Chat thread

[John]

New Mexico looks like a really fun state to explore. We're passing through in June on our way to Lubbock TX for the Spur Awards presentation. I'm hoping to get over to Carlsbad Caverns also.

[John]

Where in the state are you moving to, Philip?

[[deleted user]]

John wrote: "Where in the state are you moving to, Philip?"

Albuquerque. My wife and I were presented with an opportunity we couldn't pass up, plus I'm hoping the climate will help alleviate some of my wife's health problems. We're excited and looking forward to it, but that is months away yet.

[John]

Nice. That's a great area.

[Quentin]

Philip wrote: "John wrote: "Where in the state are you moving to, Philip?"

Albuquerque. My wife and I were presented with an opportunity we couldn't pass up, plus I'm hoping the climate will help alleviate some ..."

Philip is going to go all Breaking Bad on us. He won't have to time to write once he gets his "lab" running lol.

[Ashe]

Eventually, I will have the required funds to take trips like that. Partner and I want to explore New Mexico and she's dying to go to White Sands and go back to Roswell. I've wanted to visit Roswell forever because ALIUMS!

[Quentin]

Ashe wrote: "Eventually, I will have the required funds to take trips like that. Partner and I want to explore New Mexico and she's dying to go to White Sands and go back to Roswell. I've wanted to visit Rosw..."

Of course Ashe means visit Roswell AGAIN. The crash landing was traumatic when he came to Earth and he...nvm I've already said too much.

[Ashe]

I have no idea what you're talking about. I am a perfectly normal human with human interests. I am familiar with all your Earth customs, like shitposting on tumblr and writing bad fanfiction.

[audrey]

Ashe wrote: "I have no idea what you're talking about. I am a perfectly normal human with human interests. I am familiar with all your Earth customs, like shitposting on tumblr and writing bad fanfiction."

Fanfiction? Do tell. Which fandom?

[Ashe]

Eh, I guess technically I started with some Skyrim fic but it was just me making prose out of game sessions. Though I have contemplated writing out my own story for the Undertaker's last match (WWE wrestler). Oh and I have an idea for a Star Trek story that's only fanfic in that it would be set in the Star Trek universe. Well and there's my idea for a Mexican captain who is also a Luchador (Mexican wrestler, usually wear the colorful masks) and a misunderstanding with Worf. But that was less a fic and more just a bit of conceptual word vomit.

[[deleted user]]

Gee, and here I was thinking about turning my bad Skyrim fanfic into a Let's Play. Probably be easier to write it!

[Ashe]

You make your jokes but making stories out of my gaming really helped me build up a schedule and inspired me a lot. :P

[[deleted user]]

Sorry, no offense meant. But I do hope to one day inflict the ongoing adventures of a Bosmer werewolf ranger who hunts vampires and dragons with equal gusto on Youtube.

[Ashe]

Nah, I was just being smartarsed back. You should definitely get a Let's Play going if that's a thing you're into.

[[deleted user]]

I will, someday. I need a really good PC first, then a lot of add-ons, and at least an external hard drive for storage. Let's Plays, at least on the technical side, are complicated and possibly expensive. And not every game is good for it.

[Ashe]

A good enough rig to record Skyrim wouldn't be terribly expensive. I built my pc specifically to play Skyrim and Arkham City when they came out and it was only 850. The hardest part really is setting up the recording software and then editing.

I might know a thing or two about a/v equipment and editing...

[Eric]

This game talk makes me wonder: anyone here ever play the Deadlands RPG? And if so is it any good?

[Quentin]

I haven't played but I'm pretty sure Philip and Ashe have. I think it's good from what I've heard of it.

[Ashe]

It's good but you have to take the time to set it up right. You can eeither follow the base rules or homebrew and they encourage homebrew. Some of tthe base is a little confusing at first. Check it out though.

[[deleted user]]

It's very good; got me into all this. You can either go with Deadlands Classic (which is the original rules that came out in 1995) and play through 1876 weirdness, or you can go with Deadlands: Reloaded which came out a few years ago under the much more simplified Savage Worlds rules (which was distilled from their miniatures game entitled The Great Rail Wars) and updates the setting to 1879. If you go with Classic, I highly recommend looking up the following expansions: River O' Blood (the Mississippi and its environs), The Great Maze (the ruins of California), Back East: The North and Back East: The South (details of the east in the Deadlands universe) and Tales O' Terror 1877 (one year later). All of which you can find in pdf form on http://www.drivethrurpg.com/index.php under Pinnacle Entertainment. Shane Hensley is one of my heroes.

I am done nerding out now.

[Justin]

O.o I'm sorry to say this but...I've only just recently heard of Deadlands but never really knew what it was. I've heard snippets of it and it does sound quite interesting.

