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I get it now. I like the idea of having a visual build-up of threat stemming from dice rolls.

Dang. That’s a cool dice mechanic. I must be spoiled with ORE, but it feels like a lot of work to get one dice roll out of the way. It doesn’t bog things down, do you find?

“Speaking ill of the dead”? What am I, Edgar Allen Poe? No, the kids are calling it cold goss.

Standing by! Haha

That’s cool, I didn’t realise PbtA was such a broad term in its own right. I’ve played a little Dungeon World and others, but not enough to know the background of all that.

There are loads of ways to tinker. If you want to run it for kids, use d6s and suddenly it feels like a light-hearted and easy game (significantly easier to get successes with smaller dice pools).

The math is hardly impossible, but at least for d10, someone else has done the math. https://www.darkshire.net/~jhkim/rpg/nemesis/probability.html

I used to have a better link where someone had a 3-axis graph that gave a better sense of width likelihoods. Long story short, the curve is highly centered on twos and threes, and anything bigger is laughably unlikely unless you have special “master” dice.

Two years ago I bought one pair of shoelaces from a website that looked like the old internet. It was fucking great.

Ah yeah, totally understand. In that case I’d recommend the ORE Toolkit (same system, but written by fans and slightly more designed around homebrewing and tweaking the underlying system for tone and lethality).

https://img.4plebs.org/boards/tg/image/1401/25/1401252784488.pdf

I can hear it now. My kid’s generation is gonna be giving each other shit like "wait, you bought this off a website? Like a millennial?"

Would be interested to know how it diverges from PbtA? Sounds cool though!

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The thing is, if you’re autistic it’s super easy to find out who’s neurodivergent - it’s everyone you’ve ever vibed with.

If you’re not, you probably already wanted to stop talking to me.

Oooh, have you heard of Wild Talents? It has everything on your wishlist. It’s possible to create overpowered abilities, but you’d have to set out to specifically do that - and the GM would then have to say yes to it. If you’re trying to be OP in a sneaky way, it’s just not gonna happen.

I played that a few times. I love the early game lethality and gritty realism. I’ve heard Mörk Borg (sp?) is carrying that torch nowadays, have been meaning to try it.

It still trips me out that visible light, infrared, microwave radiation, radio waves, x-rays, ultraviolet, and even laser beams are all just photons.

Particle radiation is a whole other can of worms. It boggles the mind.

Hard to condense this to an integer. There were times of feast and famine. I was given a lot of freedom that I knew most parents my age would gasp at, and I had some perks. That said, I did come from a broken home and I was the product of people who probably shouldn’t have had a kid. They have their own circumstances and issues with their parents as well, so the brokenness really is generational. I’ve done everything in my power to break that pattern and it’s working so far.

I will not say I was spoiled, but I was certainly given too much to eat and not often enough sent outside to play. I was always going to be an oddity and a misfit, so it would have been nice to at least not be fat.

All of that and I still was extremely privileged. The overall number needs a context. If we’re framing this against global childhood, I’m at least a 4. If we’re zooming in to kids in my immediate cohort, probably closer to a -3.

Wishlisted Art of Rally! Looks right up my street. Most realistic rally and racing games don’t hold my attention as much, I usually need a fictional element to keep it escapist.

Have you tried the EXO Rally Championship demo? I feel like it’s probably geared towards more serious rally fans who understand certain fundamentals of driving and tuning more than I do, but it has a really fun setting and tone. The added complexity of the 360⁰ jets and the six wheels is a hoot.

Make Way didn’t quite scratch my Split/Second itch, but it helped a little.

Guys…

It’s the second best time to plant a tree. 😢