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TRAINS DON’T GO BEEP.

Goddamn Malkavians.

I have been listening a whole lot to this channel

Ideas of Ice and Fire

Obviously a channel that was originally Game of Thrones oriented but it has been going heavy on Dune recently and is well worth listening to.

@sparks said in Diana Jones Award, 2018:

@thenomain said in Diana Jones Award, 2018:

I listen to an actual play podcast based on one of my favorite sci fi stories, run by the creator for many of his actors.

Out of curiosity, which one is that?

Liberty. Each season (or two) is one story, punctuated with a Twilight Zone series set as if produced in their own universe called "Tales from the Tower". And the Actual Play of their D&D 5E setting: Liberty A.F.T.E.R. (Oh look, there's Ashley Burch right on the cover. Mrowr.)

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The other Sci-Fi Podcast I am loving the everloving crap out of is Edict Zero: FIS, a police procedural on another planet cut off from humanity. It starts strange and gets amazing, as all the little bits are tied together as often as new things are introduced. It's entirely possible to work out what's happening before the characters do, but to the writers' credits, they don't insult your intelligence. Sound production needs some work but the story is epic.

@thenomain
I gave it a look after posting the first time. The setting looks to not have changed much but does have some new wrinkles mentioned.
Given what they showed of the systems i noticed a few things things, fist the introduction of character level, though it does not look like levels in the D+D sense but more of a scale systems with level one being competent and level six being god like, and that scale determines the positive modifier dude to being skilled in an area. (Skills in the old game were free form which I hope they keep, you would create a character by giving them a core competency (usually a career like thing) and a hand full of other narrowly defined things they were good at and pick one thing they were bad at. No mention of that changing or being retained.)
It also looks like all things are determined with the roll of two dice with a bonus constant added based on skill, in the past being skilled would give you more dice. For example old way average unskilled person would have two dice to do thing, but if thing was under their core idea like driving for a race car driver they would get 4, new way if looks like two would be rolled for everything but the race car driver would get a set bonus based on level/scale.
The final change I noticed is a minor one that I love, in the past if you rolled a 1 on a die that meant something negative happened, you could succeed but would still get a drawback, a 6 worked in the opposite manner you might still fail but some good would come out of the attempt. This editions changes that to 3 and 4, so if you role a three there is a drawback and on a 4 a bit of a boost. I like this mainly because the idea of extreme rolls getting a boost penalty is done a lot but I like the middle results getting a little creative love.

I've met a few people through MU* over the years. Some of the people I'm still friends with (and in some cases very close to) to this day are people I met on Cybersphere in the late 1990s.

I've had a few hookups with MU* people but I was pretty specific about not having things advance beyond that. I was also pretty young (late teens/early 20s) and didn't want a relationship with nobody no how no way.

I've had one serious relationship with another member of the MU* community. The relationship's end was for horrifying and fucked up reasons, but unrelated to gaming. We didn't have to figure out how to co-exist in MU* space because in addition to that ending, there was a rapid succession of 4 people dying in one year (3 in less than 6 months) and a serious family illness-- I was barely functional outside of work and couldn't hang with anything outside of staring at shitty TV. I don't remember most of that year. So I stopped doing everything.

I believe Scion used and is still using parts of Aberrant, eg the Super Attribute scale.

I like complexity when it's well designed. In theory, this would be about defining traits so that people feel unique enough, while not allowing everyone to have whatever, whenever.

I like the ideas of Scion, but I have always used a homegrown game system to implement it.

Resurrecting this thread! I'm doing a walkathon for my local greyhound rescue group. Even a $5 donation can supply treats for the dogs for a week. My original goal was $1,000 but if I can make it to $500 I would be super happy. Please consider donating!

http://greytwalkathon.org/seerockrun

Please enjoy pic of Rock in party hat. 🙂

@admiral said in Random Oddness or 'Is This Normal?':

Apnea? I know people with that and I breathe just fine when I sleep. My breathing is, as a certain politician might say, 'The best. The biggest. Yuge. Stable genius breathing.'

I am gonna look into that though, I was unaware that might be a potential thing.

Part of the sleep study is a full neurological and EKG test throughout the sleep period. They put a crap-ton of wires on you and on your head to study brain-waves as well, so even if it's not apnea, they likely will find something if it's neurological in nature.

Regardless, the waking up every night needs to be resolved, as it interrupts your alpha waves in sleep and that's no bueno.

@sparks said in Android Apps: Your top picks? And perhaps some help?:

If you like customizing your phone's behavior, Tasker is a must have.

If iOS allowed this, I would be a raving Apple fanboy.

Sigh.

@chet said in Comics: Superman as a character:

So if you want to learn how to write a major DC Comics superhero, you have to master their archvillain, is my theory.

I have been saying this literally for a decade.

A hero is defined by his greatest struggle, which, in comics, is a super-villain. And the most compelling superhero stories have compelling villains.

Played a little Vampyr with the ladyfriend (I play, she tells me "no, don't do that" and "omfg, Manuel, you don't just ASK someone that" and "the box is shimmering, that means you can open it, no, not that box, omfg here let me do it" and "KILL IT, KILL I--you're dead again") and I really liked it. Some technical difficulties, but I'll figure that shit out.

I really liked the blood tracking stuff--reminded me a lot of The Witcher 3's tracking stuff. I still think that sort of system would be awesome for a werewolf game.

Life is a high school simulator.

@VulgarKitten A woman I used to work with has won three times now. She also was on Wheel of Fortune and cleaned up. She is .. very clever.

My Pixel 2 rocks. Quick updates, great battery life and charging times, awesome interface, Google Assistant is amazing while I'm in the car and need to tell it to do stuff for me.

On the other hand no memory slots and it's not the cheapest device.

Plex? Really? Noone? Bueller?

I know nothing about Reign but I played in a One Roll game, Godlike, which was world war 2 with superheroes. And while it fit the tone the mechanics were pretty high lethality so you might want to make sure you players are prepared for that.

My sex trophy and I went to a lake with some friends.

I got sunburned.

Worth it. ^_^