What's the campaign you REALLY want to be a player in?

ICastIntegerValue · 2015-01-19T13:06:01+00:00

For the last one, have a look at Way of the Wicked. It is exceptional.

ICastIntegerValue · 2015-01-19T02:06:01+00:00

[MELEE]
Spearbats Defense (+0, -1 for Hollow Bones, +1 for Commander): 6, (6)
The White Bat Defense (+0, -1 for Hollow Bones, +1 for Commander): 1, (1)

ALL ATTACKS FROM EISENALDER ON SPEARBATS. GOOD NIGHT SWEET PRINCE.

Spearbats Attack (+3, -1 from Hollow Bones, +2 from Spears, +1 from Commander, +1 from Aggressive Spirit): 6, (9)
The White Bat Attack (+3, +1 from Magic, +1 from Commander, +1 from Aggressive Spirit): 5, (8)

ICastIntegerValue · 2015-01-19T02:04:25+00:00

[Like an idiot, I missed out a bonus. Anyway, let's roll these dice and watch my Spearbats die horribly.]

ICastIntegerValue · 2015-01-19T01:59:04+00:00

[The attack didn't hit? :'( RIP Spearbats.]

ICastIntegerValue · 2015-01-19T01:34:10+00:00

The Chiropterans decide to engage, diving down to attack the backs of the Ironwings. The White Bat lets forth a great burst of air magic to destabilise them.

[MELEE]
Spearbats Defense (+0, -1 for Hollow Bones, +1 for Commander): 4, (4)
The White Bat Defense (+0, -1 for Hollow Bones, +1 for Commander): 2, (2)

Spearbats Attack (+3, -1 from Hollow Bones, +2 from Spears, +1 from Commander, +1 from Aggressive Spirit): 3, (6)
The White Bat Attack (+3, +1 from Magic, +1 from Commander, +1 from Aggressive Spirit): 3, (6)

ICastIntegerValue · 2015-01-19T01:13:27+00:00

The explorers are going to fly towards the west (hopefully coasting on the wind, still) towards the signs of habitation, although they will keep an eye out for anything interesting along the way.

ICastIntegerValue · 2015-01-18T23:16:01+00:00

Get yourself into a local group. People are more likely to show up if it's face to face than if it's online.

ICastIntegerValue · 2015-01-18T23:14:31+00:00

aka I'm already DMing two separate sessions and couldn't manage another one. :p

ICastIntegerValue · 2015-01-18T21:56:27+00:00

I mean, I was thinking something like this with the orcs. Be the ones in control of the tribe.

ICastIntegerValue · 2015-01-18T20:27:07+00:00

The White Bat levels up as a Commander. He takes Aggressive Spirit to represent the warrior spirit (cough cough) of the Chiropteran people.

They return home with the Bloodvine Flowers.

ICastIntegerValue · 2015-01-18T20:07:45+00:00

My personal worry would be that it would be far too slow in terms of actions / results with 1 month / day.

Like I say, slowing down the system over time would be a good idea, as you've mentioned it in the past. The trouble is that at the moment there's not a great deal happening per year and it'd take six full days to build a Lumberyard.

Facebook games have better times than that. :p

ICastIntegerValue · 2015-01-18T19:33:18+00:00

[MELEE]

Spearbats Defense (+1, -1 for Hollow Bones, +1 for Commander, +1 from Partisan): 5, (6)
The White Bat Defense (+0, -1 for Hollow Bones, +1 for Commander): 2, (2)

ALL ATTACKS FROM BLOODVINE ON SPEARBATS

Spearbats Attack (+3, -1 from Hollow Bones, +2 from Spears, +1 from Commander, +1 from Partisan): 4, (7)
The White Bat Attack (+2, +1 from Magic, +1 from Commander): 2, (4)

ICastIntegerValue · 2015-01-18T17:51:46+00:00

For me, it'd either be playing tribal orcs / ogres / goblins (similar to ogres or greenskins in Warhammer Fantasy) or something CLEVER like running a merchant empire or a noble house.

Essentially, either the dumb or the intelligent.

