Dave Percival

This is something I do as well. I picked it up from another gm, but I feel he flubbed it a little because he rolls behind a screen. In traveller, I'll say "the law level of this planet is 7, so I'll roll 2d6, and on an 8+, you won't get checked at customs" And then roll the dice out in the open

The magic trick, if you can call it that, is that you have a loose plan before the dice hit the table. If the PCs get searched, the officer is amenable to a bribe (with proper play). If they don't, you've got a complication waiting in the wings to make the story interesting.

BC elected our first right wing majority government on Saturday night. Two days later, look who shows up at our capital. This is legitimately scary.

Finally got around to buying High Guard, the traveller book dedicated to spaceships, and now I want to build, like, a dozen new ships. I want a ship that can sail on water and carry two fighters (the bebop, basically), and a janky far trader with ALL the disadvantages (so it's cheaper)

Drawing up ship plans for the PQ-238 Modular Jump Cutter, also known as the "Far Cutter", a 275 ton jump-2 vessel capable of carrying 4 30 ton modules (the third is part of a docked modular cutter, on the upper deck not pictured).

Built by ParaQuine Industries originally in 1088, this design is a reimagined version of the Jump Cutter - with a faster m drive and the ability to make a single jump 2. If one of the modules is dedicated to fuel, the ship can manage a second jump 1, allowing it to explore the Outrim Void.

Drawing up ship plans for the PQ-238 Modular Jump Cutter, also known as the "Far Cutter", a 275 ton jump-2 vessel capable of carrying 4 30 ton modules (the third is part of a docked modular cutter, on the upper deck not pictured).

Hull 275 Tons, Standard (modular hull (30t, X3) M Drive Thrust 2 J drive Jump 3 Power TL 12 Fusion, Power 120 Fuel Jump 2 + 4 weeks operation Bridge Small Computer Computer 5 Sensors Civilian Systems - Docking Space (50 tons) - Modular Cutter - UNREP system (20 t/hr)

Drawing up ship plans for the PQ-238 Modular Jump Cutter, also known as the "Far Cutter", a 275 ton jump-2 vessel capable of carrying 4 30 ton modules (the third is part of a docked modular cutter, on the upper deck not pictured).

Oof. Doing my best to avoid doom scrolling election results. My province might have a conservative government. For the first time in almost a hundred years. This makes me physically ill.

Ah, hello SAD my old friend* *(Not really my friend, he's kind of a jerk)

Sometimes, I write up little rumours that I hand out to players. And this one made me laugh.

They're not all silly. This is more like one of the actual hooks that I hand out.

Spent the afternoon prepping hooks for my Traveller campaign. They get two shots at learning Hooks (rolling a posted skill check) and if they fail, they get a rumour instead Wrote up a half dozen of each today, and got about a dozen more to go.

I'm trying to balance what sort of adventures these lead to, but since the players pick what hooks to pursue, and the chances of getting them are random, I have no idea what the final balance will be - they might just follow leads against pirates

Spent the afternoon prepping hooks for my Traveller campaign. They get two shots at learning Hooks (rolling a posted skill check) and if they fail, they get a rumour instead Wrote up a half dozen of each today, and got about a dozen more to go.

Each hook leads to a different location, some in the same system the PCs are currently in. 25% of the hooks lead to one of the four adventures I have semi prepped (two published, two my own). And some of the hooks lead back to places they've already been.

Spent the afternoon prepping hooks for my Traveller campaign. They get two shots at learning Hooks (rolling a posted skill check) and if they fail, they get a rumour instead Wrote up a half dozen of each today, and got about a dozen more to go.

Oh man, the new Arc Raiders update goes HARD. Really digging what they've done. My favorite new thing is the grappling hook. It just lets you... Climb. Slowly. Up or down. It already had stuff that did all this, faster, but there's a certain earthiness I really dig.

Also, they're slowly swapping out the AI voices (trained on voice actors, who consented to it, not gen AI, fwiw) for just regular voice acting, and I'm digging it. The bros getting upset that they did face scans of an actress and now one of the traders is "less hot" makes me happy.

If your job is to facilitate hiring, and someone asks for details about a job you're posting, you should probably read the emails you're sent. And instead of saying "we offer some compensation for this course you wanna take", say that, and then give a link or further context!

Traveller today was a 3/5 session, but it had one really great part that fired the imagination. The PCs decided to plan their next move at a cafe. So I asked them to design the cafe. We got a menu, and learned that the place served "Coffeee (tm)". It even had a corporate slogan!

"Drinks so rad, you'll need a red!" Which is completely unintelligible for y'all, but if you realize that "reds" are cigarettes that the locals smoke to avoid lethal doses of radiation, makes more sense. Not only did we get a menu, but we also learned what things TASTED like.

We have an election coming up, and our NDP representative posted something defending LGBTQ+ kids against comments made by a conservative. Anyways, some jackass started coming in with his "what is a woman?" BS, and then got all upset when I called him a sealioning dipshit. Good times!

He blocked me after I said that he was on the wrong side of history, and that were it the 60s he'd say blacks are "equal, but different" and segregation was actually good In the 80s, hed say he had gay friends, but AIDS research was too far In the 2000s, "why do they NEED to get married, anyways?"