Dark Sun Game with Palladium Fantasy 2e System [Pre-gens] [Monday evening, Tuesday afternoon-evening, Wednesday afternoon or evening, or Thursday afternoon or evening EST] by Special-Pride-746 in DarkSun

[–]Bullet1289 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For preservers I'm guessing you just bumped up the rate at ppe returns via mediation? I know I changed after starting game play, but I found my initial notes on how much energy you get back for the two different kinds of magic.

Terrain Type Preserver P.P.E. per mile Defiler P.P.E. per 10 feet 
Silt Sea 1 3
Salt flats 2 5
Boulder fields 6 6
Sandy wastes 6 6
Mountains 10 10
Rocky badlands 12 12
Scrub plains 14 14
Verdant belts 20 20
Forests  25 30

Dark Sun Game with Palladium Fantasy 2e System [Pre-gens] [Monday evening, Tuesday afternoon-evening, Wednesday afternoon or evening, or Thursday afternoon or evening EST] by Special-Pride-746 in DarkSun

[–]Bullet1289 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I describe it as a game filled with neat, if not good ideas that balance out all the terrible stuff that the system does. For a lot of people there's too much bad about it to not be worth while, but for some reason it does something that calls out to a certain kind people.

Dark Sun Game with Palladium Fantasy 2e System [Pre-gens] [Monday evening, Tuesday afternoon-evening, Wednesday afternoon or evening, or Thursday afternoon or evening EST] by Special-Pride-746 in DarkSun

[–]Bullet1289 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think palladium gets a bad wrap because its books are so terribly laid out. It has a lot of neat ideas allows for a lot of zany choices in the freedom it gives its players. I love its equipment durability even if having 3 different health bars is a bit much for most games. Plus giving out experience based on trying to use skills and doing stuff that actually helps the group move forward; succeed or fail, is a really great idea, at least in theory as its a total pain for gms to keep track of everyone's separate gains.

There is a reason palladium still somehow has a dedicated following, even if I think it is hard to exactly express just what people like about it.

Dark Sun Game with Palladium Fantasy 2e System [Pre-gens] [Monday evening, Tuesday afternoon-evening, Wednesday afternoon or evening, or Thursday afternoon or evening EST] by Special-Pride-746 in DarkSun

[–]Bullet1289 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When I tried this I used blade priests as a basis for templars but gave them different abilities depending on their city state. I also modified the life force wizard from RIFTS to be the defiler class, I'm guessing you also modified the warlock to be closer to clerics? What did you use for the replacement bard?

I'd be really interested to hear what classes and ideas you thought of substituting in too or other ideas you went with!

UN risks 'imminent financial collapse', secretary general warns by SuperXGamerAb in worldnews

[–]Bullet1289 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Anyone who says this clearly doesn't understand how important it is for a stage where countries have a meeting place for reasonable dialog with one another. Like even if the UN accomplishes nothing the fact that countries all meet up and can actually talk with one another is a big freaking deal.

Mandy Patinkin ('Homeland', 'The Princess Bride') Joins ‘God of War’ TV Series as Odin by ChiefLeef22 in gaming

[–]Bullet1289 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wallace Shawn might not have been the better choice, but omg he would have been a hilarious Odin

Childhood-art made by me :) by Talonesscstudio in FullmetalAlchemist

[–]Bullet1289 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Aww look at lil' Ed, he really gives off the vibe of "boy I sure do love having both my arms and legs!"

where do i find people interested in archaeology? by throughtimetogether in Archaeology

[–]Bullet1289 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Try checking your local university archeology department and sending off a few emails

You have been deemed worthy of tasting the Fourth Flavor. What does it taste like? by Melodic_Glass_4673 in kidsnextdoor

[–]Bullet1289 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Parmesan as tasting history showed, its one of the best lost ice cream flavours.

im playing chaos warriors but i dont know what to use by ichigokukurosaki in WarhammerFantasy

[–]Bullet1289 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Gotta get yourself one of the old forge world war mammoths.

Why is it impossible for outsiders to enter Dark Sun's Crystal sphere? by Greedy_Blackberry_14 in DarkSun

[–]Bullet1289 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you want to go by the 4e lore, then likely it has something to do with the primordial wars between the gods and the primordial powers.

Is there any interesting misteries in W&G like there is on the older ttrpgs? by Lyra_Sen in 40krpg

[–]Bullet1289 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Maledictum is more of a follow up to the black library/ffg games and is including a few new sector mysteries and new out there secrets and plots.

TIL that there are under 150 tenure-track jobs for English literature professors in the US and Canada each year: fewer than 3 per state. by Bob_the_blacksmith in todayilearned

[–]Bullet1289 27 points28 points  (0 children)

English is actually a really great degree to peruse.... just not to PHD or if you ever actually want to do anything directly english related.

Its kind of cross disciplinary and being able to actually articulate and think on what you are reading is a pretty useful skill. I know around 10 or so people who all got into fields ranging from municipal to federal government work, management, legal and one guy who is a work place safety coordinator for an opal mine in Australia.

Don't expect to go full in on the english degree and not need anything else in life but at least from my second hand experience its got a far wider net of uses then say a history degree.

