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That's the stereotype, but there's xuanhuan that isn't anything like that. Lord of Mysteries or City of Sin, for example.Forgive my ignorance, what's a cultivation novel?2,500+ chapters about slapping faces, sneering, and the author's chronic inability to decide how anything in the metaphysics actually works.
Forgive my ignorance, what's a cultivation novel?A novel centering around the cultivation of qi in order to become much more powerful and, eventually, immortal. It's a classic element of xianxia, and since xuanhuan is basically a mix of xianxia and western genres it's also common in that.
I'll give you three guesses and the first two don't count.Glavius build priorities were incorporated into the base game anyway. I'm not sure there's a lot of great improvements that still reside within the realm of mods.
Oh really? I wonder if they paid him for his work.
Cool character. His savior should be -1, though.Thanks for catching that, I think I must have just looked at the wrong line when transcribing labels.
Labels at the end of character creation should add up to 3.
Has Sam ever accidently broken something or hurt someone due to his power negation?I'm thinking maybe not. His powers only weaken rather than damage, so it's difficult to imagine this scenario, and even weakening something at an inopportune time is a bit out there since his powers are difficult to use in the first place and making them too unbound would kind of be edging into the Nova's wheelhouse. But mostly, I haven't thought of a good little story along these lines.
Does the overlay stay in place, or move with him?It stays in place. He can make and spread or intensify it, and can use it for the illusions, but it's not connected to him and he has no real control over it.
It sounds like he creates a sepia overlay, that then itself drains the area of even mundane powers.Exactly.
Does this overlay require concentration to stay, fade with time, or stay forever as a blight upon the land?It fades away over time, and everything that it drained returns. Like the creation of the overlay zone and the draining of the powers, all this takes time. Different amounts of time though, creating it is slow at the scale of time that combat happens on, and probably requires unleashing to achieve meaningful results fast enough, but for it to fade should at least be until the end of the scene. Making permanent zones like this would be more the sort of ability to become available during play than during character creation, in part simply because it's a qualitative powerup that makes sense in the context of his original powers, and in part because that's an ability which substantially alters the world, and I reckon gaining the ability to meaningfully affect the world is a big part of the transition from childhood to adulthood that is included in the theming of this game.
There's a lot of crossover/interbleed with web novels/web serials, too.More specifically, LNs are based (almost universally these days) on serial webnovels self published by aspiring writers who hope to get noticed and make it big.
can we use colors or forms that are unique ? i mean some look the sameThose are purple, blue, green, orange, and red. They're as different as can be (well, almost, a limier green and a more neon orange are available since there's no yellow), they only look similar because the shade is similar and they're faded onto the speech bubble. I wonder if making the speech bubble colors other than white wouldn't be excessive.
I'll have to find some sort of rule summary somewhere though, the playbooks seem to gloss over a great deal of actual mechanics.If you find any for PbtA, the concepts mostly transfer, although sometimes the names change. Basically: The mechanic is 2d6+stat (and in this case, your labels are your stats) and the conditions are your health track, but death is something that only happens for narrative reasons. Time is normally freeform, and so are a lot of actions, but moves represent those where there's a reasonable chance you'll fail. The basic moves are more or less just "use this stat modifier for this kind of action" and the rest are extra - adult moves are available to adults, playbook moves are available as described in the playbook, and peripheral moves are a grab bag of things that happen which have mechanical aspects to them but don't fit the other categories. Influence is a binary relationship thingy that some moves use and some moves grant, that represents caring what a person thinks. Carrying 1 (or a +1) forward means add 1 to your next roll (or next roll that fits the conditions listed when you got that +1). That's pretty much the whole system off the top of my head, it's mostly freeform+ rather than something heavily mechanical. But feel free to ask specific questions, and if you're wanting PDFs, you can send me a PM.
I didn't forget, I didn't know about them. Looking at them now, they're very foundational concepts that maybe even should have been considered in the core list. Also, for anyone searching, it's called Secrets of AEGIS at my source.QuoteEDIT: Also just wanted to point out to everyone that there are five additional playbooks in the Halcyon City Herald Collection, which I would imagine are allowed, and three test playbooks in Masks Unbound which I reckon (as they're test playbooks) should be allowed on a case by case basis.Don't forget the two from Agents of Aegis.
Maybe I was just thinking of other PBtA games. The others make it so that when a playbook dies, no one can become them, the hole is always felt. That's only really relevant with this system with the Doomed, but I don't know. Does anyone have any opinions on this? Maybe if they die, no one can become them, but if you just change your playbook someone can become that one? Or just let people change into a playbook not currently used.That kind of dismal situation is appropriate to something like Apocalypse World, but it doesn't fit the tone of a cape campaign - at least, not the kind that's listed as inspirations for this game. And unlike, say, Monsterhearts, there's a lot of difference in what a given playbook can give you. Look at the listed examples for the different playbooks in the core book, for reference - Tim Drake is a very different character from Scott Summers, and they're both listed as Protιgι, which means that the game design reason for a hard rule like that - preventing characters that are functionally clones of each other - isn't very necessary. Hell, if you put that together with the question of genre, you can even consider that there are four well known robins (plus one very brief one) that are all considered sufficiently distinct characters despite having the same playbook, the same name and superhero identity, and the same main powers with only their personalities and the emphasis of their powers being particularly different.
Oh, and Digital Hellhound, there's also the government agency A.E.G.I.S, the Advanced Expert Group for Intervention and Security.Also like the police and CIA, not necessarily good dudes whose side you'll always be on.
They are kind of like a combination police/CIA that focus on the weird stuff and supers.
Concerning the End of Session moves, should those take place at the end of arcs, or where?I'd say model it on an episode. Whenever we get a big resolution on an issue that gives us a dramatic denouement moment, the episode is over so we do End of Session. An arc is often too long to be comparable.
There can be only one example of each playbook in one campaignAre you sure? Based on my reading*, it's only the case that there can only be one at a time - so retiring a character or using the advance to switch playbooks would open up your old playbook to new characters or a playbook switch. It's relevant to me since I was thinking it might make sense for my character to eventually become Doomed - though of course that's contingent on the game going on long enough without other play circumstances changing those plans, and I'm in no hurry anyway.
Heres one- is grimgar fantasy or isekai?Well, both. Isekai is inherently fantasy. Both in the colloquial source of the latter term in nearly every instance (Low tech, magic exists) and in broader literary sense, the very isekai event that defines the genre makes it inherently fantastic.
Huh, I always thought light novels were like children's books (though obviously not confined to an age demographic). Mostly text like regular novels, but with the occasional illustration. Something like the Hardy boys or the Magic treehouse. Or if those don't ring a bell, then something like Captain Underpants.They're more like young adult novels (Harry Potter, Animorphs, that sort of thing) than children's, I reckon. The definition, technically, is less about the demographic and more about the much more limited range of kanji in use, though.
The moods could use being different colors.Yeah, no reason not to use color more for many of these.
