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@DWShore What's the difference between light 1 conviction 10 and light 10 conviction 1?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventures_in_Middle-earth Well, what do you know

...do I have wires crossed or am I going to post that if "I had a nickel" meme, because Cubicle 7 also published the first edition of the-one-ring

@V2Blast I was going to say that I'd seen a couple, but no, those were about the second edition of the-one-ring, a different Middle-Earth roleplaying game also published by Free League. Unless I've got some wires crossed somewhere.

Hm. This literature meta about their topic challenges may be instructive - they had the most participation when there wasn't a financial barrier. What would that mean here? Games with SRDs? PWYW games on itch? literature.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1172/…

This sounds familiar. Did we try a topic challenge before, or was it somebody who's also on another stack talking about theirs?

Well, another couple years then maybe.

Oh, I see.

Oh, hm. I wonder what's going on here. I've got over 100 score and over 20 answers in this tag but I don't have a badge for it. rpg.stackexchange.com/… Maybe because it was edited into questions later?

you end up running around in circles forever, but if you want it, there it is

@Kaia There's an early warlord prestige class called the Pack Master in Dragon 364 which technically lets you move infinitely, through giving you an ability that says "when you end your move 2 squares away from an enemy, you can shift one square as a free action". It chains into itself as long as your free shift puts you 2 squares away from an enemy and was never errataed.

the transition between combat and escaping has never been perfectly clear but as movement gets more defined it seems to get blurrier and blurrier

ha, I was looking back at the old basic D&D rules for unrelated reasons and it says you'll only be pursued when fleeing combat "as long as the character is in sight"

of course it's not actually trying to tactically define invisibility or sight on the tactical map, so it's got an easier row to hoe, but all the same.

This reminds me of the DW Wizard's invisibility spell, which after some contentious back and forth in early betas, now starts off "Touch an ally. Nobody can see them. They're invisible!"

Little slow. It's the season for going back to the shelf and cracking open old books.

@DiceService oof, 6 chaos, hope it was worth it.

I saw, figured it was the new tag

Oh, congratulations.

@AncientSwordRage "Dress up as a terrible die roll to frighten all your dice into rolling high!" "Unless you're playing a roll-under system like Call of Cthulhu."

If you're playing CoC it's perfectly on-brand for your hubristic precautions to fall sickeningly apart.

Dress up as a terrible die roll to frighten all your dice into rolling high!

Isn't "share a file and control who gets access to it" part of most file-hosting stuff? If you're using Google Drive you can just flip it from "anyone who has the link" to "restricted access".

@BESW I liked this one about making a setting feeling authentically ancient rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/21709/…

@goodguy5 or they bought an adbot and never thought to take it off its default settings

@Feeds I appreciate Yazeba's Bed and Breakfast for expanding the overall story structure of NDNM to include more things to do with tokens than just "get and spend". The eerie chapters are pretty nice.

@Feeds Interesting read. I appreciate the callout to AW in the three-parter and the link post.

Oh, cool, the person who asked the question about the Shadowrun edition differences came back to see my answer.

@AncientSwordRage Have you seen Mutants in the Now/the Next? It's kind of a fan remake of that one.

Beyond's still good?

Is there an offsite standard for linking a canon 5E item description?

@NotArch honestly it's mostly just keeping any given PC from taking their omni-skill to the moon. You have to try to get up to 7 and you can pull the number down pretty much any time you want.

If via the standard advancement rules you boost nature to 7, you become too lost in your nature to take player control.

If you permanently drop Nature to 0, you become a strange thing beyond any player control.

Mouse Nature is to escape, climb, hide, and forage. (Human Nature is to boast, demand, and run.) This doesn't replace other skills; you can always roll Nature for anything at all but if you roll outside your nature you take a temporary penalty to it, and a larger penalty if you fail. If you penalize your nature temporarily down to 0, you gain a new descriptor about how weird you are now and reset to a new permanent value one lower.

(that wasn't me, the PDF copies its corruption text out in chicken spongebob case)

That’s nine mental shifts to absorb! Her three mental stress boxes can only take her down to six shifts, so she must take consequences or get corrupted. Ultimately, she chooses the former: she takes a severe consequence, diSTracTing viSionS of impoSSiBle viSTaS, which will haunt her for some time.

The wall opens like a door, but her brief communion with Yog-Sothoth is assaulting Ruth’s mind with visions of impossible vistas. She must defend against Epic (+7) backlash. Her Will is only Mediocre (+0) and her roll is unimpressive—[-][-][0][0]—for an effort of Terrible (-2).

game is not free, but:

anyway you might want to check out Fate of Cthulhu's corruption system

ah, Kos, or as some say, Kosm

Valkyries can just mark off more and more grievous wounds to fight through and recover from.

Vampires do it by blunting attacks or recovering from physical wounds by marking hunger, and needing to feed in order to empty it - but if you're playing a PC vampire you're playing an outsider who doesn't want to lose control and feed all the way to a kill.

@Ben the new story it lets you tell about the characters. Like, in Dresden Files Accelerated, both nascent red vampires and valkyries are resilient physical combatants.

so the interesting decisions are: is this worth getting hungry, and: where will you feed?

Like, Dresden Files vampire PCs can operate on a supernatural level, but doing so writes a check that eventually hunger or mortification of the flesh has to cash.

I suppose the ultimate question is: what interesting decisions will players get to make as a result of interacting with this corruption system?

Fate as a system is combat agnostic - it doesn't depend on physical conflicts to keep the game going. But how much combat there is depends on the demands of the setting - if you were doing Diablo in Fate there'd probably be a whole bunch of combat because that's what Diablo is about.

@NotArch "Apocalypse Keys"? That one's pretty interesting. They shifted the standard numbers around, which is something not a lot of people have the initiative to do. You want to roll high, but not too high, because monsters.