(06-03-2017, 08:17 PM)Polaris Wrote: I really liked the idea of "look through your character sheet, add all the positive and negative things about your character that relate to what you're trying to do and then anything else (i.e. are they drunk) and add that to the dice roll." Instead of having exact values, you just ask "is my character good with a gun? Is the gun good?" etc. Seems like the rules do a pretty good job getting out of the way of the story.
FFG's Star Wars does something similar, which I like. Not fond of their propriety dice system but between it and the D6 system, I think that's pretty much Star Wars sewn up as a genre.
+ve and -ve dice pool systems are fun. I think they work well for forum games as well. City of Mist looks interesting on a first pass, but I'll openly admit Supers is not my genre of proficiency.
(06-03-2017, 10:45 AM)Polaris Wrote: Question, have you heard of City of Mist? I took a look and it seems like a really cool way to do things that makes story sense on each die roll and doesn't require keeping track of tons of numbers.
On a second pass. Feels like The Big-O. I can actually work with that.
Not entirely sure if I'm a fan of of the Apocalypse World Engine though. Maybe it's habit (and I am a creature of habit), but I do like some crunch to my mechanics.
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