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src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB5l8roXRCe8sPao4Ly14w4AYC8UKgU5PQV2BWz-2jb-vT2oSWhwz2CDOLAW2w4DnmghdGOFWVDCFUd9RD80fl-PpI-FFMvKgd2puJ6YjoNsFWPMEkrefXsLQ5ZpHEV941Bb8NECmf-GEiTWJDusm_G01PWBVVIOUZo6iSH-SQSkBiYdQ9kARC9VHrsWc/w514-h435/IMG_0060.jpg" width="514"></a><a href="https://x.com/policefala" target="_blank">Kyrgyzstan petroglyphs arranged by policefala</a>resolution mechanic where each named person/place/thing who has contributed to your success moment adds 5% to ur odds of success.</p><p> </p><p>so like the name of your teacher and their teacher and the smith who made your weapon and the mine the ore came from. go ahead and name your parents bc they're going to be coming up a lot. </p><p> </p><p>all this rewards asking about the names of stuff and naming your sword and skill improvement through learning from masters and whatever. you people love that kind of thing.</p><p> </p><p>to increase difficulty by 5% (10%? if you want the players to have to track more names than you) the GM must list the names of each person/place/thing who is either contributing to your failure, has failed here before, or is the only thing who has succeeded. when the GM re-uses a name, double the difficulty increase. </p><p><br></p><p>so like "the cliff is slick with water from the Gurgling Craw at the top of the mountain and Saccharine the Salt Devil is leaping from crag to crag and mocking you and this is the same climb and the same fall that claimed the life of Grebius the Hornthrower for a total of +15% difficulty. If you previously had attempted to wrestle the Lodehammer, who was only ever bested by Grebius, the difficulty increase would be 20%: Gurgling Maw +5%, Sacchrine the Salt Devil +5%, Grebius +10% bc the GM has used the name before)</p><p><br></p><p>wait you should use <a href="https://whimsicalmountain.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-power-of-names.html" target="_blank">the Power of Names</a> as well</p><p><a href="https://x.com/policefala" target="_blank"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjezgn9gZ7eNYA1cCLx3DPUX2uVZ6VPNrlnJiX_4dhRBpOffMGT3LPQJ8L9Fv4GgMuaNg8yvDR67pqdBRfpRExrqlcci-pwMYCOEgQXpvUIuzTNp4KYUee0INcum_V6JvbUt86aELBNJ8knvX222LBlOR_S268DGGp5007jAK2BPNO_FcajpZ1e_t-V4es/s16000/IMG_0078.JPG">policefala back to tell us about all life on earth since the beginning being a single continuous autocatalytic hydra/tree </a></p> </div> <div class='post-footer container'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> </div> <div class='post-footer-line 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Update 2: I've created an Indoor Terrain Generator based on the same principles!!   For each realm the heroes might wander, roll twice or more on the following table and combine t </div> <a class='snippet-fade r-snippet-fade hidden' href='https://wasitlikely.blogspot.com/2023/03/laws-of-land-meaningful-terrain-via-in.html'></a> </div> </div> </article> <article class='post' role='article'> <div class='item-thumbnail'> <a href='https://wasitlikely.blogspot.com/2023/08/blog-post.html'> <img alt='Image' src='https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_sZOlK9x15e3k3u6ixKDFuOL2tNcLRNXnq-kgVtiNAhh0qXSelxhctLAyk3UkT3iiczoKbn6HJnGmImfVZvFgYr1Xz7RobIf8SVsOrxiqZwYOrcTem2lGHq-7QmWNV1MlqpFF_QfpUvwiop' srcset='https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_sZOlK9x15e3k3u6ixKDFuOL2tNcLRNXnq-kgVtiNAhh0qXSelxhctLAyk3UkT3iiczoKbn6HJnGmImfVZvFgYr1Xz7RobIf8SVsOrxiqZwYOrcTem2lGHq-7QmWNV1MlqpFF_QfpUvwiop=w280 280w, https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_sZOlK9x15e3k3u6ixKDFuOL2tNcLRNXnq-kgVtiNAhh0qXSelxhctLAyk3UkT3iiczoKbn6HJnGmImfVZvFgYr1Xz7RobIf8SVsOrxiqZwYOrcTem2lGHq-7QmWNV1MlqpFF_QfpUvwiop=w560 