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Duke Bushido

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    Duke Bushido reacted to Phoenix in Site Badges   
    Yea, I just got the "Reacting Well" badge, I'm here like what just happened? What is this?  
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    Duke Bushido got a reaction from tkdguy in A Thread For Random RPG Musings   
    Two guy- check you PM box.
     
     
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    Duke Bushido got a reaction from Drhoz in Quote of the Week from my gaming group...   
    Rhw youth group game had another session after a "it is too srinking cols to ait our here at a picnic table!" hiatus.
     
    A couple of rhe toughest players,have forgotten a couple of the basics, so as a quick refresher, Red Cloak and Feral j(who have the most complicated builds od the group) ust happen to have been ambushed while doing some,after-hours research at the library archives undner the museum.
     
    "...and the last of the villainous agents drop, victim of your sleep spell.  That was an attack action, C, so we have to end Red Cloak's Phase without any movement."
     
    "It's cool. I look for the leader- the super-powered guy.   I want to bind him up with my restraining spell until Feral gets back to help me move him."
     
    "You will need to re-allocate your points in your Multipower; remember?"
     
    "Oh yeah!  Okay, I guess I can turn off the Flight; it can't really use it in here, anyway-"
     
    "Still, being in the air did reduce the amount of damage you sufferered when that sexons goon ahot you the teaser,he took from the guard..."
     
    "Yeah, but these guys are out cold now. Oh, I guess I should turn off my force field, too-"
     
    "Remember parr of the dun is sticking to the themes of your character and his world."
     
    "Hunh?"
     
    "Do you have a force field, or do you-"
     
    "Oh, right!  I make the handsign at the warrior spirit protecting me, and thank him, and tell him he is dismissed."
     
    "His ghostly form turns to you,standing tall and proud, bashes his sword against his shield, holds his sword up in front of his face in salute, bows, and disappears."
     
    "That would be _so cool_ if it was real-"
     
    "In the game, it is real; enjoy it.  If you change your mind, you make it something else."
     
    "Nah.  I think a pet warrior ghost is pretty cool."
     
    "Sure, but he isnt a pet.  You summon him,to protect you; there is a contract to fulfill."
     
    "Right, but we have a job, too.  I need to get information from the metal guy."
     
    "You look around the room, and even with the rows of library stacks and the computer equipment, it seems kind of empty with the sounds of battle absent,  seven thugs lie strewn around the forefront of the room, victims to poor judgement and your ancient magic--."
     
    "Yeah, I don't think these guys are gonna be making any more rabbit-out-of-a-hat jokes again!"
     
    "-but none of these faces are familar you."
     
    "What do you mean?"
     
    "You don't see Big Iron, the street name,for the thug that can turn into metal."
     
    "Ah, Man!  He got away-!  I guess I better go see if Feral is back yet-"
     
    "You turn to leave the room and almost bump your face into a statue.  No, wait; statues don't move-"
     
    "Move?"
     
    "You glance up just in time to see the ceooked and cruel wry grin of Big Iron, his fist drawing back over his head, muscles tight,as bow strings.  "Suprise, Houdini!" he snarls-"
     
    "Ah, crap!   Okay, so how do I Push my PD...?"
     
     

     
     
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    Duke Bushido reacted to Susano in A Star Hero NPC Concept   
    It's Geddy Lee, bassist and vocalist for Rush.
     
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    Duke Bushido reacted to Cygnia in Funny Pics II: The Revenge   
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    Duke Bushido reacted to Scott Ruggels in A Thread For Random RPG Musings   
    Oh, I have.

     
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    Duke Bushido reacted to Chris Goodwin in Does Desolidification, Usable Simultaneously, still require STR Affects Physical World?   
    If they're also Desolidified you can affect them.  However, you'd need to either buy Affects Physical World on the Desolidification to make a solid person desolid while you're using it, or deactivate your Desolidification before reactivating it to affect yourself and the target simultaneously.
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    Duke Bushido got a reaction from Hermit in Best Quotes or your Characters or Villains   
    "But _you're a doctor!'
    "I am a _physicist!"
    "He has a physical injury!"
     
    Same campaign:
     
    "Aren't you a scientist?  Good with numbers?"
    "I am a physicist!  I create lab accidents and super Powers!"
     
    From the youth group:
     
    Kinetica: "he'll never make in time!"
     
    GM: well he has already turned to race down the hallway toward the window...
     
    "I will have to go full sonic-"
     
    "He"s kind of filling the hallway-"
     
    "I go Desolid and blast through him!"
     
    Magnus (upon seeing Kinetica's ephemeral desolid form burst from his chest, leaps forward grabbing): "crap! My soul!"
     
     
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    Duke Bushido got a reaction from Lord Liaden in Best Quotes or your Characters or Villains   
    "But _you're a doctor!'
    "I am a _physicist!"
    "He has a physical injury!"
     
