Sorry about that, everyone! I'm a stupid monkey!
But here's another question. A review of MM I read points out what the reviewer sees as a downer in the game: the potential loss of levels on near death. Off the top I'm inclined to agree. Is it common to ignore this, or not?
Also, has anyone else had problems printing to booklet? My printer refuses to print the 10th page, which means I'm missing text pp 10 and 27.
ReplyDeleteI don't know if it's common, but I don't ignore it in play. A loss of level really means loss of a couple of perks, it's a nice good hit to a player, but they are still in the game. Feels in line with OSR style of play.
ReplyDeleteI don't like it in general, but might simply roll a random stat to take a -1. Haven't done long term games yet with MM, just con one shots.
ReplyDeleteI think most players will be more upset if you take away the cool stuff they worked to obtain than if you give them a mechanical penalty. I would certainly houserule it this way: instead of losing a level you gain a wound (ex: broken arm). Until you've received good enough medical care during downtime, you're at disadvantage on any action where your wound can hinder you.
ReplyDeleteNicolas Francart This is what I would do as well.
ReplyDeleteWilliam & Polly Shires Are you trying to print the laid out book (the one that has illustrations), or the latest manuscript?
ReplyDeleteRe: the level loss, it wouldn't break the game in the least if you ignored the rule. You have a couple of alternate ideas above, or you can go super old school and declare that 0HP = death.
In my experience, people don't complain about the punishment, as their death was generally deserved (they made a mistake, they pushed too far, they were reckless...).
Eric Nieudan Hi Eric. The illustrated one. It may be my printer, but in my experience this type of thing is usually the fault of the doc. The print preview shows everything normal, but when I print to booklet, those document page numbers get omitted. The latest manuscript seems to print fine
ReplyDeleteRe: level loss, I should have asked “is it common to houserule this” rather than “to ignore this”. I like wounds in games, so I’ll probably go with something like Nicolas Francart ‘s idea.
William & Polly Shires It's a good idea. The level loss is meant to simulate wounds and such without having to remember particulars, but this might feel less punitive.
ReplyDeleteI think someone had a problem with printing the PDF once (maybe you, Brett Slocum?). I think it was solved by using a different reader. I'm afraid I can't spare the time right to have a look at the document itself right now, especially since it's an older version of the game...
Don't sweat it, Eric. I kludged it by shotting the individual pages and taping them into the book. I needn't have even brought it up, but asking questions makes me feel like part of the group!
ReplyDeleteWilliam & Polly Shires No worries at all. Ask away!
ReplyDeleteAnd today I learned how to do basic stitch binding and bound the booklet of the latest manuscript. Reading it now at a restaurant while waiting for my 5E group to show up for a game.
ReplyDeleteI think I might use MM next week at the one-shot weekly I GM at. Either this or Rad Hack.
Well if you run MM do let us know how it goes!
ReplyDeleteDefinitely. Definitively! Superdefinitely!!
ReplyDeleteThank you, monkey person :)
ReplyDeleteYeah, I've decided. I've read through MM and I'm gonna write an adventure this weekend and do it on Thursday. I'll let y'all know, and I'll share the adventure.
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ReplyDeleteFYI Still working on this. I'll post a teaser as a new post.
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