Lucky you, but I am not sure the connection between good stats and CG. Is it that you can get away with CG antics?
What If? You are dropped into the setting of the last game you played. What do you do?
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Lucky you, but I am not sure the connection between good stats and CG. Is it that you can get away with CG antics?
bintananth
behind a desk
Sorta.
CG antics mean that my characters usually don't steal the spotlight. Three instances invoving the ridiculous elf:
In one encounter she rushed in first and took out practically all the opposition in one go and the GM admitted after the fact that he wasn't expecting a elf ranger with a longbow to melee a bunch of knolls in a cavern while dual-wielding longswords.
In another she also rushed in first and was a paralysed bystander right from the get-go. In a third I had her sit down and just watch from a distance because joining the fray would have made things worse for the party.
Rhyse
Well-known member
Last game I played was SS13. So at best I'm in a depressingly hypercapitalist dystopia, and at worst I'm inside a meme. Either way I'm probably pretty dead.
EDIT: To be more specific, my job role was as a janitor, a scientist named Nate Higgers asked me to clean the inside of the xenomorph containment pen, naked. I tried to refuse, so he stunned me with an energy pistol and threw me in there. Naked. Thus ended the life of Cleans-The-Floor.
EDIT: To be more specific, my job role was as a janitor, a scientist named Nate Higgers asked me to clean the inside of the xenomorph containment pen, naked. I tried to refuse, so he stunned me with an energy pistol and threw me in there. Naked. Thus ended the life of Cleans-The-Floor.
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So Fallout 4 huh? My main questions boil down to.
- Do I replace the protagonist?
- Does game logic apply and to what extent?
AnimalNoodles
Well-known member
I was playing a heavily modded stellaris full of genocidal aliens and multiple rampaging super-crises. I grab my lasgun and die for the glory of the Clone Imperium
Basileus_Komnenos
Imperator Romanorum Βασιλεύς των Ρωμαίων
Last game I played was basically GTA V. I guess I use the information I know from the heists Lester, Michael, and Trevor pulled to make my moves I guess. Maybe go out and kill Trevor and collect an FIB bounty or something.
I guess CN dickery would be stealing the spotlight...
Anyways, back to my plan. I think I need to do some TES themed shenanigans to bootstrap myself, "Walk like them, until they walk like you." Make it to so the universe can't tell the difference between me and I want to be. Walk like a companion until I am one. And then walk like the gods until they walk like me...or find another way to walk. If I can bootstrap myself, I'd rather be a greater spirit of some kind then be a god. If you can be a spirit of sufficient power, it is always better than being a god. Being a god... is limiting.
But most of it won't happen, I can probably walk with the PC...or perhaps even divert the game to be more like tabletop and be party of a heroic party. Would be hilarious if my meddling caused the versions to combine...
Knowledgeispower
Ah I love the smell of missile spam in the morning
Well given I was last playing Metroid Prime 3 probably die since I'm not a named character
Duke Nukem
Hail to the king baby
The last game I played was World of Tanks so uh that would be interesting.
Well, I happen to be a Rust Admin. Never was a gamer type before the lockdown, but anyway...
And the last server I played on was my own. So...
I become the more-or-less benevolent demigod who rules an uncharted island that has an abandoned Soviet cosmodrome, that's been taken over by the Cobalt Corporation to do some sort of classified science. But it has plenty of wild areas, complete with forests, river, and animals.
People wash up on my beach, (not a metaphor) and I'll try to look after them. Initially many of them die a lot, but there's no escape from the island even by death, as getting killed just means you respawn on the beach, or from a sleeping bag in your house, if you have one.
I try to encourage people to work together and form a community. But sometimes they form rival communities and war against each other, and I'll simply watch from on high, with a metaphorical tub of popcorn.
And the last server I played on was my own. So...
I become the more-or-less benevolent demigod who rules an uncharted island that has an abandoned Soviet cosmodrome, that's been taken over by the Cobalt Corporation to do some sort of classified science. But it has plenty of wild areas, complete with forests, river, and animals.
People wash up on my beach, (not a metaphor) and I'll try to look after them. Initially many of them die a lot, but there's no escape from the island even by death, as getting killed just means you respawn on the beach, or from a sleeping bag in your house, if you have one.
I try to encourage people to work together and form a community. But sometimes they form rival communities and war against each other, and I'll simply watch from on high, with a metaphorical tub of popcorn.
