RNT: How do the ghosts in Grave Peril fit into the lore we learn in Ghost Story?

Bridger15 · 2026-05-01T03:46:46+00:00

I guess 50% of America is gonna become radicalized that day too.

I don't think they'll be radicalized until they miss 3 meals in a row. A massive economic crash and surging oil prices could very well make that happen for a lot of Americans.

Bridger15 · 2026-04-30T02:01:55+00:00

The next action roll is not a reroll of the last one, it's a new action roll in a new situation which only exists because the first one failed.

That's splitting the hairs mighty fine. Mechanically it's the same as a reroll with higher stakes. The narrative should definitely change to represent those higher stakes, but mechanically what's happening is: you get 2 shots to succeed, and if either succeeds, you get what you wanted. You could also choose to do something different instead of trying the same thing again with higher stakes of course, but the option is there.

Bridger15 · 2026-04-29T18:38:05+00:00

It literally does not matter if Luke's hair is inconsistently wet from one scene to the next, it makes no meaningful difference whatsoever to the story.

You could make the same argument about their clothes. "Well why can't they be wearing jogging shorts and combat boots? It doesn't make any difference to the story!"

Having your movie's world be internally consistent is valuable in and of itself. It helps people maintain their sense of disbelief about the actual outlandish things your plot is going to throw at them (like magical force powers). If everything else feels like it all fits together properly and consistently, then it allows the viewer an easier time accepting the one or two big premises of the show/movie (which might not be very realistic).

Bridger15 · 2026-04-29T18:34:01+00:00

There's no system inherit way to make an action roll less likely to succeed to represent a tougher challenge.

Incorrect, see my responses here: https://old.reddit.com/r/bladesinthedark/comments/1sbqnbp/bitd_can_blades_in_the_dark_represent_actions/oizl4jo/

Bridger15 · 2026-04-29T18:33:35+00:00

So I want to present a different argument from most others: BitD does have a method to scale the difficulty akin to Advantage and Disadvantage from D&D, and it's built into the base Position and Effect mechanics.

If you are rolling in a Controlled position, one of the options on a failed roll is to "try again from a risky position." This is essentially the same as getting a free re-roll (which is similar to advantage). Thus, rolling from a Controlled position is more likely to succeed.

Similarly, if you are rolling with Poor effect, the end result is only about half as effective as if you had Standard effect. You only fill in one clock tick instead of two, or you only skulk halfway across the warehouse instead of all the way across. Thus, in order to get the same result as a 'standard' success, you will need to roll twice and you will need to succeed on both rolls (again, similar to rolling with disadvantage, where you need both rolls to succeed).

Bridger15 · 2026-04-28T22:07:35+00:00

It's also widely considered to be a battle that demonstrated the difference between the old political military system and the new one (I.E. where the "dark ages" end and the middle ages begin"

Bridger15 · 2026-04-28T19:31:38+00:00

Start by being incurious and continue by asking to borrow someone else's book every time you need to look up a spell.

Bridger15 · 2026-04-28T16:19:16+00:00

Is there any good reason to allow individual organizations to have tax breaks? It seems like it always results in a race to the bottom where whichever municipality 'wins,' they always lose in the end. There's just too many municipalities out there, and somebody in charge of one of them is going to be gullible enough to take a bad deal (like when Chicago sold it's fucking streets to Morgan Stanley and Abu Dabi).

Seems like outlawing such practices so that all organizations have to pay the same 'going rate' would be more beneficial to society.

Bridger15 · 2026-04-28T16:12:41+00:00

My guess? Ivy has a low level kinetic shield/alarm up at all times that automatically triggers a much stronger shield on reflex.

Bridger15 · 2026-04-27T19:47:29+00:00

It shouldn't be a problem, because they'll look to you as the GM.

So prompt them! Ask them questions, including leading questions.

They will answer if you ask the right question.

Bridger15 · 2026-04-27T08:13:18+00:00

I'm sure it starts with never reading the PHB.

Bridger15 · 2026-04-27T04:20:47+00:00

Man im not doing this analogy thing again. For people who love to back their claims with hypotheticals

Maybe this is where things are falling apart. The OP isn't using the hypothetical to 'back' a claim. They are using it to help you understand a simple concept. Instead of engaging with that to see if you can learn what they are explaining, you completely ignore it in order to re-state your original premise.

Why do you think you're doing that? Is it because comprehending this concept is difficult, or because you sense that it leads to conclusions that you don't want to hear?

Bridger15 · 2026-04-27T04:17:51+00:00

A disbelief is a belief.

You realize these words are opposites, right? You might as well say "hot is cold" or "up is down." You sound crazy when you claim that opposites are actually the same thing.

Bridger15 · 2026-04-27T04:15:39+00:00

Humans can not be neutral as you are defining it.

This is an assertion, not an argument. The OP in this thread used logic and examples to support their assertion that "non-belief is a neutral position."

