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- Wed Sep 23, 2020 9:22 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Another Thread About Social Combat
- Replies: 115
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- Wed Sep 23, 2020 10:12 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Another Thread About Social Combat
- Replies: 115
- Views: 17273
- Wed Sep 23, 2020 7:18 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Another Thread About Social Combat
- Replies: 115
- Views: 17273
- Mon Sep 21, 2020 11:09 pm
- Forum: It's My Own Invention...
- Topic: Mousetrap 2017 edition
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8347
For a system where the original designer intends to always be available to make balance decisions, it sure does spend a lot of time on describing creation systems so that any DM could make their own setting using these rules without fear of it being unbalanced. I see that as a tool for myself. It's...
- Mon Sep 21, 2020 12:03 pm
- Forum: It's My Own Invention...
- Topic: Mousetrap 2017 edition
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8347
Wow, necro hey. OK. So let me describe my design process. About once a year give or take, I decide to make changes to my rules. Tear up give or take half of it then rewrite close enough to the same thing. Somewhere before completion I'll start a campaign with it and shift my focus from functional ru...
- Mon Sep 21, 2020 10:59 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Another Thread About Social Combat
- Replies: 115
- Views: 17273
the next conversation with myself Short version of my take aways. The bit where you open with over two thousand words that commit to and tell us basically nothing You are at least being slightly careful about outright fundamental errors in your writing. If only someone had given you an extended cha...
- Sun Sep 20, 2020 1:29 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Another Thread About Social Combat
- Replies: 115
- Views: 17273
Group negotiation of the value of social actions And you still are. Which is a big reason why I told you your posts have been useless. Then seriously, I know you are melting down and apparently have become allergic to elaborating on a point but do please explain what this was all about... One thing...
- Sun Sep 20, 2020 10:51 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Another Thread About Social Combat
- Replies: 115
- Views: 17273
Oh enough tone trolling excuses MGuy, defend on content it's disappointing to see you pull this. The reason I highlighted how short the list actually was But your list is shit. I've refrained from going into it, I've offered to go into it, you complained about both so... if you want it neither way t...
- Sun Sep 20, 2020 8:09 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Another Thread About Social Combat
- Replies: 115
- Views: 17273
- Sun Sep 20, 2020 3:35 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Another Thread About Social Combat
- Replies: 115
- Views: 17273
Please yell at me about how stupid or great it is. I only skimmed it, and I'm sure that with that sort of mechanic and structure somewhere in there are exploitable or broken individual modifiers or DCs, that's a trivial thing. I can also see things you didn't address that are important. Your outcom...
- Sat Sep 19, 2020 9:53 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Another Thread About Social Combat
- Replies: 115
- Views: 17273
- Sat Sep 19, 2020 1:08 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Another Thread About Social Combat
- Replies: 115
- Views: 17273
I've seen you say this over the years and I do not know what you're talking about. The core of your system is contextual modifiers. An unlimited number of them . Maybe you write a list, maybe you pull them out of your ass on the spot. I hope you both do the second and are prepared to admit that her...
- Sat Sep 19, 2020 10:52 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Another Thread About Social Combat
- Replies: 115
- Views: 17273
I pass the job of determining what that means to the groups. So otherwise basically the infinite sized list of infinite sized modifiers pulled out of ass space. But I don't want to belittle the important proviso that the ass number pulling is done by collective group agreement. It's hardly a soluti...
- Sat Sep 19, 2020 3:46 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Another Thread About Social Combat
- Replies: 115
- Views: 17273
- Fri Sep 18, 2020 11:34 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Another Thread About Social Combat
- Replies: 115
- Views: 17273
Are we just speaking in hypotheticals here or is it alright if we actually start tossing rules and shit around? Personally I'd just like people to try to come to terms with some of the underlying design constraints. The reason people keep utterly failing at social rules is things like going back ag...
- Fri Sep 18, 2020 11:36 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Another Thread About Social Combat
- Replies: 115
- Views: 17273
I'm going to try this. I'm going to present a vile strawman version of Reputation, which is in the end, everything that mechanic name brings to my mind when I hear it, then I'm going to present something else you could do instead, not something I'm using or likely to, just an idea. Reputation system...
- Fri Sep 18, 2020 8:57 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Another Thread About Social Combat
- Replies: 115
- Views: 17273
I just have to note how distasteful most players I've met seem to view the idea. Before I implemented my mechanics I would have half agreed with you on anecdotal experience of player reactions to social mechanics etc... Certainly internet poster reactions easily match that description. And only hal...
- Fri Sep 18, 2020 6:32 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Another Thread About Social Combat
- Replies: 115
- Views: 17273
Ok lets see if I can clear up the last main points I wanted to cover. The little extra formal social rules [/size] Hey so, remember when I said that if you were looking at some extra edge case social mechanic and it looked like it could be represented by a unique but simple rule that would cover a b...
- Fri Sep 18, 2020 4:53 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Another Thread About Social Combat
- Replies: 115
- Views: 17273
- Fri Sep 18, 2020 4:39 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Another Thread About Social Combat
- Replies: 115
- Views: 17273
- Fri Sep 18, 2020 2:33 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Another Thread About Social Combat
- Replies: 115
- Views: 17273
- Thu Sep 17, 2020 9:30 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Another Thread About Social Combat
- Replies: 115
- Views: 17273
OK so there were a few more bits I wanted to cover. The power of social influence A very, very, important aspect of a social mechanic is understanding the potential power and impact of social influence. If you can make someone believe a thing is true, if you can make them like and trust you as a fri...
- Thu Sep 17, 2020 9:59 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Another Thread About Social Combat
- Replies: 115
- Views: 17273
- Thu Sep 17, 2020 3:43 am
- Forum: About the Gaming Den
- Topic: So long, and thanks for all the fish
- Replies: 100
- Views: 34111
Like physical combat, social combat needs to produce outputs where one party cannot choose to continue to engage. You may argue that your barbarian can't be felled by such a weak attack from a kobold, but you had 3 hp left and it rolled 4 damage. Why do people keep belatedly coming to same conclusi...
- Sat Aug 29, 2020 7:36 am
- Forum: About the Gaming Den
- Topic: Where do we go from here?
- Replies: 241
- Views: 64798