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[X] Even Competent Aristocrats Suck
Let the coalition of the unlikely and ignored be built !
Let the coalition of the unlikely and ignored be built !
Let the fires of industry BURN! a WH40K manufactorum administrator quest
- Thread starter Lord Necromancer
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- Sci-Fi
[X] Even Competent Aristocrats Suck
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Are you SURE you want both of these together? Y'all do have the power of Write-in traits you can use
I'm cool with it! I feel like it models the unintended consequences of our world view.
I see nothing wrong that can happen with this development but the question is does the high reroll first or the lowest reroll happen first? That'll have a lot of influence on how bad it can get.
- Pronouns
- He/Him
They happen simultaneously if possible
Ah unfortunate. So if the high reroll goes low enough the diligent trait won't save us... Oh well. Surely lady luck will be nice and cooperate. Probably.... Hopefully.
Maybe it is a bit bad?
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same and in my mind tracks with what hive noble would be like towards the common man
- Pronouns
- He/Him
I HAVE RETURNED FROM THE MINES! I am open for a Q&A on whatever
Between 1 and 10 how much hardship should we expect with the current leading plan? 10 being apocalyptic and 1 merely a struggle that requires focus.
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Ok, here is how I see it. Currently Even Competent Aristocrats Suck is the current projected winner, and it could very well go 2 ways. Way 1 would have you guys have generally good rerolls which would probably leave y'all at around a 3. Way 2 would be the opposite where your rerolls kneecap you and just make everything difficult, leading to a 7.
I'm not sure if I ever articulated this to anyone besides moistbread, but this isn't going to be the standard DC? type quest. This will have most of the projects run on 0/? with the ? equaling the needed effort. So say you guys were trying to repair those production lines you have, it would look something like
Repair production lines Phase 1: 0/100 and you guys assign 4 Ind+free dice to this project. Your progress for the project would be 80 (20X4 from Genius) and get 4d100 as a result, but then your traits kick in and you reroll the 13 and 55 (Because 5 and 3 are crit fails... oof) and get 2d100.
OK this is a bad set of rolls and holy fuck that is 3 Crit fails. ngl this is both hilarious and what I hope isn't an omen for what's to come
Ok since those were dice straight from Nurgle's taint lets just suppose y'all get 200 from the dice. 200+80=280 280/100 --> 80/100 completing 2 phases and netting you 2 repaired production lines.
Edit: Most Diplomatic actions will have multiple breakpoints for levels of success
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shoving helpless menials into the meat grinder will continue until moral I'm proves.
Memes aside here's my question is there away to turn whats written above into reality beca I'm sure there's plenty of penal labor out there that we can make use of.
I see. I shall prepare my offerings and sacrifices to the dice gods then. Maybe they'll be more kind then Chaos.
Besides that what kind of future do you see for the quest? Are you expecting a bit of bloat in terns of quantity per update and how long do you think it shall last until it ends if there is a general plan?
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Well the first 3-4 turns will probably be just you guys getting on your feet. I am going to be a kind Administratum rep. and give you all 3 turns to begin production before the first tithe demand drops. But the current goal of this quest is for you to try and claim the Governorship by either dethroning the current planetary governor or just being elevated to said position after his death. Or if people don't want that I will gladly redirect the quest to whatever overarching thing you all want.
For clarification what do you mean when you say "bloat in terns of quantity per update"
Magoose
SV's Questing Fanatic
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[X] Plan: Ozymandias
@Lord Necromancer why did you not tell me you were running a quest.
I need to return the favor with the Magoose dice!
@Lord Necromancer why did you not tell me you were running a quest.
I need to return the favor with the Magoose dice!
- Pronouns
- He/Him
We don't need your dice Magoose, we already have Nurgles
Magoose
SV's Questing Fanatic
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- He
Too late I am here now!
We don't need your dice Magoose, we already have Nurgles
And they have infected the thread
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Yep, and so another quest gets that tag
Ah oops. I mean "bloat in terms of quantity per update" but basically the updates getting larger then the quest was originally designed to handle as the quest progresses which is unfortunately fairly common with these types of quests. Essentially how are you gonna handle the action economy? Will the number of available actions stay the same or will there be a degree of growth. If the latter how much should be expected? I seen the number of actions per turn get a bit out of hand a few too many times during my trips looking into past quests...