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Bardic Wizard

12:07 AM

@BESW how much is a +2 worth though?

BESW

Quite significant!

Bardic Wizard

Wow. That sounds like a really interesting supporter

BESW

It's Fate Accelerated, so your biggest modifier without stunts is +3.

Basically, she'd roll Flashy (her +3 skill, plus stunt bonus for a total of +5) against a difficulty that's usually +1 or +2 (because making plans doesn't have significant opposition), and the dice spread is between -4 and +4 but it's aggressively curved toward 0.

If she hits the difficulty exactly, she gets a one-time-use "boost" that lets her add +2 to any roll related to her plan. If she gets better than the difficulty, she gets a lasts-until-the-story-changes-it aspect like "Pincer movement" and one free +2 bonus for any roll related to it, and she can spend currency for more +2s. If she gets better than the difficulty by 3 or higher, she gets two free +2 bonuses on the aspect.

Other characters had stunts like
Because I am a Time Lord, I get +2 when I Cleverly overcome a technological obstacle.
Because I am swift in battle, I get +2 when I Quickly make a physical attack.
Because I am inhuman, I get +2 when I Forcefully defend against mental or social influence by humanoids.

Bardic Wizard

... wow.

BESW

Fate's really good at going "The character in your head? Just use this formula to write it down and that's your mechanics."

Here's my ten Doctor Who pre-made characters for Fate Accelerated. They have empty parts (two blank aspects, three unranked skills, one missing stunt) so players can customize them before or during the game.

I designed them to be used by friends with little to know knowledge of Doctor Who, so no being precious about accuracy.

Hot RPG Questions

12:41 AM

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Q: Does the Spell Sniper feat double the range of booming blade when you are not wielding a reach weapon?

When using a weapon without reach, does the range of booming blade still double if you have spell sniper?

AncientSwordRage

@BESW Wild. But I sadly don't remember any of them from the few eps of Who that I've seen

BESW

They're from a wide range, mostly Doctors Three through Five.

My friends were mostly familiar with New Who, if any Who at all, so I wanted to use companions that they wouldn't feel pressured to be "accurate" about, because they didn't know the characters well/at all.

Some of them, like Sarah Jane and the Brigadier, are very well-known and well-loved Old Who staples that were around for multiple eras of Doctor. Others, like Kamelion, were barely in the show long enough to count as companions rather than simply guests.

(The Kamelion robot prop was a custom design that only its creator knew how to operate, and then the creator died.)

Adeptus

Oh, yeah. I heard some stuff about Kamelion lately. It was a robot prop that they just found. It was a pain to do anything with, and Davison hated working with it.

BESW

1:01 AM

It had potential for an interesting character arc, and I sorta bumped the character along its projected journey for the Fate game because its status in the show made it hard to give a lot of agency in a game.

BESW

2:36 AM

Weisizhui wrote a twitter thread about what it's like to coexist with the supernatural. It's not TRPG related but it encapsulates a lot of why the standard pop culture fantasy attitude toward the supernatural just doesn't work for me.

In my area: it's lemonchina not jasmine; we've got at least two white ladies; I'd be surprised to find a house that's not "haunted" (mafanague, which has much more neutral connotations); I went to school across the street from my village's spiritual healer; everybody knows the ritual to ask permission to enter the jungle.

Shalvenay

@BESW as long as the ghosts aren't sending smoke signals ;)

BESW

Mostly the aniti are pretty chill so long as you're respectful.

Shalvenay

yeah, I was more thinking of the ghost of whoever decided 50 years ago that wirenutting Al to Cu was a good idea :P but that's me

Bardic Wizard

2:59 AM

@BESW this is really interesting to think about, since I come from a western background, how different these experiences are from mine. I’ve had very different cultural experiences, and the closest thing I’ve experienced to meeting a spirit is one year at Día de Los Muertos when I saw my grandmother walking behind me

it’s really quite interesting to realize that there are some people for whom the supernatural is normal

BESW

It baffles me to encounter people that think there's a clear boundary between the objective and subjective, scientific and supernatural, etc.

Even if si aniti don't mess with me personally (and mostly they don't, because I'm not their family), I'd have to be deeply credulous to deny their influence on the land and its people.

I have been mafanague, albeit mostly in small ways, and I have gaitaotao friends.

Hot RPG Questions

3:35 AM

8

Q: Can the spell Heat Metal target a metallic dragon's scales?

Basically title. Metallic dragons are covered in various types of metallic scales. Can a wizard target the scales to deal ongoing damage to the dragon?

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Hot RPG Questions

4:50 AM

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Q: Can the Heat Metal spell target a set of Dragon Scale Mail made from metallic dragon scales?

The heat metal spell can target "a manufactured metal object", including "a suit of heavy or medium metal armor". A suit of Dragon Scale Mail is clearly a manufactured object, but if it's made from metallic dragon scales, is it metal, and thus a valid target? Are bronze dragon scales actually mad...

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Bardic Wizard

5:25 AM

@HotRPGQuestions does anyone else get the sense that the fashion industry has discovered dragon scale mail and really loves it?

BESW

7:17 AM

@BardicWizard [insert postal service joke here]

trogdor

lol

nitsua60

12:45 PM

@BESW Just to make sure I'm understanding: permission of whom?

BESW

Si taotaomo'na, the elders and ancestors who protect and guide and punish.

> Guella yan Guello, dispensa ham låo Kåo siña ham manmaloffan yan manmanbisita gi tano miyu sa' yanggen un bisita i tano'må mi faloffan-ha' sin un famaisin.

Which roughly translates to

> Grandmother and grandfather, excuse us. May we walk through and visit your land and when you come to our land we will welcome you to do the same.

Undeveloped spaces like jungles are where you're most likely to directly encounter them, and where it's easiest to give offense.

nitsua60

Thank you.

doppelgreener

@BESW do i detect spanish influence in the terms Guella and Guello?

BESW

Yes, the Indigenous language of CHamoru was suppressed and replaced by Spanish (and more recently by English) for centuries, so many of its original words were lost and they adapted Spanish and Tagalog words to fill in the gaps.

Thomas Markov

Why did @NautArch self delete two answers on one question? Because magic :P

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