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2:14 AM

Ah, I did think it just meant a repeated thing

I didn't realize it was this

Not a vast difference but a significant one

Miniman

2:31 AM

@trogdor New avatar?

Yes

I discovered yesterday that there was an Archie/Sonic comic with the BoF 3 protagonists in it as a crossover

So I had to use it

Miniman

That's a very specific audience :P

Yeah but that is what made it so amusing

I had never heard about it beforehand

So I had to express my amusement and also share it, hence this

BESW

9:09 AM

In decades of tabletop role-playing, I've never laughed as hard and as often as I did this morning with the #KnightsOfTheBreakfastTable. In 3 sessions, Darkthorn has morphed from "Redwall" into "A Dark-humored, Medieval, Anthropomorphic Police Academy." #FateCore @EvilHatOfficial

Tweeted by egoinflux on January 21, 2018 at 5:16 PM

10:25 AM

@BESW that sounds superb

we need more fantasy police academies

... i need to watch police academy properly

did you watch it but improperly?

i have seen scenes and references and understand its cultural importance in comedy

BESW

10:50 AM

Then you know more than I do.

ah

same

I saw like, two clips of it

11:59 AM

EeeeeeEEEee! My article went live on Pelgrane Press' website. Possibly 10 days ago, I don't know how I missed it.

BESW

Linky?

Factions in 13th Age, by yours truly. Exciting!

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@Magician congrats!

@doppelgreener !!

Pinny!

12:20 PM

Curse of Strahd continues today

I get my awesome kensei powers now, so enemies of Omar the Monk best beware!

[takes out earplugs] Omar the Monk is a bear?

@Magician ooooh

@trogdor Indeed!

@doppelgreener He fights with the grace of one!

@trogdor aaaaaah!

12:27 PM

@doppelgreener Initially I wanted a character somewhat like the 4e Avenger class, who is something between the better-known archetypes of Rogues and Paladins. Religiously empowered assassin-type, hunter of the unholy, etc.

Kensei monk seems to be close enough

Oh, I misunderstood.

The enemies of Omar the Monk are bears?

What's he got against them?

@kviiri sounds cool. :)

@doppelgreener Two rock-hard fists and the way of the blade!

@kviiri Those are good things to have against bears.

imgur.com/a/pVMmz

Went for a bit of a walk yesterday

There was more snow than I expected. And fallen trees :s

1:10 PM

Gentlemen.

1:26 PM

@kviiri [quietly photoshops a slenderman into this photo]

@doppelgreener Slenderman doesn't have the adipose tissue that would allow him to retain heat in the winter, he ded

The real thing you should be afraid of? Bear.

@SPavel i don't think slenderman would listen as you explain this to him

@SPavel [quietly photoshops a bear into this photo instead]

@doppelgreener Of course he would not listen, he ded

@SPavel ok you got me there

Monster idea: warmth "vampire" that lives in cold areas, attaches to living things to keep itself warm, drains their body heat and then leaves to find the next source of heat

1:43 PM

@SPavel Sounds a lot like The Groke from Moomin (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Groke).

2:12 PM

@kviiri >japanese/european fantasy animation

of course there's a Japanese Moomin show

how did I not expect this

"She seeks friendship and warmth, but she is declined by everyone and everything, leaving her in her cold cavern on top of the Lonely Mountains." man that's sad

Also basically the Ice King from Adventure Time

nitsua60

3:15 PM

@doppelgreener That may actually be the proper way to watch Police Academy, actually.

@Magician problem-tagger

@nitsua60 advanced-tag-2e tag20 history-of-tags

nitsua60

@Magician I don't understand if those are tags-as-intended or tags-as-written?

=D

@nitsua60 tags-as-crawford-tweeted

you-are-it

Hey folks, in particular those who have run or played roll-for-shoes, and among those in particular @BESW: Tell me about things to do and things not to do!

nitsua60

3:28 PM

@Magician gotta-run--committee-meeting

@Anaphory Roll for shoes doesn't really have a strategy

Just do stuff

I mean as GM. I remember @BESW used it partially to show different play styles – who narrates success? Who narrates failure? That sort of thing.

@Anaphory Say yes. Let your players have and do the things. The game will go out of any one person's control, just guide it to do crazy things as it does that. Remember that when a player makes an action then takes a new skill, the new skill is a subset of what happened in the action, not a subset of the skill they used to do it. This means they can have lateral movement in new story-relevant things, instead of increasing specialisation in increasingly narrow actions.

Consider that if they try to jump using Jump 2, then fail and fall down a ledge screaming, they can spend XP to get a new skill of Screaming In Horror 3, which can come in really handy later. If you require a new skill to be a subset for the old skill, they don't get to do that, and skills acquired via failing often won't make sense or be possible.

In one of the answers on this side, I read something like “the new skill reflects something that was revealed in the action – all sixes doesn't mean you were lucky, it means you were good at this all along and this is how”. That sounded like a good guideline to me.

Don't sweat balance. The game isn't meant to experience balance. It is not that kind of game.

3:36 PM

Yep

@Anaphory Sure, that can work -- you discover you are actually an exceptional screamer. (You might not be aware of it, but hey, you now have a thing representing how good at it you are.)

'xactly

A: How many dice does the GM roll when challenging the players?

Here's a sample game:

The Tale of Inbar Rose, Sir Bearington and the Sword

Aug 28 '14 at 11:54, 20 minutes total – 162 messages, 9 users, 0 stars

Bookmarked Sep 17 '14 at 23:03 by doppelgreener

Here are my preferred methods for providing opposition:

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There's no specific rule or best way. Roll for Shoes is malleable, and you'll work out what works for you. I have a couple of preferred approaches I've used, which work very well for setting up the number of dice to use for the difficulty of the task. The first approach is complex, the second is...

I like that second option

It's like 5e Advantage but makes way more sense

You can use any/both. You can have an Antagonist NPC (like Sir Bearington) then when a skill roll happens that's totally out of scope for that antagonist to deal with, use that method.

@SPavel bear in mind roll for shoes has you add up the result, not just compare highest dice.

The complete rules if you ever need them & aren't aware, are in the tag info: rpg.stackexchange.com/tags/roll-for-shoes/info

3:41 PM

I've had great fun in games where the DM added some kind of chip system, and PCs could put down chips to affect the outcome of rolls

@doppelgreener Yes, I know, which is why I said "makes more sense"

Nice

Cool. :)

I do suggest running with the base version initially before making modifications, but a chip system definitely seems viable.

A game where the DM has a "difficulty" dice pool and PCs can add/subtract to that by physically placing dice has a straightforwardness that I like

How many dice to roll? However many are right in front of you.

However, PCs want the DM to have fewer dice and themselves to have more... would be interesting to create a dynamic where they want everyone to have more dice, and must choose

Fate does this well with the compel/whatever stuff, where you can take a hit to be better later

@doppelgreener I have the first printed page of the forum thread where it was presented in my folder of short (in time or rules) RPGs. Today it seems I finally get round to playing it.

@doppelgreener The chip system was for D&D, for RFS you could just have dice (if the group has enough)

How do you start?

3:48 PM

@Anaphory Come up with a distressing situation and stick the PCs in the middle of it, then hit "play"

For example - the party is trapped on a rope bridge across Crocodile Gorge, and at the far end of the bridge, their nemesis the Duke of Holstein holds a pair of enormous metal shears

Any experience with asking players for prompts?