Lifted SitRep: Feb 2023
about 3 years ago
– Sat, Feb 11, 2023 at 04:15:26 PM
Hello gamers and friends,
Lifted BackerKit opens VERY SOON, ideally this month. I'm doing some number crunching on stretch goals that didn't make it, hoping these can be add-ons.
Writers are writing! I'd dump the list of topics...but it's an ugly-looking list right now. The Indomitable setting takes place about 1-2 years after the Lifted Vault 01 zine. We'll see updates for:
- Peaty and his underworld fam troubles.
- X-630 and some of the other experiments from Mjollnir labs.
- The Pilot program and the Tether suits.
- The Kraken’s agenda with Atlantis breaking loose!
- The multi-dimensional Dr.Clark/R3D/Murder of Crows.
- And the free city of Rio.
I've been playtesting a new initiative/combat mechanic. I'm collapsing initiative, the ordering of actions into the action roll. I intend for this to increase player engagement and tension. It looks like this:
1. Everyone declares actions for the turn. No order, just an open conversation until everyone is happy with their declarations.
Logan: "I leap out at Creed with my claws out"
Kitty: "I'm phasing Sean and me through the floor and out of the room"
Creed: "heh, I'm snapping Sean's neck"
2. Assemble dice pools for the declared actions, and everyone rolls together.
3. Actions happen in order of a pool's value. Character targets have options to abort their actions for full defense, or keep their declared action and dice, leaving it up to passive/partial defense to save them.
It's close but not perfect yet. We play on.
See ya next month!
