Final Fantasy - 6d6cussion

[Teal Mage]

Originally Posted by POS Industries

Not like Teal's posted, either, apparently.

I have nothing to say, so I don't want to waste a post in the game thread. I'll just follow the group quietly until something worth replying to comes up.

Not that it’s a real excuse for lack of effort in my posts, but enjoying this RP has - once again - become a challenge for me. Right now I'm just planning to go through the motions until a convenient time to drop comes up. Since, after spending a lot of time looking through the system, I've come to the conclusion that it and I won't live in happy marital bliss no matter who or what I play. Bit of a spirit breaker for me, honestly.

So, now you know why I'm not posting much.

I am sorry that my eventual resignation will leave Group 1 incredibly short staffed though.

[phil_]

Originally Posted by Teal Mage

Since, after spending a lot of time looking through the system, I've come to the conclusion that it and I won't live in happy marital bliss no matter who or what I play.

But, Teal, we've told the system to take a hike. Didn't you see us beat the re-incarnated Shadow Lord zombie? No dice or HP or anything.

I'm still wondering how we're gonna get new spells and stuff with this free-form version, though.

[Teal Mage]

I'm not convinced that'll help all that much, to be totally honest. It wasn't just the numbers that were the problem, a lot of the classes and their abilities just felt unbalanced to me, like whoever was designing the game either stopped halfway through, or decided they really liked White, Black and Red Magic, but really didn't like Samurais, Blue Mages, Geomancers, Entertainers (unless they're mimics!) and left them without many options about how to play if they wanted to be remotely good.

But that might just be my feeling - I don't particularly like being told there's only one way to do things viably.

All that aside, converting a number's system to freeform isn't an easy task either, but I doubt I need to explain that in too much depth. Some of the skills and abilities only worked by affecting those numbers after all. It'll be a lot of work, and I'm not totally sure I feel like sticking around long enough to see the pay off in the meantime.

I'm still wondering how we're gonna get new spells and stuff with this free-form version, though.

I was under the impression Truce meant to stick with character sheets and levels, but use the sheets as guidelines more than absolutes.

[mauve]

Originally Posted by phil_

I'm still wondering how we're gonna get new spells and stuff with this free-form version, though.

We'l probably choose new abilities and such at the end of big battles, or the end of chapters, or something alonng those lines.



Also-- Has my team been reduced to just me and Naqel? Sigfright? Anyone else? You guys here?

Hmmmm. Well Naqel, it looks like the duty of saving the world from crystal-related destruction falls solely upon our shoulders.


Hehehehehee the world is screwed.