Conversation started Oct 21, 2014 at 9:14.
BESW
BESW
Oct 21, 2014 09:14
@doppelgreener I need to actually sketch out the trappings of those skills and assign points to them.
STT LCU
STT LCU
with trappings you mean catch/costs, right?
BESW
BESW
No. ARRPG calls them "applications" (page 61).
It's the contexts in which you can use a skill, and that's how you figure out how many points the skill is worth.
STT LCU
STT LCU
ah, ok
BESW
BESW
For the proof-of-concept pass, I was using actions in place of applications: 1 point for each of the four actions you can use the skill in.
But that was... messy... and I think before we use the skills again I need to shore them up.
It means I can balance the modes more effectively too.
doppelgreener
doppelgreener
Oct 21, 2014 09:33
@BESW What are trappings? The situations you can use them in?
BESW
BESW
Aye. Read just above.
For example, Athletics can probably use the Defend action to oppose the Attack action and the Create Advantage action. That's two applications of Defend.
Read this article.
doppelgreener
doppelgreener
[reads]
BESW
BESW
[listens to Greener's brain re-arranging its furniture]
doppelgreener
doppelgreener
Speaking of, something that I didn't like about the aspects-only method just clicked into words: consider how much time might be taken each time a discussion comes up over whether an aspect can be invoked, now multiply that by five for every action someone takes, over simply "which skill is this?", plus various after-the-fact feelings over whether that aspect should really have been applied.
BESW
BESW
Yup.
doppelgreener
doppelgreener
Oct 21, 2014 09:47
Then, also, look back on your experience of players' abilities to create aspects which are actually regularly relevant to the game: there's very often at least one aspect that rarely sees use.
BESW
BESW
Notice that I only put three aspects on each of the brainstorm PCs.
doppelgreener
doppelgreener
Yeah, that was good.
BESW
BESW
Partly that's because I didn't want to spend more time, but I also thought it'd get in the way rather than help.
doppelgreener
doppelgreener
Yeah, aspect 4 and 5 are often challenging.
This is why I like Mode aspects so much.
BESW
BESW
I actually had five aspects for each of them at one point.
doppelgreener
doppelgreener
Oct 21, 2014 09:49
They create the constraint that heightens creativity.
BESW
BESW
@doppelgreener "The Constraint that Heightens Creativity" would be a good name for a band.
 
Conversation ended Oct 21, 2014 at 9:49.