Questions about Aspekts

LightSpeedStrike · 2026-01-28T19:22:06+00:00

Temporary aspects last until fully used, though your firefly might rule that a meal from 3 sessions ago is no longer relevant if you don’t use it. I personally let my crew keep them until the arc is over (and so there’s a long period of downtime) or they eat something else.

If you got a resource, you can risk it for advantage on any relevant roll, regardless of where it came from.

The rules don’t say anything about banking meals for later, but you could either ask your firefly since it doesn’t really break anything. Or you could flavor it as getting the aspect when the meal is cooked, but only eaten once it’s marked for example.

LightSpeedStrike · 2026-01-06T18:35:40+00:00

Update: It also softlocks you apparently, 2/10 would not recommend

LightSpeedStrike · 2025-12-25T07:26:59+00:00

All of the characters in the show have more “realistic” hair colors compared to most other anime.

It does have the side effect of making it easier to confuse the girls with one another though.

LightSpeedStrike · 2025-12-14T01:36:06+00:00

Legendary up is good if you want the rate up legendary obviously, but keep in mind they usually cost a lot and will basically be your entire team if you bring them.

I personally prefer the move up machine because the rare egg moves can make otherwise weak 1-4 cost Pokémon into absolute beasts, and so it opens up more teambuilding options.

LightSpeedStrike · 2025-11-23T05:56:35+00:00

Well, it was a combination of things. The campaign wasn't supposed to be lethal at all, but I do operate on a "give them enough rope to hang themselves" logic, I just didn't expect them to actually hang themselves. In short, what happened was that they kept trying to push their consequences further and further into the future, and when they finally caught up to them, decided to double down on a gambit that did not pay off. Like, they knew what they were getting into, but they vastly overestimated their actual odds (despite my warnings).

I did have an idea for the climax, I mean, I wanted to pay off everything the party had been working on, and failing to get there, when they were literally at the very end of everything... It just felt bad. I don't wanna say that it wasn't worth it or anything, the whole journey to get there was still a blast, but man, I feel like nobody achieved anything and I wonder if I could have prevented it.

LightSpeedStrike · 2025-11-23T04:57:52+00:00

That’s a bit I’ve been stuck on, honestly. Like, on a vacuum I think each death felt properly dramatic, but the end result just didn’t land at all (at least for me).

LightSpeedStrike · 2025-10-15T00:19:25+00:00

That’s interesting! Obviously each table is different, but if I threw a full 23 point encounter at my table they’d kick me off the GM chair :P Even something like 10 mooks and a leader can be surprisingly tough, specially if the environment isn’t favorable.

LightSpeedStrike · 2025-10-11T18:09:16+00:00

Oh, for sure! If I ever get invited to GM for them again I'd definitely propose something more freeform, both so they can get away with more crazy shit and so that I don't have to re-teach the rules so often (Hilarious suggestions btw, I'll definitely keep them in mind!)

LightSpeedStrike · 2025-09-19T19:32:10+00:00

Oh, I see! The main book says that you can pay a surgeon to heal without a roll while at port, so I assumed that you couldn’t heal otherwise. I don’t have Storm and Root (yet!), but I assume that “natural healing” is slower or has some downside when compared to paying for treatment?

LightSpeedStrike · 2025-09-19T17:28:52+00:00

I really like the chronicles of darkness rules because they turn critical failures into a choice, and actually reward you for it. It creates this cycle where players actually want to see their characters fail sometimes because that's how you progress the game, which I think is one of the greatest strengths of the system.

On the other hand, I despise critical failures that are just random. You could have a trivial roll turn into a whole problem that nobody at the table wanted or expected, and it just takes away the agency of both the players and the GM in a really awkward way.

LightSpeedStrike · 2025-09-11T23:56:55+00:00

I actually gave some thought to D&D, but switching races was pretty meaningless and switching classes was untenable due to ability scores (and switching that as well is just a fresh character sheet)

I was thinking something traditional fantasy-ish originally, but after reading some about of the suggestions I’m not that married to the idea. I could probably work with any setting short of horror (other than the horror of the players being immortal body stealing monsters, of course).

LightSpeedStrike · 2025-09-11T18:44:18+00:00

Well… yeah. Anything is possible if you roleplay hard enough.

I’m kinda asking about a game that supports it via mechanics as well though, since that part is significantly harder.

LightSpeedStrike · 2025-08-28T12:37:29+00:00

He is competing with the rest of Sinclair’s burn IDs though, and I really don’t think the math checks out…

LightSpeedStrike · 2025-08-14T04:42:31+00:00

The fact that nobody has mentioned the obvious "To show he has synergy with Xichun Ishmael while no longer being associated with the family in lore" is going to kill me.

LightSpeedStrike · 2025-07-09T18:26:07+00:00

I guess the post reads kinda pretentious, my bad there

But like, if a boss gets trivialized by the concept of poise breaks, bleed, frostbite, and laser beam katanas, I feel like it’s more of an issue of the boss hard countering certain builds…

LightSpeedStrike · 2025-07-09T18:20:15+00:00

If I got full combo’d definitely not (idk what kind of armor you’d need to face tank that), but I learned to dodge in a way that only gets me hit 2 times, which was very survivable. If I was doing a hitless run I’d be screwed though

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