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Quote from: Grim Portent on May 08, 2018, 12:43:56 pm

Expendable mooks are probably the least problematic thing to give to PCs though, at least provided they act they a bunch of cops/private guards rather than obediant robots.

It’s annoying for combat though. I had to end up inflating the size of the fights due to this, just so they felt even slightly threatened.

I suppose. I tend to lean towards fights being difficult if the party goes in unprepared and easy with the appropriate prep or a bit of luck, bar the odd boss fight type scenario where I expect them to either run away quickly or risk a TPK barring luck or devious thinking.

So if the party does their investigating and finds out where the threat of the day is and then goes and reports it to the authorities and go storm the place with support troops I kind of expect them to have an easy time, it's their reward for remembering that there are other people they can go to and use their social skills on rather than rushing in head first and relying on combat talents alone every time they meet a ganger or a cultist or a seditionist noble.

That said the restraints might be more in terms of what having a governor like you actually means rather than making the ability not let you easily befriend one.

Governor's have a lot on their proverbial plate (and often their real one ) and can't just give away stuff to a friend, especially not one who they don't owe any favours to. A foot in the door with important organisations, maybe some higher level contacts in the local military and law enforcement, perhaps a shinier handgun if the governor rules an affluent planet.

Remember that governor's are usually part of a large extended noble family, with in-house and inter-house rivals vying for the governor position, the Administratum pressing them for tithes being maintained or increased, Mechanicus contracts to negotiate and inter-planet trade deals to negotiate in general, planetary cultural matters to attend to, a large coterie of advisors and previous friends and obligations, and a whole host of other things that limit how much aid they can really give this firebrand preacher they've taken a shine to.

It's also possible the governor is just incompetent and basically a figurehead, that happens to sometimes.

One of my goldfish died suddenly. Seems to have been skin cancer that I hadn't noticed.   

It's got me down a bit because my nephew was the one who picked him, so there was a bit of extra sentimental attachment there.

Was trying to take a photo of my snake after he woke from his most recent food coma and he kept following my hands. Seems to be his way of requesting time out of the viv.

Had to keep moving my hands slightly to the right to refocus the camera because he kept shifting forwards just after each time I moved.

Decided to buy Binding of Isaac after a few years of meaning to and never getting round to it. Having a lot of fun, been a while since I've played a game for hours straight without realising.

Of 7 cats, including one who was a blind kitten we rescued from the street when I was a kid living in the middle east, none of the cats I've owned have been unfriendly.

Closest to unfriendly was Bea, but that was because she got weaned too early because the owners of her mom (rural couple outside Berlin I think, mom was a farmcat, dad was a feral tom) wanted rid of her. She wound up with suckling behavior (earlobes in her case) and never properly adjusted to playing without using claws. Where other cats would run up and bap you with their paws and then roll over, she would claw you from ambush and expect you to want to keep playing.

Neighbours who used to live across the street from where I live now had a cat who used to run right up to people in the street and beg for attention. Think she was a Bengal, which would explain her being so friendly. She once jumped in our car boot while we were unloading shopping and strutted back and forth begging for pets, climbed into my lap while I was in the garden. Used to beg my dad for attention too, but he's not really an animal person.

Oscar from next door likes to come to us when we're outside and get clapped and ear scritches as well. Has a weird relationship with our current cat, they get along fine outside but are still very defensive about their houses even though both go in the other house from time to time.

Hell, only unfriendly cat I've met in the past decade is a black and white one I've found in the garden a few times who seems scared of people.

Could swear I've seen manufacturer tech priests referred to as the Ordo Technicus once. Magos Technicus certainly sounds right to me in the same way as Magos Biologis.