@BESW Appropriate - is the best answer I've got for that.
I've bought the soundtrack separately from the game, so I can find out.
I do think it'll be missing something though. Without the presence of the bothy house and hearing about Jakobson, the scandinavian music would make less sense.
> "It's the 50th year of Doctor Who and look what's going on! We're up in the sky and under the sea! We're running round the rings of an alien world and then a haunted house. There's new Cybermen, new Ice Warriors and a never before attempted journey to the centre of the TARDIS. And in the finale, the Doctor's greatest secret will at last be revealed! If this wasn't already our most exciting year it would be anyway!"
It was pretty cool. Great internal conflict imposed by external conflict, Romana being disgustingly practical and trying to ruin the story, and Time Lords were even more self-obsessed arrogant jerks than usual.
My Azilon was a yuan-ti prince who was trained in forbidden necromancy by a dragon named Zagreus that visited him in dreams. Azilon was killed by his brother in the middle of the ritual to become a lich, and the dragon burned and buried the yuan-ti city in retribution before retreating into grief-laden dreams in a cave beneath the island.
Years later the worms that fed on Azilon's corpse became a Worm that Walks, which discovered that humans had settled the island and his people were all dead.
So he began using his knowledge of alchemy to turn humans into yuan-ti, and secretly worked to repopulate his race.
That was the main thrust of the campaign --discovering and foiling his plans-within-plots conspiracies that supported his work to turn humans into yuan-ti.
Sadly the campaign fell apart before we could get to the real meat of it, but just about anything they did on the island touched at least one thread of his plot.
His major human processing centers were a finishing school for young noble ladies, and an orphanage.
He set up a snake cult in the wizards' tower, partly as a patsy to blame if people started noticing anything, and partly to produce the mystical drugs he was using to keep the local lizardfolk chief complacent.
Through a number of facemen, he ordered mercenaries to dress up as pirates and terrorize the mayor, so the mayor dedicated his energies and resources to the local pirate problem.
You get the idea: any plot thread the party pulled, it would eventually lead back to Azilon.
Yuan-ti are great for that kind of faux sandbox, because they're inveterate string-pullers. They're never actually going to do their evil themselves; they have minions who have minions who have patsies for that.
Yup. Hardly anyone in the city knew what was actually going on; they were working for a harmless if shady snake cult, or hired by a rival noble house to terrorize the mayor, and so forth.
(And being able to turn into a snake of any size at will means your secret hideouts only need entrances about the size of a fat finger.)
His longterm goal was to use the orphanage and finishing school to place human-like yuan-tis loyal to him in all layers of society: they're the wives of noblemen, the vinters and the shoeshiners and the bakers.
I'm sat watching by-election results for a parliamentary seat vacated by somebody convicted of perjury. It's a swing seat between the two members of the current ruling Coalition.
UKIP (who hold 0 seats in the UK parliament, because they are a single issue right-wing party) look to have gone into second place from a 3% share of the vote 2 years ago.
Bizarrely, the current party also looks to be holding on, despite the broken promises in this government and the current sex-less sex scandal.
Leaving the Conservatives to fall into third place (and giving Cameron a bit of a black eye).
Im supposed to be making a simple program where a user inputs 3 numbers and then the program should output whether the numbers are negative positive or 0
I am supposing it has something to do with a switch statement.
ok, are you getting the numbers on the command line, are they coming through a window or are people typing them in after your command line app is running?
@SimonGill Also, as an American national politician said about four years ago, (can't find the quote so I'm paraphrasing), "When you talk as much as I do in a week, you can't expect everything to be accurate."
@SimonGill Night Fears has the players tell each other ghost stories in character. One of the Actual Plays I ran down had the GM let each player place an aspect on the game based on the story they told. Thoughts?
I'm wondering if maybe it should require a roll to place the aspect, as a maneuver.
Getting to place aspects based on the story also works, because the house can use "And there was a hook in the roof" or "There were thumps from the attic" to make the scares more like the teens stories.
Well, they use Intimidation for touch-range fear-based attacks, blocks, and maneuvers. The lowest Intimidation score is +2, all of them can get a +2 on Intimidate if they make themselves look scarier, and they have +2 on Intimidate maneuvers.
On the other hand, as written and the way I'm playing it, you just need to survive the fear attacks until you can figure out how to put the ghosts to rest.
And for that, there's someone with a decent research skill, a guy who can talk to ghosts, a girl who can sense objects' pasts...
A catch like "except if they've just attacked a mortal" emphasizes that choice much more than a catch like "unless attacked with a personal possession."
Even if they go for the straightforward approach instead of the "solve the mystery of why they haunt so we can send them to rest," they'll still have to do a modicum of investigation.
Some of the available PCs are more physically oriented, like the jock and the cheerleader.
Then there's the family-in-a-cult True Believer, the changeling trickster, and so on.
ŠŠ Andy Drabyk, Jock in the Making ŠŠ Chris Stein, Trickster Changeling ŠŠ Dani Lussier, Gorgeous Rich Girl ŠŠ Jaimie Collins, Psychic Bookworm ŠŠ Mike Ng, Troubled Medium ŠŠ Nicky Hamonic, Steadfast Best Friend ŠŠ Terry Jefferson, Devout Follower of the Shepherd
(They went out of their way to make the names unisex.)
There are two others, at other power levels, but they're by necessity a bit more involved.
Night Fears doesn't bring in spellcasting, for instance.
The other two are Neutral Grounds (Up To Your Waist) and Evil Acts (Chest Deep). I haven't looked at them very hard but I've heard good things and they look engaging.
So I ran first part of Don't Rest Your Head (If You Want Cake) last night. A crossover between DRYH and Portal. Went reasonably well, though was more adventure-y and funy than madness and horror. Well. One of the PCs may have killed his future self, and @BrianBallsun-Stanton may or may not be a soulless automaton now after his consciousness got uploaded to a personality core, and body restarted in Safe Mode. There was command prompt in his eyes and everything.
And they're feeding flying goldfishes into their companion cube. Such a fantastic idea, what can possibly go wrong...
> The GM should give Extra or Named characters or creatures a number of starting stress boxes equal to their Challenge Rating minus 5, with Minions having a number of stress boxes equal to half their CR, rounding up.
Ah, I see. They're assuming PCs are level 10 as a baseline. Huh.
I'm thinking that instead of twisting an aspect --which might be rough for us to do well on our first night-- I'll just give them something like "Spooked" for the next scene they're in.
So they miss a scene and then are Spooked when they come back.
> The outcome creates a situation that restricts the character’s behavior in some significant way, like owing a large debt to someone. This may require adding an additional, long-term, temporary aspect to the character, separate from his conse- quence track, so that the defeat can be enforced via compels
@DForck42 yep, the right gear on a charger can mean a difference of 6-8 DPR and whether or not you can reliably charge every turn (which is a huge DPR boost)
and then there are items to keep you healthy, items to boost saves, etc.
I still don't have a good handle on how to judge item daily powers vs a property. But typically I'm going for always on vs 1/day
@waxeagle I think that's a standard cognitive bias - at least for many people. Easier to work out how slightly weaker things that always happen work against how bigger stuff that needs to be specifically used.
@waxeagle Combine that with only one magic item power per milestone... and blecch, just give me something that glows blue near a particular kind of humanoid.
@SimonGill yes it was quite bad. it meant that if you have short work days (like I feel most 4e people do) you just didn't get use out of most of your gear's daily powers
@SimonGill Am I reading too much into the "simply instilling a false sense of security in the loser" part of social conflict? Because that seems to fall outside the scope that some of these answers are saying social conflict covers.
