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DF Gameplay Questions / Overlapping text in trade screen
« on: July 06, 2023, 04:59:42 pm »
So, I've come back to DF after a looooong hiatus, to discover lots of lovely new things have been done and all that, which is great.  But I am having some visual issues... I'm not considering it a bug, since I'm sure it's just me not setting things correctly, but I got my first caravan and the weight/value is sitting on top of the item description, instead of at the other end of the bar, where there's room.  I had a check in the forumsearch and on google, but apparently my google fu is weak.  Also, anyone know how to get the minimap to sod off? It used to be tab, but not any more.

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General Discussion / Re: [Why] Sssoomebody once told me- (Happy thread)
« on: February 14, 2019, 05:59:12 am »
Soo... I met someone, (but we have to keep it a secret for complicated real life reasons) and i'm feeling pretty good these days. We've spent time together on 5 of the last 7 days and although it's weird and we have to steal a few hours at a go, that's all I need to get me through my days.  We talk all day, every day, at work, at home, wherever.

So yeah, pretty buzzed right now.  and to think I was clinging to my last threads of hope just a mere month ago!

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: February 02, 2019, 05:00:17 am »
Shit's fucked.  Not always in a bad way but, as it tradition, I've found a way to make it bad.  Since the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve, this year has been wild, with me indulging in stuff I never thought I would, meeting new and excellent people and whatnot. I've also become embroiled in a very weird not-really-anything-but-sorta-something with someone.  I've been using the headfuck that this is causing me to try and dampen the miserable gutsick feelings I get everytime I go and see my ex (to see my daughter), but last night I admitted some stuff to her that I admitted on here (and which is a large part of why I'm not allowed to get drunk around people any more), and it really spun things out, and now it feels like I've made everything super awkward and grim.  We're meeting up today before we head down to a local event, but I dunno if I'm just going to feel sick and awful and ashamed, rather than upbeat and glad.  I just worry that I've sucked all the joy out of our friendship.

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I remember reading a tidbit on Ork Genestealers, and I was telling a friend about it, and he said: “How would that work? Isnt Ork DNA just a bunch of tiny Orks chanting the word “Ork” over and over?”

This is now my headcanon for Ork Biology

I told my housemate about this.  He also accepted it as his headcanon.  It's Orks all the way down.

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I'll be watching the braves form conga lines while the fire warriors cheer and shoot magic fireworks into the night sky.
Tau invasion?
Tau liberation.

Tea liberation.

Librarian tearation

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Running into that issue myself. I'm considering whether to run a second game just to try some of these more esoteric systems out.

Fortunately I also have 7th Sea  and Savage Worlds games going on, but I don't want to drop out of my sunday group, even temporarily, even though I'd rather do anything with that time than play 5e.

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General Discussion / Re: Drunk Thread -(Awesome Thread)-
« on: January 14, 2019, 09:34:03 am »
Also, as with any drink including a dairy product, not something you want to get drunk on.

Aww, Bailey's and Bailey's-likes are the only drinks that I can drink neat - everything else is vile.  I'm not a natural drinker, hence cutting it with something, anything, to make the taste better.

Some bold suggestions on here, by the way!

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I stright up vetoed 5e in the recent changing of the GMs in my sunday group.  Problem is, I'm the one who can run a dozen (maybe more) systems at the drop of a hat, and the next broadest GM is the one we're switching out from due to GM-fatigue.  Of the four remaining people, only one fo them could run ANYTHING but 5e.

Just... jesus christ, go and learn other systems. I hate 5e (not least because if you want what 5e is, but better in every conceivable fashion, you should play 13th Age) and it's bothering me that unless I choose to run, I'm going to have to play 5e.

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General Discussion / Re: Drunk Thread -(Awesome Thread)-
« on: January 10, 2019, 06:29:47 pm »
So, I took up drinking a few days before Halloween, and I've told lots of people that I gave up just before Christmas (I don't like drunk me talking to people) but the truth is, I'm drinking shittonnes, I'm just doing it at home, away from people who might have to listen to me talk shit.

I've decided to replicate my favourite drink (for the intersection of cost and taste) which is lemon vodka. Lemon sherbet, + vodka.  Anyone else have any easy-to-make recipes for alcohol that doesn't taste like arse?

