juberberry
Journeyman Douchebag
Posts: 132
Preferred Game Systems: Traveller, VANGUARD, Shadowrun 4, CP2020
Currently Playing: Traveller - rarely
Currently Running: Traveller, Shadowrun 4, VANGUARD
Favorite Species of Monkey: Ressus
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Post by juberberry on Oct 1, 2013 9:24:05 GMT -8
Hi Everyone I am back on one of my rare updates and I've got something new for you. Recently one of my players started looking at the "Personal Drones" and thinking along the lines of "Hey, these could be very useful!" and started modifying hers. She bought 3 personal drones and at this point has attached all sorts of things to them, swapping whatever it was around as the situation demanded. Think similar to a Drone Rigger in Shadowrun. The character is very technical with points in Electronics, Mechanic, Cybernetics, Robotics and just about any other skill that would be necessary. I kept Yes-Anding the situation as it allowed her character to be relevant in situations where she would just be dead weight. I kept meaning to go start looking for a simple solution on how to handle the drones. Finally last week I looked at both the 13Mann and MgT Robot books and really didn't find what I was looking for. Specifically: A simple system my player could easily grok and use to easily and quickly redefine the role of her drones. The actual refits may take a week of game time - but I didn't want the mechanics to take a week since a week in Jump-space is easy to hand wave. So, as a result I went ahead and sketched these out. Use them or not as you'd like. They seem to be working well for my games. Traveller Customizing Personal DronesAlso, here is a record sheet I created for the drones. Fillable PDF Drone Record Sheetedit - I just added the files to the post itself as well.
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juberberry
Journeyman Douchebag
Posts: 132
Preferred Game Systems: Traveller, VANGUARD, Shadowrun 4, CP2020
Currently Playing: Traveller - rarely
Currently Running: Traveller, Shadowrun 4, VANGUARD
Favorite Species of Monkey: Ressus
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Post by juberberry on Oct 1, 2013 9:19:40 GMT -8
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juberberry
Journeyman Douchebag
Posts: 132
Preferred Game Systems: Traveller, VANGUARD, Shadowrun 4, CP2020
Currently Playing: Traveller - rarely
Currently Running: Traveller, Shadowrun 4, VANGUARD
Favorite Species of Monkey: Ressus
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Post by juberberry on Oct 1, 2013 9:00:48 GMT -8
Tell me about it!
I'm sitting here and the KS updates are coming in almost faster than I can read the emails.
Someone prepped all these emails in advance and put them in a drafts folder or something.
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juberberry
Journeyman Douchebag
Posts: 132
Preferred Game Systems: Traveller, VANGUARD, Shadowrun 4, CP2020
Currently Playing: Traveller - rarely
Currently Running: Traveller, Shadowrun 4, VANGUARD
Favorite Species of Monkey: Ressus
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Post by juberberry on Oct 1, 2013 7:05:53 GMT -8
Reaper Mini's has started a second BONES Kickstarter! I missed the first but am looking forward to the second. BONES II Kickstarter
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juberberry
Journeyman Douchebag
Posts: 132
Preferred Game Systems: Traveller, VANGUARD, Shadowrun 4, CP2020
Currently Playing: Traveller - rarely
Currently Running: Traveller, Shadowrun 4, VANGUARD
Favorite Species of Monkey: Ressus
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Post by juberberry on Aug 26, 2013 9:40:40 GMT -8
I backed the kickstarter and I feel like I got what I backed. I enjoyed the campaign as it was very well written and I wasn't looking for a sandbox experience. I am looking forward to two projects. 1: The reboot of the original SNES game. 2: the project where a whole lot of community people are incorporating all the material out there for SR4 (iirc) into one very long campaign. Keep an eye on the Steam Community Good things are coming.
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juberberry
Journeyman Douchebag
Posts: 132
Preferred Game Systems: Traveller, VANGUARD, Shadowrun 4, CP2020
Currently Playing: Traveller - rarely
Currently Running: Traveller, Shadowrun 4, VANGUARD
Favorite Species of Monkey: Ressus
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Post by juberberry on Aug 26, 2013 7:53:32 GMT -8
I went ahead and backed this. The creator is very passionate and he has an alpha available for backers.
