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cranebump · May 19, 2015, 10:06:03 PM

I'd use roll under Doom, and maybe a higher starting die. For example, if it's a d10, that's pretty low chance of failing but...you can still die. In a level based game, it would give PCs a bailout mechanic when they're really squishy. Anyway, it's a cool idea, which I might use in my upcoming BotV campaign. I know they already have Hero Points, but this group is full of crazy daredevils, so it might be fun.

Shipyard Locked · May 19, 2015, 10:28:48 PM

Quote from: mAcular Chaotic;832328Also I agree with this, that guy makes great posts. But apparently he too was banned.

Any way to contact him and invite him over?

Bren · May 19, 2015, 10:29:43 PM

Quote from: cranebump;832378I'd use roll under Doom, and maybe a higher starting die. For example, if it's a d10, that's pretty low chance of failing but...you can still die. In a level based game, it would give PCs a bailout mechanic when they're really squishy. Anyway, it's a cool idea, which I might use in my upcoming BotV campaign. I know they already have Hero Points, but this group is full of crazy daredevils, so it might be fun.

Its very similar to the Dark Side point mechanic in WEG D6 Star Wars. Except in Star Wars failure meant turning to the Dark Side which typically turned your PC into an NPC. So not dead, but out of the player's hands as if they were dead.

You could also tweak it by having to roll less than the current number of Doom points to die. So you would get one Doom for free as it were, since you can't roll under 1 on 1d6. (Which is what Star Wars did. You could afford to have 1 Dark Side Point, it was only once you reached 2 that you risked falling to the Dark Side (on a 1 on 1d6).

mAcular Chaotic · May 20, 2015, 03:00:14 AM

Quote from: Shipyard Locked;832380Any way to contact him and invite him over?

I looked around for his email, but there's nothing. Maybe if someone over there already knew it.

RPGPundit · May 23, 2015, 12:41:09 AM

I'm sure if he wants to, he'll figure out how to get here.

One Horse Town · May 23, 2015, 05:56:25 AM

Darth Tang posted here a few years ago under another name. Not sure if he's still here or not.

jeff37923 · May 23, 2015, 08:14:22 AM

Darth Tang was one of the few reasons why I still lurked at RPGNet.

I would like to see him here.

arminius · May 24, 2015, 05:23:40 PM

Yeah, he has an account here as OneTinSoldier.

Shipyard Locked · May 24, 2015, 06:43:24 PM

Quote from: Arminius;833041Yeah, he has an account here as OneTinSoldier.

Would it be gauche to send him a PM about being more active here, the sort that pings your email too?

Bren · May 24, 2015, 10:44:21 PM

Quote from: Shipyard Locked;833056Would it be gauche to send him a PM about being more active here, the sort that pings your email too?

Well I am no Miss Manners, but it sounds fine to me.

jeff37923 · May 25, 2015, 04:25:25 AM

Quote from: Bren;831281What do people think of this mechanic? Would you ever use it and if so, when and why?

I think the mechanic is interesting, but I would not use it. I feel that this would cheapen the concept of heroic self-sacrifice in my games, which tends to be an important part based on Actual Play. The actions of the Player should dictate whether or not the PC is doomed, not a die roll afterwards - it seems too deus ex machinae to me.

Marleycat · May 25, 2015, 04:51:55 AM

Quote from: The Butcher;826377No irony or Schadenfreude, please. There's enough of that over at the other threads.

I was perusing The Big Purple today and found out about two things that look right up this site's alley. I thought about spinning each into a thread, but then I thought, hey, everyone's always whining about tBP, why not a positive thread for a change?

One: Geoff Grabowski, Mr. Exalted himself, is writing a OSR module called The Dreams of Ruin. Sounds a lot like that old Summerland storygame (apocalypse by way of crazy fertile unchecked plant life swallowing civilization) weaved into a B/X-compatible module.

Two: Someone put up a Named Level Generator. You punch in a class (anything, really) and the generator gives you Gygaxesque names for levels in that class. Sometimes it even throws in Hit Dice! As a dual-classed Laparotomist and Novice Jiujiteiro (3rd level), I had a good laugh with this.

Neat. But I'd rather have a chance to play in one of Jeff's games. Even if it was Traveller.

RPGPundit · May 27, 2015, 03:58:53 AM

DCC essentially has high-level title generators in one of its appendices. At least, in my DCC game any character that reaches 6th level and up gets a new semi-unique title each level thereafter.

Shipyard Locked · May 27, 2015, 06:26:58 AM

Quote from: Bren;833093Well I am no Miss Manners, but it sounds fine to me.

I haven't contacted him by the way, I'm assuming it would be better if one of his fans did.

camazotz · May 29, 2015, 12:04:26 PM

Quote from: Matt;826645C'mon, personal attacks are okay at RPGNET as long as th moderators agree with you.

That's the truth.

(Yes I'm irritated for getting a warning over there. Reason: having a cruel sense of humor)