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C# version coming early 2020, and will be much faster.

Has the creator made an announcement about that? It's been at least 3 or 4 months since the last time I checked the site, and people where speculating that early 2020 was more likely than late 2019, but there wasn't an official time table. It looked like there were a lot of cool updates coming with the C# version, so I'm excited for that.

So I started playing Animal Crossing: New Leaf again, and I've also been playing a lot of Aurora, and it made me think of this thread.
At first I thought the combination was impossible, but after awhile I realized, it's just No Man's Sky isn't it? Mostly single player, exploring lots of different systems looking for resources, doing little tasks for the funny aliens back at your base, customizing your ships and base with various parts, spending way too much money for slightly more storage space.

I think I like my other idea better though. Basically Animal Crossing but in space. Your town is a Solar System, and the residents are Governors. You can research new expansions for the various planets, but each one might take days(they occur in real time, and you have to pay for them), and you fly your ship around the system gathering resources and collecting things and socializing with your governors. Sometimes they'll have tasks like "My planet would like a new (Researched building or collected item)" but it's basically optional. You can also tour your world, your governors' worlds, or visit your friends' systems. I don't know what else. Presumably to borrow more from Aurora, planets can have stats for suitability, mineral and financial wealth, population, and environment.

For sure.  I do wish the chapters had tags so I could actually go back and find stuff.  **Book V discussion ahead, for those not caught up**  For example, I vaguely know the name Nauk, but don't recall much about him.  Would be nice if I could easily find his screen time from the War College or the first battles.  Similarly with Abigail, I want to reread her fight against the Fae, and when she infamously (if unjustly) earned the reputation for eating them, lol.

I really don't remember that much about Nauk either, other than that Cat was really upset that time he almost died, and I at least remember when that was. Also, I think he was the one who couldn't control his rage. Funny thing about Abigail is that I remember her from, I think, the battle of Second Liesse, but she apparently had already shown up and gotten a promotion by then, and I'll have to take Cat's word for it on that. Actually, a lot of what I "know" about both of them is stuff that was brought up in the most recent chapters when describing them, and I'm just like "Uh huh, sure, that sounds right." I remember their names, and the events described sure sound familiar, but if they said that the whole "preventing a riot by giving out beer in Liesse" thing had been Archer's idea instead of Abigail's, I wouldn't be able to contradict anybody.

I like this story, I've just read a LOT of stuff since these previous events happened.

Of course Winter could have done that easily. The ice cracking under you and plunging you into freezing water is explicitly a Winter thing, and easily falls within that domain. I'm not even sure how it works with Night, other than pumping a lot of power into something to break it, and maybe decay and entropy are linked to Night like they are to Winter. I thought it was "cool" that trying to use that much Night power in the middle of the day turned out to be a bad idea. There's probably other uses that are better suited to this new magic, and it should be interesting to see what she can pull off after sunset.

Side note: I'm gonna be disappointed if Cat loses an eye and gets a funny hat. I like the staff because it builds into this priest mystique she's got going on, but I don't want her to become Odin (it happens).

It's one of the three webserials I'm reading right now. I caught up to it, then stopped reading back in like June or July to read The Gods are Bastards, and once I finished binging that (which seriously took me 6 months without really reading anything else), I went back to PGtE. I love them both. Also, the authors are both big fans of each other, which I think is great. I think I've got to reread at least the first couple books (or up to whenever Second Liesse is), because there's a lot of stuff I've forgotten, but if I do that, it'll actually just be because I want to read the parts about Arcadia again.

Part of me wants to make a Crusader Kings mod for it, but I seriously don't have the attention span to even figure out how modding the map for that game works. Any time they start talking about princedoms and duchies, though, I get that itch.

I think Class X was a developing situation, there's a handout on alert levels on Roll20. Basically, it's one where there's not enough information to assign it a more specific number. I'm a lot more particular about when I can play, but that's why I joined a west marches game anyway. My schedule doesn't really allow me to say I'm available at the same days every week. If the timing doesn't work out that often, I'll still try to do some downtime stuff so people aren't surprised I exist when I do get in a mission.

