not that you indicated this wasn’t the case necessarily but this is why I vastly prefer systems that have some sort of meta currency that allows you to stack rolls in your favor/allows you to reroll them, lmao. it’s fun to roll with a failure at a pivotal moment and it can even make a much more interesting story, but dammit, sometimes you just wanna do what you’re supposed to be able to do!
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RE: MU Peeves Threadposted in Rough and Rowdy
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RE: MU Peeves Threadposted in Rough and Rowdy
I had a char with maxed out skills because it was their focus in life. It’s all they wanted to do. I spent RL years investing and RPing and justifying and they were just the top of their game. We were in a scene and I was like YES! This is their moment. Everything they’ve worked for. This is finally when they will shine.
Roll.
Critical Failure.
I’m not going to lie I just stared at my screen for a long moment in silence and then started laughing. I’m sure I looked insane IRL. I mean I rolled with it, but damn.
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RE: MU Peeves Threadposted in Rough and Rowdy
@Gashlycrumb Yes. I find that frustrating. Even more so when someone does it in the presence of someone who’s character is focused on whatever it is. This is what they built towards, let them have their moment of triumph.
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RE: MU Peeves Threadposted in Rough and Rowdy
That was kind of half the fun of The Network for me. Sometimes, with no memory of why or how, you’d just realize wait. I’m a PHENOMENAL ballerina? WTF?!?
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RE: MU Peeves Threadposted in Rough and Rowdy
@Ominous said in MU Peeves Thread:
I think it’s more of a “Git Good Waveform.” The exact skill the XP is ultimately going to go toward is spread across multiple possibilities until the player observes a particular skill needing to suddenly be increased during a dire moment, which causes the waveform to collapse into the needed skill.
I call it the “Personal Narrative Swerve Particle”. Where a character builds a narrative of being focused on one group of things suddenly becomes a master of something completely unrelated. So like when a violent druglord suddenly becomes the world’s foremost expert on neurosurgery.
One version of this I refer to as the “Oh You Didn’t Know Corollary”, where the character in question suddenly remembers their previous life as a teacher at Harvard Medical.
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RE: MU Peeves Threadposted in Rough and Rowdy
all the hypothetical scenarios about jumping from like 1 to 10 in a skill immediately makes me picture the Matrix movies where they instantly upload knowledge and both
a) cracks my shit up, picturing some random dumb hyuck suddenly rolling their eyes back into their skull just so they can solve the mystery in one scene or win the arm wrestling match or whatever
b) kinda makes me wish for a game where that mechanic was explicitly part of the setting, maybe for Mysterious Reasons. sometimes characters are suddenly just inexplicably experts at something they’ve never done before, what’s happening???
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RE: Mostly Finished M&M 4E Projectposted in Rough and Rowdy
I don’t play M&M but I also won’t pretend this isn’t impressive as hell. Great job!
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RE: MU Peeves Threadposted in Rough and Rowdy
If I’m setting, it’s in media res, and it will be some blend of silly/horny.
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RE: MU Peeves Threadposted in Rough and Rowdy
@catzilla
They need to know your set first so they can decide the best way to ignore it. Duh.But yes. Enraging.
