I like settings where the players can play parties from all kinds of factions. I’ve seen 'em roll up members of the same cult their last party faught against etc. This isn’t a complete answer but just one more li’l contribution to the thought palette around this.

What I did was use tokens for inspiration and saying “you can have as many as you want and then cash in all of them to get advantage”. That worked well.

I think this is spot on and I overall dislike the game. One thing that I am a li’l bit interested in is the hitpoints system which seems like a good mix of Fate stressboxes with D&D damage.

The amount of incoming damage can go to certain thresholds and that has different consequences (both symbol-layer mechanical and diegetic). I think that’s neat and I’m glad to see that experiment carried further.

How much gold is in that hoard?

Wow, I had missed that. That’s not good. I mean, CR gets criticized for their “shopping episodes” (even though my own group is even more extreme in that regard) so maybe that’s to address that? Diaspora, for example, just has a “recourses” roll instead of detailed accounting of space credits, and it seems to work well in the context of that game.

How far does that bandit run?

I don’t think that’s a fair characterization; range bands is trued and tested tech. Cartesian spatialization is overkill for most game groups.

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There’s a lot of extreme content on the Fediverse (such as harassment).

I love DWIM ♥

So often I find myself humming http://www.poppyfields.net/filks/00029.html (even though that’s an anti-Interlisp song, I just love the “superlisp” part).

Not sure. There’s a lot of kinda creepy stuff on here 😰

Absolutely did not expect that take from Reason.

It usually happens because a character died and that player started over with a new level-one character.

@smeg @dndnext

If D&D had only been a series of fights, it would’ve been the same thing, but the revolt happened when one char was doing fun fun village stuff and exploring and social interaction while the other char was healing up from bloody wounds in an inn bed for a week. I think they were only like three or four levels apart.

Now we use https://idiomdrottning.org/oh-injury instead for our HP realism purps. (Basically HP is fatigue/hope/destiny.)

@smeg @dndnext

I’ve tried it! The players revolted because I was running mixed-level parties and this system exacerbated the issues inherent in that (low-level chars need to rest more often than high-level chars in the same environment).

@smeg @dndnext

Aber das gilt nur für stabile Paare und Polyküle. 🤷🏻‍♀️

It was such a awesome storyline though! Def made me interested in the game (but probably gonna skip it after all since I don’t think I like these kinds of games).

It’s good that it’s a concluded S1 storyline since a lot of us still have a lot of catching up left to do of Discovery. I just started S02E08.

@RootBeerGuy @startrek

https://idiomdrottning.org/call-your-girlfriend

This is so awesome! Raises the bar of doing a lot with a little.

I forgot to add the best part which was the Ra game itself.

@reverse bought out early and had no sun discs left. Our other friend had only one, and it was the lowest remaining disc, a three. I had the highest three remaining discs.

But Ms. Disc Three refused to invoke, just pulled tile after tile, and finally we had a full action table. It’s pretty good, but Ra’s boat is on the middle of the field. I figure I can get three times as much as her if let her have it, so I do.

I have the run of the board.

And immediately pull three Ra in a row and die. I ended up dead last, and @reverse actually won the game. I got played 🤦🏻‍♀️ I love Ra!

@dpunked

I played Ra, Blood on the Clocktower (not sure that counts as a “game” but we had fun👍🏻), and some more Sail. Sail is so great. Ra is good too but as we were packing up the game some anti-boardgame people came up, being jerks to us.

And also I played some Magic which I am so sick of.

One thing in the Lucky Duck’s edition’s favor (not sure if it’s enough) is the card art, which I prefer.

@thewitchofcalamari @boardgames

Sounds super fun! However, the disparity is mostly out of combat*, and this doesn’t fix that.

That said, in our 5e #boatmode game the cleric is vastly outclassing the fighter even inside of combat with like a 2½ times higher DPR. (Well, we have two clerics, two fighters, and an assassin, but I meant best cleric & best fighter.)

@macmacfire @dndmemes

The way it collapses leaves & joins in those screenshots seems like it could get annoying; we don’t need to see every leave and join, but it’s good to see when someone who has been among the most recent people talking leave.
Maybe it already does that. 💁🏻‍♀️

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