Brief catchup: Adventure!

[kingandy]

Last night's game of Adventure! was good, if slightly different from games I've played before.  There's a definite feel that the players and the GM are competing, and I'm get the impression it's been some time since anyone really read the basic rules - we seem to be using a mish-mash of Exalted (10s count as two successes) and 2nd Ed WOD (soak is rolled instead of subtracted from damage), and I'm not certain the multiple actions rules are working as intended.  But whether "as written" or not, the rules were certainly consistent; the game ran quick and smooth and everybody had a great time, which is after all the point.  The most important rule in the book is "if you don't like it, change it" so as long as everybody's happy it doesn't really matter.

Things were certainly within the pulp idiom; in the middle of a three-way fight my character got annoyed with trying to figure out who was on whose side and just started lamping anyone dressed in black (yes, I'm being boring and playing Dirk "Rock" Hardy again).  He may have accidentally done enough damage with a single blow to murder one of the poor three-health-level extras.  Certainly several of them will require some not inconsiderable time in the hospital.  Whoops!

Comments

[ed-fortune.livejournal.com]

Multiple actions: are you splitting the dice pool or subtracting? is it, -2, 03 for two actions?

[kingandy]

Subtracting, but I'm not certain the right numbers are being subtracted. That one's probably just paranoia on my part, and I didn't want to break the flow of the game to nitpick something like that. GM batelf was happy enough (though I get the impression he's happy to go along with most things as long as you phrase it as a statement rather than a question).

I checked and double-checked my own dice pools since they seemed extraordinarily high, but that's just the way I've powergamed it, I guess.

[batelf.livejournal.com]

I'll hold my hands up and say yes I screwed up the soak roll thing. Most of the giant dice polls are because people are powergamed in that area. If the wrong number of dice are boing subtracted pull me up on it, in my defence I couldn't have told you what day of the week it was yesterday and without a GM screen I have to rely on my memory for things.

[kingandy]

I spent most of the session wondering whether the soak subtraction made the game more or less dangerous. I think on balance it's about the same, the real difference is play speed. Though it does make you feel a little more helpless, knowing damage is coming and there's nothing more you can do about it.

White Wolf are to blame, really, for releasing a number of games around the same time that were very similar but were each slightly more streamlined than the last. I think the new WoD rules have reduced it to a single dice roll for combat - Dex, Stamina and possibly Wits all combine somehow to deduct from the Attack Roll, successes from which go directly off health. It kind of meshes a little better with the rest of the d10 system, just a single roll with successes determining effect.

[kingandy]

But yeah, it was really when Adam took four actions in a turn (-4, -5, -6, -7) and was still rolling handfulls of dice that I started to wonder whether he'd got confused about how his Trick Shot knack worked.

[gowhonker.livejournal.com]

Chris, try this site - http://www.eononline.net/downloads/

they have a GM cheat sheet you can download & print off. It's dead good and the closest you'll get to a GM screen in this life.

I presume you are playing the d10 version, and not the heretical d20 version.

[kingandy]

Yes.

The table was covered with books. It was glorious.

[batelf.livejournal.com]

Thank you Nook. Most useful. Now all I need is some plot for next week.