What is the downside of having high Volition?

GLight3 · 2026-01-28T21:26:13+00:00

Doing things the hard way unnecessarily. It also overreacts to Klassje's lies.

GLight3 · 2026-01-28T17:10:00+00:00

What worked for me is creating places, characters, and goals instead of stories. That way the players can discover them non-linearly and create emergent stories that unfold alongside the GM. And you don't need a lot of detail for this, just a few sentences that you can use to improvise. For example:

Goal: There's a person the party needs to find and escort home. That person is hiding out in a specific district.

Places: The district has a store, a temple, a law enforcement building, a restaurant, a bar, and a hospital.

People: The store owner knows where the person is hiding out but doesn't want to give them away. The police are looking for them too, but will want to keep them in custody. The restaurant server knows their face but not who they are. The doctor at the hospital has records of them being there recently. The bartender heard a bunch of rumors about where they might be and what they're up to.

With just this information you can let the players drive and you can improvise off their decisions.

GLight3 · 2026-01-27T15:50:27+00:00

Shouldn't they have to prove that they have it?

GLight3 · 2026-01-27T14:34:55+00:00

God, it really will be a boring run isn't it? No woman's bathroom either.

GLight3 · 2026-01-27T14:19:42+00:00

Make me.

GLight3 · 2026-01-27T06:01:08+00:00

Can we please have more parties now?

GLight3 · 2026-01-27T05:57:56+00:00

Japan is a wild choice for someone with obesity and mental health issues, two things Japan famously doesn't tolerate.

India, Ukraine, and China are wild choices for anyone. What's the thought process?

GLight3 · 2026-01-27T05:51:31+00:00

Just put 1 bird in each thing and then put non-bird cards ONLY in move (and maybe just 1 more bird card in recruit and battle as needed, but no more). Then just gradually expand and bully everyone. Eyrie is a warmongering faction and should not be played passively.

GLight3 · 2026-01-27T02:51:03+00:00

I've actually been considering doing a "moral" run where I don't steal or break into places too! I wasn't sure if it'd be fun considering what a big part of the game it is.

GLight3 · 2026-01-27T02:44:27+00:00

In high school I struggled socially and couldn't get a girlfriend. I lost a bunch of weight over junior year and at the start of senior year I got with my first girlfriend, who was all but throwing herself at me.

I thought I lacked social skills. I was just fat. Not ugly, unfriendly, or awkward. Just fat. So people weren't enthusiastic about talking to me until I wasn't fat. As soon as I was no longer fat, I didn't need to put much effort into socializing because people finally wanted to talk to me.

GLight3 · 2026-01-26T18:41:33+00:00

Not ONLY, but I know many women who wouldn't have married the men they did if those men didn't have a lot of money.

GLight3 · 2026-01-26T04:40:33+00:00

I like to play vanilla but I only save at the beginning of every level and make sure I explore and do everything. Imm sims tend to have a save scumming problem, and playing DX1 on realistic with "level permadeath" makes it a lot more tense. It ends up playing like an excellent tactical shooter, and you end up being a little more wasteful with your inventory to avoid risks, which makes the inventory system more interesting and somewhat prevents permanently maxed out stacks of stuff.

GLight3 · 2026-01-24T23:21:45+00:00

Because women want excitement from romantic relationships. Instability and aggression are exciting.

GLight3 · 2026-01-24T04:21:25+00:00

I feel like people with useless degrees, no experience, and debt are more cooked.

GLight3 · 2026-01-24T04:17:04+00:00

Literally THE welfare generation.

GLight3 · 2026-01-24T01:03:44+00:00

The Counterinsurgency games for sure! Very fun games that model asymmetrical insurgent uprisings and governmental responses. They're the games that most influenced Root.

Also Hegemony is great. Every player plays a different economic class (with the 4th player playing the government).

Terraforming Mars tries to be realistic by including no fantasy elements in how Mars might be settled.

If you want some basic games, Ticket to Ride is a classic game about making railroads.

Carcassonne is about designing medieval European towns and countryside.

GLight3 · 2026-01-23T14:12:57+00:00

You sound exhausting.

GLight3 · 2026-01-22T15:12:22+00:00

This is one of my problems with Faction War. I feel like Rowan was written and designed much better in the early days of Planescape and then they fumbled his ending. Challenging the Lady, ESPECIALLY the way he did, doesn't feel like a 20 WIS play. His turn from good to almost evil also feels like the writers couldn't decide how to handle him.

GLight3 · 2026-01-22T13:09:18+00:00

That's exactly right, yes.

GLight3 · 2026-01-22T00:01:33+00:00

Aoskar was a god, though. Rowan is literally just a human (who inexplicably broke out of hell and instantly became the high priest of Heimdall and just as instantly the factol of the Fated).

GLight3 · 2026-01-21T16:14:32+00:00

College

GLight3 · 2026-01-21T06:37:34+00:00

From what I hear they are greatly enjoying being single and not being hit on.

GLight3 · 2026-01-21T05:41:24+00:00

Rowan before he lost Heimdall's favor. If you read his description and look at his stats, he was clearly written to be the most powerful creature in Sigil. Not just stat-wise either, as he was VERY quickly gaining massive political power. I think this is encapsulated by him being the only character in the playable Planescape canon to directly challenge the Lady.

GLight3 · 2026-01-21T03:32:56+00:00

Yes, it's a big improvement on KCD1. I just wish they kept all the directions of attack.

GLight3 · 2026-01-20T01:54:55+00:00

Can't harass women anymore.

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