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[syvarris]

((Well, I missed the last update due to RL stuff taking up time _{and a lack of sleep.}  I will say though, I think the game format is somewhat problematic--it's a wide open sandbox, with absolute freedom and little direction.  Worse, it's difficult to make significant progress in a timely manner, even if you do manage to figure out a goal.  I think another issue might be the lack of information on what's going on or where you are--it's very easy for someone to lose track of what they were doing or where they are, and even I frequently find myself looking back to the previous update or two to refresh myself.

Of course, I only have the experiences of Zerthel Zentol to go on, so others might see things differently.))

Spoiler: Zerthel Zentol members only (click to show/hide)

Look around the fetish shop for anything that seems to be legitimately magical.  What stat does this use, by the way?  Knowledge or Senses?  I'd like to know whether Zruril is great or horrible at this.

While looking around, peek at the proprieter a bit.  What do they look like. what are they doing?


Name:Zruril Zaszurs
Appearance: Zruril is a tall, middle-age man, with thinning gray hair and a calm, warm, smile that never seems to leave his face.  He wears heavy robes that look much like what a priest might wear, and a perceptive individual might notice the glint of a small handgun carefully hidden in their folds.
Magic path: Empath Invoker
Mana: 0

Strength: 1d4
Speed: 1d8
Endurance: 1d4
Knowledge: 1d12
Will: 1d12
Senses: 1d4

Ongoing effects: None!

Inventory:
Heavy robes (d4 light armor)
Pocket springpistol (d6 ranged)
324 gold coins
4 silver coins

[Beirus]

Spoiler: FISTicuffs (click to show/hide)

Follow the others and catch bugs on the way. Keep an eye out for any empty hour glasses or children's drawings too.

Name​: Aurum
Appearance​: I am the alchemist.
Magic path​: Alchemist Sculptor
Mana​: 3
Strength​: d4
Speed​: d8
Endurance​: d10
Knowledge​: d8
Will​: d10
Senses​: d4

Ongoing effects​:  None
Inventory​: Magical Material (Grand Item)
Alchemist's Gear (Great Item) (Set up at home)
A drop of Thaum
Box of Glass Vials (Mundane Item)
One bug
A large cricket
A large beetle
Another beetle
Several ants
Small albino praying mantis
Bigass worm
Hercules beetle larva
Yet another beetle
Some coins from a no longer existent empire
Backpack (Mundane Item)

[Lenglon]

((Aww Sy, Nina doesn't count? I'm suprised you haven't read my turns any. I thought all the cabal folks were gonna end up reading her turns on the side to get a more global perspective.))

[Radio Controlled]

Cabal users might want to explain in PMs/ in threads in more detail. RC can't complain about his airship without telling us he has an airship, after all.

This is alright for me, though slow (partly my choices on that).

Wait, how did you find out about Skyterror Prime? Did peedubs spill the beans again?

Dammit PW, you can't keep doing that, they weren't supposed to find out until after the indiscriminate mass bombing of major population centers starts. We haven't even finalized our list of demands yet!

[PaPaj]

Wake's up in Kaolin

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Bombu
Appearance: A litteral shadowy figure...nothing more,nothing less
Magic path: Channeler gut-reader
Mana: 0

Strength: d6
Speed: d6
Endurance: d6
Knowledge: d10
Will: d8
Senses: d8
 
Ongoing effects:
 
Inventory:
Empty Book and ink pen
Light armor
100 feet of rope
a club (D6)
100 Coins
Magical Material

[NJW2000]

...I can't ask if that's a serious queston or a joke, because if I knew, I'd have gained information through the metagame.

[Toaster]

Spoiler: Zentol action (click to show/hide)

Hmmm...

Explore the plains to the north.  Thinking a two day journey in a wide loop; see if there is anything arcane or cryptic out there.

Spoiler: Zrell (click to show/hide)

Name: Thrakor  Zrell
Appearance: A bookish-looking sort; the kind you expect to see hidden behind tomes, looking for some hidden lost knowledge.  But a forgettable face and calm demeanor hide his true plans for getting power...
Magic path: Alchemist Invoker
Mana: 5
Strength: d4
Speed: d6
Endurance: d4
Knowledge: d8
Will: d10
Senses: d12

Ongoing effects:

Inventory: Backpack, Light Armor (d4), Box of Glass Vials, Alchemist Gear

Materials: Gas d8 [phase of matter], Light d8

[piecewise]

((Well, I missed the last update due to RL stuff taking up time _{and a lack of sleep.}  I will say though, I think the game format is somewhat problematic--it's a wide open sandbox, with absolute freedom and little direction.  Worse, it's difficult to make significant progress in a timely manner, even if you do manage to figure out a goal.  I think another issue might be the lack of information on what's going on or where you are--it's very easy for someone to lose track of what they were doing or where they are, and even I frequently find myself looking back to the previous update or two to refresh myself.

