 Code Breaking, Cracking the Spoken Word |
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 Mar 10 2010, 04:22 PM
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Moving Target  Group: Members Posts: 186 Joined: 14-May 05 From: Riverside CA Member No.: 7,394  |
I am going to run a game soon and the targets are going to speaking in codes [mostly lines from TV shows]. What skill[s] would cover this or is an Intuition check?
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Mar 10 2010, 04:28 PM
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Immortal Elf Group: Members Posts: 10,289 Joined: 2-October 08 Member No.: 16,392 |
Sense Motive?
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Mar 10 2010, 04:31 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 388 Joined: 30-July 09 From: Charlotte, NC Member No.: 17,452 |
I use Logic+Intuition in situations where the characters have to solve or determine something.
If they have the appropriate knowledge skill, you might give them a bonus or add successes from a knowledge check as bonus dice. |
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Mar 11 2010, 01:25 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,150 Joined: 15-December 09 Member No.: 17,968 |
QUOTE (McCummhail @ Mar 10 2010, 04:31 PM)  I use Logic+Intuition in situations where the characters have to solve or determine something. If they have the appropriate knowledge skill, you might give them a bonus or add successes from a knowledge check as bonus dice. Really? If the player chose a particular knowledge skill and they actually find a use for it, why not let them roll skill + attribute like they're supposed to? They're still using one of those two attributes after all. Knowledge skills are exactly what you need to solve and determine things I'd say. Except for those challenges you let the players themselves have a crack at (no fun in being a dice-rolling machine!). |
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Mar 11 2010, 03:19 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 388 Joined: 30-July 09 From: Charlotte, NC Member No.: 17,452 |
QUOTE (Aerospider @ Mar 10 2010, 08:25 PM) Really? If the player chose a particular knowledge skill and they actually find a use for it, why not let them roll skill + attribute like they're supposed to? They're still using one of those two attributes after all. Knowledge skills are exactly what you need to solve and determine things I'd say. Except for those challenges you let the players themselves have a crack at (no fun in being a dice-rolling machine!). In this case, they are not trying to recognize the TV shows in question, but their knowledge does help directly in breaking the code. So it supplements the roll like good tools. Also, my players choose their knowledge skills more for flavor than anything else; everyone has logic and intuition, but not everyone has the knowledge skill in question, so this gives everyone a chance to crack it, but a bonus to those with the skill. |
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Mar 11 2010, 03:27 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 186 Joined: 14-May 05 From: Riverside CA Member No.: 7,394 |
QUOTE (Aerospider @ Mar 10 2010, 09:25 PM) Really? If the player chose a particular knowledge skill and they actually find a use for it, why not let them roll skill + attribute like they're supposed to? They're still using one of those two attributes after all. Knowledge skills are exactly what you need to solve and determine things I'd say. Except for those challenges you let the players themselves have a crack at (no fun in being a dice-rolling machine!). I had thought about it, but they are going to be listning to 4+ hours of dailog, I might improvise some, but I don't want to go to crazy |
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Mar 11 2010, 10:14 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,009 Joined: 25-September 06 From: Paris, France Member No.: 9,466 |
If they are replacing words or sentences with words or sentences from TV-Shows (for example: "Switch to plan B" becomes "I love it when a plan comes together") and if they are using the same codes several times and if the people listening know a little bit about the circumstances, they can probably use a Decrypt program since it's just a form of substitution cypher.
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Mar 11 2010, 10:23 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 514 Joined: 31-July 08 From: Midwest, USA ~50mi NW of B.F.E. Member No.: 16,184 |
I'd run it just like any language check. They are speaking a language with a specialization in TV Trivia(?). It would be like trying to figure out NetSpeak if you only knew english.
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