Wow... what a crazy session today. I had no idea what today was going to be about. We ended up with several brain probes, paying the price for others mistakes, forgetting the whole point of getting somewhere, tiamat swallowed by a black hole, a secret oni brothel in a temple, and a player finally reading Hunger of Hadar and not realizing it made slurping noises...immediately asked to unlearn the spell.
I find that it does me no harm for the players to be successful in the game, but I do like to jab in issues to what they are doing.
For example, they were successful in leading a war against an Elder Brain, but that win allowed another evil to gain in power, and changed the political landscape in the game permanently.
So it gives them a thing to look towards, but they still succeeded in what they wanted to do.
Not to mention, when they can't find the note in someone's pocket, because their investigation roll is too low, it might be better to tilt the luck in their favor.
So degrees of success: So if a standard success is DC15, and -5 is DC10 to get it with a complication, and -10 is DC5 to mean they fail (maybe they get pointed in the opposite direction, or are given the information in a way that leaves them suspicious).
So after that what happens with the +5? I mean I succeeded already... so I like maybe adding some money into the same pocket, or something like that.
What I'm thinking (experiment I want to run) is (maybe I should key in first that in Anarchy Realms you always attack two defenses), on reflex miss you deal 50% reduced damage, on miss by 5+ (so a 10 against a reflex 15) its 75% and by 10+ it is a full miss or technically 100%.
Similarly 5 over is 25% more damage. 10 is 50%, etc.
Vs Fortitude, missing applies the armor as damage reduction, 5 below is doubled, and 10 below is tripled etc.
Fort over adds a die of base damage for each 5 over.
I want to run numbers and come up with the Willpower defense effect before I continue the thought excercise but yeah, might be good. It also means very often you don't get a nothing roll, but losing 50% plus 7 damage reduction on a hit might still feel bad? And not be worth the math.
I'm microdosing naps between real work and paid work.
Windbreaker so far feels gay ( in a baity kinda way), but I think its because of the tsundere boy, and the Gyaru-like boy, the boy with the eye-patch and earrings, the jock boy himbo, the sleepy long haired rival boy who acts like Knuckles (cause Sonic the Hedgehog series is also pretty gay).... just, so many gay boys in the anime. No kisses though. :(