Restalaan
What do you mean i am not a real cowboy?
Random Awed Character:In fact i do!
Random Awed Character: It was enough to F!@# your mother last night.
Edit: In case anyone miss the joke, here.
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Battle Action Harem Highschool Side Character Quest (No SV, you are the Waifu)
- Thread starter Avalanche
- Start date
- Original
Random Awed Character:In fact i do!
Random Awed Character: It was enough to F!@# your mother last night.
Edit: In case anyone miss the joke, here.
Nidhoggr
Suletta Permetta
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Let go your earthly tether. Enter the void. Empty, and become wind.
I'd imagine it went something like this:
Avalanche: -Stares at Dice Roll results- ...That can't be right... -rolls again- ...What the hell?! -glares at computer screen and rerolls- You've gotta be kidding me, what the hell is causing this?! -Computer bluescreens- Oh, now this is happening! What did I do to deserve... wait why does the screen look like something's about to come out of it... -Durga's arm reaches out of the screen and smacks him-
xX----1 hour later----Xx
Anna: Type what's on the paper out into your post.
Avalanche: -Has cannons aimed at him- Yes, master. As you command, master. -begins typing-
True story.
NotAKobold
Retired "High-Elven" Revolutionary
- Location
- Florida, the giant aligator.
I was thinking of saying something along those lines, but thought that it could be a bit rude.
Happens to me all the time.
ArchRegis
Schnee Property
- Location
- USA
You see, everything Avalanche has written is actually what would one day come to pass. But at the end of the Quest, Anna realized the only way to stop the antagonists from winning was to tear a hole in time and stop the antagonists from ever attacking earth in the first place.
But as she did so, Durga realized that changing the past would destroy her future. The paradox would erase Anna from existence as well. No one would remember her.
To Durga, this was unacceptable. So before the end, Durga traveled even further back, possessed Avalanche's computer, and had him write this quest. This is the truth of the world you inevitably stumbled upon. Even though none of us realize it, our hearts recognize it to be true.
And that's why BAHHSSCQ is best quest.
- Location
- Leeds
Lets be honest here, no one was playing this quest for the mechanics. Do what you like Avalanche, just update soon.
Tornadohunter
Bread-Chan has forsaken us mortals.
- Location
- Woodstock, GA, USA
- Location
- Estonia
The widely used "yabeee" (paraphrased) generally means "oh shit" anyway.
and yuri is lillies as most of you know.
"Yabe" is more like "oh no/this is wicked", while "shimata" pretty much literally means "oh this happened" in a surprised tone. "Oh shit" is usually the closest English translation of the desired meaning, but "shoot" or "gosh" would be equally accurate translations depending on the tone and character, but could feel sillier and OOC most of the time for most characters not children or incredibly polite, which would break the translation of the tone. The original Japanese version does not refer to excrement and is thus not really "strong language".
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Alphaleph
The Firstiest of First
Aka, both Japanese and English are silly and trying to fully translate one to the other just makes it sillier.
- Location
- The Land of Many Bregrets
- Pronouns
- They/Them
Having been there and been bitten by that... yeah, good call :'|b
Guile
Having a really great time right now
Anna/Dio: ... My mother is dead.
Random Awed Character: I know.
Anomen
「Innocent」
- Location
- United States
Thanks for the update. Could you please threadmark this post in addition to linking it in the OP? It is a very major change to the quest, and I think that it should be made known to all of the players. In fact, linking it in the next story post would probably work out for the best since we have so many fanworks.
Secondly, I understand your decision to switch to a narrative combat system (lot easier to handle, for one), but the idea of everything depending on a single roll sits pretty poorly with me. Anna should not have trouble with a group of fifty non-type Antagonist, even if she rolls a 1. I trust you as a writer to not do that to us, but I've seen too many quests pull that shit to be unconcerned. While it's sometimes humorous (Bleach Quest), it's usually just annoying. From what I read of your post, you seem to be going for an more voting-based outcome, but any mention of one roll for 'luck' raises my warning levels. Sorry to bother you with this if you weren't going for anything like that (as you probably weren't).
Edit: And because my internet had gone to shit, I didn't see my alert about the OP posting a long post, which helps out alot as far as my first point goes. Whoops
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One way to handle something like that is with inflexible combat ratings and a die to act as a modifier. 50 AG forces probably have a challenge rating of 'laughable' to Anna, although newbie Valks might find them troublesome. You could assign the newbie and the group of 50 non-type AG each a combat rating of 5, and a d10 from each decides which has the advantage, while Anna has a combat rating of 50.
No way those non-types can match that...
No way those non-types can match that...
Aranfan
Team Plasma Grunt
Does she like, utterly dominate any group combat she's in? Or does she underperform relative to how she should be doing?
Avalanche
Atypical Netizen
- Location
- Australia
Well, as I'm sure you understand, in any non civ game, the mechanics are a way for the GM to let the players make informed decisions through letting them understand the relative capabilities.
In this case, while parts of the stats and conflict resolution system was formatted to give results exactly as I foresaw, other parts weren't and it was all clunky. I'd rather just flat out tell you all how something is likely to go down based on IC knowledge than represent it through numbers.
Too many dice.
