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I think this would work well with agents as resources. You would recruit agents for your department and send them on missions, securing more influence based on the completion of successful missions, which would in turn allow you to recruit more agents. Does this sound good?

"Well, what's not to appreciate?" A flick of her eyebrows confirmed that yes, she did mean it that way.

It briefly crossed her mind that, should this go forward, people might think she had some sort of collector fetish or something, but frankly, if people couldn't mind their own business and got the wrong idea because of it, they could go jump in a lake.

(( So this is featuring in the next Multiverse Monitor, then. {; P ))

Hi! I'm here to talk to you about dinosaurs. ^_^

There are, roughly, four eras in the depiction of dinosaurs in the media:

1. Crystal Palace. The wildly-inaccurate depictions from the very early, mid-19th century days. You know, the ones that are all scaly elephants with Iguanodon nose-horns. (There's a beautiful recent piece starring one, generally called Jurassic Park 1854 by Jed Taylor, which I have on a mug, t-shirt, and tote bag... yeah, the Crystal Palace dinos are making a bit of a reappearance, it's awesome.)

2. Great Thunder Lizards. You know, like The Land Before Time. Most stylised depictions still follow this style.

3. The Dinosaur Renaissance, AKA the time dinosaurs picked up their tails and started running. Jurassic Park dinos.

4. Finally, and most recently, what's sometimes called the All Yesterdays movement. This is characterized by the realisation that there's a lot of stuff - famously feathers, but also other soft tissues, and behaviour - that doesn't fossilize. The Dinosaur Renaissance got the behaviour of dinos' bones and muscles pretty perfect - the stuff that goes over them is where things are changing now.

The thing is, most dinosaur media is still either deep in the Renaissance (Jurassic World), or revisiting the Thunder Lizards for cuteness' sake. My question is, what are the best up-to-date, experimenting-with-realistic-appearance-and-behaviour dinosaur things you've run into?

One that I quite like is Saurian, a PC game in which you play as (currently) a Dakotaraptor, from a small hatchling following after your parents, to a young animal hunting lizards, to... well, usually to a poisoned/crocodile-eaten corpse, by my record, but theoretically to an adult. (Survival games are not my specialty.)

They haven't shied away from feathers - you are very bird-like - or speculative behaviour - at a certain age you can use your wings in 'raptor prey restraint', and you can also climb trees while young. They've done their best to be as scientifically accurate as possible - which has included massive redesigns of their T. rex, first to add feathers, then to remove them. The whole thing is set in a similarly-accurate rendition of the Hell Creek area, AKA one of the best known dinosaur formations in the world.

So that's Saurian (available on Steam now!), but being a dromaeosaur isn't the only way to enjoy dinosaurs. What else is out there? Enquiring mes want to know!

hS

For the sake of equal opportunity for anyone who can't Give Permission (as I'm assuming that the countries in the Plort game would be the Baronies), instead of taking place in Plort, this third version would take place in a different, less hierarchical representation of the real PPC, and more representative of who actually has influence on the Board, Discord, etc. What I mean by that is, there's folks like me and all those "scared to try again" folks who don't have Permission but do a lot for the PPC, and there's also folks like Kaitlyn, who are Permission Givers but don't get on here much at all. (With all due respect to her, as she probably is very busy and stuff.)

I was thinking that I could ask the Board later who wants to be a major player and who wants to back them up. Units would be newbies, agents, BfGs badficcers, etc. Production Points would be Writing Points, maybe? Et cetera. Who wants to work on that one too?

-Twistey

I'm kinda disappointed that I don't get to participate in the war, since Twyla's not even a knight yet. I'm also afraid that I'm going to screw over the whole project like I have always done every time I've encountered Plort. And thus, I'd like to turn over leading the making of the Plort game to Delta Juliette. I might help out with it, but it's pretty much outside of my hands now.

I, meanwhile, will begin working on the mass-mission game. Is there anyone who wishes to help out with that version?

