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Threads Of Destiny(Eastern Fantasy, Sequel to Forge of Destiny)
- Thread starter yrsillar
- Start date
- Original Users' Choice!
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- Location
- The Maple Syrup Mountains
[X] Confident Approach (Base Success 45+, 2 rolls, less time consuming, lower cost.)
- Location
- Yes
[X] Confident Approach (Base Success 45+, 2 rolls, less time consuming, lower cost.)
TimEd
Meteor maker
eyyyy. Someone called it.
Truly Hanyi is a fount of wisdom.
Sounds like trauma to me.
... Ling Qi. What the heck.
On the possible "costs", we could also attempt to buy our passage by either leading some of these shishigui here or something. Might also mean we get to see what exactly the shishigui are shipping in their supply routes.
[X] Confident Approach (Base Success 45+, 2 rolls, less time consuming, lower cost.)
as a student of Ice!Mom, we can do no less. Also we should be a good role model to Hanyi and show her how to properly be Haughty.
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- Location
- UK
[X] Sympathetic approach (Base success 30+, 3 rolls, more time consuming, higher cost.)
DeAnno
Sometimes words have two meanings
[X] Threatening approach (Base Success 60+, 1 roll, least time consuming, no cost.)
It's afraid. Use that. Also I have a feeling the sort of costs a thing like this wants to extract are not ones we will be so eager to pay once we see them for what they are.
It's afraid. Use that. Also I have a feeling the sort of costs a thing like this wants to extract are not ones we will be so eager to pay once we see them for what they are.
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Didn't Ling Qi stop sensing first realm creatures in the last update, with all the creatures she sensed in that strata being a higher realm? Perhaps it is feeding on immature animals, or those first realm chaff Ling Qi and Li Suyin encountered when they descended into the underground.
[x] Sympathetic approach (Base success 30+, 3 rolls, more time consuming, higher cost.)
Has the highest chance of adequate success and attaining stretch goals. For example, while we have escape talismans, we were asked to not actually use them if all possible. If we can ensure this fungus can remain a safe route, it would make the journey back up easier and possibly save time.
- Location
- Florida
Not really a secret that it eat's dreams.
- Location
- ?
[X] Sympathetic approach (Base success 30+, 3 rolls, more time consuming, higher cost.)
[X] Confident Approach (Base Success 45+, 2 rolls, less time consuming, lower cost.)
[X] Confident Approach (Base Success 45+, 2 rolls, less time consuming, lower cost.)
Black Noise
Curious
- Location
- About 1AU from Sol
To put this in perspective, here's graphs for at least N degrees of success for each approach, assuming +10 per degree (exact numbers this time):
Individual outcome distribution:
Notably, chance for 0/1+ degrees of success:
- Sympathetic: 90/86%
- Confident: 65/56%
- Threatening: 41%
It's not like we're wasting resources either, we're turning those degrees of success into further benefits, possibly for the mission if not the immediate war effort afterwards. This is a fungus that eats dreams, it's bound to know a thing or two about the depths below and our corpse-eating opponents.
EDIT: anydice code if anyone cares.
EDIT2: second graph to better illustrate the outcome distribution.
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- Location
- Brazil
Aren't Yrs' degress of success/failure based on how over/under the target you rolled, divided by ten?
So if on a DC 60 you roll 82, you get 3 degrees of success (or 2, depending if just beating it gives you one)?
@edit: A tad too late.
So if on a DC 60 you roll 82, you get 3 degrees of success (or 2, depending if just beating it gives you one)?
@edit: A tad too late.
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I was originally going to do the confident approach but the math and the graph convinced me otherwise.
[X] Sympathetic approach (Base success 30+, 3 rolls, more time consuming, higher cost.)
[X] Sympathetic approach (Base success 30+, 3 rolls, more time consuming, higher cost.)
- Pronouns
- They/It
[x] Confident Approach (Base Success 45+, 2 rolls, less time consuming, lower cost.)
Math schmath!
Powerwalk toward that gribbly, stare it straight in the fungeye, and give it a firm handshake. Instant Success.
Math schmath!
Powerwalk toward that gribbly, stare it straight in the fungeye, and give it a firm handshake. Instant Success.
- Location
- New Brunswick, NJ
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
Specifically, there's the facts that 1) we're venturing deeper down 2) our new buddy is really scared of whatever is down there. I don't think that the time or other cost are non-issues, but I think early in the mission is the correct point to invest time and resources into finding out what's ahead of us.
To me this means "I want us, not just to succeed, but to get a high-margin success so that we don't go unprepared into whatever's ahead."