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All of the above. :) I love deep RP, crafting characters, their stories, solving challenges, experiencing other worlds, playing through other experiences, going where I might not be able to go in my everyday world. I love the tactical aspects of games, the puzzles, the "love it when a plan...

I've had my eye on Mythic Space for a while, which lists XCOM as an influence for rich, tactical combat along with RPG elements. Another option might be to instead start with a more pure tactical game and "add in" the RPG elements. I've never played Advanced Squad Leader, but from what I...

As with all tactical games, focus fire continues to be an important tactic. And likewise maneuvering to prevent focus fire from your enemies while maximizing your own... :) Unless playing the Clans following zellbrigen in an RP-adhering game or campaign.

-shrug- I feel it better separated out and consolidated as a package. And it's not like each profession (or whatever) couldn't have their own features to aid in various pillars, be it exploration, investigation, diplomacy, and the like. If Backgrounds were more like 5e14, providing unique and...

Funny, I was just thinking about the Alacorn. :D I also have a soft spot for the Ontos (if perhaps only because of the battle history from TR3026, with the opposing force unexpected running into 144 lasers fired at once...) At a convention in January this year got to try out the new...

Feywilds portal appearance causes confusion.

I for one am glad that the indecent parts of those foreground skeletons are hidden by those super effective chain mail skirts! Wouldn't want the knight to get distracted by those sensual areas... ;) :D

To which I would again say "the ranger ought not to be a class." I would much prefer exploration/travel/tracking/etc expert to be open to any class, not pigeonholed to a specific class. Why can't your band of merry men, featuring a cleric, warrior, and say a druid (the very class of nature...

Ah, good ol' Schreks. Tracked Awesomes. :D

W. O. W. Dang. That was one heck of a conga of unfortunateness... (one missile too, that's just rubbing it in...)

D!oh And ouch. Well, at least that's only the first sortie of the day... Aiya! :| The dice gods, they can be unkind sometimes... (or kind, if you're the opposing player). With shots like that, the side table changes don't make much of a difference do they? :P

Wow, that is a prompt and a half! That it could parse it overall is wild. Even if it missed some bits, seems like a bit of inpainting with more specific prompting for just that region would get it to where you want to be. Again, wild.

We can envy together. ;) What setup do you use for your VTTing? (And if this is too far afield from the topic at hand actuators, we can discuss elsewhere.)

Looking at my shelves, there's only a few that I have wanted to play but never got the chance: Space Master Mechwarrior (I've played a tonne of BT, but never got a chance to play the RPG in the BT universe.) Tribe 8 (to a lessor degree; this has been a more recent itch and thanks to the...

Again, envious! Not that I'm sure I'd have a tonne of free time to participate much, but more than the once-per-year-if-I'm-lucky would be great! I think most players here are in home games and so unless you know/are invited, you're on your own.

Partially, but mostly I'd say is the exponentially diminishing returns for that level of "accuracy" and detail. Detail intricacies that would even make some wargames blush. That the bullet is lodged 28.4mm into your left anterium tibulum hallux plegia is less important than the result of said...

Ah, good ol' Phoenix Command. With it's optional book of 63 different hit locations. I too at the time thought that would be excellently cool and realistic. Perhaps it's fortunate I never played/ran it and thus could keep that illusion intact. (To be clear, even without playing I no longer...

One, love reading these after-action reports! Two, wow, I am seriously envious at how much BT and RP-BT you're getting to play. :) I don't think I'll be able to reply to CGL about these changes as they request only playtest reports and without a standing group of players I doubt I'll have a...

-nodnods- Back in MechWarrior 1, when you fired your TIC (Target Interlocking Circuit -- and you only had one!) rather than fire everything at once, it would rapid-cycle chainfire through each weapon in turn, and targeting, even with lasers, wasn't 100% always accurate to the centre of the...

Class initiative was interesting but it broke down in some places, namely that it made many mechs just beyond the limit break decidedly worse than lighter mechs. This was especially noticeable with the classic 80 and 85 ton assaults. That Zeus or B-Master doesn't get enough extra armour or...