Session Zero (OOC)

Welcome to Misthaven. This thread is for out-of-character discussions while we are playing our session zero

So, as I said, you will be the first (and only) one here for a few days =) I will be opening the recruitment thread next week, probably, and then inviting more people.

In the meantime, I hope you enjoy your Session zero. =)

I do not doubt that I will :)

I haven't used this game system before, do you have a character sheet that you can recommend?

It's actually a modified version of the Cortex Prime ruleset, so nobody did =)

I have added a template to your chargen thread.

Welcome aboard everyone! As I said in the recruitment thread, posting will likely slow down during weekends.

I am electing @runekyndig as student mentor, as he is our only veteran here. =DD

Thank you for the invitation. Although I am not new to pbp, I am new to Gamersplane and this system. I will read up the rules and start fleshing out my character.

What does that entail? Continue the narrative character creation?

Nothing for now, I was just joking. Kiraen may appear in one of their threads after we finish your chargen.

She might get a roommate...

Thanks for the invite! I'll also start going through the material in more depth.

Would you like Marlena and Kiraen to be roommates? Could say Marlena is just now receiving her room assignment.

I think it would be better if some from the other tread got into the mix

Okay.

Yeah, it seems that educational-facility campaigns are prone to forming two-PC cliques on short notice unless deliberately mixed.

@runekyndig,@Eltesla you have finished character generation. Congrats! Marlena has 1 XP and Kiraen 2 XP (as I didn't give Kiraen any magical gear).

Would you like to spend this XP or bank for later?

I'll bank mine for now.

She had her ring of magical defense, right?

Oh, you're right. I am noting it down in the charsheet for you, it goes in the "Other traits" section. 1 XP, then. =)

Thank you

@runekyndig,@Eltesla we will probably start Chapter 1 on Monday.

Sorry for the delay of a few days between 0 and 1 for you two. It's an art to finish all those chargen threads simultaneously that I'm still trying to perfect.

No worries :)

Not sure where to ask this:

In the kettle thread, there was a moment where Zix proposed weaving a spell together through joint effort. How is that handled mechanically?

There are 2 ways to handle aid:
1. Single roll. If it's a scene where the GM or the players wanna move faster, the simplified way to do so is the person receiving aid as an extra dice. The skill die of the PC that's helping is added to the poll.
2. Two rolls. If its a high stakes scene (ex: combat), the PC that is aiding creates an asset / temporary bonus and gives it to the other PC instead of receiving it themselves. To do so, they roll a skill test vs 2DX, where X is the same die size as the bonus they wanna give. (ex: 2d8 if they wanna give 1d8 as the aid bonus)

Well, it seemed to be the case where two people were already trying to create a Temporary Asset, but by joint effort instead of solo effort. That's the context I was primarily thinking of, what with having two Amplifico users.

It is not possible to help someone that's trying to help. If the spell is an end in itself, ok, we follow the rules above. If not, if it just something to help another roll, it gets very convoluted.

To clarify, if the spell an Amplifico one (which almost always manifest as Assets even if they are the end-goal of a specific casting), and the casters are largely cooperating as equals (and not as the convoluted helper-of-a-helper chains), do they use the 'combine Skills of multiple PCs' principle, or is Amplifico cooperation strictly impossible ('not possible to help')?

They use the 'combine Skills of multiple PCs' principle =) Amplifico cooperation is possible. Multiple Amplifico spells granting 2 dice to someone else is also a possibility.

It's just the helper-of-a-helper-of-a-helper-of-a-helper chain that I wanna avoid =)

Ah, cool. I saw a CaA-to-CaA chain in FATE Core in the past and agree that they don't look nice, at least unless the links are sufficiently distant out in time.

I'm not sure I understand how granting two dice works - is that just two actions each creating a separate Asset, or something else?

Two actions, each creating a separate asset =)

Unfortunately, seems like Xanda left Gamersplane. I am withdrawing her invitation to the game and we will continue with 4 players.