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Author Topic: [OOC/BALANCE] [ALPHA 1.0] Nuclear Throne - always accepting  (Read 4010 times)

GreatWyrmGold

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Re: [OOC/BALANCE] [ALPHA 1.0] Nuclear Throne - always accepting
« Reply #16 on: January 18, 2014, 10:13:12 am »

Also, it's in my sig.
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Re: [OOC/BALANCE] [ALPHA 1.0] Nuclear Throne - always accepting
« Reply #17 on: January 18, 2014, 08:58:02 pm »

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Re: [OOC/BALANCE] [ALPHA 1.0] Nuclear Throne - always accepting
« Reply #18 on: January 19, 2014, 09:42:09 am »

Alright, turn 1 results are in.

As for the mechanics behind them (awful language ahead):
Also, whenever I say d[X] rolls, I mean - a (true) random number between 1 and [X], since I doubt that d3 dice exist (not that I actually did such rolls, but still). :P

First I did the initiative rolls. Since nobody was planning to shoot, no bonuses from weapons were applied, only the character initiatives. (D20+[initiative bonus])

Then I did two rolls for paladin's ammo crate - first to see whether or not he'd get ammo for his current weapon ie. the shotgun (d2) - if he would score 1 (which he didn't), then I would do another roll to see what kind of ammo would that be, but since we only have two ammo kinds atm it would have to be shells, but if we had more then it would be a d[amount of ammo types - 1] roll - every ammo type would be associated to one number consistent across all such rolls, but that's still for the future.
Once the ammo type is determined, I then rolled a d20 to see how much ammo would he get - in this case it was 7.

Lidku's rad roll was faster - a d8 roll which resulted in 7, therefore, 7 rads. I would add a flat number to that if he had some sort of rad gain bonus, but since that's not yet a case, I didn't do that.

As for GWG's weapon roll, I counted up a number of weapons currently in the game (7) and it turned out to be 5, which is the Slugger. Then I did another roll to see how much ammo that weapon would come with, and it turned out to be 5.
Though I plan to change that system (first roll a weapon category, then roll a weapon from that category), but right now it works the way it works.


Basically there's a lot of numbers and I still do need to document all of this better for future GMs' sake, but now is not the time.


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Re: [OOC/BALANCE] [ALPHA 1.0] Nuclear Throne - always accepting
« Reply #19 on: January 21, 2014, 08:01:07 am »

Turn 2 is up. Not much happening right now.
Though this does show us two things (shows me, at any rate):

1. d20 rolls for initiative can make too much of a difference (they didn't yet, but imagine if someone rolled a 20 in the heat of the battle while everyone else got some low numbers), so I think I'll lower it to a 1-10 roll in the next game.
2. Lidku is the luckiest bastard on Earth.
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Re: [OOC/BALANCE] [ALPHA 1.0] Nuclear Throne - always accepting
« Reply #20 on: January 21, 2014, 08:48:43 am »

Aside from determining order, what does initiative do?
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Re: [OOC/BALANCE] [ALPHA 1.0] Nuclear Throne - always accepting
« Reply #21 on: January 21, 2014, 09:12:18 am »

Aside from determining order, what does initiative do?

Right now it doesn't really affect stuff a lot beyond the order (which on its own can be important), though I might change that in the future. No ideas though.
Then again, this is mostly a combat system prototype and not a full-fledged roleplaying system, so there's that, I guess.
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Re: [OOC/BALANCE] [ALPHA 1.0] Nuclear Throne - always accepting
« Reply #22 on: January 21, 2014, 09:19:57 am »

Well, if it just affects order, the only way the die size matters is by how much the initiative bonuses affect it.
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Re: [OOC/BALANCE] [ALPHA 1.0] Nuclear Throne - always accepting
« Reply #23 on: January 21, 2014, 09:28:32 am »

I guess.
Still, I'd rather lower it in game 2 and see how that works.
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Re: [OOC/BALANCE] [ALPHA 1.0] Nuclear Throne - always accepting
« Reply #24 on: January 22, 2014, 06:44:15 am »

Public service announcement: I'll be gone from today (Wednesday) until tomorrow (Thursday).
Alright, I may still be lurking the forums from my phone and maybe even post something, but nothing elaborate.
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