Jan 2, 2018, 11:19 PM

@deadculture said in World of Darkness -- Alternative Settings:

@packrat WoD somehow mires itself in so much mechanical bullshit an easy 30-minute fight turns into a spammy 5 hour fight and the ST is left with a headache at the end.

I've never been so tired as after STing a combat plot in WoD.

And Pendragon is about 3000x worse, for its fatality rate.

In RP scenes for WoD it would make sense to just do all the dice work first and then pose it out. I mean most of the time if we think of actions performed in combat at times its taking cover/running for cover, closing distance or performing actions that are one off actions.

Really it could just be init -> everyone declares/acts/rolls -> pose all the results. Just doing that per round would make things faster vs the time lost waiting for a declaration, a roll, then a pose. Depending on what's happened it could be the whole combat scene tied up neatly in a pose or two.