Yet again I’m impressed with the versatility of the advantage/disadvantage mechanic.


Yet again I’m impressed with the versatility of the advantage/disadvantage mechanic. For Riders of the Purple Lotus I didn't want to have to assign speeds in feet to everyone and everything. I don’t want fiddly tactical movement. But I still want to a way to measure sheer speed for chases and such. So everything gets a pace: Slow, Average, or Fast. Slow creatures have disadvantage on rolls for chases or races, Average is a straight roll, Fast creatures get advantage. Pace will also determine daily movement rates. We’ll see how this works.

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  1. Nathan “Spiciest DM” PankeMay 19, 2015 at 1:56 PM

    Great mechanic. It could be used for range combat too.

    With special abilities grant adv/dis

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  2. Casey G.May 19, 2015 at 2:48 PM

    Nathan Panke that's how I'm working it.

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  3. Barry LovsethMay 19, 2015 at 5:09 PM

    Will they all be static attributes or relative?
    Example:
    raptor is fast
    OR
    Raptor is fast compared to ankylosaurus

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  4. Casey G.May 19, 2015 at 5:17 PM

    Static.

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