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https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48110429022_5b08cc3ccc_t.jpg "Bozhe moi," Dmitri growled and threw the face hugger as hard and as fast as he could away from him and Morse. He knew Henninger would turn it to fucking mush. Once the creature left his hands, Dmitri brought his rifle up and ready to...

Your frustration adequately describes my feeling toward all rule books and mechanics. I can never understand them so I just make up my own rules that make sense to me. That isn't what I do here so much. I may not be following the rule book to the letter, but I'm using a consistent system based on t...

As for narrative-style game mechanics, if you mean anything that White Wolf has made, I have to say that the mechanics aren't bad of themselves. I think that their decision to organize their RULESBOOKS as they are now is total rubbish. You have to read a novel from start to finish just to find the f...

Cortex Classic (IOW the first version of the rules) was fine. The second version, Cortex Plus, tossed out the features that made the mechanic fun to use and introduced other fetures in their place that made the game harder to use, IMNSHO. I think the reason Cortex v2.0 was made was because Margaret ...

Wow! That's a lot of game mechanics but the short version of my opinion is: I really dislike Cortex Plus and I really prefer Cortex Classic. If we were playing a Firefly/Serenity campaign with Cortex Plus, I wouldn't sign up for it. I repeat: I would pass up Serenity/Firefly. That's **how much** I d...

Ooh, hey, I have ribbons! They're beautiful! Thanks, Corporal Hicks!

I agree with y'all: in a game that's mostly writing based, we could use a streamlined version to keep track of profficiency and our skills, without getting bogged down in number crunching. I wouldn't mind kicking the pdf to the curb if we could have a simpler/easier to use char sheet that would coul...

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48110429022_5b08cc3ccc_t.jpg Dmitri swept the hangar with his rifle up and his finger poised to fire, looking for the facehugger that got away. He found it. " Yebat' v'rot! " he swore and ran to help Morse. Henninger and Morse were already grappling with the face...

I'm in!

((OOC: I apologize for being AWOL everyone. I've got my youngest to shuttle to college classes amid the COVID-19 mess and I'm caravanning with my oldest in <48hrs who's moving to Brooklyn from NC. I have a bit much on my plate at the moment.)) https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48110429022_5b08cc3c...

“I will hold you to this,” said the Ukrainian with mock seriousness, “But in honesty, what you two going to do when you get back home?” She was hoping to ease some of the fear and tension of the others, but also in herself. Talking about plans for when you get home was always a way to relieve tensi...

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48110429022_5b08cc3ccc_t.jpg "Yessir." On hearing Morse change Sam's orders, Dmitri simply moved into his new position with the "blood bag" and "droid". He took a moment to sling Sam's shotgun across his back, the extra shells for which already stashed about his ...

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48110429022_5b08cc3ccc_t.jpg At Sam's crack about Oksana's eternal tormenting her should anything happen to him, Dmitri had to laugh--albeit one that was more a breathy snort than a full-on laugh. Oh yes, he knew how harsh Oksana could be and if there were a way ...

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48110429022_5b08cc3ccc_t.jpg Dmitri handed Sam's pulse rifle right over with one hand and racked a round into her shotgun with the other. "Yes, Ma'am," he said and promptly got going after Isabel Orozco. He moved closer to Tanya Sokolova as he went, gave her a lo...

((OOC: Apologies, everyone, for being MIA. Back in the saddle for the nonce, now. Bear with me while I backtrack a bit and get caught up .... )) https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48110429022_5b08cc3ccc_t.jpg Engineering was a hellhole, full of gunfire, flames, and the eerie nails-on-blackboard scr...