SLA Things

Post by **Joose** » September 8th, 2009, 21:50

Im such a geek.

BEHOLD MY MIGHTY CREATIONS!

A Complete listing of all gear in the main SLA rools and Hardware.

And an easy to useCharacter Generator (well, relatively easy to use).

Report bugs and fuckups unto me, and I shall consider your plight.

You may bow before my glory if you wish.

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » September 8th, 2009, 21:55

Well done Joose, that's quite a bit of work.

Post by **HereComesPete** » September 8th, 2009, 22:00

:faceplam:

Well done Joose! Makes me want to play sla moar too, damn you!

The Shutting Downs

How many confrence calls have you been in now?

Post by **Joose** » September 10th, 2009, 20:30

The Shutting Downs wrote:How many confrence calls have you been in now?

Not quite enough, Ive still not managed a workable SR one!

Post by **Dog Pants** » January 17th, 2010, 21:35

Someone made a Contract Killer out of me!

http://jackdarke.deviantart.com/art/Dogpants-150737653

Post by **Dog Pants** » February 10th, 2011, 19:40

Nightfall have just opened their new official forum, frequented by the creators. A new site is apparently to follow shortly and they're touting it as the beginning of a raft of new activity. This being Nightfall I'd take it with a pinch of salt, but already there a few nice pictures and bits of fluff. The forums are a bit RP heavy for me, but we'll see what develops.

http://nightfall.me

Post by **Dog Pants** » February 11th, 2011, 20:58

Interesting thing: Jared Earle (one of the original designers) confirmed on the forum that Stormers have gender (although sterile and apparently pretty difficult to tell apart).

Post by **Roman Totale** » February 11th, 2011, 21:11

Most impressive! I like the "best of" section in the gear list.

One thing on the character generator, I can't see it records Formulae anywhere. Not sure how essential it is for the vanilla game, but I know Pants' house rules restrict the number of ranks you can have in an Ebb skill against your total Formulae.

Post by **Dog Pants** » February 11th, 2011, 21:27

All it's normally used for is tracking how close you are to the White. However, since it's representative of how much you know about weird Ebb shit I figured it was a nice influence on your Ebb ability, and it provided a believable way of slowing EBWs down.

Post by **Dog Pants** » February 26th, 2011, 17:08

Dog Pants wrote:Nightfall have just opened their new official forum, frequented by the creators. A new site is apparently to follow shortly and they're touting it as the beginning of a raft of new activity. This being Nightfall I'd take it with a pinch of salt, but already there a few nice pictures and bits of fluff. The forums are a bit RP heavy for me, but we'll see what develops.

http://nightfall.me

Man, did that go internet quickly. Flame wars, tantrums, bans and sulks. Makes me glad I have a happy place here.

Post by **Roman Totale** » February 26th, 2011, 18:17

I only had a brief skim through, but there seemed to be a lot of people of the "I am a psycho gun bunny and SLA is all about GUNS!" variety.

Post by **Dog Pants** » February 26th, 2011, 19:02

I haven't had that impression. More "I'm a Role Player and SLA is all about me and my character, which is better than yours". Lots of wily waving and attention seeking. The Nightfall guys are great though, and there's some good pukka stuff on there. You'll be meeting some soon.

*Pronounced like thespian

Post by **Roman Totale** » February 26th, 2011, 19:33

Dog Pants wrote:I haven't had that impression.

It was a very quick skim.

I try not to read those places just in case I stumble across some upcoming devilry that you're plotting.

Post by **Dog Pants** » February 26th, 2011, 19:44

Fair enough, that's always possible. I try to skim the good stuff and collate it into the Hardware Catalogue or house rules anyway. Don't feel you can't go there on my account though.

Post by **Roman Totale** » February 26th, 2011, 19:52

The other impression I get (which again could be completely wrong), is that a lot of other GMs seem to make it a "big screen" SLA scenario e.g. high profile escapades and encounters with big name baddies.

It could they're just recounting tales from high (low?) SCL campaigns, but I love the "bottom rung of the ladder" feel to SLA.

Post by **Dog Pants** » February 26th, 2011, 20:03

That's quite true. There's a lot of secrecy and intrigue in SLA, and most GMs can't resist letting the players in on it. I work on the assumption they already know half of it out of character, so never encountering it keeps the mystique. I also like the bottom rung thing, that you're struggling against obscurity. Gives it a feel of gritty desperation and futility that a dystopian society should have. It also means that if I do drop something important in it will have the desired impact. I think my way is better, and the approval from Nightfall when I posted the first BPN I ran for this campaign would suggest they agree.

Post by **HereComesPete** » February 26th, 2011, 20:15

I like reading your bpns far more than some of the game ending super high level crap that seems to get posted a lot.

There's nothing special about ultimate bad guy if you fight it every day. A good case in point would be when you dropped the threshers, it helps with the tiny cog in huge machine perspective, if the guys had tried to stop them they would have been jam.

Post by **Dog Pants** » February 26th, 2011, 20:17

They would indeed. I'm glad that point wasn't missed, because it could have put a bit of a crimp on the campaign.

The Shutting Downs

It would have been an impressive death.

Quick, but impressive.