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: Out of Character Thread
: Arje May 15, 2010, 01:58:56 AM
Discuss whatever.
: Re: Out of Character Thread
: Bronnen May 15, 2010, 02:14:47 AM
One of the theme ideas I had for the city. "A Fetish for your every Sin."

Meaning that no matter what perversions you want within the city, you can find it somewhere.
: Re: Out of Character Thread
: ristarr May 15, 2010, 11:17:16 AM
Would Thaddeus like to show up in one of my adventures? Perhaps he saved you from a gambler, or stopped you from cheating someone?

That sounds great.  My cheating the innocent days are over but I am always getting into trouble from other activities.  I am also looking for a way to tie in my "Champion of the Underdog" aspect to the "Whose path have you crossed" phase.
I am also pretty much a "Sucker For a Sob Story" which is kinda a subaspect to the underdog aspect.
: Re: Out of Character Thread
: Bronnen May 15, 2010, 01:36:23 PM
I think for the city, we should have at least two mortal threats, and one supernatural. One that has no idea about the supernatural: like the police or something, one that would know about the supernatural world, and then something like the white court and the red court.
: Re: Out of Character Thread
: Ryo May 15, 2010, 01:41:55 PM
We have a lot of wizard types so I think it would be hard to ignore the Mage Vs. Vamp war.
: Re: Out of Character Thread
: Kroack May 15, 2010, 06:01:30 PM
Yeah, I think we have a minor talent, a sorcerer, some sort of god thing?, and something else.
: Re: Out of Character Thread
: Bronnen May 15, 2010, 06:29:55 PM
I'm a true believer.
: Re: Out of Character Thread
: Kroack May 15, 2010, 07:05:54 PM
dat too!
: Re: Out of Character Thread
: Ryo May 15, 2010, 09:11:34 PM
Oh okay, I thought we had 3 mage types.
: Re: Out of Character Thread
: Arje May 15, 2010, 09:46:08 PM
I'm a white council wizard...who will be posting a stupid amount of stuff about STL later tonight....and finishing up my character...booo
: Re: Out of Character Thread
: Arje May 16, 2010, 12:24:07 AM
I've been trying to decide how i want to handle "fudge dice". Mechanically it's kind of ugly in this scenario.

It's basically 1d81 with 9 scales of use. Given that we are going to be using online random number generators for our dice... We can actually roll an 81 sided die...but then that involves looking at a chart, and even then I really don't like the probability distribution. It's a little two ugly.

Same probability distribution i don't like but we could roll the 4d6 and look at what numbers are rolled and then make and 5/6s pluses, and any 1/2s minuses, but that's kind of ugly.

Here's what I purpose... I think the probability distribution is a little better and a little more epic.
Roll 3d6

Rolled: 3-4| 5 | 6-7 | 8-9 | 10-11 | 12-13 | 14-15 | 16 | 17-18
Result: -4 |-3 | -2  | -1   | +0      | +1     |  +2    | +3 | +4

It increases your odds of rolling a +4 or a -1 by a full half a percent! (semi-sarcasm), while it is weighted a bit more heavily toward the middle, the probabilities are within a percent or two either way for each category. And I was serious about the extra .5% for the big pluses and the big minuses.

But we can just as easily do the 4d6 thing as well.


It's up to you. Everyone gets a vote.
: Re: Out of Character Thread
: Bronnen May 16, 2010, 12:36:03 AM
http://fudge.ouvaton.org/fudgedicegen.html

I do believe I solved your problem. lol.
: Re: Out of Character Thread
: Arje May 16, 2010, 01:10:56 AM
the dice pool doesn't go high enough, but that is so close to what i need.....and it's at this point that i realize it's play by post and time really isn't a huge factor in these kinds of things.

It's at this point that i realize that rolling the lions share of the dice rolling and authoritating what goes on is my responsibility. I think we'll stick with the forum's native dice roller and invisible castle's dice roller and simply looking at what rolls pop out will be what we do from here on out.


Something like this=   4d6=15, 4d6=17, 4d6=16, 4d6=10 (http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2519326/)

and clicking the link and looking at those 4 rolls i see we get: +1, +2, +1, and a -1 respectively.

Or (DING DING DING) better way to do it is just as above and roll each dice individually.

Like this: 1d6=3, 1d6=1, 1d6=4, 1d6=1 (http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2519329/)

and we can easily see that rolls is:  -2
: Re: Out of Character Thread
: Bronnen May 16, 2010, 01:44:18 AM
I like that second idea.
: Re: Out of Character Thread
: ristarr May 16, 2010, 02:02:36 AM
Let me see if this works

[roll]1d3-2[/roll]


[roll]4d3-8[/roll]
: Re: Out of Character Thread
: Arje May 16, 2010, 02:04:53 AM
You just have the bracketed notation wrong, the reason that I prefer invisible castle is that you can put your character name in front of everything, and as a GM I can go and look at every roll you've made...etc. and so can you if i'm rolling for you. It's persistent and trusted. It's a great site.
: Re: Out of Character Thread
: ristarr May 16, 2010, 02:07:03 AM
I hadn't actually tried it out.  didnt seem to work.

