Off Duty 2 (OOC)

[Scott308]

Just as I expected, my dice hated me and refused to cooperate. Playing 1st edition AD&D, I rolled a bunch of 3s and 5s. The next game, playing Polaris- a roll under system where a one is always a success and a 20 is a critical fail- I rolled 17s and 19s. Don't tell me dice aren't sentient. Those little bastards knew exactly what they were doing!

[Bluehorse]

Oh no! Well, in similar news, I just started my 8yo on basics of dice. We both started at 20hp, and told him roll 15+ to hit, 20 is double damage so 2, roll a 1 and loss a turn. I beat him, but only by 1 point. We had a ball and now the 5yo wants in on it. Figured I could work in small variables over time and he could come into the game ready to go in x number of months.

[Scott308]

Nice.

[Taaz]

Not to make assumptions, obv you know him better but honestly kids pick up the rules to games pretty well in my experience. Its often hard to GM for them cuz they just think of things i cant, but as long as you carefully explain it ive had friends who couldn't find a sitter have their kids sit in my games.

[Bluehorse]

If you see this post where I have been updating inventory for Roy's repairs, you can see how quickly repair parts can disappear. They will be important, so you will need to keep stocked up. I am still working on an idea of how to set an actual dollar value to parts, but I like the idea of keeping the cost skill based for ease of reference. I am, as always, open to thoughts on this.

[Scott308]

I'll be in the Chicago area for a conference this weekend, so I don't know how often I'll be able to check in here.

[Taaz]

Have a fun trip scott.

I dont know how you feel but i always liked the d20 modern wealth system. I know some people hate it but i thought it was a pretty good abstraction of wealth mechanic.

[Bluehorse]

Have a fun trip scott.

I dont know how you feel but i always liked the d20 modern wealth system. I know some people hate it but i thought it was a pretty good abstraction of wealth mechanic.

So more like rolling to see what each expense is for restocking?

[Taaz]

Yeah, id honestly need to reread it to freshen up but i rememer it did a good job tracking like "weekly ammo" or whatever without needing to go ok 1000 bullets and they are x price so blank out of blank. But uou know a thought just occured to me if you wanted to go real, how abour a dmgoogle doc spreadsheet with like a budget speadsheet?

[Bluehorse]

Yeah, id honestly need to reread it to freshen up but i rememer it did a good job tracking like "weekly ammo" or whatever without needing to go ok 1000 bullets and they are x price so blank out of blank. But uou know a thought just occured to me if you wanted to go real, how abour a dmgoogle doc spreadsheet with like a budget speadsheet?

LOL! You mean a budget like I have been asking yall for since before the coffee house?

[Taaz]

Well i dont wanna just leap in and overstep anyone, i mean if no one else wants to or i can. Lol just dont want to over step

[Bluehorse]

All good man but it is something you guys need to think of since it will I influence a lot very soon.

[GreyWolfVT]

personally I'm a newbie here so overstep away I'm cool with it.

[Rex]

Go ahead and overstep, fine with me.

[Bluehorse]

Roy ... "I fixed em. Now whats all this then about game and more players? We playing call of duty or dungeons and dragons?"

LOL! So awesome!

[GreyWolfVT]

I'm trying to play him a bit like he was in the IT Crowd that was after all my character concept

[Bluehorse]

Okay. So do you guys want to play out trading notes or move this along? Both have advantages and disadvantages

[Taaz]

Im ok with either if there is a prefrance

[GreyWolfVT]

doesn't matter to me.

[Rex]

doesn't matter to me