rawb

he can count too

a little different since he was being paid, and it was more transactional

but Rob definitely relied on him for a while

Day late but I wonder if Robs success back in the day, when we were all younger, has a heavy affect on him. Then again it's not like URealms live wasn't massively popular aswell.

I know he says he looks back on his original pkmnrawb stuff with disdain because it was a dark time for him since it was an outlet for himself post-divorce. That said I feel like in a way Rob was being himself (as much as you can be when entertaining) and it was just fine. The implosion of the weirdo fan base also was probably healthier for him, maybe not financially, but fuck the Monica Rupert shit was so deranged

I find it silly that Rob wants to remove numbers altogether. At the minimum, they should exist to define just how capable an ability is, or to guarantee fairness from a GM on how much each ability does to an enemy

I see Rob must have missed the fact that despite how RP heavy GTA RP is, Cars still do insane damage by ramming, guns still do consistent number based damage, etc.

I mean, you don't actually need any of that to RP, I've done gameplay-less diceless RP before, but at that point, the lack of numbers and perspective and consistency does make it very immaterial alright.

By taking away the numbers and consistency, how do you handle PVP? Outside of letting the DM decides who wins... Roleplay contests between those who roleplay their combat the best? Even a weapon advantage could be theoretically overcome, but its still down to the DM to decide who wins. Perhaps doable among a group of friends, or those who don't take it too seriously, or even among a group of very skilled roleplayers working together who are going at it with, not the intent to win, but to tell an interesting story. Maybe.

Its not like he hasn't done this before with LoM

sorta

i mean you can go into any public RP server on a game that has them and find out pretty quickly why people use stats and numbers

"actually I dodge" "actually I activate my special ability that makes me immune to bullets" "actually I am literally god all along ha ha"

indeed, its called powergaming.

that and having an agreed-upon ruleset allows you to express yourself without limiting yourself like you have to when there are no rules

you aren't nerfing your ideas to make things fair

you are using all your capabilities to the best you can as they are defined

Its better to have a framework for an RP than not. Worst case scenario, you just break out of it and ignore it for some cool stunts or some nonsense.

But once again, that's public RP, between people trying to powergame and win.

maybe the reason rob is so tired of rules and numbers is because he started doing RPG with bopit behind our back...

heheh

begone, rules lawyers

your numbers will be destroyed in front of your face, to make you suffer

instead, I will restrict player freedom by taking away their ability to exist in a consistent universe, to become ultimate master over the roleplay as its God.

"Try to befriend an enemy? Well, I'm not even gonna let you roll for it. For there are no dice. This enemy cannot be befriendeedd"

yes those are the words rob said to bopit last thursday

Alternatively, you could try to let the person do it anyways, and suddenly its more of a judge on who has the best Roleplaying skills, and the ones who do are rewarded way too significantly over other players, creating resentment from other players who aren't as good.

Or, who the DM "thinks is better" than the other

at this point with all this framework shit gone, you may as well abandon the idea of player characters entirely and write a book together.

cooperative book writing is still a better idea

There is a system for RP without rolls called OSR, which I’ve wanted to try

So yeah, making content for "players new to roleplay" is actually incredibly difficult without a framework. They'd get lost, powergame, godmod, or just be uncertain of their capabilities or push beyond some invisible limits that is instead in the DM's brain about something working or not...

I mean, I know its possible that this kind of stuff can exist, but its definitely not new roleplayer friendly

because, indeed, things have to fail, to go wrong, the players have to make their own characters fail, or else they always succeed, unless the DM makes some weird framework to have something succeed or not succeed

and always succeeding is actually not a bad way to go about it for more casual RP stuff

OSR basically has it so that whatever outcome makes the most sense from a player’s actions will occur, and if there’s ever a point where there’s ambiguity you roll a d6

Less entropic and whacky moment to moment, but generally more immersive

so it's a system where "it is what it is" basically

Well, that'd probably work really well on highly developed characters yeah

In general, I also think damage rolls are pointless

If your number to hit is good it should deal good damage

i agree

fuck those rats

I mean, I'd disagree, considering how variable damage is, especially on the human body.

and you got stuff like armor and what not

too

ok but gnarly

let's say you stab a rat

with a rapier

AND you're cool about it

imo a crit should just be a headshot, instead it could be 1 damage on your d12 roll x2

But what if the rat was secretly the rat god, and the blow just phased right through them...

And on the other end you could do a shit ton of damage with a modest to hit roll, but really it’s just shuffling around when your big success occurs

I do agree that rolls aren't the best way to handle things though

A wild zingly appears

Damage rolls aren't that necessary though

its gonna be the average of your damage roll anyways so may as well just use that

although you can do some interesting tough beyond simple damage

rolls for wounding, etc

really turn a combat into attrition

A lot of OSR games are rather rules-lite - like 2/3 or 3/4 are rules-lite, the remaining(Rolemaster, AD&D 1e, etc) can get VERY crunchy, especially with tables - but they both still use dice quite a bit. The difference is that old-school games use dice to resolve mainly the random elements of play. Describing how you search for a trap versus rolling a Search check, for instance. If you're in combat with a pack of orcs, though, you're in an extremely chaotic situation; at this point, it's not so simple to just "explain" it without being biased toward the party or against the party. The way these games limit how much the dice matter without eliminating them and while keeping it fair is by keeping numbers small. e.g. a 14th level fighter having an average of 50HP, +9 to hit from level, +3 max to hit and damage from strength, +3 max to hit and damage from a magic sword that does 1d8 damage, leading a party of similar-level associates to fight a red dragon with a 20 AC, 45HP average, +8 to hit, but can do two claws(1d8 each) and a bite(4d8) or a 90' cone fire breath dealing damage equal to current HP, and spellcasting up to 3rd level. Either the dragon dies quick, or the party dies quick.

Gameplay-less diceless RP is just improv, imo. And isn't the first rule of improv to always say yes? Unless people are trying to write novels instead of do improv/roleplay, there shouldn't be much butthurt.

My guess is the first DvZ stream is in June

That’s being generous

Rob updated the site

Rob set a new record

$0 on stream tonight

How did I make more than rob in a single stream oof

Selfies give me internal peace

they really make me reflect that I exist

and that I have an appearance

and that I exist in a location on planet earth. or Space, if you are an astronaut.