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#Triangle Agency
marble field
vast cradle
Hello chattttr
marble field
🔺
nocturne sapphire
my favorite moment was when the Agents said "it's Triangle time" and then they triscendence'd all over the place
dire sail
All memes aside, trongle agency'll probably go down as one of my favourite ttrpgs to read from an experience perspective, right up there with nobilis 2e.
It flows so well, it reads so well, its so easy on the eyes and it's so tight. I wouldn't want to cut a single word from the final product.
vast cradle
yeah!
dire sail
That said, I will need to figure out how to trick some friends into playing it, without them ever touching the core rulebook.
lapis breach
Based purely on vibes, I’m intrigued… is there a good entry point to learn about the game?
dire sail
Based purely on vibes, I’m intrigued… is there a good entry point to learn about...
the core book; it released recently, and it's solid.
vast cradle
bright nimbus
This video is hidden behind the Playwall
marble field
Yeah this is A2
raven beacon
okay we gotta read this book now the What
(do not inform us, we get the sense we should not be informed)
bright nimbus
No, the Playwall itself is public information
It's specifically "the contents after this page are unlocked piecemeal by certain parts of the game, and may not be read before you reach that point"
So mechanical upgrades and progress are hidden information until you unlock them
(Under pain of Demerits if you read where you're not supposed to)
boreal iron
Me and a friend both backed it but I have read nothing because we decided they’ll be the one to run it with our usual group (they started reading it first
The Playwall and the mechanics around it sound like an interesting take on the meta knowledge concept
bright nimbus
The game has some fascinating exploration of it, yeah
ocean magnet
nocturne sapphire
Good job
nocturne sapphire
It is kinda funny to me how much of a mean girl vibe Drain has
frozen olive
Drain <33
ocean magnet
It is kinda funny to me how much of a mean girl vibe Drain has
its vibes are immaculate
nocturne sapphire
I think so far Manifold is one of my favorites
Still need to read through a few of them though
ocean magnet
i am completely enthralled by all the opportunities of drain
like half of the fail conditions on its abilities are like
easily twisted into being good
(if you play your cards right)
vast cradle
Great for if your feeling 🔵
ocean magnet
the near complete freedom of
"You may choose a feature of a mundane target and take it for yourself."
has near endless opportunities
vast cradle
Does it have to be mundane?
vast cradle
Yeah
sage bear
How do y'all scroll back and forth between the right playwall categories. Seems kind of a pain even with a tablet, since there's no table of contents
sage bear
Also.. where's the anomaly track? @vast cradle
vast cradle
Also.. where's the anomaly track? <@568619513399083031>
look in the glossary
/table of contents
nocturne sapphire
there's also all three tracks together on page 295
sage bear
Tyty
sage bear
So I've been reading the whole thing
And the part at the start that says "here's a list of things that might be mundane" which includes superheroes
Made me think it would be real funny to set a game of triangle agency in the setting of Worm
Especially with the one big spoiler playwalled document about ||the endbringer lol||
vast cradle
@frozen olive @nocturne sapphire this feels relevant to you
frozen olive
SHIT
sage bear
Would make an interesting balance with what counts as a loose end
sage bear
Actually you know what. I'm thinking about it more and I think that would be really janky just because loose ends would be so much harder to accumulate
But from what I can tell, loose ends aren't exactly a mandatory game mechanic, you could probably even play completely without them
bright nimbus
Actually you know what. I'm thinking about it more and I think that would be rea...
This was something we encountered during a oneshot with a full world of darkness background setup, yeah
Loose Ends still happened, but we did dodge several by going "oh man, those demons sure are crazy, huh, sorry you found out about these cosmic secrets underpinning the world"
sage bear
Or, to make it more in theme with Worm, if a loose end does happen it's extremely insidious and spreads fast, especially depending on what group or organization might have caught wind of it
bright nimbus
Since leaking someone else's cosmic secrets is perfectly kosher
And lying about your problems being them, like, who's gonna fact-check you
vast cradle
But from what I can tell, loose ends aren't exactly a mandatory game mechanic, y...
they are, but they become more relevant in the gm part of the book 🙂
sage bear
I mean, if you lose out on the weird shit loose ends add, because there's like Worm weird shit going on already, it's not too big a deal to adapt to loose ends being rarer than the game intends right
It's not a mechanic that's tied too deeply into the other mechanics
Mm though. I guess loose end removal balance would be way off, and especially not having clean-up missions would lose out on a chunk of gameplay
Forgot about that
inner nimbus
bright nimbus
Good luck!
