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TRPG討論區 => 研討區 => 主题作者是: joan_fortuna 于 2008-05-17, 周六 11:03:02
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Hello there,
I am a spanish foreigner living in Shanghai, and I would like to organize some real pen & paper D&D play. I am a DM, and I need a few chinese players to start a campaign, which will be run fully in English language. If you are interested, please drop me a line or contact me. No need to have experience in D&D, just an open mind, interest in the game and the character races & classes, and we will all start from the beginning, step by step and learning to play as a team. It's also a good opportunity to practice the conversational english. :)
The sessions will be on saturdays afternoons, in Shanghai, probably in XuJiaHui area. Feel free to join!
Waiting for your comments...
Joan
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A good chance both to practise the spoken English and be familiar with the face to face campaign....but....I've my final exam on 5.27..so..Orz :em001 :em006 :em032
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Hello Joan:
Welcom to china, I am sure u will find your teammates in such a large city.
Yet, I kindly suggest that it is not easy to run a frequent full English advanture, bacause of the languages barriers. Despite the high rate of populazation in shaghai, running an excellent full English game which requires perfect language skills in none English speaking country is a little bit hard task.
In one word, persoanly considering, I am glad to welcome you, but also wanna remind you if you indeed plan to run a campaign, that means a long way for you.
There are also some Board game cafes. You can go there to get more details.
Hope it helps.Enjoy~
Roger
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No need to have experience in D&D, just an open mind
u'll notice that on this site its a lot easier to find people who have lots of experience in DnD rather than an open mind... :em008
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Running a game in English as a DM would be more easier than playing as a player for me.
Because most of the resources are in English ,which contains many descriptions that a DM could use.
But the players' work is to decribe what he wants in a fictive circumstance.Which is beyond my skill.
So I would say,
practicing the conversational english,good idea.
but a really good game?you need to attract enough players good at both speaking English and D&D wriiten English,which,I'm quite sure about, are good DMs with enough players playing with them.
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Well, I don't know...but perhaps some other foreigners in this forum will be interested? Also, it is quite a good way to improve the English skills through practicing in games. So were I in Shanghai, I will attand (nah, I'm not, what a pity...).
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No need to have experience in D&D, just an open mind
u'll notice that on this site its a lot easier to find people who have lots of experience in DnD rather than an open mind... :em008
I love the 'rather than'.
Hi Joan, welcome. As stated, many of us here are experienced, and most those would read the message (thus implying that we are comfortable with English and, to an extend, raw rulebooks) are extremely likely to be DM themselves or at least experienced players. However I don't think that'd be a problem.
From my experience a chance to practice conversational English with a real foreigner is a strong motivator. If you haven't visited them already, IMHO local gaming stores (http://www.www.goddessfantasy.net/bbs/index.php?showforum=158) are good tries as well, since those who frequent them are likely to be ok with untranslated books and already has a keen interest in both trpg and in f2f campaigns. We are stronger in online campaigns.
I believe that there are players waiting to be found, but you may wish to try more forums to maximise your chance to get in touch with them.
Good luck and God bless~
P.S. Does your campaign have anything to do with leading France soldiers fighting back England invaders? :D
P.S.2 Hey, will the campaign use 4th edition rules? :wub:
EDIT: I posted a link (http://www.www.goddessfantasy.net/bbs/index.php?showtopic=19103) to this topic in SH local group board. Hope this will help. Google also showed interesting group gathering methods like this (http://dnd.meetup.com/cities/cn/shanghai/)
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Dear All,
Thanks a lot for your comments, I think they are pretty useful! Special thanks to Sheepy for posting in another thread which would have been difficult for me to find (as I can't understand much of the hanzi), and for the link suggested. Indeed, I didn't know much about this portal boefore, I found the BBS by luck, when searching for potential chinese players. I see I came to the write place, with lots of good DM's who can share their knowledge... aahhh... good stuff to find masters here... It means this game is much more alive than expected. And well, I have enough patience to find the right players, and as Roger say, it will probably be a long time to finally run a smooth campaign... but I am positive! :D
It's also right what 树林熊 says... It's difficult to take a step as a player if you are not so confident in the English language... Anyway, I encourage anybody. I also learned english mostly thanks to the D&D when I was a teenager, reading and learning about the words of the books, and later practicing with europeans when working at the bars during summer holidays... It seems interesting to see how every week you find it more easy to talk if you keep practicing...
