no. nonononono... Critical failure is NOT a core rule. It never was. I DARE you to find the page number in a core D&D book that lists them as a core rule. Not a sidebar, not an optional rule. Not a splat book. Just in the holy trinity. You wont find it.
If it becomes an accepted norm at most D&D tables... Though it is technically a house-ruling it in, unless specifically said otherwise it's generally expected.
It does not fit the genera. You fail, you succeed, or you succeed spectacularly. You dont stab yourself with your own sword, you just miss. Besides, there are already rules for if you fail - your opponent gets attacks of opportunity and the like
Crit fail on an attack isn't something that has to be senseless like stabbing yourself with your own sword. You could instead overstep and lose your dex bonus to AC trying to right yourself, or trip and fall prone when you try a leap attack.
@trogdor A thought: 1/conflict you get to choose who goes next in physical combat, regardless of who should have made that choice. This can be used on the first turn of combat, and can include designating yourself. The target must still be legal (no double turns in one exchange).
That means you can go first in every combat, or you can let Rodger run away before anything else happens, or whatever--even if there shouldn't normally be an initiative check for that conflict.
Me: "Can I get any tips? Second time playing Thresh, would love advice." Enemy ADC: "I didn't need that dignity. Go ahead, take it, I wasn't using it."
@Emrakul Kobolds are not food! Kobolds are people! Yes, some of u-them are a little.. misbehaved, but that doesn't mean you should just randomly slaughter u-them.
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But mmm... the delicious taste of kobold roasted over a spit... and maybe I'll get my damn shop back the way it was once my business kicks up from kobold soup.
@doppelgreener Fuller speculative write-up on Fate hack-and-slash kobolds:
> Clutch of Kobolds (contains 5 kobolds; +1 Teamwork bonus to skills per kobold after the first) Courage in numbers! Instinctive trappers Stealthy +2 (+6) [Create advantage, overcome, defend] Teeth & Claws +1 (+5) [create advantage, overcome, attack] Traps +3 (+7) [create advantage, attack] - Any zone to which a kobold has had unsupervised access for at least one day gains the aspect ‘Hidden traps’ with one free invoke (multiple kobolds does not make this stack). - Can use Teamwork bonus on Stealth checks even when being numerous wouldn’t normally be an advantage.
Atomic Robo: the Roleplaying Game is very clear on how to determine how many Fate points are added to the GM's reserve and what the GM can spend them on (ARRPG 54). However, I'm confused by the when of adding points to the reserve:
Does the reserve ever zero out automatically? The book says "th...
It's probably not something you read really carefully, because GM.
I don't expect to get a lot of answers, since it's a question that only people with that specific Fate game can answer--and the game is less than a year old.
My instinct is that the reserve resets to [0 + mega-stunt points + borrowed hardware points] at the start of every issue, and outside of that mega-stunt/hardware points are only added when they're first introduced to the issue if they weren't there at the start.
"Issue" is exactly what it sounds like--the RPG equivalent of a single issue of a comic book. It's usually one or two sessions and runs from the resolution of one significant cliffhanger to the start of the next.
There's usually three to six issues in a story, and each issue has a particular problem (usually precipitated by the previous issue's cliffhanger, or the resolution of that cliffhanger) which is the focus of play.
Page 185 breaks them down roughly into four discrete units: the first issue or two are where the PCs find out about the major problem they have to resolve in order to finish the story; the next issue has them chasing the problem down/researching it to find out more specifics, followed by an issue in which they confront and are defeated by the problem, and then it concludes with an issue or two in which they rally and solve/defeat the problem.
Like, for brainstorming it says that the group will likely make it obvious when the brainstorm should happen. But if they're not moving in that direction, there's some suggestions for how to push, since brainstorming is a major part of the Atomic Robo thing.
(Also, Fate points get handed out like candy for participating in brainstorms.)
First, brainstorming is most dramatic when it takes place mid-combat, and by joining the brainstorm you cede your ability to participate in the conflict until the brainstorm is over. That's compel territory.
(And notice that it's worded as a compel: to join the brainstorm you declare your interest in doing so and then explain which of your character aspects justifies it, and the GM hands you a Fate point.)
Second, brainstorming is a series of important rolls which the GM is encouraged to frame as a competition between players, and the difficulty of the rolls increases each exchange. Handing out Fate points at the beginning of the brainstorm encourages players to spend Fate points during the brainstorm.
or to forfeit getting anything done during the brainstorm at a certain point and pocket the FP (but if everyone does that it might not be solved obviously)
And third, it's a straight-up bribe to get you on board with the most SCIENCE!-y group activity the game has to offer, if you happen to be reluctant to do so.
BTW, if you think it's worth asking either the "what are issues?" question or the "why does brainstorming give Fate points?" one on main-site, I'll happily answer 'em there too.
so theoretically, I (or someone else) could put a bounty on these questions in two days if they didn't think the questions (or possibly the answers?) got enough attention yet and wanted to see some activity?
but i fell asleep. i now have little time before i leave for my nWoD game, and after that is my D&D game, and i kinda needed this chara cor the D&D game tonight.
though admittedly i've been sick so i have a good excuse but still....
Side note re: brainstorming. One issue I've had with Core is that the Overcome action is unnaturally weighted outside of conflicts: both contests and challenges use overcome rolls exclusively (you can roll Create Advantage, but it's secondary and serves only to support a later Overcome roll).
This means that Overcome stunts are functionally superior to other stunts in games where contests and challenges happen at least as often as conflicts.
This helps move the weight away from Overcome, and models the power of using Create Advantage to let the player define the world independent of the GM.
Overcome is the default "If you're doing obviously using any other action, use this one."
It's also the Spot Check vs Hidden action, and we know how powerful that is, even/especially in games where you can't use it to invent new things about your surroundings.
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I'm surprised that in all the foofarah over the Light Fortification question, nobody compared it to Spell Resistance, which functions similarly in terms of overlapping vs. stacking.
Atomic Robo: the Roleplaying Game is very clear on how to determine how many Fate points are added to the GM's reserve and what the GM can spend them on (ARRPG 54). However, I'm confused by the when of adding points to the reserve:
Does the reserve ever zero out automatically? The book says "th...
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