In reply to Iskander (msg # 934):

That is always an issue when one players personality conflicts with another's personality. I just try to keep the peace as the masters trusted entertainer.

In reply to Airis Moonshadow (msg # 936):

And that is appreciated. I'll  be back on tomorrow, was finishing a comission, and a highly GURPSable one, a cyberpunk  with a magic sword and some ioun stones...

Seems like things have slowed down in "Against the Cult", "Return to Sakemoko's Palace", and "Back Table in the Guild"...

In reply to Ardenas Barehand (msg # 938):

I haven't   been able to get to everything. I was off
yesterday, but had a stack of chores and a comission  to
resolve. Today I had some overtime scanning lead aprons,
(2 minutes to scan, an hour and fifteen to log the paperwork)
In addition to my usual assortment of Portables, BE's, esophograms, injection and swallowing studies... not much time to catch up. Sometimes, and less often these days, we have a slow day and I can post at work.

In reply to Narrator (msg # 939):

Well, I understand busy.  I was just checking, looked like some groups were progressing and others not.

In reply to Ardenas Barehand (msg # 940):

I hadn't   got to them, and some were slowed by gatekeeper   activity

In reply to Narrator (msg # 941):

street fight?

In reply to Iskander (msg # 942):

Someone feeling important...



Back tomorrow

In reply to Narrator (msg # 943):

ah, pomp!! gotcha

This may in fact not be the kind of game where you can make a skill roll and make things up about the environment to match.

It might be the sort of game where you roll and then wait for the GM to tell you what you've discovered.

In reply to Oren (msg # 945):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR7Njv5-GtA

In reply to Iskander (msg # 946):

sorry. i tend to take for granted just what a success roll garners. i like to think that it allows me a little freedom to manifest my success in my own fashion, when the dice favor me.

In reply to Iskander (msg # 947):

at least, with my players, i always encouraged spontaneity at least.

For me, it depends on the game. In simulationist games like GURPS, information-gathering skills do not "create" details, they simply reveal them. A success may just result in "you're sure that there's nothing like that here."

In a more narratavistic game like Fate, I run with more player control.

Though in this case I'd suggest that the large number of players plays a bigger role in limiting player power to just invent details on the fly.

Ultimately it's a GM style thing.

In reply to Azrael (msg # 949):

Generally speaking I like to provide the details, especially
if it is lore about my world or npcs.

Been a really rough day, be back tomorrow

In reply to Narrator (msg # 950):

There are advantages that grant plot control, like Serendipity, but they aren't standard issue.

In reply to Narrator (msg # 951):

never used luck, even. lol

In reply to Iskander (msg # 952):

did Ales Bail on us?

You know him, you tell us.

In reply to Jin (msg # 954):

i moved, and don't keep in touch any more.

In reply to Iskander (msg # 955):

Then he may drift away.

Now, let me clarify a few things; Area knowledge: Northport  is a skill which lets you know how to get arpund, locate important surface features  and important personages, and a smidge of local law and history.
Area Knowledge : UnderCity is effectively a hidden lore known only to the department  of sewers and aqueducts, and to those that actually live there.
Confounding   the two is not like a New Yorker knowing the nearest subway station and whether or not the line is running; it is more likebeing a New Yorker and trying to figure out if a tunnel rumored to be used by 1930's bootleggers has an access point in a disused subway tunnel. The known ways under that folks in the guild talk about include the guild basement, an area near a street collapse in
Redlight, an old brewery since taken over by the town guard, the basement of a particular brothel, and some basements that aren't bricked up.
I used Ruins of The Undercity  in some development  here, but you can't   use the wrong skill to invent doorways.

But can I use the right skill to invent doorways?

;)

So does Area Knowledge Shenava have any overlap?

In reply to Narrator (msg # 956):

urban survival works, to locate manholes and grates and such, above and below ground, right?
how does that skill work in northport?

From the way I understand it (correct me if I'm wrong, GM), the Urban Survival skill would let you find out if there's a nearby sewer or other feature, it doesn't let you, the player, decide that such features exist.

At least, that's my understanding of all the information-gathering sorts of skills. They don't let the players invent what's around them, they just let them ask the GM questions.

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This message was last edited by the player at 06:22, Tue 07 June 2016.