Comments on: A Gamer In Japan Part 1: The Group http://www.stargazersworld.com/2009/06/25/a-gamer-in-japan-part-1-the-group/ A Role Playing Games Blog Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:50:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Robert http://www.stargazersworld.com/2009/06/25/a-gamer-in-japan-part-1-the-group/comment-page-1/#comment-1228 Robert Wed, 01 Jul 2009 06:20:23 +0000 http://www.stargazersworld.com/?p=1655#comment-1228 Lovely post. I have never played in Japan but I have been in touch with other gamers and they seem to have had similar experiences. Looking forward to reading part 2. By the way, you really want to head down to Odaiba ASAP before the unwashed masses gather for the big opening. The Gundam has been complete for over two weeks now and they are just fine tuning it before the official opening (it went far quicker than they imagined). Once they open the protective fence will be taken out and everyone and their grandmother will be hugging the giant robot legs, effectively hindering you from getting any good shots of the behemoth. Also, head down before they put that abomination of Tokyo Olympics logo on it. How dare they sully this giant work of art with speculative commercial cra*p? (^-^) Oh, and have a look at my blog, has some snapshots of the Gundam as I saw it, two weeks ago. .-= Robert´s last blog ..<a href="http://tokyobling.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/a-paper-craft-castle-on-the-ocean/" rel="nofollow">A Paper Craft Castle On the Ocean</a> =-. Lovely post. I have never played in Japan but I have been in touch with other gamers and they seem to have had similar experiences. Looking forward to reading part 2. By the way, you really want to head down to Odaiba ASAP before the unwashed masses gather for the big opening. The Gundam has been complete for over two weeks now and they are just fine tuning it before the official opening (it went far quicker than they imagined). Once they open the protective fence will be taken out and everyone and their grandmother will be hugging the giant robot legs, effectively hindering you from getting any good shots of the behemoth. Also, head down before they put that abomination of Tokyo Olympics logo on it. How dare they sully this giant work of art with speculative commercial cra*p? (^-^)

Oh, and have a look at my blog, has some snapshots of the Gundam as I saw it, two weeks ago.
.-= Robert´s last blog ..A Paper Craft Castle On the Ocean =-.

]]> By: Shinobicow http://www.stargazersworld.com/2009/06/25/a-gamer-in-japan-part-1-the-group/comment-page-1/#comment-1212 Shinobicow Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:09:27 +0000 http://www.stargazersworld.com/?p=1655#comment-1212 I'm glad to hear that people are finding this subject interesting. Actually the group that i played in for the savage worlds game was made up of mostly JET guys and gals. It was really fun. I'll be doing JET in about a year (hopefully, i'm keeping my fingers crossed) and so i'll be back here for that, but i'm also getting married in a week so i'll be back here with her regardless; as a funny follow-up regarding that, trying to teach your girlfriend how to play Dungeons and Dragons is hard, but trying to teach your girlfriend who doesn't speak any English is way harder, but as a result i'm speaking way better Japanese than i thought even possible. She's trying to get into it with me right now, she decided to play a little warlock girl who lulls people into a sense of security before eldritch blasting them using her Teddy Bear as an implement; its a funny character, but i thought it was cool. It has a very anime esq theme to it, but that is coming up in another post in the near future so i shouldn't get too ahead of myself. Hope that you'll enjoy the follow-ups as much as you enjoyed this one. Pictures to come in the posts that follow, i might even run over and grab one of that giant gundam before they do the official opening; i'm supposed to be going to that, but i'm having trouble resisting the urge to go down there before it "officially" gets unveiled to the public on July 11th. We'll see... I'm glad to hear that people are finding this subject interesting. Actually the group that i played in for the savage worlds game was made up of mostly JET guys and gals. It was really fun. I'll be doing JET in about a year (hopefully, i'm keeping my fingers crossed) and so i'll be back here for that, but i'm also getting married in a week so i'll be back here with her regardless; as a funny follow-up regarding that, trying to teach your girlfriend how to play Dungeons and Dragons is hard, but trying to teach your girlfriend who doesn't speak any English is way harder, but as a result i'm speaking way better Japanese than i thought even possible. She's trying to get into it with me right now, she decided to play a little warlock girl who lulls people into a sense of security before eldritch blasting them using her Teddy Bear as an implement; its a funny character, but i thought it was cool. It has a very anime esq theme to it, but that is coming up in another post in the near future so i shouldn't get too ahead of myself.

