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[PA Comic] Wednesday, November 6, 2013 - Strata
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It's even RPG themed, which is appropriate since I am currently working on a bunch of campaign stuff today.
you all need to reach a sweetspot where it's a satisfying challenge to beat you, but you're still not good enough to ever win
And also my favorite.
I always want to win by 1 point.
MICHAEL...
An ad is when you say the name of it and ask people to buy it.
This is an ad! But it's a funny one so PA gets a pass!
Gamer Dater - My Video Game Dating Website full of Faygo
Strip Search Wastebasket of Broken Dreams App I made
Ad.
Product placement.
Gabe and Tycho have always made comics about whatever is on their minds. It's often videogames. Sometimes it's their families. Sometimes, in Tycho's case, it is just words. Gabe is designing a boardgame. In lieu of doing NaNoWriMo I am fiddling in working on a couple boardgame ideas that have been floating around my head for a long time. This stuff occupies a lot of your brain time. As Gabe knuckles down on getting this game into a distributable, playable state it is going to be on his mind a lot.
I expect a good number of comics about this game before it sees release (which it hopefully will!) And I look forward to them.
I was on the wrong end of this in college with my best friend. Most nights after supper we would sit down and place Soul Calibur 2 for a while. The vast majority of matches I would within a few slivers of health from beating him, but could never land the critical blow. I had about a 1:20 win loss ratio against him.
Strength, Vitality, Mind, Spirit, Dexterity, Will.
Blade: Dexterity and Strength
Sage: Mind and Will
Guard: Strength and probably Vitality
Greenheart: Spirit and probably Will
Brierlock: probably Mind or Spirit and Vitality
Which leaves Dexterity and... Spirit or Mind or Will?
Am I overthinking this?
In the podcast posted to the backer feed Wednesday(I think), Gabe talks about the Brierlock more. He uses wounds and some stat I forget. So he wants to take damage so he can cast spells.
From twitter, there are more Classes coming. Basic maths says there can be 15 combinations of Skills.
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Yep - Spirit and Wounds. The Briarlock takes damage and manipulates the party's injury in order to cast. He's usually ad odds with the Greenheart, as the Greenheart's role is to remove wounds.
the other two were the Guard and Sage (?)
Blade. Referred to in the threads as "Steve". Steve is kind of a dick.
Guard and Greenheart, if Mike didn't swap the names around again.
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It's an interesting mechanic, because it follows that as the party gets weaker, the Brierlock gets more powerful. This allows the party to heal and then the Brierlock gets weaker again. I'm betting that with a skilled player, the Brierlock gives the party a huge boost in longevity.
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It's something that rarely comes up as far as mechanics go, possibly because if the other characters do too well there can be little for the Masochist player to do. Self-inflicted wounds can minimise that, but wounding other players can cause bad blood at a table. It is typically done in conjunction with a healing property: transfer the wounds rather than just make use of them. A system which works well with it would have to be very well balanced, but as I said above, with a good system and a skilled player you have a novel way to increase the longevity of the party and make wounds more than just a way of tracking damage.
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