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[Bauglir]

I can't really describe this game except as a beautiful, glorious clusterfuck of ideas from otherwise unrelated tabletop games and story settings. TVTropes handles the specifics better than I can.

Current version is on this page.

Starting this thread to take care of a derail I started elsewhere.

Spoiler: resolved (click to show/hide)

So the thing I noticed earlier is that it seems like characters can actually be worse off with weapons they're proficient with under certain circumstances. The game uses a system whereby you roll a number of d10s and keep a certain number of them. A character has characteristics and skills, which are analagous to a D&D character's ability scores and skills (and attack rolls), respectively. A skill roll will typically have an added characteristic, and you typically roll a number of dice equal to your characteristic plus your skill and keep a number equal to your characteristic. Other times, you'll just roll a characteristic, which means you roll a number of dice equal to your characteristic and keep all of them (because the number you keep is still your characteristic).

Now, an attack is apparently different. According to page 150, a character who is not proficient makes a Characteristic check instead of a Skill check. The next section, however, states that attacks use the appropriate skill with NO Characteristic; you just use your skill as the number of kept dice, so you keep all of them. Also, if you are proficient (which would seem to be all the time, if you're using a skill), you get to roll extra dice equal to your level (so you do end up losing some after all).

According to the Glossary, the Characteristic you use for attack tests is Dexterity.

This suggests that a character with Dexterity 4, Weaponry 1, who is level 1, would roll 4 dice and keep 4 if they were attacking with a sword and were not proficient, but would instead roll 2 dice and keep one if they were proficient with the weapon, which is strictly worse.

The actual book is enormous and often poorly formatted, so I might easily have missed something. Thoughts?

[Dsarker]

Okay. Checked the actual combat section. Attacks use dex and the appropriate skill. So you'd use dex and weaponry for melee, or dex and ballistic for shooting.

[Bauglir]

Okay. Just to be sure, you're looking at Version 1.4, right? Under Step Two in The Attack, this sentence appears "No characteristic is used for this test; the number of kept dice is equal to the skill used."

That seems contradictory with everything else and I'm tempted to ignore it.

[Dsarker]

Oh, I was looking at V1.1. I'll go get a copy of the updated one.

[Bauglir]

I'm guessing it was a change made to counter claims of overpoweredness (you can get some really obscene numbers if you optimize for it), but that wasn't thought through, but I'm not sure if I'm just missing it or if this version is just really badly edited.

[RedWarrior0]

Well, considering it's the spawn of /tg/ (One of the tamer 4chan regions, but still 4chan)...

Also, I heard a future expansion will add pony races.

[HLBeta]

This is probably the single most "other" game I have yet found in Other Games. My hysterical peals of laughter have already brought down the condemnation of one slumbering roommate.

Bravo, sir!

[Dsarker]

Well, considering it's the spawn of /tg/ (One of the tamer 4chan regions, but still 4chan)...

Also, I heard a future expansion will add pony races.

I bet it will. That's what I'm waiting for

[tehstefan]

This is ridiculous.

[HLBeta]

I'm flipping through the rulebook and noticed that Paragon exalted don't seem to have a tier 1 ability. Am I missing something here, or are they just too cool for basic powers?

[zombat]

In the 41st thousand age there is only war?

[Dsarker]

Maybe. The backstory isn't all that clear.

[Rabek Jeris]

I... I saw the title... I read the thread... I... I thought it was all a hoax. An elaborate trick... then? Then I followed the link. I found the file.

WHAT HAS SCIENCE (/tg/) DONE?!

[Rakonas]

I thought this was all a joke, since when has it been anything more?

[chaoticag]

Well, it started as an april fools joke, but then it turned out that the game was playable.