Hey remember my fancomic of a TTRPG that hadn't even released yet a bit ago?
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Well! The first public playtest for that TTRPG, Crows: Fortune or Death! has been officially posted on the MCDM patreon.
For the aspirational Refs out there who want to run the playtest in Roll20, I've been at work making some tables and macros for that exact purpose! I'll admit I'm a novice at it, but I really wanted to get something functional.
What these macros do: automatically roll dice and have a popup option menu option so you can select what bonuses or proficiency you have, including weapon macros and rolls for basic tests. I'm working on stuff for Usage Dice and magic backlashes, but I wanted to get this basic set out first.
What these macros do not do: support for leveling up or playing at higher levels (yet?), automatically add any bonuses from traits, etc. For now, it also does not include Blessed damage increases.
The New Crow macro will require you to either have the Table Export script (only usable for paying Roll20 people with access to API scripts) or to manually make tables with the right names (capitalization matters!) and fill out content manually.
Macros for copy-pasting and references images below the break:
First up, the macros themselves! All of these but New-Crow should be as simple as copy-pasting them into a new macro on Roll20. These operate as "Selected Token" macros, so you're going to want to set up characters for the players to use with Attributes. I'd recommend making a "base" crow with these Attributes already set up that you can make duplicates of and give to control to players.
These are the three Attributes you'll need to give the characters. Capitalization matters.
The numbers in the Current box don't matter, as long as you follow the Character Creation rules from the playtest documents.
From there, the macros themselves. Again, these are set up as Token Actions, so after copying these into a new macro, you'll want to click
If you do this, the rolls will show up as options when a character Token is selected, and will roll using the Attributes for the sheet of that character.
With all of that set up: the macros themselves:
2-Handed-Melee
Melee-Attack
Ranged-Attack
Agility-Test
Mind-Test
Strength-Test
For the next set, you'll need to either manually fill out a Rollable Table with where all the entries are the Backgrounds from the playtest material, another for a selection of random names, and another for "masks" (this one is something for my personal setup where I'm having Crows wear masks matching one of the 5 gods of the setting for ease of making tokens with appearances that are very basic). Without these tables, New-Crow will be basically non-functional.
As before, capitalization is vital for the names of the tables.
New-Crow
If you have the Roll20 API script Table Export, you can import the tables below:
Backgrounds
name
mask
And lastly! Cards.
Roll20 has a Cards option! I'm still working out how I want to use the equipment that's equipped on the map, but if you want to make item cards for your Roll20 Crows playtest, I've brewed up card backings for your crows cards:
That's all I have for now. For now, best of luck out there in the Miasma...you'll need it.
Fortune or death!
I talk to basically everything as if it's a person. I greet passing crows as my "cousins." I respond conversationally to my cats. I yell "same to you!" when inanimate objects make loud noises. I say good morning to plants. I thank my phone when an alarm goes off. When objects don't act the way I want them to I explain what I need them to do, or tell them they're being rude. I tell my car when we're stopping for gas.
I reassure credit card readers who are struggling that I know they are doing their best. Bless you, you funky lil machine, I'm sorry my dad is part of the reason people hate you. :(
If an object looks like it's about to roll away or fall over I'll put it in its place and then raise my index finger and one eyebrow at it like it's a naughty child or a cat about to push a glass of water over, like "Ah ah ah! Stay where you are!" I did this to my groceries last week and the checkout lady saw me and said "That was adorable."
Every raven and crow I run into is automatically considered one of my friends and I always respond to their calls with stuff like "hmm yes, thank you for keeping me informed" or "Of course! Keep an eye on that for me, thanks" and whatnot
babelicious fairy: stay with me in my fairy realm of comfort and fuck crazy style on every surface.
Arthurian knight: no. I must maintain my chastity. I cannot lose focus on my purpose, which is killing hundreds or perhaps thousands of people for God and king and looking for a random holy relic that may or may not exist.
Writing a Draw Steel adventure set at a knight tournament and I'm following my heart (there are lady knights) (they are kissing sloppy style just off camera) (or just on camera if your Director is cool like me)
So was i the only person who had a specific somber life lesson where I was informed id need to learn to be alone forever or was that a special life lesson just for me
So I just got reminded I don't think I ever told this site about the one time back when I lived in Portland and trained a bunch of crows to be backup?
So basically I was a security guard (don't recommend it) and the site I was posted at, the office building where the newspaper offices for the Oregonian are at, and I just started like...feeding the crows hanging around the site on my patrols.
Anyway after a couple months of this, a guy gets up in my face screaming at me on a walk around the building at like 2am, and the crows just started like...gathering. Staring at the guy and cawing. Eventually he gets so spooked he runs off
so yeah crows are great and if if i ever end up in Portland again I know they've got my back
Getting what I'd consider a lot of likes on posts is honestly helpful to my mental state because if I ever feel unnoticed and unliked I know I just have to draw a funny mustache on a webcomic man and the likes will flow like a river
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