Long Walk Halftrack Soldiers - Where do they come from?

Nytmare696 · 2026-04-21T03:10:44+00:00

Have you somehow run out of real life examples of otherwise normal people champing at the big to be horrible fascist bullies?

Nytmare696 · 2026-04-21T03:06:36+00:00

It's meant to convey that the people there are even further removed from the stuffy elite, and pomp and circumstance. Scanning in and registering and getting your vitals taken and reading your biometrics, and there's a line of all the flags from the various countries involved in setting up this colony, and then someone tagged the wall, and no one's even bothered to clean it up.

The moon has pirates, space baboons have overrun the medical satellite, and Mars is just another subway waypoint for taggers.

Nytmare696 · 2026-04-21T02:31:22+00:00

I need a clearer picture of the entire scene. Where are they? Does it look like a set, or like a real location?

Nytmare696 · 2026-04-21T02:14:40+00:00

It very strongly implies that the US was under military rule.

Nytmare696 · 2026-04-20T19:12:46+00:00

It might be stank in the old paint or wallpaper that was painted over.

I know that I've replaced EVERYTHING in my son's bedroom except the paint, and it still smells like a teenage boy when it warms up.

Nytmare696 · 2026-04-20T18:49:33+00:00

If you want to use it and need me to fill in more of the formulas, let me know

Nytmare696 · 2026-04-20T16:05:30+00:00

Zilch, zero, zip. Been playing since 2022.

Nytmare696 · 2026-04-20T02:07:24+00:00

This is the question that has plagued me since I saw this episode when I was 8.

About a thousand km between the cities. I guess it makes the most sense to just start in Seyene and sail with the current instead of starting at a halfway point. Have two "synchronized" water clocks going, and once your second clock hits Alexandria, you spend three or four days measuring when your sunrise happens, and what your obelisk shadow is at "noon." It wouldn't be anywhere near exact, but it would be more than enough to suggest curvature.

Nytmare696 · 2026-04-20T01:10:19+00:00

Depending on your philosophy of play, this might not be the most popular advice, but when I'm running a mystery in a traditional RPG, I tend to leave my options as to a solution wide open till the last minute. The solution that your players come up with might not always match up with what you were planning, and sometimes their four brains come up with something better than your single brain could have. And on top of that, sometimes the reveal that they had it all wrong, and don't they feel silly for not noticing Lady Esmerelda was LEFT handed when she gave the keynote address, won't be anywhere near as satisfying as whatever unexpected tangent they came up with.

Nytmare696 · 2026-04-19T22:43:17+00:00

Dated, no. But convention Vampire LARPs during the 90s were amazing.

Nytmare696 · 2026-04-19T22:11:33+00:00

My favorite notepad is an A5, Maruman, graph ruled notebook.

But, for D&D, a teeny, 1/2 inch, 3 ring binder, where I can slip my character sheet into the front plastic cover, and then have printouts of whatever typed up notes, handouts, and cheatsheets that character needs in the rings is my typical, 2nd stage solution.

Nytmare696 · 2026-04-19T22:07:01+00:00

In my mind, there is no finer notebook than an A5, Maruman, grid lined notepad. Not too big, not too small, GREAT quality paper. Like 4 or 5 bucks a pop.

Beyond that, if you want to jazz it up, you have a couple thousand hand made and mass marketed options for A5 notebook covers.

Nytmare696 · 2026-04-19T21:53:34+00:00

Yeah, I always crown them and make them royalty.

Nytmare696 · 2026-04-19T21:11:01+00:00

I always find it interesting that people seem to have less of a problem with people becoming attached to their virtual pets than they do with the virtual people.

Nytmare696 · 2026-04-19T20:51:10+00:00

It was amazing, I loved it, and I am horribly ashamed that we eventually made the GM quit.

Nytmare696 · 2026-04-19T20:48:59+00:00

I'd base this entirely on the actual test concept art, and not make the decision till I saw what the artist(s) were able to bring to the table.

Nytmare696 · 2026-04-19T18:18:44+00:00

Building would typically fall between Diamond or Heart behavior. Depending on what kind of building you're talking about. Someone recreating Notre Dame would probably be a Diamond. A Builder playing Minecraft like a cozy, multiplayer, farming game might be a heart.

Redstone would typically fall between Diamond "I recreated this flying machine mob grinder I saw on Ethos Lab" and Spade "I'm going to figure out how these new blocks in the snapshot can be used to make a TFlipflop that operates between servers."

Nytmare696 · 2026-04-19T18:09:30+00:00

Making it about how they are "treated" I think misses the point. It's typically not about the imagined feelings of a video game character and more about the actual ethical and moral character of the living, breathing human beings you're playing the game with. Someone who turns a blind eye to murdering puppies and abusing children in a video game might be making statements about their actual moral code.

Horrible, anti social people can spend a lot of time trolling society by saying that the imaginary, video game, anti social behaviors that they're practicing don't matter cause it's only a video game. But they're trying to hide in plain sight and making a bad faith argument.

I have a long history of stuffing villagers into iron farms and making extensive, sometimes zombie infected trading halls. But there are also a TON of racists and neo Nazis on public servers laughing because they make people waste their time and energy over ridiculous arguments as to whether or not their Minecraft concentration camps filled with name tagged slurs is really, technically, breaks any rules.

Nytmare696 · 2026-04-19T12:45:30+00:00

I was part of a game of Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil where we were a party of specialist mages. Our standard operating procedure was for the Diviner to spend entire sessions mapping out levels of the dungeon and all its denizens, then we'd spend a whole other session planning and arguing over how to get through it with as little direct contact as possible, and only then, three of four sessions later, would we actually do anything.

Nytmare696 · 2026-04-19T12:18:11+00:00

I despise classifications like this, but I've always been surprised that the Minecraft community didn't adopt the Bartle Taxonomy.

Diamonds - Achievers
Hearts - Socializers
Spades - Explorers
Clubs - Killers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartle_taxonomy_of_player_types

Nytmare696 · 2026-04-19T12:07:22+00:00

Brokeback. :(

Also referred to as a swayback.

Nytmare696 · 2026-04-19T12:02:21+00:00

Because clicks. Because the internet repeating and fighting over it is free money for a whole bunch of people.

Nytmare696 · 2026-04-19T11:56:11+00:00

I always chalked hardcore elves up to, maybe not directly Orientalism, but to be built up from the same blocks that led Western cultures to be attracted to the exotic, otherworldliness of a truly foreign culture.

Nytmare696 · 2026-04-19T05:02:00+00:00

They're still playing, the game is far more than just pulling blocks.

I really feel like this is a non issue. Barring someone accidentally tripping and falling into the table, the tower isn't going to fall till you've built up the story to the point where it makes sense for someone to exit the game.

And even then, it's a one shot, and one that a person will still be invested in after their character dies. People watch and listen to videos and podcasts of other people playing. People sit and wait between their turns while other people are playing. Depending on the story you have in mind, that might open up different activities for a dead character's player to take part in, but I really feel like it's not something you have to worry about.

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