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zakuuu replied to your link “How To Design Death”

Goblin punch is da best! Arnold's stuff is inspiring and useful. :)

It’s definitely one of my top blogs to look at for inspiration, yeah.

Also Trilemma and Delta’s D&D, while I’m giving out recommendations.

I also don’t read other people’s play reports regularly, but I’ve been looking at the ones from the Vaults of Vyzor and the Tomb of the Serpent-Kings, though I haven’t been following the latter super-closely and the former is like two sessions behind. Coins and Scrolls’s descriptions of the workings of their fantasy feudalism are also interesting (and the contrast between “this is meant to grind you down like medieval feudalism” and “you can randomly roll that your character is an anthro crab” is also interesting).

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zakuuu replied to your post “The Usage Die system from the Black Hack seems interesting (seen while...”

I don't totally understand the appeal of this system. For things like wands with variable output it makes sense (so you don't know exactly how many uses remain) but not for arrows and the like. I'm cool with abstraction if it makes things easier, but I can't see rolling another die and checking the result, sometimes noting the die change on your sheet, as being faster than just noting another arrow used each time. Plus it downplays planning to an extent by adding uncertainty to the quantity.

A fair point; to be honest, tracking it with every arrow shot just sounds like a pain in the ass.

I’d like to have an abstract system that doesn’t make me worry about exactly how many arrows I have, but replacing “make a tick mark every time you shoot” with “roll a second die every time you shoot and sometimes make a tick mark” doesn’t make it simpler.

On a larger scale, like, if a quiver of arrows worked on a per-combat basis, I could see it being advantageous, and working in the assumption that you don’t know exactly how many arrows you shot.

Admittedly, a system like that would probably work better for automatic weapons than for arrows. Especially if retrieving your used arrows is a thing in the system.

The person I saw this from was using it for food and water for a long-term expedition, which seems off for the reasons you said. Maybe if your characters don’t actually know how to look at a pile of food and figure out how long it’d last them, but a competent quartermaster should be able to count off how much food and water they need for a journey of some number of days, assuming rot and rats stay out of their food.

It seems best-suited to light sources, I think. You can’t say exactly how long a torch will burn for, but you can give an estimate and know when it’s burning low. Admittedly, all the die rolling could get obnoxious.

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zakuuu replied to your post “Bad idea that emphasizes the idea that each class has an associated...”

Bad? This sounds like a legit campaign to me!

Well, every good idea starts with a bad idea at its core, then you chip away at the bad and dig it out.

As an add-on, it might even be that to gain 11th level you need to present yourself at a court (of your class) to be named a page, maybe you need to go to the central court (the emper(or/ess) holding court, or the biennial meeting of kings and queens) to be knighted for 12th, and then you have to do combat challenges for 13th and 14th.

Also at a significant (possibly historical, possibly current) King of Cups has to be named Arthur. Maybe he’s the last Emperor of Cups, and the specific cup from the regalia is lost and you have to find it.

Also, if you’re doing something tarot-themed, the Major Arcana have to play a part. Probably as titles of significant non-adventuring NPCs or minor deities, even, since they are outside of the system of PC classes.

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Birthday: November 30th BCE

Gender: Cisfemale

Sexuality: Boring and Uneventful

Height: 5'5"

Time Zone: Central Time

Time and Date Where You Are: September 8, 2014 and 9:09 p.m.

Average Hours of Sleep:  5 or 10 (there is no inbetween.) 

OTPs: SakuraXEveryone; AryaXTheManyFacedGod; A(Teachers) ∪ Eveyone

Last Thing I Googled: How long a win8 factory reset takes. (8-10 hours...)

First Word That Comes To Mind: Halcyon 

Last Thing Said to a Family Member: "I didn't die" -I'm a terrible driver in a big city, they need to know these things...

A Place That Makes You Happy and Why: The Lake House; It's a peaceful off the grid style family vacation spot. Nothing can reach you there; nor can your reach anyone that isn't in the immediate vicinity. The ULTIMATE zen. (Plus, I get to see hella family, which I'm for.)

How Many Blankets Do You Sleep Under: One in the summer, about 6 in the winter. 

Favorite Beverage: Craft beer or Liquorice tea.

Last Movie Seen In The Cinema: The Guardians of the Galaxy!

Advice for followers: If you wrap your knuckles like a boxer, the rate of you being street harassed falls dramatically. Drop poisonous people like they are hot and/or a threat to your happiness. Offering to time children is an effective tool to get them to eat vegetables. Know that sometimes people are terrible, but life is far worse without any people at all. 

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