@@27Wookiee I did a review of the Davion Force Manual and found some typos. It also cuts out the WoB and illkan eras. I've been told CGL intends to release those later, possibly as an add-on. Recently I was gifted a PDF of the Kuritan FM. I'll print it out and bind it soon but I suspect they'll be typos as well. Which is crap, in my opinion, for an expensive, professionally created product. I just finished reading the rebirth of the Grey Death Legion and found it has a few typos as well. Go figure.

The xerox is pretty straight forward. there's only four settings and I always manually tab the duplex and the landscape based upon how the PDF appears. In this case, it doesn't work as it does for, say, PDFs coming from publishers such as CGLs.

I've had multiple sessions in campaigns where the PC's are chasing down some 'old map' or 'some old fart who saw such a map'. It's like keeping a party log. So many player's don't seem to see any point for one, and yet, a well documented log/diary, whatever, can be another form of map in my experience.

@@yourseatatthetable Keeping an adventure log does seem to be one of the things that the solo gamers are keeping alive. Not map related, but I firmly believe in using all the old player roles, especially the party caller. The objection of the new style players seems stem from it being perceived as establishing a hierarchy, whereas I see it as allowing me to stay in my impartial observer/referee mode as much as possible.

@@Archaeo_Matt It was a question the young royal had asked himself when choosing the modified programs, he’d brought along, and so he armed himself with a variety of specially security ‘wares to, hopefully, answer any situation. Watching the ancient slicer at work was a treat, something he hadn’t had much opportunity to see such tactics in action. He thought he might use his symbiote protocol next, but the Tech IV ‘ware was almost too beautiful to toss at the machine. Layered with deliberately easily overridden coding, the hidden information became apparent, stating peaceful intent and offering peace. But if his Tech III malware succeeded in revealing the ‘cease and desist’ command, he’d rather not activate the symbiotic code and watch it become consumed. The slicer ‘bot’s cyber-attack seemed to bog down as it worked against the more advanced safe ’ware contained in the Tech III packet. Watching the CIS analyst program monitoring the artifacts progress, Luccolos began to suspect something else was going on. With a gentle tap of a claw on the holo pad, he activated another bit of custom ‘ware. The system was originally designed to run diagnostics of NEXAS sub-systems and their backup ‘ware. Called a Grubber by programmers, his modified version ghosted as a peripheral so to avoid interfering with the operating software in action. One glance at the Grubbers’ data told him that the ‘bot had sent a second sleaze ‘ware beneath the firsts coding and was using it to try and access the CIS’s comunit function. If it succeeded it could conceivably place a call or send out an eburst, something that he didn’t want to happen. Luccolos didn’t hesitate. He activated his faux malware. Really, just an aggressive-seeing code designed to fail quickly while protecting a hardier bit of programming intended to offer a cease-fire. Should the slicer ‘bot ignore the code entirely, nothing but garbage, data would result, but if it attacked it the ‘active security’ program should reveal the message. And Lucc had hopes that the area was shielded against communications. Besides, who would this device call after some four thousand years? Curiosity warred with his pouncing instinct, catch the ‘mouse’ or watch to find its hidey hole? Curiosity could still be satisfied, he supposed, if this latest ‘pounce’ failed. As the bait ‘ware flooded the CIS interface the slicer ‘bots main slide towards the com ‘ware slowed and then stopped as more subroutines came online. The ‘bots own safe ‘ware, tricked into believing it was under attack, caused increasingly more of the ‘bots various programs to drive the mouse madly back and forth within the virtual walls and around nonexistent obstacles being created. When the powerful seeming attack sputtered out, leaving behind coding that should be clear in the ‘puters own language that the CIS - and by default, Luccolos - wanted to parley, all activity in the cortex seemed to go dark, except for several deep core routines that would not have showed up on a lesser Tech CIS. Either the slicer ‘bot was sitting in a virtual corner, gazing warily at his cyber presence - such as a Weebie might do when it suspects a Moocha lurking within its own hole, or the machine was sulking. For several pregnant moments nothing happened, then a simple query was sent to the CIS which dutifully displayed it, translating ‘puter code to basic. "Truces are illogical." Success! At least an argument was progress Lucc entered a carefully thought out response. “Not when both parties seek the same goal, and do not find themselves in competition for resources.” The young slicer was hopeful, but still viewed the situation with realism in mind. Just because they had reached talks didn’t mean they had reached an agreement. The thinking machine seemed to take a long time to formulate a response. Lucc was about to try another tact when the ‘bot replied. Continuing to defy the duly programed leadership of the Imperium illogically forces both sides to consume precious resources desired to terminate the ‘bugs’. Desist in preventing my duly appointed duties to the Emperor and confine yourself to the nearest reprocessing center. You will be codified and disseminated as necessary. Lucc could have smacked himself. “The silly machine thinks it’s still four thousand years ago!” he growled to Ripper. “He must not have had an active time counter.” The Helkat lifted his head and growled slightly but when nothing further seemed to require his attention he yawned and settled back down, his half-closed eyes staring up at Lucc. “Just trust me,” he murmured to the Helkat. “I know what I am talking about.” The half-Kattorian, half-Peregrine lordling entered a new response. “It is my duty to inform you that four millennia have passed since you were last active. The war is over. The ‘bugs’ are no longer a significant menace.” An example from a semi-solo game between a friend and I over a decade ago.