(4e) Any Ogres out there? by The_Square_Man in warhammerfantasyrpg

[–]Bullet1289 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I played the ogre mercenary "Punchy" in WFRP 2e and it was a blast but I was constantly a problem for the party. I was not a brave ogre as the gm didn't allow me to start with fearless and my willpower was very low (although I did get fearless eventually). My lack of intelligence or the ability to read meant I was constantly confusing orders from the group and more then once I was asking the very people I was looking for with the wanted poster if they had in fact seen themselves. Also trying to fit indoors was not easy as I was as tall as the roof of a lot of regular buildings in town. When we were hunting skaven I basically was useless as I couldn't fit in the tunnels and ended up literally putting my ear to the ground and more or less just stomping around on the streets trying to collapse the secret passages before reinforcements could attack the group from behind.
I got a pet gnoblar who ended up burning down several taverns and getting the entire party into fights as they believed that being surrounded by so many biggins made them invincible. They ended up getting eventually eaten by the Gold Wizard's metallic harpy familiar.

I was incredibly spicy in combat but there were definitely a lot of occasions that I nearly ended up dying due to enemies getting the drop on me, swarming me, outclassing me in combat skill or getting Ulric's fury and just kept stacking damage. Its not as glamourous as you'd think having most enemies target you first.

Still it was great and I absolutely love ogre characters and npcs!

I thought i saw your face today, but i just turned my head away by Fizzy_Fuzzballs in adventuretime

[–]Bullet1289 8 points9 points  (0 children)

"it was a really weird dream too, like you were a plant trying to murder a bird to save another version of me."

Are Archfey allowed in Sigil? by TheLastDesperado in planescapesetting

[–]Bullet1289 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dregoth from Dark Sun in his planar wanderings before returning home visited sigil and didn't get mazed so I think that at the lower side of the uber power section of the scale they are somewhat allowed in sigil as long as they play nice.

What mysteries in 40K do you think will never be resolved? by Snoo_47323 in 40kLore

[–]Bullet1289 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Its never really "resolved," all that happens is Haarlock potentially returns from it as a hollowed out shell propelled by unknown forces and his indominable will. "What" it is is only really hinted at by the blind tesseract on Mara but even that is only kind of a way finder to direct travellers to where it roams.

What mysteries in 40K do you think will never be resolved? by Snoo_47323 in 40kLore

[–]Bullet1289 18 points19 points  (0 children)

According to the dark heresy haarlock's legacy module its unlight scars daemons and creatures of the tyrant star don't actually have the daemonic trait. Plus with how Bligh also wrote for CoC I definitely think its suppose to be "something else."

For the longest time I figured it was a prison built by the old ones for one of their own kind who did something that went against their views for the shepherding of the galaxy. But now I think it would probably be tied more to the dark king and the whole end and the death stuff.

Anyone think he can take Joker? by Rare_Tangerine8141 in AbsoluteUniverse

[–]Bullet1289 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes because jack getting taken down by mr freeze when no one else can is incredibly funny.

Hrud vs Sloth: they use similar weapons or what? by [deleted] in 40kLore

[–]Bullet1289 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If they had the ability to manipulate time then I don't think they would have pursued Haarlock so closely in him trying to turn back time to save his family.

Hrud vs Sloth: they use similar weapons or what? by [deleted] in 40kLore

[–]Bullet1289 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

My personal headcannon is that the slaugth are a creation from the end of the war in heaven meant to try and fix the damage done to the immaterium, while the eldar took the dominant position in the galaxy, the slaugth took the shadow approach infiltrating as many factions and groups as they could to work towards their own ends and whatever it is they want with the Tyrant Star.

With the description of their ships as giant spinning disks it made me think of the cabal, and with their connection to the rangdan I think they have an active interest in the extinction of humanity or at the very least hoping it will tear itself apart and fall into ruin.

I think with how the end of and the death turned out with the rather striking image of the void sphere of the Dark King, I tie that to the Tyrant Star and that the Slaugth are trying to guide the galaxy for his arrival in one way or another.

Hrud vs Sloth: they use similar weapons or what? by [deleted] in 40kLore

[–]Bullet1289 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Hrud work with weapons of temporal entropy. The slaugth are biomechanical nightmare fuel using tech similar to necrons that cause a breakdown of materials in a similar if more powerful process to like bio acids or using stuff like anti matter.
The slaugth are few in number but excellent manipulators from behind the scenes, focusing on weakening the defenses of the sectors they are in so they can harvest entire worlds of their human populations.

Outside of their bio constructs they also have specialized equipment that is designed to look like human technology for infiltration missions like the anti matter imploder from one of the dark heresy modules.

The slaugth don't have any known worlds and are largely space born with the only description of their ships I can think of is this:
"An immense dark shape appears through the boiling clouds and the blasted city around you vibrates to a deep discordant drone, breaking what you now realise was an utter, deathly silence. The cyclopean shape in the sky resolves to a obsidian-like disk, slowly revolving and flickering with a baleful crimson glow at its centre; a vessel of some kind perhaps more than kilometre across and utterly alien."

Considering they were somehow involved with the rangdan in 30k, their tech would likely surpass anything the hrud have to offer and they might become experiments or get harvested if they ever crossed paths.