Star Wars: Stranded on Zoma V - Sign Ups (OPEN)/OOC Chat

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@TheMOCingbird

But even in this scenario that’s a little meta-gamey because Boomstick wouldn’t know the distance between him and Duke, so I’m not what would have been the ideal way to handle this.

Also something I forgot to include, I don’t believe Boomstick knew where Duke and friends were either. I’d have to review again, but I don’t recall the Captain telling the other troops they were in the armory. The last message was that they were in the crew’s quarters and then heading towards the rendezvous point. So Boomstick should have appeared there if he was searching for the Captain, or, went to the front as previously told.

In which case, perhaps the course of action was to inform the player IC that he didn’t know Captain Duke’s current location and should ask. From there, Duke would tell him to head to the front and, if really persistent, then tell Boomstick their current location. Maybe they could have met up in the hangar inside as a compromise.

@TheMOCingbird

In my mind, the Vultures would have some sort of com/connection system for communication and knowing where each other are, so they would have been alerted of the droid’s destruction.

@wild_toa

they are droids that are in some way connected to each other via some form of network or something

Which is fine. Even if the clones knew that, they didn’t have much choice and had to destroy the one. In the moment, they could at least have forgotten that potential detail until hearing the others coming. But the players could have at least maybe had a bit more detail as to why. Though it is a minor problem.

@TheMOCingbird

At the time I had realized that a rocket should have probably taken the droid out, but was just afraid that the encounter would end too quickly, so instead I compromised even though I should have just let what should have happened, happen. I’m really sorry about this one, it’s not proper GMing.

I figured it was due to plot and worry about fights being too easy. However, it is just the start of the game. Did you intend for it to be easy or hard, for at least one character to die already or something else? If this didn’t go as you wanted, that just means adjusting things for later encounters. Always adapt.

At least adapt in ways that aren’t nonsense. I’m a simulationist, one of the worst things you can do is fail to simulate the reality correctly.

@TheMOCingbird

Furthermore, I’m starting to see that simply having enemies vaguely “fire” at you isn’t a good way to do combat, because then it puts the decision of if the shots hit or miss entirely on the players, when in reality I think I should be directing most of that, or at the very least giving better cues as to what is going on.

Consider this a good word of encouragement. If your wording isn’t tight, I will abuse every opening given to me. The more vague you are, the more it’s left up into my hands, all the more I’ll take and rip it open to do whatever I please. Usually I’m nice enough that most won’t notice what I’ve done until all their characters have been thoroughly crushed.

So yes, definitely be more specific about where these shots are going.

Otherwise, looking forward to your next post. No further advice from me at the moment.

@Ghid

how come winger never got one of these

But he did.

And I have many more, for Winger, MaximusPrimal, you, and every user who participates in these RPs. I usually resort to mercy and allow people a chance of redemption, to prove my early judgements wrong. So good luck to all when my patience finally runs out.