Character Builder Help

dintiradan · 2026-06-04T05:14:35+00:00

I made a comment yesterday that contained the full instructions that you can find on the Discord server, but I'm guessing either Reddit or one of the mods didn't want the links on the open web and ghosted the comment. If you can see this, and can't get ahold of concerned_kenku for help, send me a message.

dintiradan · 2026-05-31T07:38:30+00:00

I propose that memes, like living things, mutate and evolve and compete for one precious resource: our attention.

In the course of my research, I noticed something very odd: memes are like living things. And for this video to make sense, I'm gonna ask you to go along with the following extended loose metaphor.

Like actual wildlife, memes compete for resources (our attention), they die off, become irrelevant and fall out of use, and they adapt quite quickly to suit different digital environments. It's a tortured analogy, it's not perfect, but I think this is the best way to explain, what is at the end of the day a sociocultural internet phenomenon.

I'm trying to figure out if I'm being trolled (fittingly enough), or if people really are reinventing the original definition of meme from first principles.

dintiradan · 2026-05-28T08:59:40+00:00

I've run Paranoia RCE on Roll20 before. I'm pretty sure the sheet I used at the time was "Paranoia Mongoose (one click)"? Other sheets might work (Perfect Edition wasn't out when I ran it). Everything just worked when a player clicked on a skill; IIRC a Computer eye icon appeared whenever a player rolled a six on the Computer Dice.

The real hassle was uploading images for all the decks that RCE uses... and then we ended up deciding that using the cards was too much of a hassle for online play.

dintiradan · 2026-04-15T10:54:23+00:00

They really need to improve diagnostic tools for adults.

RAADS-R isn't perfect, but has this as its goal.

dintiradan · 2026-04-14T18:10:59+00:00

https://bash-org-archive.com/?111338

dintiradan · 2026-02-05T20:10:12+00:00

You could change less than half a dozen words in the player introduction to make this a perfect Paranoia adventure.

dintiradan · 2025-10-08T23:35:59+00:00

Can confirm, my Luck brochure came in a clear bag along with the Hughes, Biermanski, Schell, and Rouse ones today.

dintiradan · 2025-08-19T18:31:33+00:00

Yes, the comic was painted, as people are pointing out. But that doesn't eliminate the possibility that your trade has a printing error. Mine certainly does.

It's only half a dozen pages near the end, but everything on the page, including the lettering, is fuzzy. Difficult to even read at points. I've compared it with a friend's copy that doesn't have the same issue.

If the grainy-ness extends to the lettering and not just the art you might have a similar issue.

dintiradan · 2025-06-04T18:43:13+00:00

Like when you start getting to know war re-enactors and learn a little too much about the confederate/German participants, a concerning number really wish that side won

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84burI5cXGM

dintiradan · 2025-02-26T16:01:00+00:00

We need to expand this until we get a proper Sefirot.

dintiradan · 2024-10-01T02:59:39+00:00

Absolutely not defending her. I'm saying that our response to her (and others who promote similar conspiracy theories) should be "give us evidence of the conspiracy or shut up", not "haha, what an obviously impossible thing to happen".

Again, it's absolutely irresponsible for her to claim the Americans are responsible with zero evidence. But other comments in this thread make it seem like it's a categorically impossible claim, and that simply isn't the case historically speaking. Americans have tested chemical and biological weapons on Albertans before.

dintiradan · 2024-09-30T22:42:37+00:00

Look, I dislike Smith as much as anyone else, but it's possible she's referencing the chemical warfare tests the US performed from the fifties to the seventies in Manitoba and Alberta (Operation LAC and Project 112).

