[OOC] The Out of Character Lounge

Yeah. Setting difficulties can be a bit of black magic. I have some go-bys I use in my own games that I won't share just yet -- don't want to influence you unduly on this stuff...

@YullyBear, I'm a bit confused about your character's love/hate relationship with bears. So Beartrand is scared of bears, right? But you say
So, do you mean that our characters think that you Beartrand likes bears even though he does not?

If so, I will have Ivario ask Beartrand about it.

Yes when he is scared it looks like he is brave and want to go forward, a sort of a way to hide his fear.

So he is very scare of bears, but it looks like he's eager.

Ah, got it :) Thanks!

Is Ivario in range to hear the Ferryman's question?

I suspect so, that you're all near one another.

Late here now, but I'll post tomorrow :)

No problem. Sleep well! :)

Maybe Innis has heard the Ferryman mutter to himself about something he needs? If it's ok, I'll try a roll. Mostly just to see how rolling works in this system ;)

Yeah, I think that's a fun plot idea @TheGenerator Though chances of there being a "smoking gun" thing that Innis remembers him saying is a bit of a long shot, so I'll set the difficulty to Great (+4). If you make it, then it could become a "Ferryman's Secret" aspect -- also might be able to use stunts, teamwork created advantages, fate point invokes to get a higher result on this roll too -- yay first roll! EDIT: I think this is 'Create Advantage' perhaps via 'Clever'... go ahead and roll and we can always add bonuses if possible.

I hope I did the roll right. But it failed anyway.
If I understand the rules correctly, I can invoke an aspect for 1 fate point to do a re-roll (I'm not sure if I want to, though :P)

Looks good :-) You might be able to justify stretching the "Knows Many Secrets" aspect by way of Ivario being a fortune teller; but even if you did spend one point to invoke, it would only give an additional +2 (for total of 3), so still wouldn't quite make it -- and I don't think any of your stunts would apply in this case (?) Alternatively, you could spend a point to do a complete re-roll -- then, if you happen to make the 4 target number, the 'Ferryman's Secret' aspect could potentially be used to bribe/blackmail/trick the ferryman, for example (and we could then make up the exact nature of the secret.)

I'm going to catch up on @Beartrand and @Vincent's posts later tonight -- maybe they could get a roll in too. For example, Beartrand might be looking at "persuasion" roll.

https://fate-srd.com/fate-accelerated/aspects-fate-points#invoking-aspects

Thanks for explaining! :)
I'm going to stick with the miss.

Looks like @YullyBear got a good roll (!) -- with Vincent and Yarbi to back him up.

Going to be a busy day for me here, but I should be able to post later tonight -- our story will continue: will the ferrykeeper offer a "pay later" deal (and will there be a catch?)

Cool :)

Fun site, you tell the computer what you want as a character drawing and the AI creates it for you ! (artflow.ai)

Hi All: Checking to see how the pace, duration, etc is for everyone with this 'one-shot.' I have a few encounters planned for the dark forest. Anyway, hope everyone's having a good week.

Struggling to keep pace in all my games at the moment -- just one of those periods at work. Feel free to autopilot a little as needed. I've thought about dropping as I don't want to hold the rest of you back -- sorry to be slow.

No problem at all. And no pressure. Happy to have ya. I officially put it as 3 posts a week (give or take.) I was more worried about my pace as GM or that it's taking too long to get to the 'wonderland' (act ii) part of the story, being a 'one shot'. I was thinking of maybe autopiloting some of the traveling and making camp stuff but can also keep it a little slower. Thanks for the feedback.