BSG
Adama is next to play.
Brigging Baltar (7 GP)
Destiny:
Y1 B3 (Tally: -4)
Boomer:
No cards (Tally: -4)
Adama:
Roslin:
Baltar:
Apollo:
Giles: I'm sure we're all perfectly safe. Dawn: We're safe. Right. And Spike built a robot Buffy to play checkers with. Tara: It sounded convincing when I thought it.
'Dirty Girls'
Gaming 1: You are likely to be eaten by a grue
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billytea - Jul 07, 2009 7:16:23 am PDT #2644 of 26133
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Volans - Jul 07, 2009 8:46:51 am PDT #2645 of 26133
move out and draw fire
BSG
I'll play in a moment, as soon as I find my card list.
NOT BSG
As the latest in his Game Design Essentials series for Gamasutra, writer John Harris examines 10 games from the Western computer RPG (CRPG) tradition and 10 from the Japanese console RPG (JRPG) tradition, to figure out what exactly makes them tick. From the entry on Nethack: 'Gaining experience is supposed to carry the risk of harm and failure. Without that risk, gaining power becomes a foregone conclusion. It has reached the point where the mere act of spending time playing [most RPGs] appears to give players the right to have their characters become more powerful. The obstacles that provide experience become simply an arbitrary wall to scale before more power is granted; this, in a nutshell, is the type of play that has brought us grind, where the journey is simple and boring and the destination is something to be raced to. Nethack and many other roguelikes do feature experience gain, but it doesn't feel like grind. It doesn't because much of the time the player is gaining experience, he is in danger of sudden, catastrophic failure. When you're frequently a heartbeat away from death, it's difficult to become bored.' Harris' Game Design series has previously spanned subjects from mysterious games to open world games, unusual control schemes and difficult games." >[link]
Volans - Jul 07, 2009 8:53:40 am PDT #2646 of 26133
move out and draw fire
BSG
Since we're playing our cards face-up, I'll just go ahead and post my play rather than sending it to bt.
Adama plays two G3 cards.
billytea - Jul 07, 2009 8:57:35 am PDT #2647 of 26133
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
BSG
I have COs from both Roslin and Baltar: Play no cards. That leaves Apollo to finish the check.
Brigging Baltar (7 GP)
Destiny:
Y1 B3
Boomer:
No cards
Adama:
G3 G3
Roslin:
No cards
Baltar:
No cards (Tally: 2)
Apollo:
Pete, Husband of Jilli - Jul 07, 2009 9:45:31 am PDT #2648 of 26133
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd
Funny, my post vanished.
Anyway, Nathan Fillion video pretty cute. Also of note in the new Halo game is that Nathan is joined once again by Adam Baldwin.
Random McNasty - Jul 07, 2009 12:49:46 pm PDT #2649 of 26133
AKA Raq's Husband
BSG
Apollo plays a 5P.
omnis_audis - Jul 07, 2009 12:55:31 pm PDT #2650 of 26133
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
BSG
Rather interesting. I like this open card format. Can we do this every round?
t /dork
billytea - Jul 07, 2009 8:13:11 pm PDT #2651 of 26133
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
BSG
Rather interesting. I like this open card format. Can we do this every round?
Sure, if someone plays an IC every round.
Meanwhile, a noble spirit embriggens the smallest man. Dr Baltar, the check passes and it is the will of -- well, the Adamas -- that you be brigged. You have been moved there immediately.
Apollo's Crisis Card is:
Sleep Deprivation
Admiral's Choice
Admiral, when you are ready please post your choice.
Volans - Jul 08, 2009 5:24:22 am PDT #2652 of 26133
move out and draw fire
BSG
Back in my day, we weren't allowed to sleep except while marching up hill, in the snow. We're going to keep those pilots in their birds!
-1 Morale.
billytea - Jul 08, 2009 5:44:26 am PDT #2653 of 26133
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
BSG
Very well. The Admiral reacts to the pilots' sleep deprivation by installing a crying baby in every Viper. Morale takes a hit, but they stay flying.
Cylon: Basestar. I have a new die for rolling when attacking you. It's black, white speckles. Red numbering. It is an appropriate instrument of your destruction.
Die roll: 3. Miss. I've said it before and I'll say it again, democracy does not work.
Jump Prep: Yes. You have now reached Blue (-3). You may jump early at the risk of 3 Population. Or, y'know, you and the Cylon fleet can just hang out for a while, kick back to some Creedence Clearwater Revival.
Boomer, your turn is about to begin. I'll send you your card draw, then when you're ready, please post your move and action.