TRPG General Chat

Joshua Aslan Smith

12:36 AM

@waxeagle your mighty bounty worked

@alexp I know what you mean, its very much couched in the not so serious anything and everything world setting of D&D

like just read the enemy descriptions in the handbook

Alex P

Also the D&D-isms still in DW don't do much for me. HP, alignment, stats aren't really my favorite things about D&D.

Joshua Aslan Smith

I was reading it in bed and woke my wife up laughing when I read the adventurer enemy description

Alex P

(The weird AW clock doesn't do anything for me, either.)

Joshua Aslan Smith

I know its described as alignment in the core classes but a lot of the fan made classes basically make it motivation

clock?

do you mean how combat is very free form

Alex P

@JoshuaAslanSmith No, AW has this clock thingy instead of DW's HP.

(Here's one filled in for a special event)

I guess that's analogous to having 6 HP in Dungeon World.

It's a reference to the Doomsday Clock thing. Basically the first three levels of harm are kind of a "warm-up" and then the bad stuff is all packed into that last quadrant.

I just find it confusing graphically.

Best part of DW is Last Breath, I think.

Joshua Aslan Smith

12:45 AM

yeah gotcha

that almost reminds me of how fate and dresden files handle taking "damage"

you can roll with it to a certain point but then you start taking worse and worse repercussions

yeah I like the succeed but with complications for last breath

its like, hey you can live but only if you swear to do this thing

Alex P

AW has a nice feature where when you hit that bad stuff threshold, you can basically take a permanent injury instead of having the damage go all the way up

I think I like MH more because it's just so simple.

Four levels of harm.

Joshua Aslan Smith

mh?

Alex P

Monsterhearts.

Joshua Aslan Smith

is that the one where youre like teenagers but monsters

Alex P

Yes.

Joshua Aslan Smith

12:51 AM

yep I heard about that

its intersting

I would never play it because of the sex element

but yeah Its cool game design idea

Alex P

@JoshuaAslanSmith Same w/ AW, then?

Joshua Aslan Smith

does AW have that much sex content, I only briefly looked over some of the character sheets for it

Alex P

AW's Specials are also Sex Moves.

wax eagle

@JoshuaAslanSmith yeah!

Zachiel

AW has a move that tells you what happen when your character has sex with someone. MH has a move that lets you decide that someone else wants more or less to have sex with you. Huge difference in my book.

Joshua Aslan Smith

12:54 AM

yeah I agree

Alex P

Doesn't AW totally have a "Turn On" equivalent, though? (Well not exactly since the characters aren't young people in the same way, but...)

I guess my basic impression is that AW "scales" in sexuality more.

But I don't see myself ever really toning it down much.

Ah, found it... "Seduce or Manipulate." Yeah, it's less direct.

Raven Dreamer

2:47 AM

I'm looking for a way to differentiate my playing pieces by role (4e combat; Skirmisher, Brute, Soldier, Etc.)

Any suggestions on how to indicate that on the pieces?

wax eagle

3:14 AM

@RavenDreamer what kind of mini/token are you using?

(is that an example?)

also how to do you currently distinguish monster from PC?

Magician

3:42 AM

@AlexP have you seen Apocalypse World Dark Age? The raw pre-alpha stuff looks really good.

@RavenDreamer I've seen colored disks placed under minis used for all sorts of status effects, no reason they couldn't be used for roles. If you can find a mini poker set with 1" chips, for instance.

I couldn't, but I didn't try that hard...

Raven Dreamer

4:04 AM

@waxeagle The plan is to use the model in the above picture, so yes. (The portrait on the piece is dynamic; this is using my virtual tabletop program).

Before this, I had only a single non-dynamic model, and the only way to tell things apart was by a name that was hovering over them.

@Magician I've debated changing the color of the base. Not sure how that'd go; I'd have to see it in practice, I think.

Alex P

4:47 AM

I could see the base colors the shape of the base, or the shape of the picture frame

doppelgreener

10:52 AM

@RavenDreamer Change the shape of the base.

e.g. for players, Shield for defender, axeblade or broad vague sword shape for strikers, etc

(or just something more abstract)

wax eagle

@RavenDreamer I'd be more subtle than changing the base color. Change the edge color.

or the bottom line

doppelgreener

@waxeagle actually those both sound super good

wax eagle

@JonathanHobbs I liked your base shape change idea though. Good call if the camera angle is such that you can make that out. (Same with the edge/stripe color change)

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