Comments on: Out of Frame: An RPG of Cinema Escape http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/out-of-frame-an-rpg-of-cinema-escape An independent rpg game publishing site devoted to free rpg games Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:29:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: John Laviolette http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/out-of-frame-an-rpg-of-cinema-escape/comment-page-1#comment-228 John Laviolette Wed, 20 May 2009 00:01:51 +0000 http://www.1km1kt.net/?p=684#comment-228 Hi, James. I made initiative run low to high to make it intuitive. Rolling a 1 means you go first. That makes sense on a gut level. Counting up is also open-ended, which is especially important with the timing of extended actions (risks.) If speed counted down instead of up, you'd have the same situation as the old D&D AC numbers; once you decide that an AC better than 0 is possible, you have to use negative numbers in a descending AC system. Likewise, if a player rolls double 1s in my game, takes an action, then takes a risk, then follow up with another risk, the second risk would have a speed of -1 under a count-down system. Hi, James. I made initiative run low to high to make it intuitive. Rolling a 1 means you go first. That makes sense on a gut level. Counting up is also open-ended, which is especially important with the timing of extended actions (risks.) If speed counted down instead of up, you’d have the same situation as the old D&D AC numbers; once you decide that an AC better than 0 is possible, you have to use negative numbers in a descending AC system. Likewise, if a player rolls double 1s in my game, takes an action, then takes a risk, then follow up with another risk, the second risk would have a speed of -1 under a count-down system.

]]> By: James http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/out-of-frame-an-rpg-of-cinema-escape/comment-page-1#comment-226 James Fri, 15 May 2009 09:09:26 +0000 http://www.1km1kt.net/?p=684#comment-226 I'm curious why you chose to have initiative going from lowest to highest and all others going from highest to lowest? The way I see it, this means you can have three types of rolls: low-low: Act quickly but poorly low-high: Act quickly and skilfully high-high: Act slowly and skilfully If initiative were trying for a high roll you would get: low-low: Slowly and poorly high-high: quickly and skilfully But low-high would offer you a choice: which is more important? Speed (what does skill matter, all I need to do is pull the lever) or skill (I have one shot, can't rush it!)? I’m curious why you chose to have initiative going from lowest to highest and all others going from highest to lowest? The way I see it, this means you can have three types of rolls:

low-low: Act quickly but poorly
low-high: Act quickly and skilfully
high-high: Act slowly and skilfully

If initiative were trying for a high roll you would get:
low-low: Slowly and poorly
high-high: quickly and skilfully

But low-high would offer you a choice: which is more important? Speed (what does skill matter, all I need to do is pull the lever) or skill (I have one shot, can’t rush it!)?

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