Answering to Sheepy, and regarding to my campaign... not real historical background. I love fantasy, although quite realistic playing as well. I will focus in the Kingdoms of Kalamar setting, as it's one of my favourites, very similar to the old Mystara and extensely developed. And about 4th edition... Hehe, I'm still not updated on it, too much work as to read new rules now that i just finished with the 3.5, hahaha. So I guess that I will still be on 3.5 for a while. :)
Well, alright! Thanks again, and I will be expecting to hear more from you!
Best wishes,
Joan
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No need to have experience in D&D, just an open mind
u'll notice that on this site its a lot easier to find people who have lots of experience in DnD rather than an open mind... :em008
Two words...
HELL, YEAH :em006
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No need to have experience in D&D, just an open mind
u'll notice that on this site its a lot easier to find people who have lots of experience in DnD rather than an open mind... :em008
Two words...
HELL, YEAH :em006
One word..
Up
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I would have a try if i've got time, but... u know what...
still, good luck to dm. May the light be with you
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sussun! sussun!
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No need to have experience in D&D, just an open mind
u'll notice that on this site its a lot easier to find people who have lots of experience in DnD rather than an open mind... :em008
Two words...
HELL, YEAH :em006
One word..
Up
ZERO word
:em009
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Welcome to the Apple Orchard, where all of us unite as one around Great Sister Ellesime :em006
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Welcome to the Apple Orchard, where all of us unite as one around Great Sister Ellesime :em006
Welcome to the Powergamer Orchard, where all of us unite as one around Great AD the AD :em006
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Welcome to the Apple Orchard, where all of us unite as one around Great Sister Ellesime :em006
Welcome to the Powergamer Orchard, where all of us unite as one around Great AD the AD :em006
Welcome to the Natural Orchard, where we all unite around 盈儿, the Naturalest! :em006
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I have to say my dear friends,
please DO not 'play' under this topic,
which might lead our guest into confusing or depressing.
On the other hand,
I myself am quite interested in your game, joan,
if I could dug myself out of the damn world of warcraft......
I am always reachable @ halfelf@gmail.com, 3x a lot.
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Haha... Thanks, Half-Elf, for your support. I am glad to hear from you. :)
I will contact you by email, I hope you can save some time for playing D&D too... it's also very addictive when one gets the right rythm... ;)
Best wishes,
Joan
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Sorry, just want to give a warm welcom ^_^
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hi joan, i'm quite interested in the game. contact via email? yangzen1986@gmail.com
thank you!
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hi joan, i'm quite interested in the game. contact via email? yangzen1986@gmail.com
thank you!
The first deal is done?
Seems run well, good.
To be honest dear Joan, ellesime.net is the most popular site for virtual game meeting all over Chinese web, and everyone is also too warm-hearted. We also glad to share our experience with all overseas players.
So, as you like, just enjoy~
Hope to see you again!
Run away
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I have to say my dear friends,
please DO not 'play' under this topic,
which might lead our guest into confusing or depressing.
On the other hand,
I myself am quite interested in your game, joan,
if I could dug myself out of the damn world of warcraft......
I am always reachable @ halfelf@gmail.com, 3x a lot.
what makes you so serious? this forum suppose to be chaotic evil, am i wrong? :em006
well, jokes so far didnt hurt anyone, i suppose? :em003
so, welcome to the place which is more dangerous and evil than the nine hells and infinite layers of the abyss in total, watch out, joan! :em011
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I have to say my dear friends,
please DO not 'play' under this topic,
which might lead our guest into confusing or depressing.
On the other hand,
I myself am quite interested in your game, joan,
if I could dug myself out of the damn world of warcraft......
