ok..going to  put a Post  in the Hanger Dec, this  will be  the 'next day' as   we   clamp onto the orbital Docks  around Bura.

In reply to Sarah McKeon (msg # 950):

Lawful stupid is in my opinion a word made up because honestly from my experience, everyone wants to be Sith but no one wants to be Jedi XD To paraphrase.


And yay, next day... and no clue what is going to happen with the 'exercise' Shadow is having.
This message was last edited by the player at 01:14, Tue 30 Mar 2021.

I see lawful stupid as folk who are fixated on the rules/laws at the expense of the good. There's a difference between understanding the letter of the law and intent, and just following it because it's  the LAW. In that case I'd argue they're no longer Lawful Good, you could say they're lawful neutral or I prefer lawful stupid. But that's just me splitting.

 the battle of the Line...fighting Hyrians..

 one of the best Shadow-bad  guy exchanges..

 ...The Shadow? I Am Crafic... i have sent many humans to thier  death... i have eaten some  to enjoy the victory  even more...

 Shadow's  Laugh echoed through the  COMs,Yeah?.. well when  we capture you and yours?.. I'm hitting you on the nose with a rolled up newspaper, then locking you in an aircar with the windows rolled up!!

If someone is that dense they are basically ruining a game and making it not fun, i will agree there. But i wouldn't call it lawfully stupid.. I'd call it willfully stupid :D

Don't read too much into it...it's just a term someone came up with, trying to find a clever, catchy way to sum up people who hide behind their alignment to excuse themselves doing some really dumb stuff.  And, yes, it's typically done purely to satisfy their own personal whims and with little or no regard as to what impact it has on the rest of the game.  They are the "As long as I'm having fun, piss on your characters" kind of players...and they aren't always Lawful Good characters, but Neutral Stupid just doesn't have the same kind of ring to it...

And, actually, the alignment system is one of the things that drove me away from playing D&D...most people I know don't fall so cleanly into one of nine categories, they're a little of this and a little of that and if it's something they're really strongly against, they might be a whole lotta this other for a while and then chill out and...

I feel like D&D builds far too many game mechanics around alignment, when it should basically serve as little more than something to help define the character.  One of my favorite things about the homebrewed fantasy game my best friend in college used to run was the lack of a clear 'Good' and 'Evil'...like, if you tried some kind of detect alignment on a magic item, using Red for Evil and Blue for Good, you would see a purple aura...because the item itself had no alignment, but it had the potential to be used for good OR evil.

I agree, I no longer bother filling out alignment when building a character unless the DM insists, the actions of the character should define it not a tick box. One of the best changes in 5e was to make it almost irrelevant. There are one or two magic that require xx alignment to be attuned or curse you to shift towards xx but by the time you get them you should have a reasonable idea of who the character is in normal game play it should not come up.

Is executing a prisoner (in a fiction) without trial evil? It 100% depends on motivation like most things, a lawful good character can totally justify it, Judge Dredd is totally lawful good (at least in the one or too comics I have read).

Edit: It's unclear to me the player but I am sure John would know are troopers running in full combat load out?
This message was last edited by the player at 06:41, Tue 30 Mar 2021.

I would assume that would be standard practice for a survival run, as it is intended, as best as possible, to simulate conditions one might encounter in action (minus enemy troops firing live ammo at you, hopefully).  At least, that's my take on it...

ill have my post up later for the run.

howdy...
 first off... there seems to be  some family issues  coming up , involving ,my son and his  2nd wife...if the issues  are true, and i don't seem to think they are not true.. he and the  kids will be moving here...I will continue to post, at very least, at night, and  early mornings... we have  went through this before, we'll get through it, its just a damn shame, he got  stuck with two drunks in a row.

 ...............

 now..Game stuff...

  goign to   start 'loading the Big Uglies '   and see who all of the PCs  are joining in...then we'll launch and Shadow will go over the   'rules of the run'. should be fun, if not a bit scare.

 Those not goign on the  run  can  be  'on duty' on the ship...or  get ready for shore leave.

In life, a young friend and a boy who helped out with my cub den in scouts was sexually molested.  I found just how chaotic my heart was that day, and only when I heard what some of the shadier members of the community did to him was I convinced to keep my own nose clean.

 indeed Garrat. Over the  years  i have had to 'deal with things' on my own, because  the  channels  we had to go through  didn't do what they should have done.

Do you want the larg pack (and the 'furry larg') to come on the run?

So sorry to hear of your son's latest issues. I'm sure you'll provide a welcome respite for him and the youngsters until things are resolved.

The largs (except for maybe Tess, Thor, and Gregor) would probably appreciate every bit of open-ground running they can get...but given that they can outrun every last one of us, that could potentially mean a pack of unsupervised largs loose on the planet, and the locals might not appreciate loose largs in quite the way we do on the Hermes...*grin*

I can only say so much on behalf of the Burian government but given the extremely limited work that the Burian's have done with Largs, they'd probably have appreciated more heads up and some controls in place to reduce risks being as this run will be taking place on one of the govt/military training reservations

Requesting permission for my crew to join the run?

 Sure./.

1..Garrat.. You would know of the  Run through your Hermes  COM... so they can join  in, I'll need some stats..or we can work on it.

2...Sarah, where the  run is going to   take part, is southeast of the  Lake /landing filed where  we   came to Bura Last  time...with the Capital  City about   5 miles North, and a  decent  sized  town 5 miles or  so south.

3.  Roy, Henry.... Largs  are goign  down.. the filed they ran in last time  is South of the Lake, Roll  and the Nivarians   will be watching over them

SM, Gava are ready for anything.  You want us down or remain at rest?

Ouch, can I just give you basics rather than rolling up individual character sheets? I wanted this to be more of a teamwork training exercise rather than a survival run.  We will certainly be making our way from one point to another, but we will be doing it as a group.

  Garrat...yeah..that's  what i mean..like most  of the  'extra ' NPCs  they have a  'ball part thing' i advance them  a bit as they survive.. frans  and Supe  Ect, who have been here  a while are in  good  shape!

 Just let me know in PMs  how  many are going  down.

In reply to Jug (Pronounced 'Joog') (msg # 970):

Like I said in the notification Roy sent, participation is at your discretion, but if you don't run, you're expected to be covering duty posts for those who do run.

So entirely your choice.

I'll cover.  they did it last time and day before.

Today has been hectic the whole back field caught fire not sure how it happened but it's left a hell of a mess.

Yuck, that sucked. Hope its all better now.

 dig you guys  have  to  'dozer' dirt or  the fireguys  put it out?