I would stop using rolls for general outcomes for one having us roll against the world and the world working on narrative logic, at least in these sections and for two I have us roll against a set of dc's That determine outcome rather than roll opposed . Making the rolls and outcomes more consistent .
This would also apply here
Yeah, as a result of all of our prepwork. Now the prepwork has gone bust, Hultressa is no longer with us and Natasha is getting tortured by proxy, which is guaranteed to be another modifier. Oh, and we have no time for making new prepwork. Meaning that the next attempt is going to be even more dice dependent then this one. Joy.
Yes, I at least would. As for others I am not them so I cannot say,. But I think the outcome would be less likely to be as swingy and more importantly torroar would would be more aware of chances for failure and success.
Kinda yes one bad roll we get in a spiral
There were a lot of complaints about that section too, an sufferered from some but not all of the problems here.
No one has said anything particularly negative about the man himself or his writting just the mechanics and their interface with the narrative
People didn't notice these things when things were going well or if they did they did not want to bring the mood down.
Irrelevant to the criticisms,. Time spent has nothing to with this, no one where is calling Torroar a hack.
I feel he is more answering a question then saying torr should change a mechanic here
This is Not really constructieve seeing all people are doing is airing out a frustration in a healty manner if you want a echo chamber just say so
It is not just about losing. It about the fact that this entire situation ultimately came down to random dice not player choice. And I am not just talking about this update.
Irrelevant and only makes my point still stand. It was because of constant rolling of dices only things throughout that Mountain that it led to too much bloat and necessary events that did not feel needed, but forced do to dice rolls before hand making it so that despite being locked away in a coma for several weeks Freddy helped fight off several Eshin assasins and go roaring back into the fight, when that made no sense narratively for a couple of eshin slaves to do, instead of just going after Magnus and try to kill him instead as he took over command of his father after getting eaten by a giant Squig.
This, I have nothing but respect and admiration to both the man and his work in writing, many times over. The only thing I am annoyed about that I am even bothering to keep talking off this late and long into the night and morning of my day, is where and when it feels dissatisfying to keep rolling over on things that neither need it, nor benefit from it outside of how it can effect the player's enjoyment over the work/update as a whole. And as far as I'm concerned, if your going to keep dice around like that in order to determine when it feels satisfy to stop off to make the audience feel informed or sufficent wowed with a particular emotion, then your going to run into problems very fast.
The option to do nothing was crossed out, but we did vote to prioritize speed over force, to split our forces between the Arks, to lead the fliers on their own rather than stick with the main force, and then to koolaid man into the Ark with only the other fliers for backup, at which point we got surrounded and captured. At every point we chose to up the risks and gamble for bigger payoff.
We could have, you know, played a PC that commands from the backline rather then fighting at the front against an enemy with a reputation of kidnapping people into their slave ships, if we didn't want to risk being kidnapped into their slave ships? When you make a point of fighting on the frontlines, there's a chance you will die, or as the case may be captured.
See that's the thing, the complaints about the dice come across as wanting to take away the quest's verisimilitude. Surprises and seemingly random chance are a thing. Being defeated is a thing. Someone's in Fredrick's situation, faced as he is with being captive on a Black Ark against powerful Druchii, being defeated and failing to escape is an entirely realistic outcome when faced with such opposition. It is the calls for the PC to seemingly, "narratively", be guaranteed a victory that come across as being opposed to verisimilitude.
Right, and much as there's nothing wrong with people wanting to express an opinion that things aren't working properly, there's also nothing wrong with people who think otherwise expressing an opinion that they disagree and that they like things the way they are.