Well since I just got finished playing Marvel Strike Force. I just sit down and wait for Shield show up. After all I got there via a dimensional Portal. And Shield are monitoring all trans dimensional travel on Earth. So they will find me and take me into custody. After I tell them what happened I will ask to talk to Tony Stark. When Tony eventually shows up I will explain how I am his biggest fan and want to assist him in taking on enemies from other dimensions. Hopefully I get some kool armor in no time.
Knowledgeispower
Ah I love the smell of missile spam in the morning
Given I was playing HBS Battletech....well pray I got the Argo and the 8 hundred Mechs I have in storage on her and go off to make one hell of merc unit after having sold around 40% of my Mechs to the Lyrans/the Suns to get the needed lift assets to use the others in combat
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VicSage
Carpenter, Cobbler, Chirugeon, Dataminer.
Damn, I played Fallout 4 last. Guess I'll die. Either that or I start an actual settlement in the remains of the Vault I came out of instead of thinking the burned out husk of the neighborhood was a good plan. Steal every suit of power armor in the commonwealth. Finally, send Preston Garvey to defend those damn settlements. I'm not the only person who works here you kno
Warframe. Of all the possible places to be, this might be one of the top five worst. You need to understand that every citizen in the Origin System is modified to a degree. Soldiers can bullet- and double-jump, and the three largest factions are the Grineer, an army of degenerating clones with a state attached organized like a Termites Hive with two mad queens on top of it all, the Corpus, a religion that worships the concept of making money with an army of fanatics attached, and the Technocyte or Infested, an out-of-control self-replicating bio-weapon capable of assimilating everything organic and metal that hates anything not part of its hive-mind.
Then we have the planets themselves that range "pretty alright if you can avoid the Grineer" to "barely liveable and you will live in debt-slavery for the rest of your bloodline" all the way down to "Might as well put a bullet in your skull, it's faster and will prevent the enemy from making you suffer forever". Deimos for example is what happens when the Technocyte is not stopped as soon as possible. It consumes the moon and replaces everything with its own ecosystem. Earth is either a permanent jungle with trees the size of skyscrapers or a hellhole where invincible zombie-robots roam the land at night and the Grineer siege the few safe places and villages to take over in the name of their Queens. The Corpus are marginally better in that they prefer to keep you alive and capable of working and consuming their various wares, but even then you're at risk of brain-shelving. That's a process where your brain gets taken out of your body, your remains are harvested and sold to cover your debts, and your brain is kept in a shelf until either the debt is paid or someone vouches for you. And charity is frowned upon in their culture.
That's not to say that all of the Origin System is hostile to life, many background information and lore tibits make it clear that people can scrape by and make a living. It's just that the player character is so ridiculously lethal and wanted that being near these safe spots puts them in danger of retribution from the Grineer and Corpus.
If I'm lucky, I end up in one of these colonies after the Tenno rescue me. If I'm unlucky, someone realizes I'm a baseline human from the Pre-Orokin era and sells me to the Grineer or Corpus because I might be valuable. If I'm extremely unlucky, the Technocyte eats me and I suffer for the rest of its existance until it has been destroyed for good.
Then we have the planets themselves that range "pretty alright if you can avoid the Grineer" to "barely liveable and you will live in debt-slavery for the rest of your bloodline" all the way down to "Might as well put a bullet in your skull, it's faster and will prevent the enemy from making you suffer forever". Deimos for example is what happens when the Technocyte is not stopped as soon as possible. It consumes the moon and replaces everything with its own ecosystem. Earth is either a permanent jungle with trees the size of skyscrapers or a hellhole where invincible zombie-robots roam the land at night and the Grineer siege the few safe places and villages to take over in the name of their Queens. The Corpus are marginally better in that they prefer to keep you alive and capable of working and consuming their various wares, but even then you're at risk of brain-shelving. That's a process where your brain gets taken out of your body, your remains are harvested and sold to cover your debts, and your brain is kept in a shelf until either the debt is paid or someone vouches for you. And charity is frowned upon in their culture.
That's not to say that all of the Origin System is hostile to life, many background information and lore tibits make it clear that people can scrape by and make a living. It's just that the player character is so ridiculously lethal and wanted that being near these safe spots puts them in danger of retribution from the Grineer and Corpus.
If I'm lucky, I end up in one of these colonies after the Tenno rescue me. If I'm unlucky, someone realizes I'm a baseline human from the Pre-Orokin era and sells me to the Grineer or Corpus because I might be valuable. If I'm extremely unlucky, the Technocyte eats me and I suffer for the rest of its existance until it has been destroyed for good.