Whee, more victims double agents maids! This keeps up and we really should rename this to West Berlin Manor.
Also, the parallels between Maid and the Fate system are interesting. Just need something along the lines of Fate Points.
Charlie Stross's cheerful, optimistic predictions for 2017, part one of three.![]()
Eheh, well maid characters are generally generated randomly even if you use the book. If you wanted, you could give me a string of dice rolls and I could tell you what the book gives you for them. You could also pick up Olivia again; she's not technically dead...
Aye, some method of commoditizing the abuse of maid powers/maid qualities would be useful. I'd considered using the Fate Accelerated system since Approaches are simpler to deal with than Skills, though neither one maps perfectly to Maid Types and their influence on Stats. My attempt at converting one of my characters (who has since become a GMPC since i took over) can be found here.
You know, you could promote the other Olivia Browning into Maid format—honorable discharge from the US Coast Guard (with a side order of "thanks for your service, here's your medal, now get the hell out before you cause any more damage"), at an improbable age if need be, and then she picks up a job working as a very well-paid maid.
Come to think of it, Olivia "Overenthusiastic Trenchgun Medic" Browning might work better in Maid...
Charlie Stross's cheerful, optimistic predictions for 2017, part one of three.Actually, that OB was *way* different from the Wv M one. She was much less of an asshole, for one.
I am become Death, Destroyer of Miniputts.Whee, watch me fail in knowing how rolls work! I'll be treating rolls of as 1 especially hilarious (though still sub-critical) failures with my luck stat at 1, if the GM will allow. Case in point, finding the spider instead of the torch.
Although I'm kinda hoping that we'll get to explore the place with flaming torches. Between the broken bottles, the grenades, the albino skin, and the sunglasses, we'd probably look like second-rate Bond villains, and I'm totally okay with that.
Charlie Stross's cheerful, optimistic predictions for 2017, part one of three.Well, they would be failures at any rate; Maid uses Stat x Roll, so a roll of 1 with a luck of 1 would be a 1. Most tasks that need to be rolled require at least 4 for success. You can take especially pathetic failures as you wish...
Edit: Also, remember that if you ever roll Skill to perform Maid duties, you will add a +3 to the end result, after all multiplication is done, due to the Hard Work power.
Edit Edit: I wonder if it says anything about this game that i have to include the caveat 'if you ever...' I recall the maids doing maid-like things at some point in the distant past, but it has been so long...
edited 19th Jun '14 2:57:36 PM by alhazred23
H:44F(8/30)S|G:19F(0/10)SRight; I'll be trying to leverage Will and Skill rolls as much as possible...except it might be a while yet.
Charlie Stross's cheerful, optimistic predictions for 2017, part one of three.
Sorry for not responding fast enough. The game did took up pace.
- 4*4(Athletics)=16
- 1*2(Cunning)=2
Apparently, Karina secures her record of acting quickly, but without much though.
Alhazred, it's your call to decide if it's a valid or invalid move. Or if Karina lands on one of the pieces or maids. (Then again, follow the unwritten rule of maid: Choose the most hilarious outcome.)
edited 21st Jun '14 2:00:39 PM by dragonfi
Karina: F:18 S:0/20 Evelyn: F:11 S:6/40 "Evelyn is adorably crazy." — compliment by Vampiric OneI'm waiting on Stolen to show up, as evidently the faeries have her trapped in a summoning pentacle or something. If not, I think we may move ahead assuming we're using lengths of wood soaked in brandy to provide illumination, because there is no way that could ever go wrong.
Charlie Stross's cheerful, optimistic predictions for 2017, part one of three.

Possibly join the game again, actually! I need the rulebooks and some dice (random generators are boring), but I'd love to hop back in!
I am become Death, Destroyer of Miniputts.