Sean, I thought you didn't have two spare minutes to rub together for the next few weeks?

If he ships it ground, it will be a couple of weeks before it gets here.

What sucks about the wrap up is it points how pivitol my idiot " xo means you do what I say" blunder was. The irony being the mistake made from tired long hours, and with the grand opening last night... Oh well. It was fun.

It hurt, certainly, but I wouldn't put too much at your door. At that point Population was already down to 4 and Fuel to 2 - this game was always going to be a difficult, desperate struggle for the humans. You lost 6 Population after getting hit with three attack cards in a row, and 5 Fuel travelling 5 distance. That was just bad luck, made worse by Apollo (Population) and the Chief (Fuel).

The BSG game and the Delurking thread expiring on the same day means that I have to go find other threads to procrastinate by reading. Any suggestions?

Bitches? Usually pretty happening.

Or, you could GM a game in here.

Anyone picking up Dragon Age? It looks pretty cool, but I don't know where I'd find the time to dedicate to CRPG. "Spiritual successor to Baldur's Gate" catches my interest, though.

ETA: I will say the limited character race and class options are kind of disappointing, but I understand the first couple hours of the game deal with your character's backstory based on those options, so I can see them putting a limit on just how much of that they want to program.

D wants to run a Star Wars campaign. It sounds like you can be just about any race but you do get the extra feat for going human.

Kalshane, the hub picked it up the other day and he's really liking it so far. From the halfway sorta watching while doing stuff on the laptop seat, the first part seemed even more talky than a lot of CRPGs, but on the other hand, all that backstory really looks like it has a lot more depth to the characterization and story than you sometimes see. If that impression is right, I'll take fewer initial choices (as I am a HOOR for a game that's not totally eyerolly writing-wise). I haven't played it myself yet, but I'll let you know if I do (or maybe get him to log in here for the first time in yonks.)

BSG

I... and then I...

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oh frak.

I caught the end of the game but wasn't able to log in, and then got swallowed by a tough deadline.

So the fleet makes merry while it drifts in space, out of fuel, waiting for the Cylons to nab them and throw them into a breeding program? Cheery.

President Tigh is probably missing in action, having commandeered the Colonial One. He's off getting thoroughly drunk and hoping no one works out the secret ingredient in his "Booster Fuel" brand of moonshine...

Thanks again, BT!

*Hic*

Kalshane, the hub picked it up the other day and he's really liking it so far. From the halfway sorta watching while doing stuff on the laptop seat, the first part seemed even more talky than a lot of CRPGs, but on the other hand, all that backstory really looks like it has a lot more depth to the characterization and story than you sometimes see. If that impression is right, I'll take fewer initial choices (as I am a HOOR for a game that's not totally eyerolly writing-wise). I haven't played it myself yet, but I'll let you know if I do (or maybe get him to log in here for the first time in yonks.)

Cool. The review I read mentioned re-playing the game with a different background and the reviewer found himself playing through events that NPCs had talked about in his first run through. Which is kind of neat.

Yeah. The D&D geek in me misses the wide array of classes and races, though I only really play humans, elves and dwarves anyway (well, and half-elves) so not having a half-pint racial option doesn't really bother me. Having the class choices only be three kind of sucks, but the specializations you can choose later may help with that. Though I'm not sure how different a Rogue-Bard and a Rogue-Ranger, for instance, will actually play out in the game.