@@yourseatatthetable Nice! That really helps to provide a rich memory of what happened during the game.

@@Archaeo_Matt These stories in particular and based within the sandbox that my would-be game created. And, ironically, helped to expand and improve the game as my friends and play testers found stuff they wanted to do or achieve within the game mechanics. Then later, Shannan and took his earlier House, advanced it by 20 years, 'the next generation thing', from which the characters and story threads formed

100% agree with all that you've said. I often reminisce or grouse about 'adventures long gone', remembering them even when I cannot for the life of me, tell you the names of those sharing my table at the time.

@@yourseatatthetable its why, even now, burned as i am by all the PUGs and randoms ive come across on many different platforms that i still search (some would say in vain) for my forever group, because at the end of the day the game is unimportant and replacable - whether by another game, or another activity all together but those stories, those memories, facets of those relationships... well, they stick around

Agreed. For me, it really felt like some sort of recap for new players and if one is on a budget, there are better CGL products to invest in, in my opinion.

Would have been nice had they simply included them, but it is, what it is, I guess.

Would be great if CGL could clearly tell us what eras the books cover. I won’t hold my breath. This one feels like a big let down to me. I’m sticking with my older Kurita Combat Manual until they give me a reason to upgrade.

Much appreciated.

No, I believe that it's an error in editing. From personal experience creating my game of Interstellar Frontiers (Which I have free PDFs for anyone who wants to send me an Email, it's easy to have something get hidden behind, say, art, or, be moved around and lost. Or, simply was not typed in. The only other reasons I can think of would be that we're supposed to treat them like 79, 80-88, 89, which still doesn't make a lot of sense.

Apparently they went back to Telos in the Discovery series but I must have missed the episode. I have to admit though, I lost interest in Discovery after the first season.

@@yourseatatthetable I felt that way about Voyager. I just never was able to get interested in that series. I only watched about a season and a half and then stopped. I didn't find the Kazon to be worthwhile as opponents. The late ones came to late for me I had lost interest. Plus I never liked Kate Mulgrew in anything she ever did as an actress. I always thought she was overated. Some other actress in her role would have been better for me.

@@lynnglidewell7367 I'm with you on this. I watched most of Voyager, between the actual show and re-runs since. There were so many lost opportunities.. A number of unanswered questions as well. Well, it was Star Trek at least... I can't say that about some of the later series and movies...

@@yourseatatthetable I only seen a couple seasons of Enterprise. I would have watched it all but they kept moving the day and time of the show and I couldn't ever find it. Interesting the Topal is the younger version of the older Topal we see in TOS. Vulcans live a lot longer then humans.

@@lynnglidewell7367 I really enjoyed Enterprise until it felt like they skipped a whole season. That last season was good, but the way they ended the serious felt anti-climatic in a crappy way. In my opinion, of course.

@@sharlin648 heh ..

@@MOrab46019 I'm currently reading Grey Death Rising.

@@lead.farmer good question

I love that rule.

I've tried that rule one time and several times in one game, I had outstanding dice rolls....only to be screwed over by getting ones and two's on the pilot roll. I tried to see if my game group could try using the pilot die, but they like rolling all of the nice dice they got from the kickstarter.

I can relate. I've been trying to teach the cat's to play but it's really a dystopian alter-universe.

I'll take your word about 40k since I've never played it. I wonder if the creators saw the similarities.

You know, it never occurred to me to go back and re-read that part to see what the book said.

The instructions say to roll a d4 plus modifiers (-1 up to +2 depending on day time and other factors) and use that many entries (starting from the D100 roll).

@@agilemonk6305 Right on.

@@roleplaycafe6645 I don't like to talk about it but I did a little time years ago so I wasn't kidding. I was shocked when a lifer 'loaned' me his 4th edition AD&D so I could run a campaign.

There's a lot more to be said about the concept and ideas of said Quantum Ogre needing it's own video. Your last part I hadn't considered. That a large part of 'beating or mastering' a particular video game involves try, try, try again.

By all means post away, they're worth sharing. It is a very well done, thought out, project that is equal to anything produced by FASA to CGL.

@@yourseatatthetable I did post a link but it didn't come up, dunno if youtube disallows it but you should be able to edit your title/info and have it there.

@@sharlin648 I'll use those you emailed me.

It shows in the work's quality.

Daww ya charmer!

And it shows. I should have commented on the quality of the art. I think it's mentioned in the forward, but don't quote me on that.

My imagination vs. artists values suggests that the creators of the TRO spent upwards of a grand on the art, or in that area. Art is a tricky thing since it can take many, many hours of work to produce a good piece, and yet one has to value the time in such a manor as potential customers can afford. My guess about $100 per piece, which would still fall short of the time and effort put into said piece.

Say, Mark, have you noticed how much better these fan projects do vs. say, BT novel reviews? This one passed 200 views in ten hours whereas most of my book reviews rarely break 50 over a year or longer.

@@yourseatatthetable Nobody ever talks about these great Fan Projects except you. Keep it up.

@@markcalhoun9480 Hopefully we'll come across some more of them. While there were some things I'd have done different, or would have included in the TRO, it is very well done. Even if the art work had been cruder, it is still very useful for anyone wanting to run Hell's Horses as a faction. In my opinion, of course.

They are great, that's for sure. Very well done

And I do thank you for doing so.

I agree with all that you just said. Shonner passed away earlier in the week from the videos I've seen. Anyway, thank you for commenting.