They're taking the hobbits to Isengard!

[drakyndra]

So, I was going to post this last night. And then I fell asleep.

Whoops.

In any case, Wednesday was D and D again. And it was as entertainingly weird as ever.

One piece of advice - don't doze off in the middle of a game. I somehow ended up (well, my character...) in a nurses outfit, trying to access a room which contained 5 men chained to their beds.

We had an interesting discussion on the logistics of running through a dungeon with an 11 foot pole.

We had some drunken sailors arm-wrestling a cleric. And the cleric won.

Oh, and we had a crying paladin.

A coupld of D&D quotes:

fa11ing_away: "So, to the nearest ale and whore houses!"

mercdaemon: "They're taking the silk to Isengard!"

If you don't get that one, check out They're taking the hobbits to Isengard! Trust me on this one, it's marvellous crack.

The iPartment has discovered that our internet usage doesn't get listed immediately, and thus during peak times (aka from 8am to midnight), it's slowed back to dial-up speed. Woe.

And even more woe: The next months switch doesn't kick in until Monday. Which means that instead of getting my Doctor Who and about noon, I shall have to wait until after midnight. All that time, and I won't even be able to look at my flist! *emos*

Guess I shall be getting the books out then.

Also, it is bloody cold.

Oh, and xwingace? Sorry I'm taking so long, I've been caught up in stuff. Or sleeping. I'll try and get something to you tomorrow.

Comments

[xwingace]

It's almost sad you need at least three people to play it properly which means I hardly ever get to (the card game, that is). Then again, most of the fun is almost in reading the cards and spotting the refs anyway.

This is where the RP books really deliver. Although I can't really imagine anyone actually *playing* a game like that. :-)

XWA

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

Pretty much everyone I know plays Munchkin (the card game). We have the most epic games, because the group of people I am friends with, combined, have every single variant and extension and blender and everything.

Oh, and my room-mate had two blank cards, so she went and made some new cards. One was the TARDIS.

[xwingace]

Epic games sound like fun. Had I unlimited (or almost unlimited) money, SJ games would be getting quite a lot of it.

I do have quite a few friends who do play the game, but we hardly ever get together in situations where we can play games.

What did the TARDIS card do?

XWA

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

That's why everyone has all the different ones, so they can be combined and all that.

And I have some very odd friends, really, when it all comes down to it.

Oh, and I am trying to recall what the TARDIS crad does. I can't remember at this point.

[ephant.livejournal.com]

Then again, most of the fun is almost in reading the cards and spotting the refs anyway.

Nah uh. That's where *all* the fun is. Once you've done that you can put it away and play a game that is actually fun :P

[chifley.livejournal.com]

Heeee. Munchkin is actually just a funny book, but for some reason the author decided to break it all up and put it onto a bunch of cards so you could read it in whatever order you wanted. How considerate.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, I dunno. I've had some marvellous fun playing this game. Especially the first time I ever played it, at a gamesmeet of Pratchett fans, when I (at level 4) got an eighth level monster and managed to beat it, by myself, by stealing equipment from the player next to me.

And when the guy tried to get me back for it, everyone else in the game jumped on *him*, apparently becaise guts like that had to be respected. Was a laugh. (Okay, I lost the game anyway, but that's not the *point*)

I agree that Munchkin can become tedious if everyone becomes *determined* not to let a particular person win, because that can result in long strategy negotiations which are just boring.

XWA

[xwingace]

Ah, that was me. Sorry.

[ephant.livejournal.com]

No, no. Munchkin is tedious when you have read all of the cards and laughed at them.