Advantage and Disadvantage (Terminology)

[zedturtle]

My mind won't let 'aspected' go as Tolkienish. The best I can do is ill-aspected but I don't know what the positive one should be and I do think it's clunkier than 'keep best'/'keep worst'.

[Rocmistro]

Guys, somewhere in here is an anecdote about wheels and re-inventions.

But that aside...I challenge all of you to avoid trying to make TOR....compile*.

*When my real life group started playing TOR and we got the basics down, one of my friends, who happens to be a developer remarked "A lot of flavor to this game, but I don't think it would compile."

"Thanks goodness!" I said, laughing, and handed him the tobacco jar.

[zedturtle]

As most of you know, I do a bit of RPG design, usually just for fun. I also do programming, mostly for fun, but sometimes my real world employment and my programming hobby have intersected. When that was the case, I found it nearly impossible to write RPG rules, they were always too vague, too imprecise.

I had to give up on that project just because I couldn't shift mindsets well enough...

[bluejay]

How about heartened and hindered? Been trying to find words with the right sound and most of them are derived from Old English and/or Norse quite unsurprisingly.

[bluejay]

Or encouraged and hindered? I'm literally reading LotR and looking for any examples of appropriate words. Unfortunately a Latin-derived word but still a good one.

[Glorelendil]

Guys, somewhere in here is an anecdote about wheels and re-inventions.

Personally I'm fine with Advantage, but Stormcrow had some very strong objections so I was looking for another option.

[bluejay]

Yeah this is more of a game than anything.

[kimbo]

cast a shadow fate die to darken (worst of two) or enligthen (best of two) the result

is this starting to get silly?

[Glorelendil]

cast a shadow fate die to darken (worst of two) or enligthen (best of two) the result

is this starting to get silly?

Well, it opens up the possibility of C7 being able to sell us special dice to use with Advantage/Disadvantage...

[Eluadin]

For me, "Help" connotes another person actively contributing. "Hinder" does too, but it more easily refers to something inanimate/passive.

Definitely inanimate and passive from a player-hero point of view. Even better, I like the connection to "another person actively contributing" influencing the outcome!

Maybe a little like that "other will ... using [Frodo's] small voice" at the Council of Elrond, no...?

Time for a cup of team and a buttery scone to warm my heart!