SCION: CHAOSIUM! OOC

[Nina]

There still seems to be a bit of confusion about how the dice rolling enhancement system works in Storypath.

 

The following is applicable to both Scion and Trinity.

 

We will use combat as our example.

 

You have a dice pool of an attribute and a skill which gives you a dice pool of 5. you have a weapon which grants 2 enhancements.

 

Your target has a defense of 2 and soft armor 1

 

your roll gives you 2 successes this allows you to use the weapon enhancement (and any others you have)

 

so you now have 4 enhancements (after you roll success become enhancements). Enhancments are like money you spend them to buy off conditions and to buy stunts.

 

You must buy off your targets defense of 2 to score a hit. This leaves you with 2 enhancements left to buy stunts with.

 

Each stunt has a cost you must pay. The simplest stunt is the damage stunt. Which costs 0+ armor. Which in this case is 1, so to give a wound condition to this target you must spend 1 enhancement which leaves you with 1 enhancement left for an additional stunt.

 

If the targets defense is higher than the number of enhancements you have you DO NOT HIT. If you do not hit you cannot buy stunts though you can in certain cases buy off conditions which effect you.

 

Once you have a chance to improve you should look at ways of gaining enhancements outside of your dice pool which is limited.

 

Remember rolling at least 1 success allows the use of all enhancements you have. But rolling successes does not mean that you hit you must buy off the defense by spending enhancements.

 

It seems complicated but it really isn't, it just isn't what you are all used to.

[Nina]

Ok I wish to address a common occurrence and pet peeve which is cropping up more and more in games.

 

Not reading the posts.

 

Everyone who posts here has to take the time out to formulate the post write it down and edit it and then post it.  It is a lot of work.

 

When some of you post it is obvious that at most what you have done is maybe skim the previous posts as your new shiny post is riddled with glaring mistakes and oversights which had you read the previous posts you wouldn’t have made.

 

Now aside from the fact that not reading what has come before causes mistakes which need to be edited, it is rude and disrespectful to your fellow players.

I am not just talking about my storyteller post but everyone’s post.

 

So why not take the time read the posts then write and if you have a doubt go back and read the older ones again or ask someone.

 

There is no excuse for some of the mistakes which are creeping into posts because the writer either didn’t read a farmer post or is just being careless.

 

So READ the posts, not just the story posts but the Occ posts, the setting posts, and the rules post. Read all of the posts in  the games you are involved in.

 

Thank you Nina.