those off the ground.

I'd also like to thank you all for being great players.  I had a blast running my Ruins & Rayguns play test last Sunday and look forward to the next sessions.  The Eibon session was also fucking spot on Blair.  Great gaming going on here.

See you in a month or less.

Today

Blair DMing D&D - 1-5 pm
Lester ???? - 6-10 pm

Sunday May 20th

Games Scheduled
1-5 pm Sean DMing, Flailsnails D&D? *
6-10 pm (or even later? **) Blail DMing Fortress Eibon D&D

* If Sean is indeed running his Flailsnails D&D game, than PCs from that game are allowed to immediately transfer into Blair's D&D game after the meal break.

** Monday, May 21 is a holiday, so, players willing, we can play late.

Confirmations
Blair
Doug (there is a chance he will only make it for the second game)
Johnstone (can maybe make the early game)
Peter (works until 5:00)
Sean
Wesley (suggested playing late for the holiday)

Negatory Confirmations
Cam (will be in Austria)
Graham
Miranda

Proposed Summer Schedule

This is a rough draft, and has been cooked up to account for Sean & Blair's schedule.  If Lester and Johnstone could comment with the dates that work for them that would be swell.

 

May 13 - Lester / Johnstone

May 20 - Sean / Blair

May 27 - Blair / Lester or Johnstone

June 3 - Blair / Sean

June 10 - Sean / Blair

June 17 - Blair / Lester or Johnstone

June 24 - Lester / Johnstone 

July 1 - Lester or Johnstone / Blair

July 8 -  Blair / Sean

July 15 - Blair / Sean

July 22 - Lester / Johnstone

July 29 - Blair / Sean

August 5 - Lester or Johntone / Blair

August 12 - Blair / Sean

August 19 - Lester / Johnstone

August 26 - Sean / Blair

September 2 - Blair / Sean

Scheduling - May 6th

I figured I'd start a new post for this date to keep things tidy. I can run a game or play in any game this Sunday (May 6th). Feel free to comment away...

Tomorrow Buttheads!

Look alive chumps; action starts at 1 PM. The weather's nice the other six days of the week as well...

Scheduling - May 13th

EDIT: I definitely cannot attend on May 13th; step on up Lester (or Johnstone).

Also, Cam should be playing the last date of the Devildriver tour on April 15th.

I have out-of-town Obscure Metal of Death commitments that day; I propose that either Sean runs a full day session on May 13th or that Sean & Lester both run sessions that day, with me running a Fortress Eibon slot on May 27th.

ALSO: Reminder re. our agreed-upon regular Sunday schedule:

1:00 PM - 5:00 PM : Slot 1
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM : Food
6:00 PM - 10:00 PM : Slot 2

Okay Wieners!

Aside from final exams my current semester is over, which mean that until the fall semester commences I will be able to fully contribute to the Sunday games until September 2 (inclusive).

Also, both Wesley and Miranda are back from god knows where, so we have two awesome players back in the fold.

So, as folks seems to have been shlupping around with their thumbs up their butts in my absence, I will seize the initiative, and DECLARE A PROPOSED SCHEDULE FOR THE SUMMER 2012 SEASON in keeping with our already agreed upon protocols:

April 15 - Sean's Wilderlands AD&D / Blair's Fortress Eibon D&D

April 22 - Blair's Fortress Eibon D&D / Sean's Wilderlands AD&D

April 29 - Lester's ? & side game

May 6 - Sean's Wilderlands AD&D / Blair's Fortress Eibon D&D

May 13 - Sean's Wilderlands AD&D ?&? ????

May 20 - Sean's Wilderlands AD&D / Blair's Fortress Eibon D&D

May 27 - Blair's Fortress Eibon D&D / Lester's ?

