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Glinda · 03-28-2011, 10:15 AM

Scrabble?

glatt · 03-28-2011, 10:32 AM

That's so awesome that your wives play too.

I occasionally play a game I invented called "Captain Justice" with my kids. It's a very loosely run role playing game where we just talk about what we do. We're superheros and it's a lot of work coming up with new missions and bad guys to fight, so I get sick of playing it, but my kids love it.

Flint · 03-28-2011, 10:38 AM

That's awesome to hear glatt, because I realized I could play D&D with my kids on this homemade board. With some exciting drawings, fun miniatures, and lowering the burden of "rules" while raising the ability of "imagination" to create, as you say, a very loosely run RPG. Glad to hear you've tried this and it works!

glatt · 03-28-2011, 10:51 AM

They love the imagination part of it.

One of their favorite parts is where I get lazy and say we have to do some sort of Olympic competition against a rival good super hero league. It's a lot easier than thinking up a mission. Usually the competitions are silly ones. Like you have to harvest the honey from a hive of honey bees. Your character has the power of flight and speed and x-ray vision, and your opponent is the Hulk. You calmly harvest the honey, fighting your urge to go fast, and wearing the beekeeper suit and using the smoke. Meanwhile, the Hulk gets stung a few times, gets really pissed off, and smashes his hive. You win.

Flint · 03-28-2011, 11:44 AM

I'm thinking of ways to make it more of a puzzle-solving RPG (less violent), although my wife points out correctly that the kids do need to learn strategic thinking. We could pepper the game with suggestions from Machiavelli and Sun Tzu.

Spexxvet · 03-28-2011, 01:01 PM

What is this?

Happy Monkey · 03-28-2011, 01:06 PM

Flocking?

Spexxvet · 03-28-2011, 01:17 PM

no

Undertoad · 03-28-2011, 01:20 PM

This is M&Ms being sold in bulk.

Spexxvet · 03-28-2011, 01:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Undertoad

This is M&Ms being sold in bulk.

Bingo! At the M&M store near Times Square.

infinite monkey · 03-28-2011, 01:26 PM

They looked so tiny I was not thinking M's at all!

Spexxvet · 03-28-2011, 01:27 PM

...

Spexxvet · 03-28-2011, 01:45 PM

and mixes

Gravdigr · 03-29-2011, 03:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Undertoad

ƒucking metal bar holder

So full of WIN!, it's overflowing.

Gravdigr · 03-29-2011, 03:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Flint

Yes, it is a homemade "battlemat" for staging Dungeons & Drangons encounters. Glatt wins again.

+10 bonus for Cool.

03-28-2011, 10:38 AM	#1368
Flint _______ Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Republic of Texas Posts: 11,190	That's awesome to hear glatt, because I realized I could play D&D with my kids on this homemade board. With some exciting drawings, fun miniatures, and lowering the burden of "rules" while raising the ability of "imagination" to create, as you say, a very loosely run RPG. Glad to hear you've tried this and it works! __________________ ************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

03-28-2011, 11:44 AM	#1370
Flint _______ Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Republic of Texas Posts: 11,190	I'm thinking of ways to make it more of a puzzle-solving RPG (less violent), although my wife points out correctly that the kids do need to learn strategic thinking. We could pepper the game with suggestions from Machiavelli and Sun Tzu. __________________ ************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

03-28-2011, 01:01 PM	#1371
Spexxvet Makes some feel uncomfortable Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 9,464	What is this? Attached Images __________________ "I'm certainly free, nay compelled, to spread the gospel of Spex. " - xoxoxoBruce

03-28-2011, 01:06 PM	#1372
Happy Monkey I think this line's mostly filler. Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: DC Posts: 10,861	Flocking? __________________ _________________ \|...............\| That's right! I cut my hand off!!! What do you \| Len 17, Wid 3 \| say to THAT, you bubble-talking HYPOCRITE?!? \|_______________\| [homepage][pics]

03-28-2011, 01:17 PM	#1373
Spexxvet Makes some feel uncomfortable Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 9,464	no __________________ "I'm certainly free, nay compelled, to spread the gospel of Spex. " - xoxoxoBruce

03-28-2011, 10:15 AM	#1366
Glinda SRFO Fun Coochie Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: 1.14 acres of heaven Posts: 575	Scrabble?

03-28-2011, 10:32 AM	#1367
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 17,843	That's so awesome that your wives play too. I occasionally play a game I invented called "Captain Justice" with my kids. It's a very loosely run role playing game where we just talk about what we do. We're superheros and it's a lot of work coming up with new missions and bad guys to fight, so I get sick of playing it, but my kids love it.

03-28-2011, 10:51 AM	#1369
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 17,843	They love the imagination part of it. One of their favorite parts is where I get lazy and say we have to do some sort of Olympic competition against a rival good super hero league. It's a lot easier than thinking up a mission. Usually the competitions are silly ones. Like you have to harvest the honey from a hive of honey bees. Your character has the power of flight and speed and x-ray vision, and your opponent is the Hulk. You calmly harvest the honey, fighting your urge to go fast, and wearing the beekeeper suit and using the smoke. Meanwhile, the Hulk gets stung a few times, gets really pissed off, and smashes his hive. You win.

03-28-2011, 01:20 PM	#1374
Undertoad Employable Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Valley Forge Natl Park Posts: 24,274	This is M&Ms being sold in bulk.

03-28-2011, 01:26 PM	#1376
infinite monkey We go together like pp^^ Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 10,703	They looked so tiny I was not thinking M's at all! __________________ Survivor: Higher Education. Season Premiere!

03-28-2011, 01:27 PM	#1377
Spexxvet Makes some feel uncomfortable Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 9,464	... Attached Images __________________ "I'm certainly free, nay compelled, to spread the gospel of Spex. " - xoxoxoBruce

03-28-2011, 01:45 PM	#1378
Spexxvet Makes some feel uncomfortable Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 9,464	and mixes Attached Images __________________ "I'm certainly free, nay compelled, to spread the gospel of Spex. " - xoxoxoBruce

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