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Basically, I wanted to try my hand at Modding, and noticed the fact GG isn't able to run his, and thought "Eh, why not."

So, without further gibgab, here're the rules!

7 players max.

Character Creation:
Name: Quite clear. If you can't get this right, you aren't fit to play.
Equipment: You get 6 pieces of gear. They can be anything from the basic copper pick to end game Sunfury, although don't be gettin yer hopes up for the latter.
Name 6 pieces of equipment - Basic equipment, you get. Iron tier takes a get roll,  Silver tier takes a -1 penalty to the roll, gold tier -2, and anything above that gets either a -3, or I can say "lolnope. You ain't godmode," to.
For things that stack, it's in regards to max stack size, so specify! 10% is guaranteed, 40% on -1, 70% on -2, 100% on -3. Additionally, the tier rules still apply. That means you get a -6 to rolls for poisoned knives... I doubt your chances.
Each life heart or mana star counts as a piece of iron equipment instead of a stack.

The bonuses various weapons apply may vary from what's in game to suit an ArrTeeDee better.

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Battle Mechanics:
You default to one attack per turn. However, you can add (an) extra attack(s) with a cost based on speed, capped at 4.
Very Slow Weapons have a penalty of -5
Slow is -4
Average is -3
Fast is -2
Very Fast is -1

Weapons with piercing will get additional free attacks upon success until an attack misses, the weapon runs out of pierces, or it runs out of enemies (once per enemy zone), with a -1 to the roll per each additional pierce. And melee weapons can hit multiple enemies, but they can never hit the same enemy more than once.

Specials:
Extra Attack - Launch an additional attack. -weapon speed to rolls.
Target - Choose which enemy or enemy section you want to hit above all others. -1 to rolls to hit others, +1 to hit target
Careful - No chance of horrible rolls harming teammates allies. -1 to rolls.
_{I reserve the right to reject characters or actions that I find inappropriate for this RTD. I also reserve the right to adjust certain rolls in the name of the plot. These will be clearly marked in blue text. By signing up to this RTD, you agree to not express offense at any of the content. And references to famous personages are made without permission, and are entirely in parody. By signing up a character or joining the waitlist, you agree to these terms.}

It's weird. Every once in a little while, my laptop has this weird problem where it can connect to bay12forums, but nothing else, and I can't for the life of me figure out why, or how to fix it other than a restart.

EDIT: More information: Chrome is giving the error: The server at images.google.com can't be found, because the DNS lookup failed. I can't tracert anything, when I try to I get "unable to resolve target system name images.google.com.

DOUBLEEDIT: It was Hamachi. Disabling it made the problem go away.

So. Not 24 hours ago, those sneaky bastards over at Ice-Pick Lodge released their third and latest game, Cargo! without announcing it to the world.

[I'll put screenshots and shit here once it's downloaded.]
In the mean time, I'll describe what I've understood from various sources (Including RPS, so you know the good guys love it.) goes a bit like this.

The Gods are displeased with humanity. They want the world to be a place of joy and happiness, and humans, being the egocentric douches they are, are ruining it for the rest of us. So, they punish humanity. And go a bit overboard. The planet is splintered into a chain of floating islands, where gravity is a thing of the past to everyone but a group of strange creatures called BUDDIES. And a mysterious material called FUN.(The only metagag you are ever liable to see in a video game.)
You play as a human who found a priceless set of machines which somehow retained their gravity, and are trading them with the BUDDIES for FUN so they can repair Earth.

Steam Link: http://store.steampowered.com/app/41740/
Ice-Pick Forums thread: http://forum.ice-pick.com/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=9752
RPS Link: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/06/04/non-vanilla-ice-pick-lodge-cargo/

So, I was listening to the radio, and I heard an interesting bit on Allen's show. He was talking about retirement. More exactly: How he thought it wouldn't be the Bermuda shorts, 4 days of golfing, umbrella-in-a pina colada that the world makes it out to be.

So what do you think about retirement? Bliss, or bust?

Yes, another one. Because the game is fucking awesome. We'll be playing with Classic Mode, so no Conservative Crime squad, because they are asses, undoing all I work for, Hardcore mode, because it's more fun working from the bottom, and No Compromise Classic, because Elite Liberal is the only way to go.

Since I don't want to deal with the nightmare of choices you would be bound to give me, I chose the history myself. Update's images

His name was Bartholomew Critchley.

Our hero was born the day the Mac was made. (C)

Every time he got into trouble, his parents didn't care enough to do anything but take his toys, but he found a solution to that soon enough. (A)

The leader to-be spent elementary laughing it up. (E)

At the poor age of 10, his parents got into increasingly bad fights. They despised each other, until one day, one of them snapped. (C)

After elementary school, he got into gaming, but that cost him his social status. (D)

His parents in desperation sent him to religious counseling. But that only made the problem worse. (D)

Before much longer, he began to take over peoples minds. He learned how to make them dance a puppeteer's dance. (E)

At the ripe age of 15, the boy, becoming a man, left his family for violent alley scum. (B)

When he turned 18, a rifle was bought. (B)

The leader spent his time, growing in skill, and stealing from corporate fiends. (A)

Liberalism is but forgotten. Yet, a glimmer of hope stands in the pool of darkness cast by the shadows of the demon president, Walter Bremer.

In 2009, the Liberal Crime Squad was founded, by a man known to himself as Bart Critch, but to the world as breadbocks.

I am he.

If you want a person, just give me a shout, and tell me what sort of jobs you want him to do, and I'll see what I can do. First person to suggest one gets the slogan.

So, shall we play Liberal Crime Squad?

So, about an hour ago I made a demigod (I think hero could work too... Not sure.) character, with a superior ability. Specifically, social awareness. He had no combat skills of any use for actual combat, no strength. None of that. Just capped off social awareness. So, he got a quest from his home town, and off he went to the nearest fort. There, he recruited every damn soldier in sight. They went off to complete the quest. They butchered the poor 3 bandits.

So, has anybody tried this on bigger/more powerful creatures? If so, did it work?

There have been threads about favorite song to listen to beyond count, and I figured it was time for some variation. And since there are musically talented people here in legions, I thought "Why not?".

What is your favorite song to play? Symphonic and solo/small groups are both acceptable.

My personal favorite, so far, has been Dark Fortress by Rob Grice. The Alto part is insanely fun, at 150BPM. Of course, Pinnacle by the same sounds funner, so I'm planning on getting together with my friends some time and learning to play it.

Just started watching Gurren Lagann and the character who made the show for me, Kamina died. 8 episodes in. 

So. Who's death in any medium except real life has been the most soul crushing for you?