OOC Thread

For OOC chatter.

Is it just lifeguards that get to run in SLO MO?

You can do anything in SLO MO!

Including filming in SLO MO, making it... SUPER SLO MO!

Hey everyone!

So I guess I should explain the rules of the game...lol. It's a very simple system.



In short, you'll roll between 1-3 d6s, looking to beat a difficulty of 4-6. Perks allow you to spend luck to decrease the difficulty (from a 5 to a 4 for example), while your quirk increases the difficulty by 1 (from a 4 to a 5 for example) to regain 1 luck. If you get multiple successes, such as two 5s on a difficulty 4 test, you get an exceptional success and get a bonus effect. If your dice show all 1s, its a critical failure. Players are encouraged to narrate their own results instead of the GM.

Grit is your health and resolve. Your max is 3 grit points and when it reaches 0 you are taken out of the scene. Characters don't die unless the player decides to retire the character. Grit can be restored between sessions but since its a one shot that won't really happen. Instead, characters who reached 0 grit will begin the next scene at 1 grit point. The other way to restore grit is a dramatic interlude, which is a roleplaying scene between two characters where drama is created or secrets are revealed.

Luck is mostly self explanatory. It is spent to lower the difficulty of a test by one. Luck is only recovered when you use a perk to make a test more difficult.

That should be about it. Let me know if you still have any questions.

I'm going to be out of town until Sunday, so my posting rate will probably slow down until then.

Are we playing as characters that already know and fight the eldritch horrors on the beach? Or are they clueless about cosmic horrors in the waves?

I'm fine either way but just want to make sure I'm following whichever is correct in posts.

Three options are presented in the book: the supernatural is common knowledge, the lifeguards know but the general populace doesn't, or nobody knows. I think the middle ground is good where you all know but its a secret from the average person. Rookie lifeguards can choose whether they already know or not. Maybe its their first exposure and the secret was kept as a hazing ritual? Up to you all!

Andreva has fishy grandparents in more ways than one. Jus' sayin' ...

Whew! Seems like things are ok as is

I'd also assumed that the regular folk don't know about eldritch horrors, only the lifeguards do. Hence my quick backstory about teenage pranksters ignorant about the danger they could be creating with their careless sand scribbles.

Yes they probably have vibes and see strange things but then is buried by their consciousness.

Shared mine. I think. If not, let me know and I can try again.

As far as mechanics, do I spend Grit to get out of the ocean and back to the boats? Or would I roll to do that and lose grit only if I fail the roll?

You've done it

The opposite. Slow Mo makesna challenge harder but you recover 1 luck. If you succeed on the harder roll, you can choose to recover 1 grit instead.
That wasn't you that fell off the boat, sorry, one of the cultists was a woman. Can't women be equal opportunity cultists? :P

So Slo Mo is a Quirk. Weird!