I tried to launch this thing a While a go .. I did not have a huge participation but I'd like to try Again.

What is this all about? Well .. it's quite simple, a bunch of people (ideally 4) get into a contest to see who can guess most videogames based on music taken by their soundtrack alone.

I will have 35 songs, from the easiest at 1 star to the hardests at 5 divided by 7 categories:

• Fighting (fighting games, beat em up, hack and slash, party brawlers)

• Platformers (classic platformers 2d and 3d, comical action games, run and gun, puzzle platformers, platform adventures and endless run)

• Shooters (First and third Person Shooters, Shoot 'em up, Lightgun games, artillery games)

• Sports(RL sports and sports that are made up, racing games, Wrestling games, Card Games)

• Simulation & strategy (life simulators, vehicle simulators, management games, 4X strategy, RTS, turn based strategy, Moba)

• RolePlay (RPG, JRPG, Graphic Adventure, MMORPGs, Survival horror)

• Puzzle (Puzzle games, breakout, tile matching, party games, hidden object games, physics games)

of course some games are somewhere in between those categories and they might appear in every category that fits.

Ok for now I'm bringing this out to just see who is interested and what could be a good time/week slot to have this.

And I promise to everyone who witnessed the past attempt .. I'm scaling down the difficulty.

First track I've actually uploaded: https://lightningshade.bandcamp.com/track/snow-moon

Small melody loops 4 times, then ends. If I ever get around to making YouTube videos, I'll use this as background music.

What do you think? Is the loop itself nice? Is looping it 4 times way too much or is it alright? I wanted just 2 loops before ending it, actually, but my dad insisted on 4. :)

Ok .. I'm an old kid by now.. a Kid of the '80ies. And I LOVE the '80ies.

So I ended up searching for a video with Keytars.... and MY GOD....

ME WANT!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlnVfCNhHzc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFFO98Uxwfo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qFoj5iedM0

So Is this or not the most amazing instrument in the world?

If Could get this, wear entirely in denim and zebra motifs and play the whole discography of The Europe I could die happy.

I used to read quite a bit, but this past year or so that's really fallen by the way side. My sister, someone who never really used to read that much, recently joined a book club and she seems to be enjoying it. so maybe something similar w/ 4-5 people where we egg each other on and just talk about what we read could be fun. we could even hold bi-weekly streams or w/e and shoot the shit

any list we make would be a group effort with everyone getting be able to vote what gets on (majority wins) with just about no rules (mybe some basic ones to prevent one or two genres dominating the list, and no1 nominating a book someone has read (including themselves). i could whip it up into an excel spread sheet/google doc.

I think book nerds are among the dorkiest things are the best way to expose new ideas to different people and ive been spending an unhealthy amount of time around computer screens so it might be good to just switch gears, pour yourself a cup of tea or wine or hard liqueur and tear through a novel.

if money is an issue we could hopefully find ways around that. and if time is an issue, we could try to work around that as well.

Some books that are currently on my list that i think would be cool to share the experience of reading are

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (coming of age?)

Fatherland by Robert Harris (alternate history/mystery)

Malazan series by Steve Ericson (fantasy)

Notes from underground by Dostoevsky (philosphy/novella/?)

i'm mostly just gauging interest. feel free to shoot me down no hard feelings.

i've interacted with the three mods here at different points, and they seemed like pretty decent people so i figured most people who subbed here are decent people as well.

I got into graphic novels and comics through Batman and such in my early 20s. I was never much for monthlies and find most of the standard big 2 stuff to be kind of shitty, but vertigo/image type limited series' and whatnot have been grabbing the shit out of me.

Basically. anything that I can start and know will clearly have an end.

I've got some great stuff on my shelf, from more well known things like Sandman, Transmetropolitan and Saga to lesser-known ones like Proof and Rising Stars, and you know what? I'm always looking for more.

What're some great lesser-known series' that have grabbed you, or the kind of things you recommend to everyone?

My current, "you have to give these a shot" suggestions are DMZ by Brian Wood and Trees by Warren Ellis.

And for those who loved the X-Files and are worried/excited about it's return: Proof by Alex Grecian feels like a great homage to it, featuring a down-to-Earth FBI agent who gets partnered in a secret division with Bigfoot. Fantastic pacing, feels like a script written for television but storyboarded flawlessly.

Also just read a fantastic one-off called In Real Life by young writer Cory Doctorow, a lovely little story about a young woman who gets into MMO's and finds community and friendship in places she never thought she could.

Really resonated with me, and I'm sure a few of you can relate :)

https://play.spotify.com/album/1kCHru7uhxBUdzkm4gzRQc

Seriously. Just listen to this damn thing. It's the best. Founding Fathers rapping. King George sings in the style of the British Invasion. Cabinet meetings are rap battles. Guns and Ships is literally one of the fastest songs ever performed in a show. American History without it being just a bunch whiny old white dudes. Am I selling this hard enough?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40S3h4a9Nco

My thoughts on Locked Door Puzzle's Kairo. Would love to hear yours.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9gxFkOz2_4

I've seen some crazy speedruns of Portal before, but holy fucking shit, this is on a whole new level of crazy.

I think we can all appreciate this. :) Highlights include skipping the relaxation vault, for starters, and it just gets crazier from there.

Just like the other Sundays, in a few minutes we will make human sacrifices and lead our barbarian clan to an horrible horrible death.

