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I thought I would be so overwhelmed with having to figure out gameplay mechanics and story/character aspects, but you and the group were able to both fill me in and give me the chance to explore and get comfortable with role-playing elements.<br /><br />I ended up having a great time and am looking forward to my next 7th Sea session!Jigarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3657939522599154982.post-89516937820550533842016-09-20T09:09:29.970-04:002016-09-20T09:09:29.970-04:00But see, that's still *active* defense. That i...But see, that's still *active* defense. That is just parrying with Intimidate rather than parrying with Weaponry. Which is a nice solution to how you switch up your skills. But still requires you to declare your Approach as "I make things <i>not</i> happen" and soaks up your Raises.<br /><br />I want a Vesten warrior who just laughs at the feeble pokings of a rapier. Or a Vodacce princeling who is utterly unmoved by amateurish attempts to rattle him. Or an Inish pirate who spits in the eye of a hurricane and says "Bit windy today, but nothing like back in '58" while calmly tending to the ship.<br /><br />The system just doesn't give you any mechanic for <i>ignoring</i> effects. You can cause effects. You can counter effects. You can shift the effects around. But you can't just ignore them.<br /><br />Hmm. If the higher ranks in skills are supposed to be that much more powerful, then we've resurrected the problem with Swordsman Schools from 1st Edition. I can't <i>build</i> an awesome character, I have to slog my way through mediocre to get to awesome. Sure, that's the standard D&D arc. But that's also one bug that story games are supposed to fix. As you say, though, it's a fairly easy bug to house rule around.<br /><br />And I just realized that I slightly cheated my players in the session. I completely forgot about rank 3 skills granting a reroll. 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Also look at the section on 181 'Taking Another Hero's Wounds.'<br /><br />The Best in the World/Very Good/Good problem is basically addressed by the additional effect of having 5/4/3 in a skill (10s explode/15 for 2 raises/reroll) which substantially improve your ability to rack up the raises and therefore do amazing things while using that skill. However, you are prevented from going over 3 at character creation which causes problems. You can't create someone who is Best in the World or even Very Good at character creation, which I definitely find to be a bug narratively. Mechanically it sort of makes sense and is probably the result of unpleasant experiences with min/maxing during playtesting. 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