Thank fucking god, it's been a minute since I heard anything that makes sense from this government
There are loads of ways to tinker. If you want to run it for kids, use d6s and suddenly it feels like a light-hearted and easy game (significantly easier to get successes with smaller dice pools).
The math is hardly impossible, but at least for d10, someone else has done the math. https://www.darkshire.net/~jhkim/rpg/nemesis/probability.html
I used to have a better link where someone had a graph that gave a better sense of width likelihoods. Long story short, the curve is highly centered on twos and threes, and anything bigger is laughably unlikely unless you have special "master" dice.
EDIT: I FOUND IT!!!
https://asteroid.divnull.com/2008/01/chance-of-reign.html
Good grief. I made the system by instinct and the "poke it with a stick until it hollers" method. Maybe I shouldn't have admitted that. Ah well. I'ma hit "submit reply" anyway.
Greg Stolze, upon reading this analysis
That's a lot of non-trivial math. Do I understand it, I hear you ask? Nice weather we're having today...
Two years ago I bought one pair of shoelaces from a website that looked like the old internet. It was fucking great.
Ah yeah, totally understand. In that case I'd recommend the ORE Toolkit (same system, but written by fans and slightly more designed around homebrewing and tweaking the underlying system for tone and lethality).
https://img.4plebs.org/boards/tg/image/1401/25/1401252784488.pdf
Wait... Are you saying tomatoes are an immigrant too?!
I can hear it now. My kid's generation is gonna be giving each other shit like "wait, you bought this off a website? Like a millennial?"
Oooh, have you heard of Wild Talents? It has everything on your wishlist. It's possible to create overpowered abilities, but you'd have to set out to specifically do that - and the GM would then have to say yes to it. If you're trying to be OP in a sneaky way, it's just not gonna happen.
I played that a few times. I love the early game lethality and gritty realism. I've heard Mörk Borg (sp?) is carrying that torch nowadays, have been meaning to try it.
It still trips me out that visible light, infrared, microwave radiation, radio waves, x-rays, ultraviolet, and even laser beams are all just photons.
Particle radiation is a whole other can of worms. It boggles the mind.
Hard to condense this to an integer. There were times of feast and famine. I was given a lot of freedom that I knew most parents my age would gasp at, and I had some perks. That said, I did come from a broken home and I was the product of people who probably shouldn't have had a kid. They have their own circumstances and issues with their parents as well, so the brokenness really is generational. I've done everything in my power to break that pattern and it's working so far.
I will not say I was spoiled, but I was certainly given too much to eat and not often enough sent outside to play. I was always going to be an oddity and a misfit, so it would have been nice to at least not be fat.
All of that and I still was extremely privileged. The overall number needs a context. If we're framing this against global childhood, I'm at least a 4. If we're zooming in to kids in my immediate cohort, probably closer to a -3.
This has been our lunch for the past couple weeks. It's filling, pretty easy to do low calorie, and a great way to beat the heat.
Wish it wasn't so hard to find fresh bean sprouts, the ones in the shop are always a bit sad.
You know how Nidhogg is just one thing, and it's super simple and slightly just...nothing, but you can spend ages with it and it's got an incredibly high skill ceiling, and there's no flaws at all and they've just sort of achieved everything they set out to do without making a big deal out of it? It's that kind of game.
Kill The Crows is such a pure, condensed game. So rare to find a gameplay loop so utterly on the mark. Every moment is a small crisis where you're either lost in a flow state, or you're dead - and then right back into the action a couple seconds later.
Can't believe how few people talk about this cult classic-in-waiting. It's really charming.
Living in a walkable city means my weekly shop is a few hours of walking or biking instead of being stuck in traffic, and I'm only mildly tired afterwards since I use a bike with pretty large pannier bags. Since I have no car related costs I can afford more fresh food, a healthier diet, and I can afford to be more choosy about the ethics of what I buy. There's a twice weekly farmers market about a ten minute walk away, and quiet walks through parks to get to the shops. Living somewhere with car centric infrastructure, as I used to, this lifestyle was far less feasible.
Have your experiences been different with moving to walkable/bikeable cities? Any questions or points to be made? I'm not very up on the theory side of city planning, but my experiences line up with the whole "fuck cars" thing.
I had really good success doing a daily page of A5, few months ago tried to upgrade to doing art least 1 page of A4 per day. I've slightly fallen off the habit.