First Impressions & Feedback - N.E.W.

[LucasC]

On a side note, I think prison (either being wanted, an escapee, or newly released) is a great adventure hook.

While I agree that ending w/prison could make for an interesting adventure hook, I'd caution against having the rules setup to force this upon a GM (and player). Perhaps neither are interested in that sort of game, perhaps that happened the last time they ran a N.E.W. game too.

IMO it would be better to present that as an option, with a couple other possibilities including (1) get an additional career and start a little older or (2) ignore that roll on your last career before play begins.

 

[exile]

Those hooks-- from my read of things anyway-- are not forced on player, group, or gamemaster. It is perfectly acceptable that a character who ends with the prison career could be newly released.

 

[Scorpio616]

It might be a little generous for some things.

Agree on that it feels a bit too generous on death & dying, like a mechanic so dying dicepool is reduced from very big hits is missing.

 

[Morrus]

Agree on that it feels a bit too generous on death & dying, like a mechanic so dying dicepool is reduced from very big hits is missing.

Have you tried it yet? That sort of thing is the kind of stuff that needs a lot of repeated actual testing to fine-tune. I imagine I'll be nailing this down for weeks, so playtesting data is very important.

 

[Scorpio616]

Have you tried it yet? That sort of thing is the kind of stuff that needs a lot of repeated actual testing to fine-tune. I imagine I'll be nailing this down for weeks, so playtesting data is very important.

And what about damage dealt to the character WHILE they are dying? Things like this feel, at least to me, much more of a design decision, than a playtest issue.

 

[Morrus]

And what about damage dealt to the character WHILE they are dying? Things like this feel, at least to me, much more of a design decision, than a playtest issue.

I've a bunch of possible rules for that in line (increasing, decreasing countdown pools; also applies to illnesses and all sorts of things), but one step at a time. There's no point building on an untested system. The idea is to playtest the stuff that's there, so that I can move on with development after extensive feedback. That's why you can see lots of systems started, but not extensively detailed yet.

 

[Scorpio616]

Unrelated tagent,

SANITY (in a horror game, perhaps named F.E.A.R.)

FYI that name is in use by the First Encounter Assault Recon video game franchise.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.E.A.R.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon

 

[Scorpio616]

Investigating
Nocturnal
Supernatural
And
Non-classifiable
Entities

 

[GMforPowergamers]

Investigating
Nocturnal
Supernatural
And
Non-classifiable
Entities

I would like to see a NOW with this built in

 

[Morrus]

I would like to see a NOW with this built in

N.O.W. needs N.E.W. and O.L.D. to be successful first!