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Still on handover, still no office. Good thing, too, since there was Weather outside. Gusts of 40mph, according to my phone, although it didn’t seem that bad right around here.
Watched (animation): Hazbin Hotel 2.5-6: Called it (kinda). But did we know Vox could do that? Did we know Lucifer couldn’t do that? Did we know Lilith did do that? Still no songs to match “Gravity”, but Charlie and Vaggie’s dance was sweet.
Read (graphic novel): Kiss Number Eight (Colleen AF Venable, Ellen T Crenshaw): A high-school girl in a Catholic community has to deal with family drama and friend drama and personal drama and more family drama, much of it revolving around queerness, which even in 2004 was not so popular with Catholics. (Although to be fair, the clergy and nuns (are nuns clergy?) aren’t the ones causing trouble.)
Written (game design): 210:
That seems like it should work, but with some things happening at
Con+1 and some at Con*2+1, have we actually combined Stun and Body
and Con into one characteristic? I mean, sure, Con+1 is both stunned
(in one hit) and dying (accumulated), and Con*2+1 is both knocked
out and dead, but are we gaining any simplicity? Maybe we should
measure Con in dice of effect like Ego and so we can swap it in
directly for Ego Powers Based on Con. Yes, that seems good, but now
Stun and Body are separate from Con, so they might as well be
separate from each other. I’m bummed that we didn’t get to consolidate
characteristics, but at least the mechanics we have for them are better.
This gives us four characteristics that are measured in dice of effect
(Strength, Constitution, Ego, Presence) and seven that are just numbers
(DCV, DECV, Def, Res, Stun, Body, Rec). We haven’t replaced Speed yet,
though, and skills/skill levels (including attacks) need to be concretized.
What do we do about Speed? I mean, we throw it out, everyone gets the
same N full phases per turn, but how does the speedster beat up mooks
faster than the lumbering brick? And how do they do it before the mooks
get a chance to cause trouble? These are separate things, I think.