You do a gret job here. GL with all your plate-spinning!  :)
Will be here when you're ready.

Thanks for the head’s up, Raddek, and for the care you take into making this game so great.

Sounds good and thanks for the update.  It sounds like the return to the caves thread may be wrapping up soon which should help with the workload.

I'd honestly considered that publicly saying I'm not starting new threads may actually incentivize you to try and extend the caves thread.  I'm fine with things either way, and I figured I needed to say something regardless.

Happy to continue!

I will say that the Caves thread is one of the most complicated that I have seen in a long time.  And Raddek deserves major kudos for making it work.  It would be as difficult even if done in a FtF setting.  I am throughly enjoying it!

I sort of wish there was some kind of GM rating system here, just so we could elevate him to his rightful place near the top of the list!

A long, long time ago here, there used to be a game that was dedicated to reviewing other games on Rpol.  It was a really interesting concept, not to mention that all the reviewers had character handles to match the characters in Reservoir Dogs (Mr. White, Mr. Pink, and whatnot).

Thanks for the Kudos Magnus.  I appreciate all of the support.

Company in town this weekend.  I doubt I'll be able to get up a post for the next few days, but I'll give it a shot whenever I can get a chance.

aye, the whole game has been pretty damn good tbh.

Any objections to Magnus and Giles finding a place to catch up Raddek?

Are you looking for a separate OOC thread Magnus, or an IC shop talk thread?

IC shop talk, maybe a play to eat or a bar or something to chat while we wait.

I can open back up your old thread with a transition post… then have you guys meet up after Magnus leaves the meeting with Broskow?  That work for you?

Absolutely.

aye that'd be great :)

A complete aside here.  I go to a lot of estate sales, a slow weekend is four.  You see almost anything at them, from useful/valuable items to some of the most bizarre things.  Went to one recently that was only the second one to have any RPG related material, and that was only a single set of dice.  The other (pre covid) did have several shelves of stuff, but it was all 4th Ed. D&D stuff.  I just find it a bit odd to not have run into any other gaming stuff in the probably 1000+ sales I've been to, especially when you consider all of the different things I've seen collected.

Another I went to this past weekend was that of a retired naval aviator (O-5).  If I'd known your size Raddek, I could have gotten you as many uniform shirts as you could wish for, many still in original wrappers.  Probably could have gotten them all for less than you would pay for a single one now.  I did pick up a couple pairs of white dress gloves and a pair of Vietnam Era aviator sunglasses in the case (by American Optical) in really good condition for a song.

Serious treasure hunting fun!

That sounds cool, Runt. I like to go to yard sales and thrift stores myself, but I often don't have time. I did go to one yard sale when I first moved here, and the guy was selling a few packs from the Star Trek: The Next Generation collectible card game. Score! I also found a Mutants and Masterminds book at another yard sale.

I used to work at a military junior college. The year I was hired, they relaxed the rules to allow staff who hadn't served in the military to wear either a uniform or civilian clothes. I'd never served, so I checked with my grandad who served in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam, and he encouraged me to wear a uniform. The army had just phased out the old headquarters uniform in favor of BDUs, but the retired colonels on staff hooked me up with shirts, pants, a pretty warm coat, and a couple of those envelope hats. I rarely wore the coat, though, because if I did, I had to wear a tie, too. It was weird wearing Captain's bars, knowing I had done nothing to earn them, but it was honestly pretty cool, too. We civilians wore little pins that indicated we were from the military school, but otherwise, we wore (slightly old by then) regulation Army uniforms. Staff who were retired military wore their service uniforms, of course. I'll probably never be around so many colonels (and a general) again in my life.

Even now I have dreams that I'm walking around outside without that garrison cap, or my shirt is untucked, or I'm otherwise out of uniform.

The weirdest part for me was how many speeding tickets I got out of when I was driving to work or back home. Police would see my uniform, know I worked down at the military school, and let me off with a warning.
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Sounds like a fun estate sale, if that's not a contradiction in terms.  That being said, I think I've started the process of divesting myself of my own uniforms.  I've got this one job left before I'm eligible for retirement, and I'm really not so interested in buying anything I don't have to.  Uniforms are expensive!  Luckily, 90% of my everyday seabag is all flight related, which is issue gear instead of stuff that's required to be purchased on your own, one of the many perks of being in aviation as opposed to the other branches.


Wow!  That's a hell of a span of service!  I can only imagine the stories he could have told!  It's a little odd for me too, encouraging others to wear the uniform.  I get it, but I'm at the other end of the spectrum.  I've now been a part of a few different military colleges and I take every opportunity to not wear the uniform when I have the chance.  I wonder if I'll make a switch towards nostalgia 10, 20, or 30 years down the line.

Jeepers Gustav!

https://www.shine.cn/viral/1712157877/

He never really talked about his time in the military when I was a kid. At my grandad's funeral, my uncle told some of the stories I had never heard, including something about a rampaging water buffalo in Vietnam that sounded pretty wild.

The day the WWII memorial opened, he was there, wearing his Brodie helmet that he wore in WWII. He lived a full life.

"Plinth" <-- Good word choice!

In reply to Sajaa al-Kassem (msg # 93):

Well 11 stories is about 120 feet + or - some.  I  expect this was more like 50 or less.
Gustav thought this fellow was likely going to clear away a lot of misconceptions about who was doing what.
And his guess seems to be paying dividends.

But you have to admire the man who tried to save a life by risking his own.

I'm not even sure it really works, but I figured everyone got the picture, and probably was tired of me describing the same way over and over!



While the involved parties all know what you are talking about here and this specifically isn't an issue, please remember the Caves of Chaos group has their own OOC!  Also, for this specific roll I found myself in the books over and over again!  I feel like GURPS is very generous towards players with fall damage.  Falling 6 stories is only 3d-3 damage for someone with average HT, or 5d-3 damage for falling on a hard surface.  I was very surprised at how little damage Elkins ended up taking, not to mention the minuscule amount of damage Gustav took for trying to keep him from death!

That does seem oddly generous given how realistic the authors are with most things.

Although to be fair if you roll wrong, that's still a pretty big splat!