Introduction and Welcome Thread
Are you new to Hex Games? Have you been lurking around for a while but never how ot make yourself known? Step forward and introduce yourself! Where are you from? How did you hear about Hex Games? What products are you looking forward to? What do you want from us? What did you do last summer?
Step up and be recognized!
Welcome aboard, Max! I
Submitted by JLHBurnett on September 7, 2007 - 12:27pm.
Welcome aboard, Max! I know I already said that in the Qartoons thread, but It's worth repeating. It's always good to see another innocent civilian converted to the Cult of Hex.
You're gonna love Fort High. I've only read early drafts, but Steve and L8on have done a bang-up job taking all the weirdness of the Hex Ficton and sending it to high school. I've played in some of Steve's demo games, and they were the ultimate in fun. Maybe we can convince Steve and L8on to come out of hiding and talk about it a bit more.
Not to sound like a total shill, but if you really want to keep abreast of how different projects are developing, make sure you check out the developer journals on the Hex Live Journal community (there's a link along the right side of the website).
-JLHB
"Don't hate the media. Become the Media." - Jello Biafra
Back in business
Submitted by MykeLen on September 8, 2007 - 2:55pm.
Well, even though I'm not "new" per se, I reactivated my login info and all that. Now all I need to do is get this thing to work for me and I'll be all set. These damn magic box/computer thingies don't make sense to me, so I'm trying at it.
Maybe we can convince Steve
Submitted by L8on on September 10, 2007 - 10:59am.
Maybe we can convince Steve and L8on to come out of hiding and talk about it a bit more.
I didn't think anyone was using these forums anymore. My bad.
Greetings All
Submitted by Boogedybones on September 11, 2007 - 6:29pm.
Recently purchased Q2E and Qerth, along with your first dungeon and loved what I read. I'm an oldster 50+ and have recently left a lifelong affair with that "other" rpg. I was looking for something that would reignite the FUN in playing and I think I've found it here!
Cheers
Welcome to the boards,
Submitted by JLHBurnett on September 11, 2007 - 8:08pm.
Welcome to the boards, Boogedybones! Since you obviously aren't a filthy spammer, I'll make sure to enable your account so your posts don't have to wait for approval. Glad you enjoyed Q2E, Qerth, and the DOMA!
-JLHB
"Don't hate the media. Become the Media." - Jello Biafra
Boogedybones wrote:Recently
Submitted by ianengle on September 12, 2007 - 9:17am.
Recently purchased Q2E and Qerth, along with your first dungeon and loved what I read. I'm an oldster 50+ and have recently left a lifelong affair with that "other" rpg. I was looking for something that would reignite the FUN in playing and I think I've found it here!
Speaking as the other oldster (48 next month) welcome to the Boards!
“…Bless her heart.”
“You get it out; I’ll bless it.”—Ian
Thanks!
Submitted by Boogedybones on September 12, 2007 - 12:42pm.
Thanks for the welcome guys. No spammer am I! I just found myself the other day involved (yet again) in a troll war with a bunch of kiddies on the World Of The Crazies boards and figured "I'm too old for this". Three days of searches on the net, downloads and reading many reviews of other game systems to try landed me here. Am just busy creating a new campaign for my lusty band of players with the QAGS system and will start next week! Glad to see I'm not the only geezer here Ian! Thanks for the welcome, again!
Cheers
Make sure you let us what
Submitted by JLHBurnett on September 12, 2007 - 5:00pm.
Make sure you let us what kind of campaign you're running and how it turns out!
-JLHB
"Don't hate the media. Become the Media." - Jello Biafra
Welcome to the boards,
Submitted by Steve on September 12, 2007 - 9:51pm.
Welcome to the boards, everyone!
Sorry I haven't been posting much lately--our boards have been kind of dead lately*, so I've gotten out of the habit of checking them regularly. I'll try to keep up better.
*Mainly because getting signed up for them is a bit tricky. Never fear--we'll have a whole site with new, easier to use, more standard(but hopefully still more spamproof than our old Invision forums, which we had to shut down because the spammers were crashing the servers) in the near future--I'm shooting for having the new site up in December.
