Dungeon Run: Acceptance
Chapter: Comics, Season Five
Mel accepts a new job (and a relocation) and Brett is gone for who knows how long. Things appear to be changing with the group (as they tend to do) and I’ll be exploring what it means to be adults who play games with groups and the ways that life (see also: adulthood) gets in the way sometimes. I think a lot of us can relate and I am excited to delve into it.
Speaking of delving, the action of Dungeon Run resumes next week. The number of runners is low and things ramp up from here.
Hover-text: Just imagine a picture of a sad puppy in that last panel with the song playing.
That was a different horrible Sarah McLaughlin song. I think.
I wouldn’t know. I never make it without blubbering.
I think that the original ad used Angels. At least thats the one they used in the parody of the ad on South Park. There’s been at least two more though.
Have to admit I’m a bit of a fan of her, though mostly for the many remixes of her songs that are floating around.
T_T I know how it is to game with different people in different states. My original group were high school friends in California, but those are yester years. Now I game with scattered souls like myself who don’t have a close proximity group, so we game over skype using webcams and voice chat, along with virtual maps and character sheets. It’s fun, but gaming long distance is hard.
it’s easier than you think, alex. look up a site called roll20.org. it’s one of the best long-distance gaming sites I’ve ever heard of.
That’s what we use. But it’s still not the same.
I’ll be honest. I love this site. I’ve been using it for a while and I’d suggest it to pretty much anyone.
blah… dealing with my first enccounter with this atm…. It’s awful…. plotlines are midway through and the five of us are in three different locations. I don’t see it getting better at all.
That’s what Skype and roll20 is for – long distance gaming. Heck, both of my Pathfinder groups have Skype players – and some of them are fairly local, but would rather stay home for various reasons (having to work around the house cleaning up to the game or having family stuff to attend to as well).
Oh, and we’re now exclusively using roll20 for the map even with the mostly-tabletop group. It makes it a hell of a lot easier to determine distances and the like… and with a little work ahead of time speeds up the game. Win/win really. I don’t miss the miniatures or trying to draw the map on a dry-erase board.
Huh. I would have had to think about that a little longer. But then, I’ve applied for jobs on a whim before, just as a “aww hell, I’ll give it a shot, who knows?” Probably she thought it through when she applied.
Seems like she won’t have to worry about Grey anymore, though.
This is a thing I have been kicking around for a while. It is relevant to me and a lot of gamers to deal with players coming and going and honestly, it’s time for Mel to move on. Most of it is for personal reasons (she was originally based on my ex-wife) and I love writing Mel but it’s time to shake things up a bit.
Makes sense. It’ll be interesting to see how this shakes out. I like Mel, but I lost a lot of respect for her with the Grey thing. I do like that she’s not the token girl, though… your female characters are great. 🙂
thank you for this interlude, a dear friend (and future best man) recently moved away due to employment and had to leave the group. i was sad to see him go, but glad that he’s doing right by his family.
his dice are missed at the table… but oddly enough he surprised us with a ‘send spell’ during tonight’s game, where his Mage wished his friends luck on their journey. (I’m actually turning it into a mechanic: allowing him to add a random magical effect due to long ranged spell casting though scrying, when ever something like that happens during a battle or encounter)
That sounds really cool. 😀
You sound like a truly awesome DM. That’s a great attitude, and a neat mechanic to add!
Long distance gaming is much easier now than it was in the ’80s. Back in my day, if we wanted a long distance game, we had to Play by Post (Office… i.e., SNAIL mail!). Turns would take weeks, if not months (and you though D&D 4E had long combats)! You young whippersnappers don’t know how easy you have it!
So true. Which is why I’m not running a Pathfinder campaign with just my family. At least five years of not worrying about people leaving the group. 🙂
So true. Which is why I’m now running a Pathfinder campaign with just my family. At least five years of not worrying about people leaving the group. 🙂
Nooo the group is breaking up! Damn you yoko ono! What happen to gaming culture where none of us have time to game anymore? Did the adult gamers in the 90s have this problem? Even in the 3rd gamers movie i was sad to see that life would not let them play dnd together. I guess this arc will show us some of the fixes for that. But it will be sad not seeing the d20monkey group not around their table together adventring arguing and making sex jokes in person. I myself have to game via email which funnily enough takes away the big issue with 4e that a turn takes too long. I get to sit in front of the labtop with some dice for a little while to get my fix and to the other player it is only until the email goes thru. Yes encounters take weeks or months but a 10 min turn and an hour and a half turn (i just did that DMing a huge battle with 200 minions and calvery) is the same on the other end. Anyway, Show us Brian. Show us how a group of friends can still game with life getting in the way.
In this economy, you have to do what you have to do to take care of yourself and your family. If you get a great job offer that takes you out of state, keeping your family sheltered and fed takes precedence, unfortunately. In an economy where people have more disposable income, they also have more flexibility in their free time. But I would imagine that the dichotomy between gaming and responsibility has always existed to some extent.
So, who’s going to be the first gamer in the comic to have babies? Because THAT adulthood gamer impediment really cramps schedules.
Hah how bout Larry! Thstd be an interresting angle!
Only until they’re old enough to game themselves, or to play video games or watch movies while you game. I have a 6 year old and my DM has a 5 year old, and this works really well. Babies can also work ok, depending on their temperament, and if you bring them up gaming, they’re used to falling asleep in Denny’s. 😛
Looking at the comic again im picturing them doing a slide show to ‘i will remember you’ about their gaming together. Reminds me when i moved and considered doing one with my group to ‘time of your life’…
Trying to finish catching up to the present comic thru the archives, and wondering how this will affect the IGS?