Crit Advancement Idea

[PotatoJedi]

Just a random idea that popped into my head as we were discussing the skills in the Facebook group.

Crit Points. You have 2 main categories: Spells and Abilities (Amber powers, matrix, etc). Whenever you crit a skill/spell, you gain 1 Crit Point (CP) towards that category. For example: if you crit a fire spell, you gain 1 CP in the fire school. If you crit a Pattern ability, you gain 1 CP in Pattern.

For spells: each spell after the first will have a certain CP cost. You can save up your CP to get any spell in the school, but if there are any "branches" going off, you have to start from the beginning of the branch. Example: you save up a bunch of CP in the fire school and decide to skip the first few spells and go straight for Fire Elemental Damage (the higher up the spell is, the more it will cost). Because this branches off into other, more powerful versions, you can only purchase the first skill. You must then continue to purchase each level up if you desire the more powerful versions.

For Abilities: works the same as spells, but you can ONLY get the next available ability that you have access to. You cannot skip several abilities ahead. Slower, yes, but at least you don't need to crit specific skills in order to advance. You can just continue practising your best Skill in hopes of getting more CP.



This would require an overhaul in terms of deciding how much each spell/ability would cost, but perhaps it would work better.

Just a thought. Obviously it can be refined.

[logan9a]

Possible, but easier to say "Normal abilities you can't roll at all unless it is woven in to the plot" - might be easier to say "You can do three Amber rolls per day max".

[PotatoJedi]

Also reasonable.

[logan9a]

Just had a thought.

Everyone gets to try each of their powers X times per GAME SESSION. No reason then to pass loads of time (possibly fucking over both other players plots as well as the GM's plots which might come undone) by spending extra time. It wouldn't help at all.

It could be super simple like at the end of the session (or beginning or middle, whatever) everyone gets two rolls for each of their spells, Amber powers, whatever. If they make either, they get a check. If they get a crit, great - they advance. That would get rid of not only 'fast forwarding the campaign' but spending loads of time daily (game time) rolling lots of shit.

If the players have an actual legitimate (GM call) reason to roll shit (you find an item that isn't magic but it does radiate power) then the GM can allow that. "But the spoon may be magic or powered by Pattern!" "Fuck off" says the GM.

I think that would work.

Thoughts?

[PotatoJedi]

2 or 3 for Amber/matrix sounds reasonable, but maybe up it a bit more for Spells since there are so many?

Maybe once you have 10 total Amber powers, you can do one additional skill check per session, and it continues to increase the more you have.

[Fantômas]

Will slow down power gain/level, so walking/creating Logrus won't happen for a couple of seasons due to no one gaining skills nor having them at any sort of level.

[logan9a]

Apr 9, 2019 22:58:35 GMT Fantômas said:

Will slow down power gain/level, so walking/creating Logrus won't happen for a couple of seasons due to no one gaining skills nor having them at any sort of level.

Quite possibly - it depends on what people focus on.

We could have a total pool for spells and Amber powers. What do you want to focus on?

Also, making a new Logrus is a huge long term goal that the players (and possibly everyone else in the multiverse) doesn't know how to do yet.

[logan9a]

Apr 9, 2019 22:38:22 GMT PotatoJedi said:

2 or 3 for Amber/matrix sounds reasonable, but maybe up it a bit more for Spells since there are so many?

Maybe once you have 10 total Amber powers, you can do one additional skill check per session, and it continues to increase the more you have.

Kind of liking the idea of people needing to figure out their focus. That means someone working on spells (aka 'petty magics') isn't going to be great at Amber powers and vice versa. More diversification.


Especially if we were to have it be 'choose 5 things - you get two tries on each'.

Due to cards and such, you can pick when to do them during the session. Remember when Pete got the 'it's a crit' card and a limited master plan? He could either hold on to those for a time when it is possible to do them logically within the game (like every other skill) or say "I'm doing my ten rolls total for the five skills right now".

But - like every other skill - if you can work it into the game where it makes sense and doesn't feel 'forced' you get more attempts if they are 'organic feeling'.

[Fantômas]

A spin on what Chris had mentioned on Facebook as to how things were done in the distant past.

Allow people to spend points from their overflow towards things with trees (Spells & Amber abilities currently)

1 pt for a tick, 2 points for next tier in a spell tree, 3 points towards next tier in a greater power/ability, eg Amber. Perhaps restrict how many times can do this a session.

Can only spend down to the last threshold you had passed. eg if you have between 50 & 100 in overflow, can only go down to 50.

[logan9a]

Very hesitant to do this as I like where the overflow is at currently. Don't want to mess with something that is working well.