12-31-2009, 12:36 PM | #141 | |
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Re: Resolved,There is no point to statting up anything that is not a PC
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12-31-2009, 12:47 PM | #142 | |
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When and why do you not roll ? Do you roll for the spatio-temporal coordinates of the PC at the beginning of play ? Do you roll for number and prepare stats for every people, animals and object they may encounter ? Do you roll reaction roll for every single npc they speak to ? If they enter a random house and open a random cupboard, do you roll for each items inside ? Does your game entirely consist of random table encounter ? Do you actually run a roleplaying game, or just a world simulation ? if you do not roll at random for everything, where do you put the limit. And why ? What is, for you, unworthy of a roll ? Some real example for my last game. during their enquiries, my player arranged to meet someone who can provide them with a needed boat. Now, i had readyed several possibilities for them to get a boat, and that man was one of those i have expected the player to contact, and i have put down a few word to describe him. The player, however, actually did extended research on the man, figured the best way to approach him, arrangued to have a introduction from someone he respected, and roleplayed a adequate fast-talk. By strict obedience to the rules, i should have roll a reaction roll, with huge bonus but a non-zero chance of failure, especially since there was danger involved for the man, and little money available. Given what the player had done, i did not roll. Why should i have ? Would it really had improved the game if, after all their work, i rolled a 3 and denied them the help of the man ? If i had rolled a 18, should i have given them everything they asked for and more, not because they spent 2 hour of game setting the meeting up, but because i rolled a 18? Did i cheated my player of fun because i deprived them of the unexpected randomness of the dice. ? Later on, they fought a guardian beast, going somewhere i had not expected them to go, but that, in my mind, would have been left guarded. I did not even looked at my books, i just pulled essential stats out of nowhere. Am i a bad GM because i did not have a full write up of the thing ? Mid fight, one of the player noticed a clue, dropped his gun and switched to a blessed weapon they had obtained a few game earlier, and rolled a 3 on a heroic and desperate default broadsword roll. I did not ask him to roll damage, i did not check the vulnerabilities rules, i did not rolled Ht, i pronounced the monster dead, vanished in a shower of sparks. Was it that wrong ? Am i somehow a game criminal that should get his rulebooks taken away ? Did i forfeited my Gurps GM license ? Please note that I had stats for several things the player encountered earlier and later in that game. I rolled reaction roll for several other minor encounter during that game. There was another fight that night wich was rolled down to the last hp. I do not say you should never use full write-up and never roll. But sometimes, going with the flow is better than rolling. In my opinion, and in my games. Celjabba |
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12-31-2009, 12:57 PM | #143 | |
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12-31-2009, 01:02 PM | #144 | |
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Neither I nor my players would care, should a guess on such a thing prove to be factually wrong, as long as the guess was believable and game-coherent. Celjabba |
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12-31-2009, 01:05 PM | #145 | |
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I don't think you'd want to know what a typical Amber player would think of you for that type of statement... *ig* Which is fine in some cinematic campaigns, but silly results attributable to crits aren't always going to fly in other settings. |
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12-31-2009, 01:06 PM | #146 | |
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12-31-2009, 01:12 PM | #147 | |
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If more people did what you suggest this forum would be a desert with a couple of gearheads in it and the hobby would be dead. |
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12-31-2009, 01:15 PM | #148 |
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12-31-2009, 01:26 PM | #149 |
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Re: Resolved,There is no point to statting up anything that is not a PC
Not going to happen, teaching people to wing it is the best advice anyone can give any prospective GM.
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12-31-2009, 01:31 PM | #150 |
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Re: Resolved,There is no point to statting up anything that is not a PC
Describing it as "impulsive" is not very accurate. When I see a poster coming in asking "how do I build this with points", I don't fire up my "don't worry about the points!" macro and then go for lunch, job well done. I actually, you know, think about whether its appropriate advice, given the poster's history, their described purpose for the trait, and so forth.
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