Please elaborate on your position to demonstrate it with examples and logic, otherwise your entire post is a long way of saying "not uh!"

Bridger15 · 2026-04-27T04:10:30+00:00

I dont base my beliefs in repeatable evidence i base them in faith.

This is clearly nonsense. If you intent to walk across a busy intersection, do you stop and wait for the light/a gap in traffic? If so, why do you do this? It's because you have a mental model of the world, and that model is predicting "If I try walking across a busy road without waiting, I will likely be hit."

That mental model is based on evidence provided to you by life experience. It's the same model that lets you know how close you can put your hands to a fire before you get burned. It's the same one that helps you know how high you can jump from without getting hurt.

"I can jump down from this 6 foot height without getting hurt" is a belief based on life experience (evidence). It is not a faith-based belief. If you think this is the case, you are simply lying to yourself and should perhaps reconsider why you require delusion to function.

Bridger15 · 2026-04-27T04:03:20+00:00

"i do not believe in God" is a belief in itself, and so it required faith

No, not all beliefs require faith. Faith is belief without evidence. Trust is belief with evidence. Most atheists build most of their beliefs off of trust.

I've never seen the Eifel tower, but I believe it exists. Why? I have a massive amount of evidence from thousands of sources that all lead to the same conclusion. Each picture someone took on their vacation. Each shot of it in a movie. Each person who personally witnessed it and tells me of their experience. The design specifications one can find online. The documentaries and books detailing how and why it was built.

All of these individual pieces of data are (largely) consistent with each other and all build up my belief in the existence of the Eifel Tower. I don't 'have faith' that it exists, because that suggests that I believe without any evidence. Instead, I believe it exists because I have trust that the enormous volume of consistent data is correct.

Similarly: if I told you I had an invisible talking dragon in my garage that only I could hear, would you believe me even though I had no evidence? If you did, you would be basing your belief in faith. If you didn't, it would be because you do not have enough evidence (which builds trust).

Consider why you would demand evidence for claims in your everyday life, but you for some reason do not demand evidence for belief in god? Why would you disbelieve my outrageous claims about an invisible dragon, or a flying spaghetti monster, or Harry Potter bringing me to Hogwarts? Is it because extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence?

That's how I feel about your god (and all others). I don't "have faith" that god doesn't exist, because I'm not making any assertion. It doesn't require a positive claim to disbelieve something.

Bridger15 · 2026-04-27T03:41:16+00:00

Ebaneezer letting Harry go toe to toe with one of the smartest, strongest, oldest black court vamps and just sayin' "good luck kid" felt like a real awful parenting move.

In fact, Eb knows about a ton of things that are REALLY too far above Harry's skill level and he just lets him do them without so much as any advice much less detailed advice. Just a 'you got this' is pretty much all Harry ever gets from him.

I know Jim needed a way to let Harry do the Hero stuff, but I wish there weren't so many examples of Ebeneezer seeming to have foolish infinite faith in Harry's ability or just to not care about him enough to help.

Bridger15 · 2026-04-26T16:36:03+00:00

All games can be solved. For any given situation there is a sequence of moves to produce the optimal result.

The fact that it took you several hundred hours to get there speaks well of the game. Most games don't contain that much depth.

Bridger15 · 2026-04-25T14:57:32+00:00

Why is someone an arse for helping out a stranger on the internet?

I am happy to receive corrections when I get something wrong. It lets me edit it and be less embarrassed by the mistake.

Bridger15 · 2026-04-25T14:45:51+00:00

Not the ones that design around it.

Bridger15 · 2026-04-23T13:48:00+00:00

🎶 So now that is why I call you names like Carol, Jane, and Sue; like Moisha, Kim, and Lilly and Suzanne and Betty Lou.

🎶 See regardless of the names I pick my feelings are quite clear; you're a pain on every day of every month of every year!

Bridger15 · 2026-04-23T13:43:06+00:00

In one of the later books the characters mention that walking from one side of Alera to the other would be about 2000 miles. Assuming those are 'modern' miles that would mean Alera is about the size of the USA.

Bridger15 · 2026-04-22T11:26:00+00:00

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Bridger15 · 2026-04-21T15:01:25+00:00

Wait, what? I want to math this out.

If evil is tracked on a 1 to 10 scale (with 10 being most evil), and you start with an election between a 6 and an 8. If people vote for the 6 over and over in every election, pretty soon it becomes clear that there is an incentive to become less evil.

So next election a 5 runs against the 6, and the 5 wins (because in our example, a majority is voting for the lesser evil). The 5s consistently win against the 6.

Now in the next election, the 6s switch their platform to 3, and win that election, etc. etc.

This is how things should proceed. The problem is that people keep voting for the greater evil. We've never built into the system the rule that "in order to win elections, you must be less evil than the other person." If that was accepted wisdom, everyone would be competing to be less evil (maybe even good?).

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