Kenku? They’re actually even more hilarious than that. Kenku are basically a species that can only remix ideas and have perfect mimicry, so they don’t in fact ‘talk’ normally. Their speech is actually fragments of sounds and speech they’ve heard throughout their life (and Kenku listen a lot) so it ends up being a…

“I drink one cup of coffee every morning, and my Stimpack testing day was no different. Taking a Stimpack pill at noon should have felt, more or less, like drinking a second cup of coffee. It felt a lot worse than that. My whole body felt jittery as fuck.”

This is a commonly misunderstood danger of taking supplements…

So do I! That doesn’t mean I’m fond of a borderline predatory system being put on top of it.

I mean, option three is not create a revenue model that incentives the very act of playing in a repetitive, obnoxious fashion in order to trigger the skinner box reaction of randomly unlocking a ‘cool’ thing as a byproduct of using said psychology to encourage players to eventually put money into a glorified slot…

I’ve heard some rumors that turnout for X-wing is shrinking locally, though it’s hard to say if that’s just the community seeking equilibrium; at least in part it seems like the regular crowds split between Armada and X wing as their “core” game. Step zero, in any case should be to check flgs and see who shows up for…

I honestly have a hard time recommending either off hand. Warmahordes is still extremely expensive (X wing is cheap by comparison) and ultra competitive; it basically feels like a permenet tourney scene around here. Casual Warmahordes just isn’t a thing, at least not here.

Wife and I went through it, can confirm, absolutely perfect couples game (provided that you are both comfortable feeling really foolish. Neither of us are even *remotely* good at the game).

“I blame the Toreador. Always blame the Toreador.”

There were only two sentences that could bring a chill through any WoD group when a new player introduced their new character.

I’m playing a Toreador.

I’m playing a Malkavian.

Either way, there was a 50/50 chance that the player was “That guy/girl.” 

The biggest takeaway I’m getting from this article is that Youtube is a stupid, stupid place.

Weirdly, what came to mind is that it happens even on a small scale. Play any tabletop RPG or wargame long enough and players will inevitably convinced that one of their dice is unbalanced—like, it literally rolls lower than it’s supposed to. Even if you ‘test’ it in a salt water bath for balance, even if you start…

Buried in comments for now, but fwiw for your friend, I know of a retail place that did this exact strategy before being bought by an investment firm to a T. Downscaled products, aggressively pushed ‘unique’ services, told staff sales ‘didn’t matter.’ After about 9 months, sold themselves to the highest bidder.

So,…

Man I’d really love to get into Total Warhammer, but the pricing for DLC leaves me so cold. Particularly since the factions I’m more interested in are the DLC factions. Throwing down $70-80 for a game I’m not super sure about gives me pause. (And it was a whopping $40 instead of $50 for the winter sale, which didn’t…

This probably isn’t even technically the right forum for it, but what the hell is going on with the VR industry? There are now something like three platforms for VR now (Sony, Occulus, Vive—four if you count Samsung’s Gear and its knockoffs), and it feels like we’re all still collectively talking about its ‘potential’…

I don’t know about you guys, but I can’t wait to pick up games I’ve been missing all year, like “Sorry” “The Steam Store is experiencing a Heavy Load Right Now”. Plus “Error 503".

I wonder if they’ll bring back the old classic though “Random Steam Accounts that aren’t yours?” and the weird mini game where you…

MMOs are a business. Game companies are making products, not sports. There’s a reason MMOs don’t cater to so called Hardcore (when in reality, a LOT of what makes an MMO player eligible for ‘hardcore’ difficult content is time. Yes, there is skill, but in order to reach the literal math to get at the top-end of…

Interesting. My first one was removed well after a traumatic event, during the middle of a Tabletop game. Not even like, during a particularly tense moment, just out of nowhere.

My own pet theory is more like you’re not fully ‘forgetting’ the source of the anxiety in the first place, and somewhere in the back of your…

The whole reason for Laserboats being top meta is a tale as old as the entirety of MW’s game series. In a game series that rewards consistent, pinpoint accuracy as a way to cripple your opponents, the most consistent and accurate weapons are going to be king. The only real way to fix it would be to somehow bring back…

Mechwarrior/Battletech games are like a poster child for weird translation issues in taking a tabletop experience into a game and the challenges therein. So much of the ‘balance’ of the big three kinds of weapons—ammunition, heat generation, and hit/location consistency, just doesn’t translate well into a realtime…

For this very specific genre of game I guess? it also requires more material to produce the games so I dunno if I’d call it a net win.

Yeah I imagine this was a lot harder to produce as a Legacy game. The first two Legacy titles had established games with underlying mechanics understood (particularly what worked and what didn’t) for years and so could tailor the Legacy mechanics to accentutate the strengths (Pandemic) or compensate for its weaknesses…