I am always reachable @ halfelf@gmail.com, 3x a lot.
what makes you so serious? this forum suppose to be chaotic evil, am i wrong? :em006
well, jokes so far didnt hurt anyone, i suppose? :em003
so, welcome to the place which is more dangerous and evil than the nine hells and infinite layers of the abyss in total, watch out, joan! :em011
U R all CE, ALL :em006
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Hahaha!!! This is an amazing and great place! What a BBS I found... I love it!
Thanks to all for your support/joins/jokes/advices... I am wondering what would be to have a meeting with all of you, guys, in a real place... By one side, it would be really fantastic! By another side... chaotically dangerous!!! :P
The offer is still open! XD
Best wishes,
Joan
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Welcome!Joan.
I'm quite interested in your game.Hope you'll not mind I'm just so so in spoken English.
My msn and email:wizard_counter@sina.com.I'm usually on line at night.Pls feel free to contact me.
Btw,someone said the thirst of huge num is a natural of powergamers,and I can't agree him more.(Look at the posts of some guys...)
Kindly regards,
Seizan
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Btw,someone said the thirst of huge num is a natural of powergamers,and I can't agree him more.(Look at the posts of some guys...)
it takes me 5 mins to work out what you are saying... :em008
nature, instead of natural, is the word should be used.. :em007
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p.s. even though i'm one of the 'some guys', but i am neither powergamer nor nature!!!
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p.s. even though i'm one of the 'some guys', but i am neither powergamer nor nature!!!
There's also no 300 liang silver here...
Thank you for correcting my mistake,Sister Natural. :em019
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I'm exciting when I see word "offer"……
I want to be a player if I can spare time from exams and job hunting.
er, if I have not time to be a player, I want to be a visiter.
my E-mail:luciferth@hotmail.com
p.s. I wish I express clearly.
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I have to say my dear friends,
please DO not 'play' under this topic,
which might lead our guest into confusing or depressing.
On the other hand,
I myself am quite interested in your game, joan,
if I could dug myself out of the damn world of warcraft......
I am always reachable @ halfelf@gmail.com, 3x a lot.
what makes you so serious? this forum suppose to be chaotic evil, am i wrong? :em006
well, jokes so far didnt hurt anyone, i suppose? :em003
so, welcome to the place which is more dangerous and evil than the nine hells and infinite layers of the abyss in total, watch out, joan! :em011
Well,I agree with you.Humour is good,may be the best.
But,at least you should make others to understand what are you guys talking about...natural girl
:em001
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I have to say my dear friends,
please DO not 'play' under this topic,
which might lead our guest into confusing or depressing.
On the other hand,
I myself am quite interested in your game, joan,
if I could dug myself out of the damn world of warcraft......
I am always reachable @ halfelf@gmail.com, 3x a lot.
what makes you so serious? this forum suppose to be chaotic evil, am i wrong? :em006
well, jokes so far didnt hurt anyone, i suppose? :em003
so, welcome to the place which is more dangerous and evil than the nine hells and infinite layers of the abyss in total, watch out, joan! :em011
Well,I agree with you.Humour is good,may be the best.
But,at least you should make others to understand what are you guys talking about...natural girl
:em001
it's rumour! rumour!! i'm not natural at all!! :em006
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The fact that our Chinglish is quite legible (as far as Chinglish goes) doesn't really help, you know... If our conversations can baffle me, there is a good chance Joan would be confused. <_<
And I, for one, won't touch such a chaotic topic with a 10-foot pole unless I am really desperate. (Well, may be with a 15-foot one )
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It`s hard for playing D&D game in Chinese with full english.First, It is playing important role in TRPG that comunication between DM and Players.However there not many players have good skill on spoken english .Just like me .Follow that TRPG is a Nobles activities in china.Few people know and enjoy it .So I get this view that it`s long way for you .
Good Luck !Guy
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Small-scale, not noble. I'm afraid we are not that noble, guy :em006
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It sounds interesting for such a English-speaking game. But I have already joined a new game which will start recently.
So, good luck to you, Joan.
