C&C in the Wild West! (Finished)

Aramis · Post by **Aramis** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 9:49 am

jaybird216 wrote:
Great game tonight, Kurt. But you gotta shoot straighter'nat if youse fixin' ta dirtnap ol' Buffalo!

It sounds like we have the beginnings of a grand regular Thursday thing going on here. I'll see Josh tomorrow, and will broach the subject of him joining in on our fun. He doesn't currently have internet access outside of work (THE HORROR!), but he can always drag his laptop over here and log in on my network.

Yes, if we can get people rotating regularly with 3-4 week modules of different genres, that sounds great. If your friend Josh wants to try it that would be good. If he can DM some Call of Cthulhu that would be even better.

That was a fun session tonight. My fears of disaster were for naught (for _computer_ disaster, at least )

We really got to see how a vast combat would go. I thought it was actually pretty smooth for the number of players we have, and the fact that everything on line takes a bit longer.

The storyline is developing in interesting (and surprising) ways. All of a sudden we have a Man With No Name movie coming next week, which was not in the original module. Although it will be a little different than you expect.

You have most of the pieces now to figure out what is what. Treebore was close, but a bit off.

When I post the summary, I will include a few pieces of info that either 1) I forgot to make clear tonight or b) got a bit lost in all the durn shootin'. So read it carefully.

There were some funny scenes tonight for sure. What with Buffalo chopping down a gunfighter like a lumberjack while said gunfighter was unloading a loaded colt into him at point blank range (he was 4th level by the way, so pretty tough)

Don't even get me started with what the priest was doing with all of those visits to the outhouse, or Frank Green bravely choking an armed man to sleep

Or a certain "sharp shooter" creasing a companion's buttocks with a rifle shot
I thought your guys' tactics and roleplay were very good, as per usual.

I told you last time to bring your shooting irons. The scale of violence seems to be escalating each week. Next week, bring you dynamite.
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jaybird216 · Post by **jaybird216** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 2:40 pm

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jaybird216 · Post by **jaybird216** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 2:43 pm

Aramis wrote:
If your friend Josh wants to try it that would be good. If he can DM some Call of Cthulhu that would be even better.

He'd likely soil himself with glee to be able to run CoC. I'll bring it up tonight.
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jaybird216 · Post by **jaybird216** » Sat Dec 08, 2007 8:47 am

Completely OT, but I won 1st prize in the costume contest at the 80's party I went to tonight. The trophy was immediately added to my bling.

Buffalo ain' gettin' on no plane, Gabriel!

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Treebore · Post by **Treebore** » Sat Dec 08, 2007 10:39 am

Love it!
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Aramis · Post by **Aramis** » Sat Dec 08, 2007 9:35 pm

That is a perfect costume. Really captures the character.

I can hear him now: "What you talkin' 'bout Willis?"

That is the best Gary Coleman costume I have seen in awhile

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jaybird216 · Post by **jaybird216** » Sat Dec 08, 2007 11:50 pm

Close! I was Natalie from "Facts of Life".
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daddystabz · Post by **daddystabz** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 1:46 am

I am VERY interested in this! Do you have any room for an additional player? I have always wanted to play in a western setting! Also, how do I get the go for your gun rules?
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Emryys · Post by **Emryys** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 4:00 am

daddystabz wrote:
I am VERY interested in this! Do you have any room for an additional player? I have always wanted to play in a western setting! Also, how do I get the go for your gun rules?

GFYG @ DrivethruRPG
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Aramis · Post by **Aramis** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 4:08 am

daddystabz wrote:
I am VERY interested in this! Do you have any room for an additional player? I have always wanted to play in a western setting! Also, how do I get the go for your gun rules?

Thanks for your interest daddystabz. How it works is, we all guess what 80s chracter jaybird is imitating in his picture.

Oh, you mean the Wild West game!
We have already started. In fact we are nearing the end of our amusing romp. It has been an interesting adventure

The rules are as listed by Emryys. Essentially it is C&C SIEGE in the wild west. I have heavily house ruled the game (with mixed success )

I have been keeping a summary of the game in the "Crusades" section if you are interested to see how the game has gone. It's here

I am sure my example will inspire many many (pale) imitators, so there may be someone else who will try this in future.
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Aramis · Post by **Aramis** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 8:54 am

OK. The summaries have now been added from last session. Phew, they take awhile to write, those summaries.

