Posts made by SG

@Arkandel You could have the mage be the mayor or something, and the Mage knows all the players thanks to a crystal ball or some other McGuffin. When the mayor sez jump, yous jump, capiche?

You could have said Mage/Mayor be as reasonable as needed, but that could be an in universe reasoning behind depowering individuals who get on the mage's shitlist.

Of course, I'm not up to speed on WOD, but I frequently hear complaints about how powerful mages are, you could also go with some sort of godling/demon/alpha complex super computer if you wanted.

@Arkandel said:

Sure, some mobile things like Status and Resource dots could be clipped but none of the big things, since there are no great IC methods of trimming things (then giving them back once the player is once again compliant...).

Could you have some NPC mage somewhere do something like that? Like put a curse on a lineage or something?

I've had fun on games that ran in 'seasons.' You basically have the same sheet for a season of the show/major plot arc, and then at the end of a season, before the start of next season, you can rearrange your sheet and if you were around for a complete cycle, you get a few bonus points to add up.

Noms can be used to provide bennies and rerolls that you can spend to not screw up.

People that run PrPs that tie in with the season's theme can get an extra couple points or at the rate you want sheet inflation.

I think the biggest concern for me as a player looking to join a game is having new characters not suck and swallow when they come out of chargen. If all the bad guys have monster sheets to provide 'challenge to the old players' and I have to sink all of my points into dodge and shoot in order to just have a fun romp with the gang, then I think something needs to be looked at for sure.

When I hear about Casuals Vs Actives.

It's really difficult to integrate the two.

does youtube count as tv?

Workout Wednesday

Or a war for the north game where everyone resists the Bolton/Frey takeover

A game set in the Riverlands shitsstorm during the war of the 5 kings would be a lot of fun. I think the war lasted about a year or two in universe, that's plenty of time for a mush to do its thing.

Looks fun, if it ever opens, I'll be sure to check it out!

I'm curious, how many characters have ties to the blood bank? That seems like a simple way of avoiding this kind of book keeping. LIke have one vampire inventory clerk selling pints at the vampire pub around the corner when the blood bank is closed. Everyone's happy. Just say it's from the discards after the screening processes or something.

"You're seeing some idiots in the press" -- Sarah Palin.

Amazing!

This is looking awesome. It totally reminds me of Interstellar Wars and some of the older Traveller stuff when they still had lots of different aliens.

damned windows 10 keeps redownloading instead of installing on my media NUC. AAAggh!

@Lithium said:

I'd /love/ to see a Conanesque low fantasy game, I was going back and forth between doing that or ShadowRun but decided to go with ShadowRun so someone else needs to do that.

Savage worlds has a fun Conan supplement book, I think it's just a netbook because it doesn't have any branding, but it looks pretty solid at first glance.

Space Opera or Weird Wars 2 would be my faves right now.

Yeah, it's good smack. I keep thinking a terminator mush would be fun, but sending unkillable robots after PCs seems kind of sadistic after a bit of thought.

I'm rewatching the Sarah Connor Chronicles and I'm getting a real kick out of how much Sarah Connor seems to fade into Cersei for half a scene then back. Lena Headey's got that psycho overprotective mom thing down pat.

@Roz said:

I don't even know what SJW means anymore.

I think the meaning has kind of devolved into some sort of internet troll/slacktivist. I think it used to be used for actual activists who seemed to be at every protest no matter the topic, but these days who can be arsed to get off the internet?

Holy shit, is this actually for real?

Oh, without a doubt, but you see a lot of European countries that are taking it down a notch or two already and they're doing pretty well.
I just don't see the United States ever going that way, they have politicians saying people have to work longer hours these days.

It's articles like these that make me think Greece is ahead of its time by about 20 years.