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Pandemic 2: We save the human race.

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Second game of Pandemic with Alina, and this time we win. I drew the Medic, which is a crazy-good role for keeping infections at bay. She drew the Operations Specialist. Once again, we got hit with an epidemic on the first turn of the game. Pretty minimal impact, all in all. She also drew something…

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Telescopic Vision and Scopes

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Telescopic Vision As part of a discussion of some rules involving guns, aiming, and accuracy, +Christopher R. Rice brought my attention to the rules for Telescopic Vision (p. B92). Holy Gawd, it is awesome. Not only does each level cancel out range penalties for normal Vision rolls, but it has double effect if you take Aim. Not…

Realistic, Believable, Cinematic: Orthogonal basis set of fun

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Every now and then people talk. Usually on game forums. And they say things like: “Oh, yes. I like my flying dragons that eat starships and crap magical poop to be realistic.” My thoughts on that were similar to how Bill Stoddard replied when someone commented that an increase in Basic Speed granted by a magical…

Heretical Progress
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Heretical Progress

Bygamingballistic

I’ve been spending more time this past week getting the Heretical DnD project a bit farther down field. I went through about three or four different playtest reports and a complete edit of the Adventuring chapter. I have a few things I still need to work out, but by and large, I feel like if…