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12:00
@doppelgreener I dunno, but I am gonna go over there!
Sir Bearington has already been rolling for shoes for a little while, so he has Do Anything 1, Be A Bear 2, Steal Things 2, Be People 3.
( rolling for shoes?)
That darn nabbin thief!
I adjust my hat and robe, making sure to look extra snazzy. And knock on his door to confront him!
@Mourdos Yes!
@doppelgreener explain this. :-)
12:01
@InbarRose Mr Bearington opens the door in a very neighbourly manner and asks you how his day is. And attempts to pass as a person doing it. (Acutally, I'm going to bump that down to Be People 2.)
2d6
( xD )
He's not doing a very good job...
I notice he is a bear (for the first time) I assume it's a bear that ate mr Bearington!
12:03
Snake eyes! :D
OH NO A BEAR! I WILL SAVE YOU MR BEARINGTON!
(Oh no!!)
@InbarRose What do you do!?
I attempt to use my robe as a capturing device to hold the bear!
2d6
(I'm not a very good Wizard)
12:04
( How are the rolls opposed? )
@InbarRose Sir Bearington panics! Instincts kick in! He's going to try and tear through the cloak.
2d6
... and gets himself tangled up in it! Argh!
woohoo!
( defender doesn't win ties? )
12:05
I Cast a tightening spell, to make the robe stick to the bear!
2d6
ooooooo that didn't work well
@Mourdos (Doesn't say, I'm gonna err on the players winning ties or neither winning.)
> If the sum of your roll is higher than the opposing roll (either another player or the DM), the thing you wanted to happen, happens.
Emphasis mine.
(So. Is "you" a character or a meta player? :D)
12:06
@Metool Oh right!
Thanks.
( See, I'm a reactive player, not a proactive player. I lack imagination. )
@DiceService But let's see if it overcomes his struggling.
2d6
It doesn't! Your spell fizzles!
nothing like waling into a dice roll
12:07
Oh no! My Robe! it is shred to pieces!
@InbarRose Sir Bearington tries to do that now, actually:
2d6
( Enlarge your hat! )
12:07
A great struggle!
Sir Bearington is pretty frustrated, and attempts to wiggle his way toward that sword he stole.
1d6
Looks like you might be able to beat him to it...
Uh-oh! I throw my Wizards Hat like a boomerang and try to have it bring me my sword!
@Mourdos (I'm used to being a sandbox player without reality warping powers. But I've been a GM enough to adapt~)
(curses)
12:08
2d6
Sir Bearington can't compete with that all tangled up in this robe. You get your sword back!
woohoo!
(I think I have 2 exp, I turn that into a trait)
Sword 3
[zelda acquisition music]
I use my sword to attack the dangerous scary bear that I fear has taken control of my friend bearington (not realizing the truth, nor wondering what my sword is doing in his house)
12:10
What do you do about the bear that must have eaten Sir Bearington, ironically enough considering his name?
(Someone unconfuse me! Who's playing as what! :o)
I am me.
12:11
@InbarRose Sir Bearington makes one last attempt to tear free of this robe and knock you off balance!
2d6
A nondescript neighbor of mr bearington.
I am playing as the GM, and as Sir Bearington.
Uh-oh!
I try to keep my balance.
1d6
12:11
I fail!
You're knocked to your feet! Sir Bearington stands up, shredding the robe on the way up, and asks you what the deuce you're doing attacking him in his house!
(and tries to pass for a person)
2d6
hello again
What the happened here :D
12:12
(Sir Bearington acquires Gentleman of Fine Disposition 3)
( Is that now "Actually be a person all along 3" ? )
( Haha )
@Mourdos So he's in a state of being a person and both not a person until the dice are rolled?
@Saffron we're playing roll for shoes
Oh, I am so sorry mr bearington. I must have hit my head, for a moment I thought you were a real bear. I am dreadfully sorry. Oh - btw - what are you doing with my sword?
12:14
@InbarRose You must have, it was quite frightening! And I was, uh... I found it! Outside your place, yes. I was waiting until morning to return it to you, of course.
Oh, well. Thank you mr bearginton. And to think, I almost killed you.
Goodbye neighbor! see you tomorrow!
I dare say that would have been a mite un-neighbourly if you had.
(And we are done.)
That was a fun little game!
12:15
RFS is so perfect for chat play.
