In case anyone missed it, The Stormlight edition of Call to Adventure is up for preorder now. At US$45 + $10 off of shipping (use code TENOFFSHIPPING), the deluxe version is a no brainer for me.

Right? And I get the feeling that the worse is yet to come. Still, I'm optimistic about the future.

Glad your alright, it's quite a year isn't it?

So we had a 5.7 earthquake yesterday. The first one that big in almost 20 years. That was exciting. Nobody injured, and only some moderate damage to some older buildings, but still.

I'm always down for some MAG, if someone with more skill/free time wants to spin a campaign up.

I'm WFH for the next few weeks at least as of Monday. I work in software development for an electronic health records company (so that's been interesting), so not much disruption in my work schedule.

Perhaps I should get back to drafting my homebrew tweaks for a Era 2 West Marches game again. Would provide something to discuss, and might even get a game launched eventually.

Glad you're going ok so far. Ah, yeah fireplace installation isn't something you can really do from home, not your own at least. I don't have the capacity to run a game right now, but I'd happily join one if someone else were able to.

Fine. There have only been a handful of cases in Utah but still they’ve shut schools and most everything down, so I feel like we’re ahead of the game here. Unfortunately my current job (installing fireplaces) is not one that I can do from home, so unless things change drastically over the next few weeks then my schedule won’t be changing much. Otherwise I’d suggest getting a MAG up and running while we have the downtime for it. I’ve been itching to play for a while.

It hasn't taken off yet in Aust, the next week or two will probably determine how bad it gets here. How are you going Hero?

I'm doing fine. Got told I have to telework for a least two weeks, but that doesn't actually give me any more free time, since my commute was short.

Man I’ve been checking this site every now and then for months but apparently I have to let the page sit open for ~10 seconds before it displays any new chat posts, so this whole time I thought nobody was posting anything. So how is everyone surviving this whole Coronavirus thing?

Yeah I have a somewhat different alloy of law game I want to run, one that should continue smoothly even if some people aren't able to post for a little (as often happens ). But I still can't type enough to run it yet :/ Stupid thumbs are taking a long time healing.

(Somehow I managed to open my bookmark within seconds of your post. I promise I wasn't actually lurking that desperately.)

I suppose we could start something again . . . like a discussion or something.

Unfortunately, yeah.

Happy next month! . . . It has gotten rather quiet around here.

Happy new . . . month!

Happy new year too you as well!

Happy New Year!

Must be running the Elendel line.

So... My kids watch a show called, "thomas the train engine" its about a steam locomotive. One of the trains favorite catch phrases is, "Cinders and ashes". If only my kids new. Makes me chuckle everytime i hear it.

Yea... Those guys are the worst.

By much peering around the corners, with additional caution to be certain that no spike wielding shadows are creeping up on us as we observe.

This "lurking" you all speak of, how is it done?

I'm also lurking/occasionally dealing with spam. Thumbs are still pretty buggered so I can't (or shouldn't) type too much.

Mac wrote: Wow. Someone said something.

I've been lurking, too. I'm in the heart of my busy season with work, so I haven't had as much time for posting as I would like.

Metal Dice Kickstarter is live!

Well, I have been lurking. I neglected to comment on the last post because I haven't taken the time to refresh my knowledge of SA and the Unmade. Too much moving to a new state and new job and the like keeping my mind elsewhere.

Wow. Someone said something.

In case anyone missed It, here is the preview announcement for the metal dice kickstarter.

Okay someone made a point on Reddit I want to explore more. The idea that each of the Unmade are correlated to somethin about the Fused. This ties into the idea that Yelig-Nar only has access to the nine Surges the Fused get.

Hey y'all see the spam in Forum Issues, right?

Hrm, the Plate in the Starfalls vision suffered lasting damage. At least temporarily lasting.

Oh, that's what you were talking about. Okay, yeah, I agree that Shardblade and Shardplate powers should be explained sequentially rather than jointly. The only functional overlap in their powers I can think of is that both can block a hit from a Shardblade. But even that's not a true overlap, since a Blade will be pretty much unscathed while Plate will crack, leak stormlight, and eventually vanish after repeated blows (though maybe that's only true for "dead" Plate from the Recreance...?).

Or at least, "Plate and Blade exist. Here's what Plate can do. Here's what Blades can do." Generally how I see people describe it is, "Here's Plate and Blade, and here's a list of their combined powers." Which... there really aren't any. Like Wax's powers, they do have strong synergy, but they're still distinct.

There are any number of things either alone would excel at that the other doesn't really help to do, as Dalinar explains to Navani while he's in the latrine ditch.

Because their powers have some synergy, but they operate on very different principles, via different mechanics, to do different things. They just both happen to help take down this one specific type of monster.

But I still think an explanation is more confusing if they are grouped than if they are explained in sequence.

Eh. I mean yes, that's a great reason to mention one and then the other.

Re: tough RPG day: Dang, that's rough. Re: conflating Plate and Blade: I agree that they have vastly different functions, and that "they both came from Radiants" isn't a great reason on its own to group the two. But their functions are so complementary, particularly when it comes to taking down thunderclasts (a big reason why Plate and Blade exist in the first place), that I feel grouping them together is justified, even if I'm ignoring all the other in-world reasons to do so.

Gotta love being told "the group would have fared better if you didn't exist."

Did not have a good RPG day. My character is the social one with some minor skill with the bow. Despite accidentally cheating by rolling superior dice, the first two rounds I failed utterly and missed by about 90 degrees. On the third round I tried to use my social skills to calm the madman down... which ended up succeeding but just giving him renewed reserves of strength to continue to attack us.

Fans always describe Plate and Blade together. And I get the urge; it's how people do it in-universe. But surely we know enough to know that they do such different things, via such different principles, that "they both came from Radiants" isn't a good enough reason to conflate them, right?

Ah, nevermind. Found confirmation that it wouldn't work.

If so, that would make a Coinshot/Trueself extremely deadly, yes? Store all of one's own Identity and then simply Push on metal in an allomancer's stomach, perforating organs?

Hrm... someone on Reddit just proposed the notion that the whole "can't Push on metal in a body" is based on Identity; which is to say, you can Push on metal in your own body.

I haven’t played season 1 (yet) but season 2 was a blast. We did make it through the entire thing over the weekend, with only about an hour to spare before we had to head home

Pandemic Legacy! Fun. My family's still working our way through Season 1.

*Belatedly commiserates with folks' trials* That's rough.