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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.

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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.

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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.)

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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.

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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.

Quick drop in to share: Grim Fandango Converse hi-tops

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OK, Now that we are all dehydrated, let's get the adrenaline flowing. It's time to activate those cute little double-Y ships. Remember, with a Basestar firing on Galactica, a roll of 4 - 8 is damage. We get two shots, one from each Basestar.

Basestar #1: 6! Hit!
Damage: Barney Jones hit the fuel tank. Fuel resource -1!
Basestar #2: 1! Miss!! Too bad no critical misses here. Dude! A one? That's pathetic. Can we have a do-over on that one? Please? Eh, didn't think so. Couldn't hurt to try.

That ends round 1.4. End of round summery to follow, along with card draw e-mail to the Chief.

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Damage: Barney Jones hit the fuel tank. Fuel resource -1!

That's not an actual location on Galactica, so no repair needed, correct?