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gently caress my rear end, I made two orders on Bricklink to help me finish out the SW medical frigate, and I forgot to order the inverted wedges I'm missing. How do I miss the two biggest pieces that I'm missing? Is there an easier way to coordinate buying pieces off your wishlists across multiple sellers?
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Saint Sputnik posted:But it leaves room for a lot of outliers and the possibility of never hitting the monster or being one-shot killed. No fun. I could make the stats more complicated by injecting agility and dodging, or make static levels for monsters you'd have to roll to overcome (and maybe dynamic levels for player characters), but I'd rather keep it simple. Any thoughts? Re-roll 6s and add the second roll, too. Call it a critical.
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Jun 16, 2011 00:23
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We were loading old computer CRTs onto the surplus truck at the high school today when I saw these on the loading dock. They were supposed to go to our middle school, so they're waiting for the truck. Two pallets of Lego Education Mindstorms. I was tempted. So tempted. We also found a 1957 Paillard Bolex H-16 Reflex 16mm movie camera, amongst all sorts of basically worthless 1980s camcorders, VHS players, and slide projectors, which ebay tells me is worth somewhere between $200 and $1000, which was pretty sweet. With the case and it looks drat near unused. Pyroclastic fucked around with this message at 07:53 on Jun 16, 2011 |
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Jun 16, 2011 07:48
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Pyroclastic posted:We were loading old computer CRTs onto the surplus truck at the high school today when I saw these on the loading dock. Thats nuts, I imagine it must look like that in the back of the lego store too. Veeb0rg fucked around with this message at 07:54 on Jun 16, 2011 |
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Jun 16, 2011 07:48
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Pyroclastic posted:We also found a 1957 Paillard Bolex H-16 Reflex 16mm movie camera, amongst all sorts of basically worthless 1980s camcorders, VHS players, and slide projectors, which ebay tells me is worth somewhere between $200 and $1000, which was pretty sweet. With the case and it looks drat near unused. (Did I just say that? In this thread?!) Anyway, some Toronto area news, there's something called BrickFête going on at the end of July for AFOLs only, over at Humber College's Lakeshore & Kipling campus.
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Jun 16, 2011 12:20
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Saint Sputnik posted:Wow, I can't tell what's really motorized and what's VFX. The more dice you roll, the closer to a proper bell curve you get. 2D6 is going to average "7," and 3d6 is going to average "10." Outliers get more and more rare, too. You've got the same chance of rolling a 1, 3, or 6 on 1d6, but it's much less likely you'll roll a 2 or 12 on 2D6. The next step would be to figure out how likely you want hits to be. Is someone who's skill or whatever 1 point higher, does that represent 5%? 10%? 20%? I know this all seems pretty complicated for a simple lego game, but you should put SOME thought into how hard it should be to beat someone who's tougher or weaker than you. This page does a great job of breaking down the odds when rolling 3d6 : http://www.tangentialcold.com/rpg/3d6_Odds.html If you're using 3D6, and your base skill is 10, then someone who's at 11 is 12% "better" than you. If you go with 2d6, and your base skill is 7, someone who's an 8 is about 14% better than you. It sounds like 2d6 is closer to what you're looking for; simple and easy but without rolling too many dice or dealing with too many modifiers.
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Jun 16, 2011 14:32
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10221 Super Star Destroyer box photos... http://www.flickr.com/photos/nannanz/5840839429/
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Pagan posted:The more dice you roll, the closer to a proper bell curve you get. 2D6 is going to average "7," and 3d6 is going to average "10." Outliers get more and more rare, too. You've got the same chance of rolling a 1, 3, or 6 on 1d6, but it's much less likely you'll roll a 2 or 12 on 2D6. That's good, I'll probably use that. The even simpler alternative - one roll each, highest simply applies attack damage minus opponent's armor value - isn't feasible because all armor/attack values are designed to be so low... it's very likely to get nowhere if you have 2 attack and the monster has 2 armor. My other concern with this approach is that it doesn't allow back-and-forth attacking - who actually attacks each round is entirely up to the dice. It's fine with me since simple back-and-forth would kinda be boring as hell, but there might be some frustrations I'm not anticipating.