June 3 - Blair's Fortress Eibon D&D / Sean's Wilderlands AD&D

June 10 - Sean's Wilderlands AD&D / Blair's Fortress Eibon D&D

June 17 - Blair's Fortress Eibon D&D / Sean's Wilderlands AD&D

June 24 - Lester's ? & side game

July 1 - Sean's Wilderlands AD&D / Blair's Fortress Eibon D&D

July 8 - Blair's Fortress Eibon D&D / Sean's Wilderlands AD&D

July 15 - Sean's Wilderlands AD&D / Blair's Fortress Eibon D&D

July 22 - Lester's ? & side game

July 29 - Blair's Fortress Eibon D&D / Sean's Wilderlands AD&D

August 5 - Sean's Wilderlands AD&D / Blair's Fortress Eibon D&D

August 12 - Blair's Fortress Eibon D&D / Sean's Wilderlands AD&D

August 19 - Lester's ? & side game

August 26 - Sean's Wilderlands AD&D / Blair's Fortress Eibon D&D

September 2 - Blair's Fortress Eibon D&D / Sean's Wilderlands AD&D

Sunday April 8th

I will run a full Wilderlands session or a half session (shotgun evening) if Blair or anybody else would like to run anything. 

I'm pretty certain this session will mark the return of two players whom I'm excited to play with again:

Mr Wes Godley
Miss Miranda Berniaz

Woot woot!

Sunday Game March 25th

Blair DMing, Fortress Eibon.

Also, WES IS BACK!!!

Sunday February 25th

Hey everyone. I'm back from my trip and am willing to run my Wilderlands game for any players this Sunday. Please reply here so I can get a feel for how much interest there is. We can do a split session if anybody else wants to run something too.

Sunday Feb 5th & Upcoming 2 sessions

Hi all, I can run or play in a game this Sunday but only til about 7 or 8. If nobody else wants to run their game I'll happily run my wilderlands game for a short session. Let me know here who is thinking of coming. I'll be away from Feb 8-19 so I'll miss the next 2 sessions. Peter will be here so you can figure it out

I Have Band Stuff Until Mid-February

I just found out, but my band is recording in early February, and the talk is of us jamming on Thursdays and Sundays; therefore my attendance is sketchy until February 15.

[B. Portly] Side-Game Scheduling for the 22nd

B. Portly has seniority, ergo he has first dibs on session slots for January 22nd; please let us know what slot you would prefer and we'll get it on the calendar.

Additionally, in light of the frequency of Side-Games on the schedule, as it gets closer to the date it would be considerate of folks to R.S.V.P. for both B. Portly & Johnstone's games on the 22nd.

[Johnstone] January 22nd game.

Like it says on the calendar, Blair has asked me to run a game for the Saucers and Sorcerers Society, and specifically one that is NOT D&D. I can run a bunch of different games that are not D&D, but which one is, in part, dependent on what the Society would like to play.

I can run:

1. World of Algol.
This is all that shit Blair made up, but with very different rules that I have mostly re-purposed from an indie game called Apocalypse world. It's still an adventure game, and it's still Planet Algol, but with more emphasis on social interactions and special powers, and less emphasis on money and lengthy combats. Sort of. It's a little harder to die and a lot easier to wreck things.

2.Don't Rest You Head.
In this game you play a person from the modern day who gets insomnia so bad they develop super-powers and fall into an alternate dimension full of nightmares and bizarre. It's a bit like an amped-up version of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, or like a movie adaptation of Alice in Wonderland written by Clive Barker and directed by John Carpenter. It can be great fun to play serious or completely gonzo, and usually in a one-shot, it's best to go gonzo.

I can run World of Algol or Don't Rest Your Head for up to 6 players, though 4 or 5 would be optimal.

3. Lacuna Part I: The Creation of the Mystery and the Girl from Blue City.
This game is about mysterious government agents who enter society's collective unconscious to cure criminals of their antisocial tendencies. It's like The Cell with the men in black instead of J-Lo and Cold War Berlin instead of the killer's mind, like Inception with feds instead of thieves, like going to Stockholm for the first time while you're tripping on acid. This is a game where mystery and suspense lead into paranoia and ultimately surreal horror and existential self-doubt... if you live.

