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Post by Admin on Oct 31, 2013 2:11:55 GMT
Eric Scott, creative writer and former three-term president of the Truman State University Role-Playing Games Club, will run a role-playing game of your choice* for anywhere between three and seven participants, including children and teenagers, if applicable. In addition, he will provide a pizza with toppings of your choice. Mountain Dew and Doritos may be included if you desire a truly authentic nerd experience, but any resultant medical costs will be on you.
*If you've never played a role-playing game and have no idea of the choices available, don't worry. I'll take care of you.
Starting Bid $25
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Post by ericoscott on Nov 11, 2013 4:05:10 GMT
Look, if you're waffling on this one, consider this. A semester of pies is tasty, but ephemeral. Mix-tapes will probably get you ratted out to the RIAA, who will swoop down in black helicopters and annoy your cat. But after one night in the Thunderdrome with me, you will have the nerd street-cred to survive in today's post-Avengers and Game of Thrones reality. Do you want to walk into Valhalla's Gate and have some pizza-faced schlub in an X-Men shirt question your moral authority? NO, SIR/MA'AM. That's why you need this prize. It's your only real defense against the legions of dweebs already waiting to cast aspersions on your character.
Also it will be a home-made pizza, except maybe the crust, because I spent my childhood indoors reading the Dungeoneer's Survival Guide and thus haven't the hand-eye coordination for that throw-and-spin business.
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Post by jeshodgson on Nov 11, 2013 14:56:49 GMT
Now this sounds fun! I played a bit of D&D in highschool, but not since. Any other people out there want to join forces and co-bid on this together?!
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Post by ericoscott on Nov 12, 2013 23:56:54 GMT
The forces of darkness laugh in collective glee, for there are no hero/ines brave enough to bid! WILL YOU LET THE FALL OF THIS KINGDOM LIE ON YOUR HEAD?
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Post by jeshodgson on Nov 13, 2013 2:12:18 GMT
I found some other nerds to join me! $25. Can there be purple skittles too? Perhaps to add to the mountain dew? And can we wear pajama pants? Pretty please....
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Post by ericoscott on Nov 13, 2013 21:43:13 GMT
The barkeep narrows his eyes and continues to clean his mug. "Aye, lass," he says. "There might be, at that."
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Post by jeshodgson on Nov 14, 2013 3:36:44 GMT
Yessssss!
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Post by magswell on Nov 14, 2013 3:42:24 GMT
D&D is good and all, but what are some of the other options for games?
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Post by ericoscott on Nov 14, 2013 18:00:25 GMT
Just looking at stuff on my bookshelf, I could run pretty much anything on this list:
-Several flavors of D&D and Pathfinder. Fight monsters, acquire treasure.
-Call of Cthulhu - horror roleplaying in the world of HP Lovecraft. (BEST OPTION)
-Pokethulhu - see above, except with Pokemon.
-Numenera - A billion years in the future, eight galaxy-spanning civilizations have risen and fallen on planet Earth. Now, in the dawn of the Ninth World, your characters explore the mysterious remnants of those who came before.
-In Nomine - Play angels and demons trying to influence the modern world.
-Star Wars - well.
-The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen - an unusual game in which you tell tall tales in the personae of outrageous 19th century noblepersons.
-Monte Cook's World of Darkness - Something tried to eat our universe, and in the process, turned South Dakota and most of the northern US (including Minnesota! eek!) into a smoky death crater. Now all manner of supernatural creepy crawlies are in our world. (Despite the name, this is NOT QUITE the same as...)
The World of Darkness, which is, uhm, a world of darkness. I have the following games from that line; I could also do a monster mash and mix them up.
-Vampire: the Requiem - you're vampires! It's like the world's worst sorority.
-Vampire: the Dark Ages - you're vampires! Except in Ye Olde Medieval Tymes!
-Werewolf: the Forsaken - you're werewolves! wow much lycanthropy very fierce wow
-Mage: the Awakening - YER A WIZARD, MAXWELL. Sorcerers wage a secret war for control of the world's collective memory.
-Changeling: the Lost - You were kidnapped by fairies. Now you're back, but you're different - and someone else has been living your life for you.
-Hunter: the Vigil - You're a human who hunts monsters. But the Abyss gazes back...
Warhammer 40,000, which is a dark science fiction universe in which the fascist, xenophobic, religiously zealous Imperium of Man still ends up being the closest thing to a good guy in the setting. I have stuff to run the following games from this line:
-Dark Heresy - as agents of the Imperial Inquisition, your characters struggle in secret to fight aliens, demons, and heretics.
-Deathwatch - When aliens attack your pitiful human agrarian world, who ya gonna call? The Space Marines of the Deathwatch!
-Black Crusade - As Chaos-sworn heretics, wage war on the Imperium and either resist or embrace the corruption of your daemon masters.
-Only War - In a universe of daemons, aliens, and genetically modified super-soldiers, you're just average soldiers.
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Post by jeshodgson on Nov 14, 2013 18:57:48 GMT
Awesome. This sounds so fun! Also, I'll up the bid if the pizza can be vegetarian and gluten free...?!?
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Post by ericoscott on Nov 14, 2013 22:32:50 GMT
Hey, it's a pizza of your choice. You want gluten, you get gluten. You want no gluten, no gluten shall be had.
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Post by jeshodgson on Nov 14, 2013 23:29:47 GMT
Woot! Then let's make that $30.
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