Posts made by Misadventure

The idea of someone overturning the status quo by being hungrier is a thing in most cyberpunk games. So it sounds like SR would have no problem coming up with lots of ways to engage a player without doing official Runs?

Are ShadowRunners too cool to have "problems at home", by which I mean their local neighborhoods?

It seems like they could contribute to the balance of power in local media, government, crime etc. Sort of the RPGs Underground or Fates Worse Than Death(1) while not on missions, and ShadowRun while on missions.

1. A surprising near future game where social relationships and compromise are more likely than massacres.

And then love and adoration of my players as they read their wiki in Snipple?

Victory.

I'm familiar with Everway as well.

@derp No one said that at all. Limiting the discussion completely down to the attraction of "unexpected results", do you have a comment, insight, idea, or question?

So unexpected result (say a great success, an unexpected severe failure) prompts a creative effort to move the action outside of where folks had thought it was going?

Would what you are talking about not work if for every scene (or big scene, or whatever qualifier) you pulled a card, and on some cards some unexpected direction was given as a prompt.

By way of example, MasterBook, once known as TORG had a deck of cards and a possible pull was an unexpected Connection shows up, or a love interest develops. Would that sort of out of your control prompt feel the same as what you do now? Would it help if it had 1000 possible specific prompts, or on the other end of the spectrum a far more vague suggestion (unexpected arrival, or Random Disaster)?

Am I to understand you are saying you feel the best stories are ones that while they do not routinely deviate from what is roughly expected, they do at times present unlooked for possibilities or opportunities which feel more genuine in some fashion?

@Kanye-Qwest That is a good point, though I guess it would depend on whether there are additional things resources can get you that actually affect your ability to be good at something. EG Advertising, lavish fashion shows, wide distribution and a secure delivery network for your bridal shop may be de rigueur.

I guess the designers should chime in!

Or someone who has played there ...

I don't think I understand whats going on. How wouldn't they fall behind if they aren't generating these resources?

I'll stop asking then.

How about if its called +obligation or +responsibility or +onus or +expectation or +duty or +geas or +obedience?

Rolling the dice is fun?
Rolling with a chance of failure yet succeeding is fun?
Rolling with a chance of failure where success and failure are fun?
Rolling with a chance of failure that is enhanced by hidden altering of the chances of success is fun?

I have a friend who literally likes to roll the dice. Just likes the physicality of it.

@Thenomain It has no Snipple, it has failed me.

I'd want an evidence/rumor/connections investigation system, so subtlety and insight is rewarded.

I often wonder what it is that appeals about rolling for things that would be far easier to just have them succeed (or fail). If it's to be impartial, or allow the rules to dictate events, or to allow player success and failure based on their luck and characters, fudging seems to run counter to that.

It's not an easy question to answer.

Next, links to WTFE playing these instruments! Yay!

How so? I remember it as a game of stealth and photography with a little driving.

Certainly.
Do people actively portray sexism or racism in RP? Or is it always the unexamined assumptions that give indications to the power of the fully operational social roles and constraints the American culture propagates?

Baseballs are also prone to distortion from being hit, and from landing on a hard surface.

I didn't have all the DLC, so got all that for a nice discount. very nice that they auto subtract whatever you own from the bundle and still honor the full discount.

Thanks!

How about modern sexism and other -isms.