Re: [FT] After action report - first FB rules game for me . . .

Ya spake thusly upon matters weighty: 

Actually, Indy can build ships without firecons. It just saves him 
from having to roll the dice to not hit.....

> >[snip]
> >> Q: why does the Fr'thra cruiser have *4* firecons? Talk about
redundancy in
> >> backup systems!  ;-)
> >
> >Mostly because I'm consistantly losing FiCons in disproportionate
numbers to
> >threshold checks - I could have really used a third FiCon on the
Gr'kekh CH to
> >shoot off the wave gun (both FiCons were crit'ed on the same check
<grrr>),
> >and the Gr'kaa CH lost all three FiCons at once.  I started wondering
why I
> >couldn't roll that many sixes in a row for my attack rolls . . .
> 
> You obviously are suffering from what I think is called 'The Indy
Effect'.
> Except for me it happens for *firing* my pulse torps, not losing my
firecons.
> ;-)
> 
> Mk/Indy
>
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bliss,
> which in the monotonous, materialistic existence of modern times
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> else can approach, it also presents great dangers.  It is not the goal
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> *grand alpinisme* to face peril, but it is one of the tests one must 
> undergo to deserve the joy of rising for an instant above the state of

> crawling grubs.
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