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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
That`s kinda brilliant, Laga.
I am out of the next round. My summer schedule is unpredictable. But I would like to observe again.
Profile email is good, billytea.
BSG
I'm in for the next game.
This is a question to a specific person but I'd feel odd sending it as an email or anything, so I figure this is as good a place as any:
Pete (Husband of Jilli), do you play Magic, and if so, do you have a self-themed deck with Unhinged cards like this one? [link]
