RSSConsidering some Storied Age design changes
Jun 29
For the next revision of Final Hour of a Storied Age, I’m considering some design changes to address issues that we ran into in the last couple of playtests.
When completing a plot segment or subplot, the player is granted a mechanical effect equivalent to spending two bonus points (e.g. thwarting an NPC, radically modifying a trait of your PC and a trait of an NPC to perform a trait handoff, etc.) in keeping with the stated segment goal. If there’s no way to do that mechanically (e.g. if your goal is to defeat a character who was never officially statted out as an NPC) you receive one bonus point.
When the plot segments are created, each supporting character identifies two particular protagonist or antagonist plot segments to either help or hinder. They note these down in the second and third blocks of their plot tracks (if hindering, add the dice in reverse order when you win a chapter as adversity: d20, d12, d10). Once they’re done with their subplot, they no longer use the plot track for their own spotlight dice. Instead, these dice can be used to replace the dice of the corresponding protagonist or antagonist. After the player in question becomes the spotlight character in the appropriate plot segment, the supporting character player may roll his set of dice (and mark off the “done” check in their own segment). The supporting character can then swap as many of his rolled dice for the story dice of the player he is targeting as he wishes.
example: Peter the protagonist has become the spotlight player by rollinga 16 and a 10. Fred the supporting character has completed his subplot and has been building up dice to hinder the protagonist in the protagonist’s current segment. He chooses to roll the d20, d12, and d10 he’s checked off, marks the “complete” checkbox that would normally indicate plot progress, and gets an 18, an 11 and a 4 on his dice. He decides to replace Peter’s 16 with his 4. Peter is still the spotlight character, but he must play the chapter with spotlight dice showing 10 and 4 instead of what he rolled initially.