The alpha is stable and already has quite a few features. I love Roll20 and G+ but I have to admit this looks so slick it's likely to pull me away from G+ and Roll20.
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juberberry
Journeyman Douchebag
Posts: 132
Preferred Game Systems: Traveller, VANGUARD, Shadowrun 4, CP2020
Currently Playing: Traveller - rarely
Currently Running: Traveller, Shadowrun 4, VANGUARD
Favorite Species of Monkey: Ressus
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Post by juberberry on Aug 23, 2013 13:08:49 GMT -8
I am waiting anxiously for my Golden Sky Stories fulfillment. I've recently started playing some games with my 7 year old son and he is *not* a prodigy lol. It morphed into some strange combination of Pen & Paper with LARP elements from him. All said he had a great time. I used a very loose interpretation of the Microlite 20 system.
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juberberry
Journeyman Douchebag
Posts: 132
Preferred Game Systems: Traveller, VANGUARD, Shadowrun 4, CP2020
Currently Playing: Traveller - rarely
Currently Running: Traveller, Shadowrun 4, VANGUARD
Favorite Species of Monkey: Ressus
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Post by juberberry on Aug 23, 2013 13:01:18 GMT -8
A very cool article!
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juberberry
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Posts: 132
Preferred Game Systems: Traveller, VANGUARD, Shadowrun 4, CP2020
Currently Playing: Traveller - rarely
Currently Running: Traveller, Shadowrun 4, VANGUARD
Favorite Species of Monkey: Ressus
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Post by juberberry on Aug 15, 2013 2:47:12 GMT -8
They also have a G+ group and the developer is very open to discussing the product.
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juberberry
Journeyman Douchebag
Posts: 132
Preferred Game Systems: Traveller, VANGUARD, Shadowrun 4, CP2020
Currently Playing: Traveller - rarely
Currently Running: Traveller, Shadowrun 4, VANGUARD
Favorite Species of Monkey: Ressus
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Post by juberberry on Aug 9, 2013 3:22:51 GMT -8
I knew I could count ion the HJ crew!!!
Thanks guys - these are perfect!
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juberberry
Journeyman Douchebag
Posts: 132
Preferred Game Systems: Traveller, VANGUARD, Shadowrun 4, CP2020
Currently Playing: Traveller - rarely
Currently Running: Traveller, Shadowrun 4, VANGUARD
Favorite Species of Monkey: Ressus
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Post by juberberry on Aug 8, 2013 17:02:13 GMT -8
Running a dark dystopian future game in which the PCs are cleaning out a drug flop house and being charged by a bunch of people in ridiculous costumes. They're crazed junkies, so no firearms.
These aren't quite Mooks, think Mooks +1. - A man dressed in a big bird costume with straight razors that mutters "Bok bok bok" as he lunges at the PCs
- A Fantasy Barbarian ala Conan - armed with a replica sword from the movie
- A Circus Clown (ala Pennywise) - armed with an Axe pained like a sunflower
- A grown man in a child's Bat Man costume (ala Gotham City Imposters) - weapon unknown
- A woman rocking a Jester costume with a club covered in jingle bells and spikes.
- A giant fat man rocking a Tinky Winky costume (spilling out at the middle) and wielding a giant black pyrex dildo
- A scrawny tweaker chick dressed as the Hamburgler. Weapon unknown
- A middle aged man with a potbelly in a womans "Sexy Pirate" costume with a giant fucking scimitar cut from sheet metal. To confuse matters he shouts "Hassaaaan Chop!"
I need thoughts on the costume and weapon combinations.
I also need melee weapons for Batman, and the Hamburgler
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juberberry
Journeyman Douchebag
Posts: 132
Preferred Game Systems: Traveller, VANGUARD, Shadowrun 4, CP2020
Currently Playing: Traveller - rarely
Currently Running: Traveller, Shadowrun 4, VANGUARD
Favorite Species of Monkey: Ressus
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Post by juberberry on Aug 7, 2013 3:45:07 GMT -8
Traveller: You try to lift the rock. It turns out the rock is an alien artifact that turns flesh to toast. You spend the next three sessions as a sentient piece of toast until your mind is transferred to a positronic brain. Since all you can afford is the brain itself, the other players hook you up to the ships computer. Unfortunately you crash trying to make a cup of tea.
