MU Peeves Thread
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I totally gave Norwood a point at least once (probably more) mid scene because I desperately wanted to try to be better at something. I regret nothing because I never did succeed at a roll I spent XP on. Even if I can’t remember what the skill was now the high in the moment stays.
(Me thinking hard says might have been ride when Norwood was trying to save Cristoph Then he epicly fell of his horse and it was amazing. Regardless I crunched that skill till I got it to 6 because fuck if Norwood was EVER going to let himself fail that badly again.)
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@Tez I read this post 28 days later.
There has to be something zombie-related here.
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@Pavel Wouldn’t it be more Schrodinger’s Skill Check, so you can have the success/fail paradox? (The crit chance is the quantum part.)
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@dvoraen Perhaps. But Stat sounds similar to Cat.
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@dvoraen I think it’s more of a “Git Good Waveform.” The exact skill the XP is ultimately going to go toward is spread across multiple possibilities until the player observes a particular skill needing to suddenly be increased during a dire moment, which causes the waveform to collapse into the needed skill. We know that this unintuitive bit of mathematics maps to physical reality with the double sleight experiment. A GM calls for a roll from a munchkin player who rolls, announces the result of the roll and that they succeeded, and quickly grabs the die with a sleight of hand before anyone can see it. When the GM first glances at the munchkin’s character sheet, they see barely visible pencil markings for all of the skills. When the GM asks for a closer look, the munchkin player engages in another sleight of hand, and suddenly the necessary skill is written in pen and at just the right level to pass the skill check.
EDITS: Improving the joke.
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all the hypothetical scenarios about jumping from like 1 to 10 in a skill immediately makes me picture the Matrix movies where they instantly upload knowledge and both
a) cracks my shit up, picturing some random dumb hyuck suddenly rolling their eyes back into their skull just so they can solve the mystery in one scene or win the arm wrestling match or whatever
b) kinda makes me wish for a game where that mechanic was explicitly part of the setting, maybe for Mysterious Reasons. sometimes characters are suddenly just inexplicably experts at something they’ve never done before, what’s happening???
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@Ominous said in MU Peeves Thread:
I think it’s more of a “Git Good Waveform.” The exact skill the XP is ultimately going to go toward is spread across multiple possibilities until the player observes a particular skill needing to suddenly be increased during a dire moment, which causes the waveform to collapse into the needed skill.
I call it the “Personal Narrative Swerve Particle”. Where a character builds a narrative of being focused on one group of things suddenly becomes a master of something completely unrelated. So like when a violent druglord suddenly becomes the world’s foremost expert on neurosurgery.
One version of this I refer to as the “Oh You Didn’t Know Corollary”, where the character in question suddenly remembers their previous life as a teacher at Harvard Medical.
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That was kind of half the fun of The Network for me. Sometimes, with no memory of why or how, you’d just realize wait. I’m a PHENOMENAL ballerina? WTF?!?
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@Gashlycrumb Yes. I find that frustrating. Even more so when someone does it in the presence of someone who’s character is focused on whatever it is. This is what they built towards, let them have their moment of triumph.
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@MisterBoring That makes me think it SHOULD be an MU Peeve, but it honestly cracks me up when I have a sheet and background BUILT for something, it’s a pivotal moment of opportunity in a scene, and the dice decide…
“Wouldn’t it be great if you suddenly sucked at that?” -
I had a char with maxed out skills because it was their focus in life. It’s all they wanted to do. I spent RL years investing and RPing and justifying and they were just the top of their game. We were in a scene and I was like YES! This is their moment. Everything they’ve worked for. This is finally when they will shine.
Roll.
Critical Failure.
I’m not going to lie I just stared at my screen for a long moment in silence and then started laughing. I’m sure I looked insane IRL. I mean I rolled with it, but damn.
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