[Ashe]

Eh, you learn about things when you learn about them.

[Justin]

lol thanks for understanding Ashe.

[James]

I was briefly able to play a GURPS game that included use of Wild West and Horror rulebooks. Basically, Horror in the Old West. Never played Deadlands.

[Chris]

hi all. I need to interrupt our regularly scheduled banter for some big news.

THE DARK TOWER MOVIE

the project has been on again/of again for the last couple years, mainly due to funding, but now Sony pictures had plugged that gap with a wad of cash!

The signifince, specific to us, is that the movie will really highlight the genera. Not really put it in the spotlight, but pretty damn close otherwise.

food for thought.

[Justin]

Hmm that does sound interesting. I heard they could make a Red Dead Red Redemption movie and Brad Pitt is suppose to star

[Ashe]

I still worry about the Dark Tower movie but I'd be lying if I said I didn't want it to be good.

[Quentin]

BTW guys on a side note, did anyone ever play the game GUN? I played it on the PS2, and that's an awesome western game. It's even got a weird western feel to it.

[Ashe]

Gun was fun but felt so unfinished. PS2 limitations. It's on Steam too but some of the reviews said the port was pretty garbage. It's too bad the port wasn't open for modding though cause man, if any game begs for mods, Gun does.

Well, maybe most games. I love mods.

[Justin]

I have Gun. I never got around to finishing it. I also have Red Dead Revolver..I liked the action packed and western flare they brought.

I think I know what I'm doing this weekend! :) #WesternGaming

[Ashe]

If only rockstar would get Red Dead Redemption to Steam.

[[deleted user]]

I had both Gun and Red Dead Revolver. They were fun, but like Ashe said, Gun felt unfinished somehow and a bit anticlimactic, and R. D. Revolver still had odd Capcom trappings. I'm hoping R. D. Redemption comes to Steam as well; I have a console copy, but I want a digital back-up on Steam. There's a rumor floating around that Redemption will be getting a sequel, and Rockstar is waiting to port the first game to time it with the sequel's release.
But, that's just a rumor.

[Quentin]

I agree about Gun feeling anticlimatic, it never had what felt like a real ending. I had so much fun playing it that I didn't let the minor things bother me.

[Ashe]

It was fun but how much of the game was riding silently back and forth between locations that were barely populated? The mechanics were great but it looked like they'd wanted to do more with it. After playing Call of Juarez: Gunslinger, i feel like that's the format Gun should've been in the way it unfolds.

Still, it was fun and worth a playthrough. Ditto for Gunslinger.

[Quentin]

Ashe wrote: "It was fun but how much of the game was riding silently back and forth between locations that were barely populated? The mechanics were great but it looked like they'd wanted to do more with it. Af..."

Yeah and I got lost quite a few times. It was almost like a horesback riding simulator for some of those missions now that I think about it lol

[Ashe]

Also,, another note for Gunslinger, the music is killer.

[[deleted user]]

I have to play Gunslinger one of these days.

[Ashe]

It's short, very very linear, but pretty interesting and fun. You can at least get two playthroughs out of it for the two endings. The dueling mechanic can be frustrating though.

[[deleted user]]

It's on my Steam wishlist. I'll pick it up next time they have a sale, I think. But good to know!

[Ashe]

You might watch for the Blood Dragon/Gunslinger bundle. That's how i got it over the summer sale. Should still be a thing.

[Justin]

Okay so is Deadlands a playable game on a computer or game consoles or is it like Dungeons and Dragons where it comes in a box and what not and you play as you would with D&D?

it's got me curious now.

[Ashe]

It's a tabletop. Though there've been rumors of an MMO. I think those rumors are mostly dried up now.

[Quentin]

Deadlands also did a comic or two as well.

[Justin]

I'm definitely gonna look into it if I can. Better late then never right? lol.

[Ashe]

They also have flavor novels. There's a new one coming out in September. http://amzn.com/0765375265

[[deleted user]]

When they first started out they did novellas that also used the story of the novella as the basis for a playable Deadlands adventure groups could use. My two favorites were called "Night Train" (the undead sheriff Ronan Lynch versus a trainload of vampires) and "Adios A Mi-Go!" (A luckless group of gunslingers trying to figure out why Mi-Go from the Cthulhu Mythos were hiding out in a supposedly played out mine).

[Ashe]

I wanna say I read Night Train. Maybe I just glanced at the campaign. I would really love to have another go at playing. The campaign I played was garbage. Playing through text-based chat is hard but he just made it worse.

[Ashe]

Hey, everyone, hope you're having a good weekend.

[[deleted user]]

It's going okay. Waiting on my new covers, spending time with my spouse and pets.

[Ashe]

Hey, new covers, alright. New art is always good!