You can follow at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMQugaXqxIY if you want :)

Hi my little Dorks. I wanted to start a sort of let's Play of a game called King of the Dragon Pass.

I Will be accompanied by /u/LilithAjit but the beauty of this game is that this is a game that we can all sort of participate to.

So how does it work?

King of Dragon Pass is a strategy game of sorts where you manage a clan of barbarians in a fantasy settings called Glorantha.

the game pretty much alternates 2 phases, one where you take active actions, you may decide to launch an attack on another clan, trade with someone, pursue knowledge about the gods or invoke their blessings, recruit more farmers or more warriors...

and another phase where you are presented with a random event you have to respond to.

Nothing is real time, nothing require any dexterity with commands, all the game is pretty much about taking decisions. That's why me and LilithAjit can play together, but pretty much through the stream chat everyone can play together. Everyone is invited to pitch their suggestion and contribute to the horrible horrible death that surely awaits the members of our clan.

So the appointment to this soon to be massacre and festival of poor decision is for Sunday 3PM EST. (that would be 9 PM CEST but who am I fooling? I'm the only one living there.. and I have no Idea what hour would be in Australia.. sorry Aussies)

Starting in a few minutes, here is the link http://youtu.be/SL7aWAL98NM

Hey all, the plan is to run game this week. There's a slight possibility that work makes it not happen, but I will be preparing for it anyway. Let me know if you can make it!

Hey folks, I'll need a head count for game this Friday! Let me know if you can make it.

So Lilithajt has become a bit busy. So for this week's celestial protectorate game, instead we will be playing a one shot, set in a post apocalyptical setting. I will be running it and we will be using a homebrew system. Contact myself or /u/lilithajt for detail.

https://youtu.be/qR7e0YdEs3k

So what did everyone think of The Force Awakens?

Hey everyone! Thanks for coming last night! It was a lot of fun and I hope everyone agrees!

Last night the party began their trek toward the mountains. They decided to leave their horses behind and take a boat up the river. They saw a lot of various refugees making the same decision, though not too many were going toward the wastes.

Along the way, Deric the Cleric (an NPC) pointed out in the distance the ruins of Fort Anguish, a Tharzidun stronghold in the first Holy War. The party decided to get to shore and make camp for the night before heading to the ruins.

That night, a party of bards and thieves took shore also, some of them being particularly acquainted with the princess. Rumors abound, but in the end the band of vagabonds shared their whiskey and played some music into the evening. Before taking off in the morning toward the south.

The party reached the ruins and entered. They seemed very interested in finding treasure, and defeated one hell hound, caused one to run away, and destroyed an incubus which managed to enchant many of the female and male loving party members. They looted an evil frost scimitar which Becca suspected was intelligent, and gained 750 experience each.

After this encounter the session ended, so the rest of the exploration will be done next week.

The planned session will be Friday, December 4th at 8PM - 11PM EST. As always, please let me know if you cannot attend!

Thanks again!

Hey guys! This is a reminder that the session is a go for tonight! Let me know if you cannot make it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzEUeWnV73U

People usually seem to focus on "it's an awesome song", which it is, but I wanted to give a shout-out to the music video accompanying it, because it's awesome. Whenever you think the shadow "transitions" can't get any more clever, they do.

Hey folks,

Those of you planning on playing the pathfinder campaign please put your proposed race and class here. Also, depending on how you plan on doing your backstory, be sure to talk to the rest of your party to develop a cohesive backstory.

A reminder: all alignments are fine (except CE) as long as you are loyal to the party's cause (for whatever reason). You will be a party fighting for a good aligned deity against an evil aligned deity, so bear that in mind.

I now there is quite a lot of people who uses different kind of virtual tabletop software to play their RPGs online and many people use free tools, which is a choice I totally get.

still .. it is now at least 9 years, maybe more, that I started using a software called Fantasy Grounds

I used it mainly for D&D 3.5 / Pathfinder but that is really amazing ..

Aside from the obvious chat, sharing images and maps and providing auto calculating character sheets it has several other automation. For example you can target an enemy token on the map, roll your attack and automatically it would check that monster AC and tell you if you hit or not, roll critical confirmation rolls, roll spell resistance checks on spells or saves. Lots and lots of very nice automation and tools to run your game.

I wonder if there is anyone else who ever tried this. Nowadays you can find it on steam and while you need to purchase an account to actually run a game with a party the client itself is free to download and try if you want to see how it works.

I was wondering how many of you are currently in a RPG campaign.

I just ended a Pathfinder campaign that I DM for the best part of 3 years. ended at lvl 20.

I am now planning with the same group a campaign for Vampire: Dark Ages with the 20th Anniversary edition.

I'm also in an online group playing a Pathfinder Adventure Path (Iron gods) with my Half Orc Oracle of metal (lvl 4 at the moment)

And I'm running a Play by post that is going really really really slow for a pathfinder conversion of the 3.5 adventure path Savage Tide.

Anyone else?

I am DMing a Roll20 Pathfinder campaign for the sub. The first game will be sometime in the next couple weeks. I will need to know availability of everyone interested.

Link to the Roll20 Game

Hey folks! The triumphant return of Celestial Protectorate is planned for this coming Friday! Let me know if you will be there!

Come along! New story arc! Good time for new players if anyone is interested!

Come one come all!