All of those alerts look interesting to me. A dice roll suggests I vote for the pirate outpost though, if that's how we're deciding. Obviously I don't think it should count if I can't be there.

I have discord. You could also create an IC thread on the game's Roll20 page. That might not get seen as much as here or discord though, since somebody could go straight from Recent Games to Launch Game, without really stopping at the front page.

I like the council soldier idea. There's another game I'm playing where I'm basically your standard Good Soldier, and I personally think it's fun.

So, my character is a sort of wandering hacker named Pisces who's placed herself into the Phoenix Project. Only now I'm not sure why. I want to play a role where I'm using spying and precognition to pinpoint targets for the group, using Truesight and occasionally my Observant perk to try to detect traps and maybe logic to disarm them, and bolster to boost my allies in combat, or maybe my drone, but I want to be a team player.

So now I have to figure out why a hacker who's scared of getting hurt and is constantly covering her tracks would join a government organization sending teams into dangerous areas. Best I've got is that she's interested in trying to figure out Andromedan computer systems, but there's a lot of concerns there. First, that's not a real goal. But maybe I'll change it to something audacious like reactivating an Andromedan scout ship and keeping it secret from the authorities (which honestly sounds like a terrible idea to me because it would attract WAY too much attention). On the other hand, her past is completely unwritten, other than that she has ties to information brokers and has a completely harmless background on record. Maybe she's looking for her parents or family. At the very least, I know that she wants to work with people because information alone isn't enough, and she needs close ties to people who are capable in other ways. I can't figure out what she needs those ties for though. She's not prone to being straightforward though, so if it comes down to it, maybe I'll just keep it a secret (even from myself) until we learn more about the setting.

So far though, I really like Tau and the Wract. I figure that as a fan of robots and computers, (and because I'm personally pro-AI) Pisces likes artificial intelligence, and would feel somewhat excited about meeting what could be considered a rogue AI. Plus it's a cat. I don't know if she's ever seen a cat before, but cats are great and robots are great. As for the Wract, they're very interesting. She shares the value of being willing to break the law and cross barriers to achieve your goals, while minimizing attention, and definitely has no problems with lying, but doesn't like the idea of assassination. She probably views backstabbing in a sort of "It's just business" way. I found that bio to be very interesting it got me thinking about what her own values would be.

I think something like that system could work.
Maybe 4 hours, and it's more that each 1 unit could be a day's worth. So if you roll well, you've got enough wood to keep warm for 3 nights.
I wouldn't include stone unless you're specifically trying to build something. What I'm thinking is that most of the players would be the kind of people who travel often, or don't do their own construction, so I wouldn't want these checks to take all day. I'd also make finding game more interesting though. A check to see if you find something, DM decides (maybe rolls on a chart, or 10 is small game, 15 and 20 are larger?) to see what you found, and you take the shot. Either you kill it, wound it and it attacks or runs away but is easy to follow, or miss it and it attacks or escapes. Then you get however much meat and a fur.
I suppose if you want to play a game where you just settle down and try to build a farm, that's fine. I know there's appeal to that, and for anybody interested, there's a game called UnReal World which is a survival game in Iron Age Finland which is basically all of that. Farming, hunting, fishing, gathering berries and mushrooms, building various shelters, and panicking while trying to build a fire because the ice cracked and you barely made it back to shore.

I think of the survival aspect as something you do while investigating what's been killing seacattle and leaving eviscerated corpses on the shore, or while tracking down Flintless Dave, who kills people after they've set up camp so that he gets their valuables and a warm place to sleep. That and specific situations like when you notice a blizzard is coming in and you've gotta either weather it outdoors, requiring turning your sled into a shelter and having enough food and wood, or remember that you know a farmer or rest stop nearby and impose upon them to let your group stay there. Maybe they've got enough food, and hopefully everybody can keep from killing each other before the storm passes.