@Bobotron said in The State of the Chronicles of Darkness:

@tragedyjones
Right. I skimmed that and honestly didn't think of Hunter or Mummy. 😕 Sorry for forgetting someone's favorite game lines.

I only know because it was pointed out on the onyx path forum, honestly.

I have to agree with Pandora. If you want to encourage public RP you also have to have good place code to make it manageable.
Players will zerg rush any public scene that get above 3 people so you have to have the ability to handle that expansion of people that allows the scene to incorporate the new people without totally crushing the scene the initial folks were having. Plus places cuts down on the spam from large scenes which is a lot of the issue with large scenes to begin with.

@Alzie

+ is non-optional.
The 's' on +jobs is non-optional.

This is a UX complaint in the wrong thread, but it's always bugged me about the existing jobs systems.

Current plan is still to do cards. I'm trying to use Scrivner to organize everything. Turns out when you're trying to organize a shit-ton of fucking decks, combined with hundreds of cards, Google Docs isn't adequate.

But I've thought of ways to simplify card making, since I'm no longer doing a distribution model.

I have, however, decided that I'm most likely doing to use something similar to the +cookie system that people are familiar with, to chart progress in a fair way. Which means that everyone gets cards and such when they hit a particular milestone, and it's not just staff arbitrarily deciding when you can have something.

Which means that despite not really doing a traditional progression system, Krillin can still end up the savior of the universe, which is the most important part of my vision.

Addendum: I intend to make my card thing open source, just as an FYI, so that people can do whatever with it.

I have thought about trying to use something similar to Mystic Empyrean as a system in a MU*. It uses 7 elements as skills - fire, light, lightning, water, earth, shadow, and air in a wheel. Characters are ranked in each element and has a deck of cards consisting of these skills, so if you have a fire of 4, your deck will have four fire cards. When you want to perform an action you draw a card from the deck. If the element drawn matches the element of the action (fighting physically requires fire, for instance), it succeeds better than expected. If the element drawn is one step away, it succeeds normally. If it's two steps away, it succeeds but only if it's not being opposed or difficult. If it's three steps away, it's a failure.

http://www.mysticempyrean.com/The Balance.pdf

I want to use the system in a game where the PCs are spirits and gods. It encourages specialization in certain areas, so a spirits of fire and war is going to have a bunch of fire cards and some light and air cards, while trying to minimize other cards.

There actually was a Matrix mush for a while, but I think it may have gotten shut down on a copyright infringement.

Thread necro but for good cause.

http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/214278/Vampire-the-Masquerade-V5-prealpha-playtest

It is a free product, looks like the scenario included builds on the events of the Berlin LARP.

I like the mechanic to this system that Combat Skill determines dodge, and it's at a hard statistic. The author is right, this is very 'cinematic'. What could be interesting is reducing the Combat Skill by some increment when a certain 'fatigue' factor sets in, perhaps from repeatedly spreading out multiple attacks. Or, alternately, from taking damage - unless you want to use damage for another concept I dreamed up some time ago, a 'Danger' statistic, that increases a skill/etc. for the amount of health you've lost. If you use the Danger factor to counteract fatigue (with a non-positive, only counter-negative effect) you could actually weight the system properly.

@Rook said in MSB MU*?:

Blah blah blah, change starts with you, don't surround yourself with crap people, blah blah blah... but the sayings are all true for a reason.

"If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and make that change. Hooo." -- Batman

I'll say this as a person that has been lead astray by players before.

DO. NOT. LET. PEOPLE. CHANGE. YOU.

It ends your legitimacy. No matter how hard you might try.

You want crunchy? There's still a Champions/Hero Games game out there. That's pretty crunchy. Could use new blood to actually.

Just found out that there's a new edition of Bloodshadows.

http://www.rpgnow.com/product/193506/Bloodshadows-FantasyNoir-RPG-Third-Edition

Bloodshadows was the fantasy/horror/noir setting for West End Games' Masterbook system, created from the Torg system. Looks like they're not using the cards, but the basic game system was fast and simple to learn, and the Bloodshadows lore itself was fantastic.

Settles of Catan is showing its age. It's like craps only without the fun of the casino.

And, no, my friends and I don't fight when we play strategy games. We play every Thursday evening and one Saturday a month, playing Empires: Age of Discovery, Twilight Imperium 3, Power Grid, Dead of Winter, Eclipse, Caverna, etc. Everyone still seems to be going strong.

