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Post by Richard on Aug 7, 2017 17:22:47 GMT -5
Mighty Darci and James Rowe:
In the action thread, I had Suzuki give himself the title "Senior Gunner." But he only has Gunnery-1. If either Oliver or Emma has a higher Gunnery skill - which discovery could be part of our meet-and-greet roleplay - Suzuki will be content to simply be First Mate. As you may have figured out (since he hasn't rubbed his knighthood in anyone's face), Suzuki isn't much into giving orders. More accurately, he isn't much interested in taking responsibility for decisions. He'll make suggestions and argue for these when he thinks they're better than other ideas, but (like most long-time Scouts) ranks and titles aren't very important to Suzuki.
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Post by Mighty Darci on Aug 7, 2017 17:53:34 GMT -5
Mighty Darci and James Rowe: In the action thread, I had Suzuki give himself the title "Senior Gunner." But he only has Gunnery-1. If either Oliver or Emma has a higher Gunnery skill - which discovery could be part of our meet-and-greet roleplay - Suzuki will be content to simply be First Mate. As you may have figured out (since he hasn't rubbed his knighthood in anyone's face), Suzuki isn't much into giving orders. More accurately, he isn't much interested in taking responsibility for decisions. He'll make suggestions and argue for these when he thinks they're better than other ideas, but (like most long-time Scouts) ranks and titles aren't very important to Suzuki. We have two Gunnery-2 and neither of them are you as I am sure you know. Sticking me with being Captain, hmmm I should have seen that coming. |
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Post by Richard on Aug 8, 2017 1:30:12 GMT -5
Mighty Darci and James Rowe: In the action thread, I had Suzuki give himself the title "Senior Gunner." But he only has Gunnery-1. If either Oliver or Emma has a higher Gunnery skill - which discovery could be part of our meet-and-greet roleplay - Suzuki will be content to simply be First Mate. As you may have figured out (since he hasn't rubbed his knighthood in anyone's face), Suzuki isn't much into giving orders. More accurately, he isn't much interested in taking responsibility for decisions. He'll make suggestions and argue for these when he thinks they're better than other ideas, but (like most long-time Scouts) ranks and titles aren't very important to Suzuki. We have two Gunnery-2 and neither of them are you as I am sure you know. Sticking me with being Captain, hmmm I should have seen that coming. Actually, I couldn't remember what the NPCs have. Too many variations have been tossed around. But it's in character for Suzuki to take the post until someone provides evidence of higher competence. Suzukl has about a metric ton of self-confidence and no measurable amount of modesty. |
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Post by Mighty Darci on Aug 8, 2017 10:40:26 GMT -5
We have two Gunnery-2 and neither of them are you as I am sure you know. Sticking me with being Captain, hmmm I should have seen that coming. Actually, I couldn't remember what the NPCs have. Too many variations have been tossed around. But it's in character for Suzuki to take the post until someone provides evidence of higher competence. Suzukl has about a metric ton of self-confidence and no measurable amount of modesty. Can we surmise that to some extent you just play yourself?  |
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Post by ffilz on Aug 8, 2017 11:45:57 GMT -5
We have two Gunnery-2 and neither of them are you as I am sure you know. Sticking me with being Captain, hmmm I should have seen that coming. Actually, I couldn't remember what the NPCs have. Too many variations have been tossed around. But it's in character for Suzuki to take the post until someone provides evidence of higher competence. Suzukl has about a metric ton of self-confidence and no measurable amount of modesty. Yea, it got confusing for a bit there... I hope the Google doc will keep it clear... |
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Post by Richard on Aug 9, 2017 5:45:10 GMT -5
Actually, I couldn't remember what the NPCs have. Too many variations have been tossed around. But it's in character for Suzuki to take the post until someone provides evidence of higher competence. Suzukl has about a metric ton of self-confidence and no measurable amount of modesty. Can we surmise that to some extent you just play yourself? Actually, no. In real life, I have a high degree of modesty (preferring long-sleeve dress shirts and long pants) and no marked degree of self-confidence (thus my long-term single status). But one thing I do share with most characters I play is that we tend to speak our thoughts and devil take the hindmost.  |
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Post by Richard on Aug 9, 2017 6:28:17 GMT -5
In perusing the Google doc just now, I realized that we have two characters (Rockie and Emma) who have Shotgun-2. We really need to acquire a pair of Rolling Thunder Belt-fed Shotguns for our ship's locker, prior to lifting out.  |
