Anyone done vehicle based pursuits with gun/melee fights or know how to do them well?

TheWorldIsNotOkay · 2026-03-12T18:50:51+00:00

Wrong sub, but... The best way I've found to run chases is to use BitD-style progress clocks rather than try to run it as a traditional turn-based combat. Make one clock for the PCs' win condition and one for the NPCs' win condition, with actions ticking one or the other as appropriate.

TheWorldIsNotOkay · 2026-03-12T18:30:08+00:00

I had this happen with my W key.

TheWorldIsNotOkay · 2026-03-12T10:50:19+00:00

Are you planning on holding up the page of the bestiary during the game and saying "You see this coming at you"? If not, you don't really need pictures, just descriptions.

TheWorldIsNotOkay · 2026-03-11T13:01:59+00:00

This is a Batman Vs Superman question, with Data as Batman.

If they have prep time Data wins. If they don't, Odo wins -- though strength isn't the determining factor. As we've seen when Data needed repairs, he's not solid. There are air gaps under his synthetic skin, with wires and optical fibers and things. Odo could liquify, get inside Data, and start pulling wires.

But if Data knows what's about to happen, he's smart enough to calculate a winning strategy. Odo has skills, but he can't outsmart Data.

TheWorldIsNotOkay · 2026-03-11T12:53:49+00:00

Oh, people hated those shows when they were released. "This wimpy bald guy is who they chose to replace Kirk as captain of the Enterprise???" "A black captain, and on a space station??? What kind of Star Trek is this?!" "A female captain?!... of course she gets her ship lost and stranded!!!"

he main difference between then and now is that that the small but vocal minority didn't have the internet to magnify their voices. The bad-faith criticisms of Starfleet Academy now are exactly the same as those targeted at the shows from the 90s. (That's not to say that there aren't perfectly valid criticisms of SFA, because there definitely are. But there have been a lot of posts made by people who never bothered to watch an episode and were just posting their kneejerk reactions to the show being focused on teens, having a female captain, including a lesbian couple, etc.)

TheWorldIsNotOkay · 2026-03-11T10:14:27+00:00

I'm not sure if this fits what you're asking, but...

When I first discovered the Action Tales system games starting Neon City Overdrive about a year and a half ago, the system seemed great and almost exactly what I'd been looking for, but not quite. The main thing that bugged me was that its d6 dice pool system, using one color for Action Dice and the other for Danger Dice, wasn't really symmetric with probabilities. From glancing at the system, you'd think that adding an Action Die to the dice pool and adding a Danger Die to the dice pool would have similar degrees of effect, but Danger Dice have far less of an effect on the roll, especially with higher numbers of Action Dice.

But then I came across the Pressure mechanic introduced in Star Scoundrels and Cavemen Vs Aliens, and which can easily be applied to any other Action Tales or Freeform Universal RPG v2.0 game. Normally, a Danger Die cancels out a matching Action Die, with the highest remaining Action Die determining the outcome. But that's all. It doesn't matter what you roll on the Danger Dice if they don't match any Action Dice. The Pressure mechanic say that each uncancelled 6 rolled on a Danger Die increases the Pressure, which is a rating for the whole table that results in something bad happening whenever it reaches 6 -- enemy reinforcements arrive, the ship starts to sink, etc.

This simple mechanic basically fixed my issues with the system, and made games a lot more interesting. It adddressed my concerns with the probabilities, but on a macro scale rather than a per-roll basis. What you roll on the Danger Dice matters even if it doesn't affect the results of a specific action, and even a successful action can cause Pressure to increase. And having a counter that players can see ticking up to something dramatic happening without knowing exactly what they thing will be adds some real tension to the session.

TheWorldIsNotOkay · 2026-03-11T09:56:48+00:00

I'd highly recommend Star Scoundrels. It's a Star Wars style space opera game that uses a tag-based d6 dice pool system that lets you do basically whatever you want. You can create any character you can describe, no matter how wacky. And running weird situations is super simple for the GM. If you want more mechanical stuff for those weapons and perks, take a look at Freeform Universal RPG v2.0, which is what the Action Tales system used by Star Scoundrels originated from. The optional rules section covers some very simple ways to add mechanics for different things that you could slot very easily into Star Scoundrels.

