That's a group agreement thing, about defining the scope of actions.
My rule of thumb for scope-variable mechanics is, the more interesting or dramatic a thing is, the more mechanics should be applied to it before it is resolved.
Basically, scope-variable mechanics let you gloss over things which don't need a lot of time spent on them, and stretch out things which are more fun to dwell on.
Is this Cthulhu->5e answer a candidate for a GS/BS comment? On the one hand it's clearly untested; on the other hand the question seems to beg for speculation...? Or perhaps the comment goes on the question?
@Polyducks While a game like D&D generally says "an attack takes this many moments of table time to address no matter who's making it or who it targets," a game like L&F leaves it to us to decide if a whole band of ninjas should be taken out with one roll or if a whole session should be spent fighting one guy.
@BESW I'd estimate our full game (of Colonypunk) would have taken thirty-forty minutes. Keep in mind it was with non-gamers, so perhaps that's a workable upper bound...?
@nitsua60 He is my GM this Saturday (I get to play Lovecraftesque!), he's not my GM long-term, but he is likely to be my long-term GM in the future, but also GMing for me on occasion.
I don't know how many of you have experienced the Rubber Duck principle when posting questions on SO, but I know I have on a few occasions. And then I just discard my question. So here's the question:
Should we go ahead and post the question?
Of course if it's something stupid like forgetting a...
I'm thinking maybe even doing it as simple as this: Each player gets a turn. On their turn they can either declare a rule or an action. A rule is standard nomic fare. An action is something in the universe like - "A planet forms out of the dust of the void". Other players can contest actions, and when everyone has stated if they're for and against, they each roll a d6. The party with the highest total wins and gets points for winning that contest.
Basically one of my imaginary players felt bad for immortal elves and made a paradise on the planet. Tolkein's is a little different - I think due to the elves not dying a natural death or having souls.
Thanks Doomed <3 :) I'll play test tonight. I've got a feeling the actual players will be way more destructive - and that's fine. They won't win until they work together.
@Polyducks Or maybe naps. I'm really good at those. And I believe in their omnipotence. 2hrs on a Sunday afernoon, 7 minutes before a dept. mtg; I'll take 'em any way I can get 'em. In a hammock, on the foredeck of a sailboat, in my cubicle with my head tucked into the knee-well....
@Nitsua60 I really want to be Lord of Merchants and luxury. There was a MUD where I applied for the position and didn't get it. Ever since it's been like a thorn in my mind that was never realised.
@eimyr Ah, but does it come with the standing, cache, and social dominance I'm assured is worth $19,980? (I'm assuming the materials, workmanship, distribution, and storage all come to about $20.)
(Note to world: I don't really care about $20K purses. I'm offended by their continued existence.)
PHB page 144, Equipment, Wealth, Selling Treasure
Magic Items. Selling magic items is problematic. Finding someone to buy a potion or a scroll isn’t too hard, but other items are out of the realm of most but the wealthiest nobles. Likewise, aside from a few common magic items, you won’t norma...
My favorite charity takes about $1000 to build a well or protected spring-head. I try to get my students (all, collectively) to build one each year. I try not to be judgy, but the idea that one purse would provide water to twenty villages, freeing hundreds of people (almost certainly women and children) from walking with jugs of water for hours, every day....
For example, there was a guy I used to work with told us a story about accidentally smashing one of two priceless Britania statues gifted from America to the UK. The other one was in the V&A.
@JoshuaAslanSmith @KMallory @Grubermensch @Shalvenay @RobertF We are on for tonight if y'all can make it, my interwebs seem to be back up to speed and I do not have to work (woo on both counts)
There's a fair chance I'm about to join a friend's 3.5 online campaign and I am frankly overwhelmed by the options and possibilities for characters spanning across all the books.
Are there any really good websites to help guide me through character creation and/or well made character generators...
@eimyr @Polyducks @DoomedMind the thing that's been bugging me all day: for all I know the person carrying the $20K bag wrote a check that morning for $1M to my favorite charity. And has, in absolute terms, done more good that day than I'll do my entire life. So I should stop being so judgy. It's just so hard.
@Thunderforge I guess it's also a question about how much you want to privilege OP's opinion over anyone else. They're already ensuring half the bounty doesn't go by not giving it the check-mark. The other half of the bounty reflects the votes of other users who upvoted it. I, for one, am not doing to downvote an answer that I've got no expertise with just because someone else (OP) says it's wrong.
@nitsua60 Alas that person had. I honestly recommend you read Peter Singer's. Despite being apparently devoid of empathy and completely heartless (and a hypocrite by his critics, because he himself admits he does not entirely follow his own advice) he gives a fresh, utilitarian perspective on altruism.
There's a fair chance I'm about to join a friend's 3.5 online campaign and I am frankly overwhelmed by the options and possibilities for characters spanning across all the books.
Are there any really good websites to help guide me through character creation and/or well made character generators...
