Pipes, Pints, and Polyhedrons

Good whatever time it is everyone.

Since we now live in the apocalypse, my plan of going out to the area game stores to find a group is shot. Instead of giving up on getting back into gaming, I'd like to try running a game online. I was thinking of running DCC. I'll probably run it on Roll20, apparently they don't delete accounts even when they're inactive for 6 years. I've discussed it with a couple of you off-forum already, and a friend here in the Colorado Springs area.

To try this out I think we could run a 0-level funnel first to work out the kinks with the online systems (make sure audio works, everyone can access Roll20, etc.) and then continue from there.

Any takers? Regarding schedule, I have very little going on in the evenings anymore, so any evening should be fine for me. We are spread across 3 timezones (at least, anyone further west than me?) so we'll need to find a time that's not too late for you east coast peoples and not too early for me.

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Update: The first session will be Friday, 10 April 2020. The game will be run via Discord (everyone should already be members of the Discord server set up for the last game) and Roll20. Here's the Roll20 link:
You will each be running 3 PCs which I'll make and distribute at random. There will also be some extras in case someone finds they've lost all their PCs to the funnel.

Love DCC, I'm in dude. Lemme know what day/night and time you're thinking and I'll see if my schedule jives.

Primarily I'm good any Friday or Saturday evening/night, maybe Sunday during the day or early evening, if need be.

DCC is a lot of fun... and fun for anyone else getting watch me play it with all of the extra funky dice that screw me over at will. Yes. The dice have wills of their own. And they're all bad. Heh.

I normally decline invites to online gaming as I'm pretty Old School with the books, dice, pencil & paper. However, since GCXII fell victim to Pestilence (the nasty bastard), it was a solid reminder that I've not seen or spent time with a lot of my old friends (you guys!) in a year or two or three! Life is too short for that shit. I'm in.

Weekends work best for me. BTW - I'm in the central time zone for time considerations.

"Just remember what ol’ Jack Burton does when the earth quakes, and the poison arrows fall from the sky, and the pillars of Heaven shake. Yeah, Jack Burton just looks that big ol’ storm right square in the eye and he says, “Give me your best shot, pal. I can take it."" ~ Jack Burton

Saturday evenings can work for me. The guy from here who may join us has a regular game every other Saturday, so that'd be the only constraint so far. Are we good with an every other week session?

Roll20 already has a character sheet for DCC, but not the simplified sheet for 0-level funnels. However, the GM can assign multiple characters to each player so it'll work well enough. I'll dig through my RPG materials this evening or next to see what funnels I already have and list them so I can pick one you guys haven't played.

alester wrote: ↑March 26th, 2020, 10:37 am Saturday evenings can work for me. The guy from here who may join us has a regular game every other Saturday, so that'd be the only constraint so far. Are we good with an every other week session?

I'm up for giving that a try.

alester wrote: ↑March 26th, 2020, 10:37 amRoll20 already has a character sheet for DCC, but not the simplified sheet for 0-level funnels. However, the GM can assign multiple characters to each player so it'll work well enough. I'll dig through my RPG materials this evening or next to see what funnels I already have and list them so I can pick one you guys haven't played.

I've experience with only 2 funnels: Portal Under the Stars and something Jay ran years go.

Yeah, I think I ran Portal Under the Stars for a funnel, then I also ran an adventure called Perils of the Sunken City, by Purple Sorcerer Games.

Goodman Games posted this helpful post regarding Online Game

https://goodman-games.com/blog/2020/03/ ... ne-gaming/

Interesting post. I've never played DCC though WSmith lives a county or two over from me and GMs it. I'll have to get in a game!

alester wrote: ↑March 26th, 2020, 10:37 am Saturday evenings can work for me. The guy from here who may join us has a regular game every other Saturday, so that'd be the only constraint so far. Are we good with an every other week session?

Roll20 already has a character sheet for DCC, but not the simplified sheet for 0-level funnels. However, the GM can assign multiple characters to each player so it'll work well enough. I'll dig through my RPG materials this evening or next to see what funnels I already have and list them so I can pick one you guys haven't played.

Any projection on when you'd like to start this?

I’d like to start Saturday 11 April.