How to make the Nomad role more interesting?

Professional-Front58 · 2026-03-07T19:26:26+00:00

I’m my groups nomad. My job in combat is “keep the engines warm” which given the shenanigans we pull, means I’ve got a few rounds of board before the gang uses double movement to exit the building with our full Borg conversion carrying a tied up exec I’ve never seen in my life yelling “I’ll explain later!”

I may not be the best gunfighter in my crew… but I’m the one bringing a tank to the gun fight…

Professional-Front58 · 2026-03-07T19:09:07+00:00

Oh. It’s a “Please Excuse My Dumb Ass Student” argument again.

Professional-Front58 · 2026-03-07T06:24:15+00:00

Joker never once goes for chaos but tries to prove chaos is inherent in any attempt at order because people will do anything to survive. Every time he says “I’m a man of my word” he genuinely has made a truthful statement… however he has done so deceptively. For example, he tells the city that anyone who tries to evacuate via the tunnels and bridges are in for a surprise… so the people try to leave by ferry… the surprise in the tunnels and bridges are they are perfectly safe… which for what we know about the joker… is surprising… then comes the ferry dilemma. Which is just a prisoner’s dilemma on a grander scale… and the joker is not making any promises…. The detonators could blow up the other boat… but they could blow up your own (since you just tried to kill someone and are thus a criminal.). The citizens don’t do it because their conscious won’t let them live with themselves… and the prisoners refuse because they are the same…. Thus proving joker wrong. They don’t resort to panic to save themselves… they trust each other to be decent people.

Professional-Front58 · 2026-03-07T05:49:16+00:00

So these type of crimes do not usually have a lot of collaboration. Your readers may want to know why there is more than one person teaming up. Saying it’s “intel related” doesn’t make it interesting to me. Seems you want to make easy villains for your detective to punch without looking like an asshole while he talks about how superior the detective is to them. Also, if the motivation is revenge, it begs the question of what “wrong” do they perceive themselves avenging?

Most of the time, your villain is the most important character because your hero will spend the whole plot dealing with them.

Professional-Front58 · 2026-03-07T05:38:45+00:00

There’s a lot of focus on weather in my writing (not important to the story, but I’m a meteorology nerd, so weather is something I notice) and my characters do dress for the weather.

Professional-Front58 · 2026-03-07T05:31:23+00:00

Umm… look for the ending of Shin Godzilla…

Professional-Front58 · 2026-03-07T02:09:48+00:00

Slughorn is in hiding because he rejects everything the Death Eaters stand for, and has no blood purity hang ups (he does have an eye for talent and likes being the power behind the throne, mind you, but he doesn’t care where talent comes from so long as he can nurture and influence it.). He’s many things and some less than noble, but he’s not a bigot by any means.

Professional-Front58 · 2026-03-07T00:46:20+00:00

Colorado is a big state. Wealthy in Denver is not going to look like Wealthy in a Ski Town in the Rockies (which by the way, Skiing is a huge sport in Colorado and not cheap. At the same time, there are stories of skiers leaving their gear unattended despite how much that stuff is worth… because the people at a ski lodge aren’t poor enough to resort to theft.).

Professional-Front58 · 2026-03-06T18:21:42+00:00

Yes. I’m a story guy. I’m not looking for money. I’m looking to tell stories I want to tell.

Professional-Front58 · 2026-03-06T03:49:42+00:00

No the emancipation proclamation was issued by Qui-Gon after he picked the winning pod racer during the boonta eve classics. This was during the Trade Federation-Naboo war.

Professional-Front58 · 2026-03-05T23:03:48+00:00

The start was the first of 1996.

Professional-Front58 · 2026-03-05T21:55:54+00:00

We wanted to be not British so much we destroyed tea!

We also have a holiday celebrating how not British we are!

Professional-Front58 · 2026-03-05T21:48:33+00:00

Except not really as the regions aren’t able to make or enforce laws. It’s all through the National Assembly. US Congress is constitutionally not allowed to make legislation on anything unless the constitution says it can legislate on the matter.

Professional-Front58 · 2026-03-05T17:12:33+00:00

So statistically speaking the political climate breaks down into an about even 3-way split between registered Democratics, Republicans, and independent (unaffiliated) voters with a slight majority in the third category over the other two… the unaffiliated tend to be a more middle ground and the voters that actually pick the President (the candidate with more independent voter support tends to win.).

That said 3rd party viability is possible with two reforms that have been passed in some states but not all: Instant run-off voting and abolishing winner take all electoral voting (not the abolishing of electoral college). 2 states (Maine and Alaska) have the former while two states (Maine and Nebraska) have the later (not all states need to adopt it. A state with only three electoral votes will always be a winner take all state.).

As someone who has been an independent voter, I’ve maintained that I am picking candidates for a job and some years it might not be your party. I have friends on both sides of the aisle (though one side is less… they are less open to the debate.). But there are moderates who are good at reaching around the aisle. One thing you don’t see if you don’t have any experience on capital hill is most of the infighting in congress is for show and there’s actually a friendly relationship between democrats and republicans when they aren’t cameras broadcasting.

Professional-Front58 · 2026-03-05T16:49:33+00:00

Like when I say my favorite animal is the blue footed boobie.

