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[Grek]

Personally, here's what I'd do:

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Base DC:
Instead of success being on a 51+, success is if you get a 101+. Mathmatically speaking, this is the same as subtracting 50 from everyone's rolls, but the result looks much cleaner with the way that attributes work below.

Attribute Bonuses:
You add your attribute directly. If you have a 20 in an attribute, you get a +20 to your roll. If you have a 43 in your attribute, you get +43. If you're somehow bad enough to have a negative attribute, you subtract it.

Other Bonuses:
Focus: +10
Restriction: +10
Circumstance: +5 per circumstance
Mundane Skill: +20
Focus Gem: +20

Timeframe Mods:
Each action has a base time. For research, experimentation and practice, this base time is 4 hours. For searching the house, travel or other mundane activities, this is 2 hours. For spells, it depends upon the spell. Most require 4 hours to cast, but some (mostly combat spells) take much less and others (mostly ritual spells) take longer. If you spend extra time on something, you roll the dice one extra time for every doubling of the base time and take the best result. If you rush, you roll the dice an extra time for every halving of the base time and take the worst result rolled. Note that a reroll in either direction is worth about 16%, but has the (significant) advantage of helping you avoid crit failures and get crit successes. Or doing the opposite if you have negative rerolls.

Comfortableness:
Being comfortable with a spell decreases the base time to cast it by an hour. Mastering the spell decreases the base time by another hour, for a total of 2 hours on a 4 hour spell.

Preparation:
Successful preparation (ie. you get a 100+ on the preparation roll) adds the time spent preparing to the time that is effectively spent on the action. Critically successful preparation gives you some kind of circumstance bonus like finding the proper tools, finding a good location or what have you. Failed preparation is wasted time. Critically failed preparation is wasted time that also costs you resources or hurts you in some way.

Criticals:
Rolling a 1, 2 or 3 is a crit fail while rolling a 100, 99 or 98 is a crit success. No criticals happen for rolling under -5 or rolling above 105.

Example time:
I'm performing an Exorcism, but only spend an hour on it. Let's assume for the sake of argument that exorcisms have a base time of 4 hours. I have a faith of 43, and my familiar is providing a Focus Bonus, so I have a net modifier of +53. As such, I succeed on a 48 or better. However, I'm rushing and taking 1/4th the base time, so I have to roll 3 times and take the worst result. Maptools informs me that I rolled a 35, a 49 and a 25. The lowest is a 25. 25+53=78, which means I fail.

Feeling foolish for being in such a hurry, I decide to take my time with the next attempt. I spend 8 hours this time, which is twice the base time requirement. This gets me a positive reroll. I get unlucky and roll an 11, but then I get super lucky and get a 98. Critical success! Whatever it was I was exorcising crumbles into dust.

But whatever. The game's well written enough that you could seriously just be rolling straight d100s and I'd still be down to play.

[Weirdsound]

But whatever. The game's well written enough that you could seriously just be rolling straight d100s and I'd still be down to play.

Day made.

[Criptfeind]

I don't really stand in one place or another on this issue. I mean, the game itself seems self balancing since any system we use our enemies will as well. The only issue is with the current system immersion is not as easy.

That said! Base time on rituals four hours? Maybe. I dunno though. That's a really long time for certain spells. Base time on a spell by spell basis seems like a better idea if it is do able.

[Lillipad]

Speaking of rituals, I'm still not entirely sure why mine involves facing west at sunset while waste-deep in ocean.

[Criptfeind]

Because magic works on laws that have almost nothing to do with the normal world.

What does your ritual do by the way?

[Lillipad]

It generates a whip of water that "can cut through just about anything." I'd have prepared it for the stone giant or shawks if I had known beforehand how devastated we'd be last session. If we get another turn after this one before next session, I'm most certainly going to prep it.

What job has everyone voted on so far?

[Grek]

The werewolf one.

[Lillipad]

That's a weird one to do. The Blender guy seems like a bigger priority, and it would be our first trip to hell.

I forgot to ask in my turn post; is everyone happy with the distribution of loot I'm doing in the interaction bit?

[Criptfeind]

I have a gun. So. Uh. I dunno.

I also seem to have some pity fighting gifts from the GMs, so I might not even need the gun.

[Lillipad]

Didn't the gun explode beyond repair? Or did you somehow get a new one?

[Criptfeind]

I got a new one.

Dwarmin picked up a new one when he went shopping.

[Lillipad]

It's still nice to have something melee as backup for when enemies get close.
Also, if anyone needs anything but can't afford it, I'm working on becoming an endless funnel of money for the team, so feel free to ask.

[Criptfeind]

What is your money making idea?

[Lillipad]

Do chores, solo jobs that seem reasonably easy to solo(mostly assassinations, because Harman is Harman), and never spend the money on anything, excluding the occasional restocking of arrows. Jobs give enough money that the cost of replacing them is easily replaced by the reward if done correctly. I've done a chore, and a solo job, and I'm currently at $11,160.
As long as I can build up my modifiers(which has become substantially more difficult) and don't take on anything stupidly difficult, I can potentially earn over $10,000 a day.

[Grek]

First, an updated

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Clothing:
Bookbag
Shirts (3 black, 1 red, 1 white, 1 pink)
Jeans (3 blue, 3 black)
Assorted undergarments
Sandals
Track shoes
Hiking boots
Motorcycle helmet & 2 jackets

Misc:
A black suzuki motorcylce
2 cans of cat food for Frankie
School supplies for children
1950$ cash
A chemistry set
A stolen chess set
A gremin coin
3 bottles labeled as Pheonix Tears
A pouch of Everlast Dust - preserves one plant or turns one animal into a zombie?

Books:
Journal of a Plant Mangus
The Scholar’s Guide to Magia-Arthropodology
The True Patriot’s Guide to Casting
Movie Magic
Saucy Spheres
Assorted botany/biology/chemistry textbooks

Reagents:
A bottle of cold medicine
Starberry seeds (10 packs)
Salt, pepper & paprika (in novelty Blues Clues jars!)
Rubbing Alcohol
Sulfuric acid
Liqour
A Star of David pendant (worn)

Creatures:
Frankie
3a tomato plants, named Audrey, Rufus and Seymour.
Audrey Jr. the Pixie Seedling
Corpse of Rufus the Tomato Demon
Pixie Seeds (9)

Souls:
Wild Chaotic Evil Soul - strength 3
Wild Chaotic Evil Soul - strength 2

Second, I want to change my mission vote to the Great Escape. Lillipad convinced me. Yeah, yeah, werewolves are bad. But maybe we can put Palorur in charge of the Board of Subhuman Affairs and send him to deal with it once we free him.

And, finally, speculation as to why Harman needs to face west at sunset while standing waist-deep in the ocean: According to many mythological traditions, the Afterlife is located over the ocean to the west, where the sun goes every night when it is swallowed up by the earth. So, going with that theory, the spell probably requires that you view the metaphorical "death of the sun" in order to force the waters of the sea to take on an aspect of destruction powerful enough to 'cut through just about anything'. But I don't really know much at all about how your magic works, so yeah.