[THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS.]

...Oh god.. now what have *I* done!     LOL

THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS.

Coming to a FantasyCraft near you...

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Also, Xbone comes with a non-upgradeable 500 gig hard drive.  Which is... pathetically tiny.  With installation required and blu-ray discs for your games it'll be like 20 games and you're full up (seriously - my mate's BF3 install is like 30 gig, and it's on Xbox 360 so that'll go up pretty rapidly).

If it was 500 gig with the option to pull it out an put a real hard drive in it'd be fine, but for something that has to last the entire life cycle of the console it's kinda sad.

Unless it has E-Sata.. which.. I doubt.. and even if it does.. TERRIBLE design.. you're going to be removing and re-installing games like woah. ...which.. as i type that.. might be EXACTLY what they want...

I now DM a game in which one of my players is a Giant, wielding a cannon, and riding a Triceratops. So I'm very lucky to have been introduced

...*gets the paranoid Koala look*  How could you post something like that?!  Don't you know other players read this?!  What have done, man!     Next thing you know, we'll have ghost eyed pechs riding sleighs of Prairie dogs while wielding moltav cocktails and manticore skin whips!  ...Oh god.. now what have *I* done!     LOL

I've never delved into Steam's guts, but aren't games on Steam tied to your Steam profile? Essentially the same as softkeys?

Yes.. but Valve.. they're always up to something.. they're like the mini-google.  Wouldn't surprise me if they're like.. SteamBox.. now with GameLending / Trading!  (Right now, you can only gift unused serials.)

Wii U.  When EA holds a press conference to say they don't know what a Wii U is, you're in trouble.

Nintendo screwed up big time on the launch and sales have been meh. They might be able to pull out though. Maybe. Especially if MS and Sony keep screwing up.

But the Wii U reminds me of the FiveSeven.  Proprietary Round.  Sorta complicated to design for.  Not really a well used, (.. or in SOME PEOPLE'S cases.. respected) round.. and.. you know.. 7 year old hardware shoved into a new case.

I'm a PC gamer primarily, so I can't get used games.  What I can get though?  Steam Sales!  But yeah.. this generation of consoles is going to be a disaster.

First.  Why are we dual releasing most of the new games.  Like.. "New Halo".. Dystopia.. Divergence.. DollaDollaBill.. the Bungie game that starts with a D.. you can buy it for *coughs*  the X1.. or 360.  If you're forcing people to keep their 360s to play their current libraries, and can buy the game for what they have to keep anyway.. ...why are they ever going to early adopt?

Wii U.  When EA holds a press conference to say they don't know what a Wii U is, you're in trouble.

PS4.  I'm going to assume they're doing the same used game trick.  Its the only rationale explanation I can think of for why EA revoked the Pass.  They don't need the pass.  Everyone adopted Softkeys!  And suddenly.. resellers were ghost stores. 

God forbid Steam jumps into this mess.  You might find Gamers going back to old print books....

Internet required Activation Softkeys.  Kinect Always.  IllumiRoom.  Smart Glass.  I dare say Gaming has now become an asterisk for Xbox.  They want your entire living room.  Just not the gamer core. 

Anyone working at Game resellers, you have my sympathy for the amount of BS you're about to endure.

... It'd take a while, but I'd say sure. ...

The one good thing about big groups.. Action Dice are plentiful... Muahahahahah! 

Class.. if you would open your book to page 386.  And solve for Z.  Where Z is the is hilariousness.

(D20)12 + [(4+1+2+3+4+2+1)] = Z  (12 and a Ruinous)  <-- they slapped him down because it was the same story he used for a previous character.
(D20)20 + [(3+2+1+1+1+1+1)] = Z  (20 and a Castrophic)  <-- Rolled the 20 and purposefully chose to ask everyone to give him a 1.

And a quick question.  "GM may introduce any 1 NPC type or quality" ...do those stack?  Like.. if I spend enough action dice, can I make a Fairy / Beast / Infernal Burrower?  cause.. umm.. I'd REALLY like to for this character...

Sorry for the long pause in replies.  Work / Home Purchasing and doing one of my CECs literally destroyed any hope free time lately.  As for "There has to be a way to beat this"... that's a possible, if not small, mentality.  I think they were just on such a roll of successes, literally.. there dice were 15's or higher constantly... they might have gotten superhero syndrome.

But.. with things like.. ..my favorite thing ever in FC.. Cheating Death.. you do something stupid.. you have options.  Oh.. do you have options.. Muahahahah!   

Just watched it.  And it was "good".  I'm not going to say great.. because of the various reasons everyone already pointed out.  ...the USS Vengeance.. just.. *shake head*  Yep.  We secretly built a DREADNAUGHT without Starfleet apparently knowing.  ..and people bitch about the Raptor project cost...

The one thing I hated about the movie is how Kahn goes out.  Vulcan super uppercut?  Seriously?  The dude just survived pancaking the USS Terrible Name into the planet earth at a speed as fast as his engines could take.  Let the bad guy have that win.  Show Kirk and the Enterprise as fallible.  Yes, you saved the ship, but you lost half of San Fransico.

I mean.. hell.. it was perfect to give a nod to the original and use the line "…to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee." just before he dies, slamming full force into the planet.

But... sadly.. no.  We needed a tribble and Spock Uppercut.

Or.. other thing.. no more Spock Cameos.  I beg you.  They always feel forced.  "I vowed never to tell you.. but.. I always hated vows, here's the next 20 years of things to look out for."

Seminar was recorded last year. Can't help it if the videographer sorta dropped the ball getting us the footage.

We're looking into options for this year. We're not fans of simply releasing hours of seminars unedited, and of course neither Alex nor I have the talent nor the time to do t he editing ourselves. So we'll see.

Everything is being considered. Nothing is guaranteed.

Someone get this man a videographer!  ...or Krensky and I aren't sharing the Eucalyptus Gin!  (One day.. I'll make a Gen Con.  You know.. when I'm 80, retired, and senile..)

I was thinking more this:

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or this:

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He is an international marsupial of mystery, after all.

Doh... Ninja'd.

Ah.. those two.  One is a terrible shot and the other.. has 17 kids on 3 continents.  ...I'm not saying which is which...

It's okay.  I deserved that one.  There was a joke about Koala's.. Moms.. body parts the size of a 5.7mm cartridge.. bloody good bar fight though afterwards.  I bumped into one guy.. one guy bumps into Clayton.. Clayton explains the physics of a kangaroo kick to the male reproductive organs.. simply well played.

Just to steer us slightly more towards Spellbound.. I was looking over my players' back up ideas.  Here's another Spellbound dependent one.  "TechnoViking.  Supplies his own DubStep."  ...yep.. GG.   

Saints Row 4 PAX Demo Gameplay

Soooo, dub-step gun.  Any way to stat that into Spycraft?

I'm going to try my hardest.  That thing is..  hilarious.  Fires to the rhythm of the bass drops.  But I'm making it mandatory the player play some Dubstep off their notebook or tablet when they use it.