Heroica RPG General Discussion

[Cutcobra]

You shall tremble in the face of my puns! You'd better believe there are more to come!

~Insectoid Aristocrat

You should have made Spike D. Chane drop a "Spiked Chain" .

Edited March 19, 2013 by Eric Su

[Vash the Stampede]

You shall tremble in the face of my puns! You'd better believe there are more to come!

~Insectoid Aristocrat

Yay, puns are amazing.

[Kintobor]

Wait a while, 61er's, you'll get your wish granted...

[Zepher]

Hans swung his head overhead.

Poor Hans. Headless and still fighting by any means possible.

Round in about an hour, y'all!

[Dannylonglegs]

Yay, puns are amazing.

Round 1 of Facing "the Face" has begun.

~Insectoid Aristocrat

Edited March 19, 2013 by Dannylonglegs

[Endgame]

Just for a calm departure from all of the high stakes here in Heroica...

http://123.writeboard.com/xlbq7lzxazatjvqznyi15yvd

Password is: heroica.

Hooray, silliness!

[Zepher]

You finally finally rolled my two favorite Chaos in Eubric results.

[Endgame]

Buzzy?! I murdered that thing a year and a half ago!

[UsernameMDM]

And THAT is how you waste a Grand Tonic ladies & gents!

Oh well, should have changed my attack when I saw someone else target Wren.

Edited March 19, 2013 by UsernameMDM

[Zepher]

Actually, you should still have the ether when you come back. That was my mistake. Fixed!

[UsernameMDM]

Actually, you should still have the ether when you come back. That was my mistake. Fixed!

If only all of those bonus effects came back as well!

EDIT: Looked up the rules, and there is no mention of positive effects expiring with a KO.

Edited March 19, 2013 by UsernameMDM

[Zepher]

They do. Always have. We can make note of it if need be.

Gotta love that brain of your's, CMP. This is actually better than lobbing them at her, because the "blow back" damage also hits Wren!

[CMP]

That would total 300 damage for everybody?

[Zepher]

[30*2*2*2]+[10*2*2*2]=320 damage all. And a perfectly healed party next round. And the potential to do more damage this round. That's the base amount of damage you're doing to her. And since she will be the only party member standing, all free hits will be directed towards her.

Remember how you complained when I "twisted around the only helpful shield".

[CMP]

This was going to be my suggested plan whenever we rolled an un-tampered with Guardian Angel. I figure that dream's gone, so this is close enough....

[Brickdoctor]

"I knows the song, Painted Lady," He crooned, over-dramatically "but I were Improoooovising! And you must admit, the macabre effect was executed quite nicely, no? Matched the moment, yeah?" he teased, sitting-pretty from his perch a foot above their heads.

For one reason or another, I read this guy's lines with the voice of Alfred P. Doolittle.

[herrJJ]

Now that is a rapier Spence has. Hopefully Karie won't take it after/if we win or the arena battle (as Heckz want to see) will be more tough... and I'll probably won't win

I just saw it: the Wysiwig editor is enabled on my tablet using Chrome (Android). That's new

Edited March 19, 2013 by herrJJ

[swils]

Proposal / Thoughts:

The Power listing, as it currently stands, seems superfluous, serving only as a quick gauge of a character's, well, power. Unless I'm mistaken, none of the rolls take actual power into account. The rolls specify things like "Deals WP" or "Deals WPx2 + Level" etc. Weapon Power is subject to change at any given time as weapons can be swapped on the fly, so the power listing is variable anyway.

I'd see it changed so that "Power" becomes more of a "Power Bonus", where the sum of power increases from artifacts and unique effects are listed (In my own case, that would be +1 from Q4 and, eventually, +10 from the boots). So relevant stat listings would be:

Level: X

Power: Y

Inventory: Weapon(WP:Z)

For most, the power listing would be zero. Meads wouldn't be listed there, rather included in the damage calculation. Speaking of, damage formulas could be clarified accordingly, though a bit long winded (and second nature to most QM's by now, I'd imagine) :

Damage = [([Roll effects] + [Power]) * [Elemental Modifiers] * [Consumable Modifiers] * [Row Penalty] * [Additional Modifiers] ] - [Defense of Enemy]

Roll effects would be things like "2xWP+Level" "Level" etc. Elemental speaks for itself. Consumables would be multipliers like mead (*2) or minimizing potion (*0.1). Row would be either *1 or *0.5, depending. Additional modifiers might come from a weapon that splits its damage among all targets or does extra damage against a particular enemy type.

TL;DR

Power listing isn't useful. Have it display bonus power, and make sure that Power has its place clearly marked in the calculations.

[Palathadric]

Now I'm starting to seriously think about using LDraw and POV-Ray, where it not for that render time.

It's not that bad if you render it over night. Besides, you don't need to render to such a high amount of pixels. I normally do actually just 1280 by 720 and that, depending on the size of the MOC just takes a couple of hours. The problem is transparent pieces.

Render time? you just need a faster computer.

I'm hoping to get my Desktop up and running soon and that will be great for saving time on renders.

Not to mention making the building a lot faster with less freezes.

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<p>I'm hoping to get my Desktop up and running soon and that will be great for saving time on renders. </p>

<p>Not to mention making the building

[PsyKater]

*snip*

Sounds good, actually.

[CMP]

That idea is sound, swils. People often have multiple weapons nowadays, so raw Power isn't that relevant. I know I'm personally pretty likely to forget about bonus Power ala-Zoot's Cookies or Healthy Apples.

[Flare]

Very true, swils, what you said makes sense and I think that I have to agree fully with your suggestion.

I'm not so sure if Sandy will, though (he's probably, like, shut up and stop complaining about my game! )

[xxlrocka]

Way to waste Drake's gold.

[herrJJ]

Way to waste Drake's gold.

And as the dices aren't lucky you might lose it

As for the dices I am really curious about the outcome of round one

But let us simply rip off Marty's face

[UsernameMDM]

[30*2*2*2]+[10*2*2*2]=320 damage all. And a perfectly healed party next round. And the potential to do more damage this round. That's the base amount of damage you're doing to her. And since she will be the only party member standing, all free hits will be directed towards her.

Remember how you complained when I "twisted around the only helpful shield".

Just don't kill her! If so, Hoke, Skrall & whoever else gets KO'd gets no XP!

Question - In the current situation, if Hoke was active, attacked Wren, and rolled a Spellspin, would it affect only her or the entire PC party?

They do. Always have. We can make note of it if need be.

OK, wasn't sure since the effects were removed from my sad KO'd entry.

Edited March 19, 2013 by UsernameMDM