    Same campaign:
     
    "Aren't you a scientist?  Good with numbers?"
    "I am a physicist!  I create lab accidents and super Powers!"
     
    From the youth group:
     
    Kinetica: "he'll never make in time!"
     
    GM: well he has already turned to race down the hallway toward the window...
     
    "I will have to go full sonic-"
     
    "He"s kind of filling the hallway-"
     
    "I go Desolid and blast through him!"
     
    Magnus (upon seeing Kinetica's ephemeral desolid form burst from his chest, leaps forward grabbing): "crap! My soul!"
     
     
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    Duke Bushido reacted to Grailknight in In the throes of throwing rules   
    This particular ambiguity has been around since First Edition. I doubt that anything "official" is forthcoming.
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    Duke Bushido got a reaction from Scott Ruggels in To the streets   
    I have to agree with Lone Wolf.
     
    All of our campaigns-  all of them--  start out at low level.
     
    As far as the need for backup and support--
     
    Well, _that_ is why you form a team. 
     
    (And yes; that is one of many reasons I prefer to start out with 200-250pt Pcs)
     
     
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    Duke Bushido reacted to Cygnia in Funny Pics II: The Revenge   
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    Duke Bushido got a reaction from Wade Adams in Character Portraits   
    Not ashamed of my vote:  I have never liked using photos of real people.  I am imagining a world that looks a certain way- let's say comic books, with latern-jawed heroes with their mighty seven-heads proportions-!
     
    I do _not_ want to pop open Iron Man's helmet and go "Holy Hell!  That's Dennis Franz!"
     
    More subtley:  I find the use of photos of real people and places (with the wxceprion of fantastic landscapes) to be extremely off-putting and it does hard damage to my suspension of disbelief-- and I am typically the GM!  It is like the _one_ thing that I just can't roll with.  I also accept that I am probably the only person on the planet for whom this is as big a deal as it is, and it stem,from the fact that I am an old fossil who has been gaming since before we could screenshot someone from the internet so art feels more "right" in the context.  Alternatively, it could be that I do not want that exact and detailed a face or body type; I have no idea.
     
    If you can't draw- I know I can't- and dont know anyone who will whip something up for you-  screenshot a drawing off the 'net and show that to me.  Give me a stick figure done in crayon.  _Describe_ the character to me and I will block in a 2e character mannequin (badly) for you!
     
    Just do not give me an actual photo of an actual person or an actual animal,or an actual car.....
     
    Etc.
     
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    Duke Bushido got a reaction from Scott Ruggels in How is Chaosium Basic Role Playing compared to Hero System?   
    Only in Robot Warriors, I'm afraid. 
     
    I _wanted_ Battletech, but as the only person I knew who was interested, I couldnt really justify the expenditure back then; Robot Warriors I could justify, having accidentally bought Robot Gladiators first.  At that point,I obviously _had_ to have the game, or the supplement was wasted money, right?
     
    I liked Robot Warriors well enough, but the overall genericness of it (game-build and mech-wise) was always just a bit disappointing. 
     
    it's like you really wanted to see the Jovian Chronicles anime but your parents bought you Robot Jox instead:  you liked it, but it didn't quite scratch that itch.....
     
     
     
     
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    Duke Bushido reacted to Chris Goodwin in How is Chaosium Basic Role Playing compared to Hero System?   
    If you were to combine my "How to Play HERO System" with it...
     
    Except "How to Play" is for 6e.  Knowing that they're the peanut butter and chocolate of a HERO System near-free game has me feeling a little uncomfortable about saying that.  Because for $5 you'd have the game.  Which is good if you're buying, but not so much if you're Hero Games.
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    Duke Bushido got a reaction from Chris Goodwin in A Thread For Random RPG Musings   
    Interesting timing....
     
    I have just recently rerurned to playing with hex flowers.  This dovetails nicely.
     
     
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    Duke Bushido got a reaction from Chris Goodwin in How is Chaosium Basic Role Playing compared to Hero System?   
    Just the Pocket Boxes, Sir:
     
    Car Wars, Truck Stop; Sunday Drivers.
     
    All others are apocryphal cash grabs.  
     
     
     
    Never!
     
    I own it.
     
    I understand its historical significance.
     
    I love most of Allston's stuff for any game and from any magazine.
     
    And it is my belief that Autoduel Champions was one of the worst things to ever come from the hobby.
     
    (Yeah; I understand what opinion means and fully expect that no one should heed the unsolicited opinion of another, and likely two-thirds of the solicicted opiniona, either.  I also believe it was a solid execution of an absolutely _horrible_ idea.)
     