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Post by Mighty Darci on Aug 9, 2017 22:20:04 GMT -5
In perusing the Google doc just now, I realized that we have two characters (Rockie and Emma) who have Shotgun-2. We really need to acquire a pair of Rolling Thunder Belt-fed Shotguns for our ship's locker, prior to lifting out. Are those available? |
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Post by Mighty Darci on Aug 9, 2017 22:21:52 GMT -5
Can we surmise that to some extent you just play yourself? Actually, no. In real life, I have a high degree of modesty (preferring long-sleeve dress shirts and long pants) and no marked degree of self-confidence (thus my long-term single status). But one thing I do share with most characters I play is that we tend to speak our thoughts and devil take the hindmost. That is something I would never have guessed, I always thought speaking your mind stemmed from self-confidence. |
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Post by ffilz on Aug 9, 2017 23:14:58 GMT -5
In perusing the Google doc just now, I realized that we have two characters (Rockie and Emma) who have Shotgun-2. We really need to acquire a pair of Rolling Thunder Belt-fed Shotguns for our ship's locker, prior to lifting out. Are those available? Auto-shotguns might be available, not belt fed (I want to stick closely to the weapons in Book 1), however, auto-shotgun is a separate weapon skill from shotgun. The heavy machine guns you hope to acquire are also a separate weapon skill (army and marine characters would have skill-0 with HMG). |
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Post by Richard on Aug 10, 2017 1:36:59 GMT -5
Actually, no. In real life, I have a high degree of modesty (preferring long-sleeve dress shirts and long pants) and no marked degree of self-confidence (thus my long-term single status). But one thing I do share with most characters I play is that we tend to speak our thoughts and devil take the hindmost. That is something I would never have guessed, I always thought speaking your mind stemmed from self-confidence. Not in my case. I think it's part of my [possible] minor degree of autism. I can often puzzle out what I *should* have said after the fact, but in the moment I tend to just blurt out my partially-formed internal dialogue. |
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Post by Richard on Aug 10, 2017 1:39:52 GMT -5
Auto-shotguns might be available, not belt fed . . . Well, almost everyone on the crew so far has Mechanical. Between us, we can invent our own belt-fed version. As to being a different skill . . . if you've got Shotgun-2 or SMG-2, couldn't you possibly have a default of Autoshotgun-1? The skills aren't all that different, one would think. |
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Post by Mighty Darci on Aug 10, 2017 7:15:50 GMT -5
Auto-shotguns might be available, not belt fed . . . Well, almost everyone on the crew so far has Mechanical. Between us, we can invent our own belt-fed version. As to being a different skill . . . if you've got Shotgun-2 or SMG-2, couldn't you possibly have a default of Autoshotgun-1? The skills aren't all that different, one would think. The second line really makes sense to me, but then I have never fired an automatic, so I can't base the opinion on experience. I have fired shotguns and the gauge makes a huge difference in the amount of kick that you get and the automatic magnifies that from the video I have seen. By the time you get to Shotgun-2 I would think you would have mastered the issues around the kick. |
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Post by ffilz on Aug 10, 2017 9:01:29 GMT -5
Auto-shotguns might be available, not belt fed . . . Well, almost everyone on the crew so far has Mechanical. Between us, we can invent our own belt-fed version. As to being a different skill . . . if you've got Shotgun-2 or SMG-2, couldn't you possibly have a default of Autoshotgun-1? The skills aren't all that different, one would think. I'm sticking with the core rules that don't have any default skills based on other skills... I'm not sure there's a good blog post where folks have thought a lot about weapons skills, but this post gives a quick nod to weapons skills: spacecockroach.blogspot.com/2014/07/regarding-skills-in-classic-traveller.htmlBut really the key is I'm mostly sticking to Book 1 weapons... Other weapons exist and are possible, but I'm taking the 3 LBB and what they provide rules for as providing the base setting and genre of play. In this setting of play, even army and marine folks use pretty basic weapons and don't lug around support weapons... There's a variety of reasons why I'm playing this way, a lot of it is to NOT go down the gear head route. Frank |
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Post by Richard on Aug 10, 2017 17:06:01 GMT -5
There's a variety of reasons why I'm playing this way, a lot of it is to NOT go down the gear head route. Trust me. I'm not a gearhead. I've never owned any edition of Fire, Fusion and Steel and stopped playing GURPS ages ago because of it's complexity. My game system of choice these days is Savage Worlds, in which all the personal weapons are slight variations on the same handful of basic stats. Trying to rebuild an autoshotgun into a belt-fed shotgun can be a tinkering project for Suzuki, if it really bothers you that much. Whether or not he ever gets it to work doesn't really matter to me. |
