How often do players/characters fail in your games?

Bren · September 15, 2017, 04:45:17 PM

Quote from: Antiquation!;992610Out of curiosity, would you happen to be able to share the guidelines for how your system works? I read your summary, but if you had shorthand notes for determining odds those would be really cool to see/steal...

I'd also be interested in seeing that.

Skarg, if you decide to post something, I suggest making it a separate thread so people don't have to wade through this thread to find it.

flyingmice · September 15, 2017, 05:33:29 PM

Quote from: Bren;992328I appreciate the way you have distinguished different levels of failure and that sounds like the right degree of success and failure at each level.

Thanks for noticing, Bren!

Aglondir · September 15, 2017, 09:51:22 PM

Quote from: jhkim;992433The GMs were running it incorrectly. In standard Dungeon World, there are three possible results from "Hack and Slash":

* 10+ : You do damage and either the opponent doesn't, or you do +1d6 damage
* 7-9 : Both you and the opponent damage each other
* 6- : The opponent damages you

Wow... they really got it wrong. They ran it like traditional D20.

Edit: Edit 2: Nevermind, I figured it out!

Skarg · September 16, 2017, 12:27:34 AM

Quote from: Antiquation!;992610Out of curiosity, would you happen to be able to share the guidelines for how your system works? I read your summary, but if you had shorthand notes for determining odds those would be really cool to see/steal...

Quote from: Bren;992698I'd also be interested in seeing that.

Skarg, if you decide to post something, I suggest making it a separate thread so people don't have to wade through this thread to find it.

Yep, I'll post something to the design forum here this weekend.

Bren · September 16, 2017, 05:01:34 PM

Quote from: Skarg;992793Yep, I'll post something to the design forum here this weekend.

Cool. :cool: And if it isn't too much trouble, you might put a post in here with a link to the other forum. That should make it easier for folks who have been following this thread to find one in a different forum.

Skarg · September 16, 2017, 08:18:20 PM

Here is a link to the thread I started about Reducing-Complex-NPC-Combats-to-Single-Die-Rolls.

Bren · September 16, 2017, 09:28:13 PM

Quote from: Skarg;993013Here is a link to the thread I started about Reducing-Complex-NPC-Combats-to-Single-Die-Rolls.

Skarg thanks for sharing this. It's a good idea. While I've done comparative combats before, it hadn't occurred to me to use the empirical data to calculate estimation for a single die roll result. Nice!

nope · September 17, 2017, 05:43:57 PM

Quote from: Skarg;993013Here is a link to the thread I started about Reducing-Complex-NPC-Combats-to-Single-Die-Rolls.

Fantastic stuff, thanks! Very solid procedural method, easily replicated and implemented, as well as transparent. Really good stuff, I'll definitely be using this.

WillInNewHaven · September 17, 2017, 05:55:34 PM

Campaign failures have been rare and memorable. Twice, I've had characters ignore all of the rumors, hard information and, finally, my frantic finger-pointing and decided that something needed to be done about x, when x was not bothering them yet and wasn't harming _anyone_ yet and could have been ignored while they dealt with other matters in the sandbox and, incidentally, became strong enough and _informed_ enough to deal with x. Otherwise, mostly successes, although individual characters didn't always get what they wanted.
Too many minor failures to count. After all, every Player-Character is a setting sun.