Sep 11, 2024 8:41 pm
I hope you feel better soon, Tickettbror! Stomach problems suck. :V
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Sep 12, 2024 6:21 pm
I was sick and diagnosed with Covid. I probably won’t be up to posting until next Wednesday at earliest.
I’ll try and make that post today though…
I’ll try and make that post today though…
Sep 12, 2024 11:22 pm
Oh, wow… two players sick. Take care, both of you.
I can hold off a bit, see if there’s a ‘clear patch’ for a Cass post in the next few days, then in either case I’ll make a post Monday or Tuesday.
I can hold off a bit, see if there’s a ‘clear patch’ for a Cass post in the next few days, then in either case I’ll make a post Monday or Tuesday.
Sep 12, 2024 11:32 pm
Oh, also, my principal announced this morning that today is National Video Games Day!
Posting that to make up for three days ago when I forgot to post that it was the 25th anniversary of the Dreamcast release. I was always a Nintendo guy, but I gotta hand it to my Dreamcast. It’s the only video game console I ever owned that caught fire while being played, and still worked for two more years.
Posting that to make up for three days ago when I forgot to post that it was the 25th anniversary of the Dreamcast release. I was always a Nintendo guy, but I gotta hand it to my Dreamcast. It’s the only video game console I ever owned that caught fire while being played, and still worked for two more years.
Sep 13, 2024 9:02 am
Sorry for the delay, and thanks for the support!
I hope the backstory I went for works.
I hope the backstory I went for works.
Sep 13, 2024 10:00 am
Nice, @Tickettbror..! I will keep that in mind in case, y’know, avoiding Vera doesn’t work for some reason.
My big post is ready to drop, but I’ll wait for the weekend to pass and drop it on Monday (and just drop a little one now).
..
Also, no apology necessary (especially for being sick). I’m more than happy to support that, hence my decision to slow down, albeit with a timeline so the game isn’t paused for a week.
My unfortunate experience has been that the games that pause for a week rarely unpause.
My big post is ready to drop, but I’ll wait for the weekend to pass and drop it on Monday (and just drop a little one now).
..
Also, no apology necessary (especially for being sick). I’m more than happy to support that, hence my decision to slow down, albeit with a timeline so the game isn’t paused for a week.
My unfortunate experience has been that the games that pause for a week rarely unpause.
Sep 13, 2024 8:10 pm
Feel better soon, Ysolde! :)
Also, belated cheers for the videogame day!
PS: also, I'm content with long pauses if need be!
Also, belated cheers for the videogame day!
PS: also, I'm content with long pauses if need be!
Last edited Sep 13, 2024 8:12 pm
Sep 14, 2024 4:27 pm
I wonder if Cass and Vera were from a two-player co-op game, though my original thought was that Vera was a flirtatious NPC. I suppose it doesn’t matter since none of you are in a game, as far as the characters are concerned.
Anyway, feel free to get another response in, everyone, even after the Roll-For-Initiative happens. Basically the "game" has some cutscenes full of outdated/unrelatable "jokes" that happen before the Excuse for Call to Action. Your characters could be lost in their own conversation in the time it takes for the third cutscene, then suddenly catch on when the **** hits the fan. (Or as Cass might say, "💩💥🪭.")
I’ll run out first battle sorta tutorialishly, but for now, a heads-up:
ROLL FOR INITIATIVE
Monday, we’ll roll for init. It could be 🕹️DODGE to get outta the way of a surprise attack, it could be ㊙️FIGHT to get into a fighting stance, it could be ☢️MAGIC… in other words, any of you could have "the good-initiative stat," depending which of the six moves applies in a particular scene.
Then I’ll set the scene on Probably-Wednesday. I don’t want losing the initiative-roll to mean you have to wait. Instead, the consequence for a MISS on initiative will be immediate. It might be you lose a 💜, it might be you get one less action in the first round.
TWO ACTIONS PER ROUND
When we go into combat rounds, you normally post one or two actions: ATTACK, DEFEND or SPECIAL.
If you get attacked, your two actions will likely be DEFEND and then ATTACK to hit back.
If you don’t need to defend, you may choose to just ATTACK, but you could also perform a SPECIAL move (stunt/magic) or do both: use a STUNT to leap- or sneak-attack. Use MAGIC to enhance your attack. Like for Luna, SHOOT + MAGIC could be kind of Ninja Throwing-Snowflake, which freezes the target and makes the ground around the target slippery! (If both rolls HIT or COMBO.)
But there’s a consequence for a MISS. If you combine STUNT or MAGIC with a ATTACK, there’s a risk that one roll will miss and undermine the roll that doesn’t miss.
