I realize the answer to "how do you know when to sharpen" is usually, "if you have to ask, sharpen" (lol). Just got a nice set of Easywood medium carbine tools and have been putting them through their paces.
If you're using carbide cutters, what are your guidelines for turning the carbide tip or turning it in the case of a round head?
In another thread about the slow pace of overall progression, a couple of side convos got going about what it's like to play characters at these ranks. Dunno about all you, but from my experience in D&D, most campaigns rarely get beyond level 13ish, at least according to what I can remember anecdotaly and what WOTC said...if you can trust them about anything, lol.
So it's not all that surprising that I haven't come across content designed for those levels. I've got my own takes on how hard that would be regardless.
Does anyone know of content that's available? Or have you run anything for players at those ranks?Any insight would be appreciated.
From Cyberpunk Red. Not what we normally talk about here :)
Attached is their excellent, high-res city map. Running a CPR campaign, I obviously wanted to get a lot more granular than that, so I messed with Gemini a bit to get the second image, which, frankly, suits me just fine. I had asked it for that area and that area it gave me. Perfect zoom level, looks good, granular enough for me to populate buildings with whatever I want.
BUT...no matter how many times I try or how many different prompts I use, I can't get it to do that again or, if it gets close, do another area of the city with the intent to do the WHOLE city.
SO...I'm sort of resigned at this point in taking the first image and just going nuts with a vector illustrator to do the building infill. There's a certain fun in that going all the way back to when I was a teen making D&D maps on paper :)
If any of you have suggestions on shortcuts that would keep me from having to do it by hand, I'm all eyes. If any of you have good suggestions on the best way to do it by hand, ditto.
Looking at getting a slow-speed grinder to keep my chisels sharp. I'm not going to have the budget for multiple grinders (lol) so I'm planning on a decent-quality grinder and a good jig system (Wolverine comes highly recommended from my local fellow turners).
If you only have two grits to work with, what should they be?
We've got an older deck we're trying to get another few years out of and it's developing a slight shimmy.
I'd like to try a V-brace solution before bringing in a pro, but have one question about the process.
How do you attach the apex of the V to the house?
I understand the rest of it. That's the one piece I've not been able to find an answer to and my google-fu is usually pretty strong :)
Physical copies are supposed to ship in mid-July. Nothing yet...:)
Aside from Smasher, the gist of the video is making fun of regular vs legendary weapons in CP2077.
Confusing enough for ya? (lol)
We did our seshzero and ran our first full session yesterday. Outside some Roll20 learning curves to smooth out and one newbie to the hobby figuring out the character sheet, we're pretty much golden and ended on a good cliffhanger.
We even had our inaugural in-game use of the custom netrunning app we created to make netrunning go a lot faster and off the table. Worked great and I (GM) was able to let the netrunner do his thing while other characters were doing their stuff out of turn order. Basically, they were searching an office and the netrunner was hacking the desk computer while the rest of the group found other things, did perception checks, streetwise checks, etc, all while Reba, the netrunner, was pawing through the computer.
Here's a demo of the app our fixer player created. We're still looking for playtesters. This is the 1.0 version, but there have been some significant updates very recently: https://youtu.be/gEqsfUNk3Pw?si=v8n30vrPerIjOrv9
TO THE POINT: one of the potential players doesn't have the time to commit to a weekly session, but still wants to be involved. We're utilizing 2020's (Wildside) option rules for fixer contacts and have them fully fleshed out as NPCs. My initial idea was that I could run a mini-session with her in between actual group sessions. She, as a fixer contact or henchman or whatever, could do tasks or try to source items the fixer needs.
Looking for any and all ideas along those lines because right now it's just sort of a nebulous idea and I'm kind of bogged down smoothing out the rough edges we ran into yesterday for session 1 ;)
We had our session zero last weekend and will kick things off in earnest this Sunday. I'm looking forward to it as it's my first non-oneshot GM attempt. We're leaning into whatever tech we can to increase immersion and fun, to the extent that one of our party members has spent the last month coding a netrunning app between the player and GM :)
I'm wondering what sort of shenanigans you've gotten up to using player agents, whether during the session or during downtime. The inclusion of them in the game world seems to be begging for use.
For context, we're using 2045.
Just had session zero for a new group/new campaign. They decided that they all live in the more seedy parts of The Glen. No problem, I can work with that.
