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02:14:51 Devastator: might be out reasonably early for the next few weeks.
03:10:41 Devastator: if sneklady is just chatting with priestess bird will probably just sniff around for corpses and try to remember about books.
03:10:47 Devastator: I'll bug
syv if it gets boring. ;-p
03:13:45 Devastator: Also, I love my players, but..
03:13:50 Devastator: "Let’s hurt the left one, as he is at full health right now and the right one is poisoned"
03:14:02 Devastator: Naturegirl, are you trying to avoid defeating oppoenents?
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04:16:09 Devastator: considering turning down the heat a bit in Extinction.
04:16:18 Devastator: due to utter incompetence. ;-p
04:16:30 Devastator: I mean.. I love my players, but god they're bad at it. ;-p
04:18:20 Devastator: maybe one day someone will use Sessha's disable poewr to knock out bosses.
04:18:27 Devastator: I suppose too many JRPGs where that doesn't work.
04:18:51 syv: I've done stuff like Naturegirl's suggesting, when substantially more powerful than enemies. Distribute damage as much as possible to save a round or two of combat.
04:19:15 syv: Or when I have powerful attacks that hit everything, and are thus weaker if I focus down enemies.
04:19:17 Devastator: Not what they need here.. they don't even know how much the wounded one can take.
04:19:30 syv: But yeah, sounds purely dumb here.
04:22:27 syv: On the topic of exotics: Can they be used for payloads, or attachable weapons?
04:23:01 syv: THAT sounds like an eminently reasonable plan.
04:23:42 Devastator: don't forget, you need a lab for it.
04:23:55 Devastator: same with workshop.
04:24:03 Devastator: They're useful, but make sure you know what you want to do with it.
04:28:00 ER: hopefully I still have more than two players in revenant
04:28:23 ER: or maybe that would be fine. I unno. just unsure how I'd dispose of those charcters
04:28:28 syv: Yeah, you can make a gun for a large vehicle in a small lab/workshop, right?
04:29:26 Devastator: mmm, yeah, but it wouldn't be using the [large] research table.
04:29:33 Devastator: I think I'd cap that at +1.
04:30:08 Devastator: It's possible I said otherwise in the past, but I'd expect that'd make sense, really.
04:30:42 syv: Payload would still work normally out of small workshops?
04:31:04 syv: So I could make exotic payloads that work fine in large vehicles, with only small infrastructure?
04:31:11 Devastator: Yeah, payloads are independant of size.
04:31:21 Devastator: they have their own quantity thing going.
04:32:19 Devastator: Why did I make such a complicated game?
04:33:19 ER: because it was totally necessary to make a game about fighting giant monsters ;P
04:33:42 Devastator: and
NJW's still around, so you should at least have the Heinrich.
04:33:57 Devastator: also, if you were in a hurry, our two turns don't exactly advance things. ;-p
04:34:10 Devastator also remembers Aigre's Aigre-fests.
04:34:19 Devastator: now those were complicated games.
04:35:25 ER: 500 jeeps driven by fresh volenteers armed with hand grenades lead by donald trump
04:35:53 Devastator: It's less funny after he had an army of morons storm the capitol.
04:36:14 ER: yeah, it was pretty much that
04:36:25 Devastator: but yes, 500 guys with, what was it, two grenades each?
04:36:45 Devastator: man, resolution of that would have been something.
04:36:58 Devastator: still, some games you just know aren't going to reach that step.
04:37:11 ER: also a just absurdly huge army compared to those of us who tried to build actually balanced teams :P
04:37:55 Devastator: probably better than them, really.
04:38:40 ER: yeah,
sy fixated on the underpriced things
04:39:01 ER: recruits, jeeps, and grenades
04:40:38 Devastator: that warhammer game aborted before I could use my artillery cannon.
04:41:00 Devastator: some things are too glorious for this little world.
04:41:23 Devastator: 'Look, we have six combat characters, equipped for fighting anything. This gives us options we don't have.'
04:41:58 Devastator: ahh, always play things wrong.
04:42:43 ER: for normal heresy, shoot with bolter. for big heresy, call in the basalisk
04:43:56 Devastator: I did like how the AoE and scatter were both so large that it was entirely perfunctory if the crew succeeded on their aim roll or not.
