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« Reply #15 on: September 11, 2012, 08:33:30 PM »
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My decision to purchase the game will pretty much hinge on the quality of that writing, as it's (what I feel to be) the fatal flaw in the original Diceless - oh, fuck, it's the goddamned Amber Diceless RPG.  Let's stop being fairies about it.

Could you post, say, one such example, or ensure that one finds its way into the preview?


When you say "that writing", do you mean "the more solid parameters and guidelines for comparing ranks/task resolution" that I was talking about before?

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« Reply #16 on: September 11, 2012, 09:26:29 PM »
Yes.
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« Reply #17 on: September 12, 2012, 12:37:06 AM »
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Yes.


A: Well, it'd be up to Brett what gets previewed, but to try to give you some idea: there are explicit guidelines as to degrees of success based on the differences between your Class in an attribute and the class of your opponent or the difficulty of the task attempted. You also get a clear and technical description of how to resolve combat by "rounds", when different attributes can get into play, the conditions by which Ego (psychic) combat are possible and how they get resolved, what sort of situations (of prolonged conflict) make Fortitude a factor in whether victory happens or not, what sort of situations should lead the GM to consider the Luck score as a mitigating factor, how to consider Class/difficulty values when fighting multiple opponents at once, levels of injury are clearly outlined along with their effects, healing times and exhaustion rates by attribute Class are clearly and explicitly outlined, and with all relevant powers you get clear outlines of what characters can do with a given power at each Class rank they have in the attributes that are crucial to that power.

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« Reply #18 on: September 13, 2012, 12:54:19 PM »
This is sounding very promising.

I'm not sure how much I care for the grafting of the Hellenic mythos onto the Amber ruleset, but that's easily discarded.
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« Reply #19 on: September 14, 2012, 05:19:05 PM »
Here's the digest blog of the first week's worth of q&a. Please keep the questions coming, folks!

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« Reply #20 on: September 15, 2012, 12:59:24 AM »
Related to a previous question but not exactly the same: how easy would it be to say... switch the greek pantheon and premise of the game for a Viking pantheon and Ragnarok premise?

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« Reply #21 on: September 15, 2012, 01:35:57 PM »
My gaming group is usually just myself and my wife or sometimes another couple if they're not out of state for work. So my question is, how would you adjust the bidding war with only 1 or 3 players? I usually just tell her to build her character and ignore the ladder aspect comepletely. Is there a better or more fun way of doing this?

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« Reply #22 on: September 16, 2012, 12:15:17 AM »
I went ahead and took the plunge by buying it last night, the print + PDF bundle.  Thanks for your hard work on the game!

My question is when will the physical copy be available and likely to ship? I heard today the physical copy isn't released yet.

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« Reply #23 on: September 16, 2012, 03:10:31 AM »
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My gaming group is usually just myself and my wife or sometimes another couple if they're not out of state for work. So my question is, how would you adjust the bidding war with only 1 or 3 players? I usually just tell her to build her character and ignore the ladder aspect comepletely. Is there a better or more fun way of doing this?


I usually game with just my wife also. Im going to use the Mythic Gm Emulator and basically emulate other players for the auction, and then use the created characters as npcs. I tried it once with Amber and the auction was pretty fun. Sadly, we never actually played that game of Amber.

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« Reply #24 on: September 16, 2012, 08:37:01 PM »
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Related to a previous question but not exactly the same: how easy would it be to say... switch the greek pantheon and premise of the game for a Viking pantheon and Ragnarok premise?


A: It would be relatively easy. If you wanted to be lazy, you could do it exactly the same rules; if not, you might want to change around some of the powers a bit (you could turn the World Walking rules around to travel along the tree of Yggdrasil, change the Scrying and Ineffable Words stuff into rune-related powers, and Enchantment into something related to Seidhr magic).  The big thing that would of course be missing is all the setting detail about the Norse pantheon and their cosmology.

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« Reply #25 on: September 16, 2012, 08:38:08 PM »
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My gaming group is usually just myself and my wife or sometimes another couple if they're not out of state for work. So my question is, how would you adjust the bidding war with only 1 or 3 players? I usually just tell her to build her character and ignore the ladder aspect comepletely. Is there a better or more fun way of doing this?


A: In the Lords of Olympus game there are multiple other options for character creation. If you don't have a group of at least 4 people, you'll probably be better off using one of those options, many of which will work much better than the auction for character creation.

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« Reply #26 on: September 16, 2012, 08:38:44 PM »
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I went ahead and took the plunge by buying it last night, the print + PDF bundle.  Thanks for your hard work on the game!

My question is when will the physical copy be available and likely to ship? I heard today the physical copy isn't released yet.


A: That's really a question for Brett to answer, but he'd indicated to me it was something around 3 weeks to a month.

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« Reply #27 on: September 17, 2012, 06:06:28 PM »
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A: It would be relatively easy. If you wanted to be lazy, you could do it exactly the same rules; if not, you might want to change around some of the powers a bit (you could turn the World Walking rules around to travel along the tree of Yggdrasil, change the Scrying and Ineffable Words stuff into rune-related powers, and Enchantment into something related to Seidhr magic).  The big thing that would of course be missing is all the setting detail about the Norse pantheon and their cosmology.

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If you write it, I will buy it. ;) Great work on LoO, Pundit.

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« Reply #28 on: September 17, 2012, 09:49:42 PM »
I just worry that a system where whoever has the higher stat USUALLY wins might bore some of my players.  Can anyone please give me an example combat where someone with a lower stat overcomes an opponent who has a superior stat?

I also read that there are randomizers in the game but haven't gotten that far in my reading yet.  Is there some kind of randomizer option similar to dice you can use for these kinds of situations to make outcomes not so sure a thing?

Thanks in advance!

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« Reply #29 on: September 17, 2012, 09:56:46 PM »
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I think I might just give diceless roleplaying a shot for the first time in my life with this game.

Me, too.  I've read the Amber novels (and enjoyed them), but never tried the RPG.  But frankly, Greek myth resonates with me much more than Amber does.
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