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Getting a match is basically “succeed unopposed at a reasonable task”, and it seems like if someone invests up to 8 (ignoring expert/master dice) then they should maybe not be rolling at all. It would be interesting to see a table with matches of different minimum heights and widths, because I think the power of outlier skill ranks is more relevant when attempting more outlandish feats. I don’t know how to compute it efficiently, though. 
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Subjunctive posted:Getting a match is basically “succeed unopposed at a reasonable task”, and it seems like if someone invests up to 8 (ignoring expert/master dice) then they should maybe not be rolling at all. Here you go! http://superhuman.wikidot.com/ore-probabilities
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Excellent, thank you! It looks like when you get into width 3 having 8/9/10 makes a difference, and that it's a big zero before that. Playing with difficulty should let you challenge specialists without outright requiring that specialization, I think.
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Lemon-Lime posted:the new BattleCON Kickstarter happening at some point before the end of August. I have SO much BCon, I can't even.
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djfooboo posted:I have SO much BCon, I can't even. It's Devastation Remastered + Wanderers of Indines + something like 15 promos (which is mostly new ones, but includes previous secret/boss characters who've been rebalanced like Anath/Evil Hikaru), so a good 55 characters. More importantly, it's going to have the big storage box with tuckboxes (Unleashed) as an addon.  (Also supposedly Unleashed is going to include further balance changes to War Remastered and Fate, which I'm really excited for.)
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I really shouldn't...but I'm totally buying in at the "all the new stuff and a box" tier on that
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jivjov posted:I really shouldn't...but I'm totally buying in at the "all the new stuff and a box" tier on that Yeah I won't be able to help myself unfortunately. And I'll do the same thing for Seventh Cross. gently caress.
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I have Devastation but I'm tempted to just get a new copy. My storage for it is not good.
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PrinnySquadron posted:I have Devastation but I'm tempted to just get a new copy. My storage for it is not good. There should be an upgrade kit for Devastation as well, so you should normally be able to just buy the upgrade kit + Unleashed for storage.
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This looks to be a neat way of turning minis into art - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rillworks/muster-box And these are some cute minis to put in one - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/russrmc/animal-adventures-tales-of-dungeons-and-doggies
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paradoxGentleman posted:One of the many things I enjoy about Reign is how Stoltze is very upfront about how the math works: Which is quite strange, because Stolze has no idea how the math works. Especially once you start introducing minimum-Height-to-succeed, a desire to know what your chance to have a specific Width is, both specific Width and Height, and combat where you want multiple matches because you can use a match to cancel an enemy match but they're dependent on Height and Width and 
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Kickstarter for the new Vital Lacerda game, Escape Plan, has just launched. Detailed rules breakdown Project page
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Zark the Damned posted:This looks to be a neat way of turning minis into art - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rillworks/muster-box I MUST HAVE THAT CHIHUAHUA
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The lack of basset hound is shameful.
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Also no labradoodle or goldendoodle (i.e., half-orc, half-elf) I'd pay a lot more for painted versions.
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Jedit posted:Kickstarter for the new Vital Lacerda game, Escape Plan, has just launched. The shipping on this is a joke.
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Cthulhu Dreams posted:The shipping on this is a joke. That seems reasonable for shipping a box that size.
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clockworkjoe posted:That seems reasonable for shipping a box that size. Yeah, this is certain to match the box size on the other EGG Lacerda games. Those are 15.5in x 12.5in x 3in, and they're also double thick outer shell with an insert and premium components.
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I like the names of the backing tiers for Escape Plan.Cthulhu Dreams posted:The shipping on this is a joke. Yeah it's loving insane.
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clockworkjoe posted:That seems reasonable for shipping a box that size. 59 US dollars for shipping alone? Thats loving insane. They even have a local distribution partner in Australia: Gloomhaven cost me $100 bucks all in lol.
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Cthulhu Dreams posted:59 US dollars for shipping alone? Thats loving insane. They even have a local distribution partner in Australia: Gloomhaven cost me $100 bucks all in lol. That's 2/3 of Gloomhaven INCLUDING shipping.
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Zark the Damned posted:And these are some cute minis to put in one - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/russrmc/animal-adventures-tales-of-dungeons-and-doggies My buddy nudged me out of an SA hiatus to let me know I should probably tell people I'm planning on pledging for at least 2x sets of doggies, painting them, and listing the set I don't keep up in my Etsy store. My seller name is "Omnibusy", and obviously they won't be up until I get the pledges shipped & painted.  One set is obviously my "keeper" set, because good lord, they are adorable. 
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$14 US shipping seems entirely reasonable based on other projects I've backed including Lisboa. Many of the other shipping prices for other countries... 
