@wanderer said:
Lately I've watched The Man in the High Castle and it was excellent! Can't wait for the second season. The Booth at the End is also good, reminds me of changelings and their deals.
The Booth at the End had a great 2 season run. I wish they had gone into a third but something happened with the writer and then Xander Berkley became unavailable.
The Flame In The Flood has finally released. It's a great survival game with a different take on the survival genre, so it is unlike H1Z1, DayZ, etc. And right now it is 10% off on Steam.
@Cobaltasaurus said:
Fuck this writer's block. Hey Self-from-a-year-ago! Remember how you have this dream of having a writing career? Guess what! It doesn't ever happen if you don't write. Jesus, I feel like someone put a Ban vs Creative Writing on me or something. Oh, hey. Remember how I was going to take ~a year and write a 90k paranormal romance to submit to silhouette contest? Yeeeeeah. Half that year is gone already and we've got maybe 5k words written.
bashes her head into a wall
Dig out old logs and adapt one of those to your story then most of it is already written for you.
@thebird said:
Stopped RPing and MUSHing in an attempt to break bad habits..
Angry at bad habits, and angry that I can't RP right now.
Feeling the withdrawals from MU*ing, bad... It's a thing. =|
A thing that's making me suuuuper irritable.
I feel this too. I haven't RP'd since RfK closed. I want to. But my addiction transference has me hooked on Guild Wars 2 - where I joined an RP guild and that is weird.
Not that I have ever known. I think they make that a requirement to prove you own the book..
Also, some of the books they want don't have spines. Like the modules and adventures - they're just folded books with staples. Their FAQ doesn't address that.
People continually prove to me their idiocy. A client's had false alarm signals for the past six months. Each signal netted them a $200 fine. Going into the seventh month they just now tell us - and in the course of asking us to finally fix it, want to blame us for a faulty panel because a third party said so (coincidentally invalidating their warranty on their equipment) - and want us to cover their fees.
Fuck I wish my job let me yell at people.
In tabletop I do it on and off as the story needs or to preserve the 'players feel like heroes' aspects if it won't compromise the rest of the story for anyone else.
As a ST on a MU. I think adhering to the rules more or less as written in the books or listed as interpreted by the MU in source - be it in help files, on a wiki, etc - is the better alternative because it saves you cries or accusations of cheating. Now. If I were inclined to fudge a roll be it to someone's help or my detriment - I'll be quite up front about it. Let the room know - and maybe tell them why. If for example I learn mid-combat my statted NPC is a bit more powerful than I anticipated for the people - and he hits someone with a death blow, I will let them know. Or give someone a non-standard roll or something.
I think it all boils down to the players and perspective though. Just be up front about it, I believe, and that saves you most of the corollary problems from rules lawyers and people who are quick to assume things.
This is disappointing. I have a lot of books on PDF on the bounty list, but none of my PDFs have scans of the book spines.
I'm replying to this quite old topic. It is titled Kickstarter. I figure this is good enough to post a new and interesting kickstarter project!
Joking Hazard, a Cyanide and Happiness Card Game.
@BigDaddyAmin said:
Is the Kickstarter over? I could have donated a few Ben Franklins their way.
Yes way over.
@BigDaddyAmin said:
Is the Kickstarter over? I could have donated a few Ben Franklins their way.
They have 3 Shadowrun games out. All of them are good. Shadowrun Returns, Shadowrun Dragonfall, and then Shadowrun Hong Kong. I have played and finished all of them and would recommend them.
@ThatGuyThere said:
I will join the thread as a me too.
I too loved the Battletech setting and game, though was not a fan at all of the Clans.
I also second BDA support of House Davion.
The longest running table top campaign I was ever in was a Battle Tech / Mechwarrior game.
My tabletop group will cycle to Battletech/MW this summer. Although most of us have enough toy figures to do a larger scale using the whole house and measuring tape for the on-field action. We call it Housetech.
@Lithium said:
@Jaded I love how it's a reboot back to 3025 and will likely /never/ have Clan invasion.
So much love that fact. I loathe the clans. I loathe most of their fans too honestly - they can be pretty horrible people based on my experiences with the Fan Councils.
@BigDaddyAmin said:
Thanks, Jaded. I like the look of this new battletech game. House Davion FTW.
No problem. I used to use Megamek a lot when I did forum RP in the Fan Councils. Don't do Fan Councils. Ahem.
I will admit the new game would be one of my must purchase titles of the year if I wasn't already going to receive it for my pledge.
@Lithium said:
@Jaded I wanted to get the jacket, but, I ended up being tight on money when it ended and had to reduce my pledge.
Yeah my roommate did enough to get the jacket. He's excited for it. Has plans to do a Mechwarrior cosplay with it at con this year.
@Lithium said:
@Jaded That is true, I kickstarted that. Reminds me I have to replay Hong Kong and go through the new 'content' they released for it.
I kickstarted high enough to get a House banner. Completely worth it.
@Big-Daddy-Amin
Thinking about it, Harebrained Schemes will be releasing a new Battletech/Mechwarrior focused game this year too. You could just wait.
@Lithium said:
Mechwarrior 4 was a hell of a game. A lot closer to TT than MWO is. The sad thing is that in closed beta the game was really a lot better then they bowed to the CounterStrike CryBabies and got rid of weapon convergence.
EDIT: 'They' being Pirannha games who made MWO not MW4.
It is why I quit playing MWO. But Mechwarrior 4 is great. There's a mod that adds a whole slew of mechs, a few new mechs, and a bunch of new pilots. Also weapons. Lots of neat weapons.
You might check out Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries if you want something a little more mechwarrior-ish. You hire pilots, build your mechs, consider salvage, pick contracts, and so on.
@TNP said:
Lucifer is moderately amusing. But I don't see it lasting. Nor will I feel particularly sad about it.
It's a show I like on Fox. That's a guarantee for cancellation. 
I am finding that I am enjoying Lucifer far more than I thought I did. It seems each episode is improving as the actors and 'tresses get more comfortable with their roles.