DRX - Mirrored Embers - 0/16

[Geyde]

All the astrologist ones
You’ve clearly thought about this setup enough that I likely don’t have to ruthlessly apply the scientific method

[Icibalus]

oh
are you talking about the boons? my intent for that was that they’re imrprovised
the Ultimate Astrologer is 90% improvisation role-wise, except for them knowing everyone’s signs at the start of the game

[Geyde]

@Icibalus

Finally, if no murder is committed in the first 48 hours of a Daily Life, you will be given a choice of two Motives to put into play.

This is a lot of mod intervention for mm of all things

[Geyde]

To what extent are you allowing creation of items

[Geyde]

This mm
Is really weak

[Arete]

@Icibalus

Starry-Eyed (Passive) - You are capable of reading messages in Enchanted Ink, regardless of whether they were intended for you or not.

this overrides effects that allow for concealed messages

@Arete

Red ink: The ink glows as if it were a candle for the next hour after applied.
Orange ink: The ink causes anyone reading it besides the original writer to experience blinding pain, which gives murder attempts against them for the next hour a +20% chance to succeed.
Yellow ink: The ink quickly fades to transparency. It can only be revealed by saying the word “reveal” out loud (when writing a message in the ink, you feel an overwhelming compulsion to say the word “reveal”).
Green ink: If applied to skin, the ink heals minor injuries.
Blue ink: Regardless of what one attempts to write, all words written with this ink will become the word “Repeated.”
Purple ink: When a message written in this ink is read by someone other than the writer, the paper the message is on will catch fire.

they can read anything on here, however other effects will still happen (e.g. you can read a purple message but the message will still catch fire)

reading yellow ink requires trying to read it which most people won’t by default think to do

@Icibalus

Tarot Skill - Once per Daily Life, using a deck of Tarot Cards, or something serving as them, you may perform a Tarot reading. This reading will be based on the hosts’ predictions of how the game will continue, and may still be innacurate, but we’ll do our best (no, we aren’t just going to draw Death every single time).

this doesn’t really interact with any roles in weird ways

@Icibalus

Retrograde - If you touch another player’s wrist during Daily Life , they will receive some kind of minor boon in the following Daily Life phase. This will only function once per Daily Life phase.

boons are decided on a case by case basis

@Icibalus

Portentuous Eclipse (U) - Cause a solar eclipse, bringing a temporary extra Night phase for 24 hours. During this phase, all your rolls and calculations will be made with LUK (except for max AP)

this doesn’t have many weird interactions

if the Snowboarder ult is used during the first night the snow will go away after the first night of the two (it’s worded “At the end of the night, the snow will recede back to regular snow the following day” but the first takes precedence)

[Arete]

uh Luna can correct me if I’m wrong on any of these

[Geyde]

@Arete

boons are decided on a case by case basis

So you create it in the moment
Why exactly

[Arete]

It allows us to make sure that they’re not either completely useless or completely overtuned for the chapter

[Geyde]

Fair

[Geyde]

Are there any roles with < 50% chance of killing without special modifiers

[Geyde]

I am seeing a lot of minor percentage buffs which worries me that the action of murdering is not reliable

[Icibalus]

Scott McDonald, Ultimate Inventor

STR: 40, CON: 60, AGI: 10, INT: 50, LUK: 20
Max AP: 41
Gender: M

• Preparedness (Item) - You begin the game with an Item Sack in a special private slot, which contains a Mars Bar, 1 metre of rope, a copy of Bridget Jones’ Diary, a pencil, a whisk, a 30cm solid plank of wood, and a broken lightbulb. You cannot place anything in this bag that was not in here originally due to it possibly disrupting your perfect organisation system. You are prepared for anything.
• Scottish (Passive) - You are Scottish. This means that you get +1 AP than you ought to, as described by your CON stat. Congratulations.
• Improvisational Skill - Improvised mechanisms and objects you create have a higher chance of succeeding.
• Real A-Team Hours (U) - Summon a random selection of items into the room you are currently in. Some combination of these items wlll allow you out of whatever situation prompted you to use this Ultimate.

Wrist Sign:

how does this look

[Arete]

@Icibalus

• Melee Attack Kill Chance = (50 + (Attacker STR - Defender STR)/2 + Weapon Attack - (Defender’s LUK/8))%
• Projectile Kill Chance = (50 + (Attacker AGI - Defender AGI)/2 + Weapon Attack - (Defender’s LUK/8))%
• Poision Kill Chance = 100%, unless an antidode is found.
• Time Until Poison Kill = (Poison Power)*(1+Defender’s CON/5). Symptoms will be experienced depending on the poison.
• Electrocution, Drowning, Burn, And Miscellaneous Kill Chance = 100% - (Victim’s CON/2 + LUK/5). Advantage (roll twice, if either roll kills, the victim is dead) may be given for strong miscellaneous methods, Disadvantage (roll twice, the victim may only die if both kill) may be given for weak miscellaneous methods of murder. Use with caution.

chances of killing depend a lot on the method used (as well as relative stats rather than absolute stats)

[Icibalus]

well
you’d have to compare the LUK and STR of everybody in the game to do that

[Geyde]

So for example

If I’d be the astrologer my ability to commit murder is dubious at best

[Arete]

everyone else has four abilities, we should probably give them something else (if we’re worried about balance we can just make it weak)

[Geyde]

Unless it was environmental/ poison

[Icibalus]

i was tempted to put in an ability that says you’re scottish, and you’ll get some incredibly minor benefit because of this

[Icibalus]

@Geyde

Unless it was environmental/ poison

i’ll be honest, i designed this game focusing on giving more opportunities for environmental kills, since I find those the most interesting, but there are quite a few “lmao just kill them” weapons in the game