560w, https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_sZOlK9x15e3k3u6ixKDFuOL2tNcLRNXnq-kgVtiNAhh0qXSelxhctLAyk3UkT3iiczoKbn6HJnGmImfVZvFgYr1Xz7RobIf8SVsOrxiqZwYOrcTem2lGHq-7QmWNV1MlqpFF_QfpUvwiop=w840 840w, https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_sZOlK9x15e3k3u6ixKDFuOL2tNcLRNXnq-kgVtiNAhh0qXSelxhctLAyk3UkT3iiczoKbn6HJnGmImfVZvFgYr1Xz7RobIf8SVsOrxiqZwYOrcTem2lGHq-7QmWNV1MlqpFF_QfpUvwiop=w1120 1120w, https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_sZOlK9x15e3k3u6ixKDFuOL2tNcLRNXnq-kgVtiNAhh0qXSelxhctLAyk3UkT3iiczoKbn6HJnGmImfVZvFgYr1Xz7RobIf8SVsOrxiqZwYOrcTem2lGHq-7QmWNV1MlqpFF_QfpUvwiop=w1400 1400w'/> </a> </div> <h3 class='post-title'><a href='https://wasitlikely.blogspot.com/2023/08/blog-post.html'>who was that?</a></h3> <div class='item-content'> <div class='popular-posts-snippet snippet-container r-snippet-container'> <div class='snippet-item r-snippetized'> Leonora Carrington architect of the palace of my heart and mind the discerning lady's spawn-spewer eagerly devoured the Zelda Style (and thus, really, fromsoft style too) NPC personalities of "To Distant Lands" Valdimir Stankovic Rus your art is rivaled only by how swaggy your name is </div> <a class='snippet-fade r-snippet-fade hidden' href='https://wasitlikely.blogspot.com/2023/08/blog-post.html'></a> </div> </div> </article> <article class='post' role='article'> <div class='item-thumbnail'> <a href='https://wasitlikely.blogspot.com/2024/05/oracular-odds-letting-dice-determine.html'> <img alt='Image' src='https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_uh_sdUNyuwX_urhciWkvIGcOzL8LyD4RZ9cDAzgfaCmVHRgbEkGOHBLjP2iX5cuUn_Y2NbC1soITuWlTvDNIemWtW50XaAK5oR0a6F06x-EXTG8uFhJnTkznzUDg49sVMGzuBbOgPS8h8' srcset='https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_uh_sdUNyuwX_urhciWkvIGcOzL8LyD4RZ9cDAzgfaCmVHRgbEkGOHBLjP2iX5cuUn_Y2NbC1soITuWlTvDNIemWtW50XaAK5oR0a6F06x-EXTG8uFhJnTkznzUDg49sVMGzuBbOgPS8h8=w280 280w, https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_uh_sdUNyuwX_urhciWkvIGcOzL8LyD4RZ9cDAzgfaCmVHRgbEkGOHBLjP2iX5cuUn_Y2NbC1soITuWlTvDNIemWtW50XaAK5oR0a6F06x-EXTG8uFhJnTkznzUDg49sVMGzuBbOgPS8h8=w560 560w, https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_uh_sdUNyuwX_urhciWkvIGcOzL8LyD4RZ9cDAzgfaCmVHRgbEkGOHBLjP2iX5cuUn_Y2NbC1soITuWlTvDNIemWtW50XaAK5oR0a6F06x-EXTG8uFhJnTkznzUDg49sVMGzuBbOgPS8h8=w840 840w, https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_uh_sdUNyuwX_urhciWkvIGcOzL8LyD4RZ9cDAzgfaCmVHRgbEkGOHBLjP2iX5cuUn_Y2NbC1soITuWlTvDNIemWtW50XaAK5oR0a6F06x-EXTG8uFhJnTkznzUDg49sVMGzuBbOgPS8h8=w1120 1120w, https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_uh_sdUNyuwX_urhciWkvIGcOzL8LyD4RZ9cDAzgfaCmVHRgbEkGOHBLjP2iX5cuUn_Y2NbC1soITuWlTvDNIemWtW50XaAK5oR0a6F06x-EXTG8uFhJnTkznzUDg49sVMGzuBbOgPS8h8=w1400 1400w'/> </a> </div> <h3 class='post-title'><a href='https://wasitlikely.blogspot.com/2024/05/oracular-odds-letting-dice-determine.html'>oracular odds</a></h3> <div class='item-content'> <div class='popular-posts-snippet snippet-container r-snippet-container'> <div class='snippet-item r-snippetized'> set for a tim walker vogue shoot oi fink if there's one thing i can do it's make a post with "oracular" in the title simple concept; instead of the GM setting the odds of a given action based on the preexisting fiction and their own sense of internal coherence and logic, let dice set the odds and then shape the fiction accordingly to explain why this is true. how is this different from just justifying player success or failure within the fiction? 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