OOC Discussion

Whatever moves the scene forward quicker is fine by me.

Great. Will wait a few days (given the travel/busyness people may have at this time of year) for Rose to let us know what she wants to do.

I’d prefer everything to be written in thread despite the threat of meta gaming- lol

That's my preference too - so we'll go with that i.e. everything in the open.

Everything in the thread is fine by me :)

Thanks for waiting :) . My post is up now. I hope I understood everything to do with how the spell works.

Hi! Does using the shimmer Power automatically reduce the doom die or is it only using the doom die to bolster a roll that does that? This is a little confusing because the rules earlier makes it seem like only Spitting in the eye of Doom depletes the die.
I will update my sheet if I needed.

My reading is that you've made a 'standard' use of your Doom Die here i.e. 1 or 2 would have downgraded it, but you didn't, so it stays a d6. If you do drop to d4 or even have your d4 downgraded so that you're "Doomed", you recover your Doom Die to d6 again after a long rest.

Oh! The doom die is a usage die. That makes sense. Thank you for clearing that up for me!

Yes! That's exactly right - it's "just" a usage die with a bunch of specific uses.

Totally off topic for this game - I'm recruiting for a short game of Alien RPG at the moment, playing through the really short one-shot that comes with the core rules where you are colonists on the base that is overrun by xenomorphs during the film Aliens. As it's also horror (I think of the Dark Tower as some kind of horror) thought you might be interested.

I like the system - it does a good job of bringing over the feel of the first film Alien - it's pretty leathal...

Oh! That sounds pretty cool. I visit that page and Tales from the Loop when I've bought stuff from free league in the past, but I've not bought it. Would owning the book be required for the game?

No need to own the game :) You'll be playing pre-gen characters, and my plan is to give everyone a pre-filled-out character sheet. The rules are fairly simple, I'll walk you through them as we need to use them - you can keep this cheat sheet handy, if you want, although most of what's on there you won't need to reference (mostly just the fast and slow action list).

I'll put you on the list of interested unless you let me know otherwise

I’m unfamiliar with the rules system but would love to give it a shot if you’re looking for active players.

I am! Sweet! Glad I mentioned it :)

Here's an SRD for the Yero Zero Engine which is used in an adapted form by the Alien RPG. Alien uses the original "dice pool" approach to the system.

Oh yeah! Count me in!

Let me know if we should formally apply in a recruitment thread, etc. But it sounds fun. And terrifying!

I've got you on the list - no need to apply to the thread. I had also someone DM me about it, so I have the info on who is interested in several different places...

Nice!