Also, inconsistency. You were slightly underperforming in standard rolls which is actually fine IMO but one of the biggest problems which appeared was when you performed, you overperformed to the point of being ludicrous through a feedback effect I did not foresee where you give the flight a bonus, with the bonus they roll high enough to give you a bonus, so you give them a higher bonus etc.
Like, I'm sure I could wrassle the numbers back into order with IF/ELSE but it's already convoluted to the point where it was a nuisance to work out.
Avalanche
Atypical Netizen
- Location
- Australia
It is capped, but bonuses at all essentially turned group combat into a one roll system where despite average and probability curves, as soon as one group rolled superior they basically can't lose due to group bonuses stacking with standard ones. With how much the bonuses intertwince with the rest of combat resolution I really CBF untangling that.
- Location
- Illinois
Slith10
Back from the dead and ready to party!
- Location
- New Zealand
I see no problems with Anna attaining exponential outcomes in combat.
Even if she can oneshot an Antagonist with her stored bagels.
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Unless getting involved in the mechanics and having the players play around with them is part of the intended game experience, the only reason to have mechanics in a quest is to make things easier for the GM to simulate.
If the mechanics are complicated enough to add to the workload instead (which often seems to be the case when GMs have to make up and balance a system from scratch to serve their purposes), they are utterly pointless and should probably just be discarded.
If you want to introduce randomness somehow, you only have to throw as few or as many dice as you feel simulate the appropriate level of variance and let the result influence whatever event you're rolling for as greatly or as negligibly as you feel it should.
Even if you feel the need to somehow convey relative strengths to the playerbase in an easily understandable manner, you're probably better off giving them a powerlevel-esque stat, a rough summary of strengths and weaknesses and a rough guideline to how different "powerlevels" have to be to lead to a onesided beatdown regardless of matchup.
If mechanics are going to stay behind the GM screen anyways, bothering with a complex system only makes much sense, if combat and stuff is going to happen often enough that you don't trust yourself to be consistent without one and don't want to bother checking your notes on how you've resolved similar situations whenever you write up another encounter.
Nidhoggr
Suletta Permetta
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Bagel Bombardment.
chocolote12
A Penguin Flailing Against The Keyboard Of Life.
- Location
- Anchorage, Alaska
Welp, I just blitzed through the story posts (plus some of the thread, and a bunch of omakes) and have decided that I have this to say:
The UN thinks that it's Valkyries inhabit the Real Robot Genre, when they, in point of fact, are from the Super Robot Genre. And I shall explain the difference with a metaphor/simile/comparison/literary-tool-I-can't remember the name of.
"But Dude-who-just-popped-in," I hear you ask, "why don't you just link to the relevent TVtropes pages?" I shall answer all that, +1, in LIFO order (it's an accounting term).
Third, I am not actually an accountant.
Second, I can't be bothered to figure out the linking tool (even if it is simple, I'm not trying)
First, the difference is that of the Romanticized Soldier, versus the Romanticized Warrior. The Soldier is, first and foremost, part of a greater whole. While this may not preclude them from achieving great feats, it is always to make way for the greater force that they are of a part of to push forward. Most agree that the real heroes are those who have died for the greater good.
In contrast, the Warrior, although they may fight beside fellow Warriors, will always be a force unto themselves. Each one strives to become a living legend, to become the greater force that pushes forward, into victory. The greatest of their heroes are those who lived, or died achieving a task that, quite literally, no one else could.
A Soldier's strength derives itself primarily from outside forces, but a Warrior is empowered by their own strength. Note that Durga and Anna may no longer exist as wholly separate entities, as opposed to other Valkyries, who spend at least some time disconnected from their cores.
The UN thinks that it's Valkyries inhabit the Real Robot Genre, when they, in point of fact, are from the Super Robot Genre. And I shall explain the difference with a metaphor/simile/comparison/literary-tool-I-can't remember the name of.
"But Dude-who-just-popped-in," I hear you ask, "why don't you just link to the relevent TVtropes pages?" I shall answer all that, +1, in LIFO order (it's an accounting term).
Third, I am not actually an accountant.
Second, I can't be bothered to figure out the linking tool (even if it is simple, I'm not trying)
First, the difference is that of the Romanticized Soldier, versus the Romanticized Warrior. The Soldier is, first and foremost, part of a greater whole. While this may not preclude them from achieving great feats, it is always to make way for the greater force that they are of a part of to push forward. Most agree that the real heroes are those who have died for the greater good.
In contrast, the Warrior, although they may fight beside fellow Warriors, will always be a force unto themselves. Each one strives to become a living legend, to become the greater force that pushes forward, into victory. The greatest of their heroes are those who lived, or died achieving a task that, quite literally, no one else could.
A Soldier's strength derives itself primarily from outside forces, but a Warrior is empowered by their own strength. Note that Durga and Anna may no longer exist as wholly separate entities, as opposed to other Valkyries, who spend at least some time disconnected from their cores.
On one hand, because of genre conventions, this will almost certainly be true for Koujirou.
But on the other hand, the UN is right. The actions of a single person enabled the greater force to achieve a massive victory, in comparison to their personal actions. In the grand scheme of things, Sekhmet was only one Type-Zero, and only a class C. In the grand scheme of things, a single minor breach is a great victory, but the offensive destroyed three.
- Location
- Leeds
Doesn't that just mean we've acceptably simulated an anime, in which people are so inspired by another persons actions they stand up and do something inspiring themselves.
The Friendship Feeedback.