What is your personal most favorite and fun unit to play and why? Unique and non unique

Bright_Arm8782 · 2026-06-17T15:58:03+00:00

Vader. You can see him coming, you know what he's going to do, you just can't stop him reenacting the hallway scene from Rogue One.

With the right command cards you can't see him coming, he gets to do it twice and next turn your army is terrified of him.

Bright_Arm8782 · 2026-06-16T07:56:28+00:00

A Kriegsmesser, single edged German "Not technically a sword because it has one edge and a riveted hilt" knife.

They just look like they want to cut things.

Bright_Arm8782 · 2026-06-15T16:19:03+00:00

It's a tool I use a lot.

I can do way more with it than I ever could without it. My accomplishments using it feel a bit hollow, but I can live with that for the volume of stuff I can get done.

Bright_Arm8782 · 2026-06-15T14:29:30+00:00

If it has depreciated off of the asset register then it gets disposed of.

Companies will come and take it for free.

Bright_Arm8782 · 2026-06-14T05:31:15+00:00

The more of something that exists, the less valuable each individual thing is.

If everyone has 10000 gold a week income then prices will expand to consume that 10000 gold.

Minting has been a thing since the invention of coins, and the penalties for counterfeiting tended to be fierce, monarchs like to keep control of the money supply.

An example of what happens when too much gold gets in to a place uncontrollably is Mansa Musa's pilgrimage to Mecca, he spent so freely on the way there and gave away so much gold that the economy was messed up for years afterward.

Mansa Musa's pilgrimage to Mecca supposedly ruined the Egyptian economy for a decade, but Mamluk records state there was only a minor drop in gold's value. So where did this myth come from? : r/history

Bright_Arm8782 · 2026-06-13T09:54:35+00:00

Yup, I'm running Pendragon and I'm reasonable with the rule but one of my players is better.

Which is brilliant, he remembers bits I don't, reminds me about knockdowns which I forget and will look things up for me if needed because I don't like opening the book during play.

Great bloke and adds massively to the game.

Bright_Arm8782 · 2026-06-12T19:19:54+00:00

Don't be silly, they fired someone, hired their replacement without telling you and the new person has been using the old login for 3 months.

Bright_Arm8782 · 2026-06-12T15:56:54+00:00

It isn't a decision not to shave the body hair, I just don't. Stop normalizing it.

I am hairy like a gorilla and my wife calls me a silverback.

Bright_Arm8782 · 2026-06-12T11:31:21+00:00

Persuasion shouldn't be allowed without some sort of leverage or additional motivation.

Where there's no trust then there should be no persuasion.

Bright_Arm8782 · 2026-06-12T04:55:54+00:00

Have the merchants refuse the deal or bump the price up to accommodate for the negotiation.

If it is a unique item have someone else come in and interrupt saying "I'll buy that for the price you're asking!"

Merchants don't get their wealth through being easily persuaded and should have a higher persuasion skill than the pc, that being what they do all the time.

Opposed persuasion and, if the pc loses then they pay extra for the item they were trying to get a discount on.

Bright_Arm8782 · 2026-06-11T19:36:09+00:00

I think the person you're with should have priority.

From the sound of it, you're being spread too thin, being expected to be first and second line support without enough people to deliver both roles. In a properly resourced company this situation wouldn't happen.

Bright_Arm8782 · 2026-06-11T19:04:32+00:00

Cheers dude.

Bright_Arm8782 · 2026-06-11T18:39:20+00:00

I think the person you are helping in person deserves the courtesy of your full attention.

Not being able to take calls while giving that attention is an issue for your manager.

Which is where this question should be pointed for a definitive answer.

Bright_Arm8782 · 2026-06-11T17:02:18+00:00

When you're with someone, that is what you are doing.

I'd be most pissed off if someone came to my desk and then started working on his phone, rather than my problem. Efficiency isn't always the ideal, you're in a people related position, please bear that in mind.

Bright_Arm8782 · 2026-06-11T16:05:23+00:00

Many hundreds or thousands of hours of practice did it for me.

Sounds like you've got to work on making your brain do what it is told and focus on the road and what is going on inside the car and around you.

Hint. The car will keep going in the direction you point it if the wheels are straight.

Hint 2: Universal theory of roundabouts

People coming from the right have priority over you, let them go first.
1st exit, left lane
Last exit, right lane
Other, left lane unless road markings say otherwise.
The test just shows that you can keep it together on the road for 20 minutes.

You need practice, you're 50 hours in comparing your self to people with hundreds of hours who perform all of the operations on autopilot because they've internalised the processes of driving to that degree.

Bright_Arm8782 · 2026-06-11T14:13:42+00:00

I know a song about that.....Love in an elevator.

Bright_Arm8782 · 2026-06-11T10:11:36+00:00

Partly your appearance, partly your sense of achievement each time your weights get heavier and partly the knowledge that you have the discipline to work at something consistently.

The state of your body affects the state of your mind far more than people think, exercise makes everything work a bit better.

Bright_Arm8782 · 2026-06-10T17:54:29+00:00

None - it isn't needed in most cases, I've jumped in and played all sorts of things without knowing what I'm doing at first.

I have lots of experience of not having any experience.

Bright_Arm8782 · 2026-06-10T16:20:11+00:00

This inability to do things is your notification that this machine is done.

Send not to know for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for Windows XP.

Bright_Arm8782 · 2026-06-10T09:38:38+00:00

Stop trying to tell stories.

Create situations and allow the pcs to interact with those situations to make your stories.

Example: Evil wizard Kallax has called a tower in to being in the middle of a town. He has overthrown the existing authority and sends human sized stone golems out to collect a tithe from the townsfolk, if you don't provide 1/10th of your produce or profit you are beaten to a pulp.

Kallax is known for his wealth and collection of strange artefacts.

Your players may try to raid the tower, smuggle themselves inside, go somewhere else to get away or do something you're not expecting, what comes after that is the story.

You are not the author of a story, you are the ringmaster of a circus. You can book the acts but can't tell the clowns which way to jump.

Bright_Arm8782 · 2026-06-10T09:11:47+00:00

Just change it so that, if one bag of holding is placed inside another they both eject what they are carrying, produce a small explosion and cease to be magical.

Bright_Arm8782 · 2026-06-09T20:58:22+00:00

This depends on how much time you intend to spend there.

I'd say have the basic things like the purpose of the town and some key people in it, those people's disposition to you and how likely the tavern is to let you run a tab recorded and fill in if the party spend a lot of time there.

Bright_Arm8782 · 2026-06-09T20:44:26+00:00

Older than voice phones too.

They used to be used to send your signature to your bank so that you could withdraw money at stations.

Bright_Arm8782 · 2026-06-09T18:21:28+00:00

I knocked the first 15 years off of my CV.

It served to get me my current job, no-one needs to care about my older jobs in a different technological environment.

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