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juberberry
Journeyman Douchebag
Posts: 132
Preferred Game Systems: Traveller, VANGUARD, Shadowrun 4, CP2020
Currently Playing: Traveller - rarely
Currently Running: Traveller, Shadowrun 4, VANGUARD
Favorite Species of Monkey: Ressus
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Post by juberberry on Aug 6, 2013 14:48:22 GMT -8
I have tried getting through the WoT series on two seperate occasions. I tried reading the series in paperback in the early 2000's and could not slog through book three.
About a year ago I got a chance to borrow the audiobooks from a friend. I figured "Well at least I can listen to them while doing other things around the place." Half way through book four I found myself contemplating my nail gun as a method for shutting the guy reading this drivel the hell up.
Needless to say I found other things to listen to - like a second helping of the backlog!
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juberberry
Journeyman Douchebag
Posts: 132
Preferred Game Systems: Traveller, VANGUARD, Shadowrun 4, CP2020
Currently Playing: Traveller - rarely
Currently Running: Traveller, Shadowrun 4, VANGUARD
Favorite Species of Monkey: Ressus
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Post by juberberry on Aug 6, 2013 13:54:00 GMT -8
If this has already been linked - I apologize.
OD&D: If you're strong enough, you lift the rock.
D&D 3.x: If you're strong enough, you lift the rock. If you like lifting rocks, you should check out this new prestige class based around rock-lifting.
D&D 4: All classes can lift the rock. They just do it differently.
Rolemaster: Roll to lift the rock. Now roll on the "rock lifting fumble table." Your arms fall off and bone shards impale two of your friends.
GURPS: Calculate the weight of the rock, your carrying capacity, your own weight, and the modifiers for terrain. Then roll to lift the rock.
Vampire: Roll to lift the rock. If you botch, you drop it on your foot and betray to the world the travesty of humanity you've become.
Mouseguard: It's not whether you lift the rock; it's what you lift the rock for.
Fate: If you're strong enough, you lift the rock. If you're not, maybe the rock killed your parents or saved your life. Spend a fate point and lift the rock.
Mutants & Masterminds: If you're strong enough, you lift the rock. If not, use a power to lift the rock. Any power. Fish telepathy, maybe. Go crazy.
Car Wars: Lifting a rock would entail getting out of your car. Don't do that.
Apocalypse World: Roll Under Fire to lift the rock. If you fail, Spacedog and his gang shoot you in the face.
Smallville: How much do you love the person trapped under the rock? Do you also love justice? Roll both those things to lift the rock.
Leverage: Roll to lift the rock. You succeed. But you rolled low, now Carmichael's men are coming to investigate!
Lady Blackbird: How badly do you want to lift the rock? Roll that. If you succeed, play out an emotional scene with the rock to get your dice back.
Nobilis: You lift the rock and reveal the gaping maw that is the darkness beneath the universe. It takes your shadow from you, and you understand that nobody has ever loved you like your shadow loved you, but it is too late. A thing lifted can never be put down again.
Danger Patrol: Do you want to lift the rock? Or do you want to lift a rock... in space? While it's on fire? And monkeybots are trying to pull off your head? And you're soaked in rocket fuel? Is that enough DANGER FOR YOU??
Legend of the Five Rings - Bent down to lift rock, rough and gray in crystal beauty, you don't notice death.
Exalted - Before you can lift the rock, you have to go on RPGnet and discuss the best Charm build so that you're doing it right. Then you realize the mechanics are all broken. You eventually give up and move on to other things, but damn was that rock pretty.
Cthulhutech - The rock tries to rape you. It's all brutal and dark and scary. You can't do anything about it.
Paranoia - The other members of your team shoot you for trying to engage in unassigned activities with the property of the Computer.
HERO Games (4ed) - Multislot: Rock - (5 points) * +1d6 HA (m10 points), 1d6 EB (m10 points). You go and check if your math is right, but give up.
FATE - You demand your GM give you a Fate Point for acting on an Aspect's compel that requires you to pick up that rock!
Rifts - You bend over to pick up the rock. The rock is made of MDC material! You throw it through at a barn. The barn collapses. You sell broken fragments of MDC road asphalt as weapons of mass destruction.
