Post by TheGiftOfGabes in WISHFUL CASTING - a simple MOSAIC Strict spellcasting system comments

Sorry for the long delay to reply!

long story short is that every plus is a good lil thing and every minus is a problem.

Say now that + means you get some of the spell, ++ gets you a lot of the spell, +++ most of it, and ++++ all of it (arbitrary values for the example).
On the other hand say that - has you pick an effect from the exhaust list, -- makes you pick 2 effects from the exhaust list, and --- means your spell just puffs.
you have a few dice and your final result is: + + + - x (x means blank). You have to distribute the + between effect and intensity. So you decide to throw ++ to effect and + to intensity.
You still get a single mishap because of the - you rolled. But you can give up a + to dismiss that - so that you don't have to pick any mishaps from the exhaust table.
Now resolve the spell.

That is the gist of it, I guess.

don't worry, thanks for trying to explain it uhuh.

ok, now i got it more; most of my confusion came from the fact that i did not remember what fudge dices were, only now i thought of checking that uhuh.

now, this feels like a pretty tight and functional system, also quite fun in the way you can and have to manage your dice results.
It also....feels like a pretty different system compared to what i wanted to do.
what i mean is, without the guess mechanic it kinda of loses the vibe i was going for with this.
sure, i haven't properly tested it, so i don't know if it's actually fun, but still.

i guess you could say that rolling a pool of dice also stays within the leap of faith idea, but i liked that you had to take the extra step in guessing it first.

still, thanks for putting your idea out here, it's always interesting. this one, unless you can convince me otherwise, i don't think i'm gonna implement it in like your other suggestion. if other players like your variation though, they are free to read it here and change it, of course!

TheGiftOfGabes1 year ago

There can be a guess element still, think about it:

Roll any number of dice, I don't care how many... the more dice you roll, the more "bargaining" you have but also, the more umpredictable it gets. If you roll 5 dice, it's more likely you'll get a manageable number of - to clear out, but it is also more likely the spell won't realize its full potential, but the swing for a larger dice number (7, 8, 9 and more) is wild.

TornioDuva1 year ago (2 edits)

mmh...ok, this i like. so this makes it more of a bet with a "high risk, high reward" kind of system. you have agency over your casting in the sense that you can decide how much "power" to allocate to it, while increasing the risk of blowing in your face.

this is good, but still aesthetically goes in another direction compared to what i wanted to convey here. the guess action in mine does not have any advantage or disadvantage, no matter how you do it, and in that way you are completely blind to fate and luck. one might consider it pointless for that, but to me the fact that you have to take active part in abandoning yourself to luck has meaning.

in your system the image is that of someone who treats magic more like a pressure valve, which isn't bad i want to reiterate, just different; i'm thinking about a game with these two different kind of approach to magic as a differentiation in class, uhuh, i think that would really be cool.

on that note, if in the future i wanted to make a full fledged game and returned to these ideas plus yours, can i use it with credit?

TheGiftOfGabes1 year ago

AAbsolutely, go for it!

TornioDuva1 year ago

thanks a lot!

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