This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
Tsundere Lightning: Okay, "Right now, the moment you begin reading this," isn't exactly No Fourth Wall - it's meant to imply that it's set in the real world, 20 Minutes into the Future. Is there a better trope to describe this?
cqv: Well, you pinpointed 20 Minutes into the Future. What else do you want? Is 'set in the real world' too broad to even be a trope?
Tsundere Lightning: Well, it's an unusual assumption for a game. Right Now, The World Is Exploding is a central facet of the game.
...excuse me while I post that in YKTTW.
Tsundere Lightning: Right - it's a new trope I just launched: Present Day Present Time.
Insanity Prelude: Sounds interesting, does it have an official site? Google's coming up with a few blogs and RPG.net and that's about it.
Tsundere Lightning: It's available at Indie Press Revolution, which I will note on the page proper.
Whitemageof DOOM: I have never heard of this game until i found it on this wiki. I now hate it with the fires of a thousand suns and if given divine power would smote its existence from the universe retroactively.
Tsundere Lightning: Sorry to hear that you dislike it. May I suggest Spirit Of The Century instead?
Crasical: . . . I am oddly intrigued. This game seems like it'd be quite fun to play. . . If I could find an online campaign or had a group of friends that wouldn't find the whole concept of the game too squicky to contemplate. Blasted vanilla heroic fantasy settings. Regardless, I intend to find some way to legitimately use the phrase Right Now, The World Is Exploding within the next week or so.
Tsundere Lightning: In my experience, it works very well over IRC or play-by-post. Mission resolution is just THAT fast.
Haven: Why is everything pot holed to Gainax Ending?
Tsundere Lightning: As a joke, really; Gainax Endings are VERY common in this game, and that doom-and-gloom pronouncement seemed to call for it. The more optimistic ones are pot-holed to more appropriate things (Patrick Stewart Speech, The Power of Love, and so on.) If you can think of more appropriate tropes, please edit it...
False Swipe: I kind of want to try it, and I've never played a tabletop RPG in my life. The few excerpts of the text I can find are really interesting.
INUH: What sort of system does this game use? I find it's always good to know that before paying for it.
Tsundere Lightning: It uses it's own system, which runs on Fudge Dice; but those are just modified six-siders, and it tells you how to read a normal die.
Each player controls multiple characters, but not at the same time: when they Pilot, they control the Pilot. When the Pilot of their Anchor is piloting, they control the Anchor. When your supporting staff interacts with the others, you control that character. The GM controls the Authority and supporting staff, never Pilots nor Anchors.
In combat, you're given a set number of goals ("Objectives"); each attempt to complete a single Objective is one roll, which you then assign to Mission Progress, Personal Safety and all the Relationships you used to power that attack. Low rolls baaaad, high rolls goood.
Unused dice from each roll get you points of Bliss, as do destroyed Relationships; when you go over 108 Bliss, your character must exit, stage right, as their next action, but you may have them complete a greater operational goal (or say that it can't be done) as they do.
You Level-Up at Intimacy 5 - or raise Trust or otherwise improve your stats - with quieter interaction scenes and RP, or Interludes. You have a scene between two characters, and when the scene ends, a third player decides the mechanical effect of that.
Both of you have the option of declaring a Trust Break - you lose a point of Trust, but that character immediately has a follow-up Interlude with anyone, normally the only way two non-Pilots can interact.
Darkaros: On the Bliss Stage First Act page, does anyone know what Role Playing Game index it would fall under (If at all, since I've noticed the index's been changed quite a bit)? Someone linked it to Role Playing Game, and I'm not familiar with the tabletop game at all.
Tsundere Lightning: Erg, I fail at this forever... it's a computer game, a Visual Novel.
Darkaros: Woo, random trope editing done. Visual Novel'ed.
Tsundere Lightning: Bridge Bunnies for the Anchors? Really? Bridge Bunnies describes pretty young female officers with no real function. The Anchors, by contrast, are damage control officers and navigators and more vital to the operation than the Pilots.