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Hehe, thanks, Nameless One... ;)
At this point, I have already found 4 players who joined me last weekend for creating their characters. If everything is fine, this saturday we will start our first adventure. Anyway, there is still place for 1 more player, if somebody else interested... (no girls up here?) :)
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Hehe, thanks, Nameless One... ;)
At this point, I have already found 4 players who joined me last weekend for creating their characters. If everything is fine, this saturday we will start our first adventure. Anyway, there is still place for 1 more player, if somebody else interested... (no girls up here?) :)
Joan,
oh, I'm a freshman for this game, and I'm quite interested in ur organization.
Well, I know that the vocabulary is quite different and I would like to study it as a looker-on rather than a player now.
I haven't found ur email in posts and if u would like to contact me please send emails to:
swordyoung#gmail.com, and remember to exchange # to @ in the address.
Thanks,
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Hi, Glaive!
Yes, you could be part of the game, and with it we would have the party completed. And you are right, I didn't leave any email here... Anybody can contact me at my gmail account, with my email starting by "joan.fortuna".
Best wishes,
Joan
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Ok . i am in , i been play DND game 4 while contect my MSN : vvlanwei5@hotmail.com
and i hope we run 3.5R or 3.0R instand of 4E.
cas i knew few things abt 4E.
plus i also love WOD if u wanna run this part , & i hav played VTR, "Changeling The Lost"
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is this still active? I wanna be in
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Do you have an online game running as well?
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Please note that the post is a 1-year-old grave.
:em006
Though I'm searching for TRPG games in Shanghai as well, be it in English or in Chinese...
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I thought it wouldn't hurt asking anyways :em005
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居然是个坟，我来结束这个纯英文帖！
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I thought it wouldn't hurt asking anyways :em005
Yeah, reasonable it is.
[offtopic] For online games...
Recently I signed myself, for the first time, in an online game here at Ellesime. But the DM didn't show up for the very first session, leaving us waiting for hours. That was half a month ago, and he totally disappeared since then.
I take it that this kind of situation is quite ordinary in online games, for my teammates don't seem to mind at all. Hmmm...
I'd like to have another try though, with another DM. Need a bit more investigation before ever signing up, I guess.
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It's reasonable to only join games run by a DM with good reputation.
Sometimes the game is buried right after the first session, and sometimes the game is buried when characters are still being made. It is all so often. Other times, you may find the DM doesn't match your personal style, and you'll have to quit which might bury the game, but otherwise you'd have no fun out of it.
I'm not boasting, but it's very rare someone can run an online game for almost two years like myself. PCs left and the style shifted. I had to kick out PCs at some point as well. Maintaining a game itself is no easy feat.
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Yes, I know the reputation thing.
I was just mistaken about someone's reputation, and it shouldn't happen again, dare I say. After all, I'm brand new to this online community.
Would have done the DM job myself, if I weren't so dumb at those typing & drawing tasks...
Not boasting either, but I do have adequate experience in DnD games, both as DM and player. Not as successful as a completed 2-year-long one, though.
Maybe someday we can work out a game together, given the chance...
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Yeah, let's just do it! :em028
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:em017 两位姐姐居然在这坟里用鹰语聊天起来了……
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/me Twisted Shin.Laura in surprise :em003
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Hey, I didn't realize there was some movement in this thread during last year... Interesting! It's my fault, I don't connect often nowadays to the BBS... :em007
Mimir and Omnific9, if you want to keep in touch for chatting about TRPG, or whatever... add me at msn: joan_fortuna@hotmail.com
Cheers!
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While mimir is living in Shanghai,Omnific9 is now a student of the Northeastern University,in the United States.
:em003
It seems to be a interesting experience,but a senior two student as I am,a f2f game may take too much time...pity...
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Now everyone knows where I am... I will be humanfleshed... :em023
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Now everyone knows where I am... I will be humanfleshed... :em023
pic up :em009
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Hahaha... You are funny!
Well, at least Omnific9 will have many choices now to play TRPG with the N-E U D&D freaks... :D
:em019