Please note that unlike the first two, Lacuna is a SERIOUS game, and will only be played seriously. You do not get to have your own shit on the table. The table must start the game completely bare. You can bring bottled water, but dice, sheets, and pencils will be provided for you. You are encouraged to wear a suit. As in all games, there may be funny moments, but please, no jokes or horseplay during the game.

Lacuna is best with 3-4 players, but I am willing to run it for 2 or 5.

This game will happen on January 22nd, so you have plenty of time to consider things and look up Don't Rest Your Head and Lacuna on the internet. Whether it will be in the afternoon or evening slot has yet to be determined.

Since I have only gamed with the SaSS a handful of times, I should say that I consider most of Blair's post here a matter of good manners. As a rule of thumb, anyone that Blair, Pete, and Sean can all vouch for is welcome to play a game I run. Otherwise, I am sorry, but this IS a private event, and one that takes a certain amount of preparation and effort on my part to run. Your discretion is appreciated.

If you have any questions, please post them in the comments.

[Fortress Eibon] Rumour Cards Owed to Scrounger and Johnstone

For the Boxing Day Fortress Eibon game this past Monday not only did I have only one rumour card for Scrounger and Johnstone to share, I also forgot about the rumour cards owed to them for their PCs gaining levels. Thusly for the next Fortress Eibon game either of those two play they are due:

Scrounger: 2 additional Rumour Cards
Johnstone: 3 additional Rumour Cards

[Blair's Games] Just To Make This Absolutely Clear And On The Record...

As one of the purposes of this blog is for clear communication in the game groups,  in regards to the sessions that I run, please take the following into account:

A) Please do not bring someone to play in a session I (Blair) am DMing without clearing it with me first.

B) Please do not invite someone to play in a session I (Blair) am DMing without clearing it with me first.

C) Please do not imply to someone that they can play in a session I (Blair) am DMing without clearing it with me first.

D) A, B & C explicitly do not apply to the Thursday Red Box Vancouver games that I DM, as they are an "Open Game." Regardless, if you end up being responsible for Mark, or someone like him, showing up at the Red Box games I will hate you forever.

E) Please have the courtesy to also ask Sean and Pete before bringing strangers into their house, it is their private residence after all. And we should be considerate of Sean's privacy before bringing strangers into his house as well, that should be common sense for anyone.

F) You should also probably talk about bringing someone new with the other players, as for all you know perhaps one of us may not enjoy their company

G) Regardless of how cool this person is; how much D&D they have played; how much they would like to play D&D; or how drunk you were when you told someone that they could play in my game, that does not justify disregarding the above requests.

H) I would also suggest that it would be courteous asking Sean before inviting anyone to play in his game as well.
  
I) Most of us aren't enthusiastic about someone hanging around our sessions "just to watch;" it has always sucked, every time they ask too many questions or make too many exclamations and every time it drains the energy  right out of the game. Please don't tell someone they can watch, no matter how fascinated they are.

Most likely, there won't be a problem. But there's more likely to be a problem if the new player arrives as a "surprise", and whatever problems there are will be more awkward, disrupting, and/or hurtful.

If this seems out of line, I suggest that you talk to Sean, Pete or Doug regarding their experiences with Mark in the past. We are all still traumatized from that experience.

Please note that this has not been discussed by the group and no consensus has been reached regarding the above, these are suggestions from me and not SASS rules; regardless I think it's reasonable for the person who is running a session to have some say in who is playing in that session.

As always, feel free to communicate your feeling regarding these thoughts and suggestions.

ADDENDUM:  Before drafting this policy I took the time to discuss this issue with several other gamemasters from other groups. What I found fascinating, although unsurprising, was that wide range of opinions regarding this issue, pretty much evenly spaced along the spectrum.

So in regards to my above requests, if they seem uptight or ogrish, please understand that they are only my own personal opinion, although I would love for you to keep my requests in mind in regards to the games that I run.

Thank you & I hope you all had a wonderful holiday!

Blair