I'm doing that thing again where I sign up for too many games and fill my free time with TTRPGs
My L5R beginner box game on Mondays seems to be becoming a campaign
I recently joined a CoS campaign (D&D 5e) on Fridays (first session was today)
And joined a POTA campaign on Sunday nights, though that doesn't start for a few weeks
and I came across a looking-for-players post for a Call of Cthulhu campaign set in India, and couldn't resist... so depending on when that game ends up being, I might end up playing in that too
that's in addition to my Lancer game on Saturday afternoons, the other Saturday game with chatizens here, the Sunday afternoon Adventures in Middle-Earth game, the streamed (5e) Planeslip game I'm in on Wednesday nights at midnight, and the SKT game I recently joined on Thursdays...
Say I am a Small-sized Shadow Magic sorcerer. I summon a Hound of Ill Omen, I mount it, and I attempt to control it.
Does it move as I direct it, choosing only between Dash, Disengage, and Dodge?
Or does it only move towards its target, using every action to Attack it?
and I don't want it to sound like I hate it for this but,.. good god it's like if you are evil in that game, you have to be caught lying like 20 times?
and you can just accuse anyone you want of murder, they will be immediately arrested, and meanwhile they also have to prove you did it or they lose the case?
it's very weird
but also extremely satisfying
though often I also find I have evidence that should work but doesn't because that isn't what the game is looking for :/
@trogdor I've heard the newer installments get even crazier, eg. with murder trials decided by some magic that allows them to see the victim's last moments
Which, because drama, always is something excruciatingly misleading I'd believe
I also played through the first Ace Attorney Investigations game where you solve crimes in a more conventional investigation setting, but with the series' trademark cross-examinations still being used
It was, in my opinion, very close in all aspects to the main series. The basic idea doesn't really change even if you move it from courthouses to the crime scenes :)
I'm trying to hack Lasers & Feelings for a more "space fantasy" feeling, and without any violence-as-default terminology. The original roles are doctor, envoy, engineer, explorer, pilot, scientist, and soldier.
One of my inspirations is "What would the rest of the Enterprise's crew and mission and activities look like if it was actually a place where the captain would have a therapist next to him on the bridge?"
And then I read a lot of interesting stuff recently about non-colonial exploration, both in games and in real-life space explorations.
In Binti, human spaceships are bio-engineered from shrimp-like creatures so that they have air-filled bladders which people can ride in, and the creatures love to travel across vast distances of space.
> The ship was a magnificent piece of living technology. Third Fish was a Miri 12, a type of ship closely related to a shrimp. Miri 12s were stable calm creatures with natural exoskeletons that could withstand the harshness of space. They were genetically enhanced to grow three breathing chambers within their bodies. Scientists planted rapidly growing plants within these three enormous rooms that not only produced oxygen from the CO2 directed in from other parts of the ship, but also absorbed benzene, formaldehyde, and trichloroethylene.
@BESW Try Soldier => Advisor based on what you want the Soldier to do for the Captain on the bridge. (The idea is that Soldier is acting as a being sounding board, "are you sure you wanna to that?" and maybe a little bit of Jimminy Cricket conscience.
FWIW, IRL in many navies a ship's captain has a senior advisor who is an experienced sailor. (You see this in some movies where the Chief of the Boat on a submarine acts as a voice of reason coming from the ranks during hard scenes ... very much an advisor)
@MikeQ They were in the age of sail, and are currently used in big harbors to guide in big ships. Our cruise ship took on board a pilot in one of the ports in Alaska that we pulled into. (IIRC it was Juneau, but it may have been in Ketchikan)
The etherealness spell states:
You remain in the Border Ethereal for the duration or until you use your action to dismiss the spell...
I am aware that the spell does not allow you to go back and forth like the blink spell and others.
Let us asume somebody is under the effefts of etherealn...
Say I am a Small-sized Shadow Magic sorcerer. I summon a Hound of Ill Omen, I mount it, and I attempt to control it.
Does it move as I direct it, choosing only between Dash, Disengage, and Dodge?
Or does it only move towards its target, using every action to Attack it?
The etherealness spell states:
You remain in the Border Ethereal for the duration or until you use your action to dismiss the spell...
I am aware that the spell does not allow you to go back and forth like the blink spell and others.
Let us asume somebody is under the effefts of etherealn...
I tried googling it, but no luck. It is supposed to be good for rogues.
