Sweetie, we're crooks. If everything were right, we'd be in jail.

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Gaming 1: You are likely to be eaten by a grue

A thread for the discussion of games: board, LARP, MMORPG, video, tabletop RPG, game theory etc. etc. and all attendant news, developments and ancillary subjects thereof, as well as coordinating/scheduling games either online or IRL. All are welcome to chime in, talk about their favorite games or learn about gaming of any sort.

PLEASE TO WHITEFONT SPOILERS for video games, RPG modules or anything for which foreknowledge of events might lessen one's enjoyment of whatever gaming experience.


Liese S. - May 22, 2011 10:41:50 am PDT #11607 of 26134
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

BSG

Cylon Tory was awesome that way. When Tigh took the Presidency, he was all anxious to see what superawesome Quorum cards I'd been holding back, but there weren't any! I'd been playing the Quorum straight, and just getting lucky, like, I bumped Morale up a point, but you lost two Morale that turn anyway, so it ended up being a net loss, but I still looked human.

I have no idea whether it would've been better for the humans or the Cylons, but it would have been excellent either way.

Yeah, I really should have. I was strongly considering it. And I botched the brigging anyway, by playing CO's and not noticing how play went down afterwards (because in real life I was wrangling volunteers) so it probably would have been a great time to use the card. Since I had a Cylon partner, and the humans were all card limited, I think it may have played our way.


billytea - May 22, 2011 11:49:47 am PDT #11608 of 26134
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

BSG

Dammit! Wait, neither of them?? Seriously? I'm so confused now. I think those were two different Destiny decks. Ah well.

Yep. If I have my count right, they were both played into Loss of a Friend on turn 3.5.

Wow! Did they spike a lot of checks and not get caught or something? Or not help? I mean, Team Human KNEW they had two Cylons after Sleeper, and they still didn't find them?

Not only did no one suspect, they threw Roslin in the Brig and made Boomer President. Adama and Roslin spent almost the whole game convinced the other one was a Cylon.


billytea - May 22, 2011 12:00:52 pm PDT #11609 of 26134
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

BSG

We were starved for cards. There was NO OTHER WAY we could do anything! We had to arrest Tory to get her in the brig and execute her to kill her.

Sure you could.

1. Try to brig them anyway, force them to play their cards.

2. (What wound up working for you) Work the Quorum. It has 2 Arrest Orders, and you can cycle through that deck a lot faster than you could the Politics deck.

Finally, if you really want to draw lots of Yellow (and there are other good reasons to do it, like ICs and Support the People) - Press Room.


Laga - May 22, 2011 1:31:03 pm PDT #11610 of 26134
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

My love for Red Dead Redemption continues to grow. I just noticed that my horse tells me when others horses are near. It didn't sink in until today, but he made the noise that means other horses are around, then we came up over a rise and they were right there. I'm not positive but I bet I'll start noticing this was a purposeful design choice. If so: well done Game Developers for including such a teensy wonderful detail.


Laga - May 23, 2011 9:08:42 am PDT #11611 of 26134
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

This thread moves slow when we ain't fighting cylons.

I'd like to share a (imo) clever thing I did last night running D&D.

One player flaked out and we're at a nexus in my campaign where the party has several decisions to make and I didn't want them to be made without the whole party present so I sent the reamaining players into a dream where they had to fight symbolic representations of their character struggles.

Our cleric used Religion to determine that they were experiencing something akin to a religious vision but then our Rogue used Streetwise and explained this it was actually much more like a narcotic hallucination. At the end they woke up and I gave them a wisdom check to see how much they remembered and then assigned a percentage of the XP based on how well they did on that check. Everyone gushed at me & I got to play around with dreams. (At one point a character killed off a grimlock minion whose face turned into that of his missing girlfriend who said, "don't forget your towel" before collapsing in his arms)

Forgot to give a shout out to the Dungeon Delve book for helping me plan a session in 20 minutes.


billytea - May 23, 2011 4:47:40 pm PDT #11612 of 26134
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

This thread moves slow when we ain't fighting cylons.

On which note, who's in for the next game? Not sure when exactly it'll start, probably not until this weekend at least, later if people have other commitments. Nonetheless, start it will. Who wants to be aboard?


Liese S. - May 23, 2011 4:50:07 pm PDT #11613 of 26134
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

That`s kinda brilliant, Laga.
 
I am out of the next round. My summer schedule is unpredictable. But I would like to observe again.


chrismg - May 23, 2011 6:47:53 pm PDT #11614 of 26134
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade

Profile email is good, billytea.


Laga - May 23, 2011 7:30:52 pm PDT #11615 of 26134
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

BSG

I'm in for the next game.


Polter-Cow - May 23, 2011 9:04:51 pm PDT #11616 of 26134
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

I'm in!