GM Questions

[Ender]

Oof, another one that's just occurred to me now...

Void - Reset to half of Void ring, rounded up

Does this also mean any Void we have in excess of half maximum at the end of a day is lost?

Correct

[Ikoma Aya]

Right, so... I fucked up.

I just noticed I copied my school ability wrong from the book while copy-pasting (probably got a  and wrote 'success' instead of 'opportunity'). I'd need to change this in my sheet... and it affects my roll for the D1 event.

It'd just be one less success, one more opportunity, so can I just go ahead and write down that change in the post? Or should I reroll all of Step 3?

Also - can I go ahead make the change to the school ability in my sheet?

[Ide Yizhak]

so if you use the water approach and get 3 strife and an opportunity in the roll, would you be able to use the opportunity to heal 2 strife?

[Ender]

Right, so... I fucked up.

I just noticed I copied my school ability wrong from the book while copy-pasting (probably got a  and wrote 'success' instead of 'opportunity'). I'd need to change this in my sheet... and it affects my roll for the D1 event.

It'd just be one less success, one more opportunity, so can I just go ahead and write down that change in the post? Or should I reroll all of Step 3?

Also - can I go ahead make the change to the school ability in my sheet?

Go ahead and make the correction, and edit the post. Dropping thr 1 success doesn't change your overall score

[Ender]

so if you use the water approach and get 3 strife and an opportunity in the roll, would you be able to use the opportunity to heal 2 strife?

No. As Stances do not apply, you cannot spend opportunities like you can in stances (otherwisr Fire stance would be OP for events).

Topaz Events do not use Stances rules for approaches

As per here http://kiku.fallenash.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=131

[Shosuro Kaoru]

so if you use the water approach and get 3 strife and an opportunity in the roll, would you be able to use the opportunity to heal 2 strife?

No. As Stances do not apply, you cannot spend opportunities like you can in stances (otherwisr Fire stance would be OP for events).

Topaz Events do not use Stances rules for approaches

As per here http://kiku.fallenash.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=131

It's a bit confusing as per RAW, "elemental" opportunities are only tied to the approach chosen for the roll and are not related in any way to stances.

If I understand right, the intended ruling for events would be:

• Events never use stances (they're Narrative Scenes if we want to use the big words).
• In events, opportunities may only be spent as tie breakers or to cancel out strife.
• If used to cancel out strife, opportunities don't count for tiebreakers BUT the canceled strife still counts as a (negative) tie breaker (the only benefit is to avoid the Compromised status for the next rolls).
• You get +1 point per 2 bonus success (for example, for a TN3 roll, you'll get an extra point at 5, 7, 9 etc. total success).

[Ender]

so if you use the water approach and get 3 strife and an opportunity in the roll, would you be able to use the opportunity to heal 2 strife?

No. As Stances do not apply, you cannot spend opportunities like you can in stances (otherwisr Fire stance would be OP for events).

Topaz Events do not use Stances rules for approaches

As per here http://kiku.fallenash.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=131

It's a bit confusing as per RAW, "elemental" opportunities are only tied to the approach chosen for the roll and are not related in any way to stances.

If I understand right, the intended ruling for events would be:

• Events never use stances (they're Narrative Scenes if we want to use the big words).
• In events, opportunities may only be spent as tie breakers or to cancel out strife.
• If used to cancel out strife, opportunities don't count for tiebreakers BUT the canceled strife still counts as a (negative) tie breaker (the only benefit is to avoid the Compromised status for the next rolls).
• You get +1 point per 2 bonus success (for example, for a TN3 roll, you'll get an extra point at 5, 7, 9 etc. total success).

If you cancel out strife, the opps still count for tiebreaker. I don't want to do the additional bookkeeping of making sure every one accounts for that properly, so I'll err on the side of benefitting the players on that roll.

And yes on the +1 point per 2 bonus successes, as your example shows.

[Ikoma Aya]

If you cancel out strife, the opps still count for tiebreaker. I don't want to do the additional bookkeeping of making sure every one accounts for that properly, so I'll err on the side of benefitting the players on that roll.

Just to be sure (as I'll probably do some tentative tracking of the results!) - using opps to remove strife will change NEITHER total Opps NOR total Strife for tiebreaking purposes, right? Or does it change Strife but not Opps?

Thanks!