ITEM USE
If you want to use an item, you can do that in addition to the one-or-two rolls. Items are limited and you can’t replenish them (until we start a new level), so there’s no reason to have other limits.
Plus, for Pira, it feels more like SFiii Chun-Li if she attacks first, then unleashes a super combo! But if you do this, make sure the ATTACK didn’t MISS before you roll an 👠Outrageous Heels move.
You don’t want THIS to happen:
Anyway, feel free to get another response in, everyone, even after the Roll-For-Initiative happens. Basically the "game" has some cutscenes full of outdated/unrelatable "jokes" that happen before the Excuse for Call to Action. Your characters could be lost in their own conversation in the time it takes for the third cutscene, then suddenly catch on when the **** hits the fan. (Or as Cass might say, "💩💥🪭.")
I’ll run out first battle sorta tutorialishly, but for now, a heads-up:
[ +- ] The Great Wall of Text
ROLL FOR INITIATIVE
Monday, we’ll roll for init. It could be 🕹️DODGE to get outta the way of a surprise attack, it could be ㊙️FIGHT to get into a fighting stance, it could be ☢️MAGIC… in other words, any of you could have "the good-initiative stat," depending which of the six moves applies in a particular scene.
Then I’ll set the scene on Probably-Wednesday. I don’t want losing the initiative-roll to mean you have to wait. Instead, the consequence for a MISS on initiative will be immediate. It might be you lose a 💜, it might be you get one less action in the first round.
TWO ACTIONS PER ROUND
When we go into combat rounds, you normally post one or two actions: ATTACK, DEFEND or SPECIAL.
If you get attacked, your two actions will likely be DEFEND and then ATTACK to hit back.
If you don’t need to defend, you may choose to just ATTACK, but you could also perform a SPECIAL move (stunt/magic) or do both: use a STUNT to leap- or sneak-attack. Use MAGIC to enhance your attack. Like for Luna, SHOOT + MAGIC could be kind of Ninja Throwing-Snowflake, which freezes the target and makes the ground around the target slippery! (If both rolls HIT or COMBO.)
But there’s a consequence for a MISS. If you combine STUNT or MAGIC with a ATTACK, there’s a risk that one roll will miss and undermine the roll that doesn’t miss.
ITEM USE
If you want to use an item, you can do that in addition to the one-or-two rolls. Items are limited and you can’t replenish them (until we start a new level), so there’s no reason to have other limits.
Plus, for Pira, it feels more like SFiii Chun-Li if she attacks first, then unleashes a super combo! But if you do this, make sure the ATTACK didn’t MISS before you roll an 👠Outrageous Heels move.
You don’t want THIS to happen:
Sep 14, 2024 5:10 pm
Can we use the same action twice per turn? Two ATTACKs, each against a different enemy, for example? Or two different stunts, both with SPECIAL?
Sep 14, 2024 7:15 pm
If you just attack and roll a COMBO, that can hit multiple targets.
The two actions gotta be different types. Reason being, I noticed in my Tiny D6 game I always rolled two attacks. I’d rather see you guys use magic or a stunt to enhance an attack. If the stunt/magic seems like something that should function as a linear/area attack, that could be more interesting than attacking twice while accomplishing a similar goal.
The two actions gotta be different types. Reason being, I noticed in my Tiny D6 game I always rolled two attacks. I’d rather see you guys use magic or a stunt to enhance an attack. If the stunt/magic seems like something that should function as a linear/area attack, that could be more interesting than attacking twice while accomplishing a similar goal.
Sep 14, 2024 9:13 pm
Does using an item effectively replace the ATTACK roll? If you succeed at the ATTACK but fail at the item roll, do you still deal damage? If you succeed at both, do you deal twice the damage?
Tactically speaking, we should all protect Diamond. She has ☢️ as the main stat, so she can ATTACK + SPECIAL at 3d6 both, while others will have one of these at 2d6. As long as she doesn't have to defend, she is the most effective fighter with two actions (ignoring item effects).
I'm not saying we should do this, I'm just saying that dice-wise it's probably optimal. XD
PS: technically probabilities are also skewed by ! vs . roll distinctions, but I don't know what these are for all characters. If someone has ! on an ATTACK and a SPECIAL, we should protect them too.
Tactically speaking, we should all protect Diamond. She has ☢️ as the main stat, so she can ATTACK + SPECIAL at 3d6 both, while others will have one of these at 2d6. As long as she doesn't have to defend, she is the most effective fighter with two actions (ignoring item effects).
I'm not saying we should do this, I'm just saying that dice-wise it's probably optimal. XD
PS: technically probabilities are also skewed by ! vs . roll distinctions, but I don't know what these are for all characters. If someone has ! on an ATTACK and a SPECIAL, we should protect them too.
