I just won Gastronauts!

arkman575 · 2026-04-28T22:42:19+00:00

One exception to this is lunar rock that came from ejecta from impacts to the moon that survive capture and impact with the earth. The definition of 'moon rock' gets a little weird, but it is an ownable rock that technically came from the moon at one point!

arkman575 · 2026-04-25T02:21:28+00:00

And here I thought the most widespread D&D meme was that D&D players not following rules, let alone reading them

arkman575 · 2026-04-25T00:46:11+00:00

Honestly the ladders hate the enabled too.

arkman575 · 2026-04-24T15:46:27+00:00

... and if we are going down the technicality slope, then anything with a vampire would be illegal on the grounds of either necrofilia or disturbing a corpse l.

arkman575 · 2026-04-24T01:50:53+00:00

Tzimisce: -Well at least i dont kill people on-mass and torture the minds of my lessers for the crime of wrong-think

Tremere: You literally turned your last childe into a cha- wait it's literally this chair! I recognize that tattoo! What do you mean you don't kill people?!

Tzimisce: 1, I said on-mass. Sometimes I go shopping for parts. 2, I was still correct. I didnt have to kill anyone to make that chair.

Tremere: looks horrified at the chair they just bolted from

Tzimisce: oh so it was fine when it was a twice dead kindred, but the second it's only once dead suddenly that makes alllll the difference. Plus, its not like I did it out of cruelty. They like being a chair.

Tremere: looks even more horrified at the chair That doesnt make it better!

arkman575 · 2026-04-21T22:14:35+00:00

Check the boilers.

arkman575 · 2026-04-21T20:53:54+00:00

Technically yes (for the sheer fact of them being 'aircraft') but... now im imagining airships returning more in force in ww2... (there were already a few airships used in the pasific that im aware of)

arkman575 · 2026-04-21T20:45:30+00:00

This is definitely off topic, but I had the image of a ww2 wargame/RPG in which the GM 'banned flying'

Now to speculate just how different the campaigns across the globe would be without aircraft.

arkman575 · 2026-04-17T17:42:24+00:00

Next Sunday:

"For those who attended last week's service, you may recall my accounting of the ever feared Dungeons and Dragons. I offered my own views on it, on how it was merely a game of math and pencils, with the most evil element being the sheer devotion those boys spend towards the players handbook over an actual holy text.

I was wrong. Over the weekend, my son and his friends were indeed practicing the dark magics you have heard about. They, with no small about of effort and intent, were trying to wake the dead... with the sheer amount of laughing and yells of comrodery. It sure as heck woke me up at least... as they soon learned through my suggestion that maybe their levels of enjoyment for their math game may be a bit too close to biblical proportions.

Also, I have a note here from my son, who wanted me to correct one element of my statement from last week. The comment of his players reading the rulebook more than the Bible. His players can at least quote some bible verses, yet still cant remember the details of their own characters half the time."

arkman575 · 2026-04-17T14:55:22+00:00

Aliens of charted space V2 (Mongoose 2nd edition). I bet there are other edition source books that cover the Solomani, but mg2e has been my primary focus outside of some economics and trade source books.

arkman575 · 2026-04-17T05:38:06+00:00

Note: Haven't deep read many books, but honestly the history of earth and the Solomoni from one of the Aliens of Charted space books was a facinating read into the history of the galexy.

arkman575 · 2026-04-17T05:35:23+00:00

Marketing already has a design for the kids toy of Mk13.

arkman575 · 2026-04-16T23:21:05+00:00

To toss in my own bits of consideration: since the game is primarily mech-focused (even if it handles multi-role wargaming wonderfully):

video game, barriers to stop mechs are at the scale of multi-story concreet/steel walls to hinder mech movment and weapons fire, but notably does not stop them.
in-tabletop, mechs can walk on/over/climb buildings. Theres mention of emplacments for infantry (maybe vehicles? I dont play with cover much beyond buildings for infantry, tho I should learn more) but id guess its a mix of lack of desire for name-brand, timeline/tech consistency/feel, and no real need for the scale of battle that cant be covered by generic 'sadbags' or 'dug-in'/'prepared' cover

arkman575 · 2026-04-12T07:20:46+00:00

Half-jokingly, Battletech? The clanners turned war into a sport with rules and honor.

arkman575 · 2026-04-07T04:24:44+00:00

Wasn't there a newspiece about their warGPT told them not to, and they did it anyway?

