@Prototart said in What happened, man?:

i don’t believe you

Eldritch Automata is a Post Apocalyptic Strand-Type game where your RP with others helps you build connections you can lean on in times of trouble to help you survive and maybe even succeed.

There is no mechanical difference between ground combat and mech combat, for Metaplot Reasons, but that’s just handwaving. Your mechs are protected from devastating attacks by an Ego Shield, so as you take damage and battles look closer to defeat, you suffer mental trauma because it’s literally chipping away at your Ego. Healing is as much going to the medics as it is seeing a therapist (or, since this is the post apocalypse, trauma dumping on your friends).

You have archetypes that influence how you recover Ego Damage (and also maybe how you can help others heal theirs I forget).

TLDR, Eldritch Automata is Cthulhutech where there are mechanics for you to yell at Shinji to get in the fucking Robot.

@bear_necessities Random guess as No Man’s Sky, but its been years so I only half remember what their version of the ‘feed animal’ interface looks like.

@dvoraen said in I need an adult:

Is this the true Pilk?

It’s only Pilk if you can use it to replace your car’s oil.

@Prototart said in What happened, man?:

I love gay race communism, where are we doing that

Elite Dangerous, we just have to overthrow all of the capitalist systems.

@MisterBoring Well yeah. Cause it actually is dead over there.

Ghost is really upset he hasn’t killed both boards, huh?

@Trashcan said in What happened, man?:

Blaine Lee Pardoe
Pardoe was a writer for BattleTech (released in 1984) but was not its sole creator. He wrote a number of novels for the series but has not done any game work since 2012. The publisher of BattleTech material publicly disowned Pardoe in 2022 due to “online activities which do not align with Catalyst’s publishing vision.”

The Pardoe thing is weird, I half followed it on Twitter at the time. Someone called his stuff dumb and dude tried to nuke them with an expensive legal battle. I didn’t ever figure out how it finished, though. So I assume a non-zero amount of ‘online activities’ include, but are not limited to, trying to sue fans of the IP into oblivion.

If people have left Elite Dangerous and alhave been considering looking back in, there is currently a trade war going on with 55x markup of certain items. Also depending on how long you’ve been gone, Thargoid war is over (for now) and we have hot rod boosting through FTL. Also space legs/walking around (just not inside your own ship, for some reason).

@lordbelh Pick a pic, describe the pic, wheee

@Raistlin said in Best Games with Roster Characters?:

@Jennkryst said in Best Games with Roster Characters?:

@Buttercup main problem is decision paralysis once I get past the basics, followed by no rush to un-paralyze because no code.

Run it using Ares with the PDF Sheet plugin and use form fillable PDF sheets. I’d honestly love to see more games do something like this.

How well, if at all, does this handle the fancy dice?

@Buttercup main problem is decision paralysis once I get past the basics, followed by no rush to un-paralyze because no code.

@Prototart said in MU Peeves Thread:

@Jennkryst said in MU Peeves Thread:

@Prototart what ever happened to bribing players with XP for desc work?!?

i could’ve been bribed for it and never even asked???

Will pay XP for descs on game, just as soon as we finish kidnapping the coder to make +sheet and +roll and such.

@Prototart what ever happened to bribing players with XP for desc work?!?

@Ominous said in The 3-Month Players:

@RedRocket said in The 3-Month Players:

The same thing is true of people who hang out in bars just to hook up for TS. Why are you on a roleplay game with a complicated combat and stat system when you could just go to one of many games where you can literally be anything and bang anything you can imagine.

Some people like plot with their porn or porn with their plot. Romance novels sell better than Hustlers. DeepThroat, the highest grossing pornographic film, made $22.6 million inflation adjusted at the box office; Fifty Shades of Gray grossed $569 million. Sure, you could log onto Shang, find a willing partner, and hammer out your best IKEA instructions for Peg A going into Slot B with gusto, but where’s the flirting, the foreplay, the slow simmer, the romance?

This, but also because I like to jokingly roll to see how well folks perform. It’s all steamy and great until you botch and now it’s even better because botches lead to the silly in-jokes about how you accidentally headbutt each other or somebody farted at the wrong time.

@labsunlimited said in Re: Dies Irae:

@somasatori said in Re: Dies Irae:

As it stands, Dies Irae has a great shot at being a GarouMUX-but-for-Fera given the way the population is set up, but that would require somehow convincing folks to shutter spheres. The problem being: we don’t know what spheres are required to keep the lights on. We also don’t really know what themes the game has as a whole.

I entirely support a turn towards becoming the San Diego Zoo of Darkness.

If we get rid of the casual 90s racism where every sphere hates eachother, and instead cross-sphere alliances form… the Zoo can also include Fae, Wiznerds, and Vampires!

Unfortunately, no Mummy, so the game is cursed to die, I don’t make the rules.

@Buttercup I’ve thought about an L5R type roster game, but I’d want to use the 5e ruleset with the fancy FFG dice, so getting it coded is tricksier than usual.

@RedRocket said in TV series, news, recommendations:

@Jennkryst ecoterrorism being good is the foundational idea of the world of darkness: werewolf game. It’s always been fashionable to fight back against the elite. Besides, clean air and water benefits everyone except all the dead people you had to make to get it.

Sure. But ecofasicm is not ecoterrorism, so…

@RedRocket I think it’s more ‘there is some dude in the upper echelons of Disney who either thinks making Thanos an eco fascist was clever let’s keep pushing that over and over again’ OR they actually agree with it, so keep pushing it over and over again.

Which is why ‘Andor good, but Disney doing problems’… and I include ‘not enough Andor’ as a problem they are doing.

I will never stop ranting about only getting two seasons of Andor. If there is only one person ranting, that person is me. If there are no people ranting, it is because I am dead.