BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

Arr, ya wanna play rough, do ye?

Avaast.  If GPS gets above two or three, the odds of rolling doubles on at least two of the dice rapidly approaches one.

We wouldn’t want a ship full of scarred and becrippled people—that’s not stylish, just fit for the pirates’ retirement home

I understand the desire to soften the effects of losing a duel, but losing a duel isn’t stylish.  In fact, there’s nothing preventing a Swashbuckler with 0 GPS from challenging multiple others with much higher GPS, just for the Style gain.  Yuck.  I was kind of hoping the primary method of gaining Style would be through accumulation of booty (as originally proposed). .  Does “rolled a double” mean that any 2 of the X dice that the winner rolled came up the same?  This would be 81% of the time for X=4 and 100% if X>5.

Scarrrs should be gained in battle, not duels.

Ye want some battle, matey?

Perhaps I should have been a bit more flowery in the rule text - being wounded in a duel means that you get to have an impressive scar, or an eyepatch, or a wooden leg, which is the sort of thing that makes a pirate piratical.

The doubles are maybe a bit off, but “No Swashbuckler may Duel another Swashbuckler whose GPS is zero.” cuts both ways for the loss-scamming.

I still think all’s good, mates. If style gets out of hand, we can add a game mechanism to reduce it.

I had hoped that average GPS would be less than six—if it isn’t, then as Excalabur points out we’d best fix something.

It’l will spam the GNDT with DICE5 DICE5 DICE5 DICE5 DICE5 DICE5 DICE5…

I’ll rewrite based on the differences between GPS out of a DICE6, if that’s fine.

The way it works now, I, as your Captain, will end up having less Style then most of ye. Shouldn’t the Captain be the most stylish?

If this seems an illegal veto, I promise not to do it again.

Illegal veto?

This is an illegal veto.