Best Games with Roster Characters?
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@Buttercup I’ve thought about an L5R type roster game, but I’d want to use the 5e ruleset with the fancy FFG dice, so getting it coded is tricksier than usual.
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I feel like that or Seven Seas is perfect for Roster gaming.
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@Buttercup main problem is decision paralysis once I get past the basics, followed by no rush to un-paralyze because no code.
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@Jennkryst said in Best Games with Roster Characters?:
@Buttercup main problem is decision paralysis once I get past the basics, followed by no rush to un-paralyze because no code.
Run it using Ares with the PDF Sheet plugin and use form fillable PDF sheets. I’d honestly love to see more games do something like this.
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@Raistlin said in Best Games with Roster Characters?:
@Jennkryst said in Best Games with Roster Characters?:
@Buttercup main problem is decision paralysis once I get past the basics, followed by no rush to un-paralyze because no code.
Run it using Ares with the PDF Sheet plugin and use form fillable PDF sheets. I’d honestly love to see more games do something like this.
How well, if at all, does this handle the fancy dice?
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@Jennkryst There’s a basic dice plugin that could likely be modified to handle anything you need. You’d need someone competent enough to do the modifications, is all.
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The dice for L5R 5th Edition could just be converted to a pair of charts and use regular dice. Then the code compares the d6 and d12s to their appropriate chart and the output would just be a list of results rather than worrying about the fancy symbols.
Then players choose what to keep and what to discard.
I’m sure there’s probably a coder somewhere that could do the whole nine yards though in an automated formatted wonder code thing.
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@Jennkryst said in Best Games with Roster Characters?:
How well, if at all, does this handle the fancy dice?
The RPG plugin only handles numerical dice using a syntax of “5d6” or “3d4” or whatnot. You have to manually figure out what to do with the numbers - add them, count successes, figure out the difficulty, etc.
As Raistlin said, you could use custom code to make it roll whatever you wanted, you’d just have to figure out the syntax.
Ares also has a partial FFG Plugin based around the Genesys system. I don’t know how well it would adapt to L5R but you could probably at least steal some of the dice code.
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@Faraday said in Best Games with Roster Characters?:
Ares also has a partial FFG Plugin based around the Genesys system. I don’t know how well it would adapt to L5R but you could probably at least steal some of the dice code.
I think you could probably steal most of the code. I just looked at it on Github and I think it mostly does what you want already, the code work would be reducing it down from 6 types of dice to 2.
Genesys has 6 dice types (Boost, Ability, Proficiency, Setback, Difficulty, and Challenge), where L5R only has 2 (Ring and Skill). Advantages (the L5R version of Talents) are pretty easy to implement too, as I believe the majority of them just let you reroll 2 of your dice in specific situations.
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Somebody poked me enough that in order to prove them wrong/get them to stop, I asked Chat GPT to write some Ares code for me, and it sort of looks like it could work? We’ll see, but now I have to get over this decision paralysis.
We are down to ‘all comic book games use free form powers, what if we add dice?’, L&L5R, and that Star Trek thing we talked about that one time. I thought about something something Battletech, but that way madness lies.
I’m sure I’ll bounce to another idea before anything gets finalized for these, its fine.
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@Jennkryst What about Mummy?
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@MisterBoring Moon Knight and Co. if comic books, L5R can do it with blood magic, and Star Trek… something something Q and/or First Contact with the 80s Battlestar Galactica with all those ancient alien vibes? I dunno. I’m trying to brain L&L5R here.
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@Jennkryst said in Best Games with Roster Characters?:
I’m trying to brain L&L5R here.
I would probably give that a shot because even though L&L games make my brain stop, L5R is a favorite setting of mine.
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@Jennkryst said in Best Games with Roster Characters?:
I thought about something something Battletech, but that way madness lies.
Madness is merely a state of mind, much like performing an alpha strike in a Nova.
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@Hobbie said in Best Games with Roster Characters?:
alpha strike in a Nova.
Something something disco ball.
Anyway travel times alone means everyone is probably part of the same mercenary group, or it’s gotta be set on Solaris or something. To say nothing of potential ‘whoops, cockpit was hit, you died, re-roll’ occurrences.