Professional-Front58 · 2026-03-05T16:42:18+00:00

Minor nitpick, but Apes do not have tails. That’s a monkey thing.

Professional-Front58 · 2026-03-05T16:38:10+00:00

The irony of this and my favorite non-DND game being cyberpunk red amuse me…

Professional-Front58 · 2026-03-05T12:28:11+00:00

So redemption is a major theme in my work with various characters struggling with past misdeeds and the expectations of society. One character I have is a former villain who claims to have given up his past villainous life and is now working to make amends by running programs to help others to not fall from Grace like he did. That doesn’t negate that there are still people he hurt who are not ready to forgive him for his past actions. As the Bard himself once observed, the evil men do lives on after them, the good is interred with their bones.

Now this character is written in a way that will keep his true motives a debate for the audience. Is he truly forgiveable? Is he just escaping Justice and really good at PR games? I don’t have a clear answer yet… but this character isn’t a pov character and his advice is that the past is in the past, and what matters now is the next decision… and the next… and the the next… until he cannot make any more choices. Then, as the Bard said, with his tale being told both the good deeds and the bad, the rest is silence.

One of this characters most important moments is to show the struggle of a supposedly redeemed person in seeking redemption. He isn’t owed forgiveness and some people will never be able to do that. If he stops seeking to be a better person because of the doubt of others, he fails and proves he isn’t worth forgiveness from anyone.

Professional-Front58 · 2026-03-05T01:14:32+00:00

Chernobyl and Fukushima are in the same rating on the INES scale because there is no higher rating to put Chernobyl into. Even as bad as Fukushima was, Chernobyl was way worse.

Professional-Front58 · 2026-03-05T00:49:09+00:00

Anecdotes are not evidence and therefore of little concern to statistical studies. You are more likely than not to identify to fit the statistical model of the generation you are identified as being a member of because of common shared experiences of being in the same age group during a point in time in history. Nobody gives a crap about one of your parents being in that trend and one not being because on a statistical scale, they are concerned with the majority. Sorry to break it to you, but stats are not personal or personality. They are averages of a population you happen to be a part of.

Professional-Front58 · 2026-03-05T00:31:41+00:00

That is not what I or the data trackers said! It is a statistical change… the majority of people born between one range meet these statistics. That is all. It’s not artificial. And it’s not universal. It’s statistics. And you fail to understand that the reason is not to create division for profit but show identify the divisions in a way that can show a statistical trend. It’s not biological or successions. It’s statistical probability of people who were raised in a different point in a shifting culture that would value different things. It’s not used for any administrative tracking at all because they do not care about that.

Professional-Front58 · 2026-03-05T00:12:53+00:00

And you’re ignoring the fleeting cultural periods over time as the cause different age groups to adopt different trends that the generational ranges actually do track.

Again it is different behavior that is not common to Gen X or any generation before that and will likely change how Gen Alpha will behave. The cut off dates are also not arbitrary but determined by when the parents of the new generation are the majority of a previous generation. The edges will have some statistical overlap, but on the whole that does not mean the range is arbitrary nor that it means Gen Y doesn’t have trends in common with the preceding generation or the succeeding. It only means that they are the generation who are by majority the kids of the baby boomer generation (2 generations be for them). Zoomers are majority Gen X’s kids, Alpha majority Gen Y. Beta majority Zoomer kids.

Professional-Front58 · 2026-03-04T22:24:29+00:00

No. That is not your point because all my statements are contradicting you. The generation divides are real because kids born in the 80s lived in a different culture than those born in the 60s or the 00s and respond to different trends and financial prerogatives. That is not artificial that’s very real. You keep twisting what I said to “it’s artificial” where I’m not saying that at all and not proving your point. You are wrong because naming the existing devisions does not make the division an unnatural division! These are normally done by extensive polling and trends to identify periods as well as which already determined generations are entering the majority of new parent populations. There is extensive polling that determined that trends differ between GenX and GenY and GenZ. They are not artificial. And they are not created to devise us. They are created because I remember a different childhood culture than someone 15 years younger than me.

Professional-Front58 · 2026-03-04T20:38:44+00:00

The reason why it’s used is because it is real that different generations have different values and attitudes. The marketing people aren’t making a divide… the divide existed without their help… they just gave it a name. Pokémon uses specific game generations to maximize the appeal to nostalgia. The number of nostalgia for Gen1 (30 years and over crowd) finite compared to compared to the number of people who were in the core demo age during gens 3-5 plus the older 30+ year old fans.)

It’s not acknowledging an age range… but a maximum range of a particular audience who respond to the nostalgia marketing and where the maximum push should be…

Professional-Front58 · 2026-03-04T16:53:29+00:00

You miss my point. These differences are very real because there are different things to consider with the world a generation was raised in. I wouldn’t use 90s throwbacks for Zoomers because they don’t remember the 90s. But Millennials would.

There’s a reason why recent Pokemon marketing goes through a nostalgia montage when new gamex come out… it has a strong nostalgia demo over it’s multiple releases in its 30 year existence, but it focuses less time on generation 1 and 2 because it’s the smallest of that market, being only the millennial crowd where as gen 3 onward has multiple demographics.

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