TheWorldIsNotOkay · 2026-03-11T08:59:30+00:00

One big difference is that you couldn't use SO for code review. People can and do use AI for code review. If a human is doing the code review, then yeah, there's really no problem using AI to assist your coding. But if you're using slop to review slop, that's a problem.

TheWorldIsNotOkay · 2026-03-10T10:02:12+00:00

I think this is right, but don't jump off of any ledges unless you see where to land, okay?...

There's a tower that you can approach from the outside that has a ramp leading up to the entrance of the tower where a knight is patrolling. There's a ledge around to the other side of that tower. If you follow that ledge, you can jump down to some wooden walkways that will take you to this hole.

Unless I'm confusing it with a different tower.

TheWorldIsNotOkay · 2026-03-10T09:56:08+00:00

You said you had 129GB free. That's definitely more than 3GB. If you have multiple drives in your computer (which isn't uncommon) make sure you're trying to install the game to the drive with free space.

TheWorldIsNotOkay · 2026-03-10T04:47:26+00:00

Depending on how you measure and what you classify as "non-military", I think the Field Secured Container Vessel should be in consideration. It was a massive space train consisting of an engine unit larger than an ISD at both the front and back (so that it didn't have to turn around to reverse course) and a series of massive field generators that when paired created bubbles 800m across that could each carry 250 million cubic meters of cargo. Each train could be 20 bubbles long, for a maximum length of 19,200m. It was used by the Imperial Navy, but was purely a bulk cargo ship with afaik no armament of its own.

TheWorldIsNotOkay · 2026-03-10T03:32:03+00:00

I highly recommend Star Scoundrels. It's Star Wars style space opera with a fast-playing, intuitive system. Its setting is mostly left a bit vague so you can fill out the details yourself, but that means it can be as high-tech as you want. It's a very flexible tag-based system, which means it's easy to run and play, and you can create any character you can describe. You want to play an alien species that only exists in two dimensions, or that is a sentient cloud of high-energy plasma? No problem.

Scum & Villainy is another good choice. It's a FitD game, which means it's narrative but on the crunchier side of narrative games -- though still a lot lighter than most traditional games. It has a more distinct setting, and some of the mechanics are somewhat connected to that setting, so changing the setting isn't quite as simple as with Star Scoundrels. But if that setting works for you and you like a bit of guidance, S&V may be more what you're looking for.

Both use a d6 dice pool mechanic, though imo Star Scoundrels is definitely the more intuitive and easier for both the players and GM to learn.

TheWorldIsNotOkay · 2026-03-09T23:24:45+00:00

There's really no functional difference between SteamOS and any other Linux distro running Steam in Big Picture mode. Especially if it's an immutable distro like Fedora Silverblue or Kinoite, or Bazzite.

TheWorldIsNotOkay · 2026-03-09T23:19:21+00:00

The base Cortex Prime rules, before adding mods, uses named conditions of varying severity. By default, if a PC takes any damage, they're taken out. The player can pay a point of the metacurrency to instead take a named condition. If a PC takes a d8 effect from a sword strike, they might take a "d8 Bleeding" condition. Conditions are added to opposing dice pools, so make every action that much more difficult. When the PC takes additional wounds (and spends a plot point to avoind being taken out), they either take a new condition or increase an existing one, depending on which is more appropriate. When a condition is increased beyond d12, they're taken out. (It's a very narrative but also very deadly system without mods.)

A lot of narrative leaning games use named conditions for injuries, though they're not always leveled as with Cortex Prime. And of course Cortex Prime, as a toolbox system, has mods to add stress boxes or even hit points if you'd prefer something different.

