Battles being decided via dice rolls and available plans being decided via dice rolls seems uh..well, like a recipe for guaranteed salt storms frankly.
Putting aside personal distaste for Dice in Quests(ultimately whatever vote wins doesn't matter, just the dice roll so why bother engaging?) with how often Chaldea had to overcome overwhelming odds and how we were a single roll away from losing Rits and Hanako on two different occasions in the Prologue Singularity alone the long term viability of the system seems questionable.
It
is one occasion. I draw up the scenarios, looked at the timetable, and found that with some time passing, Romani
might be able to fine-tune the plans in what is practically a crisis emergency deployment scenario where opportunities come where they may while everything — Fuyuki
and Chaldea — is still burning.
He failed, and that's that.
And yes, I understand the personal distaste in dice but well, here's the thing with that particular complaint.
[] [MEDEA] Fully commit her attention to cure Olga Marie's affliction. The undivided attention of one of the most accomplished Magus from the Age of Gods will allow her to survive past the Rayshift back to Chaldea...and perhaps more.
[] [MEDEA] Only commit half her attention on Olga Marie. As much as completely curing the Director is a thing to accomplish, their battle against the Blackened Servants takes precedent:
-[] Focus half her attention on improving the combat capacity of the Masters. Allowing Hinako to leverage her melee prowess and making Ritsuka less of a combat liability and supporting of the team is a good idea.
-[] Focus half her attention on replenishing herself. Without Master and pitted against three hostile Servants and one Executor, Medea managed to force a fighting retreat. A full-powered Medea, in prime fighting conditions would be even greater, as befitting of her fame.
The voters then
traded Age of Gods armaments for having Olga Marie be in the best possible shape. I can tell flat out that the Yorokobe Interrupt wouldn't be
as Ritsuka-ending or the Duel wouldn't be
as close as it was had Medea went and made Hinako a set of swords to match her Servant version in-game (with 100% less blood attacks) or if Ritsuka had been given a power armour — because that's apparently how Ancient Greeks roll around — or any number of esoteric charms that makes cause of death by a smiling priest drop to 0%
Point is, my QMing method revolves on three things — something
@Lykantos inferred. Plans, opportunity costs, and the roll of the dice. If you have good plans and made the right calls, the roll of the dices takes a backseat to the narratives — more so than usual anyway, a Nat 100 by Billy wouldn't kill Berserker even if he rolled a Nat 1. If you made the right calls and rolled well, but the plan was bad even taking to account of the fog of war, then that's good fortune. If you have good plans and dice but failed to balance things properly, then well, the repercussions of those calls are going to be mitigated.
Of course, this means you Questers need to get two of three right at the least. If you get one of three, expect
some lasting complications. If you don't get any... well, let's not cross that bridge if we can.
Also update's at 1.1K word long, will write more once I actually wake up properly.
