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[Draignean]

Anyway, as for opinions on warmups and cool down penalties. Personally, I already think there already is penalty, predictability. If you use a heavy attack, then there are 3 or 4 frames where you are standing completely still. That can be punished by ranged attacks or other heavy attacks or other things. To compare it to MOBAS, it's like having an attack that inflicts stun on you. A lot of things can happen while you are defenceless and unable to do anything. I don't think an external penalty is needed though it does feel that a lot of the time, the optimal strategy is to make a heavy attack on the first frame that you can since that is when the enemy has moved the least. Thankfully you have patterns that can counter that (active block heavy anyone?)

I think you're right on this one, and while a part me itches to find an additional way to hurt my players make combat more tactical, that part of the system is probably fair as it stands. We'll see if I come up with anything brilliant later.

As for Defiance, I think defiant resurgence may get a bit Op in the late game when you have lots of attributes and therefore lots of expendable charges. I don't think an ability as powerful as defiance should ever be spammed.

Fair point. I'll alter it so that X resets only when you get to a new overmap, not a new encounter. At that point it's still inexpensive enough that, in the late game, you can draw on it a few times when you need it, but you also have the knowledge that it's going to cost more on later, potentially harder encounters.

We'll see how it goes. Personally, I think the fact that it depletes all your other abilities will be a sufficient deterrent to avoid spamming it, but we'll see.

[Draignean]

Hmm, how can I procrastinate more on updating small mercies...

"You heard the voice, do you agree?"

Of course they do, why wouldn't they!



After the last corrupted townsman falls, all you're left with is the sound of waves and the creak of buildings in the sea wind. The feeling of being watched is omnipresent- an itch that burrows under the collar and tries to sink into the soul. A cursory search of the dead, both the recently killed and the others by the dock reveals little. This place was not an epicenter of conflict. The weaker corrupted were likely forced here by their stronger (and hungrier) brethren, and the other bodies were the unlucky few who tried to flee to the sea.

The only thing of value is a fragile silver locket, from the bottom of which is suspended a small sphere of luminescent glass. A memory well, designed to keep a warm bit of the past around with its owner. Little use to its deceased owner, but perhaps it can find a purpose with you.

Item Gained: Hopeful Locket (Grants Ability: Hopeful Memory U:1/-)

Hopeful Memory: For 3 rounds, you can avoid the largest source of hope damage each round. In addition, there's a 50% chance to gain an additional point of hope whenever any hope is gained.

Very little moves as you continue through the port town. Scraps of paper and cloth skitter across the ground, mementos of life driven by wind, but there's a distinct lack of anything larger than rats- though those exist in plenty. Multitudes of glittering eyes regard you from gutters and the dark spaces of open windows. Such creatures do not fear the corruption, and they will gleefully feast on anything you leave behind.

A voice, human and whole, catches your ear as you pass a row of small shops. The voice sings in a crisp, clear tenor, moving through a funeral dirge with a grace that bespeaks a lifetime of practice. The singer isn't visible, but the voice seems to be coming from a seamstresses shop with a variety of fine dresses in the window.

A. Ignore the singer and move on. (+5 Gloom)
B. Burn the shop down.
C. Enter the shop through the front door.
D. Encircle the shop, then breach from all sides.
E. Call out to the singer.

[IronyOwl]

C! Dolls love pretty dresses!

[heydude6]

How can I not vote for this?

B!

[OceanSoul]

D.

[Draignean]

I am now realizing why this was a terrible, terrible idea.

[OceanSoul]

I am now realizing why this was a terrible, terrible idea.

You made it a suggestion game without even realizing it. If that's the case...instead, Toege will call out to the singer. loudly. Quickly, too, so there's no chance to vote on it. It may not be the best course of action, but there won't be time for a vote...right?

[Draignean]

No, the suggestion game part was intentional.

However, what should have been supremely obvious (and apparently wasn't) was that giving five people five options would be about as likely to generate a conclusive result as a Big Foot hunt conducted by blind pathological liars.

Bah, I'll see how the other votes come in. I'm tired and not in a mood to completely rethink things at the moment.

[heydude6]

No, the suggestion game part was intentional

Can I ask why you chose to have us vote for a limited set of options instead of the usual post an action style like in DnD? I'm just curious.

[Criptfeind]

E!

[Draignean]

No, the suggestion game part was intentional

Can I ask why you chose to have us vote for a limited set of options instead of the usual post an action style like in DnD? I'm just curious.

Because there's big circled item on my agenda labeled 'involve waitlisters more', and the idea in the main game was that anyone could apply votes.  I might weight the players more highly, but anyone could try and swing the vote. Essential, the idea was to leave fewer people out, but instead the effect may have become 'make player choices matter less'. Bah.

[Tiruin]

I am now realizing why this was a terrible, terrible idea.

Happy week to you Draig Keep with the ideas \o/

C! Dolls love pretty dresses!

+1.

[TheBiggerFish]

E