Either! That’s typically how I’ve played most RPGs when it comes to determining Charisma, Dexterity, etc.

A player might say “I want to try and Force the door open,” determining it themselves. They might also say “I’m gonna survey the horizon. Do I see anything of note?” and the GM might say “Sure! Roll to Engage.”

With the base dice system, yes. I’m lazy so I’m just going to copy-paste what I said to the other commentor, lol.

It’s important to note that doubling up on dice in this system is essentially min-maxing. You’re getting a 75%+ success rate on Forcing in exchange for a 0% success rate on Engaging. That is just with the base system, though. I didn’t include these sections in the post, but other systems of the game (such as Effects) meddle these numbers and can allow a double d6 character to successfully Engage.

And no, I haven’t played Fabula Ultima. I’ll be sure to check it out tho if it’s similar!

Seems like if I take forceful and strong, I can never ever succeed at at least one categories of options?

That’s exactly right. While, yes, they are unable to Engage with two d6s, that kind of tells a story with just the math. That would be the classic “strong, short-tempered jock” archetype. They may not be the brightest, and they may not be the most careful, but dang can they hit hard!

It’s important to note that doubling up on dice in this system is essentially min-maxing. You’re getting a 75%+ success rate on Forcing in exchange for a 0% success rate on Engaging. That is just with the base system, though. I didn’t include these sections in the post, but other systems of the game (such as Effects) meddle these numbers and can allow a double d6 character to successfully Engage.

Though, my party and I understand all of this because we’ve been building the game together. I see now how that requires a wealth of mechanical context and isn’t really all that clear to new readers.

Unclear how health and recovery work. Seems like the double d6 would have low stress, high wounds?

Essentially just two pools of hit points, but with the added complication system if you roll a marked number. Yes, a double d6 character would have a low Stress capacity (6) and a high Wound capacity (18 - 6 == 12). They can take some physical hits, but are weak to mental hits.

Again, this wasn’t covered in the Markdown preview I wrote, so I apologize for that, but recovery is done entirely through storytelling, particularly during Downtime. If a character received a Wound from fracturing a bone, they’d spend a months-long Downtime in a sling. If they received a Stress from a terrifying encounter, they’d spend an hours-long Downtime coping with it. And if you have a lot of Wounds/Stress and forgot how you got each one, you can simply say “Hey I’m gonna recover during Downtime” lol.

Have you played Fate? This seems like a distant relative of Fate Accelerated.

I have! There was no direct inspiration, but I do like Fate a lot.

No meta game points or succeed at a cost?

Meta game points are covered by Effects, which were not covered in the Markdown preview.

As for succeeding at a cost, Wounds and Stresses cause “an immediate narrative complication alongside the action’s outcome”, but there’s no rigid system for uninjured characters. I tried to work it in, but it felt clunky for a rules-light game like this. I will say that the section on actions does give a brief blurb about “the relative ease or difficulty of the task at-hand”. When I’ve run the game with my party, I’ve narrated a player barely succeeding a fairly difficult task as a success with a cost.

Language is used to communicate. If you get so caught up in the “logically correct” word to use that people don’t know what you mean, you’re defeating the purpose. The “right” word is the one that people understand regardless of how messy it’s history is

Arguably the best combination

r o u n d

Fair

South Carolina has been BOOMING recently. I can’t complain

I know it’s a feature – that’s what I meant by “most of it is a result of completely intentional behavior”. However, I then went on to say that it is still detrimental to my users’ browsing experience if they want to “daily drive” r1b.it. Like I said in another comment, I’m not replicating the entire fediverse – that’s why I didn’t opt for a relay. I’m only replicating what my users want to see

Edit: I also want to make it clear that this optimization is actually super beneficial for most instance. However, for us little guys that are just getting off the ground with only a handful of users, it can be hard to deal with

I looked into relays a bit, but I don’t think they’re what I want for my tiny little instance. Relays are a firehose; they ingest everything from every instance connected to the same relay, which can quickly take up storage on my low-end setup. My little Python script is more precise. It only targets individual communities that my users are actually interested in.

That’s all assuming I’m actually understanding how relays work. If I’m missing something, please let me know, and I can change gears without a hitch

I appreciate you being as kind as you are in response to a half thought-out thought posted sporadically onto the internet. You’re giving me too much care, lol

I agree with pretty much everything people are saying, at least that which is kind. I think I probably just overcorrected when trying to account for the fact that Lemmy tends to bring in the techy type. My thought process was flawed. I don’t have much to say beyond that and an updoot, which I’ve been giving to most

Also, the edit to the post was intended as a mass reply. A lot of people are saying the same thing, so I didn’t want to reply to each individual one, nor did I want to come off as argumentative. Like I said, I agree with what most are saying

Working the TLD into the name of the site itself is a recent trend I’ve seen. I did it with my instance, and so did the hosting service I use, elest.io

Thanks! Feel free to join if you want it, too ;)

Your logo looks identical to Photon’s logo, and the UI seems very Photon-y. Inspiration or coincidence?

The differently sized brush strokes almost look like the focus of a camera. Super cool!

Woah! How have I missed this?? I probably just only ever searched for “ocean” and “fish”… Silly me

I’ll be sure to link it in the sidebar of !marine@r1b.it along with any others I missed :)

Yup! I’ve actually posted in both before (I did so on the former quite recently). However, !aquariums is for, well, aquariums. Y’know pets and their homes. !marine@r1b.it is for all sea animals, not just the pets!

But you’re absolutely right – I completely forgot about !ocean when writing this post. I shouldn’t have said I’ve “never seen a marine community”. Though, it is fairly inactive like you said. And this is the Fediverse! A little decentralization never hurt anyone ;) I’m perfectly happy to run alongside and support “competing” communities

Fr. It will be missed…

r1b.it ;)