     
     
     
    As players aged and moved on, and younger and younger people replaced them. I found less and less people who played SFB.  Hell, my local game store stopped carrying it completely about the time Champions entered the ICE Age.  When I asked Fred (the owner) about it, he said he hadn't sold a copy in three or four years, so he cut a deal on his remaining inventory to some guy who was still buying things (mostly minis), and never looked back.
     
    Over the years, four moves, and one house fire since then, I dont even have my meager collection of SFB stuff, either.  (Though I always preferred replaceable-via-Xerox pasteboard counters to actual minis)
     
     
     
     
     
    I only ever played Starfire solo, and mostly because I enjoyed the "mapping a universe" expansion stuff for it.
     
    It did not survive the immediately post-wedding move; haven't seen it in almost thirty years.
     
     
    Until I met our friend Chris Goodwin, I was the only person I knew into mechs.  (Do remember I live in rural Georgia).  Thus, while I enjoyed reading articles related to it on the various gaming magazines, I never owned or even played it.  If I had the slightest ability to paint beyond spray cans, I might have collected the minis, but with no such talent, I couldn't even justify the cost of just that. 
     
     
    No.  Just no.
     
    I am not into historical recreation nor do I enjoy that level of meticulous planning.  SFB was great (and Car Wars still is) because these are more-or-less "you are in the captain's chair, making snap seat-of-the-pants decisions based on a very small handful of options" and usually play out in an hour or so.  That has always been my sweet spot for tactical games.
     
    Besides, from what I recall of wargamming conventions. I don't own enough horizontal surfaces to get get into anything from Avalon Hill-- I might not even own enough floor!
     
     
     
    The fact that I cannot think of a single tactical game from SPI tells me pretty much what I need to know:  if it didn't catch my interest in the shops (when there still shops), I doubt I would be more interested now.
     
     
     
     
    I own Imperium and ... Was it Belt Strike?  Strikers?  Both?  Anyway, I own three GDW Traveller-esque games that saw so much use they exist now as manilla folders of Xeroxes of the original pages; some pages as Xeroxes of earlier Xeroxes.  That is how much use those games saw- we litterally _wore the booklets out_ (and the maps, and the counters, and even the dice look kind of sketchy).
     
    And I haven't found another soul in the last twenty years who was interested in taking a stab at them.  For what it's worth, they just don't have an enjoyable solataire aspect the was Starfire did. 
     
     
     
    Played them all.  Didn't really enjoy them save for one particular group that made Ogre more fun than it was with other groups, but even then, they eventually scattered to the winds.  Still, though, they weren't really "my thing."
     
    The thing is people who don't enjoy tactical games in general tend to think all tactical games are kind of the same.  The reality is that this is like saying all superhero RPGs or sci-fi RPGs are equally interchangeable when they really aren't.  Anyone who has played both Universe and Space Opera or Star Frontiers and Traveller can vouch for that.
     
    I have a very limited enjoyment of tactical games myself, but I do have a sweet spot:  simple rules, quick decisions, limited options, playtime of not more (and preferably less) than two hours, and little to no "historical recreation."
     
    There just isnt much of that out there anymore, and no reasonably local people who play.
     
     
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    Duke Bushido got a reaction from tkdguy in A Thread For Random RPG Musings   
    Interesting timing....
     
    I have just recently rerurned to playing with hex flowers.  This dovetails nicely.
     
     
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    Duke Bushido got a reaction from Scott Ruggels in How is Chaosium Basic Role Playing compared to Hero System?   
    Our _country_, Sir.  Our entire country.
     
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    Duke Bushido got a reaction from Christopher R Taylor in Starting Spider-Man = Teen Champion?   
    We are taking that as the given by which "challenge" is to be judged (or so I assumed; this one could be entirely on me).
     
    Given a teen with super-strength, super agility, damger sense, ranged restraints,  etc--
     
    I find it difficult to accept that a 40-year-old normal human who fights bare-handed in a rejected disco costume presents a serious challenge to said bug-eyed teen.
     
     
     
     
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    Duke Bushido got a reaction from AlHazred in Wondering if I'm alone here   
    Ditto.
     
    And to assuage your incredulity earlier:  The production principles were sound, and the demos of the POC batch showed them to be at least as durable as modern "high impact" resin dice, if not moreso.
     
    The problem appears to be the outsourcing.  They had a process that worked extremely well, but was insanely expensive.  They outsourced to China (like the rest of the entire earth, apparently-- everyone bags on the amount of pollution coming out of China.  Fact is, it's _our_ garbage.     ).  Since then, apparently no one has been able to deliver on the promise of replicating the process at an affordable price.
     
     
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    Duke Bushido reacted to Bazza in Funny Pics II: The Revenge   
    These ARE the droids I’m looking for!!
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    Duke Bushido reacted to mattingly in Funny Pics II: The Revenge   
    R2-4Q 
     
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    Duke Bushido reacted to BoloOfEarth in Funny Pics II: The Revenge   
    I guess that would be R2-FU.
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