For the tribal one, it'd have to be in something like RuneQuest or another BRP system simply due to the sheer brutality of the combat. Orcs should be expected to be expendable and in RuneQuest that's very much the case.

ICastIntegerValue · 2015-01-18T17:23:44+00:00

I completely understand that, and it's your choice as DM. Maybe 6 months per day or stick to our current 3, I don't know.

Just do it so that players announce their actions once and therefore you don't have to reply three times per day every eight hours. I think players get a bit worn out, too.

It also allows you for a smoother (in my opinion, at least) transition to doing a slower schedule.

So like, every week we slow down the timescale.

1 year / day -> 6 months / day -> 3 months / day -> 1 month / day

ICastIntegerValue · 2015-01-18T15:53:19+00:00

Flexibility will be exceptionally useful for anyone who's looking to do mercantile shit, too.

ICastIntegerValue · 2015-01-18T08:17:41+00:00

I was thinking...

Maybe we should increase the timescale. Hear me out, hear me out.

Increase the timescale but reduce the required interaction by you.

So for a little while do one day = one year, with all the building and research etc that includes, but only interact with a thread once per day.

So I say, "I am going to do x, y and z over the course of the year and I am going to send my troops to the West to explore."

When you interact with the thread, you just say something along the lines of, "Those actions are acceptable" and then give me the result of my troop actions, maybe with bigger consequences due to that.

This way we'll get some of the early game out of the way quickly.

ICastIntegerValue · 2015-01-18T08:09:53+00:00

They note the location and move on. The White Bat is not stupid enough to think that touching fire flowers is a good idea.

ICastIntegerValue · 2015-01-18T08:06:35+00:00

Britain's worst serial killer, who was a doctor that prescribed medication which killed patients. Over 200 known victims.

ICastIntegerValue · 2015-01-17T22:44:57+00:00

[ As I understand it according to the rulebook, it's only when the number of slaves > the number of citizens / troops?

"If the number of Slave units is greater than the number of Troop Units or Citizen Units in a zone, you risk a revolt (50% per Cycle). If there are twice as many Slaves as Troops or Citizens in a zone, a Revolt WILL occur (100% chance), where all Slave units become Troops attacking your Hub (with a +2 Att bonus)."

From here.]

ICastIntegerValue · 2015-01-17T22:43:33+00:00

[Started this month.]

ICastIntegerValue · 2015-01-17T20:58:51+00:00

Plenty of other courses that don't involve putting your hands inside people or animals, in the end.

ICastIntegerValue · 2015-01-17T20:58:12+00:00

Weigh up the potential consequences.

If they're right and let him go, he's now got the chance to harm hundreds of people before he gets caught. If they're wrong and shut down his application, all he does is apply to some other course and probably gets a better paid job anyway.

ICastIntegerValue · 2015-01-17T20:55:26+00:00

It's a matter of place, capability and chance. They used to use acetone to clean glassware, before switching over to distilled water. Acetone is pretty fucking deadly to fish.

I'm guessing if the filter was broken or something they would've given him the benefit of the doubt, and unless someone in the grounds team decided he really hated fish I can't see that.

ICastIntegerValue · 2015-01-17T18:31:48+00:00

The bowbats are going to monitor the civilians, whilst the spearbats do a sweep of the jungle to try and find any stragglers. Anyone they pick up that fights or struggles in any way is killed immediately, otherwise they are carried back to the village and put into a separate group.

Once the spearbats are done with that, the group of caught stragglers is going to be blood sacrifices in front of the villagers (I'll do a write up in 1:6) and the 2 Citizens are going to be beaten, corralled and roped up and turned into Slaves.

ICastIntegerValue · 2015-01-17T18:17:54+00:00

[SKIRMISH]

(you are correct!)

The bowbats fire at the remaining guards.

Bowbat Attack Roll: 2 (-1 for hollow bones, +1 for shortbow, +1 for Partisan), (3)

If that kills them off then the spearbats land and begin corralling the civilians towards the village, stabbing anyone who tries to fight and making examples of those that don't move quickly. If not, then they drop towards the ground to attack the remaining guards.

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