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Post by ffilz on Aug 10, 2017 17:11:26 GMT -5
There's a variety of reasons why I'm playing this way, a lot of it is to NOT go down the gear head route. Trust me. I'm not a gearhead. I've never owned any edition of Fire, Fusion and Steel and stopped playing GURPS ages ago because of it's complexity. My game system of choice these days is Savage Worlds, in which all the personal weapons are slight variations on the same handful of basic stats. Trying to rebuild an autoshotgun into a belt-fed shotgun can be a tinkering project for Suzuki, if it really bothers you that much. Whether or not he ever gets it to work doesn't really matter to me. Cool, now that's reasonable in the spirit of the game... Frank |
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Post by Richard on Aug 16, 2017 1:17:56 GMT -5
FYI: In the current action thread, I took the liberty of explaining the "facts" behind the canon problem with Sulieman air recycling systems as well as supplying a (hopefully) permanent fix for it. Of course, even after a total switchout of the gaskets and seals, it's possible that a spore or two of that "particular fungi" got missed, such that the problem slowly comes back . . . |
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Post by Mighty Darci on Aug 17, 2017 10:17:07 GMT -5
Hi all, I am going off to school this weekend. I will post today as applicable and I will also try to do that tomorrow. Then I will not be on-line for about two to three weeks, while I am getting acclimated. After that I intend to try to post 2-3 times per week. In the meantime or at any time if the DM/GM wants to run my character or if another player approved by the DM/GM wants to run my character so that the game can keep moving, please do.
Thank you all, Darci
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Post by Richard on Aug 18, 2017 1:33:51 GMT -5
Hi all, I am going off to school this weekend. I will post today as applicable and I will also try to do that tomorrow. Then I will not be on-line for about two to three weeks, while I am getting acclimated. After that I intend to try to post 2-3 times per week. In the meantime or at any time if the DM/GM wants to run my character or if another player approved by the DM/GM wants to run my character so that the game can keep moving, please do. Thank you all, Darci Good luck and best wishes! Already missing you! |
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Post by Jame Rowe on Aug 18, 2017 18:11:35 GMT -5
There's a variety of reasons why I'm playing this way, a lot of it is to NOT go down the gear head route. Trust me. I'm not a gearhead. I've never owned any edition of Fire, Fusion and Steel and stopped playing GURPS ages ago because of it's complexity. My game system of choice these days is Savage Worlds, in which all the personal weapons are slight variations on the same handful of basic stats. Trying to rebuild an autoshotgun into a belt-fed shotgun can be a tinkering project for Suzuki, if it really bothers you that much. Whether or not he ever gets it to work really matter to me. If you were in Massachusetts I'd invite you to play Savage Worlds with me! Good luck, Mighty Darci! |
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Post by Richard on Aug 20, 2017 3:12:34 GMT -5
Trust me. I'm not a gearhead. I've never owned any edition of Fire, Fusion and Steel and stopped playing GURPS ages ago because of it's complexity. My game system of choice these days is Savage Worlds, in which all the personal weapons are slight variations on the same handful of basic stats. Trying to rebuild an autoshotgun into a belt-fed shotgun can be a tinkering project for Suzuki, if it really bothers you that much. Whether or not he ever gets it to work really matter to me. If you were in Massachusetts I'd invite you to play Savage Worlds with me! Good luck, Mighty Darci! I just realized I left a rather important "doesn't" out of my above post! Thanks for the [sorta] invite, Jame! I have hopes of getting some of the folks who game at my local library to try Savage Worlds soon. |
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Post by Richard on Aug 20, 2017 3:13:39 GMT -5
Nope. The "doesn't" is there in my original post, alright. It's just missing from the above quoted version. Strange. |
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Post by ffilz on Aug 20, 2017 22:46:59 GMT -5
Trust me. I'm not a gearhead. I've never owned any edition of Fire, Fusion and Steel and stopped playing GURPS ages ago because of it's complexity. My game system of choice these days is Savage Worlds, in which all the personal weapons are slight variations on the same handful of basic stats. Trying to rebuild an autoshotgun into a belt-fed shotgun can be a tinkering project for Suzuki, if it really bothers you that much. Whether or not he ever gets it to work really matter to me. If you were in Massachusetts I'd invite you to play Savage Worlds with me! Good luck, Mighty Darci! Where abouts in MA? I grew up in Lexington and Concord, and sometimes go back for work (Red Hat has offices in Westford and Boston - I have a colleague who works out of the Westford office). Frank |