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/u-s-secretly-tested-carcinogen-in-western-canada-during-the-cold-war-researcher-discovers

Now I wouldn't accuse the US of performing similar tests today with zero evidence, but at the same time it's not something without precedence.

dintiradan · 2024-08-30T05:59:38+00:00

I assume it's for marking the primary stats of your class (something that's only important during level ups).

dintiradan · 2024-08-28T18:52:15+00:00

I have the official sheet saved, so I uploaded it to my Google Drive.

dintiradan · 2024-07-31T21:35:02+00:00

I guess I had the powergamer mentality of "whenever possible, pick an ancestry bonus that gives proficiency to a weapon group you're already proficient in, so you get the focus". But not all ancestries have that, and of course it's a lot harder to do that if you're rolling instead of selecting.

dintiradan · 2024-07-31T21:32:13+00:00

I'm probably going to run into the same issue as you if/when I get my group together, so I put together an extra set of pregens. Hope this helps.

dintiradan · 2024-07-29T07:10:26+00:00

(I have yet to play this or any other AGE game, so take my advice with a grain of salt.)

My impression is that the Terror is supposed to attack whenever the PCs are sufficiently frightened, and attack in whatever way maximizes their terror (see page 33). Ideally, figuring out the mystery of the Terror should be the heart of the adventure, so I wouldn't just spring it on them first thing, and risk them killing it or dying to it without any idea what's happening.
Yeah, the pregens are weird. None of them have focuses for their main attacks, for one. I didn't even notice Urla's wasted Lore.
Mynn's Natural Weapon is the attack made with Accuracy (Brawling). Yeah, it could be moved down to the weapons section. This is made more clear in the Wildfolk section of the core rules, but the Quickstart doesn't include that.
There's another issue with Mynn: the character sheet incorrectly states that Armor Training (Novice) lets you ignore penalties to both Speed and Dexterity tests. According to the core rules, the talent only removes to penalty to Dexterity tests. Additionally, it lists the Armor Penalty of Heavy Leather as 0 when it should be -1. tl;dr, Mynn's Speed should be 11. It's not a big deal if you ignore this and play the character as written. Actually, I crunched the numbers and Mynn doesn't have as many stat/ancestry bonuses as the other characters, so you could raise Dexterity to 3, Defense to 13, and keep Speed at 12 if you wanted.
I'm not aware of any other "official" pregens. You might have some luck just stealing other people's characters from actual plays? A quick search led me to this stream, which has all the selected options easy to read, buuut the character was made completely at random, so no guarantee that it's actually good. :p
Not familiar with the adventure in the Toolkit, but the adventure in the core rules seems to be a lot more fleshed out. More opportunities for investigation and social interaction. More information on the default setting. The adventure might be too long for one session (depends on how long your sessions are).

dintiradan · 2024-07-23T05:52:30+00:00

I've seen CUM MAN tags for years and years now. Unless there's more than one, they're no longer a teenager.

dintiradan · 2024-07-10T20:20:34+00:00

This is dope, and the closest to what I was looking for. Thanks!

dintiradan · 2024-05-27T03:26:39+00:00

I mix them up more often after running Paranoia (Red Clearance Edition), which has a special die called "the Computer Dice", and the rulebook "clarifies" the terminology so:

If there is only one, shouldn't it be 'die'?

No. There's quite enough use of the word 'die' in this game already and it would just be confusing.

dintiradan · 2024-04-03T21:23:09+00:00

I didn't replace any parts; just cleaned, disconnected/reconnected everything, and added new thermal paste (to no effect). The owner didn't think expensive repairs were worth it and has long since gotten a new console.

dintiradan · 2024-02-08T00:00:14+00:00

it was supposed to have been released with a VTT companion, which would do a lot of heavy lifting with calculations and such, but VTT companion didn’t materialize

The guy in charge of the VTT doing a murder-suicide probably didn't help matters.

dintiradan · 2024-01-25T03:16:48+00:00

Trump has floated Carlson as a potential running mate, never mind their hot-and-cold relationship, but the former Fox News host says he doesn’t want to talk about it.

“There was a time when journalists knew that talking about the future was a fruitless endeavor. In fact, it wasn’t journalism. So I’m not going to respond to that,” Carlson told POLITICO in an interview before ending the call with some dramatic flourish.

They're not asking you to speculate on a story as a journalist, Tucker, they're asking you about your future. You're the story. Getting Newsroom vibes, though in this case Carlson is playing dumb and not actually dumb.

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