General Chat

Sorry to hear that. But no worries.
I heartily recommend you take the chance to try it live, if you get the opportunity. It works so much better in that medium.

I have been looking at custom making system using Psi*Run, and just now found and am reading this article by Vincent Baker about Otherkind Dice, but that also struggles a bit from the pre- and post-roll discussion issues (though a bit less so on the pre-) so I am steering clear of it if I can find another system to fit the idea.
Maybe stay on then, and we fade Miles to the background until you have time? I would hate to lose you, I was enjoying what you brought to the table, and you would be welcome in any future games I run regardless of how this goes.

Don't feel pressure to keep up with this, or to make time to post, though. Take care of your real life stuff first, and good luck with your studies.
Not a big deal, the timing was not the worst. :)

Thanks for letting us know .
We can assume Miles is scouting ahead, or off taking care of whatever offscreen stuff needs his particular expertise. There is no need to make mention of it, that way we don't define anything now, leaving us open to work out the details if he comes back.

Do we want to add another player?

There was some interest, and I said I would ask.

Feel free to PM me with answers, even if they oppose anything said here.

I'm leaving the game to open a spot for another player, I'll watch how the game unfolds. Thanks everyone for having me! Have fun.

We have lost our hacker, and are down to two PCs.

Do we want to continue with the game? (we can assume we got what we need from 'the guy in the chair'.)

It may just be my interpretation, based on friends relaying their experiences etc., but the hook for this system/SRD was the crew/heist/flashback to how we have what we need sorta thing--like The Lies of Locke Lamora or Oceans 11.

Being down to two people feels like it'd put a damper on that further 😕

I think I'm OK calling it a day and acknowledging it was a good playtest, unless you two are really set on continuing.

Largely, yes.
Those were good books.
I would not have wanted to start with only two, it is not in an ideal number for BitD, but I also think we can muscle through with a virtual hacker. We can say we are close to the goal and focus on the characters we have.
I don't mind calling it. I will probably save my BitD games for the few times I get to play live (not PbP).

Yeah I don't know much about the system, but that is a fair point. I'm ok either way. I'm very busy this month, so that could free some time for the other games. But, to be fair, the game pace has not been very demanding so far.

To be fair it was supposed to be a 1 post per day game, and I suspect the slow pace has contributed to the decline. The system really does benefit from lots of engagement.
We could look at this again next month, if we are still thinking about it? But a clean break may be best?

Yeah, we didn't get too far and picking it up in a month... it would probably be best to just restart. I was looking forward to the moment E. would dramatically die but this is how PbP works xD

I'm still not completely sure how everything works, but I thought the threat and effect idea is nice. Maybe it can be somehow be adapted to work better for PbP.

I think I agree. We can do a restart if we ever decide to try it again. But there are other Cyberpunk systems that are better suited for PbP.
Yeah. The scenario ended up a little wonky --what with losing relevant defining PCs right after the start and other factors-- and may not have been ideal --I am still not sure how I would have brought the Hunted bits into play, and there was limited option for 'social' (though the group did say they preferred social, and then went off and made Ranged Combat as the highest stat:), but... anyway.
It really is a system that rewards experience. The more familiar the players are with the various mechanics the smoother it runs. I do think that if I try to do FitD in PbP again I will be more emphatic about only doing it with people with experience. It just takes too long to get that experience playing PbP, so I am happy to teach it in live game where it takes a session or two to get somewhat familiar, but in PbP that will take years to get up to speed.
It is a nice simplified rendition of Blades' Position and Effect and is much easier to understand and to bring into play. It may be a little bit too simple, there were a few points where I found it limiting, and was forced to follow certain formulas --where in Blades I had more freedom with the outcomes-- but I think I will steal some elements of it for regular Blades.
I was hopeful that this simplified system might do that, but regular Blades in the Dark is a Swiss-Clock type system, where all the bits work together and trying to use them without all the rest is hard. Even the very setting is so tightly integrated into the way the mechanics work that I have not found many Forged in the Dark games that successfully separate Dokvol from the rules.

ahah I wanted the silent guy on the back and went off and got the baby-sitter's job xD