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This subreddit has a ton of great input and ideas and I'm hoping for a little help. I'm putting together my first campaign for Stars Without Number and I've come across a couple of sticky points that aren't necessarily rules questions, but more flavor related. I have GM'd a host of other games, but this is my first time with SWN, my first sandbox, and the first time my players have ever played not-D&D, so I'm struggling with seeing the consequences of a couple choices.

1. I've got my sector created with the help of the book. Due to how the stars landed in the grid, I've decided there are two regional hegemonies vying for control over the economic future of the sector with a number of in

There has been quite a few questions on here about whether the supply lines can be attacked and killed since they actually roam around the wasteland.

Answer: It seems they are "essential" which is Bethesda speak for unkillable (like the companions).

On my way to a quest for something I noticed a fight off in the distance between super mutants and some other group. I was shocked to witness such a rare occurrence.

Well I watched the leader of this group take two, TWO, super mutant suiciders to the face in rapid succession. I shot a third near the person, meaning they took 3 mini-nukes in a short time and there were already other dead super mutants around. As I walked up, I saw the pers

Edit: 25% OFF summbitch.

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For those that don't know, many of the games they sell are actually Steam Activation Codes, so buying it from GMG still gets you the game on Steam. I just picked up Sleeping Dogs for $37.50 and it activated perfectly. (This is not guaranteed for all games, check it out before you buy. If it says "Steam Third-Party DRM," though you should be good).

Location: I have no idea if this is U.S. residents only, sorry.

But The Fragile was still much better.

Since the 1.4 patch went live, I have been getting two new bugs. The game has been crashing as often as it did before the LAA patch came out. It has become seriously unstable, but textures aren't disappearing (like they used to). I have also started getting endlessly circling dragons that will never come down, even after I've attacked them.

Has anyone else encountered these bugs? I am running the game with mods, so I cannot say these are Bethesda created. Is there anyone out there running vanilla Skyrim who has had these? Or, is there anyone who has had these and pinpointed which mods caused them for you?

I have noticed on another forum a couple people mentioned the crashes on vanill

It finally hit me. Steam has an in-game browser, and I could use it to search the web without having to Alt+Tab out of the game. So I fired up youtube, and tried to play Age of Aggression by Malukah in the background.

It worked beautifully.

I happened to be doing the Civil War quest line, so I just kept repeating the song as I ran from Solitude to the final Imperial Camp in Eastmarch. I killed Thalmor Justicars on the road during the chorus. I slaughtered wandering Stormcloaks to her chanting. As I began the assault on Fort Amol, I turned off the in-game audio, and turned up the song. No sound effects, just music. It was incredibly cinem

Many of us, despite their flaws, still enjoy using followers. However, the followers have some serious flaws. By now most of you should be aware of the bug where your follower will "level" with you, but their skills, health, stamina, and magicka will not actually increase. Here, the console will be your patch.

Disclaimer: Using the in-game console can make things go wonky and can cause bad juju. Use at your own risk.

There, now that's out of the way.

First, your followers are created at an appropriate level to when you first encounter them. For those of us who use Lydia, for example, that means she will probably be around level 10 (same as you), when you pick her up. As such, h

By now many of you have probably experienced the bug where your follower is determined to use their own base bow no matter what equipment you give them. In the past, I've "fixed" this issue by just taking my bow away and then giving it back. However, recently Lydia stopped responding even to that.

In response I used the console commands to remove her hunting bow from her inventory so she would be forced to use the legendary bow I gave her. My question is this: has anyone else done this and seen long term consequences? I took her into a combat to test and she drew her glass bow, but I'm worried this might later cause her to completely lose her ranged ability or something. Has anyone tri

I thought I'd throw out a tip that helped my players get into the game more (at least some of them). I run a Deathwatch campaign and prefer to use minis during the battles. To get my players more into the game I established a house rule: build and paint your own Space Marine model (that represents your character) and you get an extra fate point in any session you bring it to. If you don't bring it, no extra FP. All but one of my players were really excited about the idea and loved the opportunity to really work on one figure for themselves. For the two weeks after I established that rule, my cellphone was flooded with pictures of models in progress. I loved seeing the enthusiasm.

The

I am working on a short story, which is hovering around 5000 words right now. The piece was written in past tense, as the narrator is recounting his tale. However, on this edit I have decided to add an action scene. My dilemma: action sequences, to me, lose their immediacy and tension when written in past tense. As a result, I wrote these smaller action vignettes in the present tense.

Is the shift in tense for these two pieces going to be jarring? To any other editors or writers out there: have you done this? Did it work, or did you just get a bunch of complaints?

I've seen a few threads here about how to strip paint. This is an amazing tutorial (I just used it myself), and is accurate. I have noticed that this "LA's Totally Awesome" doesn't work as well as stated on very old models (I have some second edition genestealers this didn't work as well on), but some newer models with newer GW paint worked like a dream.

Also note that if your paint mixed with glue, somehow, that paint will not be coming off, no matter what you do (short of chipping the glue out). I used to paint my very old models and then glue them, so where the two mixed, the models are still stained.