unclevlad

You're assuming they haven't been here. I mean, Ferengi influence explains Reaganomics perfectly.........

Nah. Brownie just woke up from a Rip van Winkle...looked around, and decided the nap was a far, far better idea.... And I tell ya, Mr. P, Northwestern should be relegated to Division III. I mean, I'd say "why so much MAC hate"....but I stuck the Browns there, so that kinda kills THAT argument................

Interesting, and a potential sign of things to come. Diamond Sports Group and the Arizona Diamondbacks reached an agreement to terminate their contract, which allowed D'backs games to be shown on Bally Sports Arizona. MLB has already taken up production, and there's a new channel on Xfinity for it. The sign of things to come...Diamond filed for bankruptcy, and a major component was the rights deal they inherited...they paid the D'backs over $60M a year. The regional sports nets have been taking a beating for a couple years; there've been stories about most of them dropping out, going back at least to the start of this year. But, the issue of rights money could extend, as sports broadcasting rights fees are SKY high in most places. I think that's why ESPN pulled back to Sunday Night Baseball, and widely scattered other games (opening week, maybe Jackie Robinson day, stuff like that). And I'm thinking...not just baseball. Diamond Sports failed to reach an agreement with the Suns...but that may speak more to the core problem of a regional sports net, and other small, sports-related networks. Versus became NBC Sports Network, but had its plug pulled a couple years ago...and now, most stuff not on NBC itself, is only streamed. The massive gravy train on which the 3 major sports leagues have ridden SO lucratively for so long, may be becoming a victim of its own success. Cord cutting is an issue; when you put NFL Sunday Ticket, say, out there as a standalone cost, people sometimes say No. It has to be concerning to the league powers/owners.

Or something like that. Rain shower, making a treacherous descent. Mechanical issue at the wrong time/place, altho the peloton might wait for that, depending.... But mostly...yeah, an idiot. The crowds on the climbs that pack the roadsides are barely controlled, and I'm always amazed there aren't MORE incidents. It really creeps me out when they do the long up-the-road shots over the shoulders of a rider going through those crowds, when you just don't know when some git's gonna not get out of the way in time.

The Browns don't need a new logo, they need to be relegated to the MAC.

Or for more perspective, that division has the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 6th, and 7th best records in the AL. The other two are Texas and Houston. Tampa Bay and Baltimore can be penciled in now; Houston, Toronto, and Boston have the inside tracks, with 2 of the 3 making it, with the Yankees still there, but slipping. Seattle...they need to make a big run. If we project 90 wins to make the WC, they need to finish 43-26. Pretty big ask, there. Seattle, the hill's too tall. Angels, too many injuries, too many basic problems. Yankees were 36-25 on June 5th...right after Judge went out...but have gone 14-20 since. And there's no indication he'll be back any time soon. If they go 3-7, say, between now and the deadline, they'll likely be practically eliminated...too far back of too many teams, with too few games left to feel they have a real shot.

WOW. Short TT...35-36 minutes for much of the field, the climbers and such more like 40. The time difference between 9th and 20th was 31 seconds. Pogacar blew the field away by more than 70 seconds. Vingegaard scalped Pogacar by almost 100 seconds. The GC just went from close to not close at all. Vingegaard hasn't won it; Bad Things are always possible. There are 2 more nasty climbing stages left, as well...but Vingegaard is the overwhelming favorite now.

OK, I agree that the power to which it applies, or the group of powers, has to be specified. I wouldn't call it "disembodied" or "ghost"...but that's getting into semantics, and POV....inside looking out, or outside looking in.

I think Hugh's probably right, that it just became a use of Casual STR. Largely as written in the test doc. The writeup also has Paralysis, which shows up...structured a bit differently...as Mental Paralysis. The writeup also has Splitting, C III has Duplication. I'm not sure if they're intended to be the same, as the costing is WILDLY different, but the implementations appear to be otherwise the same, altho the power in the book goes into issues the playtest notes don't, which is to be expected.

Uhhhh....on what basis do you say that? Quote from Dr.Device's posted article: I think you're making incorrect assumptions on what they might own. This has basically no real connection to the former publisher of D&D.

I haven't created a crowd-funded project myself, but I have backed several. Mostly new product design, rather than an IP like a gaming system...but I also backed Champions Now. You need your ducks in a row beforehand. I've never been burned...but there've been times when the project was posted somewhat prematurely. Not all suppliers lined up...or, in one case, where something that was promised *seemed* simple, but turned out NOT to be...and the fix probably meant the project ran deeply into the red. With an IP, writing and editing ALWAYS take longer than you think, and professional editing won't come cheap. You also need realistic goals. New gaming systems at best target pretty limited audiences. With no track record, no supporting material, they're tough sells...which also means your presentation...on KS and after...needs to be solid. Last: whatever you think the effort will be...going formal, going published...double, if not triple it.

