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jordanclarkedev / bitdicebot

A bot for running Blades in the Dark on Discord.
MIT License
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Please consider rephrasing "partial" #12

Open jameswilletts opened 4 years ago

jameswilletts commented 4 years ago

Hello!

I'm not much of a GitHub person, and I apologize if you've already been approached about this. When a 4 or 5 result comes up in a roll, may I recommend instead of saying, "Partial", which is not necessarily true (as in, a partial success in contrast to success or failure), using some other language like, "Success! But...", "Success! However...", or "Success... with...", or "Success with complications..."

To me, this is commiserate with the spirit of the BitD game, where we, as GMs, are not to negate the success of a roll or, not necessarily in every instance, reduce the efficacy of the roll. "Partial" may be misleading.

I am on Discord, if you prefer to message me. jameswilletts#4455. I am also in the Blades in the Dark Discord server. Maybe folks there could give you some insight, if they haven't already.

By no means am I criticizing the bulk of your work. The bot is amazing and very helpful. You've designed a palace. I just think one doorknob could be a different color. :)

Thanks for your time.

dalek955 commented 3 years ago

Maybe "Qualified Success" or "Consequence".

Or rename both 6 and 4/5 to something like "Clean Success" and "Messy Success"