Realisation (OOC)

I will wait for Taryn choices/descriptions before continuing.

I would also like to try a different resolution mechanism next time we have something this big. This one looked like too big a bite to chew. =)

I agree this should be 5 parts resolution but, maybe if we can zoom in, somehow, and put some fiction in between the dice rolls...

Agreed. Learning a new system at the same time does not help either. I really like Otherkind Dice, but there is a reason I have never brought it to PbP, I should have thought it through more.

With a little bit more structure and discipline, and with familiarity with the way it functions, I still think it could work out, especially in a game where we don't roll often (I say that, by 'seldom roll games' suffer the problem of everyone having forgotten how the rolls work each time we need them:).
Cool. Feel free to make suggestions as to what looks fun.
The size of the resolution mechanic can scale to the scope of the action. Simple things —when they even need a roll— can have simple rolls. This one was dealing with a lot of things at once.
Yeah, possibly. Especially out of the blue like this.
5 is a good number, I seem to recall that the original Otherkind RPG used 4, and PSI*RUN says 'at least 4, at most 6'. That just happened to be the number I ended up with here.
Yeah. I take the blame for that. The way I structured it was a little divorced from the fiction, and lacked explanation.

We could have rolled for each part separately, but that takes away the 'roll and choose' aspect where you can decide which outcomes to assign to which parts. Getting the doors open and not raising any alarms is a bit moot if you rolled a 1 on starting the ship, so individual rolls tied to each part has a different feel. We could have rolled to see if you could start the ship, then if you can, rolled to see if you did it quietly, and so on, but that would take a long time (when this runs smooth it can speed up PbP, 5 tasks being resolved in three posts:). We can try something else next time, y'all let me know how much ludographical discourse you want.

We need enough fiction to substantiate each die, and this outcomes chart was built based on the existing fiction (all except the Force roll, which we could add to the fiction after we decide it was happening). The roll should not change the fiction that went before, but that can be a hard balancing act and depend on timing.

I will wait for the weekend to be over everywhere (so ... like, Tuesday) and then move us along if they are not back, they can then catch us up on what they were doing.

Sounds good. And next time something comes up, I'm happy to draft and propose a roll table as well, so you don't have to shoulder all the burden.

Let's continue? If Owlbeer comes back we can see about getting Taryn back into the story.

How do we feel about running with just the two of you? I am happy to do so, but 2 is a hard number for the players.

Okay, let's try this. =)