Posts made by Misadventure

@Ominous Well, I was talking statless social stuffs, so there wouldn't be a roll. I could see an exchange where after the right approach comes up (somehow) the player reveals the character trait or note that supports that this actually works on the character, sort of like +prove from ye olden days.

However, how do you handle lying then?

Ultimately, it has to be player cooperation, and probably the right to say "I don't like your pose (about ANYTHING) so I am going to invalidate your effort. Try again."

For people who dislike the idea of social mechanics, how would you feel about wring out 5-10 lines on values and ways to approach your character, that is then LOCKED? It could be edited, but not on the fly. It would be loosely interpreted, but used to see if you are being consistent or not.

@Thenomain said in RL Anger:

Are we not talking about the same thing?

Yes, and no. The idea was around decades before, in a sense from the moment of expansion to the US markets, it just happened to be the 80s Rivera "cartoon" that sparked the stupid.

@Thenomain

Nah, I blame TV. Way back when people were afraid the kids would emulate the things they saw in the cartoons.

They were right.

Adults emulate the constructed intensity fantasy of "reality TV" as a basis to model their real life behavior on.

Silly adults, cartoons are for kids!

"let's get paid!"

People apparently feel that they should have an outraged opinion about everything, and lay in wait.

Like Books hair.

Cooperation would suggest it's not a game you can win. It would mean that seeing the characters go through the paces, the highs and lows were the goal.

Silly @Shebeast, RP is for kids.

"let's get paid!"

@Ominous I have often wondered if you had a tool (either coded, or run by a staffer) that basically laid out in secret a rough framework of details, complications and reactions players could expand upon what they are given to write their own enjoyable game.

Some folks just like writing and characterizing. It doesn't really matter if they know they will succeed or not, because it's all about the writing.

Then there are folks who need to not know what is going on, and to know that their characters efforts are measured against a set mark to succeed or fail, where mystery and risk are necessary.

Can they play together?

I'd be surprised if the average MU* population could utilize shared NPCs (or really playable NPCs, or whatever you wanna call them).

My experiences with shared entities show that even the strongest guidelines or walls will do nothing to deter players with agendas.

Its a shame social skills are so verboten. Using social skills to affect large amounts of people to act on a metaplot sounds sorta cool.

So combat characters it is!

well the Cube is how you store the Legendary powers. There is the Enchantress, which lets you reroll one trait of an item as much as you like (barring resources) to get both the trait you want, at a level you want. It's all still on the diminishing returns slot machine model. I find it works out very well in Seasonal play. Not sure how I would feel trying to keep upping a 2000+ paragon level character, though I guess you could do aim for all Primals which have maxed stats.

@lithium Yes, that is why I said pretty much. The extra stats help, but at that stage Ancients and Primals and maybe really high level Gems are your main gains in my experience.

@You may need to ask others if they think so. To me the answer is yes. You reach level 70, and then start accumulating Paragon levels which you get to assign points to a set list of 16 stats. That pretty much caps out at paragon level 800. You can destroy Legendary items and save a copy of their unique power, and run one armor, one weapon and one jewelry legendary power at a time. Every power has lots of Runs to change how the power functions and what element it does if its an attack. There is a ton of potential ways to play, but there are synergies that are shared, and reinforced by class sets. They also introduced Primal Ancients, but that isn't customization.

@lain D3 with Reaper of Souls is fantastic. I believe the Battle Chest for it is like $19.99 now. It is a loot and FX piñata.

Hardcore works for me because I have a seasonal group who will power level any character, and take you along to get some gear in very high greater rifts. So losing something isn't so bad, and I have peeps to play with sitting next to me.

I'd like something hide pictures and text behind.

I choose neither side, 4chan isn't a blip on my radar.

Have fun!

I like the idea of multiple dimensions of resolution or detail in a roll. I still really dislike the One Roll Engine (roll pools of D10s, find sets of the same value like 3 rolls of 2 are read as 2X3 and they use the 2 and the 3 to resolve things).

So far my favorite is still Don't Rest Your Head, Where you roll from a few pools (Always at least Discipline and Exhaustion Pools), count successes vs the GMs successes. BUT, whichever pool rolled the highest single die (or use more of the rolled dice as tie breakers) that sways the feel of the resolution. So maybe Discipline dominates, and skill and knowledge ruled the outcome. Maybe Exhaustion dominated and you grow more tired, using a lot of effort in the scene. Maybe the GMs Pain pool rolled the highest value, so even if you won the resolution, it costs you something.

Love it love it love it.

Your Star Wars Dice. Failures counter successes, threats counter advantage. Typical pools roll 2--4 mixed d8 and d12, with the possibility of boost or setback dice as mods, subtracting usually 2-3 Difficulty Dice.

Boost d6
1 Blank
2 Blank
3 Advantage
4 Advantage+Advantage
5 Success
6 Success+Advantage

Setback d6
1 Blank
2 Blank
3 Failure
4 Failure
5 Threat
6 Threat

Ability d8
1 Blank
2 Advantage
3 Advantage
4 Advantage+Advantage
5 Success
6 Success
7 Success+Advantage
8 Success+Success

Difficulty d8
1 Blank
2 Threat
3 Threat
4 Threat
5 Threat+Threat
6 Failure
7 Failure+Threat
8 Failure+Failure

Proficiency d12
1 Blank
2 Advantage
3 Advantage+Advantage
4 Advantage+Advantage
5 Success
6 Success
7 Success+Advantage
8 Success+Advantage
9 Success+Advantage
10 Success+Success
11 Success+Success
12 Triumph

Challenge d12
1 Blank
2 Threat
3 Threat
4 Threat+Threat
5 Threat+Threat
6 Failure
7 Failure
8 Failure+Threat
9 Failure+Threat
10 Failure+Failure
11 Failure+Failure
12 Despair

@Cobaltasaurus No, you help me with mine.

@ShelBeast Oh I wasn't saying play FATE anyhow, just that the FFG SW RPG is neatly diametrically opposed in design and outcomes, save that I found it equally meh. I've been in a group for over a year, and even with a focused character, I don't feel capable. I am fairly sure we get fudged into surviving often. (Bounty Hunter + Soldier + Thief + Slicer + Doctor).

@ShelBeast The new Star Wars RPG system is the opposite of FATE. The dice are fiddly and overly complicated for what they achieve, and between the dice and the skill levels, everyone starts out mediocre, and it can easily take you a long while to be capable or in any way impressive.

"Only Imperial Stormtroopers are so precise." So precise indeed.

Do your scum and villainy setting with the Scum & Villainy version of Blades in the Dark.