BSG "That's it, take that ya motherfrakkin' Toasters! And you owe my wife a new negligee! There ain't a Victoria's Secret out here in space, ya know!"

Re: the crisis: I'll also note that if I lose three of my four cards, I'll lose my fourth card at the start of the next turn, due to Tigh's weakness. Glug glug glug. Mr. President, please take the Admiral's, erm... need for additional resources into account when you make your decision.

BTW, with all this talk of pirates: I'm doing a BSG rewatch, and we had several weeks ago nicknamed Tigh "Salty." I am seeing the increasing appropriateness of this name.

bsg On an entirely different note:

This spreadsheet omnis and BT has... this is an excel sheet, yes? Is there any weird colors or graphicness or is it a pretty straightforward spreadsheet? Is this where the crisis card text comes from or do you have this in a separate text file?

Why I ask: two of the people I play this game with IRL are blind. We've brailled the skill cards (L1EO for Leadership 1 Executive Order) and the loyalty cards, but obviously the crisis and quorum cards have way too much text to recreate in braille. While we can play as is, it means the blind players can't be the President (they need to know what the Quorum cards say) and can't be Roslin or Boomer or scout the Crisis Deck because they can't secretly look at the cards--they need someone to read them to them.

They often keep their laptops with them for gaming, and have put the free rules on their computer, and I've sent them the BSG game skill card descriptions, etc. from the earlier game, so they have the rules text they need, and can access them while playing. Screenreader software does the rest of the work.

If the stuff you have is fairly plain texty, it's probably screenreader friendly. Do you think it would be, and would you be willing me to send me the files so I can send them to my friends?

If the spreadsheet is easy to use, they might be able to track the whole game that way, which would be awesome. Thanks.

PS: Also, do you have similar materials for Pegasus?

bsg

It's an OpenOffice workbook. It has many tabs, buttons, and a ton of macros. I'm not sure how friendly it would be for a blind person to navigate. Visually impaired, maybe (aka "leagally blind"). But for a text to voice type of application, I think it would be challenging.

I'm not sure it's source. I'll let bt fill in those details.

BSG

Why I ask: two of the people I play this game with IRL are blind. We've brailled the skill cards (L1EO for Leadership 1 Executive Order) and the loyalty cards, but obviously the crisis and quorum cards have way too much text to recreate in braille.

This? Is awesome.

Like omnis says, it's an Open Office spreadsheet, and the format is probably not going to work so well. (It was created to support play-by-forum games at boardgamegeek. There is a Pegasus version floating around too, though I don't have that one yet.) Nonetheless, I can send it to you if you like, and you can see if it's any help.

BSG

I'm good with losing the one Food. We're way too short on cards to be dumping them right now.

Ugh. Another basestar (I almost typed "bastard", which also works) activation. This could hurt.

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Ugh. Another basestar (I almost typed "bastard", which also works) activation. This could hurt.

The good news is, the Chief's up next. His special ability lets him repair a location (if they hit anything more urgent than the Admiral's Quarters) and still take another action (say, give out an XO or activate the location he repairs). The biggest risk I see is if they hit the Hangar Deck and send Chief to Sickbay.

I think this was a pretty fortunate activation for us right now. It means the heavy raiders are still two activations away from boarding, and we're at least two raider activations away from risking any civvies. It guarantess our star pilot will get a turn before anything happens on that front. (Of course, if both basestars hit, I might change my mind.)

And we pulled another jump icon, so only two away from auto-jumping and leaving theam eating our tylium.

You know what? I just realised, that basestar hit us on Helo's turn. We forgot Helo's reroll ability. (No biggie, just something to remember next time.)

bsg

Why don't you send me that sheet if you can, then? The macros might cause problems but the tabs and buttons shouldn't. I'll take a look at least.

Thanks. My friends really like the game and making it more accessible will be a good thing. If nothing else, maybe we can use it in a limited use kind of way, like enabling them to use a virtual quorum deck so they can play president.

One of my two friends is working on finding more blind-friendly games. She's planning on brailling the cards on some games they have and then donating them to the games library at GenCon. BSG is too complicated to do that, but some games all you need is some simple accessible text.

BSG

I say we ditch the food.

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I have Mr. President on the horn. He says he is busy, er, um, with an intern. But he dictated the following to me:

After careful consideration and listening to my cabinets recommendations, although we think the water shortage is due to a certain Admiral trying to sober up, we feel the food resource is more expendable than the card resource. So my executive order is to take the hit in our FOOD supply.

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