04:44:36 ER: I don't remember something like that
04:44:38 Devastator: if they hit, three shots landed with 30 ft blast radiuses within 2d6 feet of the target.
04:44:51 Devastator: if they missed, three shots landed with 30 ft blast radiuses within 3d6 feet of the target.
04:45:17 Devastator: or 2d6*10, each shot scatters individually, I think.
04:45:53 Devastator: I forget exactly, but the scatter was less than the blast radius.
04:46:32 syv: I think it was four or five grenades each.
04:46:36 ER: that would be a fun way to fuck demons
04:47:34 Devastator: It was more for blowing up buildings without blowing up cities.
04:47:42 syv: I prefer more personal weapons for fucking demons, myself.
04:47:43 Devastator: was Rogue Trader, so we had a ship for big targets.
04:48:10 ER: yeah, targets in between our personal weapons and nuking it from orbit ;p
04:51:18 Devastator: I had some spare money.
04:51:23 Devastator: should have bought a masterwork Basilisk.
04:52:02 ER: it's like a basilisk except covered in gold and skulls
04:52:29 Devastator: but the +10 to hit would be basically meaningless. ;-p
04:52:38 Devastator: I'm sure there were other meaningful mods.
04:52:40 Devastator: just don't know them.
04:52:51 syv: I checked, it was ten grenades each.
04:53:03 syv: 1086 conscripts, each with a jeep.
04:53:12 syv: Four radios to split between them all.
04:53:38 ER: realistically they'd all have smartphones ;p
04:53:52 syv: No, these were the cheapest conscripts I could find/
04:54:01 syv: I was hiring gutter trash with minimum skills.
04:54:25 Devastator: how much did a grenade cost as compared to a conscript?
04:54:41 syv: Jeeps just had a really high drivability bonus, so they were all ace drivers despite having penalties.
04:55:02 syv: Oh wait, nope, they had +0 to everything. Sad.
04:55:10 ER: jesus, there were drivability modifiers?
04:55:59 syv: Grenades cost 30 per. Conscripts cost 1000 per. Jeeps cost the same.
04:56:51 syv: Radios also cost 1000, so I lost out on having 1088 jeeps by giving my troops four radios.
04:57:30 syv: There's also supposed to be food cost for soldiers, but I expected a high casualty rate, so buying food before I won seemed stupid.
04:58:13 Devastator: "Oh, you did better than I expected, I don't have enough pizzas."
04:58:34 syv: That's actually kinda how it went.
04:58:41 syv: Jeeps died in the tens every turn.
04:58:51 syv: Which was laughably minor.
04:59:05 ER:
aigre should have not given us a fight to start out with so that they all had to forage in the woods
04:59:41 syv: I would love to read about homeless zealots trying to hunt deer with nothing but jeeps and grensdss.
04:59:46 Devastator: "Look, we just have a 1024-man tournament between the commoners, and let the winner join the party."
05:00:53 syv: Really though, the most amazing thing about the game was that we had higgins landers... which were space ships.
05:01:03 syv: And our only available logistics vehicle.
05:01:49 syv: I wanted very much to cheese the game just by filling a couple magic flying boats with thousands of grenades, and just flattening the entire theater.
05:02:08 syv: Alas, jeepswarm was funnier.
05:09:22 ER: ordering crabs from tradestar is free, so you buy an order of an orbital drop crate filled with 999 crabs
05:09:32 ER: it explodes and everything die
05:09:49 ER: (mostly due to entity limits)
05:10:52 syv: I genuinely find it a little sad that
Aigre didn't continue that game with the jeeps.
05:11:28 syv: It was really just perfect, dropping a thousand jeeps with explosive-armed zealots inside, in the middle of this very serious milsim.
05:12:30 Devastator: resolving that would have been a nightmare.
05:15:10 syv:
Aigre was just literally insane.
05:23:33 Devastator: yeah, seems likely.
06:38:42 Devastator: well, NG wants to join Revenant.
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06:42:59 Devastator: and
syv banged out a PS update.
06:43:04 Devastator: so been a lot to enjoy.
