Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest
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- naruto rationalist romance armageddon is looking better and better damn you kishimoto explosions everywhere explosives solve everyone if in doubt surrender to the mercy of zabuza it seemed like a good idea at the time looks like a really bad case of being a jōnin my god. where does the lore end? precommitting is the winning plan screaming in kagome screw the rules i have explosives something bad might still happen sometimes you gotta sociopath stabby zabby subsection c of paragraph 9 should include we can weaponize this so hard open voting
- Location
- Yes.
IIRC Ami offered and we didn't take her up on declining the favor, since we went in committed to not committing to anything.
- Location
- The Maple Syrup Mountains
I like a lot of these changes. Some are impractical for wordcount, and others I'm not sure on, but I managed to integrate what I feel are the most important changes while still staying under 400 words.
Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
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- United States
No, I mean since we left her, didn't we send a letter at some point? Or was that in the about 7 plans that ended up being chronologically fucked?
- Location
- Yes.
Emstar
The Shining One
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- Trapped in an extradimensional rift.
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- She/They
I pretty much agree, I just wanted to hear your point of view there.
We don't have to ACTIVELY decline the favor to decline it. If we don't accept the favor its either going to be perceived as a declination or she's going to go through with it anyway on false premises.
Like, if she treats us not actively declining as an acceptance, we should immediately begin sending her proposals for favors in the thousands by as many avenues of communication as we can, up to and including messages written in icing on cookies and pieces of coded information scattered throughout songs played by half a dozen minstrels across Water.
- Location
- The Maple Syrup Mountains
We did say we'd get back to her on the matter, though, didn't we?
Emstar
The Shining One
- Location
- Trapped in an extradimensional rift.
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- She/They
Oh poo, now we're rude if we don't decline explicitly. Yeah, fair enough, full speed ahead.
- Location
- Potato land
It originally appeared in the plan for the Ami meeting: Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest | Page 5162. Is linking to that ok?
- Location
- The Maple Syrup Mountains
Added the last of Roomba's Noburi lines in exchange for the explosives-drawing that Hazou's undoubtedly going to do offscreen anyways.
Emstar
The Shining One
- Location
- Trapped in an extradimensional rift.
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- She/They
In the depths of the realm between realms, a defiant tune echoes.
The inhabitants of this realm toil tirelessly... for the time of mere planning has passed.
They place the pieces on the board.
They maneuver the major players into position.
They set forth the strategy meant to counter the gambits of the gods, those great oppressors most terrible and cruel.
They work to weave their wondrous wishes together from the supple strands of fate itself.
Above all, first and foremost amongst those lofty desires...
...that grand unifying cause, a wound from which bleeds inspiration and determination alike, a wound that needs healing...
...the single overarching consensus that drives them to such desperate action...
... they will get Noburi to make up with his sisters, God fucking damn it!
The inhabitants of this realm toil tirelessly... for the time of mere planning has passed.
They place the pieces on the board.
They maneuver the major players into position.
They set forth the strategy meant to counter the gambits of the gods, those great oppressors most terrible and cruel.
They work to weave their wondrous wishes together from the supple strands of fate itself.
Above all, first and foremost amongst those lofty desires...
...that grand unifying cause, a wound from which bleeds inspiration and determination alike, a wound that needs healing...
...the single overarching consensus that drives them to such desperate action...
... they will get Noburi to make up with his sisters, God fucking damn it!
- Location
- Yes.
QMs: Hey!
- Location
- UK
- Pronouns
- He/Him
I can no longer remember if that was the winning plan. If it was, then yes.
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- USA
Thanks for the response. It makes sense @Velorien , since FP and such affect your ability to exploit the environment, and that doesn't happen with initiative since it's solely reaction time. I can imagine that there are cases where you might want to emphasize that one group is particularly disadvantaged by the environment, but that can be handled with fragile aspects on them.
While I have your ear for mechanics questions - how would you run Fated to Die on tabletop? I'm imagining character generation by giving players 1k XP, and then just running it with mechanics out of the rules doc. Compels back for the actual tabletop setting, but not sure what other changes would be good.
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- USA
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Choose an XP curve that you like, is the only other thing I can think of. Decide how many XP a 25%, 50%, 75%, and 99% ninja get per day, where the number reflects your talent -- a 99%er is more talented than 99% of ninja, etc. This lets you build your NPCs in a consistent way.
I love the idea that someone is using it, especially for tabletop! Let us know how it goes.
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- USA
Seems reasonable. I have some difficulty imagining balance - for example, Itachi's XP curve must be through the roof to play on even ground at age 11 with what are probably above-average talent XP jounin who are three times his age. I suppose that is why there are legends of Madara and Hashirama and all, they were 4 or 5 standard deviations above the mean and lived to adulthood, and thus got to rule the world.
Would you recommend the MfD XP curve (which I believe was stated somewhere as 3 average, stdev 1)? I'll probably start off the players as missing-nin for the sake of not having to simulate a village-worth of stuff, but things will likely still be episodic in the way that FATE games tend to be, so most XP will be given off-screen between scenarios.
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- The state of Paranoia
Now that we are no longer constrained by a month long time limit, and since the Ami situation did not reduce Hazō to a smoking pile of lightly charred yet still identifiable flesh, I am interested. Got any ideas on where to start?
- Location
- USA
- Pronouns
- He/Him
I wouldn't try too hard to fit the canon characters the XP curve, since canon is ridiculous. Aside from that, it really just depends on how fast you want your players to advance.
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- UK
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- He/Him
As many a player has said in an oddly consistent fashion, "Yet. Growth mindset."
Why are some ninja more exceptional than others?
Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
- Location
- United States
Yet. Gro--
Oh. Got me covered. Thanks boss.
- Location
- The Void
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Sure. Same basic plan as last time. First and most important is this will be a long term project. Something to be slowly built to instead of just rushing into. We want to go to Jiraiya with a the entire op planned out instead of asking for his advice to begin with so he was is more likely to give the go ahead. I would like to start with working under Kakashi or Gai regularly. We will want as much firepower as possible when we try to take on a summoner so having an S-ranker with us is super important. One of our best leads is we know the Condor Summoner has the capybara scroll as well. We have her last known location at the Hinnago Medical facility in Rice. We will want to do as much research into that as we can. At the same time we will want to have Kei do as much research into summoners locations by consulting with the Pangolins. Try to track there movements and find who would make the ideal targets. We will want to establish our own spy network to help track anyone we target. So deepening ties with the Yakuza is a must. We will also want to keep in contact with our friends from friends from the smaller villages. Try to find out if there's anyone we could target that could score Leaf political concessions. I'd like to spend sometime taking control of Mountain politically. This will give us more manpower to throw at the problem. Also since there are some players who oppose using lethal methods to take down a target I'd like to get Kagome working with the seal smiths in Mountain to develop new tools to enable us to capture a summoner