[OOC] The Autarkis

GP is still wonky but that's alright.

Jun 22, 2025 12:25 am

A note on starting Hunger. While it makes sense for newly rolled up PCs to start with a Hunger reset, the rules have it that the only way to get to 0 is to have imbibed a mortal to death.

So what I suggest is, you all start at Hunger 1, unless you feel in your backstory that you've definitely killed someone recently through blood drain, then set it to Hunger 0. Edit: If you have Prey Exclusion of some sort, let's take that as indicative that you've been trying your best to draw the line somewhere, ie, perhaps you haven't killed, yet. And so you start at Hunger 1.

After which, don't forget to adjust for these starting Rouse checks.

Mechanically, Hunger gives Hunger dice, which affects your die rolls by making them riskier in having the beast side of you come out more.

(And as mentioned before, V5 doesn't do blood pools like previous editions, there's no need to drink up to fuel your powers.) Think of the tension as, the more you do vampy things, the more vampy you're likely to behave.

I'll talk about Resonance next.

Jun 22, 2025 12:27 am

Synaptic Inactive for 1 months

And thanks for the patience! This week was a bit of a gap, though I'm okay with a slow build of individual characterisation for these starting posts. And I've got Stalker05's PC up and running too, so that's all six of you heading for a collision course somewhere down the line!

Jun 25, 2025 1:12 pm

Sorry about the delay in posting, work's been overwhelming this past week. Should be easier going forward!

Jun 25, 2025 3:35 pm

No worries, I got you!

New posts incoming; when it's group posts I typically do wait for everyone or almost everyone to get a word in first. For individual threads I can actually go faster for those who reply first, but I also will regulate so no one is too far ahead or behind.

Jun 30, 2025 3:01 pm

Emberskyes Inactive for 1 months

Quick instruction on your Hunger die. Short of my trying to write up a small code to indicate which dice are the Hunger dice (I think that might be fussy because the number of Hunger dice may vary from roll to roll), for ease of rolling, let's count from right to left which are the Hunger dice rolled.

Eg, if you're rolling say 8d10, and your current Hunger is 2, in a roll of (4, 6, 1, 10, 3, 5, 5, 7), the last two are the Hunger dice.

Jun 30, 2025 9:45 pm

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Jul 8, 2025 2:34 am

MaJunior Inactive for 1 months

I said it on Discord last week, thought I'd better update here too. Had a bit of an eye issue, so major reduced screen time, and that dragged on for a bit. Healing now, new posts incoming!

Jul 8, 2025 2:43 am

Emberskyes Inactive for 1 months

Eye issues are no good. Almost lost sight in one many years ago due to injury. Had to wear an eye patch for like a month and a half.

In Avengers when Tony was on the hellicarrier and covered one eye, saying it seemed very tiring (the way Nick Fury would have to actively move to look around) it was funny until that was me, working in a kitchen having to constantly turn to see the different screens.

Tony was right -- it is tiring.

Jul 8, 2025 3:30 am

Synaptic Inactive for 1 months

I have a couple things that really wig my eyes out. There's something about World of Warcraft that completely freaks my eyes out. Don't know if it's the refresh or what.

Jul 8, 2025 5:54 pm

Sorry to hear that. Speaking from experience, eye troubles are nothing to scoff at, even minor issues can be really aggravating to deal with. Glad you're on the mend!

Jul 23, 2025 12:57 pm

MaJunior Inactive for 1 months

Thanks for the empathy everyone. If you're up for the gory details, I'd be glad to elaborate.

Needed glaucoma surgery a bit over a year ago, closed angle, sudden, some crazy eye pressure building up as a result. No permanent damage, just needs long term management of eye pressure on the left. The side effect is major astigmatism, because the pupil is kinda stuck in its dilated position, letting all sorts of light in.

This means I've been overworking the good right eye, so now that's giving me issues. Again, nothing the doctor can't fix. But generally as a result of the imbalance across both, I'm getting more frequent headaches, eye aches, dizziness when I'm onscreen too much. My work day eats up hours of computer screen time, and because I typically do PbP posting after work, that's when my eyes are all googly and blurry, so that isn't quite working out.

Still trying to figure out what's a good solution. I'm sure as hell not cutting down on RPGing if I can help it!

Thanks for listening and for the patience! This game is still on in my head, once I wrap my mind around the practicalities.

Jul 23, 2025 2:53 pm

Stalker05 Inactive for 1 months

Yeah man, protect your eyes. Unless you have a doc who'll get you a set of spanking new vat growns... or at least some cybers. I can always talk to Mr. Johnson and see if he knows a guy?

Jul 23, 2025 2:56 pm

Synaptic Inactive for 1 months

I was recently overloaded with work and IRL issues. So no rush from my side. You take good care of your eye and take ample rest.

Jul 24, 2025 8:56 am