06:43:37 Devastator: also, have one jar of homemade jelly.
06:43:41 Devastator: going to make it last.
06:44:44 Devastator: work going to be less busy than normal.
06:44:47 Devastator: camps are closed again.
06:45:18 MidJag: Yeah, makes sense I guess
06:45:44 Devastator: yeah, cases are getting a bit up here.
06:45:48 Devastator: not super bad, but they could go there.
06:46:18 MidJag: Yeah, alabama is being a laggared with vaccines of course.
06:46:55 MidJag: Fucking Missipi is beating us.
06:47:04 Devastator: "There's always Missippi."
06:47:11 Devastator: well, they have the dumber senator.
06:47:26 Devastator: up here we were first in the country in distribution rate.
06:47:30 Devastator: then we got a big delivery yesterday.
06:47:48 Devastator: but they're saying we're not going to get the deliveries we were promised for next week.
06:49:41 MidJag: Alabama actually has a decent number of Vaccines, not enough for the state as a whole, but enough to at least start making a dent in the numebrs, they're just been terrible at distributing them.
06:50:11 Devastator: well, up here, we just aren't getting enough yet.
08:16:54 ER: tuna salad with the spicy mustard
08:23:40 Devastator: should cook something nice tomorrow.
08:23:48 Devastator: could do burgers, but might try to learn something new this year.
08:25:23 MidJag: Burgers are always quality.
08:25:33 Devastator: I really have them down now.
08:25:42 Devastator: they're like super unhealthy, but super tasty too.
08:30:18 Devastator: just salt, pepper, chili powder, a bit of garlic, and fry them instead of grilling.
08:30:38 Devastator: put it a bit over medium, use lots of seasoning, and char one side a bit.
08:30:53 MidJag: I'm not sure I've ever had fried burgers.
08:30:53 Devastator: then flip it, turn down the heat a bit, and let it cook through the other side.
08:31:07 Devastator: if you want extra fat, melt some butter and spoon it on top.
08:31:21 Devastator: into the second side while cooking.
08:31:31 Devastator: it's better, really.
08:31:40 Devastator: you can grill them faster, but fried burgers are just so much tastier.
08:32:03 Devastator: be generous with the seasoning, too.
08:32:06 MidJag: I'm a terrible cook honestlly.
08:32:12 Devastator: it's much easier to put too little on than too much.
08:32:21 Devastator: well, this thing is easy enough to learn.
08:32:23 Devastator: if you want to try them.
08:32:34 Devastator: you just need a mixing bowl and a small frypan.
08:34:30 Devastator: give it a good long minute, don't cook on too hot, and make sure you have some place to dump the extra grease.
08:34:36 Devastator: because these are gonna be greasy burgers.
08:34:55 Devastator: but ou can make it a bit hotter to char a little bit to taste.
08:37:06 Devastator: anyway, started cooking them that way when staying at the farm, since they didn't have the stuff for grilling.
08:37:09 Devastator: but they had a frypan.
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09:58:47 Devastator: well, there's NG's charsheet.
10:30:26 ER: doesn't mean it can't be fun to play with, but that character is pretty much just "a person"
10:31:01 Devastator: also 'a talky person'
10:31:19 Devastator: could be played well.
10:31:41 ER: honestly, if you've got +5 to your politics you'll prolly get further than mayor :v
10:47:29 Devastator: well, unless someone stabs you.
10:47:32 Devastator: or a zombie shows up.
10:47:58 ER: there's not much there and what's there doesn't make much sense
10:48:13 Devastator: with that stat line, I think that might be the first human Bird can take in a fight. ;-p
10:49:32 ER: still pretty tanky though just by virtue of being a revenant
10:50:59 Devastator: well, doesn't heal.
10:51:04 Devastator: although I don't think that matters too much.
10:51:43 ER: yeah, once you're bones the very concept of healing starts to become less helpful :P
10:56:31 Devastator: bones don't fly well
11:04:14 Devastator: I see NG's plan of defeating none of the opponents won out.
11:46:05 Devastator: well, they get off their combo.
12:23:41 ER: hm. why am I still here, again?
12:24:04 ER: I really owe it to myself to get some sleep
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