Joel Peterson

But it always takes into consideration the creativity of players. That is not to say there will always be an opportunity for a mitigating factor to allow players to side step the rigidity of some outcomes, but certainly if one is present, a GM should be accounting for it.

The whole idea of the SVACS system is that it is designed to determine outcome quickly and logically. All I need to know right now is who the victor is so I can update the game state with up to date data as quickly as possible.

My logic for a ratio system wherein a player vastly outnumbered by enemies is forced to deal with it creatively or simply surrender comes from ASL and routing. ASL combat was highly morale oriented and about area control. You did not have to kill an enemy unit to immobilize it.

"Escape Impossible" is true only when there is no Mitigating Factor, IE, an environmental or roleplaying opportunity is agreed upon by the player and referee. Typically a skill check or set of skill checks will be required, and then an outnumbered defender may escape.

The Power Band system works in conjuction with this Unit Ratio sheet. The battle changes depending on the participating number of units on each side, depending on their Power Band. The Power Band modifies battles further the more distance between units in combat on the band range

It's a work in progress obviously

painstaking chiseling of borders. The pink guys are the Sennarians. They have a smaller territory (probably a bit bigger than this) but they produce in the tens of billions and make fighter ships at double the rate, though they do not have any proper capital ships, just artillery

These guys are just untouchable. This is the final boss of metal or whatever the kids say youtu.be/Ic3awN-1ex8?si…

It's been so long since I just went and jammed with someone. Sat with ol' Ruski the Whorrify drummer to night and had a groovy metal jam with a baritone and sick Gibson knockoff. Just truly shredded. Good times. Too happy.

@BarbarianDisco @WeeWheaton @0ldSch00l13 In the first RPG we pretended we had this magic thing called fire. It was prophetic.

@Compleatdm @WeeWheaton @0ldSch00l13 RPGs have been around since there was light... I know because I too was there.

What is he saying here? Steven says in a recent video he's going to be 46 this year (1980 - 1981) but that he also started playing when he was either... six or seven years old? I don't think I've ever heard of a first grader playing D&D, but then there's never been one who ran 10,000 sessions of D&D. The gaming world's ubershmuck.

@WeeWheaton @0ldSch00l13 I'm actually 7000 years old and have been playing for 6999 of those years

@0ldSch00l13 Well fuck, I started playing in utero! I would kick my mom's stomach to tell her what I wanted my character to do. When they cut my umbilical cord a bunch of D20's fell out.

@RuleOfThule It reminds me of Wayne and Garth playing 1v1 street hockey where they constantly have to stop and move everything off the road and back again.

@RuleOfThule I've said this before but at a certain point especially when you get into the dark slough that is the "one shot" you just have to ask yourself if maybe playing a board or war game for a few hours would be a better option than playing the worse possible version of an RPG

"A lot of people are like 'I don't wanna do awesome things the way the BrOSR does, I wanna do a really crappy campaign with 2 or 3 people that meets about every 2 months because that's all the time I have'…" — Jeffro Johnson

For me The Boys honestly peaked at season 1. I really liked it when the premise was squarely focused on "we have these weirdos who are basically invincible, how do we kill them" but I still enjoy watching the show. This scene was pretty awesome though. youtu.be/Rsjo7NQW0-E?si…

@BruceD55682 @Nerdcognito There is still time for the last episode to be Homer causing a nuclear meltdown that kills everyone in Springfield and then after the credits Hans Moleman emerges from the rubble since he is for all intents and purposes immortal

@Compleatdm @Nerdcognito It’s basically a dinosaur muppet version of the simpsons A family sitcom with an adult satirical edge. So imagine, if the simpsons ended with the treehouse of horror segment with Homer accidentally blowing Springfield up. That’s this episode but not funny like that one.

It's hard to get a finale right. There is only one television show that 100% nailed its finale. It wasn't The Sopranos. It wasn't Breaking Bad. It wasn't Seinfeld... Not just good, not just great, but perfect.

I'll ignore my family in any fashion I see fit. My preferred method is reading charts on dice probability. As long as you are ignoring your family, the method is unimportant, you are still a real man.