"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
-- Benjamin Franklin
Howdy. I too was registered
Submitted by Leo Knight on September 13, 2007 - 8:21pm.
Howdy. I too was registered at the old boards. I haven't done too much with QAGS lately. My gaming group has been alternating between two different D&D3.5 games, which really got me yearning for something a little simpler. The mere thought of trying to referee that game makes my brain hurt. I had run a space opera-ish one-shot for them, which went OK, but a few lessons leaned. Weird sh*t must be clearly defined and limited, or my players lose interest and get silly, and not in a good "Qartoons" way, either.
By the way, I'm 46. Is that oldster status, too? "When I was a boy, we only had six-sided dice, and we just called 'em DICE, none of this umpty-sided crap, and roleplaying games were mimeographed little pamphlets full of typos with incomplete rules, and we pulled half the rules out of thin air, and wargames were paper maps with cardboard chits that popped in the air if you touched the map wrong... and we LIKED IT!"
Welcome back, Leo! I've
Submitted by Steve on September 14, 2007 - 7:19am.
Welcome back, Leo! I've changed your account settings so that your posts will go up without moderator approval from here on out.
One of the biggest hurdles we're constantly running up against is convincing people that despite the tone of the book, "we're using QAGS" doesn't mean "we're playing a silly game." I've seen several con games go down in flames (from the GM's perspective--the players still have a great time) because people equate QAGS with goofy. The problem has lessened as we've produced more and more "serious" supplements, but we still run into it quite a bit.
Good to see you on the boards again.
"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
-- Benjamin Franklin
Leo Knight wrote:When I was
Submitted by ianengle on September 14, 2007 - 9:18am.
When I was a boy, we only had six-sided dice, and we just called 'em DICE, none of this umpty-sided crap, and roleplaying games were mimeographed little pamphlets full of typos with incomplete rules, and we pulled half the rules out of thin air, and wargames were paper maps with cardboard chits that popped in the air if you touched the map wrong... and we LIKED IT!
Yep. Old Phart phor sure.
“…Bless her heart.”
“You get it out; I’ll bless it.”—Ian
Hello Leo! You're post sure
Submitted by Boogedybones on September 14, 2007 - 9:25am.
Hello Leo! You're post sure brought back a ton of memories for me. Pulling rules out of your butt! Yeah, that takes me back. I remember when Tegel Manor came out, the first time my group ran into a ghost and I had no idea what their powers were. Four long distance phone calls to buddies later, I STILL had no idea and just winged it. Ahhh, good times.
I agree with what you say about 3.5. To me, running that system is like GMing a chess game. Everyone knows the rules so just STAY OUT OF THE WAY! And don't try any weird stuff unless it's in the rules THAT WE ALL KNOW AND AGREE ON. Spontaneity? Mystery? The fear that the GM knows more than you and WILL catch you off guard? All gone. Stats, stats, stats, the boys are maaarching.
Hello Steve! Regarding QAGS not being taken seriously. Players almost need to be re-educated on how to participate in telling a good interactive story again. How to BE the character they've created without constantly munchkining his STAT BLOCKS. They've lost that whole side of things with the constant attention to the practice of searing stats into your brain. The thing that convinced me that I could do something "not silly" with QAGS was the actual play report of a Sindbad game that's on this site. Man, I was drooling, wishing I had played in THAT session! I bought the pdf of Sindbad and plowed through it last night. Genius. It totally evokes the spirit of the Arabian Nights WITHOUT STAT BLOCKS TO BORE THE HECK OUTTA ME!
Anyway this post is getting too lengthy. Talk to you later.
Cheers
Boogedybones
Submitted by ianengle on September 14, 2007 - 11:37am.
Regarding QAGS not being taken seriously. Players almost need to be re-educated on how to participate in telling a good interactive story again. How to BE the character they've created without constantly munchkining his STAT BLOCKS.
