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Post by Jerry Mapes on Apr 21, 2005 13:38:55 GMT -5
nice set up...
i added you to our linkage at the footer... will make sure you are added to the website by saturday.
really looks good. like the color scheme as well!
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Post by Jerry Mapes on Apr 20, 2005 10:44:46 GMT -5
well proboards has the obvious advantage of being free and does not have to be conencted with a website
where PhpBB requires that you have a website with SQL databases. Affordablehost.com is where I have the K&K website as well as the SEKGG.Org website. They are reasonably priced and pretty good about getting right on top of any problems. They have like 10 different packacges to choose from 5.95 a month to 75 bucks a month. Plus you can pay a yr in advance or quarterly so it makes it easier to manage payments.
I still have enough databases left on my website i could put up a phpbb forum directly on K&K but since i had started the Alehouse before he website i just left it here. Plus Proboards and phpbb are not compatable. once you are on one system or the other there is no transfering tot he other one without starting from scratch.
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Post by Jerry Mapes on Apr 19, 2005 3:37:19 GMT -5
there are a lot more pics than jsut me over at sekgg.orgIf anyone is interested.
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Post by Jerry Mapes on Apr 19, 2005 3:25:48 GMT -5
we had about 170 people show, about 50 short of what was expected.
And you nor anyone here have to fear a Tavernization. It is true I am on friendly terms with the Troll Lord Guys. I have been for a long time. I dont think i have been secret about it, i said as much on the Tavern and at Genes, if that was missed... sorry. I have also supported and liked thier game even though I have a few problems with it (of course i can say the same for any game i play and like). This is also why i have stayed out of a lot of the discussions here, at the Tavern and Genes. I do not hold ones on opinions on anything against them, everyones entitled. Heck if i did that I wouldn't have any friends.
When things happened here I could have done something very stupid, like a Tavernization. But when i created this Forum and my website it was very apparent of what "board" wasn't here. That "board" will never be here. This is OD&D/AD&D 1e and the few various games in the "other" section. Period. The other game has now 2 Forums of thier own as well as DF, GT, and various boards on other forums. To have one here would only distract from the focus of the Alehouse.
So as you can see you post is in tact and the question was fair. What i said in the moritorium stands and will stand as long as I own the Alehouse.
In fact Foster, if I was going to pull something like you mentioned, It wouldnt be done under the cover of darkness. I would come out and say so. Heh. I really hate subtrafuge unless of course I am playing Amber or Top Secret. Heh. But as I said that wont happen.
I will say it once for all, no fancy code words.
Castles & Crusades will never be a part of the Alehouse. My friendship with the TLG guys and my likeing of the game makes not one wit of difference of how the Alehouse will be ran. OD&D and AD&D 1e are still and will forever be my games of choice and afterall that is what the Alehouse is and will always be about.
So I will make a deal with you Foster, since you are one of the few people on the net I fully respect and know to have a clear vision of AD&D/OD&D. If I ever do anything that even smells like a Tavenization starting, you say the word and i will immediately turn the Alehouse over to you and you can Ban ME for life.
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Post by Jerry Mapes on Apr 19, 2005 1:08:37 GMT -5
So where have I been all this time? Well, I was the Convention Chairman for our local game convention, Gorilla Con II. We wrapped up the con Sunday evening and now I am enjoying a break from the chaos that comes with the job. BUT - The Con was a blast I am posting my after-con report in the annoucnements at the K&K Website. Maybe some of you can make it to Gorilla Con III. I have also posted a few pics from the con over in the PICTURES section on the K&K Website.
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Post by Jerry Mapes on Apr 20, 2005 10:52:40 GMT -5
Every con i was at back in the early days always had duel DMs, more specifically a DM and a Judge. The Judge was more to track points in the tourney mod, but they also did a bit of DMing.
In college we ran a group of about 20 people and me and my buddy brian Co-DMed the group. bascially one of us would runthe adventure and the other would handle the the dice rolls. If you have a compatable partner it can wrk very well.
What you are thinking of doing would almost require to have a lot of DMs. Something that large you would have groups going in all over the place in a Crawl. with 40 or 50 people it would take at least 4 DMs and a an overlord DM to trak it all. Its workable but as you siad everyone on the DM staff would have to be dedicated.
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Post by Jerry Mapes on Apr 13, 2005 23:01:04 GMT -5
Heh.
welcome to the greybeard society of gamers.
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Post by Jerry Mapes on Apr 7, 2005 14:24:50 GMT -5
I have to agree completely on the TRaveller box. For some reason it really did grab me. The Pendragon cover as well as many of the other book covers for the game were relaly fantastic but i loved the arthurian themes.
The Ph and DMG for 1st ed AD&D are classic as well as the the D&DG and B/E boxset covers by Otus. We didnt play much B/E but the cover work was 90% of why i bought them.
The cover of the old CoC box and hardback (3rd ed) caught my eye as well. They were campy, but they had that 1930's pulp feel that screamed Weird Tales, of which I have always been a fan.