(And a good example of RFS)
@BESW Indeed.
Mr Bearington, the best bear person ever.
Now the most confusing bit I have is that it doesn't clarify what the opponent rolls. I'm guessing the GM rolls an equal number of dice, or else the opponent can attempt to use a skill of a higher rank? Or what happens there?
I have to go AFK. cheers
12:17
Note to self: Introduce roll to shoes to my playgroup.
@Metool Do anything 1. Unless another trait trumps it.
This will almost certainly be fun.
@Metool In my case, Sir Bearington was providing opposition, so I rolled whatever skill he was using.
But that means you always have a >50% chance of failing an unopposed role
So, here's the question.
12:17
@Metool Up to the GM/group, but I developed a system that works well for myself.
Can you achieve Do Anythin 1? :D
It's a lightweight game.
Do Anything 2**
That sound fun
Nope
You never get to improve an existing skill
Only a subset of that skill
12:18
> If you roll all sixes on your roll, you can get new skill one level higher than the one you used for the action. The skill must be a subset of what happened to you in the action (Say, Athletics 2 if you were climbing a wall, or Teeth of Biting 2 if you were eating a cake).
Baseline difficulty for opposition is 2;+1 for every narrative element that makes it harder to succeed, -1 for each that makes it easier, to a minimum of "don't even roll, you got it."
I try to eat a cake
d
the cake attempts to be a rock
d6
12:18
I ate the cake first. Nehe!
d6
( So, what skill do you want to gain? )
well that settles it
Clearly cake eating. Doh.
12:19
@BESW That sounds pretty good.
Are the interaction between two ppl or can there be more ?
I find a jelly and throw it at you
d
Have/Eat Cake 2?
Steal Pasteries 2. :D
12:20
@Saffron We have previously done a roll for shoes adventure with, I think, 3 players and one GM.
( totally want to do a food fight RFS )
I've run four players IRL.
(I was player #3, playing some goblins breaking into an inn, who then became the GM as well when the GM left)
@doppelgreener so the best roll wins the resolution of the action ?
@Saffron could be!
12:21
Do you gain xp if you fail an action AND use xp to make it advance ?
(Oh, and in my opposition system, PCs win ties. If it's PC vs PC... re-roll.)
@doppelgreener is there actually a need for a GM at all? It doesn't seem so :p
there is absolutely nothing to the rules more than 7 bullet points
@Saffron Probably not, but it can help if you want an adversary for the players to work against
@LymiaAluysia Yep
12:22
doppelgreener sucks at Markdown, apparently. :D
@LymiaAluysia my link was missing the http ;)
@Saffron Someone/ones needs to take responsibility for the environment and non-PC opposition, but I've seen it done communally.
I hope not.
========
OK, good, not. :D
@LymiaAluysia Not all markdown's supported in chat
@BESW something like a 1sentence desciption of the environment + 1 sentence action of the character would work fine?
12:24
(Incidentally, any newline disables markdown, but gives you a much, much higher character limit for your message.)
[this](http://doesntwork.com)
Does it?
@LymiaAluysia Good choice, Lex Luthor!
Cool
[/late]
@Saffron Sure, whatever works. RFS is very much a "whatever works for the group" system.
12:25
Lux Luthor? But he's a stupid boy.
It doesn't tell the group how to play the game.
@Mourdos it would, if "doesn't work" was a link
I will be using this system whenever I get into a chat room free form :P
RFS seems to degenerate into something very close to RTD otherwise. :P
@BESW I love it, I'll take it for some random blank moments with my friends
12:26
(Most systems come with a treatise of some sort--implied or explicit--about the kind of playstyle the system intends to support. RFS does not.)
@Mourdos Needs http://
[I further summise](steam://connect/123.123.123.123:1231)
also, example.com is actually the internet's official example domain
same with example.net, .org, etc
Nice try.
12:28
10d10
@LymiaAluysia 9 is the limit, but there are ways around that.
12:28
9d9
Limit is 9
9d6 9d6 9d6
9d6 9d20
4
7
14
6
6
1
12
18
1
12:29
gah dice everywhere
[clatter clatter]
I tab out for ten seconds and there's 45d6 in the chat.
I cast CALTROPS! :D
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9d4 9d4 9d4 9d4
4
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1
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1
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1
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1
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@BESW Sorry, they fell out of the bag
@DiceService ARGH! Everyone watch their steps!
