I think you probably get a vote just for "barbarians like to break things, including the 2d6 rule"
@JoelHarmon that's actually super-helpful. I'll be printing it and taping it into the front cover of DW. Gives me context for how hard/easy things "should" be.
@nitsua60 I tried yesterday. It nearly worked, then I realised I still had dirty dishes in the sink, which is not good given that my house has a mouse problem.
Today this simple yet very useful question about probabilities in Dungeon World was posted on the main site: How likely is success in Dungeon World?
While the question itself is about Dungeon World, Apocalypse World and other Powered by the Apocalypse games use the same roll mechanic. Can I modi...
@BESW do you think it's worth nominating Angry for the feed? It's rate-limited to thrice-weekly but, while every time I've linked to him main-site it's been well received, I know he's an... acquired taste.
Okay, not for the tech-stupid question: what link should I include? His landing page? His /feed page? (I just went there, and it's a hella-lotta xml, methinks.) I don't really know how feeds work.
Always link to the main page so people can see what you're on about. If you're confident there's a direct link to the feed that you can provide, give that too--especially if it's not obvious on the main page.
(None of the usual suspects triggered any syntax-highlighting, and I'm loath to guess-and-check when there's a huge database I might be pulling on incorrectly.)
I'm experimenting with a new method of querying SEDE: "write it yourself, rather than just pinging @Miniman."
Turns out, this is generating more pings, though =\
@Mala Your WM suggestion has a randomized modification to spell level, and I'm not quite sure I understand it. Is now a good time to ask a question or two?
Say I'm a level 1 wizard, and I'd like to cast blindness, a level 2 spell.
The randomized part is because the spell is exceptionally hard and has difficult requirements. Like so often in D&D, a random roll is used to check what kind of success the character achieves.
I then roll a d4-2 to modify the spell's level, yes?
So then on a roll of 1 the spell's level is decreased by 1, making it a L1 castable-by-me-with-the-expenditure-of-a-L1-slot spell? And on any other roll the spells level would be too high for me and I'd burn the slot to no effect?
Oh, this is meant just for that one spell--not for all spells?
(I thought it was from your WM port, and applied to all spells.)
OP mentions "a harder spell like Expecto Patronum" (emphasis mine), and Expecto Patronum is by no means the only hard-for-a-student spell that the HP characters attempt with varying degrees of success.
I give up. After my meta post, I was already downvoted me into oblivion, so it won't matter... re-reading my answer again and again I cannot imagine how in good faith, so much is unclear and wrong given that Premier's Answer got 4 + despite being factually wrong in multiple ways ...
@Mala In any case, getting to the meat of my question: am I understanding correctly that the modifier roll to the spell's level makes it easier to cast the lower the roll is? (By downward-modifying the spell's level?)
Because then there's the bit about "if the spell's level would drop below 1 it fails automatically" which is counter-intuitive to me. I'd imagine dropping below makes the spell like a cantrip: succeeds and doesn't even cost anything.
So I wanted to make sure I was reading/understanding it right.
@Mala I'm sorry to hear that. I'd humbly suggest that re-reading the comments would be a better use of your time, coupled with assuming that the rest of us really are trying to understand. (And believing us when we say we don't understand something, no matter how clear you say it is.) In any case, good luck. I hope you don't give up for long, because it's clear from your rep and "people reached" that you've got a lot to add.
@SevenSidedDie what a horrible kludge you had to use to get that second table to use em-dashes rather than minus signs. I don't understand why MathJax doesn't respect LaTeX's distinctions among -, --, and ---. Thanks for improving it.
@nitsua60 I know, right? It just doesn't understand rendering ranges. It's a problem with native LaTeX math mode even—the \text solution is what my research turned up as the only recourse.
@nitsua60 Does it work in math mode? The searching I did suggested that it didn't, because lots of people were asking how to render ranges in LaTeX's math mode. I didn't check a real LaTeX renderer though.
@SevenSidedDie I've got to assume it does, becasue I use LaTeX most-every day and have never noticed is not doing what I like (in that regard). Now you've got me curious, though....
(Note that real LaTeX does the right thing with \text{--}, but MathJax doesn't and needs the unicode em dash, as in \text{–}, so that's a point of difference with our original example.)
@nitsua60 I almost never use math mode in LaTeX, so this is all new to me! The impression I got in my brief search is that full interval notations are directly/semantically supported, but this kind of thing is left as an exercise in presentation for the writer…
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btw, @SevenSidedDie, sorry for multi-flagging comments on that answer of Korvin's. I was sure some should go but unsure of others, and they were all co-mingled....
(What's funny is that my username's original form is “d7”, but SE's minimum name length was too short, so I had to pad it out to “SevenSidedDie”. Somehow I always assumed the abbreviation would still be “d7”, so I'm always mildly surprised to get referred to as “SSD”, despite how obviously logical it is.)
@nitsua60 No problem! They all show up as one block in the UI, so it's not even slightly troublesome for many comments in a set being flagged.
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