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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 6106079" data-attributes="member: 6696971">It won't happen until early fall but I likely will. I still have to finalize and post my hack. But honestly, that won't be too difficult. There is already a decent enough generic hack for sword and sorcery out there so I'll use some of that and manipulate things as needed to make it sufficiently "D&Dish".I agree in that I don't think it would add much over skill challenges or generic conflict resolution systems. In fact, I personally prefer those sorts of resolution systems for non-combat conflict resolution (and as a fascilitator for small, primarily color, TotM combats, they are my preference as well) as the open-ended abstraction, rather than hard-corded mechanization, generally opens up the narrative space to more diverse interpretations/renderings. I was just (and have plenty in the past) thinking on how you could functionally mechanize social interaction/parlays/disputes into tactical mini-games. How would you break out the components of the conflict, the relevant resources deployed by either side and resolve the dispute. Consider the below Simpson's exchange with Homer and Marge where Marge wants Homer to take the trash out but Homer, being Homer, wants to be lazy, eat ice-cream, and watch TV:Marge - "Homie, please take the trash out." - Uses her "Charming Wife" and defeats Homer's defense/has success. Homer - "Maaaaaaaarge, but I just took the trash out..." - Uses his "Bluffing Bafoonery". But Marge interjects with her "History Hoarder" (immediate interrupt triggered on a Bluff attack agasint her) which gives her a bonus to her defense against Bluff attacks or gives Bluff attacks some kind of negative. Homer fails.Etc, etc. Homer would probably have "Play Dumb", "Fluster", "Stall", "Redirect" resources and Marge would probably have things like "The Way to His Heart is Through His Tummy" or "Involve the Kids" resources or something. Now you could run this until someone moves down the stress track until they're stressed out or you could have each resolution add dice favorable to the winner to a "doom pool" that is rolled once the situation is resolved. The results of that pool then dictate the outcome. Ultimately, Marge might get Homer to take out the trash, he might fluster her into doing it herself (and perhaps granting her a plot point for future usage), or somethiing else tangentially related might happen (perhaps some greater conflict arises if the dice so dictate). I think you could make it functional. Is it a fun, tactical mini-game for social conflict thats actually of use to folks? I don't know. But I do think you could make it functional from a mechanical level (action economy, deployable resources, and ultimate resolution mechanic) and set up resources schemes to support it.</blockquote>

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