12:29
Haha
What are the different dices ?
1d4 1d6 1d8 1d10
1
6
10
4 sides, 6 sides, 8 sides, 10 sides, 12 sides, and 20 sides.
1d12
12:29
2
1d6 1d6 1d6 1d6 1d6 1d6
No love for d3 :(
1d6 1d6 1d6 1d6 1d6
d d d d d d
1d6 1d6 1d6 1d6
12:30
Hmm, it is unhappy.
Let's stop abusing Dice Service.
@Saffron d4, 6, 8, 10, 12, d20. Max of 9 in a statement, max of 4 statements.
pfft
You can star bot responses?
@LymiaAluysia Sure, they're still messages
You can star any message. This one got 8 stars.
12:33
... :P
@LymiaAluysia It was a wonderful day.
@BESW XD
The end?
I stared the caltrops
Also, interesting text result
@Mourdos WHAT HAVE YOU DOOOOOONE
12:35
Dice result: 4/4 2/4
I have broken the world with dice caltrops.
Damn. It's not a simple text substitution. :)
@doppelgreener Awesome. Though probably not tournament-legal.
For when you just give up on the idea of not getting stabbed by your dice, and give in and decide they might as well just do a good job when you do get stabbed?
@lisardggY Depends on what kind of tournament.
12:39
Do you guys have any "paranormal" cultural beliefs around dices in your RPG community ?
We have a dicebot on our IRC channel.
It is clearly sentient and hates the players.
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@Saffron I dunno. BESW knows a guy who consistently rolls poorly though.
@Saffron In my long-running Ars Magica game, it is considered bad luck to be handed a die by the GM.
I wanted to play Ars Magica
@Saffron It taints it. Taints it, I say!
12:40
But my DM decided the rules were too complicated
@lisardggY All part of the nefarious plots...
@Mourdos They're pretty crunchy, yeah.
I've had 3d20 confiscated by players who got fed up with my initiative rolls always being 20.
Not any of the really important rolls mind you, just initiative
I also pointed out that I could get +6 or so to get a dragon to love me if it was standing on my welcome mat.
Haha nice
12:41
I have a communal pot of dice that have been handled by so many people they're generally tamed.
But there are two d20s I kept for my use: one always rolled middling, and one always rolled high or low but never middling.
May 23 at 7:30, by lisardggY
It's been about 15 years since that specific Ars Magica powergamer, but we still have collective nightmares about his flying invisible dolphin.
I'd use whichever die depending on how unpredictable I wanted combat to be.
hehe
Have you read of lisardggY's dolphin and elephant summoning friend?
I have not
12:43
"Friend" might be a strong term here. :)
Do go read it. It's delightful.
And yes, I had a player who actually had us help him design a character that never rolled attacks because he had such bad luck with dice.
that was awesome
I still need to come up with a concept for a Solar
and I'm banned from playing crafters and probably twilights in generaly- at my own request
May 23 at 7:35, by lisardggY
So he had a spell which created a dead elephant in the air over somebody. Elephant falls, person is crushed, elephant vanishes.
This is why you use a dicebot.
It's rolls depend solely on /dev/random's mood.
12:45
May 23 at 7:36, by lisardggY
Even easier once he got an eagle familiar (different character than the one with the dolphin). Familiars can be endowed with the power to cast one of your spells. He gave it that spell, without even the need to target at a distance - eagle would just poop temporary dead elephants.
Okay, we had fun with dice but I'm pruning the star list a little.
@BESW Sure.
@BESW You are?
@Metool [self-demonstrates]
@BESW Wow
12:55
Does anyone here know anything about building exalted characters?
I never realised that you could click on these little icons to star, answer...
sadness did not make it into the dresden accelerated playtest
@besw did you get in/apply?
@JoshuaAslanSmith I did!
And I did!
I get the playtest packet by next Friday.
(Which may be Saturday my time, not giving me a lot of time before Saturday evening's Geek Night...)
I'm torn between starting a brand-new campaign and rebooting my old DFRPG game...
Dresden Files or Dwarf Fortress :P
Dresden.
A kid's Skylanders came to life and attacked his babysitter.
It was the first Fate engine campaign I made myself, and was not very well constructed, but I like the conceit of it.