Of course, I only have the experiences of Zerthel Zentol to go on, so others might see things differently.))

Spoiler: Zerthel Zentol members only (click to show/hide)

Look around the fetish shop for anything that seems to be legitimately magical.  What stat does this use, by the way?  Knowledge or Senses?  I'd like to know whether Zruril is great or horrible at this.

While looking around, peek at the proprieter a bit.  What do they look like. what are they doing?


Name:Zruril Zaszurs
Appearance: Zruril is a tall, middle-age man, with thinning gray hair and a calm, warm, smile that never seems to leave his face.  He wears heavy robes that look much like what a priest might wear, and a perceptive individual might notice the glint of a small handgun carefully hidden in their folds.
Magic path: Empath Invoker
Mana: 0

Strength: 1d4
Speed: 1d8
Endurance: 1d4
Knowledge: 1d12
Will: 1d12
Senses: 1d4

Ongoing effects: None!

Inventory:
Heavy robes (d4 light armor)
Pocket springpistol (d6 ranged)
324 gold coins
4 silver coins

Fair. Recommendations on fixing it?

[Dermonster]

((Well, I missed the last update due to RL stuff taking up time _{and a lack of sleep.}  I will say though, I think the game format is somewhat problematic--it's a wide open sandbox, with absolute freedom and little direction.  Worse, it's difficult to make significant progress in a timely manner, even if you do manage to figure out a goal.  I think another issue might be the lack of information on what's going on or where you are--it's very easy for someone to lose track of what they were doing or where they are, and even I frequently find myself looking back to the previous update or two to refresh myself.

Of course, I only have the experiences of Zerthel Zentol to go on, so others might see things differently.))

Spoiler: Zerthel Zentol members only (click to show/hide)

Look around the fetish shop for anything that seems to be legitimately magical.  What stat does this use, by the way?  Knowledge or Senses?  I'd like to know whether Zruril is great or horrible at this.

While looking around, peek at the proprieter a bit.  What do they look like. what are they doing?


Name:Zruril Zaszurs
Appearance: Zruril is a tall, middle-age man, with thinning gray hair and a calm, warm, smile that never seems to leave his face.  He wears heavy robes that look much like what a priest might wear, and a perceptive individual might notice the glint of a small handgun carefully hidden in their folds.
Magic path: Empath Invoker
Mana: 0

Strength: 1d4
Speed: 1d8
Endurance: 1d4
Knowledge: 1d12
Will: 1d12
Senses: 1d4

Ongoing effects: None!

Inventory:
Heavy robes (d4 light armor)
Pocket springpistol (d6 ranged)
324 gold coins
4 silver coins

Fair. Recommendations on fixing it?

One issue I have is that I feel like I have to wring every little detail out of your hands. Like a turn or two ago, I found some coins. I have no idea how many. I have little to no idea of what I should be adding or removing from my inventory at any given moment. (I know you have reasons but keeping track of my own inventory will forever be annoying.)

I also don't have a very coherent grasp of my surroundings. I forget when it happened but it took several pages to even describe what our starting point even looked like. That shouldn't be something I have to spend an action on. I don't even remember what you said.

I guess the upshot is, I want more detail on what I get, where I am, and some more detailed descriptions as well.

[Radio Controlled]

I kinda think you might be stretching yourself a little thin over too many games, pw, leading to some of the posts in this game feeling a bit barren and rushed.

[piecewise]

((Well, I missed the last update due to RL stuff taking up time _{and a lack of sleep.}  I will say though, I think the game format is somewhat problematic--it's a wide open sandbox, with absolute freedom and little direction.  Worse, it's difficult to make significant progress in a timely manner, even if you do manage to figure out a goal.  I think another issue might be the lack of information on what's going on or where you are--it's very easy for someone to lose track of what they were doing or where they are, and even I frequently find myself looking back to the previous update or two to refresh myself.

Of course, I only have the experiences of Zerthel Zentol to go on, so others might see things differently.))

