Thursday, August 11, 2005
nerdcore rulez.
I was coming home from work on the bus yesterday after work, and sitting in the back of the bus where a couple of kids talking, a guy and a girl, probably somewhere between 15-19 in age, well what interested me was when the kid started talking about time travel and designing house that was a maze, with time traps and floors that where side by side, a system of elevators that only when one way, and stairs that when another. Gamer geeks, gotta love it. He went on to explain to the girl about how more of his ingenious ideas. He when on and on about his house maze, and other other great maze in his game, and the maze guardians. One of which was a cube with each face being a portal, from which the cube could summon from each face a different beast, the cube also was immune to physical damage, or rather would store any damage and could in turn release this damage later on whomever was attacking it. The boy questioned her as to how such a thing might be defeated, asking if magic was required, after she gave up, he told that that the trick was to step through one of the portals and turn in off from the inside, where the control mechanism was. Just had to share case the whole conversation amused me, there where time I thought to interject, but probably best that I didn't, also remembering some of the gaming sessions I've been involved in, thinking why didn't we ever have more traps or riddles, mazes, in our games. But then again I remember the last time I played and there was a riddle trap, and everyone in the party almost drowned before we just decided to bash in the door.
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3 comments:
Laughing so hard. It is because most of the group are hack-n-slash players which inhibits intuitive thinking.
I remember trying to figure out riddles! HA! big joke Pylaydia's right "hack-n- slash" no patientice for riddles. What an interesting maze, a good easedrop.
I tried puzzles way back in the day (that Palladium Fantasy game) but everyone would get frustrated and pissed rather than intrigued.. kinda gave it up. I think I'm more of an epic battle, travel long distances through harsh terrain, plane hopping, hyper-intelligent expert-tactician goblin kind of DM.
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