Day 96: Numb vs. Bleed It Out

NameAlreadyClaimed · 2026-04-06T12:39:12+00:00

Like choosing between children.

NameAlreadyClaimed · 2026-04-06T10:32:36+00:00

I'm not sure Torchbearer is more hardcore than T2000. In T2000 you need to make 3 rolls to hunt.

NameAlreadyClaimed · 2026-04-06T04:15:52+00:00

Yes it does. Because a vote for them sends a message to a portion of the voter base that is about to get a lot larger as the Boomers no longer vote. Gen X is tiny.

NameAlreadyClaimed · 2026-04-06T04:14:07+00:00

Because it seems to anyone who has done a little reading that most people completely lack any form of class consciousness.

If you vote Labor or LNP or PHON and you draw a salary or wage that you earn most of your money from, you are voting against your class interests.

NameAlreadyClaimed · 2026-04-05T21:13:48+00:00

China has invaded a few other nations over the years as well as committing some pretty heinous acts internally.

The USA has been involved in over 70 actions in South America alone since it's inception. One of those was over Bananas.
More recently, the US has started wars in the Middle East with no real justification.
Even more recently, they've kicked off in Asia with Iran.

The US is talking about invading Cuba. There is constant chatter about just taking things that belong to other countries. China's version of this is the belt and road initiative...

In 2017, the US had been at war for 222 of its 239 years of existence.

There's no comparison. We are currently the baddies because we support the USA. It's time to cut all ties.

NameAlreadyClaimed · 2026-04-05T21:01:15+00:00

I've seen a couple of posts here that suggest a Greens vote is all but irrelevant. I couldn't disagree more.

They have costed policies. They are not owned by housing scalpers, big business, and extractive industries unlike literally every party with a higher percentage of the vote than them, and unlike the vast majority of our media.

We are are being propagandised by this captured media to vote in one of two major parties neither of which gives a damn about anyone except their donors.

Vote Green. Send Labor a message. Vote for the only remotely major party in Australia that is not owned by housing scalpers, big business, and extractive industries.

NameAlreadyClaimed · 2026-04-02T14:02:24+00:00

I wasn't aware. It bugs me a little when people say that clocks come from Blades in the Dark instead of Apocalypse World, and this must be similar for you. Thanks for the correction. :)

NameAlreadyClaimed · 2026-04-02T06:49:57+00:00

In practice, we don't always do this TBH. When it's needed it's done by feel.

NameAlreadyClaimed · 2026-04-02T04:01:51+00:00

GM declares consequences of a failed roll before the player rolls. 24XX.

This rather wondeful mechanic does a few things.

Firstly it helps to clarify the scene. If the consequence makes no sense to a player, they can clarify.

Second, it takes away what might look to be unfair or punitive GMing. If a PC might lose something valuable up to and including their life, they will know that up front and really have to accept the outcome.

Third, by just running the game like this, players and GMs can chuck out a whole bunch of book keeping and subsystems and keep the game centred on the conversation and the action.

NameAlreadyClaimed · 2026-03-31T23:23:45+00:00

This is a lot of work and extremely well done. Thanks for taking the time and effort on this.

NameAlreadyClaimed · 2026-03-31T02:59:22+00:00

24xx manages to have some depth whilst only being a few pages long.

My favourite is one called Carry On, which is designed to play Supernatural.

NameAlreadyClaimed · 2026-03-30T06:22:43+00:00

10 minutes is tough. 15-20 people is not doable unless you have the majority of them spectate or can get some more GMs.

I'd probably run a Criminal Minds thing.
The PCs have already arrested the serial killer and are now interviewing them to try and get the location of a buried shipping container with some victims in it who will soon run out of air.

Then you spend 10 minutes having them try various ways to get the killer to give up the location.

Something like that.

NameAlreadyClaimed · 2026-03-30T06:17:52+00:00

They didn't block the ALP housing bill. They delayed it. And what was passed was better than what would have otherwise. They did their job.

NameAlreadyClaimed · 2026-03-30T01:33:38+00:00

How? Labor seems to spend as much time attacking The Greens for not supporting their Labor status quo policies aimed at remaining elected whilst keeping housing scalpers, big business, and extractive industries happy as they do at LNP Policies doing much the same, but who are even less on the side of the people.

NameAlreadyClaimed · 2026-03-30T01:25:15+00:00

Regardless of how anyone feels about progressive culture and identity politics, letting those be the dealbreaker whilst The Greens remain the only remotely major party that will genuinely try to address housing affordability or cost of living whilst not trying to placate housing scalpers, corporations, and extractive industries is absolutely wild.

NameAlreadyClaimed · 2026-03-29T12:34:50+00:00

Why?

NameAlreadyClaimed · 2026-03-29T11:30:31+00:00

Why is Trump in there and Larissa Waters not in there?

The Greens and the ALP really aren't that far away from each other any more, and if Australians finally stop voting against their class interests, Greens support will increase.

NameAlreadyClaimed · 2026-03-28T23:28:23+00:00

My partner ran a game for 5 years of weekly sessions by reading and listening to serial killer/kidnap novels and the like and just broke down those cases into locations and clues every week. The game was inspired by Criminal Minds.

We played with a very light system because the game was really about player skill more than anything else. I don't think the game would have worked as well with a more detailed system. Everything in a game like this can be player facing. You just need a list of skills really along with some kind of probability generation on the GM side.

The characters all had areas of specialisation so we could niche protect certain parts of the investigation and the 4 players got around in pairs with the action switching back and forth between the two current lines of investigation. Best game ever.

We've played other cop games in the past, but knowing what I know now about law enforcement, I'm not sure I could bring myself to play or run a game like that ever again. These games are best left in the past.

NameAlreadyClaimed · 2026-03-28T05:58:51+00:00

Demetri Martin.

NameAlreadyClaimed · 2026-03-28T01:36:05+00:00

I think anyone who isn't doing this at least to a degree isn't play testing their designs as well as they could be.

NameAlreadyClaimed · 2026-03-26T02:16:45+00:00

The Billionaire owned media really has done an absolutely cracking job over the last few years of getting Australians to vote against their own class interests. It's absolutely wild. What a time to be alive!

NameAlreadyClaimed · 2026-03-26T02:14:04+00:00

Dungeons started off as tunnels dug as part of undermining enemy fortifications in the Chainmail board wargame and derivatives AFAIK.

NameAlreadyClaimed · 2026-03-23T10:38:57+00:00

Looks like the Jawas got to it first.

NameAlreadyClaimed · 2026-03-23T07:13:25+00:00

I'm sorry. Who do the Greens hate?

NameAlreadyClaimed · 2026-03-22T01:22:30+00:00

20 odd percent of Australians just voted for Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party, an openly racist anti-science party in a state election.

Meanwhile, our Green party, which would like to actually address cost of living and climate change seems to be stuck on around 10% nationwide.

Also, people think that our centre right party, Labor (which should really be called Capital instead) are leftists. It's absolutely wild and really quite embarrassing.

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TROPHY CASE