We tried something new with the Champions game we just finished. Players told the GM what they wanted to be able to do, and he made the characters, revealing things as we discovered what we could do. It was interesting, and it let us concentrate on character--and what characters we had! "Hi, boss, yeah, I need to call in superhero for Thursday and Friday, okay."
The thing that convinced me that I could do something "not silly" with QAGS was the actual play report of a Sindbad game that's on this site. Man, I was drooling, wishing I had played in THAT session! I bought the pdf of Sindbad and plowed through it last night. Genius. It totally evokes the spirit of the Arabian Nights WITHOUT STAT BLOCKS TO BORE THE HECK OUTTA ME!
I can't take credit for the game (All bow before the great Ruckusmanager, god among GMs) but thanks for what you say about Sindbad. I get a kick out of people enjoying it.
“…Bless her heart.”
“You get it out; I’ll bless it.”—Ian
back in MY day...
Submitted by maxwellchris on September 14, 2007 - 12:15pm.
"When I was a boy, we only had six-sided dice, and we just called 'em DICE, none of this umpty-sided crap, and roleplaying games were mimeographed little pamphlets full of typos with incomplete rules, and we pulled half the rules out of thin air, and wargames were paper maps with cardboard chits that popped in the air if you touched the map wrong... and we LIKED IT!"
Amen! And sometimes we would even spend an entire afternoon punching out all the thousands of chits to some damn over-complicated Avalon Hill game (*cough*"Titan"*cough*) only to find out that we didn't like it very much! So we had to make up our own rules or just hope that the rain stopped so we could go back outside! ....and we liked it!
Thanks, man!
-Max
Leo Knight wrote:"When I
Submitted by JLHBurnett on September 14, 2007 - 12:28pm.
"When I was a boy, we only had six-sided dice, and we just called 'em DICE, none of this umpty-sided crap...
Dice? DICE?? You had it easy! We had to smack our heads with bricks to generate random numbers!
-JLHB
"Don't hate the media. Become the Media." - Jello Biafra
JLHBurnett wrote: Dice?
Submitted by maxwellchris on September 14, 2007 - 12:30pm.
Dice? DICE?? You had it easy! We had to smack our heads with bricks to generate random numbers!
Random numbers....words....inappropriately modified show-tunes...
heh.
Boogedybones wrote:Hello
Submitted by Steve on September 14, 2007 - 1:34pm.
Hello Leo! You're post sure brought back a ton of memories for me. Pulling rules out of your butt! Yeah, that takes me back. I remember when Tegel Manor came out, the first time my group ran into a ghost and I had no idea what their powers were. Four long distance phone calls to buddies later, I STILL had no idea and just winged it. Ahhh, good times.
I'm a bit younger (34), but that sounds a lot like my first few experiences with D&D. I was introduced to it by a neighbor kid who had played with someone who had played with someone who had actually read the rules, so he only remembered about half the stats and just made up his own system using a d6 (since he didn't have any of the funny dice). Once I saved my allowance and bought the old red box set (the Erol Otis cover with the punched holes), the "real" rules were actually pretty restrictive compared to the very open-ended "I think this is how it works" system we started with.
The thing that convinced me that I could do something "not silly" with QAGS was the actual play report of a Sindbad game that's on this site. Man, I was drooling, wishing I had played in THAT session! I bought the pdf of Sindbad and plowed through it last night. Genius. It totally evokes the spirit of the Arabian Nights WITHOUT STAT BLOCKS TO BORE THE HECK OUTTA ME!
I think Sindbad (and the supplements for it Ian's working on) will be one of our best tools for putting the "QAGS=Silly" image to rest. It does an incredible job of showing that you can run a "serious" game with the system. This is not to say that Spooky, M-Force, etc. don't do that--just that Sindbad does it best of anything we've put out so far. A few of our staffers (especially Debi with her horror and CSI-type stuff) have also done a great job with con games that show off the system's ability to handle non-goofy.
"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
-- Benjamin Franklin
Steve wrote:A few of our
Submitted by ianengle on September 14, 2007 - 1:41pm.