We're going for an in-person Roll20 setup with each person using Demiplane character sheets on a laptop or tablet, with the Roll20 board up on a wall-mounted 4k at the end of the table. I'm clawing my way up the learning cliff there...
The new sourcebook is great! Hats off to the folks at RTG for making it happen. Dense with both hard data and flavor. Given all the different maps and POI, I was wondering what other GMs are doing to utilize all of this info.
Do city maps play a part at your table (remote or in person)?
If so, how are you going to use them/implement them?
Are you going to lean into the security and utilities given for the districts?
And the cast looks fantastic. I'm reading it for the first time in a LONG time and seeing all it's influence on subsequent media is pretty amazing.
I have Virpil Ace Flight Pedals which are confirmed working (Elite/Star Citizen, no issue). The previous time I had X4 installed and was working through the control setup, I don't remember it having any issues with the flight pedals. They simply don't appear on the list of "joysticks". Both Razer Tartarus gamepads as well as a Logitech Flight Quadrant and even the Joystick Gremlin V-joy show up.
I'm working my way through the tutorials and trying to figure out my HOSAS setup for this :)
Probably just me.
I conquer a non-spacefaring world (atomic) and try to enslave with 20 armies sitting on them. They revolt. I crack down and start sending armies there from my nearby homeworld. Never gets below 2.7 and maybe eight armies landed (in addition to the twenty that conquered). Seeing revolt was inevitable, I destroyed all buildings on the planet.
So they revolt. They get FOUR star systems all the sudden and a 943 strength fleet. Them revolting and getting those star systems forces my armies that were lifting off and my fleet that was in the system to go emergency jump, taking them out of the game for a while.
Meanwhile, their magical 943 fleet takes two of my systems. And, poof, there's a 625 space station on the nearest one all the sudden.
Double-u tee eff?
Conquered half a rival's stars next door and ended up with two of their planets. I set the species there to undesireables/displacement in order to drive the planet to uninhabited. Works normally, but in this case, two of the three species stopped dropping by 50 or 100 per month and now there's just a - symbol there.
Any idea what's going on with that?
Got into woodturning last year, but have shied away from HSS tools because of the sharpening demand. In the meantime, I'm learning basics using carbide tips.
After doing research into lathe tool sharpening, where usually the first thing mentioned is to a) not use your standard bench grinder on quality lathe tools and b) get a slower speed, dedicated grinder with a CBN wheel, usually running 2000 rpm or slower.
It then occurred to me that I already have such a machine and just lack the CBN wheel. I'm considering options to use a miter channel and figure out a way to build a jig. It's all abstract at the moment. I'm just brainstorming, but think it might work.
I'm looking through Drivethru right now, but searching by that specific parameter isn't getting me anywhere :)
Anyone know of something like that? Our main player/organizer really wants to try netrunning and I...sorta...want to GM netrunning. I can absolutely use tables and just random something up if it's just the two of us, but I'd rather have something with a beginnging/middle/end.
AND...yes...I would normally right this up myself, but we're slammed with family and such all week into this weekend.
In Star Citizen, hand-held tractor beams are a thing. Bigger/stronger ship-based as well. You point at something, hit fire, and sci-fi rop hits the target, lifts it off the ground, allowing you move things around like cargo boxes. Further, you can "reel" things in or out like a fishing road by mousewheeling forward and backwards.
They DO have joystick keybinds you can set...but you have to repeatedly click the button to make it the in-game object move.
So...what I'm looking for would be to take two buttons (30 and 29 on my right grip, specifically) and push one and hold it to reel in, or push the other and hold it to reel out.
So I need Virpil software to tell Windows holding a button down is repeated/violent pressing of that keystroke :) How might I do that?
...and the travesty of Civ VII.
The game launches fine, allows me to go through the new game setup, but when the intro finishes and you click the button to begin, my entire map is absolutely black. The hud is there, perfectly visible, and the two starting units icons are visible, but that's it.
DX version issue maybe?
We plan on eventually moving to Foundry (got it purchased and all the tutorials bookmarked, lol), but right now we're on the tabletop and in person.
I'm an old-school DM, but haven't done anything but play TTRPGs since forever. This is my first foray into running sessions since, well, forever. I'm looking for tips and tricks on running combat. Not how the game works...I have a pretty good grasp of that, I think, but how to actually manage it behind the GM screen.