OOC and Character Chatter

My father-in-law passed away at 2:04 am this morning. I will be taking a few days to be with my wife during her time of grief and will return shortly. Thank you for understanding.

No problem

I'm very sorry to hear that. For what it's worth you have my condolences.

Sorry! Long, unexpected weekend got me behind on the week. Reading and Posting after my morning meetings!

I'm not sure how my Ritual Edge interacts with the complex trouble we're doing for this ritual but normally, if I get a raise on a ritual, it finishes in half the time. I personally got a raise on my roll, but for this, I'd probably interpret it as "if we get one more success than required", question mark?

Anyway, just pointing it out. One, to ask how it works here. And two, because if we succeed and that kicks in, that'll be super impressive.

I liked that Caroline post! Her and Tereza's disagreements about magic and mutual bickering are fun so far

Great Question! So "higher level" rituals can take some time to cast:So, rather than taking, for example 30 minutes, it would only take 15 minutes. I read stuff like this as narrative permission. If ya'll had to cast a ritual real quick, for example, that edge would kick in real fast! Get it? Like if the party needed a particular version of a binding spell for example.

I get that. I'm just wondering what the requirement would be for it kicking in here. How is a raise defined if we need a total of five successes over the course of three rolls?

Again, it's not really important here but if Tereza gets bragging rights for a super fast ritual, that'd be neat. And maybe it will be important to know at a later date.

Let's kick around some ideas. I mean, bragging rights always.

"How is a raise defined..."; I'm not sure I follow this. It's always 4 over your target. So, even if you need 6 successes in 3 rolls your target is still 4 for each roll. So if you rolled 9 you still got a raise even though there are 4 success still needed to be gotten.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on what feels cool for cutting the time in half. If you feel like there is something additional that would be cool, perhaps lowering the required successes by a value? Just spit balling.

That's fine with me, I just figured that that was somewhat easy. Going off your OOC when you introduced this challenge, I could have just rolled myself three times, giving me pretty good odds of at least one raise in there (and actually requiring that in order to meet the success threshold, meaning that I can only either fail or succeed in half the time).
Saying that raise refers instead to the total number of successes needed for the challenge and would therefore kick in if we get total +1 (in this case, six) successes, feels more in the spirit of it to me.

But I may just be overthinking it 🤷‍♀️I'm happy to say that it is independent of the total successes and only refers to whether my personal roll (or one of them, if I roll multiple times) had a raise.

IDK, I'm kinda dumb, but I see what you're saying now.

Reading the Ritual writeup, in fact, raises for the spell are based on the last roll. So that'd make sense.

BUT, even at physical table I can't stand initiative order (I know, I know), and what you've said here makes much sense to me.

So, let's do this.
Scenario: Tereza's Ritual Edge Time Saver Kicking In
Given A Ritual Dramatic Task has been completed successfully
And the party got at least 1 more success than they needed
When Tereza took part in the Dramatic Task with at least 1 Roll
Then the ritual was completed in half the time expected.

If you're cool with that, let's hit the gavel and codify it.

Sounds good!

Squad posted in Absences and asked to pass it along

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If you read this Squad, I hope all is well, and speedy recovery vibes going out.

Should we be hopping into the scene Caro set up for the morning?

Sorry if it was a simpler one, thought more to start trying to set the idea of ;the norm; for the group than an extravagant one (Also that and my post got eaten :P)

I like the post! Just want to make sure Dunko wants us to hop in and doesn't have something else to post first. I have the tendency to jump the gun sometimes.

Also, hey, are you calling me extravagant 😆 I may just like to indulge sometimes when I get the chance to throw out a big post (as you may have noticed in the WaW game)

The sorry was more for everyone if was expecting a little more to the scene than just a ;morning starts, the decorations are finally coming down' :P

I also agree on indulgence on certain posts :P

Please, by all means, jump all the guns. I'm a firm believer of GMs being the ones playing catch up--you all lead it! Jump on in, ask each other leading, open ended questions, etc!

And if anyone isn't in a scene you tell us why and where you are instead.

Relised we invited Chief to the ritual and not Tara..thats my guess. Whoops...