oriongates posted:

PDQ# does something a bit similar, Training Points are earned for failing significant rolls.

gradenko_2000 posted:

Don't play the Fighter, and probably don't play the Rogue. It's a Monte Cook game, so Wizards are the best.

An unavoidable issue is the basic design of the game:

1. your stat points are your hit points, and also your extra-effort points

2. at any time, the GM can introduce a complication to try and gently caress you over. You can either accept this and receive XP in exchange, or spend XP to block the GM. Since you also need XP to, you know, level up, this can get really annoying really quickly

3. if you ever roll a 1, you get to suffer a complication without the GM needing to reward you with any XP for it, and without being able to spend XP to block it. The "solution" is to never make any rolls, either by simply making poo poo happen (which is why Wizards rule), or by driving down the difficulty to 0 so you auto-succeed. Even the latter is going to have its share of issues, given that applying extra effort to drive down the difficulty further will cost you your stat points (see point 1).

gradenko_2000 posted:

I was already familiar with RuneQuest's idea of "you increase the skill whenever you fail to use it" as a means of incentivizing people to use low-level skills, but drat, letting people gain skill points that they can spend on skills besides the one that they used is a brilliant next step.

RQ Classic Reprint Rulebook posted:

To learn a skill by experience, a character must use it
successfully in conditions of stress. The player may then try to
make a roll of 100 minus the current ability with the skill, or less,
on D100, modified by his INT. For each point of INT over 12,
add 3% to the roll needed. For each point under 9, subtract 3%
from the roll. If he makes it, the character goes up 5% ability in
that skill.

A character can also buy training. When a character does,
non-fighting skills are learned at the same rate of Lunars per
week as fighting skills are. 100 L buys 2 hours a day of training
for a week. The cost of learning shown on the tables indicate
how many weeks each 5% increase in skill takes to learn. Some
skills must be learned all at once, rather than 5% at a time. The
cost of learning these skills indicates how much time must be
spent by the character in learning the skill.

Slimnoid posted:

Yesterday I went to my LGS for the first time in over a year and one of the employees there talked about Guild Ball in what I assume was an effort to drum up interest for it. Within 2 minutes he mentioned a character getting raped in the fluff as part of their backstory and chuckled about it.

I loving hate people.

LeSquide posted:

What the gently caress. I'm a huge Guild Ball fan, but that poo poo would've driven me right the gently caress away.

Guild Ball Season 1 posted:

I heard that she was a princess once, from one of the Sovereign States in the north, out Erskirad way. Then, as part of a raid, she gets captured by Blackheart, who intends to ransom her o ; thing is, northern nobles are even more ruthless than he is and a female heir is worth nothing really. So Blackheart never got his coin for this one. So he keeps her locked aboard his ship’s lower decks, barely feeds her, takes his fill of her every night for a month.

Then the damnedest thing happens. Crazy bitch decides she’s fallen in love with him. Totally broken down. Must be something snapped inside her head for that to happen. Maybe she wasn’t too sane to begin with.

Anyhow, old Blackheart is no fool. He knows how to exploit an opportunity when it comes his way. Makes her first mate. Who can you trust more than some batshit crazy bitch totally devoted to you? No one in a crew of cutthroat pirates certainly. He didn’t look after her though. Oh no, she was thrown to the wolves. Rough ride for the poor little princess, I heard she was raped a dozen times, near got herself killed learning the ropes. But each one of those men that abused her started turning up dead, one after another. And each time, her smile got that little bit more deranged, a little more like she was enjoying seeing the fear in the eyes of the crew. Before too long, they’re following her orders alright.

She’s the only one he took with him when he gave up the pirate life and she’s been with him ever since. I think she’s given up pursuing him, but that hasn’t stopped her butchering anyone that she thinks is a threat. She’s worse than most of the crew on his ship ever were now. Swings that mean-looking hook around with far too much intent for my liking, and that knife always tickles your throat if she takes you down, like she wants you to know that she could end you right there if she wanted. Keep her away from Harmony and the boss, she might not stop for a woman.

She even plays the game. Now that’s the real surprise. Gods only know what her warped mind understands about that. P’haps she’s just trying to get his attention, turning up without him on teams. Maybe she’s just following his orders. Could be something else, we’re both far too sensible to even begin to understand the woman.

long-rear end nips Diane posted:

I have a good 20 Guild Ball models, including the one that the terrible fluff's about, and now I'm really glad they don't put any of that poo poo in a place where I might've actually read it.

Halloween Jack posted:

I think my first grimdark was, like, a particularly gothic episode of The Real Ghostbusters, and not fantasizing about raping a woman until she loves me

CaptCommy posted:

Yeah the fluff is super duper easy to ignore if you want. I do think they've done a better job with the writing as the game has gone on, but I also understand if the Gutter stuff still turns people away. The early stuff is definitely "my first grimdark"

Ewen Cluney posted:

https://twitter.com/nekoewen/status/948265344195379200

Dunno about you guys, but I'm going to be buying some stickers for the next time I run a big game. Also possibly getting some sticker sheets custom made.

Countblanc posted:

if a GM started putting Good Job stickers on my stuff I'd immediately assume they were dripping with irony venom and it'd take a long time to be conditioned away from that notion

Plutonis posted:

Covok posted:

If any of this is true, my favorite part is how these adults have been completely conditioned to actually care about these stickers. They're cooking the meals to get the stickers, and they backed off something because they threatened to take the sticker away. They are literally demonstrating the behavior of a five-year-old child in preschool.

Yawgmoth posted:

Paranoid Dude posted:

Who on Earth complains about people not dressing well for a game of DnD or Fate?

Paranoid Dude posted:

Who on Earth complains about people not dressing well for a game of DnD or Fate?

Paranoid Dude posted:

Who on Earth complains about people not dressing well for a game of DnD or Fate?