Spoiler: Zerthel Zentol members only (click to show/hide)

Look around the fetish shop for anything that seems to be legitimately magical.  What stat does this use, by the way?  Knowledge or Senses?  I'd like to know whether Zruril is great or horrible at this.

While looking around, peek at the proprieter a bit.  What do they look like. what are they doing?


Name:Zruril Zaszurs
Appearance: Zruril is a tall, middle-age man, with thinning gray hair and a calm, warm, smile that never seems to leave his face.  He wears heavy robes that look much like what a priest might wear, and a perceptive individual might notice the glint of a small handgun carefully hidden in their folds.
Magic path: Empath Invoker
Mana: 0

Strength: 1d4
Speed: 1d8
Endurance: 1d4
Knowledge: 1d12
Will: 1d12
Senses: 1d4

Ongoing effects: None!

Inventory:
Heavy robes (d4 light armor)
Pocket springpistol (d6 ranged)
324 gold coins
4 silver coins

Fair. Recommendations on fixing it?

One issue I have is that I feel like I have to wring every little detail out of your hands. Like a turn or two ago, I found some coins. I have no idea how many. I have little to no idea of what I should be adding or removing from my inventory at any given moment. (I know you have reasons but keeping track of my own inventory will forever be annoying.)

I also don't have a very coherent grasp of my surroundings. I forget when it happened but it took several pages to even describe what our starting point even looked like. That shouldn't be something I have to spend an action on. I don't even remember what you said.

I guess the upshot is, I want more detail on what I get, where I am, and some more detailed descriptions as well.

The difficulty is that I literally cannot meticulously explain every aspect of your surroundings in every post unless you want this game to get updated once a month.  Especially when people are split up in different groups and running around everywhere.  I mean, I try to give pertinent info, info related to the actions at hand and what you can do. I could go on and on about what a place looks like but it does no good if all someone does with that info is say "Find a place to get X", which is most of what the actions are.

And I could speed things up a lot, but then people get angry because I follow their actions literally and bad things sometimes happen to them that they feel are outside their control. There's no real middle ground here; either you get in depth descriptions and control and things move slowly, or you get lots done and I have to be kind of vague.

I'm good with either.

I kinda think you might be stretching yourself a little thin over too many games, pw, leading to some of the posts in this game feeling a bit barren and rushed.

Thats entirely possible. I don't have a lot of time and I'm trying to get stuff done.

[Whisperling]

"Find a place to get X", which is most of what the actions are.

Honestly, that might be what the problem is. Not sure I think descriptions are the primary issue- it's frustrating when you don't know how many coins you just got, but not catastrophic. But, as of right now, the game is kinda feeling like a "go here get this" simulator. A particularly nice one, mind you, but still bland.

This was sorta the problem with ORO as well. The environment is interesting as can be, the mechanics look fun, but in practice it's just sort of saying the same action over and over again until it sticks.


I'm not sure what exactly would be causing that. Maybe the way magic works? Some of that can be pretty tedious- sculptor recipes, for one, but also the sheer amount of work needed to get enough mana for spellcasting. Less in terms of opportunities, more in terms of amount. Bang killed that bird thing and got, what, 3-4 mana? Given that cost is a D12, I doubt it lets him cast so much as a single spell.

Know it's a design decision, but from this end, it mostly just feels like being locked out of the fun part of the game.

[Lenglon]

Wait, spells cost D12 mana? I didn't know Nina had so little... I mean, when the average is 6.5 mana per spell...

[Radio Controlled]

From the rules:

The amount of mana used by a spell is equal to the Challenge roll made by the GM. So, if a player casts a spell which the GM concludes would be of a d8 Challenge, and then rolls 6 on that d8, the spell will cost 6, regardless of if it succeeds or not.

Also:

Spells can fail for one of two reasons: The caster lacking the needed mana or failing the difficulty roll. If they simply lack mana, then the spell will take what they have and fizzle out. If they fail the difficulty roll, then one of two things can happen. If they fail but roll greater than half the difficulty roll, then the spell fizzles normally. If they roll LESS than half however, the spell backfires. What this looks like can vary depending on the spell, but it will generally be destructive and damaging to the caster and those around him.
 
For example, if a spell’s difficulty is d8 and the gm rolls 6 while the player, who has d10 in the stat used for the spell, rolls a 3, this would result in a backfire. Had the player rolled a 4 or higher, the spell would have just fizzled because it would have been greater than ½ of the GM’s roll of 6.

So you better not miscast or you're just pissing away mana.

[NJW2000]

One thing might be that it's very slow. That may have been my choices though.