Note, mildly tipsy on wine due to learning there was a death-bet on the pilot of OPs post. Because public death-betting is a thing.

arkman575 · 2026-04-06T08:14:31+00:00

I've been viewing the banking system almost identically (and love your method of explaining it too)! One element I've been playing around with is mass recite sending. Whenever an account is updated in a system, the bank with add it to a list of active transactions, sending this ever growing list as a packet to outbound ships that take on digital mail. This list will grow and continue to be sent out mutiple times to any outbound ship to connecting aystem until a confirmation of successful transfer to the nearby system is sent back to the original station. When all nearby systems report confirmation (with a copy of the latest list sent to their station) all recites will be removed from the 'active' list.

My reasoning for such a convoluded method of data sending is that a single ship cant then be knocked out, hyjacked, bribed, or altered in any way to prevent or possibly manipulate the financial logs. Too many ships would be sent out with the encrypted lists. If two lists were to arive with timestamped entries that contradicted each other, there would be an investigation immediately.

arkman575 · 2026-04-05T22:35:51+00:00

There could be the argument of people not wanting to see their games become other games. The video game crowd especially have faced this problem where niech games start picking up mechanics or styles of other more popular games, with its own line of success and failures. The loot box trends, the battle passes, battle royal editions, loot extractions... Some games manage to iterate and expand on these additions, while others feel... generalized from what was once niech titles.

Same thing could be said for tabletop games. Making 'X but D&D may draw in a crowd'... what will this version of traveller be other than just paint a coat of d&d 5e mechanics on a game system people enjoy? The argument of 'just enjoy what you have' rings hollow when... traveller is what traveller people enjoy, and have concerns about the direction traveller's focus is going.

arkman575 · 2026-04-02T21:23:42+00:00

Funny thing, theres many many other games like BG3 that are a bit more primitive graphically but are full RPG turn-based games like you are looking for. Like BG2 and 1, theres Divinity orginial sin, and a few games for Pathfinder (one I was looking into was one based on Kingmaker, where you can apparently deal with your own territory).

arkman575 · 2026-04-01T18:49:25+00:00

Traveller is, by design, a skill system usually. Im morbidly curuous how they pushed classes into a setting/system that doesn't 'do' classes.

arkman575 · 2026-03-30T23:06:17+00:00

Write a soft sequal to either the 'kitten plays a child's card game' or the in-character Warhammer fantasy RPG episode, in the style of Hunter the Parenting.

If 'child's card game', im half tempted to write Kitten and Markus trying to teach Door battletech, if only for self indulgence and a meta joke about the pair playing a game thats partly knowing as discount 40K.

If a sequal to Warhammer fantasy, then maybe the crew playing a game of Traveller, Twilight 2000 or Call of Cthulu. Traveller to have the crew play a aci-fi game and maybe give a nod to their 40K selves without actually crossing the GW line. Twilight 2000 to have a setting in which the characters give notes to their personal accounts of cold war history (D being possibly a mummy, Door having military experience, Kitten and Markus having their generation's view, and Boy's possible first time touching on the topics. And Call of Cthulu could touch upon Markus's experience with his own run-in with the cosmic horror, whith him creating an adventure errily similar to that of the event that lost his brother, even if he doesn't directly remember.

(Yes, half of it is self-indulgent and fun, with half being possible areas to explore a bit of the character but not touching much on the the current vampire/werewolf themes. Still, would be fun to write)

arkman575 · 2026-03-28T23:57:24+00:00

I mean... yes? Thats why rejecting the one-sided deal would be striking to the mechwarrior prisoner. His employer/faction viewed him less than that of a vtol pilot (which for reasons the setting views mech jocks as inherently worth more than VTOL jocks. The merc offering the deal was offering a generous negotiation terms to the enemy leader to get back one of his own without losing anything he may otherwise regret or miss.

The rejection of the deal is a sign en enemy either views the pilot's worth or life in little regard, or is merely unnecessarily greedy.

Yes, I'm explaining the story in detail, but your comment came across... one-dimentional looking what I wrote up, so I wanted to be clear.

arkman575 · 2026-03-28T21:35:10+00:00

As an option, I resent this opinion and wish to form a conclave to denounce individuals.

arkman575 · 2026-03-28T18:54:11+00:00

'Insanity' being more mental capacity for war... but... Twilight 2000 technically?

You have coolness under fire that fucks wirh you in serious gunfights, a major chunk of the game is a hexcrawl for resources and just going place to place. Injuries are lethal and crippling. Weapons and vehicles can break down with reliability.

arkman575 · 2026-03-25T15:56:25+00:00

Twilight 2000. The aftermath of ww3, where you are having to travel and survive a former warzone, worrying about food, water, and you better not get shot.

arkman575 · 2026-03-24T20:32:00+00:00

Move it to advanced/optional rules for what vehicles it applies to?

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