What are people’s thoughts on advantage die/momentum mechanics from City of Judas/Ironsworn? If you’re looking for a way to cut down on +1 forwards, this may be a good option.
What are people’s thoughts on advantage die/momentum mechanics from City of Judas/Ironsworn?
What are people’s thoughts on advantage die/momentum mechanics from City of Judas/Ironsworn?
Version 0.3 is going to feature advantage/disadvantage as a key addition to the game!
I like momentum in Ironsworn – we did discuss it, but it’s been tabled for now I think!
City of Judas’s advantage/disadvantage is pretty sweet as I read it, although I didn’t try it at the table yet.
The biggest issue to me is actually just remembering a bonus as they are freely handed in DW, it’s easy to forget about them (especially things like DR’s take +1 Forward to act on it)
CoJ’s advantage system isn’t statistically the same but it does have two neat features that appeals to me :
1. You don’t need to remember/track all the different +1 Forward/Ongoing
2. You decide when to activate it, so it will always be useful vs +1 Forward is only ever useful on a result of 6 or 9.
Addramyr Palinor WoA 0.3 doesn’t have saved advantage (like inspiration in D&D 5e); it’s more that you have advantage when doing a thing (like +1 Forward works).
Hmm, how you’d roll with advantage? Roll 3d6, keep 2 best?
Yes.
K, well it is indeed a “modern” adaptation of a bloated system of stacking small bonuses (i.e. a big problem of D&D 3e) but it doesn’t really fix the bookkeeping problem when the bonus doesn’t apply to your very next action.
To retake my previous example, Discern Realities gives you +1 Forward to act on the answer, but sometimes you don’t act on the answer right away and then when it happens, you forgot about it.
Advantage/disadvantage as in 5e is good for stopping stacking bonuses and penalties. I’m not sure DW suffers from this. It is pretty rare that you get more than a +1 to a check in DW.
Yochai Gal Any estimate on when WoA 0.3 will be released?
Very soon. Within the next two weeks, hopefully.
Addramyr Palinor The idea behind trying out Advantage over +1 Forward/Ongoing is that it has a physical component – the extra die – and should, by extension, be easier to keep track of during play.
Whether that will prove true, we don’t know yet.
Good point!
Would you have say red/black die for – 1 and blue/white die for +1? By that I mean when example your wizard has – 1 ongoing to cast but +1 forward to DR