I have no idea what half those might be...but from the ones I do recognize, or can at least parse to some hopefully sensible interpretation...my stomach is incredibly happy about that.... And that I'm about to start cooking dinner...rather than eating.....

What? What does that even mean? There are no restrictions on naked advantages on a single power. Never use an example as a definition of how it can be used. It's a single example. Also, it's very clear that a naked advantage is NOT an advantage. It's a power. Note that naked advantages are already MASSIVELY handicapped by the rules. A naked advantage on, say, a defensive power that doesn't cost END...still costs END. The limitations on the base power, carry over to the naked advantage...but you don't get any cost reduction. Naked advantages are the most tightly restricted powers in the game...they're both special powers, AND they can't be applied to any power in any framework. These aren't bad rules per se; they just take a conservative approach, to avoid gaming the system, trying to avoid potential abuses.

"Second place is first loser." "Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." Is there any aspect of American life, of its national culture, where this doesn't apply now? Damn the consequences, full speed ahead!

Q: Who ya gonna call???? A: Those who run away, live to fight another day.

From NYT:

Well...ok...the true pinnacle of pain, the deadline of daunting dismay is fast approaching for Angels fans. Will Shohei still be an Angel come August 2nd? Fox Sports, ESPN, MLB Network broadcasts...they've had the Angels quite a bit, and that's THE dominant topic. Do you have a snowball's chance to keep Ohtani? Can you let him walk as a free agent? Can you trade away a player having arguably the single greatest season *ever* in baseball...DURING the season? There's no good solution; I'd even say there's no bad solution. There are 2 diametrically opposed factors. Keep Ohtani until you lose him this winter...disastrous for the team's future. Trade Ohtani before he chooses to leave...the fan base will abandon you. Mets and Padres are in similar positions...but theirs isn't revolving around 1 player alone.

Now you know how Angels fans feel every year. But you haven't reached the azimuth of anguish yet...Rockies fans.......

Diamondbacks have come back down from their June run. Lost 8 of 11 in July. Worse, scored 7 once, 5 once...ok...but 3 runs twice. Yeah, 7 times, 2 runs or less. Game yesterday in Toronto...the 2 they did score, were by a whisker. Runners on 2nd and 3rd, 2 out. Ground ball to second, but the Toronto 1st baseman moves a step or two too far trying to field it. He tries to get back to the bag, the pitcher's trying to cover. 1st baseman has the ball...his foot is coming down *just* as the runner's foot is, as well. Call went to appeal. SOOOO close that whatever the call on the field was, was gonna stand, it was way too close to overrule. Batter called safe. The runner on 2nd was heads up and scored. But that was it. Same thing with game 1 of the series, Friday. Bad baserunning...both sides, actually, but more by the D'backs. Repeatedly failing to get the key hit with RISP. Dodgers have now surged into 1st...again. Next 6 games? In Atlanta, in Cincy. Reds might've cooled off some, too, but they're an incredibly dangerous offensive ballclub now, and given the scoring issues...not a good arrangement.

Preseason prognostications and the countdown to opening day...... Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.

With the King of Spain watching from the Royal Box, Carlos Alcaraz takes down Novak Djokovic in 5 sets for the Wimbledon title in an epic match.

Blowout win at that. Van Aert was 2nd...over 2 minutes back. Another minute to 3rd. And another MORONIC spectator interferes with the race. Someone taking a selfie...arm extended, either hits a rider, or the rider can't help but hit them. Stories are saying it wasn't as bad as the cretin with the sign 2 years ago, but that's just good fortune. From Velo: So it was much too close to being a massive impact.

But that's also getting into why you divorce it from the SPD mechanic altogether.

I'll toss out...maybe it shouldn't be SPD related. There's too much baggage there, as CRT notes. Let's just talk combat utility. The unit would be once per turn; you could in principle buy more than 1. Let's call it Instant Recovery. The effect is that you are allowed, as the rules thread poster noted, execute an action to which you could abort, even if your phase is over. You invoke this; your last action simply "rewinds" from a terminating action, to a non-terminating action. You then execute the abort action. Per normal...the character loses his next phase. For simplicity, I'd probably say he couldn't apply an Instant Recovery again until after the phase he spent for the abort has passed, as per 6E2 22. I'm thinking this wouldn't be cheap, as...while you might not need it that often, when you do need it, it's likely to be at a crucial time. Thoughts...?

I don't know if what you found is included, but the official errata file is here: