You should start with The Firm, since it's the most well known book. Then work your way out from there. A Time to Kill. The Pelican Brief. Like that.

@Derp Ah, when you put it that way - yes. A paradox is still a paradox, and it's still bad juju. My line of thinking was that the baseline of what is an acceptable power level goes up as your Arcana does, because you can start to perform more powerful effects (ones that might have risked paradox if you tried something that out of the ordinary when you first learned it) without that risk.

@Kumakun https://github.com/skewskewskew/VtM-V5

I left a to-do list there but I think it's wrong. I'm pretty sure I got everything working, including xp spends and the like.

... Will be interesting to see what comes of this.
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I would lock page to an unused flag (since you can't lock it to just any flag), then lock that flag to Wizard-only, then have the flag set/unset based on location.

I have a working prototype for this exact thing for people who are frozen, having to do with @tel and @link more than anything else. Can be done.

@zombiegenesis said in Discussion - RPG System For OC Hero Game:

@bad-at-lurking I think Palladium gets a bad rap. I've been playing Rifts and Heroes Unlimited since the 80s and love them to death. 🙂

I agree! But I do have flashbacks to the spreadsheets I've used for charge...

Volunds code suite allows gor a global color scheme and then for each player to set their own if they want.

@kumakun said in How would you format a log for publishing?:

What do you think of the Storium style formatting of collaborative fiction? It reads like a PbP, but it formats so that it's easy to follow PbP, with the art and character portraits and what not. I haven't looked into Ares a whole lot, but you're doing something similar with your scene system? The addition of visuals to break up the walls of text?

Ares does that while the scene is going on, but that's mostly a UX thing since individual poses can be edited/deleted while the scene's still in-progress. After the scene is over, it converts to a regular old narrative, with only system emits called out separately from the regular poses to help those who skim. (example)

My first version used the storium type style for completed logs, too, but people generally hated it. And it made it harder to edit/copy the entire log. So I ditched it.

Dunno if it really needed to be said at this point, but I'm shelving this for I'm not sure how long. I was having a ton of fun writing theme files and playing with FATE but I really haven't had the exposure to the hobby I feel like I need to actually run a game in a long time.

Hopefully I can come back to this some day, I am still super fond of the idea.

This is very cool! I will have to try it out.

We will use Ares, almost certainly with FS3. Anybody who wants to do some development and RP-master stuff, give a poke.

@cobaltasaurus Oh no! I've been watching this thread for a while. But RL comes first. ❤

@kumakun said in Fate Development Thread:

Do you think Fate Accelerated is too abstract for new players or just the right amount of rules to get one's feet wet in the Fate universe?

Too abstract. It looks good for cooperative storytelling, but there’s so little structure that I don’t think it would work well on the whole. Not crunch, but structure. (Polaris is a great storytelling game for seeing how structure creates a game. No stats, but good base rules.)

Another option could be charging the AP to the person being healed, on the basis that they are straining themselves by pushing on when they really should not, damaging their body and needing more 'time off' to recover after the adventure is over?

On my short list of stuff that I would like out of MU/Client tech?

The ability to support basic image formats (jpg, png, etc). This would be helpful for doing things like pulling your basic Infobox off of the wiki for a character. When I +info Mike, it pulls up his infobox from the wiki, with a nice PB at the top and his most important info at the bottom of that, so that I can see at a glance what I should be paying attention to.

Persistent text when I re-open the world. If my computer crashes, I don't want to go and have to look up in the log what I was doing, I want the client to just load that already up to a certain buffer size. That should beconfigurable for user preferences.

The ability to split screens and send stuff to a different screen in the same window, like what the Evennia webclient can do now. Should also be configurable re: size and position.

The ability for a character to be in multiple places at once. How many times have all of us here been in a situation where we are in a scene with one character, and then proxy that character with a different character in another window? This is common enough that this limitation is just flat-out dumb at this point.

@ifrit You can consider volunteering your services to an ongoing project if you can find one that's close enough to your preferences in the mean time.

That lets you network more, hone your skills and help out while you're at it - new developers are usually in high demand, and with less pressure on you to get too much done right away.

@kumakun
LOL. My group plays all kinds of stuff. I'm running a game focused around high school aged exorcists and their deals with yokai, very much inspired by Ushio and Tora and Shaman King.

Back on topic though, something less crunchy and easy to make a character would be best. I helped out with the old He-MUX way back in the day and we had a very simplified version of the common TF combat style code. Something like Cortex, or maybe a less lethal (can you do a non-lethal version of) FS3 might work.

@Arkandel Mostly because I heard people like bloodlines. The game could function just fine without them. But I know people like them and I think we could get some really neat bloodlines to fit that desert/Las Vegas feel.