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Saint Sputnik posted:That's good, I'll probably use that. The even simpler alternative - one roll each, highest simply applies attack damage minus opponent's armor value - isn't feasible because all armor/attack values are designed to be so low... it's very likely to get nowhere if you have 2 attack and the monster has 2 armor. What about.. attack values are pluses and minuses, and everything is based off 7 (for 2d6)? So, an average guy might have +1 attack. For every point at 7 or higher, he scores on point of damage. Against someone with no armor, if he rolls an 8, he adds +1 for his attack, so total 9.. minus 7 means he does 2 points of damage. If he rolled an 11, he'd do 5 points of damage. Actually, to make things easy, just give everyone an armor value, with 7 being average. You just have to beat their armor value to score damage. Someone with armor 7 is average, maybe bare skin would be Armor 5, but a knight in full plate might be armor 9 or 10. You just roll 2 dice, add your attack modifier, and compare it to their armor. Whatever you won by, that's how much damage you did. Add in some neat features for critical success and failure; maybe a critical failure (natural snake-eyes) means your opponent gets a free attack, critical success (natural 12's) means they only get half their armor. For initiative / back and forth, there are a few simple ways to handle it. You could give everyone an initiative score and they just go in order, or add their Init to a d6 roll and that is the order. Maybe if the attacker rolls doubles while attacking, his opponent gets to try to attack, too, just to throw a little randomness in there.
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Got my 32-year-old Galaxy Explorer today. Seller advertised it as 100% complete, but it was missing three major parts: a 6x12 plate, a 4x8 plate, and a 4x8 right wing (though he included an extra left wing...) If he doesn't come through, the pieces will only cost me about a buck on bricklink. The pieces are in beautiful shape, though. It was obviously never displayed assembled for any significant length of time. The gold on the white minifigs' chests is virtually all gone, but the reds still have most of theirs. Kinda funny how straightforward the build was compared to recent stuff, and it made me realize just how old some of these part designs were. I didn't know the 4x4 slope bricks existed way back then.
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Jun 18, 2011 01:42
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radd posted:10221 Super Star Destroyer box photos... That is sexy as hell. And it's just the motivation I need to finish my Imperial Shuttle. Can't buy the Executor if I haven't finished the Shuttle! I love Star Wars Lego. 
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Jun 18, 2011 02:39
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radd posted:10221 Super Star Destroyer box photos... Oh my check that to-scale star destroyer next to it...
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Theres no way the top parts there are one piece, is there? 
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Jun 18, 2011 04:17
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Nah, you can see panels in the high res shot. http://www.flickr.com/photos/nannanz/5840839429/sizes/o/in/photostream/ Still, that's a hell of a lot of  grey there.
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I just built the Slave 1. It's so awesome. Poor Bossk though. He helps load the ship up and then what? There's no place for him on the ship! MinionOfCthulhu fucked around with this message at 06:06 on Jun 18, 2011 |
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Jun 18, 2011 06:03
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radd posted:10221 Super Star Destroyer box photos... Oh, goddammit, Eurobricks' thread says it's going to cost $400 US, and more pictures show some drat minifig features inside the ship. It's at least $100 overpriced. The Death Star II had 300 more pieces (of similar variety) and is $100 cheaper.
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Pyroclastic posted:It's at least $100 overpriced. 
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My fiance just picked up Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga for the 360. I think we've had more fun in the last two days with it than in the last year. Now he wants to go empty his bank account on Lego at TRU. Sigh.
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I know that Star Wars LEGO is marked up, I didn't realise just how much. Visiting my local toy store this week, I spied a Fire Station (the deluxe modular one, ~2200pc.) for $300. The same store had a Tantive IV (~1400pc.) for $320. For any ausgoons interested, this is Toy World at Eastland, Vic. They are the best LEGO stockist I've found in the area. They also had a big Mars Mission space ship for some reason. \/\/\/ This is Australia. Toys R Us Australia is terribly overpriced and understocked here. 
