Cha is actually the easiest, for me - Link barely talks, can't get anyone to listen to him without doing them a favour first, and is always taking orders from everyone.
@Ben Not sure about the starting feat...I'll leave that for now. He's clearly a fighter, and I think his starting skills from fighter are probably Athletics and Acrobatics.
Possible feat choices: Athlete, Charger, Defensive Duelist, Dungeon Delver, Mounted Combat (although I feel like he didn't learn that till later), Shield Master.
@Ben Sorry, didn't want to lose the list I was writing. Stealth - he does a fair bit of sneaking around, pretty successfully. Hyrule Castle, getting to the Forest Temple, Gerudo Fortress.
@Ben Yep. Bonus action is an extra action on your turn, reaction is a special thing you do when the trigger happens, can be on your turn but generally isn't.
(context: this girl's having a conversation with steven universe and they're saying a lot of shakespearean english like haveth and wanteth and thanketh youeth for fun)
(the NWN server I'm on rolls all three of those into one language -- druids and rangers get Animal Language, and that's all for class language proficiencies)
I guess he would be open to that. I mean, after I showed him my Green Power Ranger character, he's been trying to kill off my current character just so I can play him hahaha
@Ben Let's face it, any normal D&D character would have given up after the first 5 tries and said "To hell with your stupid minigame, give me the prize or I'll kill you, burn your shop to ash, and take everything anyway!"
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Without your input, it's only going to have stuff that I come across, and that's a very narrow slice of the RPG landscape.
I am a bit confused about what to do with my question Optimizing Torso/Body slot when restricted to light armor, no metal with high WIS.
I was expecting the answerers to suggest cool items existing in the books for the torso/body slot with specific properties that you can't get with the standard...
Oh, one thing about the system... If one fails, but uses xp to gain a skill, would the skill be about what you were trying to do? Or would it be a "No, but ..." skill?
Ah, that's a detail a lot of people miss: new skills are always derived from "What happened to you." Not "What you tried to do," or "What you did," though those are often very similar in action.
So failing to defend against an attack might result in a skill like Steel Plate in My Skull 3 or Falling Down 3 depending on the narrative of the failure.
Although I have seen negative skills: a player wanted his PC to be pessimistic and incapable, so his skills are all flavoured as incapacities: Can't find a door 2 means that when you fail, you find a door.
Roll For Shoes doesn't give any suggestions re: who narrates what. Generally I tend to have players narrate their failures while I narrate their successes, but I switch it up however feels right per action.
I do think players should always be the ones who choose their skills.
Yes, I like that, but it's difficult to not get in the habits of board gaming (I'm pretty new to all things rpg, except for pc games but that doesn't count)
If you're at a point in your GMing career when you feel like it'd be good to have a system that does some of the heavy lifting in terms of playstyle, you might want to look for some other systems to supplement your sessions.
Nice post on learning rpg through rfs! Some good tips and advice there.
I'm in a 5e one-shots/sandbox kind of adventure. It's good fun, but the rules can sometimes be in the way of the rp. But I guess that really depends on the GM and players, and the fact that it's pretty new for some.
I spent quite a lot of time in D&D, but eventually found other systems that better support the sorts of stories and games I'm interested in.
You've seen my profile, so you know the systems I've tried and the ones that I've stuck with.
...Since I wrote that answer, I ran a nine-player game of RFS where about half the players were totally new to RPGs and none of them had ever played RFS before.
FAE is the other system I've used a lot in chat play.
@John For that feeling, at varying levels of crunchiness and with different themes and playstyles, you may also like Lasers & Feelings, Lady Blackbird, and Cthulhu Dark.
...and Great Ork Gods.
None of them are quite as "get up and go" as RFS, but they're the systems I've used, or plan to use, in those "let's just start playing something quick and short" moments.
I've read Lady Blackbird rules and saw part of a Youtube actual session on it. Seems really nice, but indeed requires some more player involvement in the background story.
And yes, I've seen Lasers & Feelings, but I'm not really into SF genre, but then there's the fantasy hack of it: https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/1399757_10153515641450234_511368157_o.jpg
Then there's also Risus for fast plays, and Everyone is John. So I have still some choices to make and experiments to do in chat & my local board game group :)
Nine classic-era companions and a generic Doctor, designed for play by groups only passingly familiar with the franchise. The blanks get filled in as needed during play, rather than beforehand.
Yeah, they were fun to make. The "partially blank sheet at the start of play" concept is one which Fate does very well with.
And, of course, Fate's extreme consequences are perfect for Doctor Who: when the Doctor or another Time Lord would normally perish, simply switch sheets with someone and have them change one of the character aspects so that the regenerated Doctor has a modified personality and is played by a new "actor."
Fate can handle a wide variety of playstyles, so long as it's about PCs who are competent, dramatic, and proactive. Stepping outside that trio of qualities gets tricky.
Kind of. In Fate, when a PC takes a lot of stress they get "taken out" (lose the conflict) unless they take a "consequence." A consequence is a lasting but not permanent negative thing; the nastier and more long-lasting it is, the more stress you mitigate when you get it.
Normally you've got a 2-stress slot (mild, lasts a couple of scenes), a 4-stress slot (moderate, lasts a couple of sessions), and a 6-stress slot (severe, lasts for a whole adventure) for consequences.
But there's also the option of changing one of your permanent character aspects: something central to your character's identity changes forever, and you can absorb eight stress with that.
This week, I'm trying to figure out how to make sure a conflict's outcome will change the "landscape" of the narrative. That seems to be the key to keeping them from becoming slogs.
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