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Offline abhorsen950

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I think im getting the hang of roleplaying...
« on: March 08, 2010, 06:08:02 PM »
and in amazing time.
Basically with CoC Everthing has a percent value and you roll a D100 and you have to get equal to or lower than your skill for success am i right?


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Offline fairoaks024

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Re: I think im getting the hang of roleplaying...
« Reply #1 on: March 08, 2010, 06:10:11 PM »
yup. that's spot on,

the only difference comes at the end of an adventure, when , if i remember correctly, you need to roll above your current skill to get an advance, if you survived o course!

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Offline thebinmann

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Re: I think im getting the hang of roleplaying...
« Reply #2 on: March 08, 2010, 06:31:37 PM »
yup. that's spot on,

the only difference comes at the end of an adventure, when , if i remember correctly, you need to roll above your current skill to get an advance, if you survived o course!

regards

jim

True and that makes it much harder to improve you spot hidden of 95%
Don't forget the "impale" rule for combat and/or hard skill chceks

CoC is bascially about the game and not the system! Enjoy

Offline Smokeyrone

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Re: I think im getting the hang of roleplaying...
« Reply #3 on: March 08, 2010, 06:45:07 PM »
Yeah, you got the system down.

  Not the best for "fighting it out" all the time, ie Chaos in Carpathia  type skirmish, but it's not supposed to be.

 It's all about  the "keeper" to come up with the right mood and drama, and a good scenario doesn't hurt either, IMO, (which is agreement with fairoaks' assessment.)


Anyone come across the infamous "Home Rolled" character?  (the one that makes his appearance in many RPG games, where the player did his characteristichs with no witnesses, with the "incredibly high" percentages, traits and abilities values?)  :)

I've seen them, someone brings his character from "other campaigns" and they seem to have leaned MUCH during their "other games", and inexplicably managed to lose little sanity points.   lol

(Those are the characters that by "pure chance", get very "unlucky" hidden Game keeper rolls, and are beset by every misfortune I can come up with, when I'm GM.  )   lol

« Last Edit: March 09, 2010, 02:11:50 AM by Smokeyrone »
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Offline thebinmann

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Re: I think im getting the hang of roleplaying...
« Reply #4 on: March 08, 2010, 07:49:06 PM »
Anyone come across the infamous "Home Rolled" character?  (the one that makes his appearance in many RPG games, with the "incredibly high" percentages, traits and abilities values?)  :)



I know of a player who had a wheelechair bound duffer, with 4 12 gauge shotguns in his wheelchair (no recoil there than); needless to say he lasted bout 5mins at the table!

One of my friends characters was unlucky: After claiming protection from his faith Father Chundy walked into an errie green light and was liquified!  Ok let's sub in stupid for unlucky!

Offline chicklewis

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Re: I think im getting the hang of roleplaying...
« Reply #5 on: March 08, 2010, 07:58:31 PM »
Somebody has to say it, so I will:

Rolling dice has nothing to do with "Roleplaying". 

But I know what you meant. 

Chick
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Offline thebinmann

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Re: I think im getting the hang of roleplaying...
« Reply #6 on: March 08, 2010, 08:20:11 PM »
Somebody has to say it, so I will:

Rolling dice has nothing to do with "Roleplaying". 

But I know what you meant. 

Chick

Agrees to a point, but you do need some kind of identity for a character and rolling stats gives you a randomised challenge whch for my money makes roleplaying more of a challenge than choosing.

I'd say roleplaying has very little to do with "ruleplaying" though

Offline Digitarii

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Re: I think im getting the hang of roleplaying...
« Reply #7 on: March 08, 2010, 08:53:32 PM »
Remember that "roleplaying" can be summed up in this descrpition:

Roleplaying is a grown up game of "let's pretend" with rules and dice.
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Offline thebinmann

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Re: I think im getting the hang of roleplaying...
« Reply #8 on: March 08, 2010, 09:04:15 PM »
Remember that "roleplaying" can be summed up in this descrpition:

Roleplaying is a grown up game of "let's pretend" with rules and dice.
Yeah, and in this case lets pretend to s**t* oursleves (though if the GM and players are good, its not just pretending!)

Offline Doomhippie

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Re: I think im getting the hang of roleplaying...
« Reply #9 on: March 08, 2010, 09:59:24 PM »
I remember playing a British Lord wit the incredible starting sanity of 25... Well, for some reasons my dicing was good enough to keep him sane and alive for many sessions - until I made the mistake of attacking a Byakee with an  umbrella (okay, I certainly must have misunderstood the size description of that beast. I thought it was about my size... oh well, famous last words: "I didn't know ot was that big...").

Point is, the character was extremely fun to play and you could never be sure he wouldn't go bonkers any minute by just seeing a dead person. Not really the winning type but that made it all the more interesting.
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Offline carlos marighela

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Re: I think im getting the hang of roleplaying...
« Reply #10 on: March 08, 2010, 10:02:50 PM »
Role playing can be a steep learning curve can't it. I'll never forget my first time when I was invited to play The Schoolmaster and the Naughty Schoolgirl. I searched high and low for a school uniform that would fit only to discover that..................

Oh sorry, slightly different game.  :D
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Offline thebinmann

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Re: I think im getting the hang of roleplaying...
« Reply #11 on: March 08, 2010, 10:05:51 PM »
I remember playing a British Lord wit the incredible starting sanity of 25... Well, for some reasons my dicing was good enough to keep him sane and alive for many sessions - until I made the mistake of attacking a Byakee with an  umbrella

Surely just a roleplaying reflection of his san?

Offline chicklewis

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Re: I think im getting the hang of roleplaying...
« Reply #12 on: March 09, 2010, 12:17:40 AM »
Carlos, you made my brain hurt !

Chick

Offline P_Clapham

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Re: I think im getting the hang of roleplaying...
« Reply #13 on: March 09, 2010, 01:52:57 AM »
Thinking that either..... we are on the same wavelength here.... Or you are talking about the RPG of Japanese psycic schoolgirls, also known as Panty Explosion.   lol

Role playing can be a steep learning curve can't it. I'll never forget my first time when I was invited to play The Schoolmaster and the Naughty Schoolgirl. I searched high and low for a school uniform that would fit only to discover that..................

Oh sorry, slightly different game.  :D
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Offline Tom Reed

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Re: I think im getting the hang of roleplaying...
« Reply #14 on: March 09, 2010, 02:10:15 AM »
My first character was a down on hi luck detective, Franklin Nathan Furter. Got eaten by some giant creep (and without mustard).
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