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Shining is cooler than search.
Saiga already has exploration covered.
Time of the Gods: Into the Amber Age
- Thread starter Powerofmind
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Shining is cooler than search.
Saiga already has exploration covered.
Powerofmind
In Madness Fallen
- Location
- United States
You will. I've marked it already after commenting that it exploded kicked that part of my brain into working again. My rules are personal=over 100, blessings nat 20 only due to the number of blessings you can roll compared to the cost of actual personal acts.
I must have accidentally counted extra zeroes from getting stuck on percent with the extra 100.
Otherwise, I was specifically impressed by the consecutive nature of the dice. If it wasn't in order, I would probably not be quite as impressed, though it would still be mind-bogglingly silly.
I wish; I have a job to get to tomorrow. And the day after that. And the day after that. And the day after that.
Godwhyismonday?
Pandemonious Ivy
Panties, Revolution. Big Drawers. Parachute.
Come to the deep with us and Gaerig, she'll comfort you. Somehow. Probably by turning you into a silver man.
[X] You must shine a light in the dark!
StellarMonarch
Myrmidon
- Location
- Québec
So the best human thingamajig reminded me of something.
So my best friend -call him Alex-, comes from Eastern Europe, mainly Romanian. Kind of hot, brown hair, pretty smart. Plays Overwatch and Elsword. So it's the beginning of the school year and he's like "You'll never believe it."
He got confessed to. Twice. By two of the prettiest girls in the year. Brazilian (who's a friend of mine) and Colombian. The Brazilian one left it at that, but the Colombian one became his girlfriend. Alex still gushes whenever she so much as kisses him and -it's disgustingly sweet- they hold hands in class and touch each other's hair.
So in October, Alex is like, "[Best girl] confessed to me and [gf] found out. She's really mad at me. Halp."
So we start talking about relationship stuff and he really looked distressed. Next day? "Ha, she knew but she wasn't mad. I was just fucking with you!"
And guess what. His last name?
Fortuna. 'Luck'.
So. Best human? I'm calling him Furtun -Fortune- now.
Headcanon locked.
So my best friend -call him Alex-, comes from Eastern Europe, mainly Romanian. Kind of hot, brown hair, pretty smart. Plays Overwatch and Elsword. So it's the beginning of the school year and he's like "You'll never believe it."
He got confessed to. Twice. By two of the prettiest girls in the year. Brazilian (who's a friend of mine) and Colombian. The Brazilian one left it at that, but the Colombian one became his girlfriend. Alex still gushes whenever she so much as kisses him and -it's disgustingly sweet- they hold hands in class and touch each other's hair.
So in October, Alex is like, "[Best girl] confessed to me and [gf] found out. She's really mad at me. Halp."
So we start talking about relationship stuff and he really looked distressed. Next day? "Ha, she knew but she wasn't mad. I was just fucking with you!"
And guess what. His last name?
Fortuna. 'Luck'.
So. Best human? I'm calling him Furtun -Fortune- now.
Headcanon locked.
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Fair enough. If you count the fact that they were consecutive, then we only get to peel a factor of x6 instead of x2002, so that result looks like one in a hundred million maybe?
I took a sick day today 'cause I had a cold. That's probably up Gaerig's alley.
@Powerofmind - a suggestion. If you are planning a rework of the EA system soon, then tieing the rule change with us arriving back from this excursion can be a neat idea.
Abby Normal
High Clerk of the Ymaryn
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Character sheet is updated, and i learned three things:
-1: We will not be getting the info on the other spirits just yet
-2: Spirit of Hunters has been changed (fixed?); now the bonuses apply to inherent animal traits, not regular ones.
-3: size tags are little time bombs when you're quoting things...
-1: We will not be getting the info on the other spirits just yet
-2: Spirit of Hunters has been changed (fixed?); now the bonuses apply to inherent animal traits, not regular ones.
-3: size tags are little time bombs when you're quoting things...
That is so much less broken that I have no words.
Though honestly I feel like it might be too situational now. A strong bonus plus an automatic success against a tiny number of people, and no bonus against anyone else? It feels like it would either be completely useless or super-powerful depending on who you were facing.
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A strong bonus and a success is really powerful in this system...give me a sec, i'm about to take a break on hw anyway*, so i'll modify my python script for this quest and figure out the chances on that.
*Homework that involves autograding code that takes minutes to run is much less annoying when i have this thread to check while im checking each iteration of code
Van Ropen
Angry, angry about elves.
Nah, only 1 in 7.5 billion.
Only.
tfw no Aspect of the Disco Ball
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@PrimalShadow Now that i stopped being an idiot ("Why isn't my output changing when i change this part of the-oh. This is the method i took this section from to use it in the new method, not the new method... *facepalm*"), some stats.
