The Lunch Room

@gesges - it’s the psychic stat

ESP = Extra-Sensory Perception (by knowing that, I basically just admitted I’m old)

Forgot to answer the trash can query! That sounds fine to me! Go, go gadget trash can!

Cool! I’ll give that a shot next time!

Thanks!! :)

I love the team-aspect of zapping the ghost!

I believe we each have a ghost trap, but we probably don’t need to worry about that yet because the team total (rolling one die each) needs to beat the ghost HP to damage it.

It looks like once the ghost HP is zero, one player can toss the trap. (I expect KCC will fill us in after we drain HP to zero—and will show us the stream-crossing table if two of us roll 1’s!)

right, right. That makes sense!

I think it’s ingenious, actually. I’ve always wanted a rules-lite RPG with a teamwork aspect (that players would actually use), and this game’s design didn’t just totally nail it—the fail conditions are true to the source—accidental damage and, on rare* occasions, we risk crossing the streams.—and we can always have that "careful not to cross the streams" moment, since in PbP we roll one by one. We can see a 1 was rolled, and do others roll anyway? Is the ghost weak enough the other successful rolls are enough?

Oh! The +1 Lucky Hat reminds me—


@KCC , I actually brought my trash can lid to use as a shield!

Can I use that to shield AJ (+1 to her roll) instead of saving myself?

Yeah! That sounds fine to me!

Cool—I edited that into my existing post.

Uooo Thanks!

Apologies, all! The day got away from me! I’ll get a post up on this on the way to work tomorrow!

No problem!

Dont worry, life goes always first :)

I got a kick out of this!

Lmao me too

If you’re asking because of the pace, I’m fine with it. My only bad experience with pacing was when a GM kept booting players for being too slow, which made it feel like every other PC was one excuse away from ceasing to exist.

The fun of PbP, for me, is to perform without pressure to perform. This game is super fun, and I love how many source material references the designers got out of an extremely simple system. Crossing the streams is a brilliant mechanic. I’m glad it happened, and thanks for being open to suggestion.


TL;DR version - I’m enjoying the game.

@KCC I'm having fun, the game pace is fine. My RL obligations vary; sometimes very heavy, right now not so much. So I'm sympathetic to you feeling like life is fast-paced.

@legendary_sidekick 💯 on the no-pressure thing.