Mage the Ascension - You pick up a rock. Were there witnesses? Were they Sleepers? The implications of each option boggle your mind.
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay - You pick up a rock. You develop horrible mutations and an urge to worship the daemons whispering in your head. Maybe the events are related; it's hard to say.
Shadowrun: Spend two hours with your team planning who will lift the rock and who will provide cover fire. Once the rock is engaged it turns out you underestimated its mass and the plan falls apart, so you just struggle and kick your way through. When you report your sloppy but successful execution of the mission to Mr Johnson, he fucks you over.
Fighting Fantasy: You lift the rock. Test your Luck. If you are unlucky, it falls and crushes you to the ground. Your quest ends here.
Changeling: the Dreaming - You pick up a rock. It's a Chimerical rock, so nobody else notices it. You throw it at someone, but it passes through him. You crumple up like a character sheet in a game nobody wants to play.
Mechanical Dream - You pick up a rock. Something something dreams, something something reality, something something psi-fi. It's really cool and pretty, but doesn't seem to really make any sense. Of course, you probably shouldn't be listening to rocks.
7th Sea - You pick up a rock because you're a pirate! You're not a pirate! You are too a pirate, there's a boat behind you and everything! You are not a pirate damn it! Are so! Are not!
Unknown Armies - You pick up a rock. As long as you hold the rock, you have power. But once you let go of it, the power is lost. So who has the power, the rock or you? Meanwhile, somebody has invented a piece of technology that has been sold worldwide to everyone for decades if not centuries, making the rock obsolete.
Over the Edge - You pick up a rock. It's a sentient time-traveler bent on conquering the Celebrity Poker circuit with your help. But that's really a cover, since it's really an acolyte of the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu. Of course, once your realize that's a lie, the rock has already sold you out to the global Freemason conspiracy.
Ars Magica - You pick up a rock. 187 years ago, this rock was a stone in the Covenant of your teacher. Let's explore the magical history this rock has seen.
F.A.T.A.L. - You pick up a rock. You degenerate misogynist you.
Creations End - You pick up a rock. It's basically the same rock as the AD&D or Palladium rocks, but with a few minor differences. It crumbles apart as you try to look at it though. No one notices.
Scion - You pick up a rock. It's basically a kludge of that Exalted rock with that Aberrant rock. You throw it at a monster and hope it hits him before falling apart into pieces.
Barbarians of the Aftermath - Before you can pick up a rock, first you have to roll on some tables. Then some other tables. Then some more tables. A few more tables. A lot more tables. A lot more tables. A few more tables. Go back and roll on some more tables. Now your rock is a tentacled chair singing praises to Shiva in binary. It's really kinda' awesome.
Kult - You have a rock. God hates you.
Kerberos Club - You roll to pick up the rock using your all-purpose Strange Skill.
Trail of Cthulhu - You automatically pick up the rock because there is a clue underneath. You make a 1-Point Geology spend to realize the rock is a part of the world and part of something so much larger and more important than your pitiful human scale. Your mind shatters and you run gibbering down the streets of Massachusetts.
Don't Rest Your Head - You roll to pick up the rock. Exhaustion succeeds, but Pain dominates. You reach for the rock but are overcome by exhaustion. In your hand, the rock becomes a poisonous rock crab. The street laughs at you, as your blood runs into a hungry gutter.
Fiasco - You pick up the rock trying not to think about how bad this is all going to end up.
Strands of Fate - Build the physics of the entire universe from the ground up. Once that's done, pick up the rock.
JAGS Wonderland - Try to pick up the rock. Descend to the first chessboard instead. Pick up the rock's Shadow which drools on you. Meanwhile, back in the real world, your Reflection drools on the rock.
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juberberry
Journeyman Douchebag
Posts: 132
Preferred Game Systems: Traveller, VANGUARD, Shadowrun 4, CP2020
Currently Playing: Traveller - rarely
Currently Running: Traveller, Shadowrun 4, VANGUARD
Favorite Species of Monkey: Ressus
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Post by juberberry on Aug 6, 2013 12:40:09 GMT -8
My inner 15 year old was pissing himself laughing so hard.
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