- MartianAgitator
- Apr 30, 2003
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This is more of a general GMing advice question, but its for my Star Wars game, so I'll ask it here...
My players have sort of a habit of backpedaling on plans once they find out what kind of check it will involve. Like, I'll tell my face character "Well, that's really more of a Coerce type of situation since there's a clear threat involved and you're not bullshitting him". Sometimes they'll try to flavor it a different way to justify using Deception or Charm or whatever instead, and I usually will let it slide, but sometimes its just "Oh I don't want to try that after all" or turning to another player "hey, your Coerce is way better, you take over the conversation", which feels a little metagame-y to me.
I don't want to be the rear end in a top hat GM who says "You said it, now you're stuck with it" (especially since one of the players is very very new to tabletop gaming in general), but I also don't want to encourage the behavior of always shunting responsibility for a check onto the sole person with the best stat or skill to handle it.
In the process of typing this post, I had one idea I'll throw out there...adding setback dice to social checks when mid-conversation the primary PC doing the talking switches to someone else, since they're diluting they're own stance/case/argument if they're letting someone else do the talking.
You know, Dungeon World gives you an experience point each time you fail a roll. Is there a way to positively reinforce failing rather than negatively reinforce narrative-crushing metagaming? Maybe something that highlights the cinematic nature of the genre?
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- MartianAgitator
- Apr 30, 2003
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I don't have much EU knowledge so I'm just trying to imagine a picture of this in the rule book.
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- MartianAgitator
- Apr 30, 2003
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Tell me there's a skill.
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Sep 6, 2014 04:34
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- MartianAgitator
- Apr 30, 2003
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My character in the last EotE game I was in was a "Vaguely Eastern European" Mon Calamari (Stats taken from AoR) cab driver that played part-time in an Oompa band that played "SDef SLeppard" covers. It was pretty great, though I only got to play one gig before that section of Mos Espa burned down (Completely unrelated, I swear).
You know, if you asked these other guys, I bet their bands would have something that could have put out that fire.
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