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Okay—I’ve got a post written (stored in a game with no players; which is also where I do test rolls*), but I’ll give @Ysolde until Monday. I don’t want to bot anyone, but especially not the unpredictable Princess Diamond!

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*Oh yeah… about the Fighting Stance (team-initiative) rolls! I did three test rolls with 14 d6s, and in all three tests, my rolls were exactly six 5+s. I know the math, that’s average with 18 dice. But the test-dice had spoken. And I thought of lowering it to five, but oh what the heck? They all got lucky on tipping the baristi. They can probably roll two flukes in a row.

Then the first two rolls fighting-stance rolls were MISS and MISS, and I’m like, well… they’re f***ed. It came down to practically coin-toss odds when Cass made the last Fighting Stance post. I was in suspense, and didn’t even prewrite the GM post because that last roll determined whether or not you’d all get jumped!

Hopefully you guys like the crappy-odds Team-Initiative roll. It was fun for me, and yes, suspenseful since I’m always rooting for you even when I throw unfair crap at you (as arcade games tend to do).

I like the odds. As much as I would whine about getting unlucky in games - especially when it's something like four horrible rolls in a row (cough, my Mechatron luck, cough) - I preferred systems where you can fail miserably to the ones where it's almost always fail forward. The initiative rolls were fun to wait in suspense for. :D

Okay, glad you like the low odds. I think I like them better as a player than as a GM! I mean, depending on the game and why odds are low and what’s the consequence. If low odds are so PC death is a matter of when, not if, and not due to bad decisions… I don’t want that.

In this game, failure just affects the narrative. You won’t die. Losing is *possible* but I would do something more interesting than a TPK. Interesting because you’re all alive and able to recover from the loss. It’s something I don’t think will actually happen, but I’m mentally prepared to run that scenario.

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That said, I’m taking notes so if I do a second run, there will be tweaks.

Speaking of which, while I was typing this response, my order came in:

…so I can do an IRL run with dice that match each player’s color! (The set even has two pinks, so I can do pale pink OR orange for Toony Girl!)

Also, that’s 110 dice for $7!

Wow, that's a bargain! I like Kurumi so far and I would like to not TPK her. :D

You had a good round. I could only roll 3 attacks.

@Ysolde, instead of botting the princess, let’s do this: if you MISS on your turn, feel free to re-roll one MISS.

Sorry. I don't know why I was not more in synch last week

I was hoping it was a weekend getaway or something… I did notice you were offline (from this site anyway) for a few days. No need to apologize for that.

Welcome back!

Hey, I'm going to be mainly inactive for the next week or about that time. Might occasionally pop up for a short post, but if I don't post for more than two days and you need to move the scene, feel free to improvise with Pira's actions! :D

Okay, thanks for letting me know.

I took the liberty of drawing a random card. It had already been established that the cowboys cheat with aces up their sleeves. I wondered how a card in the pants could be more offensive.

And I got my answer:


Also, I FINALLY set up a status bar that I can edit on the fly:

If I use 5-letter names and black hearts for lost HP, it’s easier to spot who isn’t "full." Everyone has the same item + life total, so when you’re all full, the graphic display is the same length.

For enemies, I’ll use a Megaman-style bar and the Final Fight red X upon defeat. It’ll be a shared bar rather than tracking every individual enemy’s HP. Basically, the battle is over when the bar is empty.

Guess who's back, back again~

NY Groove music:



Welcome back, @FlyingSucculent !

Sorry for the delay again, I'm still having issues with my back and both my work and doctor aren't being cooperative about a resolution. I'll be back as soon as I can be! :')

Sorry to hear that! No apology needed because back problems suck.

I hope you recover soon… or soon figure out how.

Triple six super combo on ... Dodging hahaha

Even the devil himself could not hit you.

On an unrelated note, my compliments, @Qralloq, on some of those Fate ideas. I would have sought to join that game had I not just signed up for a Fate game… really loved the idea of PCs as muppets!

Trying and failing to be better the last week or so. I'll set some alarms up to remind me.

No worries, @Ysolde!

Yay! The <3 paid off, despite there being only a 4% chance Pira would roll <3 with FIGHT!