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

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billytea - Jun 11, 2011 7:18:50 pm PDT #11672 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

OK, we are ready to go. Here are the details, and the voting outcomes:

1. This will be a six-player game, using the No Sympathiser rules. That means that there will be no sympathiser card in the loyalty deck; just 2 Cylon cards and a bunch of Not-A-Cylon cards. To balance things out, resources start a bit lower, and revealed Cylons (once they leave the Resurrecion Ship) draw 3 cards instead of 2.

2. By a vote of 4-1, this game will include both expansions. None of the optional modules will be included.

3. The vote on character selection was 2-2. We will therefore use the default choice. Character selection will be done in player order, per the standard rules.

4. By a vote of 2-1 (lots of abstentions), we will use the Exodus loyalty deck. That means that there is always at least one card left in the loyalty deck, and an executed human player gets a new card (so their replacement may be human or Cylon).

5. By a vote of 2-1, we will use the nukes from the Cylon Fleet module. This means that a nuke has a chance to destroy everything in the sector at which it is fired, both Cylon and human ships alike.

6. By a vote of 4-1, we will use base game Investigative Committees. They reveal all cards in a skill check, including Destiny.

7. We will use a variant for the Destiny deck. It will start with 3 cards from each deck (total of 18 cards). Every time it drops to 6 cards, I will add 2 cards from each deck and reshuffle. This should make it somewhat less predictable.

Game files are going out. Character selection starts now, in this turn order:

-t
omnis_audis
NoiseDesign
chrismg
Laga
Polter-Cow

I've received preference lists from a couple of players, which I'll use per the standard rules for their character choice when it gets to them. Everyone else is welcome to put in a list of preferences too, or wait to see what the players before them select.

-t, you're up. Which character would you like to play this time around?


-t - Jun 12, 2011 5:39:38 am PDT #11673 of 26134
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

BSG

Chief Tyrol


billytea - Jun 12, 2011 5:47:01 am PDT #11674 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

Chief Tyrol is on board. I'll be sure to cause lots of damage and give you something to do. Omnis is up next. You may select anyone except Chief Tyrol. (It's a little early to give away that there are many copies.)


billytea - Jun 12, 2011 5:51:13 am PDT #11675 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

In addition, everyone after the first player receives a starting draw of 3 cards from their regular draw. Everyone following, as you select your character, you may also specify the colours of your starting draw.


omnis_audis - Jun 12, 2011 7:43:17 pm PDT #11676 of 26134
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

BSG

Sorry about the delay. I think I'll jump in blindly to the new expansion stuff, and play:

Samuel T. Anders **EXODUS**

Gods help us all.


billytea - Jun 12, 2011 10:50:46 pm PDT #11677 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

ND is up next. You may pick anyone except the Chief or a pilot.

Piece of trivia: this is omnis' fourth game here, and so far every character he's chosen has been a pilot. (He once chose Helo, who's a small-p pilot rather than a capital-P Pilot, but aside from that it's been Pilots all the way.)

Reminder: Anders starts the game with 3 cards from his regular draw (2G 2P 1P/R). You can either post or email me your selection of starting cards.


Laga - Jun 13, 2011 6:31:25 am PDT #11678 of 26134
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

Free RPG Day


Kalshane - Jun 13, 2011 5:05:25 pm PDT #11679 of 26134
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why? Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.

Free RPG Day

Cool!


Tom Scola - Jun 14, 2011 2:06:43 am PDT #11680 of 26134
hwæt

Duke Nukem Forever: barely playable, not funny, rampantly offensive.

Color me shocked.


NoiseDesign - Jun 14, 2011 8:48:42 am PDT #11681 of 26134
Our wings are not tired

BSG

Sorry for the delay, I choose:

Felix Gaeta **EXODUS**

I draw 1P, 1B, 1G