Actions on IC Forums

Joined: Jan 11, 2002 Posts: 3061 Location: USA

I see there are some questions about what actions players can take on the IC forums, esp towards dice-rolling. Perhaps we can address them here

Guidelines on what people can do, and basics of setting up the dice rolls? What do they use to get the number of dice, how do they roll the dice, how do they determine sucess or failure

Simple actions such as:
- Fire blaster
- Hit with sword?
- Evade fire
etc...

Any models from games such as KOTOR which you find useful, post them

Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 6:11 pm

I think KOTOR used much from the WOTC D20 rules. The only difference I could see was some feats and less overall skills, to keep it simple for people, that didn't know RPGs at all.

The damage is easy enough with providing stats for each weapon, but to decide whether it hit an opponent or not, that's another pair of shoes. The least they'd have to know would be the opponent's (PC / unit / …) defence score. Same goes for VP/WPs and the abilities, skills and feats to counter the attack.

For non-combat related actions, we could provide a table with sample DC scores that need to be beaten by their roll and the appropriate modifiers.

Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 6:39 pm

Actually, if we come up with our own set of base stats, there's no reason we can't put together a table for minor conflict actions either for non-database affecting stuff.

Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 12:24 am

And see this is why I think it's nuts that someone is being allowed to start a DB effecting scenario that is 'sim wide' all these questions, and no settled answers yet.

But everyone, the GE and the RA, are going to get tossed into a mass scenario, al la ToW.

Combat Actions for certain: "To Hit", Dodge, Damage, etc.

Actions that are not neccessarily a 'natural' action for characters, i.e. Searching for hidden traps, breaking into a computer, etc.

Basically, I think if a skill is worth being listed on the character sheet, then it more often than not will require a roll.

Violet Joined: Jun 13, 2004 Posts: 156

You think it's nuts that I'm allowed to start a sim wide scen, because of what unanswered questions? How to hit someone? What assests an MG has? I already have the answers to those.

Joined: Jan 11, 2002 Posts: 3061 Location: USA

As much as we can develop for the player to progress, without requiring a GM to handle everything, would be quite good. (By progress, I mean not just by 'clicking buttons' either hehe)

Indigo Joined: Jul 03, 2007 Posts: 119

alright I bet it is safe to say most of these threads can be locked, and I'll update those I deem that need to be updated.