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Posted: Fri, 23 Oct 12:52:13

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Reply: The Tavern:: Re: What is the last novel you read? And what are you going to read next?
Posted: Fri, 23 Oct 12:42:20

by Tomcat1304

Currently in part 3 of Trudi Canavan's Black Magician trilogy. A slow start in the first half of book 1, but getting much better in the following books. I like the grey areas in some characters. The "this is a good guy, this is bad guy" gets some unexpected shifts.

Reply: General Role-Playing:: Re: QOTD OCT 23: How do you make an unsuccessful dice roll change the situation instead of simply stopping the action?
Posted: Fri, 23 Oct 12:37:46

by pelni

Something that bothered me with surprisingly many pre-made adventure modules I read was a weird railroading structure that 100% depended on a long series of successful die-rolls, and zero hints what would happen on failure. PCs failed the die-roll to find the secret entrance to the dungeon where the remaining 75% of the adventure will take place? Guess they just go home instead? Why even suggest that anyone roll dice in cases like that, instead of just saying that they are successful?

The opposite of that being games like FU: the Free, Universal RPG, that explicitly tells the GM in the rulebook to never roll any dice unless you are prepared to handle both success and failures, and that something interesting will happen either way. Makes much more sense to me (but still requires sometimes coming up with good plans for what will happen on failure).

Reply: The Tavern:: Re: What is the last novel you read? And what are you going to read next?
Posted: Fri, 23 Oct 12:37:27

by Tomcat1304

Mulligans wrote:

Starting this one this weekend.

Oh, read the 1st one back in 198something. 🙂 My son picked the second one from a small library recently. I think I'd have to start from the beginning again in that series. :)

Reply: General Role-Playing:: Re: QOTD OCT 23: How do you make an unsuccessful dice roll change the situation instead of simply stopping the action?
Posted: Fri, 23 Oct 12:29:23

by Ugavine

This is where I like the Advantage/disadvantage of the FFG Genesys System used for their Star Wars RPG.

So, failed to open the door... maybe it sets of an alarm and the door opens for guards to investigate. now they have to blather or fight their way past the guards.

Finding a clue is a tricky one. If I can I try to drop clues with varying levels of information depending on the roll of the PC. Let's say they are investigating an apartment, their contact has gone missing. Roll Search; just a pass and they find a cigarette stubb but their contact doesn't smoke, a moderate pass and they can identify the brand of cigarette, on a good success they find a discarded matchbox with a casino name.

If rolls constantly fail then sometimes you need an NPC to give them the information.

New comment on Item for GeekList "Essen SPIEL 2026 - Promos, Specials, Freebies and other Giveaways"
Posted: Fri, 23 Oct 12:22:57

by Slothasaur