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Anyways....

I need to name my nation, don't I? Let's go with the Great Wyoming Government.

Humans have done much, much worse IRL. Typically in times of duress, but not always. And let's not get into what individual humans do...

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on March 21, 2013, 06:06:58 pm

Number one: We have a river, not the ocean. It may be the Mississippi, but it's the Mississippi in central Minnesota at best.

Number two: What justification do we have for a full-fledged navy for a river in the middle of the nation? Especially since the river only passes through our nation.

Number three: We are a knight who lives inland. What possible justification do we have to make an expedition down the river and to the open ocean to find national enemies?

1 and 2: Because we were attacked via that same river.

1. Really, how can you expect our little river to hold an armada and still let trading ships pass?
2. And we fought them off without any ships.

3: I said it served other purposes too. Exploration, trade, political. Generally commodities from other countries are worth quite a bit. Alliances could be made and developed as well as new land mapped for possible colonies (or nothing, or whatever, as the king desires it really.)

Those are national issues, not local.

And also, as a knight and land owner of a country, isn't our job to look out for the countries best interests as well as net assets for said country.

And it's also our job to expect the king to be able to do his own job. If we tried to go all international-relations without even consulting the king, it's like a slap to the royal face.

Honestly I am surprised. You all act as if we weren't just attacked from navy vessels. I am very confident that we only drove them back because we were lucky and had shear quality troops. If our little ambush hadn't worked as well as it did the enemy would have skated into a very underguarded city (only town watch was left behind when we launched the attack) with absolutely no resistance.
We are rather reactive. Not very proactive.

I'm actually acting like we should do our job and not tread on the king's toes.

Number one: We have a river, not the ocean. It may be the Mississippi, but it's the Mississippi in central Minnesota at best.

Number two: What justification do we have for a full-fledged navy for a river in the middle of the nation? Especially since the river only passes through our nation.

Number three: We are a knight who lives inland. What possible justification do we have to make an expedition down the river and to the open ocean to find national enemies?

1. And how many is that, hm?
2. Is it even our place to be launching expeditions?

You collect a wide variety of artifacts. Your lair is in fact a giant museum full of your collected exhibits.

[2] You'd kinda like to, in the same way you'd kinda like to become emperor.

Though your twin sister is evil, you don't let it get in the way of a healthy family relationship between the two of you. You accept each other's different views of the world and occasionally visit each other on friendly terms.

[4] You don't always get along well, but this doesn't get in the way of getting along amicably.

One of the side effects of slowly breaking down is you starting to feel extreme cold, while you should normally not be concerned about temperature at all. You spend significant portions of winter huddled in your lair under several large blankets.

[5] It's strange. Several years back--around the time you lost your toe?--you felt something you'd never felt before--cold. It's an unpleasant sensation. When you're cold, you slow down and down...if you get too cold, you freeze solid until someone comes by to thaw you. To avoid this, you spend winter huddled up until the weather is warmer.

GWG, you do realize the more you argue with and whine to Ghaz, the slimmer your chances of ever getting back in/not being completely banned from these threads becomes?

Whine, I can see that, but I haven't done much of this. This is more arguing.
As for arguing...if the whim of the GM can sweep aside all concerns of fairness or logic, do I really want to play?
(Perhaps I'm making the error of imagining Ghazkull feels as I do on player comments.)

Now,
The Knife shattered here on account of a roll i did. You rolled a 2 the Knife broke simple as that, that on top of what Iituem said: what fits the roll. The Knife shattering is also an obvious GM tip, being as obvious as "let's pool our rolls together and severe the connection at once" won't work. Oftimes mere actpower won't save your ass, go creative about it.
The Game is run not on rules but mostly on account of what makes for good story or interesting !!FUN!! stuff, but that should have become obvious by now.

It makes for a good story to waste acts on something that was being discussed for a while and you just said was impossible?

EDIT: and GWG in some games i agree GM-Fiat is not really good/wanted/necessary/useful but in games like this GM-Fiat is the Name of the Game.

Firstly, I fail to see why "games like this," or any games, need to run on GM Fiat. Secondly, GM Fiat doesn't mean that all logic should or even can be ignored. Thirdly, there are an awful lot of numbery rules for a fiat-based game...

But do you really want to fight Sabt-Golgo, Aldemas, Vanida, and Udil?
Two of which have really powerful weapons designed to obliterate Gods(or more specifically VoidBeasts)

Five versus four, and that's assuming Sabts shows and the Ascendants don't. And don't forget the Crowborn, smartest guys in the galaxy, or the possibility of getting more on their side being slightly greater than it is for Udil's. *cough*Catalyst*cough* Pretty decent odds.

Frig that, we need the Terrans-they aren't Protoss. Hell, they aren't Protoss.

They're Tyranids. And none of us fit the Imperium, Eldar or Tau.

Maybe a little WAAAGH would help?
Or, since they're actually daemons...anyone want to take the mantle of God-Emperor? Other than Udil?
...Wait, Udil would make a great Emperor! And I'm not just saying that because of the Golden Throne.

Research Minie ball

Research WHAT?

The major/minor actions thing are to cull things like the event where the Russians would invite the Japanese over.  I'd rather have them say they would like to start a military alliance, not the trade of materials and people.

Why, what's wrong with what we've been doing?