Recent content by gepetto

Except that IS true. Our average age of covid death is 78. Average life expectancy is 78.5 here. Pretty much everyone who it got was going to die this year anyway and its only costing half a year of life on average. Nearly everyone who is killed or seriously harmed is in thier 70s or later...

Cool, I'll give it a try then. thx

How is alien? Theres a guy here in town that just started up a game looking for players and I was thinking of trying it. I love the franchise, havent heard much about the mechanics though. Oh and other then my Hunter game I just bought a strategy game called age of wonder planetfall thats...

I didn't find any of those examples to be the equal, much less superior to a situation created solely and entirely by events that happened during previous sessions of actual shared play.

You mean all those people your character ran out on years ago in search of bigger, better things and spent exactly 0 thoughts on until the villain of the week tracks down great aunty so and so and ties her to a railroad track while stroking his villain goetee? Causing you to suddenly remember...

No thats false. firstly the average flu is .2 percent, not .1 fatality. Conona isnt a 3% either. We have 2k cases and 48 deaths. Thats 0.024%. Just about the same as the average flu. Second It has a 10% hospitalization rate, not a 20%...

Actually the fatality rate wildly varies per country and is almost certainly vastly overstated by the fact that only extremely serious cases that wind up in hospitalization are being counted. Most of the experts are saying that 80% of people get symptoms so slight that they never even know...

The feel of LoTR is very much a fallen world to me. You see it all over, there are few settlements, and vast areas of wilderness littered with ruins and monsters. Elder races are fading in numbers and mankind isnt exactly thriving to replace them. Its all lost kingdoms, fallen cities, empires...

The part where you should have moved the hell on. Because your 0 level nobody being involved with people who are powerful and important enough to be involved in high mid or high level adventures is ridiculous. And if as a GM you havent been able to build up enough shared history by then to have...

Yeah but thats like the first adventure, or pretty close. When maybe backgrounds popping up can be believable. If its still happening past level 3 or 4 it becomes progressively more unlikely and undesirable.

He's definitely an NPC. Or at best an occasional player whose character the GM runs most sessions. But really the background after death thing is how we know he's an NPC. If he was a PC then when he died the player would get a new one and that would be the focus.

Im not changing anything. This virus is a joke. I'd say its the seasonal flu but so far thats killed 18000 people in america this year and corona mania has killed about 50. So since I dont twist my life into a pretzel for the regular flu, I'm definitely not going to do it for this.

Nope, we play in las vegas. Theres about a million and a half people here. Lots of choices.

When no one ever drops you dont need to.

He could have been just another hobbit and it wouldnt have mattered much. Gollum was following the ring, not frodo. Frodo could have just dropped it and gone home and never would have seen gollum again. Gandalf didnt say to Elrond "i needed THIS hobbit. He said hobbits (plural) are tougher then...