I've often gone through and edited out the system name from question titles. One of the reasons I do this is so that the question titles are snappier and more likely to get attention.
Lets take a page from Gaming.SE's book and make our question titles awesome. Some great examples from Gaming:
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BTW, re: earlier discussion on gendered pronouns. Bubblegumshoe explicitly uses female pronouns for a generic Sleuth, because the genre they're working in defaults toward female Sleuths.
> From Nancy Drew to Veronica Mars, the iconic teen sleuth is gendered female, in much the same way, perhaps, that the iconic armored knight is gendered male. Thus, the default pronoun in the Bubblegumshoe rules set is “she.” We use “he” to refer only to specifically male characters (her Dad, her boyfriend) or when clarity would completely collapse otherwise. Players, of course, may create and portray Sleuths of other genders if they wish.
@nitsua60 Heh. Evil Hat goes out of their way to normalise that kind of thing.
Greener geeked out when he saw the Create Advantage example for Rapport on pp 138/139 of Fate Core; it features interracial gay flirting without comment.
It started with a Twitter joke about him cosplaying Sailor Jupiter. It kinda snowballed. He eventually said it was a joke, he'd only do it if he could raise money for charities with it and... well, enough people informally pledged said cash.
I'm not sure WHY I want to see a broad shouldered hairy man in a short pleated skirt. But dammit it's for a good cause! :D
yeah -- the con I was at recently was more of a general cosplay/comics/... convention, so while it was pretty nice, there was also a lot of stuff there I wasn't interested in
(a) I hate traps (like these); (2) the player isn't metagaming, it's just a decent tactic to barrel through if you can; (iv) the answerers *are* recommending metagaming: structuring traps to the party, rather than from the perspective of the trap-setter
@nitsua60 in a sense, yes -- they're recommending structuring traps with foreknowledge of the opponents (although given the right trapsetter, some of Joe's suggestions are good)
@nitsua60 furthermore, the assumption that the player in question is metagaming is predicated on a misunderstanding about observability vs quantifiability
@Adeptus I'll be honest - if I lived in the D&D universe, and was creating a dungeon, I wouldn't do HP damage at all. Level/ability drain is definitely the way to go.
@Adeptus The variety of traps I understand at all are (a) detain them indefinitely, (b) kill them immediately, (c) convince them they've achieved the thing they came for.
@nitsua60 None of these have a high success chance, though. e) Gradually and reliably wear down their resources until you can easily pick them off is just about the only viable trap strategy.
@Adeptus As I said, this is if I was designing traps for real. As a DM, and as a player, I think level/ability drain is dumb and annoying.
One thing I find weird is that neither of the answers suggested traps that don't just discharge once and are then useless. If he wants to run through the traps, let him, but that doesn't necessarily make things safer for the rest of the party.
@nitsua60 while I agree with the sentiment about pushing yourself, I don't know any experienced hikers who would deliberately short themselves rations for three days just because they don't absolutely need to eat for that time
To me it's more about knowing yourself. One might not choose to go through that, but enough time pushing oneself "out there" and I imagine one would know "actually, I went four days on virtually nothing and it only took one day of good food and rest to bounce back completely."
@Emrakul go ahead :) (it's silly that chat.SE only lets you have one name across the whole site while you can have a separate name per-Stack on all Stacks)
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Re-reading Bubblegumshoe this afternoon, something clicked. Again. [new notes for the fourth time]
I'm actually not sure Bubblegumshoe would be a great fit for you to GM, at least not at this point. It's very much of the "prepare more than you need and throw your notes out the window" school.
On the other hand, it might help you to run games where that's explicitly the situation.
@Wibbs Funny, I've just been delighted by seeing so many DW questions come through these last few weeks. I don't know if it's a perception-bias in that I just started playing, but I feel like there's been an uptick.
I think you're right that the magic resistance doesn't automatically flow, so it'd be a GM's generosity to grant it.
But I think that you're sort of "leaving the door open" for readers by not explicitly tackling the question of the familiar having the form's "statistics."
I think it'd be worth outlining exactly what is automatically taken and what's not.
It wouldn't have to be as long-winded as this, for example, but pointing out that the MR feature in the stat block isn't, by rule, a "statistic" is what seals it for me. (And I don't think is obvious from your answer.)
Yeah, and I don't think it's even fully fleshed-out in the comments. But yes, I was reading the comments.
I think your answer could benefit from a structure like (a) the familiar assumes a form, explicitly taking on its statistics, (b) statistics are... (per MMpp.6-11), (c) the magic resistance isn't in that list.
@Miniman actually, though, now I'm starting to second-guess your answer =\
'salright. Trying to get through a pile of tasks before the end of the day. (Should be doable--not a huge lift.)
I was selfishly hoping to snag Reversal on the traps/metagaming question; when I went to bed it was at -2 or -3 and my asnwer was around +12. But after an edit or two the question's gained traction and stands well out of the red.
