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[Andres]

((Ok, now I see how it works. Thanks.))

Say the third word with 2 POT, the fourth with 1 POT, and the fifth with 1 POT.

[Beirus]

((Attack and spell same round yes. DC change, NOOOOOOOOO!))

[Andres]

((Is it even necessary to assign POT to spells? Can I just say the words and hope for 6's?))

[Beirus]

((Is it even necessary to assign POT to spells? Can I just say the words and hope for 6's?))

((It's necessary because POT is how many dice you roll. This system is different from the old Perplexicon system.))

[Andres]

((Is it even necessary to assign POT to spells? Can I just say the words and hope for 6's?))

((It's necessary because POT is how many dice you roll. This system is different from the old Perplexicon system.))

((Oh so that's how it works? Cool, thanks.))

[blazing glory]

Enter the magma caverns.

[Toaster]

((I think the penalty for negative words in spells should be stiffer, though I understand it's hard to figure out what "fragile" might do in several situations.  That said, making them have a positive cost makes them completely unusable, as well as those neutral cost words.  I mean, I was going to make some "Fancy" or whatever it is armor just for the sake of being fancy, but I won't do that if it costs.))

[SaberToothTiger]

Drop this piece of shit cloth and RUN AWAAAAY.

[Person]

Just had a potentially interesting idea for this sort of genre of game. What if saying the words out loud, such that everyone could hear, gave some sort of bonus? Yelling puts more power into the word and such. Just a thought. I doubt it would work well in practice. Rather enjoying reading this with the mechanics you've created, but am content to sit back and watch, at least for now.

[swordsmith04]

Oops. Forgot my bold text.

"Maybe you have to know what it actually does? How'd Reg find out, then..."

I was thinking about changing the combat rules to allow physical attacking while still casting spells. Perhaps even multiple spells during combat. Y/N?

Tentative Y. Maybe make it depend on winning the Speed rolls by more than one? And have failures cause an even bigger mess.

Also, pretty sure that I'm going to adjust some DCs. Namely, changing all negative and neutral DCs to 1.

I dislike this one, though I can't tell if it's because I'm playing the game or because I just don't like the idea.

[Toaster]

Alternate proposal for DC changes, since DC:1 for negative words would make them completely pointless instead of hard to use right:

1)  All 0 DC words stay the same.   They're mostly non-effect words, from what I've seen.
2)  All -1 DC words go to 0.  They can be worked around.
3)  With one exception, all -2 and lower negative words go to -1.  They're actual penalties to the effect, and in cases where the effect is less obvious, make them so.
4)  Limit multiple negative words.  Either hard limit them to one, or make using more than one give the spell a chance to outright fail; something like a 1/N chance of success, where N is the number of negative words in the spell.
5)  Leave that -5 word that involves suicide where it is.  It's a suicide word; it's got enough of a penalty.
6)  Change it so total spell DC is minimum 1.  So if you have Fragile (-3) Sand (1), the DC comes out as -2 -> 1 (so you can see the unmodified DC for estimating cost of words.)

Anyway.


"Wah hah!  I see the <3 is spreading!  Have some moooooore!"

So much <3!

[Hawk132]

1)  All 0 DC words stay the same.   They're mostly non-effect words, from what I've seen.
2)  All -1 DC words go to 0.  They can be worked around.
3)  With one exception, all -2 and lower negative words go to -1.  They're actual penalties to the effect, and in cases where the effect is less obvious, make them so.
4)  Limit multiple negative words.  Either hard limit them to one, or make using more than one give the spell a chance to outright fail; something like a 1/N chance of success, where N is the number of negative words in the spell.
5)  Leave that -5 word that involves suicide where it is.  It's a suicide word; it's got enough of a penalty.
6)  Change it so total spell DC is minimum 1.  So if you have Fragile (-3) Sand (1), the DC comes out as -2 -> 1 (so you can see the unmodified DC for estimating cost of words.)

This sounds great to me. I'll change the DCs to this if no one objects.

And since it appears that no one is against the combat rules change, I'll change them too.

[Andres]

I have no idea what any of that means.

[ATHATH]

Nooooo... I wanted to suggest [what I'm looking at][fragile*a billion][more debuffs*a billion] to make a death laser...

[Hawk132]

I'm missing Beirus', NAV's and endlessblaze's actions.

I'll wait another day or so.

FAKEEDIT: Just noticed that I've actually got a PM from NAV.

EDIT: Now I just need Beirus to show up with his action. I mean, it's pretty obvious that it's going to be something along the lines of "Crush Coward. See him driven before me. Hear the lamentations of his women.", but I'd like to make it official.