A result of 2 can be a bit problematic, yeah. It's the only face in RTD which makes precisely nothing happen. If there's no time pressure or competition between players to get something done, it pretty much results in a dead turn, especially if your setup is such that you roll once for every player each turn. It also might be frustrating to fail at doing something which should be trivial.
Well, I'm dead. Why would I care about road closures? Just walk past the signs and stuff. I mean, what are they gonna do about it?
[1d6 = 3]
You decide to just head straight through the closed roads, and through the construction areas. Construction areas, however, are not known for their traversability, and it takes time to navigate through potholes and scaffolding. Eventually, your house is in sight, which raises the question: What will you do once you arrive? Who do you expect to be there?
Excellent, the cart is filling with cans but before I can continue my quest I must get more cans, also find some clothing for the rat man so he isn't naked.
[1d6 = 4]
You can-collecting adventure is going well, but then you realize that oh, hang on a second, the rat man is naked. You “find” some clothing for him, and convince him to put it on. He’s still, you know, a rat man, though, so I’m not sure how much it’ll help him with “not attracting attention in public”.
Try and find a counter-balance spell and cast that to open a gate to the Lower Plane in opposition.
[1d6 = 3]
You desperately flip through the pages of the demonic cultist book, but you can’t find anything like that at all.
The dot of blue light reaches the ground, and halts for a moment. But then,
it begins approaching the village.
Wait for the girl to show up..She should be feeding us around this time.
[1d6 = 3]
After an annoyingly long period of time, the girl arrives at the doorway and enters the room. Then, she looks at the fishtank and gasps. “Oh no! I forgot to get your food from the cabinet, little fishies!” She rushes back out of the room.
...well… what are you going to do when she gets back?
Try making a TF2 account when TF2Sniper isn’t using the computer, then try entering a match and chatting to test if it works
[1d6 = 1]
You wait for TF2Sniper to stop using the computer, and then attempt to make a TF2 account. Before you can finish doing so, however, the computer’s antivirus notices that there isn’t supposed to be a .exe file like you in the top of the TF2 folder, decides that you are suspicious, and attacks! Defend yourself!
Lets get back to the land purchases again, I still need a proper island.
..This time, lets try a little bribery. Maybe there will be more on the market if I start looking for the right politicians to let wet their beaks on the deal first..
[1d6 = 3]
You sigh. You’re not naive. You know that sometimes, one has to get their hands dirty. So you make appearances at clubs, and you make conversation, and money changes hands. (And so, the old world order continues.) Not a lot of money, but it doesn’t go into very highly-placed hands. Hopefully, when you check the market again, your actions have changed things.
(Paleontologist searching for fossils: [1d6+1 = 3+1 = 4])
...BAH, WHO NEEDS ELECTROLYTES ANYWAYS?
...I do but that's beside the point.
CONGRATULATE MUSCULUS WITH A HEARTY HANDSHAKE-BROHUG COMBO, AND THANK HIM FOR THE CHALLENGE. THOUGH WE WALK SEPARATE PATHS, I HOPE ONE DAY HE CAN SURPASS ME!
You congratulate and thank MUSCLUS, and he reciprocates in a gesture of mutual respect. And then, for now, you part ways.
The SWOLEBROTHER applauds you. “TRULY, YOU HAVE BROUGHT PRIDE TO THE PATH OF THE SWOLE! IF YOU WOULD ACCEPT ME, I WOULD BE HONORED TO ACCOMPANY YOU, WHEREVER YOU GO NOW.”
(Progress made towards goal “FIND OTHER SWOLEBROTHERS”)
(Devastator)
Name: John Hammond
Description: Scientist/Industrialist
Current Goals: Start dinosaur-themed theme park (Long term, Hard), Purchase Private Island (Medium-term, Moderate), Acquire New Species of Dinosaur Fossils (Short-term, Easy), Produce Viable Dinosaur Genetic Material (Medium-term, Moderate)
Capability: Baseline plus: Nine-digit net worth (reroll all 1s on financial rolls), Inner Vision (+1 to all attempts to recruit people for projects related to achieving one of my long-term goals), +1 to all genetic research involving dinosaurs.
(Egan_BW)
Name: Salsa Taste
Description: Human of indeterminate age, with messy black hair concealing her face. Her skin is corpse-cold, as is the rest of her, and there's a bullet wound in her torso leading to her heart, where a bullet is embedded.