@besw if you ever ran it at a time I could conceivably be on, on man would love to DFRPG with you
Roughly 7 to 10 on Saturday nights, my time, sometimes as late as 12.
13:11
there is only one response to that @mourdos
hmm sadly I will be in church then I believe
since you are 14 hours ahead
Pretty sure we've established that in the past, yes.
I set the Skylanders game in my old college town near Myrtle Beach, SC. Got some interesting social tensions going on there which were ripe for Dresden-y interpretation.
As I recall, it was a Winter Court area with a Summer Court foothold in the local university.
What is the inspiration of the Dresden universe?
@JoshuaAslanSmith wouldn't that be saturday morning?
@Saffron The Dresden Files are a series of urban fantasy novels.
What time zone are you @BESW
13:16
@BESW They're pretty good, worth a read
@Mourdos As my profile says, I'm on Guam. That's the same time zone as Eastern Australia.
@Miniman At first, yeah. After a while it just got sadistic and repetitious for me.
@BESW High five! 1 day ahead of those backward Americans ;)
I liked the first books for their lighthearted and self-deprecating style. As the series progressed it got grimmer and more serious.
@BESW Sadistic? I understand repetitious, but why sadistic?
So that would be 0900 to 1200 (maybe 1400) on Saturdays. Hmm
13:18
@BESW What kind of fantasy exactly?
@Miniman Jim Butcher has flat-out said that he writes his plots based on asking "What's the most awful thing I can do to Harry Dresden?"
@BESW Fair enough
@Saffron Gritty urban modern
@BESW How much knowledge of the Dresden universe does one need?
So vampires, ghosts and stuff like that?
@Saffron Aye. The main character is a wizard.
13:19
@Saffron Pretty much everything
@Mourdos You mean to play the game?
I haven't seen the Accelerated playtest text yet, but the original Fate 3.0 version did a good job of imparting the ethos of the franchise on its own.
(Its style actually got in the way of its content sometimes.)
@waxeagle BESW is on the otherside of the dateline
so instead of going backwards in time I go forwards
its 11pm at night there right now
23:25 Thursday night.
correct
while its 922 am here
And I still have to do the dishes.
....coffee. I need coffee. There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
13:23
coffee is bad, it makes people awake when they should sleep, and asleep when they should be awake
Hmm. Should I go and get me today's 6th cup of coffee?
blood is bad too however, because if you loose it you die
@JoshuaAslanSmith Right, it's 1130pm Thursday night there now, 930am our time (also thursday), 7pm Saturday night, would be 5am Saturday morning.
oh, right
lol
so that could work, in a terrible terrible way
@waxeagle Except on leap years.
13:25
@lisardggY obviously, everything gets wonky in leap years
To clarify: I am not, at the moment, looking for more players to participate in the DFA playtest. I might be open to considering it after I've spoken with my already-committed players this weekend, but I make no promises.
It would be lovely to have you guys be part of it, but my IRL group comes first and then logistical concerns kick in.
@waxeagle Oh, man, I can't wait to see how the new Bahá'í calendar calculations work with that.
There is an obvious solution. Run twice as many games :-)
If I could carve out the time, it'd be a serious consideration.
@Mourdos May require "have a cloning machine available" as a prerequisite
I'm sure we can invent one of those
I clone @BESW
d
13:36
>.>
I am as good at cloning as I am at eating cake.
man I was so into calvin and hobbes in middleschool
How to check for traps. Clone self. Realize both of you are trying to trick each other into setting off the trap. Push other self before they come to the same conclusion into trap.
@MadMAxJr lol, sounds like something out of the prestige
13:40
obligatory calvin and muad'dib link
@JoshuaAslanSmith Ah, yes. Dune.
its a surprisingly appropriate merger
BTW, @JoshuaAslanSmith & others, my Doctor Who FAE characters are complete to within tolerances but I'm still welcoming fine-tuning suggestions.
And I have to finish statting up the villain. [sigh]
I think I'm trying to be too inventive with the mechanics.
13:56
It's a Dr.Who badguy. It's a flip of the coin if it's a comedic or deadly serious badguy.
How about deadly comedic?
Or you get the coin to land on the edge and it's a space traveling ex-warlord turned comedian whose jokes are so bad they are actually slaying audiences.
That sounds like a lost Ainley Master plot.
@BESW the joker

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