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Is "Pulling a Pete" anything like trying to develop a thermonuclear hand grenade?
No, "Pulling a Pete" happens when you are playing the car crash game and you manage to drive your car past everything and hit nothing and cause no damage but $500 to your own bumper.
And here I thought "Pulling a Pete" was being adorably loomy.
No, that's just Being Pete.
He's gonna come in here and be all, "Bloody hell! Adorable in the gaming thread too???"
That sounds incredibly fabulous. And like just the thing for after work on certain days.
Amy, it so totally is. It's wonderful. I want to create one similar wherein you get to "create" a work place - like Sims or something - and then you go in and FUCK IT UP. Detroy the office and burn it down. Very theraputic.
I'd call it Office Space: The Home Game. Everyone fights over who gets to be Milton.
Hey, can you tell me some more about this Fantasy Grounds deal? Is it D&D, D20, something else?
It's an online tabletop RPG facilitator. And I think you can configure it for a variety of games, so d20 or multi-dice or all six-siders...
Here. Fantasy Grounds
I gamed a lot when I was in school during the '80s. Then I moved to DC and never found a group to game with, and I kind of drifted away. So I'm more the era of Nuclear War/Nuclear Escalation. Oh, and Kingmaker -- can't forget Kingmaker.
I loved Kingmaker, but it too had serious balance issues. My usual strategy was 'get hold of an heir and go sit on an island somewhere'. On the other hand, the card-based combat and event stuff was a revelation. There's a whole slew of wargames out these days that have taken that card thing even further - Paths of Glory is a well-regarded WWI card-based game, and War of the Ring makes good use of them too. (I so wish I could find someone to play that against.)
Oh, another card-based strategy, if not war, game, is 1960: The Making of the President. Wallybee and I played that just tonight. (She was Nixon, I was Kennedy.) It was a tight game. She was dominant in the West, and cherry-picked New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Michigan our of my stronghold. (And, like Kennedy, the Dems took Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi, but they threw their votes to Byrd.) End result - I won by pretty much a single state. If Mrs Nixon had grabbed Ohio or California off me, she would've pulled it off.
It's an online tabletop RPG facilitator. And I think you can configure it for a variety of games, so d20 or multi-dice or all six-siders... Here. Fantasy Grounds
Thanks for that. I've bookmarked it.
amych - I think it's called Burnout.
Yes! Burnout! Or Burnout Revenge or something.
All I could come up with was some generic racing game title like Super Fast Bad Ass Mega Turbo Thrust Grand Racing Turismo 3!! or something.
I want to create one similar wherein you get to "create" a work place - like Sims or something - and then you go in and FUCK IT UP. Detroy the office and burn it down. Very theraputic.
The original Sim City was a lot like this. At least it was the way I played it. After a while, the city was all carefully built up by tweaking the zoning laws, and all the ungrateful little shits who lived there were rioting over taxes even though you had tried to give them nice things like sports stadiums and other such bread and circuses, and it all just got incredibly, incredibly boring once the city reached a certain equilibrium. And that's when the temptation to hit the "tsunami" "earthquake" and "godzilla attack" commands all at once came into play.