[OOC] The Out of Character Lounge

Please, do not hesitate to correct me on my English if need be.

@TheGenerator That's a clever tip. Thanks!

I figured it was some kind of urban slang or pop culture thing. From an outsider's perspective seem pretty mean.. but I know reality television is all about silly exaggerated drama I suppose.

You speak very well @YullyBear. Okay, no problem.

Happy to help :)

Yes, Gordon Ramsey's insults have become a bit of a meme. It's 'his thing'. They are definitely very mean, but I guess people know what to expect when going on a show with him?

How's everyone's week so far?

Can't complain. Getting over being sick. Busy day today, but the weekend is in sight :)
How about you?

Went by fast. People are going back into our office for the first time in 2 years next week. We're supposed to help everyone with their equipment. Expect it's going to be crazy :-\ In the meantime, weekend sounding good :-)

I did exactly that 3 weeks ago 😅

On my side, people are back only 2 days a week since last September or October, cannot exactly remember; the rest o the week we work from home.

Long, week -- on the road for work and loads of extra-curricular events with teams I haven't seen in a long time. Sorry to be slow. Catching up this weekend!

Totally fine.

No worries :) thanks for the heads up

So this branching path we are all faced with? Could I do something mechanical here with maybe my High Aspect?

I was thinking perhaps the "guided by father's spirit" or "skilled ranger" would be appropriate, if only to confirm the tarot card reading. As far as mechanics, I'm tempted to think that drawing a tarot card as well as getting a hunch from a spirit guide could just be role played for free in this case -- since aspects are "always true."

But if any of you wanted to go deeper than that and try to actually detect tracks (the type of creature tracks) or get nature lore about exactly what might lie ahead on each path, then that could warrant an actual dice roll (and then stunts and/or invoking aspects with fate points could add bonuses.)

Please bear with me as we work our way through the mechanics the first few times :-)

EDIT: For example, if you wanted to "detect tracks", then I suspect your stunt could apply (roll fate dice on sneaky (+2) and then another +2 for the stunt)

@Harrigan is familiar with Fate mechanics and he's welcome to advise us here as well.

As a side note: My tarot card was not meant as an action to find the correct way forward. It's only the path Ivario is guided to. This might be the wrong way, but it could contain something of interest :) It could also just be the less dangerous path.
That's why I didn't ask to roll anything.

I've been thinking about the mechanics of fortune telling. If Ivario could look into the future, he would be able to see the party taking the left or right path. But he would have no way of knowing if that was the correct choice. He can only see the choice that was made. I think it wouldn't be much fun if he knew the answer to everything.
I hope that makes sense to everyone :)

Checking if I understand the rules correctly.
Would it be an "Overcome" action to find the right way?

Edit: And you would just roll without a counter-roll from the GM. If it's 0 or more it succeeds?

Sounds perfect. I expect there can be a lot of simple acts of role play that don't require a roll.
Sounds good to me. Probably can't go too far into the future. Any attempts to go further ahead in time and the results would get fuzzier, the target number harder. And you would probably never be 100 percent sure of what you think you saw anyway.
I also think Overcome makes the most sense since we're trying to overcome the inconvenience of twisty trails in the forest.

Actually I would set a difficulty (target number) on the ladder depending on how hard I think the specific task is. I haven't decided yet if I should generally tell this number in advance or keep it secret. Maybe just a matter of style? EDIT: I'll probably announce the target number most of the time.

Fate's meant to be a very open and collaborative game -- I can't think of a single instance when you shouldn't announce the difficulty up front. Players are allowed to spend Fate Points after the fact to increase their results, and remember that the results are not binary -- there's discussion and decisions to make about failing vs. succeeding at major cost and the like...

Thanks @Harrigan. That makes sense. I also noticed back in Fate Core, it has a box about "when you tell them the difficulty, justify the choice."

@All Allowing some time for everyone to catch up. I'll post IC tomorrow (most likely.) Thanks everyone.