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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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.