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F# addresses situations like this: http://studiohunty.com/f-sharp/ In a nutshell I would recommend that you treat it either as "THINKS he's good at everything"...
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Jul 2, 2009
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... This is my position too, and the rationale is simple: his skill pyramid declares unambiguously what exactly he is good at and how good. Consequently the...
Brad Murray
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Jul 2, 2009
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15529
And should a gm interpret "American Hero" as "Thinks he's the american hero but really isn't"? As someone said earlier in the thread, it's his character;...
Jetan
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Jul 2, 2009
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15530
... "American Hero" is not otherwise represented mechanically. -- Brad Murray (halfjack) Expletive deleted....
Brad Murray
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15531
Hi Brad! I'll admit I'm responding on this thread because my SotC players moved away :D. I interpreted "Good at everything" to be the generic adjective...
Jetan
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Jul 2, 2009
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15532
BTW Rian: I'd be interested to hear how you player interaction about this ended up, how the games worked out, etc....
Jetan
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15533
I did a collection of superhero cards and would ask what you think about them? The powers are based on the ones in Mutants and Masterminds game. Any ideas or...
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Jul 3, 2009
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15534
When is Starblazers available in the US?...
scapula42
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Jul 6, 2009
1:21 pm
15535
... It's in preorder at IPR and due to ship out fairly soon (I think the date is a little off, but not by much). ...
Fred Hicks
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Jul 6, 2009
1:28 pm
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... Starblazer Adventures should be hitting US Retail Stores the week beginning 13th July, available from Alliance and most other distributors. Your local...
Gareth-Michael Skarka
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Jul 6, 2009
6:19 pm
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On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Gareth-Michael ... Except mine wont order anything that doesnt come from White Wolf or WotC. :-( -- Jonathan M. Thompson ...
Jonathan Thompson
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Jul 6, 2009
6:23 pm
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... Even if asked? Yeesh. My local stores are the same way -- but they will (grudgingly, with attitude) special order. Personally, I got tired of the...
Gareth-Michael Skarka
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Jul 6, 2009
6:27 pm
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On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Gareth-Michael ... Even when asked, I tried to get them to Special Order Mongoose's Traveller and even with my offering to...
Jonathan Thompson
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Jul 6, 2009
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On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:21:26 +0100, Angus <wombatus_minor@...> wrote: <snip> ... but then comes advancement. Unlike SotC, I am going for a lower power...
Darren Hill
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Jul 8, 2009
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15541
I bought Starblazer Adventures to check out the FATE system primarily and I have come to absolutely love it! But from what I can ascertain Starblazers has...
Robert Grant Erswell
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Jul 8, 2009
2:51 pm
15542
... If those are the metrics by which you're measuring "useful", then I'd say no. Fred...
Fred Hicks
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Jul 8, 2009
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15543
"Good GM advice" is an understatement. The advice in SotC is all geared toward the pulp genre, and it is some of the best I've ever read... and I'm the type...
Stuart Broz
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Jul 8, 2009
4:38 pm
15544
Fred is too modest. SotC comes with a giant slathering of brilliantsauce in terms of GM advice, how to apply the nuances of FATE to given situations and some...
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Jul 8, 2009
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15545
Thanks, Darren -- these are some very cool ideas. :-)...
Angus MacDonald
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Jul 8, 2009
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Thanks for the replies, I am leaning towards getting SotC for the GM advice, having the FATE rules in a digest size and also so I can fully understand most...
Grant Erswell
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Jul 9, 2009
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Hi all, For a while now I've been working on a Mecha/Macross/Robotech game using Spirit of the Century and more recently with Starblazer Adventures. I had...
frunder
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Jul 9, 2009
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15548
It seems to me that transforming should be an Aspect invocation that costs a Fate Point. I don't have much more to add beyond that except to say that you...
Stuart Broz
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Jul 9, 2009
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... I ran into a similar exercise while testing the platoon-scale system for Diaspora -- I wanted to see if I could represent a Steve Jackson-style "Ogre". In...
Brad Murray
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Jul 9, 2009
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15550
Each mode could have 1 or 2 aspects that can be tagged for free per session. Also each veritech could have an extra aspect or stunt like super veritech,...
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Jul 9, 2009
4:13 pm
15551
The "act" of transforming isn't the problem it's about adequately modeling the modes in the system and keeping it congruous with the rest of Starblazer...
frunder
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Jul 9, 2009
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15552
... Very interesting. I think I'm going to go that route for capital ships. Initially I took that approach for each of the modes of the Veritech. It was...
frunder
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Jul 9, 2009
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... In Diaspora we have three separate systems for different scales, and one of them equates skills and stunts through an intermediate "build point" system....
Brad Murray
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Jul 9, 2009
5:37 pm
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... Is this up on the Diaspora wiki? A tangent that I forgot to mention earlier: One of the reasons why I don't want to represent the modes just by aspects is...
frunder
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Jul 9, 2009
5:52 pm
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... Some of it is, but the wiki is pretty old design material now. The current state is far more refined from that text, mostly due to a lot of playtesting the...
Brad Murray
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I have to disagree with Fred who is being far to modest. I love Spirit of the Century and I love Starblazer Adventures, but if someone put a gun to my head...
Declan Feeney
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