billy, if you could send me what's required for rolls and skills and stats et al

There's nothing like that. billytea rolls the die when required, and he sends you all the information you need to know. It's not a D&D-type game.

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BSG

billy, if you could send me what's required for rolls and skills and stats et al

As PC says, BSG is a board game first and foremost. There are two teams (humans and Cylons), one of which will win and the other lose. However, it's pretty rich with theme, and as everyone plays a character from the TV series, there's good opportunity for role-playing (if the players want to make use of it). The different characters have mechanical differences too - they each have a special ability, as well as a stronger ability they can use only once per game. They each have a weakness too - for instance, Dee is better at moving the civilian ships than the other players; but she is also emotionally fragile. If Morale drops to 2, she offs herself.

I have some files I send the players. I'll send you one of them; it has a pdf file, a couple of pages long, that explains the premise and how the game flows. You can have the other files if you want too, but they're more for reference than straight reading material.

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BSG

Meanwhile, Apollo attacks the raiders with EXTREME PEW-PEW!! Results:

Fire 1: 6. Hit!
Fire 2: 3. Hit!
Fire 3: 3. Hit!

That clears the sector of raiders. Apollo has one shot left and only one viable target, so I assume he'll fire at the basestar. Does anyone want to play an SP? Everyone, please pass or play.

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BSG

I have passes from everyone. Apollo versus the basestar:

Fire 4: 1. Miss.

Well, really, Apollo. Just because you blow up all the raiders, you think that's good enough? The people want to know why it is that your viper can't blow up just one single basestar. Maybe you're in cahoots! A CAGlaborator, perhaps? Apollo's crisis is:

The Circle
President's Choice

President Foster, when you're ready, please post your choice.

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BSG

You know, something I forgot to post from the last game, I had a short wrap-up of some interesting occurrences. We've started the next game, but I'll present these anyway:

• Boomer's now been selected five times. She's been a human exactly once, in the very first game.

• When I set the game up, I shuffle all the decks three times, to ensure they're well-mixed (using Excel functions to generate a random order). After the second shuffle of the crisis deck, I had the game starting with four attack cards in a row.

• On turn 2.1 Boomer (a hidden Cylon at that time) tried to scout the crisis deck, but the die roll failed. If Boomer's scout had succeeded, she could have buried a crisis with a jump icon, her own crisis would've been Boarding Parties, and she could've buried another jump icon with her Recon. Instead, she had to bury Boarding Parties (to stay undetected), and the crew got both jump icons.

• On turn 4.5, Gaeta jumped the fleet. Thirty Three's

Relentless Pursuit was in effect, so the crisis deck was reshuffled. If it hadn't been reshuffled, the first two crises of the next jump cycle would have been Tactical Strike and Dogfight, two more attack cards.

• At the end of the game, when the space battle was out of control, the next four crises all had raider activations. Just to make life that much more difficult.

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BSG (Tory! Tory! Tory!)

WHAT. This is a terrible Crisis to get immediately! I kind of want to stay President, but I don't really want to kill Apollo...unless you really want to become Starbuck.

Because discarding all those cards right now would be bad. Well, wait, you just got a full draw, right? So maybe not too bad? You have 4 cards and I have 3 cards. If you die, you only lose 1 more card than you would have, and we take a Morale hit if you're human. But I guess it's losing 4 cards from you or 5 cards between us. I could discard 2 cards easily, but discarding cards seems bad this early. Would set us up for a challenging game!

Apollo, what do you think? I'm certainly not giving up the Presidency when I don't know who's who. Based on your first action, I think you're human, but Apollo makes a terrible President because he needs to be out in space, not sitting in the President's Office.

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BSG (Cally)

This is a rough time to be losing cards but at this point anyone could be a cylon. I don't think I make a very good president if I keep forgetting to use my quorum cards. Dee? You got any political aspirations?

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BSG (Tory)

This is a rough time to be losing cards but at this point anyone could be a cylon.

And if Apollo is a Cylon and we execute him, hey, good for us!

Giving up the Presidency to a Cylon is too risky this early. I don't want the Quorum falling into Cylon hands.

Pretty much any choice I make is going to have a long-lasting effect on the entire game. The discard is the safest, but, if Apollo honestly wants to have gender reassignment surgery, this would be a hilariously perfect opportunity.

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BSG (Dee)

Dee? You got any political aspirations?

If called I would serve, sure. But Tory has no reason to trust any of us at this point, except maybe Apollo (who could have wiped out all the raiders as a ruse, I suppose. That's happened before).

So it's (a) both of you ditch all but one of your cards or (b) Apollo out the airlock? Tory gets her full draw after Cally's turn, but Apollo has a whole round to wait.

If Apollo is a cylon, then clearly executing him is the right choice. And if he's human and comes back as Starbuck, that would be funny. OTOH, he's my love interest in his donut-rich phase, I'd hate to miss out on that.

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BSG (Tory)

(who could have wiped out all the raiders as a ruse, I suppose. That's happened before).

It's a great way to inspire trust! IT JUST WORKED ON ME, FOR INSTANCE.

If we do lose Morale because of Apollo's execution, I can always attempt to bring it back with a marvelous eulogy.

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