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Look's like Sigmata's out Monday.quote:The PDF will be released on DriveThruRPG on Monday July 23rd, and the first thing we'll do once it is up is send download codes to everyone who backed the PDF and PDF Plus tiers. Make sure you're checking your spam folders on that day. The second course of action will be for Resistance HQ to review and approve print proofs so we can hopefully start shipping physical copies in August. Also a play example video that has some character sheets. I'm giving the backgrounds some serious side-eye, especially for a game that wants you to work with the groups it does...   The systems shown look like kind of a bitch, too. Lots of 'd10s equal to stat plus d6's to make 5 dice, 6+ succeeds, 1's subtract successes' stuff. Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 03:09 on Jul 20, 2018 |
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1. "CisHet lesbian?" Like, "PCs will assume she's hetero but she's not," or like "the person who wrote this isn't 100% clear on what 'cishet' means and using it as synonymous for 'normal'?" I'm guessing the latter. 2. Jesus those loving font choices
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I didn't even catch that and lol what the gently caress. The ex-mil dude having 'spree shooting fantasies' as a character tag was what jumped out at me. Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 03:31 on Jul 20, 2018 |
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Also jeeze, that backstory is disjointed. I'm sure there is a perfectly valid way to characterize a pot-smoking, porn-watching, D&D-playing single mom/lawyer/pinball ace who used to be in a cult and has sex with women...but it's not just by listing random facts of wildly varying importance.
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Antivehicular posted:1. "CisHet lesbian?" Like, "PCs will assume she's hetero but she's not," or like "the person who wrote this isn't 100% clear on what 'cishet' means and using it as synonymous for 'normal'?" I'm guessing the latter. According to the video, "Surface" is what other people assume they are based on surface readings/typical biases while Story is what they truly are. It's an interesting idea, though I'm not sure how I feel about "spree shooting fantasies" 
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Ettin posted:According to the video, "Surface" is what other people assume they are based on surface readings/typical biases while Story is what they truly are. It's an interesting idea, though I'm not sure how I feel about "spree shooting fantasies" Like many things about this project, it's an interesting idea if you're writing dystopian fiction and can explore the characters' inner lives. For a tabletop roleplaying game where the only thing the rest of the group knows about your character is what you tell them, and they have to make assumptions accordingly? Not so much.
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Are those surface and story traits in-game qualities or flavor text put down by the players because uh.... I can't decide if it'd be worse if it's baked into the rules or if they thought these would be excellent examples of freeform background making. Also won't like 90% of people be tagged as "cishet" on the surface unless they're the most ridiculous visible stereotypes of LGBTQ people ever?
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Ettin posted:According to the video, "Surface" is what other people assume they are based on surface readings/typical biases while Story is what they truly are. It's an interesting idea, though I'm not sure how I feel about "spree shooting fantasies" Well it is set in America, so.
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Liquid Communism posted:The systems shown look like kind of a bitch, too. Lots of 'd10s equal to stat plus d6's to make 5 dice, 6+ succeeds, 1's subtract successes' stuff.
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Nuns with Guns posted:Are those surface and story traits in-game qualities or flavor text put down by the players because uh.... I can't decide if it'd be worse if it's baked into the rules or if they thought these would be excellent examples of freeform background making. Yeah. Think Russia right now, or the US and Britain in the 50's. In places where being LGBT makes you a target for state-sanctioned oppression, everyone acts to pass as the social standard for their own safety. That tag seems pretty pointless. A response on it from 'ol Chaddy: quote:As explained in the video, surface is what most people see when they encounter the character. It is an uninformed opinion based on veneer and first impression. The way someone looks, they way they carry themselves. Story, on the other hand, is their real identity, a combination interests, desires, experiences, and turmoil. It continues to stand out that for a guy who claims some pretty liberal political aspirations, this guy really doesn't seem to have thought a lot of this stuff through very well.
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Just walking around periodically announcing to nobody in particular "boy I sure do love being heterosexual" in case my body language accidentally gives away the fact that I'm gay.
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Liquid Communism posted:Like many things about this project, it's an interesting idea if you're writing dystopian fiction and can explore the characters' inner lives. It's not like you can't share both Surface and Story at the table, unless your group is militant about making sure players know nothing their characters don't. I'd hope they do so in a more logically organized way, though.
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malkav11 posted:It's not like you can't share both Surface and Story at the table, unless your group is militant about making sure players know nothing their characters don't. Yeah, but like, how is it interesting at the table? Is there a non-awkward point at which 'hey, yeah, my character's only pretending to be straight' comes up and is a point of dramatic tension?
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"If you really want to cozy up to your violent evangelical and rightwing militia allies you'll have to hide your powerful gay mince at the next cabinet meeting...."
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Pfft, like there aren't a lot of rightwing evangelicals so deep in the closet that they're having tea with Mr. Tumnus.
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I guess to be labeled anything other than CisHet in the "surface" section you have to look like Voyd from Incredibles 2. (Who was a great character, I thought. Good movie, by the way - my daughter loooved it.)
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