Bear in mind that this is with very quickly written code, so there may be bugs--but the results look right, both the ones i'm sharing and the roll lists i made and printed while debugging:
An even roll (no strong mods, same skill mod) has a 39.61% - 20.78% - 39.61% Win - Tie - Loss ratio (remember, ties in opposed checks are any within 10 points of the other roll)
A roll with a free success (or 10 more skill points, etc--+20 Weak mod, by any means) has a 59.29% - 16.51% - 24.20% W-T-L Ratio, a major jump.
A roll with a +1 strong modifier but the same weak mod has a 45.82% - 20.72% - 33.46% W-T-L ratio, still a big jump, but not anywhere near as big.
A roll with +1 strong and +20 weak (so hunter spirit against an equal melee animal spirit) has: 65.58% - 15.09 % - 19.33% W-T-L ratio. Still not guaranteed, but at higher avatar levels the greater wounds and wound thresholds means that unlucky roll won't kill you--and remember that these are just plan "who gets at least one success" numbers, that don't take into account how many degrees of successes each difference is.
Incidentally, the strong bonus from god tier, depending on if its a +2 to the strong spirit or a -2 to the weaker, gives:
+2 to stronger: 51.85% - 20.42% - 27.73% W-T-L
-2 to weaker: 52.32% - 19.75% - 27.93% W-T-L
(Assuming equal skill and no other mods)
Bear in mind that this is with very quickly written code, so there may be bugs--but the results look right, both the ones i'm sharing and the roll lists i made and printed while debugging:
An even roll (no strong mods, same skill mod) has a 39.61% - 20.78% - 39.61% Win - Tie - Loss ratio (remember, ties in opposed checks are any within 10 points of the other roll)
A roll with a free success (or 10 more skill points, etc--+20 Weak mod, by any means) has a 59.29% - 16.51% - 24.20% W-T-L Ratio, a major jump.
A roll with a +1 strong modifier but the same weak mod has a 45.82% - 20.72% - 33.46% W-T-L ratio, still a big jump, but not anywhere near as big.
A roll with +1 strong and +20 weak (so hunter spirit against an equal melee animal spirit) has: 65.58% - 15.09 % - 19.33% W-T-L ratio. Still not guaranteed, but at higher avatar levels the greater wounds and wound thresholds means that unlucky roll won't kill you--and remember that these are just plan "who gets at least one success" numbers, that don't take into account how many degrees of successes each difference is.
Incidentally, the strong bonus from god tier, depending on if its a +2 to the strong spirit or a -2 to the weaker, gives:
+2 to stronger: 51.85% - 20.42% - 27.73% W-T-L
-2 to weaker: 52.32% - 19.75% - 27.93% W-T-L
(Assuming equal skill and no other mods)
Well, changing Inherent traits are difficult.
So it's a flat, massive bonus against:
-Inherent Animal trait spirits, which are a full quarter of the starting archetypes and also many Ascended Monsters. They will never stop being vulnerable.
-Any creature with an animal base, so that's most Monsters and Ur-Beasts, until spirits figure out how to make human, plant or elemental based ones.
The bonus is big enough that a maxed Melee Hunter spirit has a solid chance against a newly ascended Local Animal God. Assuming they didn't have Influence based stuff.
Niche yes, but it's a solid archetype.
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I didn't think of that; this does make the trait less sporadic. Having a reliable bonus to killing Monsters is a reasonably useful thing.
Basically, we make horrifying abominations and Saiga puts them down if they become a problem for our people, Legend for us both.
- Location
- USA
[X] You must shine a light in the dark!
StellarMonarch
Myrmidon
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- Québec
Tally please?
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High Clerk of the Ymaryn
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Vote Tally : Original - Time of the Gods: Into the Amber Age | Page 282 | Sufficient Velocity
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[X] You must shine a light in the dark!
No. of Votes: 22
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Ando Owen
Athas
Azel
Edkose
Mannan
mc2rpg
MrGazzer
Mrl567
ninjafish
Olgol2
paintedspear
Pandemonious Ivy
Pyran
Quest
Raising Kittens
StellarMonarch
Terrabrand
TotallyNotEvil
Vanguard_D
veekie
Void Stalker
[X] You must search!
No. of Votes: 6
Sivantic
Captain Spatula
Darkcrest
drake_azathoth
lioli
Yorick's Skull
[X] You must shine a light in the darkness.
No. of Votes: 2
Dream Logic
zeusthemoose
Total No. of Voters: 30
22 Light, 6 Search, 2 people who didn't copy-paste
- Location
- Canada
Naw, it means that our voters are too chicken to stick their avatars out into random dark places where anything can exist. /idiotbullytalk
I voted for this as I thought it was the most likely 'wander the time-stream' option.
I would like to Peggy-Sue in a single quest. It would be extra silly, especially as it would give hilariously few actual benefits (relative to traditional Peggy-sue-dom).
I voted for this as I thought it was the most likely 'wander the time-stream' option.
I would like to Peggy-Sue in a single quest. It would be extra silly, especially as it would give hilariously few actual benefits (relative to traditional Peggy-sue-dom).