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Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on December 06, 2012, 04:39:32 pm

Quote from: Greenstarfanatic on December 06, 2012, 12:23:12 pm

Gaming Style: Aggressive. Cheating, Secrets, Hacking, overall being a bitch while playing.

TTRPGs, not video games.
Cheating will be tougher, hacking impossible, and bitchiness punishable by having your drow rogue tossed down the stairs to a hydra.
((Not my drow, my campaign. The drow had killed the NPC cleric I sent with for healing and the others didn't know about the hydra. Still, I have a point.))

You don't know that it's TTRPGs. He doesn't state it.

Quote from: borno on December 06, 2012, 02:26:29 am

You are a gamer, gaming games. It so happens to be game night tonight. What game will you game?

Do we CHOOSE what game we play?

Well, most of us seem to be assuming TTRPG.

I vote whatever roleplaying game we have the books for. "I think I have the GURPS and D&D books on my phone..."

You charge at the nearest man, slicing into his leg with your pickaxe. It doesn't sever the leg, but does bleed. While the others are frozen with shock, you slice at another, missing as he dodges.

((This isn't DF, guys.))

This game was already unforgiving, as evidenced with Maya. But this is now getting horrific XD.

Couple of questions and things!
The storm is likely to cause havoc, sure enough. Considering it's coming for noon tomorrow, does that mean everything will cost twice the amount of manpower for the same results? For instance, I want my hut finished before the storm hits, is that even possible?

Unless you want to have people doing stuff in the storm, they'll get about half as much done. The storm won't be Katrina-level devastation at noon--or ever, actually, since this isn't a Class 5--it'll just be really windy and rainy by that point.
You could complete a hut before the heavy rains and such hit by having fourteen people working on it. It won't be pleasant, but it'll do. (I'm bending the rules a little, but meh. You guys need it.)) However, huts have a fair chance of being destroyed if they're near the coast.

I assume common sense will apply to lessen the effects of the storm. For instance, taking shelter in the jungle/woods than on the coast.

Yup. I really feel sad for those of you on smaller islands...

Just because it's the early game still, I really hope that the effects of this storm doesn't actually last longer than a day. It doesn't bother me as much, but. Being hit with a full blown storm on day 4 is a little... well, put it this way. We'd only have EVER managed to have made 1, MAYBE 2 huts by this point... at the expense of equipment/food/other rather important stuff.

Yeah, normally it would last several days, but as you noted that would be pretty bad at this point. The worst will be over by Day 5.

I also suggest a buff for farms. 18 food is miserable. When you consider how well fishers can do, and then compare the fact that farms is essentially 5 people doing one job, plus maintenance and 2 people on harvest, and then a delayed result from food, I'd expect results greater than 4 fishermen in one day.
Or, in today's case, I would never expect a farm to make less food than 2 fishers, unless the fishers had the highest luck and the farm the very lowest. I could be seeing it differently, mind you. But anyways.

Here's how the math works out on my end.
Assuming an average success, a farm gives 10d6 food (avg. 35) after 6 man-days of work, after waiting 3d6 days. An average success on fishing gives 2d6 (avg 7), which when combined with the fact that fishing has a lower chance of success and requires a canoe...still leaves farming in the dust. Okay, it needs work...
Let's see. A garden should provide at least 20 food per man/day, since it takes an average of 10 days to grow and the closest historical analogue I can think of (the Mayans) needed a farmer:not-farmer ratio of at least 1:1. IIRC. Since it takes 6 man/days, a garden should provide about 35d6 units of food. Maybe make it an even 40d6 food and increase the growing time to 3d8 days, and improve the percentage yield of lower rolls...

TopHat: No, I'm using either AndroiDice or RealDice. Is there any way to get random.org to simulate multiple dice? That comes up surprisingly often.

All others: Good ideas. Here's hoping they work. May the dice be ever in your favor.

In what universe do snowballs go "splotch?"

Anounce the end of days is fast approaching.

You might be right...

Oh, and misko? Nice hidden gender issues.

"What's that tingling? Oh, dear, cops...and giant robots?"

Entangle the giant robots' legs with webs so they fall on the cops!

Summon worms graboids from Tremors
Ride to work

WIFY.

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Mature: You are physically and mentally capable of converting and impregnating mates. To do so you must spend a "Gift" perk. "Gift" perks can be gained by rolling very high, learning new skills, or through other supernatural means. If you create a child it may be born with some traits of it's mother in addition to whatever gift you use to conceive it.
 First Gift: Can be spent to convert or impregnate a mate. The night troll created will have your four physical features. Gifts that grant more than two traits are rare, so this may be worth saving for somebody special.
Gift of Puppetry: Can be spent to convert or impregnate a mate. The night troll created will be bound to follow your commands for as long as you both live. You will be made aware of any major changes to your puppet's health or location.
Gift of Hideousness: Can be spent to convert or impregnate a mate. The night troll created will appear so unatural and ugly that it will almost always elicit a powerful emotional response (typically fear, disgust, or anger) in any mortal who lays eyes on it.

Ah...why is that?

Eventually use the first gift on our firstborn son, but for now tell Gwen and Alice to stop bickering and each argue their case logically. That way, we can make a better decision and can act like we're a logical being.

Guys, do you see any difference in talking about converting and converting? We don't even have a suitable gift for her ATM. But learning about the options is important.  As well as removing Alice's fear

As for the whole spy\trader thing. It may be useful some times but I really prefer a strong trained mage to that as well as mother with wizard genes. Humans are way too fragile and prone to accidental deaths from consorts\sons\other night creature allies and enemies

I think that Alice won't get any  "training" in wizardry from being a night consort, we're not a lot tougher, and how do you suggest we get anything safely that we can't get from the forest if we don't have a human who trusts us? We will need weapons and such eventually. Besides, A. it also gives us a better rep if we don't convert every woman we run across and B. converting Alice means one less kid. Night troll wizard<Wizard+Night Troll, potential wizard.

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Converting Alice serves what purpose? None.

trained mage boosted by a suitable gift = useless, really?

We already have one of those. What we don't have is someone to chat with humans and such. While the gifts could enhance her, see how we're mostly having Gwen use her pre-conversion talents? The Gifts mostly don't help much.