Hope that you'll enjoy the follow-ups as much as you enjoyed this one. Pictures to come in the posts that follow, i might even run over and grab one of that giant gundam before they do the official opening; i'm supposed to be going to that, but i'm having trouble resisting the urge to go down there before it "officially" gets unveiled to the public on July 11th. We'll see…

]]> By: Chris Cumming http://www.stargazersworld.com/2009/06/25/a-gamer-in-japan-part-1-the-group/comment-page-1/#comment-1210 Chris Cumming Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:18:57 +0000 http://www.stargazersworld.com/?p=1655#comment-1210 Great stuff! I lived in Japan for 3 years. Its been a little while (got back about 5 years ago) but I had an interesting time finding gaming groups there. I did manage to find a local group in my prefecture (Mie-ken) through an online Gaming Guild site/maillist. Unfortunately I don't remember what it was called at all. The whole group was made up of Gaijin, all teachers. Some were part of JET (like I was) others were in Nova and one guy was a lifer who married a Japanese woman and taught professionally at a private school. We gamed at his house down in Tsu. I also played a lot of Magic the Gathering with my highschool students and even convinced a couple of them to try D&D with me. It was a lot of fun even over the language difficulty (for them, we played in English). One of the best ways I found to remain connected to the hobby was through online message board play. I started PbP over on Enworld while in Japan and have remained a consistent player there for over 7 years now. Great stuff! I lived in Japan for 3 years. Its been a little while (got back about 5 years ago) but I had an interesting time finding gaming groups there.

I did manage to find a local group in my prefecture (Mie-ken) through an online Gaming Guild site/maillist. Unfortunately I don't remember what it was called at all. The whole group was made up of Gaijin, all teachers. Some were part of JET (like I was) others were in Nova and one guy was a lifer who married a Japanese woman and taught professionally at a private school. We gamed at his house down in Tsu.

I also played a lot of Magic the Gathering with my highschool students and even convinced a couple of them to try D&D with me. It was a lot of fun even over the language difficulty (for them, we played in English).

One of the best ways I found to remain connected to the hobby was through online message board play. I started PbP over on Enworld while in Japan and have remained a consistent player there for over 7 years now.

]]> By: MkaY http://www.stargazersworld.com/2009/06/25/a-gamer-in-japan-part-1-the-group/comment-page-1/#comment-1209 MkaY Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:14:47 +0000 http://www.stargazersworld.com/?p=1655#comment-1209 A fun post to read, I'll be waiting to hear more about the subject since this was part 1. I recently was in China as a exchange student, but there weren't nearly so much activity on the roleplaying parts. As far as I know, only some of the expats were actively looking for a groups in Shanghai, but I never had time to go and play with them. My Mandarin ain't too good yet (not on the roleplaying level) and also in China, unfortunately the level of English is not too good. I actually haven't even heard many Chinese people playing roleplaying games, but maybe I haven't been alert. But on the other hand. Living in China IS like a roleplaying game! (I wrote about it here: <a href="http://bag-o-dice.blogspot.com/2009/05/living-in-fantasy-world.html" rel="nofollow">http://bag-o-dice.blogspot.com/2009/05/living-in-...</a> A fun post to read, I'll be waiting to hear more about the subject since this was part 1.

I recently was in China as a exchange student, but there weren't nearly so much activity on the roleplaying parts. As far as I know, only some of the expats were actively looking for a groups in Shanghai, but I never had time to go and play with them. My Mandarin ain't too good yet (not on the roleplaying level) and also in China, unfortunately the level of English is not too good. I actually haven't even heard many Chinese people playing roleplaying games, but maybe I haven't been alert.

But on the other hand. Living in China IS like a roleplaying game! (I wrote about it here: http://bag-o-dice.blogspot.com/2009/05/living-in-…

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