[roll]1d6-2[/roll]
[roll]4d6-8[/roll]

<roll>1d6-2</roll>
<roll>4d6-8</roll>

<roll>1d3-2</roll>


<roll>4d3-8</roll>
: Re: Out of Character Thread
: Kroack May 16, 2010, 02:07:54 AM
Rolling 1d6-2:
(2)-2: Total = 0

Rolling 4d6-8:
(2+1+2+6)-8: Total = 3


Yada yada

Invisible castle looks like the way to go.
: Re: Out of Character Thread
: ristarr May 16, 2010, 02:10:32 AM
I am grabbing the notation from the mod website, maybe the roller is broken?  

But I guess what I was trying to say is we could do
 1d3-2 to give -1,0,1
or 4d3 -8 for the whole roll.
: Re: Out of Character Thread
: ristarr May 16, 2010, 02:16:19 AM
I got this from trying invisible castle.

4d3-8 → [3,2,3,2,-8] = (2)

It looks correct ( +1, 0, 0, +1).

or with 4 1d3-2
1d3-2 → [3,-2] = (1)
1d3-2 → [2,-2] = (0)
1d3-2 → [1,-2] = (-1)
1d3-2 → [2,-2] = (0)
: Re: Out of Character Thread
: Bronnen May 16, 2010, 02:19:37 AM
I just like the 1D6 idea for each roll. 1,2 = - 3,4 = 0  5,6 = +
: Re: Out of Character Thread
: Tadanori Oyama May 16, 2010, 02:40:48 AM
I like RJ's roll 3d6s idea.
: Re: Out of Character Thread
: Bronnen May 17, 2010, 12:39:25 AM
I think we should start planning threats, themes and whatnot to the city.
: Re: Out of Character Thread
: Arje May 17, 2010, 01:06:56 AM
Imma working on it.......(shhhhhh) I'm doing it!
: Re: Out of Character Thread
: Bronnen May 17, 2010, 01:08:52 AM
Lol. I really wanna start this! I'm a little too excited for it.
: Re: Out of Character Thread
: Tadanori Oyama May 17, 2010, 01:25:15 AM
Lol. I really wanna start this! I'm a little too excited for it.

I am to, though it's sucked some of the air out of the room on the other games. I haven't read the section on city creation: what do we need to do as players?
: Re: Out of Character Thread
: Bronnen May 17, 2010, 01:27:01 AM
Not sure if RJ is doing the city creation by himself, or if he wants to let us chime in (HINT HINT)

I'm pretty sure none of us will suggest anything like, "Kraken with hot flashes needing to find a woman so he can bear her child"
: Re: Out of Character Thread
: Arje May 17, 2010, 01:31:33 AM
I'm bringing you guys in on it, just not yet. I need to post and separate and organize a lot of demographic information and maps and stories and such, and once that is in place...we can start working on the threats and such.
: Re: Out of Character Thread
: Arje May 17, 2010, 01:34:38 AM
Lol. I really wanna start this! I'm a little too excited for it.

I am to, though it's sucked some of the air out of the room on the other games. I haven't read the section on city creation: what do we need to do as players?

Oh, and I'll very much be getting to victory force soon, and working on my changeling for your game, but this is kind of....taken on a life of it's own.
: Re: Out of Character Thread
: Bronnen May 17, 2010, 01:36:48 AM
It's because this really is a team RP. I mean, character creation includes other players, city creation includes other players. This entire RP is all around people working with one another. It's so refreshing to see.
: Re: Out of Character Thread
: Arje May 17, 2010, 01:40:07 AM
Agreed~!
: Re: Out of Character Thread
: Bronnen May 17, 2010, 01:42:35 AM
I need to run a game about this, but I want to be a player... ARG.
: Re: Out of Character Thread
: Arje May 17, 2010, 02:48:18 AM
That table nearly killed me.

And i have to do a find and replace to get rid of all that nsrb nonsense....still. It didn't take as long as i feared.

Compared to that, posting the rest of the st louis information is going to be a snap.
: Re: Out of Character Thread
: Kroack May 17, 2010, 10:31:04 AM
It's because this really is a team RP. I mean, character creation includes other players, city creation includes other players. This entire RP is all around people working with one another. It's so refreshing to see.

Definetely correct.
: Re: Out of Character Thread
: Arje May 18, 2010, 04:54:12 AM
It took me about 5 minutes to realize im insane.

We'll get the threats, themes, locations and major players started tomorrow. The rest of the stuff can be posted as we play....
: Re: Out of Character Thread
: Bronnen May 18, 2010, 10:36:16 AM
At least you realized it. That's the first step to getting better!
: Re: Out of Character Thread
: Kroack May 18, 2010, 07:21:52 PM
I know we have the forums so it doesn't matter, but I set up a wiki for this game anyways:
http://dresdenrpgstlouis.wikia.com/wiki/Dresden_Files_RPG:_St._Louis_Wiki (http://dresdenrpgstlouis.wikia.com/wiki/Dresden_Files_RPG:_St._Louis_Wiki)
: Re: Out of Character Thread
: Bronnen May 18, 2010, 07:40:13 PM
You have too much time on your hands.
: Re: Out of Character Thread
: Arje May 18, 2010, 07:41:32 PM
Sweet.

