by lausdower

It would be nice if the check-in list at union station included usernames from the VFM and not just the math trade. The Yulgame tool could be used to get that info from tagged sales, I assume? The map at check-in was a nice touch. I wish more people had used it.

by Moonlight_Fox

AB2014solo wrote:

agramore wrote:

I'm melting

Oh, what a world!

On the subject of water, though, since the start of July, our area has had 0.7mm of rain, which is just under 0.3 inches. At least the temperatures aren't as hot as elsewhere, but an occasional shower would be helpful, especially to the farmers.

For context for those not from here, the UK average for July is 12 days of rain, totalling 82 millimetres (3.2 inches). The driest area - Grenwich, averages, 1.4 inches or 36mm in July over 7 days of rain. 0.3 inches/0.7mm is ludicrously dry for all parts of the UK.

by robbbbbb

Yeah, when the PCs' actions become egregiously anti-social, the cops will come and put them in the pokey.

The problem with this is that it brings the narrative to a screeching halt. Yeah, the PCs did some stupid stuff, and they deserve to eat the consequences for it. However, the plot stops moving. Your game is now boring. (I mean, prison is supposed to be boring! That's part of the punishment!)

So the GM then needs to take a break and figure out how to get the game moving again. An escape? Do they get an offer they can't refuse? It's a pain to deal with, and so I understand why GMs are reluctant to exercise the option.

by Inari44

Teals_of_Rage wrote:

Thx for a great VFM/ MT.
I dunno if it's too early to opine. But I deff prefer the VFM on BGG vs the newly proposed Virtual Flea Markets page.
There's no toggling back & forth bt an external page & BGG to reference items, or click links. Also, I find BGG better for browsing all available items. I want to see it all, not just the ones on my wishlist.

You can see all of them. Seeing only what is on your wishlist is an option, but not the only option.

And it isn't too early. This is just a very busy week for me so I haven't had time to bring it up yet.

by AB2014solo

agramore wrote:

I'm melting

Oh, what a world!

On the subject of water, though, since the start of July, our area has had 0.7mm of rain, which is just under 0.3 inches. At least the temperatures aren't as hot as elsewhere, but an occasional shower would be helpful, especially to the farmers.

by mic_al

Unless you have a kind of jailbreak session in mind, I think that throwing PCs in jail can be a bad idea.

Fundamentally, it's like killing the character (because you take away the agency of the player) without killing them; and asking the player to continue playing. I suppose if it's a large prison then you can make sessions all about the layout of the prison, the various prisoners and guards, the gangs and interactions in the yard, etc... but unless you're planning that the PC break out, then it's the end of the character. (Unless you plan to make an RPG about day to day life in prison.)

I learned this many years ago, when I was a kid running a Hunter: The Reckoning (5th Edition) campaign and one of the Hunters tried infiltrating a government compound run by the Technocrcay. Naturally, he got caught (it wasn't a planned encounter, I had other stuff and plot hooks going on, and he kind of stubbornly went into a situation that was out of his depth) and imprisoned for purposes of interrogation and processing.

I had some fun with it, borrowing very heavily from 1984, the building was pyramidal monolith called the Ministry of Truth, and they were interrogating him as an 'anomaly' and brainwashing his character into forgetting about the existence of supernaturals and believing he was a criminal. Anyways, the player became very frustrated (I believe there was outburst along the lines of "enough of this shit!") and I realized that he hated being able to do nothing; which makes sense. Anyways, as I said, I was pretty young and inexperienced (which is why I was making these mistakes) and I realized that my mistake was not having the heart to kill his character right away.

Fast forwarding to recent times, I was playing a psychotic Malkavian vampire with a split personality (one personality an FBI agent on the hunt for the vampire 'Lacedo' a serial killer in the Midwest who had destroyed his life and turned him, and the other personality - Lacedo- the manifestation of his diablerized sire) and the various characters in the party were often at odds with each other due to all the scheming (like another player was a blood puppet to her sire and working against the party's interests). Anyways... there was some PvP going on (which was OK with all parties involved- the players and GM all agreed) and Lacedo felt that he was humiliated by another character, a Brujah named Conrad, and had been getting revenge by framing Conrad for his crimes.

This resulted in some police interrogation of Conrad, he had to abandon his safehouse, his ghouls/retainers were imprisoned, and he was kind of on the run. (Lacedo framed him as a murdering pimp/crime boss, and his retainers as accomplices.)

by Aeronwy

Teals_of_Rage wrote:

Thx for a great VFM/ MT.
I dunno if it's too early to opine. But I deff prefer the VFM on BGG vs the newly proposed Virtual Flea Markets page.
There's no toggling back & forth bt an external page & BGG to reference items, or click links. Also, I find BGG better for browsing all available items. I want to see it all, not just the ones on my wishlist.

Same. Especially since I wound up buying several games that weren't on my wishlist and I wouldn't have known about them if I wasn't able to see what games folks were putting up for sale. :)

by Syroit

Related Item: Alderac Entertainment Group

Klop, maar we kijken vaak wat ze hebben als we de mails de deur uit doen. We hebben er goede contacten, zeg maar.

by BG05

$70.00 for RPG Item: Shadowdark RPG Core Rulebook
Condition: New
Location: United States

by Valkyre

Related Item: Alderac Entertainment Group

Meestal zit daar ook wel iets leuks tussen.

by Teals_of_Rage

Thx for a great VFM/ MT.
I dunno if it's too early to opine. But I deff prefer the VFM on BGG vs the newly proposed Virtual Flea Markets page.
There's no toggling back & forth bt an external page & BGG to reference items, or click links. Also, I find BGG better for browsing all available items. I want to see it all, not just the ones on my wishlist.

by pdzoch

QOTD AUG 5: Have any of the PCs of your campaign thrown in jail or aggressively interrogated by the police or law authorities? Which campaign?