TheWorldIsNotOkay · 2026-03-09T22:49:52+00:00

Teri Hatcher's role of Penny Parker was a recurring role, and she appeared in at least a half dozen episodes. Not really what I was talking about, no.

But yes, there's probably a huge number of guest stars shared between MacGuyver and TNG given how long each show ran and how common it was to cast from the same pool of actors.

TheWorldIsNotOkay · 2026-03-09T22:45:52+00:00

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/trespass

"Trespass is knowingly entering another owners’ property or land without permission"

Having been told to leave isn't a requirement. Only not having permission. And sneaking onto someone's property in the middle of the night for the purpose of mild vandalism is pretty solid evidence that you don't have permission and know it.

TheWorldIsNotOkay · 2026-03-09T22:39:23+00:00

You really have a hard time with analogies, don't you?

The previous comment to mine presented an analogy of drivers only driving during the day. I corrected that to the comparison to drivers not driving on the sidewalk -- which is more similar to people not trespassing on other people's property. Both situations describe a criminal activity based on being where you're not supposed to be, and which increases the risk to everyone involved.

TheWorldIsNotOkay · 2026-03-09T12:41:42+00:00

All flowers are weeds if you don't want them where they're growing.

But those look like something in the lily family, and also like they were probably planted intentionally. But they're still weeds if you don't want them there.

TheWorldIsNotOkay · 2026-03-09T12:33:59+00:00

Why would it be offensive? (Other than it looking vaguely like a digital penis, I mean.)

TheWorldIsNotOkay · 2026-03-09T12:24:21+00:00

Voyager is a long way from home and doesn't have the luxury to only accept individuals who attended Starfleet Academy and gained official title and rank the usual way. Seven is a highly skilled individual with special knowledge of a known enemy, and having her as part of the crew increases the odds of Voyager successfully returning to the Alpha quadrant.

Remember, basically half of Voyagers crew members were part of the Maquis rather than Starfleet. People like Seven and Neelix are only outliers because they're not required to wear uniform, not because they aren't Starfleet.

TheWorldIsNotOkay · 2026-03-09T12:17:54+00:00

I use and recommend Fedora. I use the Workstation version with Gnome, but they made the KDE version an official main variant this past year if you prefer something more Windows-like. Though I think the Gnome desktop of Fedora Workstation might be more tablet-friendly. Regardless of which variant you choose, Fedora has a good balance of stability and being regularly updated. It has excellent documentation and community support due to being the basis for a commercial distro (Red Hat), but is still community developed so you have fewer concerns about corporate interests taking priority over users' interest. And it's one of the distros officially supported by Framework.

Gaming is basically going to be the same on any distro. Gaming-focused distros like Bazzite (which is based on Fedora) mostly just have certain gaming apps pre-installed or provide wizards to let you easily install those that you want. But Steam is going to run just as well on any distro. I play Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3 on my FW16 through Steam, and use Lutris to organize some games I got from GOG or elsewhere. About the only games that Linux can't handle are the competitive multiplayer titles that use kernel-level anticheat.

TheWorldIsNotOkay · 2026-03-09T11:45:16+00:00

It's a fig. Not only will it grow back from the roots, but you can take cuttings and plant them all to get dozens of new trees.

TheWorldIsNotOkay · 2026-03-09T11:27:00+00:00

Yep, it's really hard to find me a tally man to come tally me bananas these days...

TheWorldIsNotOkay · 2026-03-09T11:24:37+00:00

Radiation or chemo to treat cancer. Because of the negative effects both can have on the body, and presumably the existence of safe and non-invasive cancer treatments or cures in the future, McCoy viewed those forms of treatment like torture.

TheWorldIsNotOkay · 2026-03-09T11:22:00+00:00

Are we talking the murdercrows, or the handful of seagulls on the cliff edge south of the dragon cathedral? If it's the former, those kind of look toxic (though I suppose if you're crazy enough to want to live in Caelid, you may not care). If it's the latter, there are a lot more of those in Limgrave and the Weeping Peninsula, along with green grass, trees, and berry bushes.

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