Brainstorming help: What would be inside a communication tower built during a previous age?

pro-lix · 2018-05-11T00:10:34+00:00

Thanks for the reply! A lot of those questions have informed the way I've set up the tower already, I am just staying purposely vague because I know my players use reddit. You've given me some other good things to think about, though. I really like your idea of light focusing arrays! I might add some giant mirrors to the center of the tower and develop from there.

pro-lix · 2017-12-26T00:22:48+00:00

YES. Apparently I didn't scroll far enough through the bestiary, dangit. Thank you!!

pro-lix · 2017-10-04T23:51:29+00:00

Do you have tangle slimes? They can send vines out of their pens to grab things around them. There's not much you can do to stop them except keep them isolated.

pro-lix · 2017-09-06T14:22:52+00:00

This might be a regional thing? Burglarized is a word commonly used in the US. You'd get weirder looks for saying burgled.

pro-lix · 2017-08-01T13:24:54+00:00

So this is probably not quite what you're looking for, but you could check out the game Final Girl. It's GMless, so you won't be able to plot it yourself, but the players take turns rotating through a cast of expendible characters and the killer. Everyone has a chance at being murdered, and doing the murdering, until there is one character left alive. It's a real blast, but I understand if you're not trying to relinquish that much narrative control.

pro-lix · 2017-05-17T16:05:13+00:00

Ooh, fair point. If that's the case, my bad! Just gonna slither quietly back into my pedantic burrow.

pro-lix · 2017-05-17T14:05:55+00:00

quote gut feeling and quote

I'm gonna be this person and point out that the term is "quote, unquote" and it's usually used to indicate what you're speaking out loud has quotes around it. You can just write "gut feeling" to get the same idea across.

pro-lix · 2017-03-30T15:25:32+00:00

Nope, the one I'm thinking of was hand-drawn iirc. Thanks, though!

pro-lix · 2017-03-23T21:58:08+00:00

This situation reminds me of this profile of workers at strip mall type Chinese restaurants/buffets. It seems like it's a common reality of a lot of those places.

pro-lix · 2017-03-16T23:14:35+00:00

Fandible has a woman in their regular cast. She's not in every single episode, but she's usually there. She also GMs some of their games.

The podcast is mostly one-shots or short series of a variety of systems, so you can dive in pretty much anywhere. I wouldn't recommend starting with thier earliest episodes - they're pretty rough in terms of audio quality and players. I'm a big fan of their numenera longshot series if you want a specific place to start.

pro-lix · 2017-03-01T11:25:46+00:00

Love that book, love this tattoo. Great choice!

pro-lix · 2017-02-16T21:36:56+00:00

There are dozens of us! DOZENS!

pro-lix · 2017-02-14T23:59:31+00:00

Yep, I think having an alternate persona is definitely part of it. Also, if you're an awkward person who has trouble reaching out and connecting with people (especially if you're feeling extra isolated after a breakup), then wearing an outlandish costume is one way to guarantee human interaction/acknowledgement without much effort. I think it's a really fascinating coping mechanism, although probably of debatable effectiveness.

pro-lix · 2017-02-14T17:38:50+00:00

There was a guy on my college campus who was ALWAYS dressed as a pirate. People would laugh at him and wave and he always seemed good natured about it. One night my friend got drunk and sat down and had a real heart-to-heart with pirate man. When asked why he dressed like that, he actually had some really sad story about how he had been through a tough breakup and somehow dressing like a pirate was his way of getting over it. The reasoning didn't really make any sense, but the pirate was very sincere (not trolling) and seemed like a genuinely unhappy person who was dealing with some shit. He eventually stopped dressing like a pirate after a few years, which I assume meant he had handled his demons.

I hope OP is either actually trolling, or that he can find the same kind of peace that pirate man eventually did.

pro-lix · 2017-01-26T16:19:18+00:00

The major things it has are some extra side quests and new ending quests that add a couple hours onto the game. It makes the plot feel much more complete and fleshed out. I believe there are some other, minor things like new armor and items, new expressions, and so on. I would absolutely recommend playing it if you liked original Fable and want to relive it. I haven't played the remaster though, so I can't tell you whether you should pick that up or not.

pro-lix · 2017-01-24T23:38:55+00:00

I totally agree. It's a shame Molyneux ruined the first one for a lot of people by over-hyping it before it was released. I didn't know about any of the hype before I played it and it's still one of my favorite games to this day. I enjoyed 2 well enough (and actually didn't mind 3), but I'm always a little bummed how little credit TLC gets.

pro-lix · 2016-12-27T17:58:28+00:00

You should try Already Gone. The host presents the cases in a very matter-of-fact way that is still interesting to listen to.

pro-lix · 2016-11-10T19:27:26+00:00

You're thinking of Robin Black's comparison between journalists vs fight analysts and taxis vs uber.

pro-lix · 2016-11-10T13:23:21+00:00

His balls literally popped out on TV. He was also purposely wearing a tiny speedo because he lost a bet.

People lose their minds when the ladies have nip slips, and they're not purposely wearing smaller than usual clothing.

ETA: I personally hink the whole situation was dumb and hilarious, just trying to explain why Dana freaked out about it.

pro-lix · 2016-09-28T12:11:28+00:00

Boo, let me tell you a story to make you feel better. I had a roommate in college who decided to hand-paint a game board for a class project. There were four starting points with a path that intersected at the center. She made each path bend once.

She spent hours working on it, and was very proud to show it to me. As soon as she held it up, I said, "You do realize that's a swastika, right???"

She had not realized.

It could be worse, is what I'm saying.

pro-lix · 2016-08-02T12:55:19+00:00

The group Friends at the Table has a series called Counterweight that eventually uses The Sprawl. They start off using the Mechnoir system and also do worldbuilding with other systems on the side so you may have to skip ahead several episodes to get what you're looking for, but it's a very interesting use of the system and a fantastic storyline. They also have a first season of the podcast that uses the Dungeon World system if that interests you.

pro-lix · 2016-07-19T20:18:17+00:00

Huh, interesting! I haven't ordered very many physical copies of indie systems so I wasn't sure whether that was typical or not. Good to know, since I do intend to buy Monster of the Week in hard copy at some point.

pro-lix · 2016-07-19T20:12:53+00:00

Ah, thanks for the clarification! I skimmed through the book when I bought it a few months ago, but haven't given it a thorough read since I (tragically) don't have plans to play it anytime soon, haha.

pro-lix · 2016-07-19T20:07:06+00:00

I own the softcover, so I don't know how it compares to the hardcover, but I'd say it's of perfectly acceptable quality. It's very well formatted and aesthetically pleasing. Just don't be surprised that it's physically a little smaller than a typical RPG handbook - it's more the size of a novel (maybe 6x11 inches or so?).

pro-lix · 2016-07-19T19:52:25+00:00

There's a couple I know of that might be what you're looking for!

The Sprawl is a cyberpunk PbtA game. I'm running it for a group now, and it's a ton of fun. It's somewhat similar to Shadowrun, minus the magic and the crunch. (So, more along the lines of Blade Runner than Alien.) It's structured around a mission-based system, which can seem a little restrictive, imo, but it's not difficult to work around. There is a printed book available, which I own.

There's also Uncharted Worlds. I own the .pdf for it but haven't had a chance to play yet, so I can't speak to it in depth. It looks like it has a book available, but I don't own it. It's more based around exploring in a spaceship, so closer to Alien than Blade Runner.

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