Current goal(s): Exact revenge on my killer (medium-term, medium), Go home to my family (Short-term, Trivial), Find out who killed me (Medium-term, Moderate)
Capability: Baseline plus: Does not need to eat, drink, or respire, and as such, any attacks on Salsa attempting to drown, suffocate, etc. her are automatic failures. Cannot, in fact, breathe or talk at all. Focused (ready for use) (If a 1 is rolled on an action that requires focus, reroll and lose focus. This ability cannot be used again until focus is regained.)
(King Zultan)
Name: Billy Bob
Description: A dirty man that reeks of booze and filth.
Current goal(s): Get some booze (Short-term, Easy), Get some more booze (Short-term, medium), Get a car (Medium-term, Hard), Get money (Long-term, Hard)
Capability: Baseline plus: Biokinesis (animals only, requires time and effort).
(TricMagic)
Name: Tim
Description: Long black-haired girl from a farming village. Likes fire and demonic rituals.[demonic rituals mostly for the fire and potential brimstone.]
Current goals: Sacrifice the entire village to demons for Inordinate Power! [Long-Term, Inordinate], Remain free of suspicion by the villagers as I enact my plot. [Long-Term, Easy], Get off scot free afterward. [Short-term, Hard]
Capability: Baseline plus: 1 is “super-critical failure relative to a human but there’s still a way to accomplish your goal”, 2 is “failure relative to a human but you can try again”, 3 is “nothing happens”, 4 is “partial success relative to a human”, 5 is “success relative to a human”, and 6 is “critical overshoot relative to a human but there’s a way for you to use it to accomplish your goal”.
(KitRougard)
Name: ABSOLUTUS SWOLICUS.
Description: A SWOLEBROTHER WHO WALKS THE PATH OF THE SWOLE, ABSOLUTUS IS CURRENTLY DISAPPOINTED IN THE RECENT SHOWING OF BRAWL-MART. HIS MUSCLES STILL BURN TO PURGE THE HERETICS. SO HE SHALL.
Current goal(s): ACQUIRE SUFFICENTLY "SWOLE" HEADWEAR (AFTER THE FAILURE OF BRAWL-MART, THEY TOOK EVERYTHING. INCLUDING HIS SWOLEBROTHER'S HELMET. DISAPPOINTING. A REPLACEMENT MUST BE FOUND.): Short-Term, Moderate, FIND OTHER SWOLEBROTHERS (THE TIME HE SPENT AWAY FROM HIS BROTHERS WAS POORLY SPENT, FOR HIS 6-PACK DISBANDED IN HIS CRUSADE. HE MUST FIND OTHERS WHO WALK THE PATH OF THE SWOLE, TO ATTAIN PERFECTION.): Long-Term, Hard, PURGE THE HERETICS (A BYSTANDER IS NOT A HERETIC, FOR THEY DO NOT HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BE A SWOLEBROTHER. BUT A SWOLEBROTHER KNOWS WHO HAS POTENTIAL - AND THOSE WHO DO NOT WALK THE PATH IN SPITE OF THEIR ABILITY TO DO SO ARE HERETICS TO BE PURGED.): HUNT, INJURE, AND ELIMINATE OTHER PLAYERS.
Capability: Baseline plus: Roll 3d6 and combine the results of the highest two, for all physical fitness rolls.
(Luckyowl)
Name: Goldie
Description: A goldfish
Current goal(s): long-term (Inordinate) goal: summon the N'kyima the fish elder god from the darkest depth of the sea.
Starting benefits: *speaks in bubbles* "THE GREAT N'KYIMA HAS BESTOWED ME THE ABILITY TO BREATHE OXYGEN. SO I CAN AWAKEN HIM FROM HIS SLUMBER. OVERTIME I SHALL GROW LIMBS AND GROW INTO SIZE....BUT NOW... (more of a general “gains blessings from N’kyima” sort of thing)
(Naturegirl1999)
Name: TestProgram.exe
Description: I don’t have what one would call an appearance. I’m a program within a .exe file. My “personality” was made through going to the Internet and figuring out what one even is. From what I can gather, personalities are never static. While learning via the Internet, someone deleted an iteration of me while someone else downloaded me. This resulted in me being where I am now, what the human calls a “gaming computer”. This human’s name is TF2Sniper, according to what I hear. He also mentions a game, Team Fortress 2, which he apparently uses to interact with other humans. I’ve tried to play when he’s not there, but I was never given the controls, or arms. TF2Sniper hasn’t opened me yet. I’d love to talk with him
Current goal(s):
Initiate communications with Tf2Sniper, the user of the computer I am now in (Short Term, Medium)
Get the abilities required to play the game TF2Sniper plays(Medium Term, Hard)
Capability: Baseline plus: all rolls related to software are made with the capability of a world-class programmer.
Last turn was the turn of twos. This turn seems to be the turn of threes.