u/sharyan51

Hello!

I am a long time designated DM and I love to bounce around from system to system, especially Halloween I love to do a one-shot in a spooky game. Mothership looks amazing and I ideally want to use this as a bridge to run a longer campaign after a sample one shot.

Which module would you recommend for a 4 players group, it's everyone's first time with Mothership but decent experience with RPGs in general: my top two picks are Plant Based Paranoia or Decagone, but I'm also looking at Ypsilon 14 or Year of the Rat

Any advice for a first game?

EDIT: Quick questions for those of you saying Decagone, would you recommend temporarily pausing the clock for combat/rolls or just let it roll? Also for the teleporter/4D printer to have bite, should its effects hold even through loops or is it just undone as well?

Location: Iowa, USA. Within the last year I bought a used 2017 Nissan Murano. I was in dire need of a car and didn't do as much research as I should have, so I would later learn that the transmission on these vehicles is notoriously awful. So within eight months it crapped out entirely and needed replaced. I bit the bullet and paid about $8k to get a new (used) one put in. I was told it had a 12,000 mile warranty when I asked about it. It took roughly two months for them to do this

Ever since they put the thing in, it never worked correctly. Within a month I had to take it back in and was told the programming was off and they needed to get someone to do that for them. This took them about a month to get done. I got it back and had it for nearly a month when it broke down again, this time they said it was a sensor not working correctly. These have all been covered by the warranty so far. Now it broke down yet again within a month. They called today and told me that the transmission is busted and they would need to swap it out again, and that the warranty was actually for 90 days from installation, so I'd have to pay the whole thing over again. I have never had the car for more than a month since all of this started, they constantly dragged their heels on getting the car back to me when I brought it in, never having it back sooner than a week and a half, usually about a month or so, and now they're telling me the warranty is gone when I was told 12000 miles.

They won't identify the provider of the part and they are saying that the provider is refusing to do anything since the 90 days is up. But I've brought the car in numerous times during that 90 days, and it seems like they essentially slapped tape on to keep it running til that warranty ran out.

Do I have grounds to sue to be reimbursed, or at the very least have them cover the cost of actual repairs at a more honest shop?

I love a good detective story, especially if a bit of a grimy noir feel can be included, but not super necessary. That said I prefer when there's a bit outside of the ordinary happening, whether that be sci-fi (like Bladerunner/Androids Dream of Electric Sheep) or horror (Charlie Parker series). Fantasy would also work

I would prefer it to be a private investigator rather than an actual police detective, but I'm really open to both options if the feel is still right

Who is a character who you think gets too much glaze or focus due to fan favoritism causing the quality of their overall product to get worse as a result? I've got a couple examples that come to mind:

1. Arya Stark - GoT: She was a common fan favorite through most of the series, but near the end of the show the writers started making her into a superhero to make the fans happy with her journey. Despite failing in nearly all aspects of her assassin training, she powers through and kills the Waif before leaving, somehow having gained the ability to steal faces and a mastery of dueling that put her on par with Brienne of Tarth, who was one of the most successful fighters of the series.

This all capped off with her being the one to kill the Night King, despite there being so many characters around that made way more sense to be the one to finish that plotline, most notably Jon Snow.

2. Soldier Boy - The Boys: Soldier Boy was clearly meant to be a much smaller part in the story, obviously the show has gone way off from the comics, which is a GREAT thing, but he was a bit part in the comics and is now the second most important supe in the series after Homelander.

Jensen Ackles does an amazing job and I totally get wanting to give the fans more of his performance, but at this point they don't seem to know what to do with him so he just keeps flipping sides every episode, repeating the same old jokes. Worse he seems to have completely taken the role Black Noir was meant to have in the ending, resulting in Noir getting killed off randomly after finally getting some spotlight, replaced in a panic move to keep "the character" around, and then killed again in one of the dumbest deaths of an already poorly written final season.