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Heads-up: I'm busy this Sunday, so the update is going to drop either before or after @eaglejarl's usual time. If it drops before voting closes, then the voting period will be extended until the usual 12 p.m. London Time on Wednesday.
 
Heads-up: I'm busy this Sunday, so the update is going to drop either before or after @eaglejarl's usual time. If it drops before voting closes, then the voting period will be extended until the usual 12 p.m. London Time on Wednesday.
I'm sort of confused on how the implications of these two sentences interact. Pardon me:

1) Do you mean the update we're currently voting for?
2) If so, why would said update need to be extended until the usual Wednesday deadline, if we got it before voting closes (on Saturday)?
3) Are you talking about a bonus update?
 
[] Action Plan: Nightcore Game Night (10 hours)

Goal: MAXIMAL FUN
  • Everyone chakra boosts.
  • Play games in the woods. Every five minutes, Noburi drains a bunch of chakra beasts and passes around the chakra water.
  • Snag some of those Akimichi pills
  • Invite Tsunade and Dr Yakushi
 
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I'm sort of confused on how the implications of these two sentences interact. Pardon me:

1) Do you mean the update we're currently voting for?
2) If so, why would said update need to be extended until the usual Wednesday deadline, if we got it before voting closes (on Saturday)?
3) Are you talking about a bonus update?
If I end up finishing the update before voting closes, it will naturally be unable to incorporate some or all elements of the winning plan. In that case those elements will have to be, where still possible, written for the Thursday update, giving you time to reassess and amend them.

Edit: If it helps, I won't be skipping the game night unless things go really wrong during the day, so feel free to keep planning for that.
 
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If I end up finishing the update before voting closes, it will naturally be unable to incorporate some or all elements of the winning plan. In that case those elements will have to be, where still possible, written for the Thursday update, giving you time to reassess and amend them.
Ah, I see what you mean now. Thank you for clarifying!
 
[] Action Plan: Nightcore Game Night (10 hours)

Goal: MAXIMAL FUN
  • Everyone chakra boosts.
  • Play games in the woods. Every five minutes, Noburi drains a bunch of chakra beasts and passes around the chakra water.
  • Snag some of those Akimichi pills
  • Invite Tsunade and Dr Yakushi
Where is the sake?

There was supposed to be a lake-filling quantity of sake!
 
[X] Action Plan: Game Night
And, since some parts of the plan felt a little clunky, I decided to rewrite it myself. Feel free to steal phrasings you like, @Kiba.

[X] Action Plan: Polished Game Night
  • Spend some more time with Hana and invite her to game night.
  • Game night:
    • Divide into four or five groups, each playing a different game.
    • Let people chose which group to join, and randomly assign them if they can't decide.
      • Recommend changing groups and trying a different game once you're done your current one.
Misc:
  • Continue research on Casino Seals.
  • Make some more Skywalkers, both to start replenishing your own stockpiles and in case Jiraiya needs more in a hurry.
 
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After a brief review of their system, I give it a yikes/10.

Apparently you roll d10s+attributes for a host of things (?)
If you get a 7,8,9, that counts as a single success.
A 0 counts as two.
You need a number of success rolls equal to the difficulty of the task you're trying to accomplish.
There are penalties that can subtract dice from your pool and penalties that can subtract from your successes.

Also
If you roll no successes and at least one "1", you get a botch, or critical fail. The more 1s you rolled, the worse the botch.
With smaller dice pools this makes botches more likely than successes. (?I think?)

Combat
rounds are one second long. You only attack every few rounds or so, usually.
Other than that, mostly fine.

Social combat
If you want to persuade someone of something, or resist being persuaded of something you spend Willpower, something that is akin to Fate Points. You can suddenly switch to a new topic of conversation to get a bonus (surprise social attack)
If you don't want to be persuaded into something, you spend Willpower or run.

Appearance is a stat. It's used for resisting persuasion, and..... Well, that's about it.

There's more stuff here, but..... Yeah.
 
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For the record, Hana would be a Sidereal, and she would kick ass.

(These two statements are potentially but not necessarily connected.)
 
I have mechanical and writing complaints against white wolf games. Their book design is stupid and mechanics are interspersed with lore in such a way that you have to read the entire book to get all the mechanics.

e: To be clear, this is fine the first time through. But when you're looking for a specific rule it's pants on fire frustrating.

e2: Also I might be mildly biased by preferring Mages from Mage: The Awakening, which is arguably the most complicated ruleset. But being able to bend reality to your will is fun anyway.
 
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I have mechanical and writing complaints against white wolf games. Their book design is stupid and mechanics are interspersed with lore in such a way that you have to read the entire book to get all the mechanics.

e: To be clear, this is fine the first time through. But when you're looking for a specific rule it's pants on fire frustrating.

e2: Also I might be mildly biased by preferring Mages from Mage: The Awakening, which is arguably the most complicated ruleset. But being able to bend reality to your will is fun anyway.
Breaking news: An MfD player states that he doesn't like super punching as much as bending reality to his will with a complicated ruleset.
 
On a note entirely unrelated to bending funding reality to my will:

@eaglejarl, how would you like the Grant Application to be formatted re: Citations? Because I mean, uh, we don't exactly have citations unless you want to write out the papers we'd be citing. Just make the citations and then write a brief summary of what the papers might suggest, science sin though that is?
 
On a note entirely unrelated to bending funding reality to my will:

@eaglejarl, how would you like the Grant Application to be formatted re: Citations? Because I mean, uh, we don't exactly have citations unless you want to write out the papers we'd be citing. Just make the citations and then write a brief summary of what the papers might suggest, science sin though that is?
(Please just let us bullshit this part away within reason, I'm begging you. I draw the line at creating a pile of fictional science papers to cite for the fictional grant application for our fictional research project.)
 
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