Posts made by Jennkryst

@bloodangel If you can tolerate 3e Shadowrun, Denver exists.

One issue with a +attack PC command is that it falls apart when fighting NPCs, unless a object is made with stats that you can target.

As for combat and pose speed, that's more cultural. Gotta wait for the person ahead of you to pose before you decide what you do, and all that. I'd say do all combat in OOC, then do one pose each after all the dice get rolled.

@mietze Really, Battletech combat is easy. It's just 2d6, with a TN based on STUFF.

... The PROBLEM is that there is a fuckton of STUFF. Further automation like where damage happens to hit, and ways to streamline tracking STUFF, could help, but would just be a bonus feature.

Setting is also super important.

THE URBANMECH PLUSHIE HAS ALMOST ARRIVED, AND DEMANDS ROBUTT FITE MUSH.

997% of the project goal, lots of stretch goals and new things getting PLANNED.

Now the race begins to see whomst will get an ExEss game up and running first... and whomst will be a mad-lad and be open for ALL OF CREATION!

Final 24h of the Kickstarter, sprint to the finish line, etc etc etc. Go forth! Spend all the money! Force them to keep adding Stretch Goals until Raksha PCs return to the game!

@surasanji Is this trying to do like... Exalted Modern? Is it trying to use CoD rules to do Exalted? I am verreh confuse.

I have no issue with idling. My issue is the existence of the OOC room as a hangout. Channels exist, talk there!

@arkandel 1 or 3 for me, as well, which one will depend on the vibe of the game.

@greenflashlight Links are on the Project Updates page of the kickstarter.

Edit to add - it's the manuscript version, so still needs an editing pass or three, along with other versioning errors that need fixing. But! There's definitely enough to code +sheets and +roll and all that jazz.

@greenflashlight I am, and it is hella neat.

The kickstarter is really shaping up. It is designed for multi-splat play, even, so... say... DBs aren't insanely underpowered compared to Solars. Sidereals are appropriately zany. And there's going to be a guide for charm conversion/creation at some point.

WE BEGIN WITH ATTRIBUTES, by which I ask you to prioritize how your characters solves problems. Do they attempt to brute force it? Do they try to finesse it? Do they... uh... try to stamina-it? First one is a 4, second is a 3, third is a 2. GONE ARE the DAYS OF 9 ATTRIBUTE SPREAD (this is the thing I have the biggest mixed feelings on, but I get it).

There's only 14 skills now, you get 1x5, 1x4, 3x3, 2x2, 1x1. Which is great, because I hate freebie points, I hate the subconscious need to min-max my skills for the most efficient XP spends in the future (bonus points: no XP. We got MILESTONES NOW. Which... yeah, will take some balancing on a MU, but ought to be easy enough.)

You do not have to have combat skills (close combat or ranged combat, not spread across 5-6 skills) to participate IN combat. Stare down the enemy as you both size each other up and prepare to duel... a cheerleader bard-type can use performance to increase the sword princess' skills... use Athletics to ninja-flip around and gain an advantageous position before unleashing an attack... or even actually use close combat to ATTACK and DISTRACT the enemy. ALL OF THESE use the same mechanic for building combat power, with the exception of the bard... who rolls the dice the same way, just helps an ally build power instead.

That bard can also give a rousing speech to bring companions back from the brink of death, in the most 11th hour anime companion helps save the day way! Or, I guess... they could use medicine to save them, too. The dice roll/difficulty is the exact same, aside from picking which Attr+Ability to roll, same as building power.

All of that? ZERO charm use. That's no majik bullshit.

Social combat is less 'mirror copy of physical combat' as 2e, and includes a mechanic that every social system in the future needs to include forever and ever - Read Intentions: How can I get my target to do what I want them to do. And then in addition to THAT, they go a step further - 'I achieved the win condition but they still refuse, so now I get X bonus that I can use during Y future encounter'.

Perfects are GONE. By which I mean, if you use an unblockable charm to attack, and I respond with a 'automatically block attack' charm... they negate each other and dice are rolled as normal.

To help save on word count, we got UNIVERSAL CHARMS. Which is to say, a whole section that is just 'every exalt may buy this charm.' It might be slightly modified... EVERYONE has access to Glorious Exalted Bolt. For Alchemicals, it is a Samus arm, and their pew-pew adds knockback. Solars can increase damage. Infernals get bonus damage dice if they already hate you. DBs get their elemental stuff. Lunars don't have an upgrade, but they still get the basic stuff for it - an essence laser that counts as an artifact attack that you can increase the range of if you want to let your anima dim just a bit.

Which you don't. Anima effects are all insanely good now. But you CAN drop a level of Anima, if you absolutely NEED to shoot this bolt at medium range.

Gonna stop myself before I go on like this forever. You can get access to the manuscripts at the $5 backer level, or... maybe find it elsewhere, but I haven't seen it. Then again, I haven't gone looking.

@songtress SYMPHOGEAR IS 100% MY SHIT, AND I AM MAD I ONLY FOUND OUT ABOUT IT 3 WEEKS AGO.

Edit to add: Their magical girl robot transformations and attacks are all powered by music.

As in they literally sing, diagetically, and cannot talk to each other and plan because... SINGING.

And when the song stops, so do their attacks and magical girl invulnerability powers. BECAUSE SINGING!

Activity in the Exalted thread makes me want to run that Dreams of the First Age game I've always wanted to do.

@greenflashlight Dude who posted the QUESTIONABLE Shanghai game went mask off.

I should start calling these things from the start, but always get a 'what if THIS this is sincere/not someone doing it for the edge' at the last second. Next time (maybe)!

Also! New Exalted Kickstarter for those so inclined.

ETA: Glancing over the preview manuscript and reading all the thing, this LOOKS like an supplement/alt rule set attempting to make it less crunchy? So could help solve some of Exalted's barrier to entry.

I checked back to make sure I hadn't posted this yet, and didn't see it here, so VOLUND CODE - https://github.com/volundmush/storyteller/tree/master/storyteller

Got both Exalted 2 and Exalted 3 versions. Probably have to manually add new charms, because if memory serves, it's a database of charms, not just a blank section of sheet code of wildcards that you can add anything to (helps prevent typos, I GUESS)

@aria I'm all the way down in Dover, so... a whole hour away. Near enough to daytrip for city excitement in Philadelphia or DC, but also far enough away that I can find some Amish folks to make furniture or something.

... which reminds me, I need to price Amish-sturdy bookshelves for all my nerd shit.

Delaware exists, and we have 0% sales tax!

@ominous said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

Why have a World War when you could have a World Cup?

Mostly unrelated, there is a music video set in a world where instead of going to war, elected leaders settle their differences by beating the shit out of eachother. Filmed before Trump, it's got Putin and Obama in a bare-knuckle brawl with the rest of the UN watching... and it's being broadcast to the whole world. 'TONIGHT ON CNN: WORLD WAR 3, LIVE!'

Angela Markel slips Obama a gun when it looks like he's going to lose. In the end, Putin and Obama start to kiss with a 'make love, not war' sign coming in at the last second.

THIS BAND WAS GOING TO GO TO EUROVISION LAST YEAR! CAN YOU FUCKING IMAGINE?!?

...

Anyways, just throwing that out there, because Little Big is amazing. Video: https://youtu.be/xBwtEQQ9qd0

@il-volpe said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

@too-old-for-this The trouble is that cats don't seem like the small-talk type.

The solution is to let humans understand cat-speak, Cinder Spires-style.