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Post by Jame Rowe on Aug 21, 2017 12:32:33 GMT -5
If you were in Massachusetts I'd invite you to play Savage Worlds with me! Good luck, Mighty Darci! Where abouts in MA? I grew up in Lexington and Concord, and sometimes go back for work (Red Hat has offices in Westford and Boston - I have a colleague who works out of the Westford office). Frank We play up in Beverly. If ever you're nearby let me know! |
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Post by Richard on Aug 26, 2017 0:49:19 GMT -5
Princess I Wanna Die. Get it? Yes, I agree. Suzuki has a very strange and dark sense of humor. |
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Post by Richard on Sept 2, 2017 0:25:37 GMT -5
ffliz:
Please note that in the action thread, I and my fellow player James Rowe responded to your initial insertion of Princess I Wanna Die into the scene as if she had actually conversed with us and that several seconds had elapsed thereafter.
However, your next post seems to have been written as if none of OUR posts had been made. Effectively Princess IWD very pointedly IGNORES the very people whom she wants to save her and her brother.
This leads me to suspect that you crafted that second post without even reading our posts.
In my experience with play-by-post, it is only simple courtesy to make an acknowledgement of some kind in one's post that one has indeed read and considered prior posts in making one's own reply.
If this is beyond your ability as a GM, then I am afraid that I may have to reconsider continuing to "play" in your game.
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Post by ffilz on Sept 2, 2017 22:57:08 GMT -5
Sorry for messing up a bit, the scene developed quickly and this has been a crazy week. I'll go back and slip in some additional notes in reaction to your posting.
Ok, I'm out of time to try and fix her response right now... I'll try and fix it up when I have time to actually re-read everything and respond properly...
Is the intent of your posts after she entered that you sort of ignored her but talked about her?
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Post by Jame Rowe on Sept 5, 2017 20:17:19 GMT -5
Ffilz, I'm just waiting for you.
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Post by Richard on Sept 5, 2017 23:11:39 GMT -5
Is the intent of your posts after she entered that you sort of ignored her but talked about her? That's more or less correct. I posted my initial response [which boils down to "Wow! That's ODD!"] because you reported the Princess actions as accomplished fact - as if you were reading a text report of past actions - rather than roleplaying her approach to the group. When you made no further posts, I (and apparently James Rowe as well) assumed she was just continuing to stand there at the table, mute and unresponsive. Another point which rather irritated me was how the three guys (two apparent police officers and Guy With Hypo) could cross the tavern from the door, then (apparently) grab Princess, all before any of us could do anything to oppose them. ALL we would have had to do was simply stand up - showing the interest of six (6) potential opponents in the matter at hand - and that trio should have at least hesitated. Writing a GM post that blocks PC actions to such an extent smells strongly of coal smoke (e.g. a railroad). |
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Post by ffilz on Sept 6, 2017 12:59:12 GMT -5
So one problem that seems to keep cropping up is you folks get ahead of me... It may be that I've simply got too much on my plate, I don't think so, but I keep getting caught off guard when you folks get ahead of me.
I see that I worded the bit about the police and the doctor poorly, the intent was not to prevent player response, but I did throw in the phrase "before you can react", the police and doctor had not grabbed the lady, they had just come in on scene (giving you folks a chance to intervene). The intent was that their bursting in was effectively simultaneous with the lady dropping the napkin and making her statement, but then you folks would have a chance to react to those two events before anything else could happen.
As to the lady's response to the conversation ignoring her, sorry, I got a bit taken aback by the multiple posts of conversation without my having a chance to respond, like I say, last week was a bit crazy. I suppose if she really was being ignored, she would have moved on to another table.
How do you want to play it? Do you want to rewind your conversation back so she doesn't sit there dumbfounded because the GM didn't have a chance to post a response, or do you want to play it that you really just continued a conversation without giving her a chance to say anything?
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