[OOC] Villains

[Michael Thayne]

Originally Posted by Lamech

So here is how I'm doing the rolling for ritual magic:
First any thaum rolls for temporary consecration. This is pretty simple.

Second a bunch of rolls for energy gathering. I usually roll more dice at one time than are probably needed. When calculating this stop counting rolls after energy is gathered. Also stop barring special circumstances (noted in the description on invisible castle) stop if a quirk is gained. Or a crit fail is rolled. In any case after stopping don't count the rolls afterwards. This means the occasional crit fail will be "rolled" but never actually used.

Third casting rolls. These are pretty simple.

That all make sense? Also we have a nice little example too.

(**** I should write a Python program to calculate this.)

Writing a Python program is never a bad idea. :)

[LemmingLord]

Feebs-3 groans - "ill peep for you"

Acting 13 out of 15 +\- mods from his headache and his honest face and his pitiable to seem like a bystander. Clutching his head Feebs-3 heads for the mansion to get a closer look at the cops. He will then return and reports what he sees to Phoenix... Unless his detect with precise points out the old woman nearby in the crowd, in which case he will start up a conversation with her.

[LemmingLord]

Is the GM waiting on players or the players waiting on the GM just now?

[zoncxs]

I was waiting for mono to post what he was doing after I rolled. I was stun for 10 seconds, I am diffused and covering the whole alleyway. Or at least 20 yard radius from its center.

[Michael Thayne]

I thought I was waiting for the players, though I confess my mind has been on other things this week.

Part of the problem may be that, whatever the opposite of railroading is, I have a tendency to do that as a GM. I think that problem may have killed the "supers in WWII" game I tried to run before it even got off the ground. Here, I had a vision for a game on the "villains act, heroes react" model, and while I had no trouble deviating from that when Lamech explicitly said, "I want to have the heroes be coming after me," in general I was expecting players to formulate their own grand plots.

[momothefiddler]

I was waiting for the Eidolon/Chaos thing to play out, which I probably shouldn't have done. A good mastermind does more than one thing at once, after all.

[Lamech]

Originally Posted by Michael Thayne

I thought I was waiting for the players, though I confess my mind has been on other things this week.

Part of the problem may be that, whatever the opposite of railroading is, I have a tendency to do that as a GM. I think that problem may have killed the "supers in WWII" game I tried to run before it even got off the ground. Here, I had a vision for a game on the "villains act, heroes react" model, and while I had no trouble deviating from that when Lamech explicitly said, "I want to have the heroes be coming after me," in general I was expecting players to formulate their own grand plots.

Yeah, that's always my problem. Who is waiting for who?

[ericthered]

Pox is waiting on the narrator, I believe. That one was given a break after a series of rapid-fire posts....

[Lamech]

Okay who is all waiting:
Momo was waiting for narrator.
I was waiting for lemminglords/Feeble results with the police.
Lemming what where you waiting for?
DJ/zonxc are either of you waiting for narrator?

Michael what are you waiting for from us?

Lets not let this die! :)

[LemmingLord]

Originally Posted by Lamech

Okay who is all waiting:
Momo was waiting for narrator.
I was waiting for lemminglords/Feeble results with the police.
Lemming what where you waiting for?

DJ/zonxc are either of you waiting for narrator?

Michael what are you waiting for from us?

Lets not let this die! :)

I am waiting on three things:
1) What does Feebs learn about the police assembling? Are they taking this seriously? Does it seem fishy? Does their judgment seem biased because of their intolerance to vampiric americans?

2) Does Feebs successfully blend in? Is there anyway he can ruin a police officer's day?

3) With his detect ability functioning with accurate now (changed that awhile ago) what is the distance and bearing of the old lady? Is she in the crowd?