sage bear
Epic pwnage super combo:
Get a network of relationships with ||enough yellow progression to make them unable to be killed for any reason. Then, have someone with the Make Yourself Useful ability get a very deep relationship with one of those people. Then, explain exactly what the ability does, and then use it on them, and use quality assurance to guarantee that it fails on purpose.||
vast cradle
marble field
GAME DESIGN IS MIND CONTROL
vast cradle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr7df9eRoQk
Pretty good song, but the Water here is kinda anomaly coded
vast cradle
https://docs.google.com/document/d/18gYRU7q7jH27DXBV8NB12rRhgvb_zFsuTALOOY4sMzA/edit?usp=sharing
Hello triangle fans, I did something SILLY. And in a overlap of interests I made Cain as a triangle market disruptor
and I made Sin Overflow type stuff really annoying for you as Agents because that means a Whole New Anomaly just spawned in, so you have to be careful not to push them into that territory
marble field
Oooh
Now we only need the Agency in as a Sin in CAIN
(What would it even be? Lord?)
vast cradle
Now we only need the Agency in as a Sin in CAIN
If you check the doc there are stats for agents as Cain antagonists as well : )
vast cradle
hey do people still check this thread?
marble field
Not sure
vast cradle
Spoilers for pretty deep behind the playwall but a while ago I made rules for something funny
||https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hnxgEFu306xrJiKQrR-btOTh5N_tzpgR3-5AFWFPPmg/edit?usp=sharing||
and I am pretty proud of them
bright nimbus
hey do people still check this thread?
Technically speaking I don't count as a person, but other than that-
vast cradle
Technically speaking I don't count as a person, but other than that-
do you like these meechanics for this faction?
bright nimbus
I do, but I've seen them before actually lol
raven beacon
Spoilers for pretty deep behind the playwall but a while ago I made rules for so...
oh whoops not for us to look
misty current
so Quinns Quest did a review of Trongle
I'll leave that for disucssion by interested parties
But I was hoping to get some info, a friend is going to run Triangle agency soon-ish and I'm playing in it for the first time. What should I expect for the play experience?
vast cradle
But I was hoping to get some info, a friend is going to run Triangle agency soon...
Remind me to respond to this later
misty current
Remind me to respond to this later
how much later would you like?
vast cradle
how much later would you like?
I can do it now!
so
The big thing to keep in mind is that you have to approach the world through the lens of your abilities.
Ask The Agency+Your Anomaly Abilities+Requsitions that is
Distance yourself from the idea of a skill check and focus on those 5.
Generally, your gonna want to solve problems in fewer rolls if you can in order to reduce chaos and quality assurance spending, so Get Creative with those 5
Also
Reducing loose ends is VERY important
Also, go for commendations
stack those bitches up
(Former General Manager)
misty current
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misty current
not sure. I'm working on the character sheet. What I always have trouble with is self-defined things
in this case, the NPCs
vast cradle
in this case, the NPCs
.... pick them for their perks and work backwards
(ssorry it took so long to respond)
misty current
all g, life happens
vast cradle
Hey anyone wanna help me with some triangle homebrew
marble field
Shoot
vast cradle
Shoot
Classified for anyone below a Senior associate
||I am working on a new set of ripple requisitions called “butterflies”, which allow an agent to add complexity and power to a causality chain by spending a quality assurance of a given type. I need help coming up with the effects granted by initiative, attentiveness and presence||
||Example Butterfly:||
||Inglorius Sharp: The Inglorious Sharp appears to be made of volcanic glass and has a tendency to tear up paperwork if left unattended. When you are constructing a causality chain as part of Asking The Agency if your Inglorious Sharp is present you can spend 1 Dynamism Quality Assurance to add an additional step to the Causality Chain that describes a sudden, violent event and the causes behind it. Add the following additional text this use of Ask The Agency ||
||Success: Choose a character in the scene, that character takes 1 harm from the sudden, violent event. ||
||Failure: The Agent, or one of their allies, takes 1 harm from the sudden, violent event. ||
static delta
I met my Triangle agency group in a server for a card game, so I ended up making cards for all of our characters
vast cradle
Oh sweet
vast cradle
made fan art, very light playwall spoilers
marble field
Yeah these are the vibes exactly