Posts made by Jennkryst

@reason The roll and keep is still there, but with FFG style symbol dice, which... honestly is the tricksiest part for a MU. For Star Wars/Genesys, all dice happen and math each other. For L5R, you have to decide if you want the die with a success, or if you want the dice with advantages to trigger fancy ability.

Also, given that everybody uses rings and not attributes, this puts further importance on having the skill. You roll ring (d6 with symbols) + skill (d12 with better rng symbols) and get to keep (ring #) dice.

Edit to add: so it is not just 'big number good, but bid for cooler thing'... now it is 'I attack you at difficulty 1 and could have 4 successes... but I only NEED one, so I keep that die, and also these other two advantage dice that instead of directly dealing damage, I spend to maybe disarm you... or mess up your footing do you have a dice penalty... or aimed the blow so well I ignore your armor DR... or a bunch of other stuff outlined under each skill

@greenflashlight So it is totally cool that a Courtier will not be allowed to 'infiltrate' Bushi RP out on the battlefield (as well they shouldn't, because they don't have training in all the combat skillz), but a Bushi being forced to not be on-par socially with a Courtier is somehow creating a rigidly separate game.

Still. Nobody says that the Bushi cannot go to Court. At no point should Bushi be restricted from participating in social scenes. However... the Bushi should going into social scenes knowing that, barring a botch or horrible dice roll... the Courtier will run circles around them.

@ominous It isn't patriarchal in the strictest sense... a rank 5 male that marries a rank 6 female joins her family, and I believe heirs go by birth order, not necessarily gender. There are no restrictions on gender for anything except maybe geisha, but I think there is a male equivalent mentioned somewhere. Also has magic, as someone pointed out above.

The biggest issue is the no-homo vibe. Not that you can't be LGBT, but family honor yadda yadda seppuku. Of course, the whole setting has a sexual repression vibe, so any time you need to be ON, you down-play it. Everyone knows all Scorpions are skanks, but we pretend for the sake of Face. On the other hand, I absolutely will take the extra points for that 'dark secret' flaw, thanks.

As mentioned in the L5R thread... it is hella lords and ladies. Upwards mobility is tricksy, though.

@greenflashlight said in FFG L5R:

by giving courtiers a separate niche that bushi and shugenja can't infiltrate.

I mean... a Courtier isn't going to go to the front lines of war, nor are they going to go deal with spirits with kung fu or spells... so separate niches already exist. But nobody is saying Bushi or Shugenja or Monks cannot participate in court. They are all Samurai (... kinda, not really monks, but they also have Cloister RP where nobody but the monks go, so again, niches exist)

However, court IS where Courtiers shine. So like... let them?

There are specific things in both 4e and FFG L5R games that only Courtiers can do. I'm also... reasonably sure there are social combat mechanics, I'll look again after work.

I am just re-voicing the side I always take on the social-roll-play vs role-play debate: given the importance of etiquette in the setting, staff for such a game need to be on-point to make sure the normal 0-etiquette lion bushi is not out-socialing the crane courtier just because they pose good.

Hell, the L5R rules simultaneously solve some issues while creating others. Again, will re-read and come back with stuff.

@greenflashlight said in FFG L5R:

@ominous said in FFG L5R:

@greenflashlight

Yeah, but just because anyone can enter a talking scene scene, doesn't mean they should actually talk. If you have an audience with the Emerald Champion, you want the good with words guy to go be good with words.

The impression I got is, it was the kind of game where your ability to roleplay the intricacies of the setting supersede your character's stats. Unless this hypothetical L&L5R game makes it a rule that you have to roll dice to be polite and personable, I don't see a way around that.

Upvoted for brilliant plan, always roll every social scene ever. I am not joking. If you want to @emit as being super social skilled etiquette-follower... roll those dice and prove it.

@pyrephox That was 4e... I mean. The setting is still the same. But also no one has given the new system a go.

But also also, has anyone brought up L5R in the L&L thread?

@reason I love the quirky dice, anything to put some of the ST power in the hands if the player, who already has some amount due to potential meta-posing... the dice just give specific guidelines for how.

@ominous said in Alternative Lords & Ladies Settings:

Authority equals ass-kicking.

So I mentioned this... uh... somewhere, (the search function here is all but unusable, so fuck I remember where), but! There is a show on Netflix called 3%... it's from Brazil, I think? It's definitely in Portuguese, not Spanish...

***Spoilers for a 6 year old series on Netflix, I guess?***

So like... I'm not saying the whole setting is a great idea for a MU. BUT! Themes can be taken and run with.

Edit to mention the name of the show outside of the hidden quote box

@chibichibi I am none of them, but Sonja is good people, so I'm tagging the thread to keep an eye out for her, too!

I actually think the Matrix-esque nameless city (or simply, the city) is a great WoD setting.

Very few places have actual names. There's THE Freeway, THE Mountains, THE Train Station, THE Power Plant, THE Core Network (not actually a place, more... where the code aligns geographically with the internal cosmology)

It's also HELLA Virtual Adept-y, which is actually great. All the mages use computer lingo instead of Atlantis lingo? Demons as rogue programs working against the God Machine, Angels as Agents...

Shang-Chi good, and because I am a basic bitch, I am once again thrust into L5R mode, let's gooooooooo

OUT OF CURIOSITY, is this... oWoD, nWoD, the WEG D6 Matrix rules some mad lad wrote up ages ago, or some other rule system?

@chibichibi Assuming WoD: enforce drawbacks. Paradox exists for a reason, afterall.

Assuming not-WoD... enforce drawbacks. Really, enforce drawbacks on everybody.

One answer would be consequences. All those aforementioned 'we murdered them because they were evil' is like yeah, sure, but your retainers didn't necessarily know they were evil, maybe you get ghosted and lose a dot.

Police are after you in a way you can't simply stop with a bribe, because the friends of the guy you just killed can write a bigger check.

Lose some resources as your band accounts are frozen.

Your safehouse isn't so safe any more now that they have a VESTED INTEREST in finding you. It might slow them down, but they are coming.

... or something.

ETA: Remember, the guy who revealed the Iran/Contra deal got suicided with two shots to the head in a hotel... but not until after his career was torpedoed, of course. Snowden can never come back to the US (he is now an NPC because he is permanently 'off-grid').

I would do quasi-rosters on WoD. Which is 'here are a bunch of pre-baked character hooks. You need X, Y, and Z minimums to reflect these things here, but aside form that, go nuts!' to save on 'I am new and know nobody in town' issues. I have no time for writing your personality, and once you grab that roster person with those hooks, THAT CHARACTER IS YOURS. And we write a new person to go on the roster next.

Or something like that. Kinda. Maybe.

I spend way too much time min-maxing my own characters for CG/XP efficiency, buuuut also enjoy the numbers game? So if ever there is an ideal game that nixes the disparity and gives me a big ol' pile of XP instead of dots (or uses a different system altogether), then I can churn out roster-esque characters like mad.

Just page me, I'll get the sheet done quick, hooks a little after. Theme and personality are the tricksy part

@vaermithrax When I finish bugging the Exalted folks to open a creation-wide game running on the Essence rule expansion, I'll let everyone know.

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