Granted theya re not RPGs but the Panzer Leader, Panzer Blitz, and Squad Leader boxes of the board wargames got me like Traveller. Real clean, heavy contrast yellow, black, and greysale minimal art.
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Post by Jerry Mapes on Mar 31, 2005 4:06:01 GMT -5
C&C On K&K Alehouse
I have no problems with the TLG guys and forum members coming over to talk about OD&D, AD&D, Gaming theory or Gaming in general. But...
DO NOT START ANY C&C THREADS. THIS IS NOT THE PLACE FOR IT.
C&C may be mentioned and itself or parts thereof can be used as an example when discussing game theory and design. But this forum is not about C&C and "my game is better then your game" or "system wars" cr@p will not fly.
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Post by Jerry Mapes on Mar 30, 2005 14:01:51 GMT -5
In case there was any misunderstanding of the quote above. Davis meant the General C&C Discussion board on the TLG Fourms, not here.
Thank You.
Jerry
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Post by Jerry Mapes on Mar 25, 2005 18:16:17 GMT -5
Everything looks fine with your account on this end. Is there a particular error message you are getting?
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Post by Jerry Mapes on Feb 14, 2005 15:28:59 GMT -5
Wow! I was stunned when i read this. I was just talking the other day about i how i miss the old convention days. It never failed, Jack would almost always be at the conventions I would attend. He obviously as a Guest Author and me as a lowly player or Con staff. Jack was one of the nicest guys a person could ever meet. The first con we met was in Columbia Mo. Jack was tired from the trip and was running late so he hadn't slept. But he did the round table discussion anyway. Afterward all he was interested in was sitting back and relaxing. Unfortunately some of his "fans" had other ideas and they would not leave him alone; even so much as to follow him into the courtesy suite and bugging him there. Finally I walked over and and said, Mr. Chalker you have a phone call, I will show you where you can take it. He got up and followed out of the room, leaving his tormentors behind. Once we were out of site near side entrance I showed him my Staff badge and apologized for other staff letting non-authorized people in the suite. I then asked him if he had had lunch and if not I knew a quite place down town that had good food. He simply said, Sounds good, and off we went. I think we finally got back to the con about 5pm after an afternoon of just relaxing and BSing about anything and everything. A few months later we ran into each other again and decided to take saturday afternoon off, go have lunch and catch up on the BS. So it went for at least another 12 or 15 conventions over the next few years. After i became disabled i didn't go to cons near as much so Jack and I would keep up via letters and later email. But only in these past few years have we not kept in contact as much. Still I could count on hearing from him every couple of months - at least until about a year ago. He wasn't getting to the Midwest near as much, I wasn't going east anytime soon so this past year or so, we pretty much fell out of contact. I will really miss Jack, even though we didn't talk much but for a couple times in the past 1 and a half years. He was a great guy, always ready to wit, and never caught up in ego fame trips. He was more concerned about just enjoying life and the small things that came his way. Goodbye Jack. Feb. 14, 2005 12:00 AM BALTIMORE - Jack L. Chalker, who wrote more than 60 science-fiction and fantasy novels, died of kidney failure Friday at Bon Secours Hospital in Baltimore. He was 60. Chalker's career began in his early teens with a literary magazine, Mirage, that he produced on an electric mimeograph machine and assembled with friends. "He would write famous authors and see if they wanted to write free non-fiction pieces for his magazine, and a surprising number did," said his wife, Eva C. Whitley. advertisement The magazine earned Chalker, then 14, a nomination for the Hugo Award, the genre's highest honor, presented by the World Science Fiction Society. Chalker's 1977 novel Midnight at the Well of Souls, about a walking, talking plant with brains in its feet, sold hundreds of thousands of copies, his wife said. [Edit: blatant spelling errors and fixing photo link]
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Post by Jerry Mapes on Feb 10, 2005 2:27:24 GMT -5
Glad to see ya made it in!
Thanks for the "thumbs up."
Jerry
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Post by Jerry Mapes on Feb 10, 2005 2:29:47 GMT -5
Thanks Guys.
Foster, i'll take a look see and respond when i can devote some quality time.
Jerry
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Post by Jerry Mapes on Feb 9, 2005 4:58:40 GMT -5
First let me apoligize for not being around much. Our gaming convention is quickly approaching and it is eating up 90% or better of my online time and the rest of my offline time as well. Also this week Tina (my finacee') was admitted to the hosptal and she looks liek she is going to have surgery... when i'm not sure... sometime in the next day or two most likely. So what this all means that for the time being I will be away even more, if that is possible. I havent abandoned you guys! But untill everything here at home settles down a bit I wont be seen much at all. Then after the convention in April (my last con that i am organizing... re-retireing from that headache) I will hopefully get to resume my normal online time and get to devote more attention to the Alehouse. In the mean time if anything is needed I can be reaced by PM or by email to admin@knights-n-knaves.comI promise... i will be in and out as i can. Jerry
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