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Jovian Chronicles D6
I decided to give JCD6 its own downloads page, as Iām thinking of revisiting it sometime soon. Mainly expanding on some rules, revising the current mechanical catalog, adding more Exos from various sources, and finally getting into capital ships.
Iām not gonna give an ETA, since the ideas are just simmering for now, but soonā¦ soonā¦
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Well, that was fun.
So itās been well over a year since I last worked on the Dragonballs in the Vineyard project. To be frank, as much fun as it was to try to build a narrative based DBZ RPG based on the rules system from Dogs in the Vineyard, I just lost interest towards the end. And with Superās premier and completely turning the setting and power scale on its head, well, I just donāt feel like revisiting allā¦
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Updates: Relationships, Escalation, and Arenas
Updates: Relationships, Escalation, andĀ Arenas
Relationships have been clarified to express that unused dice can be used to establish new relationships. The Arenas of conflict have been changed, now theyāre based around the severity of oneās intent rather than the amount of effort/power one is fighting with. Talking remains the same, physical now includes fighting without the intent of doing harm or killing, like sparring or a sports match,ā¦
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Update: Ki
A few days ago I rewrote how Powers work, then rewrote them again after coming across an excellent idea from Evil Hat. Hereās a rundown of how powers work now: Powers are bonus dice to a Raise or See. Normally, on a Raise you describe your actions and put forward two dice (or numbers if youāre writing the results down) from your conflict pool (if you donāt have enough dice, you can put forwardā¦
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Dragonball Z RPG? Why?
Dragonball Z RPG?Ā Why?
So I kind of answered this already, but I can imagine a lot of people see things like my DBZ hack, and other attempts at DBZ RPGs, and ask themselves āwhy?ā Well, why not? No seriously though, I guess you could come up with a number of reasons why I and others would do such a thing. 1) Itās fun. Doing creative things is fun for some people. I like to mess around with RPG rules, I like trying toā¦
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Goodbye Tumblr
When someone gave me the idea to make a blog for anyone who wants to to follow my progress, someone suggested Tumblr for a free and easy to use site. Tumblr is also full of stupid, and I got sick of seeing stupid shit flooding my dash every time I logged in VERY fast. So here we are at WordPress. Luckly, WordPress lets you link accounts with Tumblr and import all posts from Tumblr as well, so theā¦
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Ki Redux
Ki Points have been added, and Powers have been revised for the hundredth time.
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When mining google for new ideas I came across this post by Lenny Balsera over at Evil Hat. I might adapt the ideas here into the powers/ki system and thus rewrite the rules YET AGAIN,
Hey look I did some things
Some changes were done:
Youāll see random strike-through text throughout the doc, thatās mainly for my own reference marking things that need to be revised or moved around.
Power Curve got changed slightly to cut down on dice buckets. Now the dice based on the difference only applies once and the stronger side gets a single bonus die during Escalation after that, of varying size depending on the strength difference.
You donāt spend points on powers anymore, they now work just like any other character trait with the exception of Fallout accumulation. They also have larger dice than before to make their use have more impact on the game. Ultimates now give d12s, and (for the time being) are the ONLY trait that will give d12s.
Ki points are separated from powers by default and are going in the optional rules, still working that out though. So any reference to spending power level has been removed or is marked for revising.
Reduced the GMās opposition dice for Training Conflicts from d10s to d8s, with some exceptions.
Added the Giving In and NPC Fallout rules from the revised/second printing of Dogs.
And some other random editing.
Thinking about what needs to be done.
I had actually written this hack a long time ago, and with the release of Xenoverse 2 and the ongoing DB Super series there seems to have been renewed interest in Dragonball based roleplaying in the gaming forums I visit often, and my drive to finish this thing is coming back as well.
So now itās time to think about what needs to be done.
1) Dogs tries to discourage escalating. Promoting it only as a ālast-ditchā effort for more dice if a conflict isnāt going your way. I need to think about how to change the risk/reward so that it doesnāt discourage it as much, while also keeping SOME element of risk. I think the system does a good job in discouraging starting conflicts at the all-out highest level on its own, at least, in that stat dice only come in when you escalate.
2) There might be too many sources of dice, and too many dice getting thrown. However on the other side of this once dice are rolled only the numbers on the face matter, and you donāt roll every single die you have access to at once, so perhaps just writing numbers down on paper chits solves this problem.
3) Power Levels, powers, and ki are getting revised AGAIN. I can do better, and simpler, than what I have now. My new plan involves turning the Power Curve into a pool of Ki points that can be drawn on for more dice while fueling ki powers. Iāll put it in a separate post just for my own sake.
4) Revise training. I need to remember what I was even doing with it in the first place and fix it from there.
5) Villains and NPCs. I should customize the various NPC rules from Dogs to create appropriate for DBZ villains and their minions.
6) I want to incorporate Towns and Demonic Influence in a way, but use them as a jumping off point to turn them into Sagas and Plot Intensity, or something like that. Either way thereās an idea in there somewhere that I could use, I just need to figure it out.
7) Adding stuff from Super. When I originally wrote this, Battle of the Gods had JUST come out, Resurrection F was still in the works, and Super wasnāt even a thing yet. So much has been added to the Dragonball lore now that I could/should take into account and add in. Maybe Iāll make it a separate add-on just to save myself some editing trouble.
And who knows what else Iāll find I need to revise or end up revising as I go. It sure would be nice to get some playtest feedback though (hint hint). (Ok, I kid, but it really would be nice. My home group has little to no interest in playing a DBZ RPG, so I canāt do it with a group myself yet.)
What is this?
Dragonballs in the Vineyard is a hack of the indy RPG āDogs in the Vineyardā by D. Vincent Baker and published by Lumpley Games. Except instead of Mormon inquisitor/paladins in the Wild West the players take the roles of superpowered martial artists defending the Earth from demons, aliens, androids, gods, other superpowered martial artists, and what ever else the GM can think up.
Pretty significant difference there, eh? Iāve been told that this idea is ridiculous and stupid by Dogs purists, and I agree, but still donāt care!
Dragonballs is quite a big departure from the standard Dogs game and maybe other Dogs hacks. The idea here is mainly to use the gameās dice system and mechanics of bidding for narrative control and negotiating the outcome regarding whatās at stake to write your own DBZ sagas and adventures.
I started writing this after several lengthy discussions on /tg/. I never liked most other DBZ RPGs and felt that every attempt to write mechanics that model megaton force punches and nuclear plasma laser beams being fired from the charactersā hands always ends in mediocrity or failure. They also almost always fail to capture the true essence of the larger than life fights tied with pro-wrestling-esque drama we see on the screen and feel like arcade fighting games on paper. Which isnāt necessarily a BAD thing, but I wanted to try something different!
What I wanted to try was something with a more ānarrativeā focus. Something where instead of the players throwing punches and dealing damage until one sideās life meter reaches 0, the players try to push the narrative in their favor and the megaton punches and plasma blasts only matter in regard how much weight they have on the overall narrative of the scene. DitVās mechanics focus on almost exactly that (minus the super ki powers), and I thought itād be fun to take on the challenge of doing the conversion.
Anyway, enough pretentious bullshit, hereās a google docs link to the game:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oTq1TU-_zMdTRR4IoJ9VXu5vvq4lzSm2GNZ1-tU6lvs/edit?usp=sharing
Thereās still quite a bit more work to be done before Iāll be satisfied with it, but itās (theoretically) playable in the current state. Iād love to get some feedback to help figure out what needs to be done and how.
By popular demand, here it is.
Well, maybe āpopularā is an exaggeration.