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Compound X table top role playing game.
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Feature Consideration: New Save - Awareness #370

Closed Turtlelord26 closed 6 years ago

Turtlelord26 commented 6 years ago

The thought is to move passive perception from the awareness skill to a new awareness save, which is more in line with skills being a thing you actively do vs saves being a response to outside stimuli. The other perceptual skills, spotting and investigation, remain skills.

An initial proposal is to calculate the Awareness save like the other saves, but based on the PER and LUC attributes. I like this for two reasons. One, it is good for stat balance (unlike a different proposal, per+int, which dramatically overvalues int in saves) and two, because it introduces a baseline, meaningful penalty for making luck a dump stat.

Technical expects to approve testing such a feature, but first we specifically want input from Opossum, who has been undertaking the skills rework. Since this idea would remove a current skill, we should consult the skills system dev (who I cannot @ here but will poke in slack). I also want thoughts, especially critical thoughts, from everyone else after the idea has had time to mature.

bleehu commented 6 years ago

I really like this idea! I like how it lets us roll the save after the fact, rather than having a specific constant passive perception on all the time.

I also approve of the balance shift of using PER and LUC.

Since Opposum has left the project for now, we can ship it without his input.

Reveraine commented 6 years ago

Aprrrroooooove

bleehu commented 6 years ago

I think the test went pretty well. @Turtlelord26 and @Masterdiekillsu shipit?

Turtlelord26 commented 6 years ago

We have a fairly serious balance issue with awareness (a save) contesting stealth (a skill), but that doesn't block a PR to dev as long as we make the Issue. Which I have now done: #382

Reveraine commented 6 years ago

Awareness Added