-Twistey

1. The Artificer is kind of potion-centric. I figured this worked considering that Teyori is me from when I was obsessed with the one Stephen King book I'd read at the time (The Eyes of the Dragon) and its villain, Flagg. I have a tendency to obsess over villains sometimes. (My friend even shipped me with him and then it caught on). I made Teyori the apprentice of a Flagg-equivalent, true to the origin story I came up with of how I met him, and it therefore makes sense because Flagg exhibits little to no magic powers, but instead relies a lot on alchemy to get things done.
   
   You can find the Unearthed Arcana documents on their page on the D&D 5e Wiki.
   
   2. AHMWORKINONITDONTCHUWORREH! D8
   
   -Twistey

...about the adventures that result when the Twisteys, Kaitlyns, and Scapegraces all meet. That would just be so fun!

-Twistey

Added quite a few things to the main deck (More CAHQ) and the FicPsych deck just yesterday, in fact! And, BTW, if you (or anyone) ever have any suggestions, I'd love to see them. No guarantees that I'll use them and I reserve the right to edit for good game grammar, but it still really helps.

'Fraid I'm no use for making a strategy board game, but a Plort setting seems like a good idea. Good luck!

~Neshomeh

They wear whatever gives them the best bonus. I could detail the wardrobe of each member, but it would be discarded without a second thought the moment they came across magic armour pieces. That's just how this sort of thing works. =]

Interesting! I like how you've not just used different casting stats, but also put each of them into a different class. It really does show how variable purportedly-similar characters can be.

I confess a certain surprise that you haven't given your costume-design tendencies free rein here; I would've thought intricate details of six matching-but-different outfits would be right up your tree! ^_^

hS

Have a link to the PDF with the rules for the subclass therein. =]

I know quite a bit about OTL medieval and early-modern warfare, both European and not; it'd be fun to apply that to something like a gigantic Plort strategy game.

If I wind up putting myself in, it'll probably be as a set of mages, so I'm really intrigued by the Wizard (Artificer) class for Teyori. I assume it's from the Unearthed Arcana material? Got any more details?

It's certainly possible that the Holy Order might run into one batch or the other of the Knights (though if I tried to draw all of both groups together it would slay me). Obviously that relies on official art for the Knights to base them on... :)

hS

I worked on a military history of the Ypur Wars for NaNoWriMo a couple years back, so I've put thought into Plortish geography and warfare. I'd be happy to share my notes!

My tabletop gaming experience is from mostly RPGs and wargames, but I'd be interested in helping to make a PPC game.

My first thought is that if we were going to make a strategy game based off of the Board and Discord, why not set it in plort?

(Alright, we're going to ignore the recency of my previous new post because nobody did anything with it except my boyfriend. Anyway.)

Hi. Are there any strategy game buffs around here? Specifically the franchise Axis and Allies, but if not, that's fine too.

I'd like y'all's help. After a fun game of said board game (the version with 2 boards, both of which we had), I've had a pretty fun idea to make a couple different PPC versions of it.

One of them would be about the fictional PPC undertaking a large mission, with the various countries corresponding to different Departments or different Suethors in a friend group of badficcers. The other one, which I admit I'm slightly more power-tripping over, I mean interested in, would be about the real PPC, fighting some kind of huge RP fight in a hypothetical physical manifestation of our various platforms (Board, Discord, etc.) I think this'd be an interesting venture, considering that new PPC-themed games haven't come out of the community in a while, not even an update to the CAHQ decks if I've got this right.

So now, the main question is, how would the gameplay aspects of this work? I've got a few ideas for unit types, but I'm not sure what their stats would be, or how everything would be laid out. Can you guys help?

Thanks!
-Twistey, really afraid that this is going to turn out kind of awkward like her last post.

Happy Birthday!

Have a suit of Imperial Guard issue carapace armor. It's heavy, but it'll keep you safe.

I remember when you showed up. Truly, you've become quite the influential Boarder. Here, have a plasma rifle, or at least a cheap Wolfensteinian knockoff thereof. I took it from a Wolf 3D mod that added weapons, because I really didn't want to face a much harder game...

Happy birthday!

-Twistey

Are these meant to be you as well as being alt-cast-stat characters? I notice that many have similar names.

Hehe, hS needs to know that his idea is catching on...

-Twistey