As we get our characters finished, i have a friend who wants to draw them.


So i'll be looking for description in terms of what the characters look like. how they dress, distinguishing facial features etc. But thats a week or so away.
: Re: Out of Character Thread
: Bronnen May 18, 2010, 07:54:14 PM
I already know what Mordred looks like!
: Re: Out of Character Thread
: Tadanori Oyama May 18, 2010, 08:03:11 PM
That is so awesome. I've always wanted a friend who draws things. I currently only have a brother who draws things and that's more trouble than it's worth, I tell you for true!

I've got a good visual for my character; let's hope it transitions well into words.
: Re: Out of Character Thread
: Bronnen May 18, 2010, 08:03:33 PM
Same here.
: Re: Out of Character Thread
: Kroack May 18, 2010, 08:34:47 PM
You have too much time on your hands.

It took two seconds, but yes, yes I do have a lot of time on my hands.
: Re: Out of Character Thread
: Bronnen May 18, 2010, 08:39:21 PM
Sshh, don't shatter my dreams of that taking long.
: Re: Out of Character Thread
: Ryo May 18, 2010, 11:27:31 PM
I have most everything done, except the 4 and 5 and 6? aspect stuff. Just a pick of polishing for the rest. A drawing would be cool
: Re: Out of Character Thread
: Tadanori Oyama May 19, 2010, 12:43:37 PM
I'll be 4th Phasing you from behind shortly. Just working out a good crossover between your faerie caster and Indiana Jones my character.
: Re: Out of Character Thread
: Arje May 19, 2010, 12:59:59 PM
ಠ_ಠ
: Re: Out of Character Thread
: Kroack May 19, 2010, 08:11:00 PM
Yeah, you'll phase him from behind real hard
: Re: Out of Character Thread
: Tadanori Oyama May 20, 2010, 12:01:57 PM
Yeah, you'll phase him from behind real hard

It was hard. Took alot of time, I had to keep ducking my screen down out of shame so nobody at the office would see, and I felt kind of guilt afterwards.

Thanks for understanding Kroack. :D

So, Arje, are you still planning to add a Sixth Phase or will we stop at Five?
: Re: Out of Character Thread
: Bronnen May 20, 2010, 12:43:48 PM
I say stop at five, I want to get this going on!
: Re: Out of Character Thread
: Arje May 20, 2010, 11:59:11 PM
we will stop at 5.


I moved my entire life 300 miles today. I'm about 60 kinds of exhausted. Real stuff starts happening tomorrow, as most of the character stuff is ...along... and can finish up as we go.
: Re: Out of Character Thread
: Tadanori Oyama May 21, 2010, 12:08:48 AM
Sounds perfect. I'm ready to rock. Get some sleep. Or meth. Or whatever you people in the mid-west do when your tired.
: Re: Out of Character Thread
: Kroack May 22, 2010, 07:38:17 AM
I kinda like the idea that as the STL dominance as a transportation hub diminishes, its nexus as a Nevernever hub increases.    

Like the mortal ways of getting around are growing weaker, while the supernatural ways are only getting stronger.
: Re: Out of Character Thread
: ArtfulShrapnel June 22, 2010, 04:51:11 PM
I'm not actually part of this game, but in terms of simplicity and modeling the engine accurately, I've found "4d3-8" to be the simplest dice pool for online FATE stuff.

It keeps everything down to a single roll, and doesn't require that the GM add things up while he's running the game. Just my observations, I'll be keeping an eye on the events of the game! :)
: Re: Out of Character Thread
: Kroack June 22, 2010, 06:20:07 PM
Thanks for the advice, but this game isn't happening, sadly.
: Re: Out of Character Thread
: Kroack July 10, 2010, 12:38:22 AM
maybe it is? RJ is apparently back.
: Re: Out of Character Thread
: Tadanori Oyama July 10, 2010, 07:18:19 PM
I saw him online too but he hasn't said anything so I assume he's still otherwise occupied.
: Re: Out of Character Thread
: Arje July 24, 2010, 05:15:05 PM
Allright I'm back for real now.

That earlier time was just a hiccup. But I am back now. I had some RL stuff to sort out. And its as close as it's going to get.

If people still want to do this. I'm ready if you are.
: Re: Out of Character Thread
: Tadanori Oyama July 25, 2010, 01:42:55 AM
Character's posted. I'm willing and able.
: Re: Out of Character Thread
: Ryo July 25, 2010, 01:22:20 PM
I'm still here.
: Re: Out of Character Thread
: Kroack July 25, 2010, 01:28:02 PM
ya