Lost in Dreams II (OCC)

[ericthered]

Originally Posted by TGLS

I dunno about aggressive, but assertive would certainly seem to apply.

Originally Posted by the_matrix_walker

His mild Impulsiveness and Overconfidence are doing their thing...

Yeah, Assertive is probably the right word.


I totally believe him as an eagle scout, for the record.

[ericthered]

Peter is awarded 5 points for for getting the american prisoners released from Thuroma. A new Thuroma arc has started. His home visits are another on-going arc, but I don't think we've arrived at point award time on those yet.


Julian's arc has taken a wild turn. He gets 2 points for interfering with the plans to take Bumundo, and for establishing himself in a location. We will be considering his kidnapping as a different arc

[TGLS]

Originally Posted by ericthered

Julian's arc has taken a wild turn. He gets 2 points for interfering with the plans to take Bumundo, and for establishing himself in a location. We will be considering his kidnapping as a different arc

What, getting kidnapped wasn't the plan? I'll take, hm, Riask (Broken/None) and Artist (Drawing). If not the language, then, I dunno, Fast-Talk? I spent a lot of time lying.

[TGLS]

Originally Posted by ericthered

OCC: Historically, Lost in dreams has in-game luck regeneration... but moving it to a number of posts is probably a good idea. What are we using for the other two games?

OK, so here are the relevant posts I could find:

Originally Posted by ericthered

ehh... not really. Luck is weird in play by post, but I'd like it to apply to "out of game time" rather than "in-game". I've been counting the number of posts between uses. The count for luck recharge is between 20 and 40 posts (I haven't decided yet, and you haven't made me decide yet), provided something weird doesn't happen that justifies double counting or excluding posts from counting. If I settle on 30 posts as the number, that means 1 post is about 2 minutes of play, which sounds about right.

Originally Posted by ericthered

In dreadstormers I'm using a baseline of 30 posts being an hours worth of play. I beginning to suspect that the number should be something more akin to 10 posts * (number of posters). "session" is a less objective measure, but I've seen posts saying the "predicted" session is four hours, so we can use that.

Originally Posted by ericthered

That was the suggested rate for wildcards (and thus other "per-session" traits like destiny) to refresh.

So it appears you (we?) settled on 30 posts per "gameplay"-hour. It's worth noting that you appeared to have 30 in mind before Hide joined, so that fits with the 10 * Posters formula you made up.

Not sure if 20 or 30 fit better. 20 would let Julian make a reroll back when he decided to hop in the hole and still make a reroll today (posts 257 and 277). 30 would place the last possible reroll before he knew about a hole (post 247). Peter seems to roll less often than Julian does (that's just how he rolls 😎), but looking at the period around April-2022, he burnt Luck on post 1064-1065, 20 would give him luck back around when he made an intimidation roll (post 1084), though 30 would be roughly consistent with his second use of luck for Public Speaking (post 1093).

I dunno whether timing these rolls more closely would be a good thing or a bad thing. I've mostly been sticking with my rolls on account of uncertainty whether Luck would recover in time to help if something terrible happened. Going with "oh, just wait 30 posts" and the pacing of activity, (265: Let's Steal Something. 266: Here's what you can steal, 267: Questions about what I can steal. 268: Answers. 269: I'll steal this and hide them), that's a pretty rapid turnaround to use luck again. So maybe like a hybrid model of "post counting" and "narrative" should be used, with back and forthing counting as fewer posts so we don't end up with a relatively high rate of lucky rolls. Or at least checking that enough posts have passed at post X, not X+2 (X: I roll skill. X+1: The result is bad. Would you like to reroll? X+2: I reroll that).

[ericthered]

Originally Posted by TGLS

So it appears you (we?) settled on 30 posts per "gameplay"-hour. It's worth noting that you appeared to have 30 in mind before Hide joined, so that fits with the 10 * Posters formula you made up.

Not sure if 20 or 30 fit better. 20 would let Julian make a reroll back when he decided to hop in the hole and still make a reroll today (posts 257 and 277). 30 would place the last possible reroll before he knew about a hole (post 247). Peter seems to roll less often than Julian does (that's just how he rolls 😎), but looking at the period around April-2022, he burnt Luck on post 1064-1065, 20 would give him luck back around when he made an intimidation roll (post 1084), though 30 would be roughly consistent with his second use of luck for Public Speaking (post 1093).

I dunno whether timing these rolls more closely would be a good thing or a bad thing. I've mostly been sticking with my rolls on account of uncertainty whether Luck would recover in time to help if something terrible happened. Going with "oh, just wait 30 posts" and the pacing of activity, (265: Let's Steal Something. 266: Here's what you can steal, 267: Questions about what I can steal. 268: Answers. 269: I'll steal this and hide them), that's a pretty rapid turnaround to use luck again. So maybe like a hybrid model of "post counting" and "narrative" should be used, with back and forthing counting as fewer posts so we don't end up with a relatively high rate of lucky rolls. Or at least checking that enough posts have passed at post X, not X+2 (X: I roll skill. X+1: The result is bad. Would you like to reroll? X+2: I reroll that).

Lets go with 20, with the GM reserving the right to disable posts that are "not much action". That should keep enough wiggle in the system to keep us honest.



As a side note, for posters in lost in dreams who post five times a week, that's luck every two weeks.

[the_matrix_walker]

Originally Posted by the_matrix_walker

I will save the luck and deal with the bruise. How are we doing Luck availablity? Is it Game Time, or every so many posts?

Originally Posted by ericthered

Huh, the original OCC thread says that luck is game time.

When this has been discussed in the past, you saved such post-count headaches by declaring it was "Game Time".

[TGLS]

The problem with game time is (by default) a day long, which is an intensely variable amount of time. For example, 80 posts ago, I'd say a day would be less than 20 posts. 80 posts later and I'm not sure if a day has passed or not. Knowing the rate you get luck back is pretty important to judge how often you should use it.

[ericthered]

Originally Posted by the_matrix_walker

When this has been discussed in the past, you saved such post-count headaches by declaring it was "Game Time".

This is quite true. I've recently become a little skeptical of the wisdom of this approach.



If you want Peter to stay on "per day", that's fine, I'm just considering the change here.

[ericthered]

Erring on the side of 'too many rolls' seems better than a delay.

I don't disagree!

[ericthered]

Sorry about the delay. The flu just knocked me out for two days.