Last edited Sep 14, 2024 9:17 pm
Sep 14, 2024 11:47 pm
I like that you’re thinking of tactics…!
The !s are—
Fairy = 🕹️
Toony = DEFEND
Peppy = SPECIAL
Kicky = ㊙️
Spacy = ☢️
Barby = ATTACK
The !s are—
Fairy = 🕹️
Toony = DEFEND
Peppy = SPECIAL
Kicky = ㊙️
Spacy = ☢️
Barby = ATTACK
Sep 15, 2024 3:34 am
FlyingSucculent says:
Does using an item effectively replace the ATTACK roll? If you succeed at the ATTACK but fail at the item roll, do you still deal damage? If you succeed at both, do you deal twice the damage?…
My thought is that if you combine a regular ATTACK with 👠SHREDDING FURY, it’s like Chun-Li doing her punch/kick combo before using her super move.
If you MISS, it’s like when Chun-Li’s opponent blocks. The super kicks chip away at the opponent’s health bar, doing less damage, but not none.
If you HIT or COMBO, then roll SHREDDING FURY, it’s the same as Chun-Li doing a combo and linking that to a super combo. It hurts more.
…
Bear in mind, in a Street Fighter game, you would know whether you hit or miss before you decide to use the super. Likewise, in this game, you can decide to whether to use your 👠 after you know the result of your attack roll.
Sep 15, 2024 10:51 am
Hmm, I think I get it. Now I just need to hope that there will be a boss, since I think I can't use Fury without one. :D
Sep 15, 2024 11:49 am
👠Shredding Fury is vs. mobs.
👠👠Piranha Swing is your boss-clobbering attack.
Also, since it auto-targets the boss after hitting minions, if you were to roll an attack and the p.swing…
👠👠Piranha Swing is your boss-clobbering attack.
Also, since it auto-targets the boss after hitting minions, if you were to roll an attack and the p.swing…
Sep 15, 2024 12:25 pm
(Like this…)
Rolls
P4 - Pira the Piranha: ATTACK - ㊙️ FIGHT! - (3d6)
(166) = 💥💥COMBO
P4 - Pira the Piranha: 🕹️㊙️ 🔑 PIRANHA SWING! - (5d6)
(14325) = 💥HIT
Sep 15, 2024 12:33 pm
Pira’s combo does 2 damage.
Her sidekick needs to go through 2 minions and 1 wall, before hitting the boss with an unimpressive 1 damage.
Then there’s the back kick:The back kick’s damage is (as written) 2 for the minions + 1 for the wall, and I would say that the initial attack should add another 2.
So the boss takes 6 damage total in this case, despite the bad roll!
(But had the Pirahna Swing missed completely, it would have been zero damage to the boss! The sidekick has to connect for the back kick to happen.)
Her sidekick needs to go through 2 minions and 1 wall, before hitting the boss with an unimpressive 1 damage.
Then there’s the back kick:
[ +- ] 🔑 PIRANHA SWING
PIRA THE PIRANHA (KICKY GIRL) learns the most powerful attack in the game. She soars through the air, through enemies, through solid walls, waterfalls, heaps of burning cars—her 👠Outrageous Heel kicking everything in its path with a flying sidekick that is nothing short of legendary.
As the kick connects, she follows up with a back kick that’s just as damaging as the kick that smashed through every flunkie and barrier!
🕹️➡️⬇️↘️ ㊙️
As the kick connects, she follows up with a back kick that’s just as damaging as the kick that smashed through every flunkie and barrier!
🕹️➡️⬇️↘️ ㊙️
| Cost | 👠👠 |
| Effect | roll 5d6 vs. the boss and whoever or whatever gets in your way |
| Duration | one action |
So the boss takes 6 damage total in this case, despite the bad roll!
(But had the Pirahna Swing missed completely, it would have been zero damage to the boss! The sidekick has to connect for the back kick to happen.)
Sep 15, 2024 2:46 pm
Ah, forgot which attack is which. Narratively Fury is Pira's strongest attack, so I automatically think of it as the third on the list, haha. XD
What if there is nothing on the way to the boss?
What if there is nothing on the way to the boss?
Sep 15, 2024 4:10 pm
FlyingSucculent says:
What if there is nothing on the way to the boss?Actual Answer: if there are minions, at least one will get in the way. And minions or not, I’ll go miles out of my way to narrate some breakable object(s) to ensure you get more than one point of bonus damage.
…if there’s distance between Pira and the boss, that is.
If you’re within arm’s reach (or leg’s reach) of the boss at the start of your turn, I can’t in good conscience narrate enemies diving into your kicks to protect the boss. They would surround you, making Shredding Fury the better move.
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