Outbursts
Oct 21, 2017 16:18:30 GMT -8
Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2017 16:18:30 GMT -8
I’m here to have one. I’ve been consuming all I can about the beta in the last couple days. While doing so I keep running across these people who complain endlessly about outbursts and how ‘it might not make sense in rp at that moment’. You don’t make sense, people who keep saying this kinda shit, and here is why!
1) Roll and keep only requires you to keep a single die. Hence you usually have an option when it comes to selecting to take strife. Very rarely is it forced upon you because of your roll.
2) It would totally make sense if you bothered to treat the game as an rpg instead of mechanics weekly. Every time you gain strife you should be thinking about (and probably narrating) how the emotion is welling up within you, so when you finally cross the threshold and have an outburst it will make sense!
3) Your examples are crap. No one is going to be rolling to stub their toe on a piece of furniture or to stumble over a pebble in the road. Further, your rolls are your actions. I haven’t seen a single passive check in the game thus far*, so you won’t be getting strife just because you walked down the road unless you have paranoia as an anxiety or something (“I haven’t seen anyone all day, which must mean they are watching me from the bushes!”). If you don’t want to roll, you don’t have to. Which means you don’t even have to keep a single die which might or might not have strife on it. Yay for you.
And for all you people who think social rolls are just suggestions you can ignore? Go play something else without rules for anything social than. You no more get to decide that you really aren’t intimidated than you get to decide that Hida Bob didn’t just stick a sword through your gut. Your inability to make sense of what is happening in a scene is you being close minded. It could make sense and be great story. The problem is you.
* Even a Fitness check to reduce a critical is an action, its just one you get to take out of order. You can decide to take the hit squarely and do nothing to reduce it. I suggest you do so when your second goes to chop your head off while you commit seppuku, it would be a giant embarrassment to your ancestors and second if you were seen acting like a bitch when you were supposed to be stoically dying.
1) Roll and keep only requires you to keep a single die. Hence you usually have an option when it comes to selecting to take strife. Very rarely is it forced upon you because of your roll.
2) It would totally make sense if you bothered to treat the game as an rpg instead of mechanics weekly. Every time you gain strife you should be thinking about (and probably narrating) how the emotion is welling up within you, so when you finally cross the threshold and have an outburst it will make sense!
3) Your examples are crap. No one is going to be rolling to stub their toe on a piece of furniture or to stumble over a pebble in the road. Further, your rolls are your actions. I haven’t seen a single passive check in the game thus far*, so you won’t be getting strife just because you walked down the road unless you have paranoia as an anxiety or something (“I haven’t seen anyone all day, which must mean they are watching me from the bushes!”). If you don’t want to roll, you don’t have to. Which means you don’t even have to keep a single die which might or might not have strife on it. Yay for you.
And for all you people who think social rolls are just suggestions you can ignore? Go play something else without rules for anything social than. You no more get to decide that you really aren’t intimidated than you get to decide that Hida Bob didn’t just stick a sword through your gut. Your inability to make sense of what is happening in a scene is you being close minded. It could make sense and be great story. The problem is you.
* Even a Fitness check to reduce a critical is an action, its just one you get to take out of order. You can decide to take the hit squarely and do nothing to reduce it. I suggest you do so when your second goes to chop your head off while you commit seppuku, it would be a giant embarrassment to your ancestors and second if you were seen acting like a bitch when you were supposed to be stoically dying.