Wotcha!

Wandered over from the Hex forums. Got a friend of a friend to pick up Desolation for me at GenCon and now I'm waiting on it swimming over from the US. So I bought the PDF this morning.

Nice to see a lot of familiar faces over here. If there's one thing that characterised the Exile Games forums, it's the friendliness and helpfulness of its members.

Been gaming for a lot more years than I care to remember, from the good old days back at school with the "Big 3" - Traveller (little black books), 2nd Edition Call of Cthulhu and Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (I have a wizard on my PHB, so that dates me somewhat). I currently spend a lot more time reading gaming books and forums than I do actually gaming. 4 kids will do that for you. But soon they'll start being old enough to game... I've become really picky about what games I pick up in hardcover over the past few years but Desolation was a given since it (a) uses the Ubiquity system and (b) I was looking for a fantasy game that had an interesting setting and didn't go near an icosahedron.

First port of call for me in any game book tends to be the Bestiary. And I'm very pleased with what I found there.

Looking forward to the supplements...

John

ZOMG! Another John joins the group!

It's starting to look like a Red Lectroid convention around here!

Welcome aboard. I'm newly arrived myself, although I think I've made my mark by now.

Just watch out. There's this sneaky little mongrel running around that likes to "find" stuff.

Hello Chairman,

Good to see you on the forums. Let us know how the text-based quest goes. Feel free to start a thread looking for interested gamers.

Beatcha to it, Babe.

I came on in, kicked off my shoes, and made myself at home.

*grin*

Just when I when I thought I was catching up ... I discover I'm further behind.

Hey, we don't have to run faster than the bear, we just have to run faster than you.

I'm just fast. ie...nothing else to do but clean, and who wants to do that?!

I'll teach Matt to ask me why I don't post on the boards.

Unless it's a flying, fire-breathing Weave-touched bear ... then we're all done for.

I'm going to make that a new, meme-like curse word now.

"Oh, Synnibar."

Hullo, Chairman,



Welcome to the DESOLATION forums, Chairman! Glad to see a new face around here. Just be careful, there's a warband pair of scouts up ahead, and so far they haven't spotted...oops, too late!



Quite a few people fall into that category, sad to say, these days.



Well, I've been considering running a game of DESOLATION on-line either here on DESOLATION forums or possibly on Yahoo Groups. If there was enough interest in such a thing, I would certainly be willing to do so. (But I see a new thread has been started on the subject, so I'll respond there.)


Anyway, welcome aboard.

Hullo, Imajica,



Nice to see you over here, mate. Welcome to the DESOLATION forums!

Insofar as the friendliness and all, I think we've got a good bunch of folks here to this point, and I look forward to chatting with everyone about the DESOLATION rpg, and post-apocalyptic settings and all.

Hullo, Nestor not-a-John,



Yep. Nice, ain't it?



Now, Waja, come back here with that backpack!!

Hullo, Jamie,



Well, you've got to admire the efficiency of the creature, don't you? I mean, it flies you off to its lair, slices you up, and then can cook you!

I want to see the stats for the creature, myself!

Thanks muchly, JohnK.

I have a theory that there are only so many real names in the world, and the rest are just figments of a strange and twisted imagination. Time spent on the forums has done nothing to disabuse me of this notion.

I remember seeing a comedian once who opened his act with
"Hi, my name is John. I had very creative and imaginative parents - they thought that one up all by themselves."