Dave Percival

Happy #nationalcomingoutday! 🍵✨🦄

#tea #earlgrey #earlgay #queerownedbusiness

Okay. Coffee has been had, wordle is conquered, and cat has been pet.

Time to start work on Thanksgiving Dinner. The Menu:

Turkey w Stuffing
Roast Beef
Mashed Potatoes
Gravy
Lentils w Veggies
Roast Veggies
Roast Corn
Apple Pie
Pumpkin Pie
Bread
Homemade Pickles

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Change “mage” to “wizard”

Oh, the game is traveller. I don't wanna name the module, because while it's got bugs, it's still good, and I'm not being fair in this "review".

It's a classic game, but IMO better than palladium.

My brother loves it, it's one of his favourite games. I'm not a huge fan of it, but if you like big games with lots of bits and a decent amount of randomness, you'll probably love it.

Like, I'm digging the game, and I know typos and bugs exist. I've done a few myself.

But man, there are a LOT of em.

Like, it references a piece of tech a guy has... That's nowhere in the book.

Instead, it's in another adventure - that doesn't use it.

It was included in the wrong book.

It does dedicate two pages to a room by room writeup for this ship... With a key to a map that doesn't exist (it's in the core book).

Also, the game uses very specific rules for shipmaking... And these modifications don't fit those rules. Someone screwed up the math and no one caught it.

Rereading a module I bought that dedicates two pages to stats for a spaceship you'll see for a second but barely interact with (and uses recycled art), but doesn't give stats for the ship the PCs fly for 6 months.

Just "it is like the ship in the book, but with these changes."

Face palm moment.

I've got some venison sausage in my freezer. I'm gonna try making this. Thanks!

Crazy how much better of an approach this is than "welp there are real concerns about youth sports but uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" horseshit offered up by the Gallego, Buttigieg and Newsome types.

The current edition is well put together and has a lot of support. Plus I think there are free quickstart rules available!

Like, instead of improving her weak gun combat skill, my wife decided her character needed a better skill rating in Electronics (Remote Ops) because being the ship's drone pilot seemed a lot more useful than being able to hit more often with a rifle.

This would never happen in d&d

I really like how there isn't an assumption of combat in traveller. Like, you can just play the game - you don't need to shoot people or whatever.

I'm also impressed that my usually trigger happy players are okay with this.

It's a lot of fun.

There's a first act that involves interviewing people while at a navy space station under construction.

Then PCs travel to the wreck, a decompressed ship in the ice rings of a gas giant.

Then they find evidence of awfulness, and have to figure out whodidit, before they get blamed for the crime.

Accidentally wrote a whole-ass Traveller adventure, based on a two sentence pitch if a player bites.

It interests me, so I might actually take time to develop it.

Basically, the travellers are aircraft accident investigators (in SPAaaAace!) trying to figure out if there's a cover-up

Oh wow, those cuisines would absolutely pair together nicely

I'm intrigued about three sisters stew. I'm thinking butternut squash, some sort of bean (chickpeas!), and corn? Maybe in chicken stock and some sage or something?

All the dlc + wotc. Usually I can do commander without losing anyone, or maybe one or two.

I've had a wipe twice so far, and I'm not even at the first terror mission.

Started replaying XCOM 2 for the first time in a few years, and I'm doing a lot worse than I used to - ppl dying on every mission.

Either the game got updated to be harder, or I've become dumber.

YouTube video by Tod Maffin Dear Americans… we saved you a seat

To all my American friends... I fully endorse what this guy is saying.

I even live on the same island.

youtube.com/shorts/9iI-v...

Rhod Gilbert is someone I identify with so heavily. Which is kind of worrying, tbh.

Yeah, that's weird.

But hey, does "Dave" taste at all like "David"? I'm kind of imagining my name tastes like shortbread.

Or, possibly, Corned Beef.

A picture of me. Sans eyebrows.

Exhibit A.

She really caught the anxiety in my eyes. And the fact that I have no eyebrows.

A picture of me, glasses, beard, and all, done in sharpie. Overhead, in a child's writing, it reads "Daddy""

Got a portrait done of me. The artist is amazing - she's going places.

I had to write a Wikipedia type article for the species for our wiki (not gonna link, sorry).

Wife is super stoked about the critters... And wants to attend the next Hooded Mollie race.

It'll be interesting to see if the other players bite, and the idea of newspaper summaries gains traction.

I've written a half dozen hooks for the party, and we'll see where they go from there! But one of the players chose to be from a mining planet that is the setting for one of the adventures I own, so that's a good start.

Rest of the Traveller party was built.

We've got a Bwap (think amphibian alien) Field Researcher science guy, a Vargr (wolf person) pirate, and an Ursa (bear person) former cop turned Merchant.

Plus, they got a ship! A janky Far Trader that reeks of fuel and has a broken computer.

SWEET.

Oh man, I love XCrawl, but of my group, only one player has any familiarity with sports culture + 1980s dystopian films like The Running Man.

It just wouldn't land right, and this makes me sad.

Right now I have a Scout who joined the Navy, and a Navy draftee who left to join the Scouts. Which is kinda funny.

I'm ~expecting~ a scientist/physician type, and a bureaucrat alien of some sort. And I have a wild card player who, well, is a wildcard.

But who knows how itll all end up?