[Ender]

If you cancel out strife, the opps still count for tiebreaker. I don't want to do the additional bookkeeping of making sure every one accounts for that properly, so I'll err on the side of benefitting the players on that roll.

Just to be sure (as I'll probably do some tentative tracking of the results!) - using opps to remove strife will change NEITHER total Opps NOR total Strife for tiebreaking purposes, right? Or does it change Strife but not Opps?

Thanks!

Correct. It does not remove for purposes of tiebreakers. If you use opps to mitigate strife, you still have them rolled.

[Shiba Jiro]

You've said that rolls should only be made for dramatic situations. But my school tech for healing strife requires a successful Artisan roll. Do I roll it to see if I can heal strife, do I not roll it and just assume i heal strife? I am guessing no more than once a slot for the ability.

[Ikoma Aya]

You've said that rolls should only be made for dramatic situations. But my school tech for healing strife requires a successful Artisan roll. Do I roll it to see if I can heal strife, do I not roll it and just assume i heal strife? I am guessing no more than once a slot for the ability.

On a similar topic - I don't quite remember and can't seem to find the answer. but *can* we roll for fluff? In sparring (which would be helpful to train with the system a bit!) and even other things?

If so, I'm assuming disads, if they apply (for fluff!), won't give VPs. But can we use opportunities and/or do we accrue strife normally if rolling for fluff purposes?

[Kakita Ahiru]

You've said that rolls should only be made for dramatic situations. But my school tech for healing strife requires a successful Artisan roll. Do I roll it to see if I can heal strife, do I not roll it and just assume i heal strife? I am guessing no more than once a slot for the ability.

On a similar topic - I don't quite remember and can't seem to find the answer. but *can* we roll for fluff? In sparring (which would be helpful to train with the system a bit!) and even other things?

If so, I'm assuming disads, if they apply (for fluff!), won't give VPs. But can we use opportunities and/or do we accrue strife normally if rolling for fluff purposes?

Fluff rolls such as sparring: http://kiku.fallenash.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=40#p633

[Ikoma Aya]

Fluff rolls such as sparring: http://kiku.fallenash.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=40#p633

Ack, that was stupid of me. I thought I remembered seeing something like that somewhere!

Thanks Ahiru-san!

[Ender]

You've said that rolls should only be made for dramatic situations. But my school tech for healing strife requires a successful Artisan roll. Do I roll it to see if I can heal strife, do I not roll it and just assume i heal strife? I am guessing no more than once a slot for the ability.

I believe your tech calls for a downtime activity. It would take one time slot where you do nothing else.

[Shiba Jiro]

no downtime action, says once per scene when i succeed on an artisan check i can do the technique as an ancillary effect. But you seemed to want to avoid a flood of rolls, and the technique requires rolls to function. So just wondering how you want me to handle it/ how you want to rule it

[Ender]

no downtime action, says once per scene when i succeed on an artisan check i can do the technique as an ancillary effect. But you seemed to want to avoid a flood of rolls, and the technique requires rolls to function. So just wondering how you want me to handle it/ how you want to rule it

It's more my intent is to avoid people trying to power up their Void Points like this is nine episodes of Dragon Ball Z.

Feel free to roll artisan to craft something in one timeslot, and recover strife. Each slot also counts as a scene/encounter. As long as you're doing it in the spirit of the game, rather than just abusing it, it'll be fine to roll.

[Shiba Jiro]

no downtime action, says once per scene when i succeed on an artisan check i can do the technique as an ancillary effect. But you seemed to want to avoid a flood of rolls, and the technique requires rolls to function. So just wondering how you want me to handle it/ how you want to rule it

It's more my intent is to avoid people trying to power up their Void Points like this is nine episodes of Dragon Ball Z.

Feel free to roll artisan to craft something in one timeslot, and recover strife. Each slot also counts as a scene/encounter. As long as you're doing it in the spirit of the game, rather than just abusing it, it'll be fine to roll.

Thanks! *thumbs up*

[Seppun Urusai]

Apologies, mighty GM, but your guidance here, please: viewtopic.php?f=18&t=209&start=26

[Ide Yizhak]

How do we do the game of letters in 5e? Is there a guide to help craft a proper message?

[Ender]

How do we do the game of letters in 5e? Is there a guide to help craft a proper message?

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