The demand is real! Especially if you're gonna do that split-screen retroactive spawn thing.
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@Auspice

I tend to agree that since Grossman himself doesn't provide a map of the layout of the school, there's no canonical way in which it is actually laid out. Especially since there's also Brakebills South to consider. And if people bitch at you, 'fuck you, it's a goddamn College of Magical Pegagogy' should suffice for explanation. Not to mention that it doesn't actually appear on any map anywhere.

And, hey, at least there's a map of Fillory.

@HelloProject said in Wikidot Designer Wanted:

While I have too many projects to really take this on, my primary warning about Wikidot is to be careful with how much content you add at once to a new wiki. I've had my entire wiki get removed wholesale (which also fucked my karma), because they marked me for spam even though it wasn't. That's why I don't use Wikidot anymore, otherwise I love Wikidot.

A friend of mine had the exact same thing happen a few years back. They yanked the wiki for an unfinished project without warning.

@Arkandel said in Social Combat: Reusing Physical Combat System?:

@surreality Yeah, some amount of flexibility might be a good thing anyway even if it increases complexity, for very specific cases.

For example you might want to have two rolls - a Persuasion one to convince Molly you it's okay if you just go into her boss' office for a minute to drop off a memo and a Subterfuge roll to make it sound like you'd be in trouble if she told on you ("sighs I forgot to do it last night, I'm so dumb!") to keep her quiet. Failure on either could produce different results - not being allowed into the office, or letting you in but telling her boss afterwards to cover her ass, or both.

This is kind of what the Doors system tries to represent in its short-term version.

Convincing her to go into her boss's office to drop the memo is one Door, and convincing her not to tell ony our for "forgetting" is another Door.

@Tinuviel said in A Constructive Thread About People We Might Not Like:

For the record, I call United Statesians 'Lower Canadians'.

I call them "Canada's Rejects". Well, the Cajuns anyway, at least.

@ThatGuyThere Actually, the average number of successes for someone rolling 9 dice 4 times is around 15 because of exploding contributing more than you think (http://anydice.com/program/bd0a. Thanks to Misadventure for pointing me to the site).

And while things like 9-again may not contribute too much to a roll by the time all is said and done they contribute a great deal more than you might think. After all, someone with 6 points in combined skill and attribute will roll 54 dice (assuming a +3 equipment bonus) so at the end of the day an extra 10% here and an extra 5% there adds up to a lot of successes.

But the real point of this thread wasn't to quibble about how much ability A helps or how many extra successes ability B will generate. It's just to figure out what the theoretical pools (and any roll modifiers) should be.

At present I think I'm more or less in line with your estimates. I'm actually ranging from 4-8 dice with the 4 dice being the skill level of your average entry level professional. These are the guys on the construction crew that do the real simple jobs. You have them handle the framing and drywall when the job is easy but in the spots where those tasks get tricky you have someone who's been doing the job for a couple of years now come in and handle it. 6 dice are your true 'average professionals' who are fully trained. They've been doing the job and 95% of the time if you want the job done you call these guys in. 8 dice are the true experts. Not necessarily world-leaders in their field but they are they guys who get called in to do jobs that even your normal professional would consider to be difficult.

Then what I did was I figured out the average number of successes for 1 to 6 rolls as an extended action using a rote action for 7 dice, 9 dice, and 11 dice. I assume that the vast number of extended roll activities your average professional does are rote actions. Sure, the tailor needs to modify the pattern for the custom fit jacket they are making and everyone's body if a slightly different shape but they've done so many jacket alterations, plus they have the time to sit down and work out any tricky areas that might exist, that it is still a rote action for them.

Then I figured out how many rolls you would expect someone normally doing that job to take. If your 'average professional' would take 1-2 rolls I used the average number of successes for 7 dice because the average person doing that job is a bit less skilled. If it was 3-4 rolls I used the average successes for 9 dice and if it was 5-6 rolls I used the average number of successes for 11 dice.

This seemed to work really well because the guys with the 4 die pool could nearly always accomplish the '2 roll' task (99.96% of the time). It might take them twice as long to get it done (because they had to make four rolls) but they would nearly always be able to, much like you would expect in real life. Meanwhile the odds of that person pulling off a '3 roll' tasks is about 50/50 (meaning that they were around 75% likely to succeed if they took 3 times as long as the 'fully trained' professional. Meanwhile the 'fully trained' pro with their 9 die pool would nearly always accomplish a '4 roll' task (99.21% of the time) but dropped to around 50% odds of succeeded at a '5 roll' task.