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A welcoming attitude of anticipation made me think it wasn't a way of avoiding to say no. How could I stuff my face with disgusting kebab in front of her? Lost appetite and froze into "unable to look at people" mode.

It makes me a little sad to think she might be thinking that I now think less of her, and I'm a little sorry to have stirred her up if that's really the case...

But oh well, 3 days left. I just want to go play Kenshi.

My sad is that I really want to get into Kenshi, but never can.
DD, I'm glad that you, a stranger on the internet, didn't breach my strict (almost puritanical) rules on cheating and cheating-adjacent activities.

It is not understandable or pretty average behaviour, however.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you mildly sad today thread
« on: January 08, 2019, 10:52:06 am »
In space, no one can hear you meme scream.

Seriously though, the franchise is kind of dead to me now.  Alien: Isolation was a rare gem that was apparently a commercial success, which is a true tragedy.

Edit: I need to break my habit of overusing ellipses. Every day I disgust myself anew. It should be one per post, tops, unless I am actually using them to denote omitted text for a change.

Afraid I don't have any helpful advice, but I will say that this is a habit I've had to bludgeon out of myself, as well as the overuse of parentheses for asides that usually could be integrated into whatever sentence I was typing.

It's commas for me. Commas everywhere! Everywhere I tell you. Which is why you'll find none in this post.  I have put my comma allowance for this post below.
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General Discussion / Re: ♪ The Great Music Thread ♫
« on: January 06, 2019, 12:03:05 pm »
Enjoy whistling/humming this for the rest of your life suckers ahahahhahahaha!!
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Checked for a little while before accepting that this doesn't appear to be from anything else.  Bold.

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Eww. That would smell horrible.

And that's the beauty of it. Once the capsule rounds are filled and you've capped off your barrel of fun juice, the smell should go away. Shoot a valuable target. Even if they run some distance away, you can use your robonose to locate them.

My olfactory sensors are returning sensations of disgust and regret, I choose to acknowlege them.

Wait, wrong universe.

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I've never played Shadowrun, but this reminds me of a character I made for a Docwagon game that never happened.  The character was a pilot for some kind of Osprey that had some kind of nonlethal ammo in its machinegun / autocannon mount.  The idea was pretty hilarious, although if I recall it did so much nonlethal damage it somehow (sensibly) became lethal damage.

Too much stun damage rolls over. We can only take so much bruising and shock.

I guess if trolls were real things we could try and find out.

Shadowrun is a setting where it's totally reasonable for someone to put a gun to your head after you've soaked lethal damage into stun and gone down. You're not soaking that hit, chummer.

Also that. A coup de grace is lethal, no matter what.

But you're saying to me that if I shoot a dude in the chest with a pistol a good 4-5 times that's the sorta thing he'll walk away from without any need for medical attention? Sure, we can survive gunshots in real life, and you can survive lethal damage in shadowrun. But we don't just get bruised and quickly recover from gunshots in real life.

Without some basic armour, no, he probably shouldn't walk away from that without assistance, and in my experience of SR he probably wouldn't. 4-5 bullets have almost certainly rolled into the average unarmoured combat character's lethal pool, left them unconscious and pretty buggered, honestly.  SR (blessedly) has no rules (that I recall) for bleeding out/infection/etc after the fact, which is where a lot of gun-related deaths happen, but my understanding of damage in SR is that it never really goes away - a gunshot ends in a scar and little niggles that often stay with you for life, but they don't have a mechanical effect, so we think of the character as "all better now".  Even bullets that hit armour might have cracked a rib, but it's not lethal and your character will roll into action tomorrow without much in the way of penalties, though in a bit of pain.

I did a bit of calculation and a 9L pistol shot with a single extra success will take an average (human) character down in about 3 shots with Lethal, not Stun.  A proper combat junkie could take about 36-40, including all the times they simply ignore the bullet, but assuming they never manage to dodge for some reason.

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DF Suggestions / Re: Cobalt glaze & glass
« on: January 04, 2019, 10:20:16 am »
It's in the plans, and if you look in the raws, Toady mentions it specifically.

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