Scott Ruggels

The problem is it’s DOS 3.1, and the printers are “special”

For what ius3e will be the city for? Putting in an extra city, I would put something in between Calgary and Edmonton, more towards the mountains, and have it a general mining city with a top university.

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Well aware of her current situation. She goes by Pauli, and I watch their YouTube. Just using the initial so as to make it easier to find the game, as she could use the cash.

Found it, Here's how the Germans did it. Found it, Here's how the Germans did it. \

Yes, but I got stalled trying to find a way to print the character sheets. Reading a 320 x 240 interface with chicklet sized scroll bars is hard.

It is how the rolls are implemented., and for what reason. FOr the sake of RP immersion, I prefer that there is a strict GM and Player boundary. The GM brings the world, and the player brings the character. If, Like combat, a social roll is applied to a Player character, and the effect is calculated, and the same works if applied to an NPC, it's all fair, and immersion is not broken. But if a roll is made that changes a character's back story or the environment, that makes the envoronment maleable, or inconsistent, and messes up the immersion. There is a right way, and a wrong way to do it, and my nervousness, is that most of the social systems are now tied to heavily externally narrative systems, which is why the paranoid response. There have been two RPG systems that had developed social and social combat systems, boit by designer P. Kidd , using very different mechanics. The Ties and Antipathies system from the Albedo SF game, and using the deuling cards in his later Lace & Steel game.

Experienced champions, characters, tend to learn more and more skills and knowledges. So the difference between a young Spider-Man, and an older Spider-Man, may be a few levels in combat, and a knowledge skill about the sinister six. He may also have up his performance skill for better one liners. The funny thing about Peter Parker is that he was not so much a nerd, as he was kind of a jerk before uncle Ben died, and after he was a jerk only to his enemies. For experience, you may just want to poke around with the background/life paths for your NPCs. As a poster above said, and this is very true, a champions character starts off powerful, and becomes more versatile, with experience.

that’s an oddly modern take for a Champions player, as most of the character sheets I have are in this or earlier formats. It’s what I am used to, especially the full info in the pre- electronic days or at RBK that prohibit electronic devices to cut offf distractions. I am trying to get Heromakr.exe to work again on a Win 10 machine so as to build 4e and earlier characters, but so far Ave only been partially successful.

I have had terrible experiences with FATE, and PbTA, as they are external narrative systems that for me, torpedo RP immersion. Partially, what I game for is RP immersion ( the other is tactical problem solving). That immersion, is dependent upon the world remaining a self consistent environment. The problem is that making social interaction as mechanics, renders the world malleable, and the narrative becomes external to the world, rather than internal. Because of this I avoid indie RPGs in their entirety, and stick with pre-Amber Diceless traditional RPGs.

Launch scrubbed for today due to a frozen valve. They carried the count down to T-10 seconds, and considered it a successful wet dress rehearsal. Next attempt is Wednesday 4/20. (Cue Beavis & Butthead laughing)

That’s a beautiful 4e Character sheet.

With sufficient wing span, one could do it in the method German submariners did in the months before radar was added to the U-Boats. Place the ornithopter on a towed raft and go full speed into the wind. The pilot guides the craft up to a safe minimum altitude and kicks the wings on. With the Germans originally it was an unpowered, towed autogyro to get altitude enough for long distance observation. I’d see the ornithopter behaving in a similar fashion.

Scott Manley got his private Pilot's License!11 Yaaay!

Myself, I am a little leery of the technology, due to the fact that batteries fade, but the redundancy helps, but this is definitely a technology for amateurs rather than pros

I would have given the Supers one “on the ground” campaign against The Nazis, but it would be a failure for the supers, simply because of the weight of numbers plus other factors, so that The Supers and the Generals would be in agreement that most overseas operations would be advised against, except against supervillains. The Invasion on Norway and the mess that turned into would be a prime allied failure, or it drew too many resources from France, leaving France to fall in the following month. The players may want that one chance to wade through waves of Wehrmacht troops, so then give them one and traumatize them! (Says the GM that wargamers agents against supers so there was never a clean win). They will talk about that and adjust their goals accordingly for the remainder of their campaign. Having Supers are like having a handful of untested, one off, weapon prototypes where they have undoubted capabilities, but are just one item. Chase them back to Allied territory where the odds are more in their favor. But give them that one fight they ask for, and bloody their metaphorical nose.

Bad News: the FAA is dragging it's feet and will not clear for the launch until May 31 at the earliest: https://www.investors.com/news/technology/spacex-faa-blows-out-candle-on-company-starship/ EDIT: The FAA Completed their Environmental Review in 2022, and the curren tlaunch window is April 17th ior 18th

Looks oike they may launch Starship on my birthday!

Keep me posted. Very interested.

Doing late classical as a play by post. No magic, other than healing potions, everyone is a fighter and…. Lot of spear fights, coordination rolls, but failed rolls hav lead to character killing results. The players seem to like it. Bronze tends to be the cheap armor, with weapons being mostly iron. The players want to get to civilization and buy good equipment, but they are armpit deep in horse archers who hhhhhhate them.

Well, Bronze is more recyclable into other objects. Iron less so, and needs higher heat to work. But Iron is easier tro obtain, where as Bronze needs tin, and tin requires long trade routes to obtain. I think it was the Romans and Greeks having to go all the way to the British Isles, to obtain the tin for their bronze? The Japanese, with nearly no trade routes, were able to cook beach sand into Iron, though not of particularly good quality.

Nasa has a much higher tier cable plan, because the tax payers pay for it.