A few of our staffers (especially Debi with her horror and CSI-type stuff) have also done a great job with con games that show off the system's ability to handle non-goofy.
Amen to that. Debi has the rare ability to make me squirm, and on occasion shudder. That's a gift.
“…Bless her heart.”
“You get it out; I’ll bless it.”—Ian
Creepy crawly
Submitted by JLHBurnett on September 14, 2007 - 1:51pm.
A serious game? I wonder what it's like to run one of those.
Amen to that. Debi has the rare ability to make me squirm, and on occasion shudder. That's a gift.
Didn't Debi actually freak herself out at Origins this year? Her players were fighting giant cockroaches or something.
-JLHB
"Don't hate the media. Become the Media." - Jello Biafra
JLHBurnett wrote: Didn't
Submitted by Steve on September 14, 2007 - 2:08pm.
Didn't Debi actually freak herself out at Origins this year? Her players were fighting giant cockroaches or something.
That is indeed the case, but unfortunately I don't recall the details.
"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
-- Benjamin Franklin
Sindbad!
Submitted by L8on on September 17, 2007 - 6:50pm.
Just wanted to chime in and agree with Steve--Sindbad is indeed our best tool for showing that QAGS can be used for serious games. But even though Sindbad is "serious," it's still all about exotic locales and exciting adventure and having fun. Damn, I love Sindbad.
Hey again
Submitted by Belle on September 29, 2007 - 6:08am.
Hey all
It's that English bird again. I'm sorry i've not been on in a long time, far too many real things going on in my life but i've recently reverted it all back to fantasy again so it's all good now. I am Hayley if anyone remembers me and i've been running spooky games for almost a year now and i'm getting all my RP friends hooked on it. I even managed to get at least one game to be serious and everyone on the edge of their seats. Unfortunately its gone from stupid to crazier since then but still good fun and i'm aiming for another serious game very soon.
I am hoping to be much more active again so i'll be seeing you all very soon
Hayley
Welcome back, Belle! A
Submitted by JLHBurnett on September 29, 2007 - 1:46pm.
Welcome back, Belle!
A serious RP game (for any system)? I wonder what that's like.
-JLHB
"Don't hate the media. Become the Media." - Jello Biafra
Serious RP games are very
Submitted by Belle on October 1, 2007 - 4:31am.
Serious RP games are very surprising. i think the only resaon they actually carry on for any length of time is because the GM and players are so shocked, that they can't ruin it with sarcasm!
finally I'm here
Submitted by MTKuszek on April 5, 2008 - 11:18am.
hey everybody. i may be new to the boards but not to qags. some of you may know me from bashcon this past year (qags-in-a-bag) and finally (after much hardship and turmoil with things) i have arrived on the forums.
needless to say, qags is great and i can't wait to bounce some ideas around.
MK
a problem with posting
Submitted by MTKuszek on April 6, 2008 - 7:18pm.
this is my second post, and yet i can't see them on the forums. i've checked into those boxes i'm supposed to cheque so that everyone can see them, but i can seem to find the boxes to cheque. help me! my computer is eating my IQ!
mk
It's not your computer,
Submitted by Steve on April 9, 2008 - 12:20am.
It's not your computer, it's our crappy forums mixed with the fact that I haven't been paying attention. Posts from new members require approval and I just noticed that your posts were there.
Never fear, though. The reason I haven't been paying attention is that I'm trying to get our new site (with forums that don't suck ass) up and running by the end of the month.
"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
-- Benjamin Franklin
It's not your computer,
Submitted by Steve on April 9, 2008 - 12:21am.
It's not your computer, it's our crappy forums mixed with the fact that I haven't been paying attention. Posts from new members require approval and I just noticed that your posts were waiting.
Never fear, though. The reason I haven't been paying attention is that I'm trying to get our new site (with forums that don't suck ass) up and running by the end of the month.
Good to have you here!
"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
-- Benjamin Franklin
Hello everyone, I am super
Submitted by malaclypse on April 21, 2008 - 5:06pm.
Hello everyone, I am super new to QAGS and Hex gaming but I am so glad I found it. The game mechanics and the quirkiness of it all are something that my fellow role playing gamers and I have been looking for for quite some time. (yeah I said for for, SUE ME!) It all started when we were looking for a friday night game for Gen Con and I stumbled upon "Sex Lies and Superspies: Submariners" and read the description to everyone followed by a question to my ever knowledgeable DM asking "What the fuck is QAGS?"
He said he didn't know but would get back to me since we had already bought every available ticket for the game. 4 minutes and 26 seconds later he called my back laughing his ass off and directing me to this website where we spent the next hour pouring over all of the information available to us dreaming up future scenarios and campaigns and generally having a good time.
So I guess I just wanted to say hello and thanks for QAGS.
Oh and by the way I am a fellow Kentuckian. I was born and raised in Frankfort and now live in Louisville but I've spent many a wonderfull night in Lexington drinking at (and sometimes getting kicked out of)Lynagh's.
`Everything is false, everything is permissible.
Welcome to the world of
Submitted by Steve on April 22, 2008 - 12:32am.
Welcome to the world of Hex, Mal.
"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
-- Benjamin Franklin
I guess I'll be seeing you
Submitted by ruckusmanager on April 22, 2008 - 12:56am.
I guess I'll be seeing you that Friday night, as I'm the one running the Sex, Lies and Ultraspies Submariners event. If you can tell from an earlier post, I was scratching my head at that particular event filling up so quickly (I mean, Thunder Gods, c'mon, that's a gimme, but Submariners???!!!). Now the mystery has been solved.
Unfortunately, I can't claim some kind of Kentucky connection (only in my dreams:) but welcome anyway!
Welcome to the boards Mal,
Submitted by JLHBurnett on April 22, 2008 - 7:37pm.
Welcome to the boards Mal, and a hearty "Hail Eris."
I may be getting confused with Origins, but I think there's something like three Sex/Lies games being run at Gencon. Ruckus has come up with a winning concept!
-JLHB
"Don't hate the media. Become the Media." - Jello Biafra
There's actually four
Submitted by ruckusmanager on April 22, 2008 - 11:35pm.
There's actually four events under the Sex, Lies and Ultraspies banner at GenCon. Three of them are mine, though (shameless self promotion thy name is ruckusmanager!) but Johnny Ampersand is doing one as well (and I can guarantee his will be way better than any of mine).
I never heard anything about your SL&U event from a couple of months ago.
It sold out, actually. I
Submitted by JLHBurnett on April 23, 2008 - 4:52pm.
It sold out, actually. I had eight players when I'm pretty sure I set the max at six. I still had to turn people away, or I'd have had ten.
You have a winner in SLU, Ruckus!
-JLHB
"Don't hate the media. Become the Media." - Jello Biafra
JLHBurnett wrote:I may be
Submitted by ianengle on May 15, 2008 - 12:40pm.
I may be getting confused with Origins, but I think there's something like three Sex/Lies games being run at Gencon. Ruckus has come up with a winning concept!
Sex sells. Apparently.
“…Bless her heart.”
“You get it out; I’ll bless it.”—Ian
Standing Up, Being Counted
How-deeeee!
(man, a Hee-Haw reference. I am OLD.)
Well, my name is Max, I'm from upstate (wayyyy upstate) New York, but I've lived in in Massachusetts for the past 8 years.
I first heard about Hex Games when I saw the "Qerth Apprentice Level Rules" for sale on RPGNOW. Yes, I may be new to the Hex Ficton-a-palooza, but I pretty well hooked, eh?
I am currently looking forward to anything related to Qerth, and also to this "Fort High" that I hear talk of around here. If Fort High is gonna have some of that old TFOS vibe to it, then I am so on board it isn't even funny. Also looking forward (wayyyy forward) to this "Qartoons" thang that's being kicked around now. Isn't that at the printers yet? Heh.
What do I want from you guys? More of what you do. I like the attitude your company has toward the hobby, and I like how that comes across in the actual products. I'm a new Hex Games zombie, but I'm in this for the long...ah....shuffle.
-Max