Posts made by Alzie

@bored except that the type of dice do matter? You have a d6 and a d12. Each one has a different set of sides. Once you get into explosion, you explode the die that the explode came from. So you can't just say you're gonna explode a d6 all the time. If the explode came from a d12 then you gotta roll another d12 and take the result.

You can tally things though. If you roll 6d12 and end up with 3 sux, 2 strife and 1 opportunity. This is all that really matters. No one actually cares what the symbols are, they care what they have to build their keep with.

So probably, if I was coding this, I would just roll each one and tally. If I encounter an explode, roll the explode and list it separately next to each explode. Then just present it to the player and let them build their keep out of the final possible results. That's the only reasonable automation path I see for this.

Otherwise, it would be, as you said, an interactive path whereby someone would roll initially, have to use another command to roll further dice and potentially more commands later on.

@bored Rather than automation being the issue, I think the biggest issue is that there are two types of die now. Both have different sets of symbols on each side and you can keep from each set of dice. So, that's my biggest thing. Coding a nice way to show the sets from each type and also keeping from each type in a manageable way since, for instance, explosions only count for that specific die type.

The other random things, like strife and opportunity are easy to just tally up no matter the side they fall on.

Ok, since there is some interest here, what about staffing interest. I don't mind being the mechanical person on the game, but there's only so much one can do with a coder and job machine. Do we have any takers for theme/plot and people that like people?

I don't know if anyone has seen this, but Legend of the Five Rings just recently came out with a beta for 5E. Now, I happen to like 5E from a coding perspective because it pairs down a lot of the shit that you had to code into CG/The System. I was wondering what other people happened to think of the 5E system otherwise.

For those that do not know about the 5E system, here is a link to the beta on drivethrurpg. It's free.

http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/223045/Legend-of-the-Five-Rings-RPG-Beta-Rulebook

I will say that one of my favorite rules as it stands is that you can now be a useful crafting specialist out of CG. In 4E, you could start with the star smith clan and never smith a sword your entire campaign because the TN was an outrageous number. In this edition, you can actually make a useful sword even at the beginning of the campaign if that's your shtick.

In other news, would people play an L5R 5E game? (This is my real purpose for posting this because I'm shameless and have been considering a new game)

So are we upset that someone took an action to move a thread using a tool that's 100% transparent? It's a forum. It's easy to see if something wasn't moved or deleted. This is silly.

@Arkandel @Auspice

@arkandel Been using it all day so far with no issues.

@arkandel occasionally, I get internal errors when trying to go to unread and when trying to change pages while also writing a reply. They're very specific situations, so that's a good and bad thing for you. I assume internal error means a failure on some Ajax request somewhere and is probably not actually a server error or I'd not even get the error toast.

@arkandel Doesn't really seem to be under control bruh.

It is app via email, but I'm not averse to that so...

@fei-dawen That was a lot more detailed then I expected. It was more than satisfying. It's also a lot more open-world morality than I expected from a fighting game muck. I could will get behind this.

@fei-dawen can you describe the games plot focus? I've seen it, but never been able to imagine how plot moves beyond fight things.

@finn said in The Mega Shadowrun Denver Shout:

@lithium Riggers are always are cool, we have a couple. I think if you were to ask me, and it's my opinion only here, we have a surplus of mages/physad mages.

But, hey, everyone wants to be the Jedi right?

I thought there was an overabundance of mage police given the giant post that went to great lengths to detail how silly being mage police was. I was honestly impressed someone went down to the numbers, however, to show how ridiculous it was to have mages hovering over the city in astral to police magic use. So whoever wrote that needs to be given something.

For those wondering, that thread could best be summed up by this:

@lithium said in The Mega Shadowrun Denver Shout:

@alzie What archetypes (if any) are people wanting?

Right now, there's a big call for deckers, but since there's a war, they also want murderfaces.

If anyone is worried about activity. Finn set me up with background on the over arching theme and I've already found myself in a run on my first night back.

@auspice said in Potential Game / Temperature Read:

Heck, I'll do it if there's someone out there willing to code it.

Using cards seems v. different and I'd like to give it a go. @Ganymede - do you have the book for it in PDF by chance?

I don't have the time to make an entire mu, but I have the time to code.

An ARAM mu? That would be fun. We should do that. Really, I would play anything new at this point though.

@Finn actually, spelling the name wrong. Teutonic still exists.

@Auspice What about the difference between Tone and Voice? That's always a good one.
Tone and Voice in Writing

@tempest said in Your Opinions of These Games:

@alzie, I would like to highly recommend you check out United Heroes.

So like, I know you're being semi-sarcastic, but I'll give you a serious response. I have tried super hero games in the past. I really have, but super hero games tend to have this atmosphere to them. They all share this really serious, alt-a-holic atmosphere where everyone is really cliquish and they're all out to play as many FCs as possible so they can have as much TS as possible. And I get that. I am not here to shit on anyone's parade. You want to see Black Widow sex Batman, by all means, you have at that. That is a perfectly healthy, fine thing to want to see. What I don't get is why you need 27 friends with 5 alts a piece and an echo room to validate your desire. I mean you can get that for free on reddit.

That aside, even when you get past that issue, when I did try to integrate into super hero games, the RP wasn't that great. I expected that for the most part I would be engaging in mundane scenes and occasional super hero stuff. That party doesn't bother me. I mean, I played a ministry of magic law clerk on Alerre Flames and that was fun as shit, because I would go around and ticket people. But you know what? It was fun as shit. I never really got that from the super hero games I tried.

So anyways, end of serious response: Nah, that's ok. I can pretty much guarantee I won't enjoy it.

@arkandel Well, I meant worst thing in terms of a pay 2 win mind set. There's nothing really pay 2 win in the WoW store and the instant level scroll is the worst thing you can bring up. Which is why I also brought up that it's not really a good pay 2 win item anyways since, as we both said, you get to max level and know absolutely nothing about playing the game so lose anyways.