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There are ...missions, of a sort. Objectives, unlocking areas as a story unfolds. Has some excellent , non-gamey music (some by Hayley Westenra; not everyone's cup of tea, admittedly). But, yes, most of is just "swim about taking pictures, explore underwater ruins, pet turtles and other fish."
Definitely not For Everyone, but I liked it.
60s-70s music better.
And that's for both the 18th and the 20th centuries.
I like the cut of your jib. There's only 4 pilots total in the squad.
You ... may end up being my first German Commander depending on how long this little intro campaign is.
Tell me how you feel about the dark side of the force and TIE interceptors
Real pilots fly TIE fighters.
Corehealer and Deebs veered right and then swung in hard on the fokkers. I need you guys to ruin some Germans, nothing fancy.
Shivahn is kind of the bait for the Halberstadt but I'm sure she'll be fine.
I think she actually prefers being the bait sir. She's goading those Fritzs along a little too much.
Obviously I have not played this system but the very first thing they decided to show in their kickstarter video, and something which takes a good chunk of it, is combat. And it is really deeply lame. The players described some very basic actions on their part then a pile of dice was rolled vs another pile of dice from the GM. Boom, they rolled better (huzah for randomness over tactics). Then far too much narrative occurs where the players have no opportunity to act or interject when they should (why can't they do anything while all those people are being dragged off?).
I was also basing my criticism off of mousegaurd which I do own. That did a great job of making combat take far less time (which is a good thing compared to games like D&D prior to 4th or GURPS or Pathfinder where it is basically the same idea - roll dice until HP = 0 - but takes far longer) because fighting things wasn't the focus of the game. Storytelling, interacting with NPCs (especially) and such were. Once the dice started rolling you just needed to resolve that quickly and get back to the "real game" for that system.
But in a dungeon crawl setting what are you getting back to?
Look at the skills and stats on that character sheet. Look at what they do in the video that the game makers decided to use to promote and show off their game. I do not see this as a setting or game style that it is at all well suited to the game mechanics they are using for it.
Where do I sign up? I love those things.
ehhhh 60s music doesn't really count here. It's on a different scale.
70s definitely not. The 70s were a hate crime.
this is why you're my favorite
you and thom will be my most merciless germans
plan B: everyone just threw some jabs and fans out and tries to use maneuverability to come in and get off hits first on a second pass while Broar punches through
broar: good job lighting up jerry while you were halfway through a barrel roll
I hope my fro looks better in the morning...
Kickstarter video is lame, true
Regarding skills, quite a bit is covered
For the things that are not, you can make those up
Your criticisms of fight! are still way the fuck off base
i thought white girls used specially made love pink magic dryers
Had a conversation earlier with @tapeslinger and @hakkegage where I claimed hook by blues traveler was the most perfect ironic pop song ever. They dusagreed
#FreeScheck
#FreeSKFM
To be fair, when considering investing money in something, one should not have to "make stuff up" as much as possible unless it's to generate hype, which this niche take on dungeon crawls does not do. The things that are not should be fleshed out more by the video and the Kickstarter so people know what it is they are putting their money into. Otherwise people like Riemann will dissect that shit to death.
In what way is the video that the games creators chose to represent their product not representative?
I wasn't actually objecting to the number of skills being insufficient. If anything it seems to me there are an awful lot of them.
Don't forget the duct tape!
If the Twi'leks don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.
The thing is, the skills on a character sheet DO cover most situations in a dungeoncrawl setting
He's making some pretty big generalizations based on some blatant misreadings
That's because they're either deaf or insane.
It is not only the perfect ironic pop song in construction, in vocal tone, and in pacing, but its lyrics make it meta-ironic. It is laughing at itself through the lens of an ironic take on pop music.
Blues Traveler is fabulous and Hook is one of the smartest songs to come out of the genre.
fucking krauts
also, numbers of fucks corhealer gives: 0
oh wow if you keep dropping elevation you can actually land your plane.
Well, no
I have never played a game of burning wheel or DND that lame
In the same sense, no one session is the whole of DND but an example
There are good and bad examples
So, try again
look man, maybe when you are trying to promote something you are obviously absurdly emotionally invested in you shouldn't come blustering in to chat all full of piss and hellfire. Calm the fuck down and try to actually discuss this instead of insulting me and acting like an asshole.
I can't be misreading this game as none of us have the rulebook. And I seriously doubt I am misreading Mousegaurd.
Speed is life.
bro to bro
you are coming in a little hot right now
i'll suck on your neck if that's what's needed but i'm saying, brah
This to me feels more like two guys slapping together a modification of Mouseguard and running with it as their own thing.
I told everyone to back it
You were the one who insulted me first, so you can kindly fuck off if you think I came in here full of whatever
As to misreading, you absolutely are
Conflict is the crux if all these games
Saying that combat is meant to be quick is a misunderstanding
I'll gladly go grab my MG book to quote if you want, or you can go actually read the book
i don't even know what pnp is
are we really fighting over something that i don't know what you mean when you say are we really fighting over the thing
i think i have heard pnp w.r.t. networking technology
i knew it was a thing
fuck you, brain