I emphasised a few things in there to make it a bit clearer. Hopefully you will pick up on it in the summary.

For next session, I think we will go with the following rule:

When making a ranged shot for which they are set, i.e in a shooting position (kneeling or prone) Annie and Tom can use the feat "Precise Shot", for free.

Everyone else, and Annie and Tom when they are not so set, can make a SIEGE check to precise shot (TN base 12 for scouts and gunslingers, 15 for everyone else, ACC modifier). Fail the roll, and it is -4 to hit.

Emryys · Post by **Emryys** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 10:40 am

Great summaries Aramis!
If you need some western graphics to use in OpenRPG, I've made a bunch for gaming online...
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jaybird216 · Post by **jaybird216** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 4:05 pm

Snipped from the summaries:

" Letter to the editor from Mrs. Martha Swenson (widow)

.....I for one welcome our new overlords..."

I can't help but hear that in a Kent Brockman voice.
Great write-ups, as always.
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Aramis · Post by **Aramis** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 7:23 pm

Emryys wrote:
Great summaries Aramis!
If you need some western graphics to use in OpenRPG, I've made a bunch for gaming online...

Thanks emryys. Dead Mule is getting more dangerous of late, but I hope Bill Honeywell can keep up his postings !

As to the graphics, do you mean miniatures of wagons and horses and so on? I would not mind taking a look.

I actually bungled the map making so all of the miniatures have to be .tiny . But we will keep it in mind if we ever return to the fabled Wild West.

Aramis · Post by **Aramis** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 7:28 pm

jaybird216 wrote:
Snipped from the summaries:

" Letter to the editor from Mrs. Martha Swenson (widow)

.....I for one welcome our new overlords..."

I can't help but hear that in a Kent Brockman voice.
Great write-ups, as always.

Thanks jaybird. You got it in one. I am an avant garde summariser. It's not anachronistic to reference the Simpsons in a Wild West summary, it's cutting edge...or camp. I always got those two terms mixed up in avante garde school

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Treebore · Post by **Treebore** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 8:11 pm

For one thing, my soldier, and a couple of pinkerton fellas, definitely have a better idea about true law and order than those who have gone before us.
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jaybird216 · Post by **jaybird216** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 8:44 pm

The only true law is "Don't sleep downhill from a drunken prospector."
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Treebore · Post by **Treebore** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 8:57 pm

jaybird216 wrote:
The only true law is "Don't sleep downhill from a drunken prospector."

I thought that was just wisdom.
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Titania Lefey · Post by **Titania Lefey** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 9:19 pm

Thanks for posting the summary, Aramis.

It Definitely cleared some stuff up. Thankyou!!

Titania

Treebore · Post by **Treebore** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 9:43 pm

I think since the Sherriff is OOC the only other one who may be able to give us some answers is a certain booze drinking judge.
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jaybird216 · Post by **jaybird216** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 11:19 pm

Get a rope.
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Aramis · Post by **Aramis** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 1:58 am

Titania Lefey wrote:
Thanks for posting the summary, Aramis.

It Definitely cleared some stuff up. Thankyou!!

Titania

Your welcome, Titania. Glad it helped.

Can the deputies take what they now know and save Dead Mule? Next session shall reveal all (or at least, most).

Orpheus · Post by **Orpheus** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 5:24 pm

daddystabz wrote:
I am VERY interested in this! Do you have any room for an additional player? I have always wanted to play in a western setting! Also, how do I get the go for your gun rules?

I just noticed this thread and was thinking the same thing. I might be interested in trying this with FG2. I've got Go For Yer Gun and OGL Wild West (just to spice up the combat and weapon choices a little bit) and would probably use those. I'd just have to fiddle wih the C&C FG2 ruleset a tad, but it shouldn't be too bad.

jaybird216 · Post by **jaybird216** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 7:41 pm

Orpheus wrote:
I just noticed this thread and was thinking the same thing. I might be interested in trying this with FG2. I've got Go For Yer Gun and OGL Wild West (just to spice up the combat and weapon choices a little bit) and would probably use those. I'd just have to fiddle wih the C&C FG2 ruleset a tad, but it shouldn't be too bad.

