[UA] Unknown Firefly

[S McDaniel]

Madness meters can be pre-assumed - Serenity, for
example, was already a bucket o' bolts held together
by willpower sort of deal when the episodes start,
just as characters in UA can start with notches.

--- Shawn Isenhart <isen0011 at umn.edu> wrote:

> Chris Cooper wrote:
> > --- Shawn Isenhart <isen0011 at umn.edu> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> One way to fix it would be to allow a player to
> >> purposely take a ship 
> >> failed notch in order to succeed at a roll.  Now
> you
> >> have a ton of plots 
> >> centered around trying to fix the ship, after you
> >> broke it last episode 
> >> doing that daring stunt. 
> >>     
> >
> > I envisioned the ship as a manifestation of the
> party.
> > They all have to pull their own weight together to
> > keep it going. I think the Madness Meter works a
> bit
> > more expressively than Spaceship Hit Points.
> >   
> Right, but does that fit the genre?  Madness Meters
> are designed so that 
> you start out OK and then get worse - same with Hit
> Points.  In Firefly, 
> the ship can start out bad, and get better.  (I'm
> really thinking of the 
> episode Out of Gas here, though Objects in Space
> could also fit.)
> 
> Actually, Objects in Space is a case example of your
> system - when the 
> crew isn't pulling together, things go wrong. 
> Whereas Out of Gas is the 
> exact opposite - after the crew separates, the ship
> is fixed.
> 
> -Shawn
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