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Jun 18, 2011 15:33
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Seriously don't buy Star Wars Lego until it's on sale at TRU or Lego.com or something. On its own, it's ridiculously overpriced, but if you can get it on a buy one get 50% off sale or similar, it's at least reasonably cost effective. And NEVER buy sets when they first come out. There will be plenty of them at your local TRU, and you'll be able to snag them on sale regardless of how Lego-friendly your local community is.
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Just picked up a mystical creatures used, complete with box. However the fire breathe is very lose, is there a trick to make sure it doesn't flail around and drop off?
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I like dis, the random angles and orientation of everything is fantastic. http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=476005
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InfinEight posted:I like dis, the random angles and orientation of everything is fantastic. I was gonna list all the things in it I thought were clever, but there's just too drat much.
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radd posted:10221 Super Star Destroyer box photos...  That is beautiful and I can't wait to throw that alongside my star destroyer.
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I saw the Super Star Destroyer, built, at Brickworld Chicago this weekend. Pretty amazing - though ultimately smaller than I expected (I guess I expected it to be the size of the London Bridge or something). The mini-scale regular Star Destroyer is adorable.
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Went to the Bellevue store today, since I have the rest of the week off. I picked up the Master Builder Level 1 kit, a large PAB cup (nothing particularly interesting in it), and something I hadn't seen before, this calendar. All those numbers on 2x4 bricks could be handy. It also comes with a Minifigures S1 Skateboarder and Cheerleader, which I believe is the first instance of the blind-bag minifigs appearing in sets. The L1 kit's expensive for 178 pieces, but the tip manual is nicely printed, and I want to support Lego in trying to introduce more advanced techniques they don't often include in System sets to younger builders. I'll be subscribing for the subsequent kits in the next couple days.
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Thanks to TRU my pile is growing again. I should buy another lighthouse... everything must be in twos! \/\/That shuttle really is awesome and I hope I can get one before they're gone. InfinEight fucked around with this message at 17:45 on Jun 22, 2011 |
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Jun 22, 2011 07:23
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It's all done. I love it.  
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Jun 22, 2011 08:54
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Revol posted:
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 Also from the Arrested Development guy, a great Futurama mural which includes Seymour. Fry's dog.
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Why isn't there a Futurama line of Lego?! Endless possibilities.
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I assume the same guy as those did this one? Lizard Combatant posted:Why isn't there a Futurama line of Lego?! Endless possibilities. Because we can't have nice things is why. We get Lego Cars and Megablocks gets Starcraft. 
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With how expensive licensed themes are, I'm glad Lego still makes awesome in-house themes, like Pharaoh's Quest and Alien Conquest. Imagine how expensive even those themes would be if they were licensed versions of The Mummy and Independence Day/War of the Worlds/etc. \/\/Meh, I was trying to think of movies/books/series that Alien Conquest is similar to :p InfinEight fucked around with this message at 16:36 on Jun 24, 2011 |
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InfinEight posted:With how expensive licensed themes are, I'm glad Lego still makes awesome in-house themes, like Pharaoh's Quest and Alien Conquest. Imagine how expensive even those themes would be if they were licensed versions of The Mummy and Independence Day/War of the Worlds/etc. Yeah I hear it's a bitch to get the rights to War of the Worlds 
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Just got this dude, pretty happy with it. Helmet is custom, and I think armor and belt is too.
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hxcorpse posted:
Seymour was a blatant grab at tears and I hate him for that. Luck of the Fryish was by far a more emotionally powerful episode.
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Inspector_71 posted:Seymour was a blatant grab at tears and I hate him for that. Luck of the Fryish was by far a more emotionally powerful episode. Thank god I'm not the only one feeling that way. gently caress Seymour.  gently caress Fry's idiot parents even more.
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A while back I made a Pokeball. (Two, actually, but c'mon, the one on the right can just be ignored. It never existed.) But I wanted better. I finally found it. I used this Flickr post, which has a full .lxf file for step-by-step instruction.  Horray!
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Pharoah's Quest finally hit shelves here in Australia.  Picked up Flying Mummy Attack.
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