It has been a rootin' tootin' good time. Lots of absurd colloquialisms and spaghetti-cinematic action.
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jaybird216 · Post by **jaybird216** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 8:16 pm

If anyone does wind up running GFYG, please be sure to let me know. I'd be interested in taking another shot (so to speak) at the system.
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Aramis · Post by **Aramis** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 9:12 pm

Orpheus wrote:
I just noticed this thread and was thinking the same thing. I might be interested in trying this with FG2. I've got Go For Yer Gun and OGL Wild West (just to spice up the combat and weapon choices a little bit) and would probably use those. I'd just have to fiddle wih the C&C FG2 ruleset a tad, but it shouldn't be too bad.

This is where all those other players have been hiding!
We are coming to the end of the module now (hopefully, by Dec 20).

However, we are planning/spit ballin' the idea of continuing the Thursday slot in the new year for rotating DMs to come in, DM for 3-4 weeks, then sit back down and enjoy playing in the next person's wild 3-4 week adventure

The idea is to play some different genres in there (ideally, ones that have been adapted to the very simple and easy SIEGE engine). But by no means is straight C&C precluded (in fact, C&C plus some classic TSR modules would not go amiss)

So, if you wanted to run a western game, you could run it in the Thursday slot. I would give it a go as a player.

It looks like many of the participants of the Thursday game are thinking of getting Fantasy Grounds, so that might work here as well (I already have it)

Also, I have a house rules document that covers about 2/3 of the rules we are using, so you might want to bulk up the GFYG rules a bit.
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Orpheus · Post by **Orpheus** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 11:18 pm

Aramis wrote:
This is where all those other players have been hiding!
We are coming to the end of the module now (hopefully, by Dec 20).

However, we are planning/spit ballin' the idea of continuing the Thursday slot in the new year for rotating DMs to come in, DM for 3-4 weeks, then sit back down and enjoy playing in the next person's wild 3-4 week adventure

The idea is to play some different genres in there (ideally, ones that have been adapted to the very simple and easy SIEGE engine). But by no means is straight C&C precluded (in fact, C&C plus some classic TSR modules would not go amiss)

So, if you wanted to run a western game, you could run it in the Thursday slot. I would give it a go as a player.

It looks like many of the participants of the Thursday game are thinking of getting Fantasy Grounds, so that might work here as well (I already have it)

Also, I have a house rules document that covers about 2/3 of the rules we are using, so you might want to bulk up the GFYG rules a bit.

Sure, I would be interested in that type of situation. What type of things did you add to GFYG?

jaybird216 · Post by **jaybird216** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 7:52 am

I think I was party to the most opportune fumble in the history of Dead Mule Arizona. KA-BLOOOOO-click.

Great time as always, Kurt.
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Treebore · Post by **Treebore** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 8:15 am

Lots of fun. Gotta love a game that leaves you with a smile on your face.
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Aramis · Post by **Aramis** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 8:29 am

Thanks guys. That really was a fun one. I was laugh-coughing through the whole thing.

Then to top it off, my newly fixed computer shut down on its own again like it was doing before I "fixed" it.

Excuse me for a minute

Ffffffu-beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep

Sorry we ran a little long there spak man. And we still did not get to the big shoot-out (which is rumoured to be coming. Only rumours)

There are still 2 big set pieces remaining (the resolution of the "deputies" situation, and the following through of the treasure map.). The treasure map involves other wilderness encounters that I can streamline or expand as we see fit, but I think we want to do a bit out there. It will definitely not be as extensive as our Dead Mule excursions.

But given that, and we have 1 ssession remaining for the 20th, do people want to:

1) compress it to all fit in the 20th.

2) find a bonus Christmas Special Day somewhere in the holidays (maybe the 27th?) and do it in 2 sessions

3) finish it in January

4) Switch to Burrows and Bunnies immediately. Enough with all this insane violence, I just want to hug a carrot. Soooo delicious

Thoughts?
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