tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4824512946694366493.post6343936072360629284..comments2023-05-24T04:21:10.517-04:00Comments on Hermes 72 - Heavy Gear RPG: Koreshi Chronicles - Chapter IX: We Need To TalkGame Thughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00326537111648972389noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4824512946694366493.post-76537388793597945402015-07-03T00:30:32.882-04:002015-07-03T00:30:32.882-04:00Ah, I'm glad to see that Lukas is using his ha...Ah, I'm glad to see that Lukas is using his hard-won xp for the laudable purpose of deceiving his siblings and the other PCs. Certainly, I can think of no better use for 6-8 dice. :)Juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02605546292851678763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4824512946694366493.post-28484761013464779592015-07-02T14:12:06.523-04:002015-07-02T14:12:06.523-04:00Not that I considered this particularly noteworthy...Not that I considered this particularly noteworthy, but another GM did so I'll share how this subterfuge was done as it was not 'hand waived'.<br /><br />I had Brock tell me what kind of opposed Theatrics roles he wanted to put out ahead of a session where he was playing Janus. I then had him roll those out and spend whatever he wanted.<br /><br />I had his rolls banked next to my GM notes and every time sometime would come up which reminded me of Lukas or would likely elicit a possible notice I had you Ariel, Julie or Zac roll two dice. I paid attention to your rolls and adjusted them for stats and incidental modifiers as I saw fit and ran them against Brock's pre-rolled opposed checks. That way It wasn't obvious what I was making you guys roll for.<br /><br />At the end of the evening I would reimburse any unspent opposed theatrics rolls to Brock.<br /><br />If your wondering why Brock, a legendary dice hoarder, has far fewer in his cache than usual, look no further than these night where he would be spending 6-8 dice dropping you guys on your notices.<br /><br />Does it "strain credibility" yeah, but so does anything in this game when you guys start dropping dice the way he did. Certain Betrayalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08518538829112660083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4824512946694366493.post-41551902158109891712015-06-26T12:48:04.746-04:002015-06-26T12:48:04.746-04:00Didn't get notifications for this... to clarif...Didn't get notifications for this... to clarify, in case it wasn't obvious in my comments, I don't really have a serious problem with this. It's more that I find it hilarious, because I think that all of us were immediately suspicious of Janus (in the meta), and almost everything about the in-character alpha-dog dynamic was the same as with Lukas practically out of the box. Some of that is due simply to inevitable elements of personal play style, but at some point I do recall Fennec observing wryly "You remind me of someone..." <br /><br />Lukas is indeed both a master of disguise and a master bullshitter. All that being as it is, I think it still strains credibility that throughout the prep, the op, and the aftermath (and patching the many holes in his body), that we didn't "make" him (or were not provided with frequent reroll opportunities). <br /><br />Admittedly, this was ostensibly done by proxy behind the curtain, or even hand-waved, for the sake of play novelty and narrative conceit. I simply trusted that such an obvious, difficult, frivolous ruse must be bolstered by some consistently fantastic disguise and theatrics totals, and ran with it trusting that all the uncanniness would pay off in a dramatic reveal (which didn't really come).<br /><br />The side effect however, is that neither myself NOR Fennec can muster much surprise when the truth finally comes out, beyond a cynical "well... that figures."LeRoi Singehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09617138731706615593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4824512946694366493.post-39595581870723378932015-06-23T19:37:42.392-04:002015-06-23T19:37:42.392-04:00Lyta initially suspected and then become more and ...Lyta initially suspected and then become more and more certain the longer we were with Janus. I clarified with Georges several times over the course of the op how sure Lyta was that Janus was actually Lukas, and by the end she was convinced. She told Ti but swore him to secrecy. To the best of her knowledge, Ti didn't reveal it to the rest of the PCs until this story.Juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02605546292851678763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4824512946694366493.post-3188916339374220292015-06-22T23:55:17.977-04:002015-06-22T23:55:17.977-04:00My understanding was that Lyta suspected earlier.
...My understanding was that Lyta <i>suspected</i> earlier.<br /><br />So far as dice are concerned--you underestimate my dice spending, my levels in Disguise/Theatrics, and overestimate the degree to which Janus acted like Lukas at all--which really came down to one moment only, iirc.Game Thughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00326537111648972389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4824512946694366493.post-20593587372482786442015-06-22T09:40:41.427-04:002015-06-22T09:40:41.427-04:00Lyta had figured it out earlier, but had kept it s...Lyta had figured it out earlier, but had kept it secret from everyone except Ti in the hopes that if Janus / Lukas didn't think she was onto him, he might stick around and she could have her brother nearby again. Clearly that did not work, as with most of Lyta's ideasJuliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02605546292851678763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4824512946694366493.post-19178173250177051002015-06-22T00:30:31.016-04:002015-06-22T00:30:31.016-04:00I can grant points for narrative convenience, but ...I can grant points for narrative convenience, but under prolonged conditions, I still find it a bit hard to believe that the tall, bossy, condescending, abrasive bounty hunter named after the two-faced god, who acts just like Lukas, could possibly have spent enough dice to keep us from recognizing him. :p<br /><br />But hey, at least my suspicions have been confirmed. <br /><br />Let the record show that Fennec greeted this revelation with the same show of surprise normally reserved for moments like "oh, that dogshit smell actually -was- coming from my shoe" or "oh look, a pimple on class photo day". <br /><br />LeRoi Singehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09617138731706615593noreply@blogger.com