@ionica Ik weet niet, maar als Fisher Investments er in sommige gevallen kennelijk voor zorgt dat je pas met 75+ met pensioen kan gaan, dan laat deze man met baard het maar even links liggen.

(Let's not mention how they dealt with sex in this first game. They redeemed themselves later.)

@jmac On the other hand, you can play how you want! My sergeant spent the entire session putting herself in danger in order to save her troops, and not trying to compete for kills at all. One of the players who didn't have the most kills also randomly levels up, so with a bit of luck that […]

@jmac Then again, the fastest way to gain rank is when your commander dies in the field and you get a field promotion. And your fancy weapons are not especially useful in fights between soldiers. (They kill more aliens, but that have no advantage against humans.) So there's a strong, strong […]

@jmac So you level up if you had most kills. But the system is intentionally unfair. For instance, the corporal starts out with a weapon that kills 2d10 aliens on a hit, while the troopers have a weapon that kills only 2d6 aliens on a hit. If you level up you can increase your fighting skill […]

The other players made an ultra-violent goon; a sarcastic soldier who always knows best; and a hippie space nazi who claims to believe death brings all beings closer to the Real Life. Bunch of fucks. So I made Linda, the sergeant who is leading them, who against all the evidence believes that […]

The system looks pretty focused on combat, and there will be quite some fighting. But it's not really tactical, not like D&D. It's set up to generate conflict between the PCs. Every session, only two of the PCs can progress; in order to make sure that it's you, you've got to get the most kills […]

@bnuyaminim.bsky.social You'd *almost* think that historical periods are not objectively existing facts, but pragmatic classification choices!

@bnuyaminim.bsky.social Wikipedia has a different story: "In the context of the art, architecture, and culture of ancient Greece, the Classical period corresponds to most of the 5th and 4th centuries BC (the most common dates being the fall of the last Athenian tyrant in 510 BC to the death of […]

@jswilkins We have a modal ruler and his name is David Lewis! 😂

@ionica Het is ongeveer drie procent hoger, toch? 😎

@ionica Strange, I thought Oxford was "the Leiden of England"? 🤔

@ionica En mijn huis is het Leidsche Rijn Institute of Advanced Study, natuurlijk.

@cidney Interesting that you call Twine beginner-friendly! I've written choice-based games in ink and ChoiceScript and found them beginner-friendly with very good documentation. But with Twine, I got lost in even understanding what it would mean to choose 'harlowe' or 'sugarcube' or whatever the […]

[Shadow Ticket review]

@slothrop Every page was good individually, they just didn't add up to something bigger -- that was my feeling. I do wonder what he himself thought the point of the book was!

@roddie Don't be fooled; this is an international cheese syndicate telling you to join an outlaw moped tour through the former Austrian-Hungarian double monarchy. It's your shadow ticket!