Cleature's trove

Hey i'm Clea ! Here i'll be talking about my main brainrots which are fantasy and games (ttrpg, videogame, boardgame, cardgame, you name it). Expect some opinions, some writings and even some nerdy maths shits.

[cleature]

Poussin-Ninja

Depuis qu’il n’était qu’un petit œuf, poussin-ninja a une seule et unique passion : les ninjas ! Il a vu tous les documentaires et tous les dessins animés sur le sujet. Il est incollable sur les ninjas. Si bien qu’à peine sorti de l’œuf, poussin-ninja, au lieu de picorer dans les pas de sa maman, se tressa un bandeau vert avec de l’herbe.

Pendant que les autres poussins apprenaient à devenir des poulets, poussin-ninja, quant à lui, apprit à lancer des graines super vite, à grimper partout et à faire des pirouettes. Il parvint même à aider le coq du poulailler à repousser un renard !

Pour cette raison, entre-autre, les autres poussins aimaient bien poussin-ninja et voulaient l’inclure dans leurs jeux. Mais poussin-ninja refusait de jouer à tourner en cercle ou à se poursuivre dans la basse-cour. Il voulait faire le ninja. Et refusait toute autre activité.

Petit à petit, les poussins cessèrent d’essayer d’inclure poussin-ninja : « S’il ne veut pas faire d’efforts pour passer du temps avec nous, tant pis ! ». Aucuns n’avaient essayés de faire des choses de ninja avec poussin-ninja, cela avait l’air bien trop sérieux.

Alors, poussin-ninja commença à s’isoler un peu plus. Les autres l’acceptaient, mais lui ne parvenait pas à échanger avec eux. Ils n’étaient pas des ninjas et poussin-ninja ne comprenait pas leur intérêt pour les graines et les herbes, les œufs et les autres.

Le temps passant et poussin-ninja devint poulet-ninja, sûrement le meilleur ninja de la basse-cour, et le seul. Il s’était entraîné aussi durement qu’il était seul, donc vraiment beaucoup. Et pendant ce temps, les autres poussins, devenus poules et coqs et vivants leurs vies épanouis et ensemble, se demandaient parfois où était poussin-ninja.

Poulet-ninja, en ce rendant compte de toutes ces différences, se sentit triste. Il n’avait jamais accepté de faire les jeux de ses frères et sœurs, pas une fois. Et maintenant, il venait de comprendre que c’était trop tard.

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Is there any ttrpg system saying : "Player characters are very capable and only held back by their emotions sometime" to justify frequent successes and occasionnal failures ?

I don't really like the idea of attributes as they often are depicted.

In an unreal world, why not acknowledge that anyone is very able in body in mind, minor inpairements which could be affecting them (i like to depict those in meaningful ways if i can), and test whether or not their feelings are in the right place to test whether or not they'd manage to handle a task ?

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Masks does something similar, maybe? But it is a PbtA game.

Since it's a superhero game, it addresses that the players are generally capable of the things they're doing: unless the check would be dramatic you can mostly assume you can just do it.

Its Labels (how it calls stats) are based on social perception and introspection instead of being inherent properties of themselves.

And since it's a game about teens, getting emotional is part of the game as Conditions, which function as debuffs and drama engines of sort.

The rolls of the system are made in such a way that you will, on average, get at least a partial success while Conditions will shift that percentage towards failure.

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Was just going to mention Masks.

Sure, your character has super strength. And under normal circumstances, you probably could throw that car. But last night at the dance, your crush said something about you that you overheard. Something about you being kinda scary looking, but you’ve always been a sweetheart and never cause undue collateral damage and that they really appreciated that about you.

So now you’re in your head. If you throw the car, will they still like you? What if you hurt someone? Will she think you’re a monster? Maybe you shouldn’t throw the car. And while you’re hesitating, The Strong Force throws a whole bus at you. Oops.

(Influence, shift danger down, mundane up. Followed by a failed roll and a “Take a powerful blow”)

[cleature]

Is there any ttrpg system saying : "Player characters are very capable and only held back by their emotions sometime" to justify frequent successes and occasionnal failures ?

I don't really like the idea of attributes as they often are depicted.

In an unreal world, why not acknowledge that anyone is very able in body in mind, minor inpairements which could be affecting them (i like to depict those in meaningful ways if i can), and test whether or not their feelings are in the right place to test whether or not they'd manage to handle a task ?

[fofoculox-deactivated20250915]

Masks does something similar, maybe? But it is a PbtA game.

Since it's a superhero game, it addresses that the players are generally capable of the things they're doing: unless the check would be dramatic you can mostly assume you can just do it.

Its Labels (how it calls stats) are based on social perception and introspection instead of being inherent properties of themselves.

And since it's a game about teens, getting emotional is part of the game as Conditions, which function as debuffs and drama engines of sort.

The rolls of the system are made in such a way that you will, on average, get at least a partial success while Conditions will shift that percentage towards failure.

[cleature]

Is there any ttrpg system saying : "Player characters are very capable and only held back by their emotions sometime" to justify frequent successes and occasionnal failures ?

I don't really like the idea of attributes as they often are depicted.

In an unreal world, why not acknowledge that anyone is very able in body in mind, minor inpairements which could be affecting them (i like to depict those in meaningful ways if i can), and test whether or not their feelings are in the right place to test whether or not they'd manage to handle a task ?

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It may also allows for easier handling of socials tests as those are often well linked to feelings imho.

[cleature]

Is there any ttrpg system saying : "Player characters are very capable and only held back by their emotions sometime" to justify frequent successes and occasionnal failures ?

I don't really like the idea of attributes as they often are depicted.

In an unreal world, why not acknowledge that anyone is very able in body in mind, minor inpairements which could be affecting them (i like to depict those in meaningful ways if i can), and test whether or not their feelings are in the right place to test whether or not they'd manage to handle a task ?

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I'm contemplating the idea of a game system for social encounter in TTRPG. It's hard.

Social interactions with NPC are a huge part of many TTRPG sessions, but i feel like big social encounter relies to much on sass, rizz and the good will of the GM. It's putting the shyest players on the bench or make everything be solved with a single "charisma" dice roll.

Why not have a tool to use when the encounter is too important to have some player put aside or to just rely on the outcome of a dice roll ?

Sadly, i don't know many games which have even a small bit of social game mechanic.

Burning Wheel have a tool which allows player to reenate arguments similars to a political debate with several back and forth between two oppositions. Funnily enough, it works in a very similar fashion to their range and cover appendice about range combat. And i think it's not that far from the perceived truth about debates and arguments in media. But by being this close to combat mechanics, it poorly reflect the lingering effects social interactions have on peoples and make them look like bargain and not really anything much.

I also like what Dungeon Bitches tries to do with links. The way it can affect outcomes between both players and NPCs while taking roots in social aspect of living with a chosen community. It also allows to explore how trauma create links between a victim and their aggressor, and the impact such link can have on someone. It's a great and very light mechanic which allows to not neglect how social interactions truly behaves. But its easy to overlook and not really made to handle your everyday market bargain.

Its hard to reach a conclusion, really.

I know that there are some other game which try to handle this topic of social encounters but i don't know them well yet and so i feel like i don't know enough games to make a correct picture of this topic.

Do you know any good/interesting TTRPG/boardgames about social encounters ?