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Oxinabox

00:27

Today, one of my players will make an Angel fall.
There is not much as a GM i can do to stop it, without breaking verisimilitude.

What I can do is sour the victory.

Dorian

You can make them suffer for it in the long run lol

Oxinabox

well I want to add more bleak/dark to my world of darkness.

and I don't want a reoccuring ally NPC

so the Angel after falling will be bitter

Dorian

No shit, fallen angels tend to be :P

Oxinabox

There, out in the darkness
A fugitive running
Fallen from God
Fallen from grace
...
And if you fall as Lucifer fell
You fall in flames!

I think it is time to introduce Javert, the Hunter Angel.

This is Demon the Descent, so the players are fallen Angels of the God Machine.

The player in question is a Sabotour/Tempter -- "I Fall Angels".

Dorian

Aah

Oxinabox

00:37

It honestly don't make much difference though.

DampeS8N

@BESW Interesting. Sounds tedious. :/ I mean, it could work alright if you gave everyone tokens that represent their moves. Still, this would still be everyone moving once in order, just with some folks doing more in their turn.

I'm envisioning essentially the opposite. A system where you only perform one action each time your turn comes up, but the action's cost and your characters speed determine when their turn will next come up.

Jerenda

@DampeS8N That sounds interesting. So if I try to take an action that costs 4 seconds to perform and I do things at a rate of 2 seconds per whatever, I don't get to go for a while?

DampeS8N

@Jerenda Something like that. Specifically we're talking about Final Fantasy X's battle system in table top format here.

Jerenda

Ah- I lack the appropriate background then. :)

Grubermensch

@DampeS8N Exalted 2e does this.

Dorian

00:48

Dorian bobs his head in vague agreement, a blithering idiot in one hand, and obviously paying more attention to the portable dvd player in his lap than he is to the conversation.

Grubermensch

There's an eight-section "battlewheel". Every action has a speed, which is the number of "ticks" that elapse before you can take another action. Some character or weapon traits can speed up or slow down actions.

It's actually one of my favorite mechanics, but IIRC they cut it from 3e because apparently some people found it too complicated to follow

DampeS8N

The impetus for this is a CRPG I've been working on designing for years. It has a system where time is specific and important, actions have 3 phases: charge, release, and delay. Where charge is time before, release is the moment of the action and delay is time after.

@Grubermensch That sounds exactly right. Thanks!

Anyway, working on that game got me thinking about how I might model the same thing in a TRPG... And I can't think of a good way, but thought an FFX type battle system could be really close.

Grubermensch

Here's a good explanation of the system from Exalted: bazzalisk.org/exalted/201X.pdf

DampeS8N

Hm, interesting.

Dorian

/me is curious to see if /me works here...

guess not lol

DampeS8N

01:04

@Dorian In theory these chat rooms aren't meant for entertainment but for structured conversation that the Q&A portion of StackExchange doesn't support well. So the chat has been largely designed to support more scholarly discourse. The Q&A portion of StackExchange is generally more successful at its goal.

Dorian

I realize that but it's worth a shot to test. I think I asked at one point too but I couldn't remember the result if I did.

I just have an odd habit of randomly posting every couple of minutes as a way of letting people know I was still paying attention, even if only vaguely. Comes from the many chat rooms where I've been a moderator or at least a veteran member.

DampeS8N

@Dorian I looked for a more... refined... example of what SE Chat is supposed to look like, but I came up empty.

Scope also may have changed in the ~3 years since I moderated anything.

Dorian

@DampeS8N Not sure what you're getting at there. I wasn't meaning chats via SE though, just to clarify. I was mostly referring to some old RP forums that had chatrooms they used for casual discussion and randomness.

C. Ross

Hi all

wax eagle

01:20

Heya

C. Ross

I'm planning to start throwing story based mental stress at characters in my Fate game soon. I'm looking for advice on how to measure and dole it out? How do you decide if seeing someone hurt is a 2 stress or a 4 stress? How do you keep it consistent?

@waxeagle long time, how are things?

wax eagle

@C.Ross fairly well. Work is crazy nuts, but everything else is going pretty well

C. Ross

@waxeagle what are you playing these days?

wax eagle

@C.Ross mostly 4e, mixing some 5e in

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