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Cortex Tabletop Roleplaying Game | Fandom Tabletop (cortexrpg.com) <----link Cortex Prime character creation
Every single character creation option given in Cortex has players select Attributes + Skills. There is a sidebar somewhere about how Attributes and Skills are used in all of the examples because they are the most common for action adventure roleplaying. You can call your attributes and skills (Prime Sets) something else (like, say, Roles and Approaches) but they'll work the same. Changing the name of your prime sets only re-skins the same mechanic, just like changing Skills to Approaches in Fate. <--- Link to Fate doing the same thing
Cortex Prime said:A prime set is one of at least two trait sets, in addition to distinctions, that serve as the core of any Cortex Prime character. There are no pre-defined prime sets, because the trait sets you use in your game are up to you and the decisions you make with your group. The examples in this book use attributes and skills as prime sets, but you might have attributes and roles, affiliations and values, relationships and skills, and so forth.
...I will say that Cortex Prime better written than Aria.
Yes. Looking at the portion of my post you quoted, saying something is better written than Aria might sound like damning with faint praise, but that was not my intention. It is actually well-written.I've been reading Cortex because of this thread and I'm impressed, as you say it is quite well written too.
That not what we are saying. Please quote where I and others said they are exactly the same.I've played HERO. It was my main system for several years. I severely doubt any of the people commenting that it is exactly the same have actually even read Cortex Prime, much less played it.
I was just about to ask about that!Yes. Looking at the portion of my post you quoted, saying something is better written than Aria might sound like damning with faint praise, but that was not my intention. It is actually well-written.
When I saw your laughter reaction to my post, I assumed you might be wondering that.I was just about to ask about that!
Yeah, at some point it almost seems more like an engine than a system, you know, like PbtA...I'd agree that Fudge is even looser than Cortex when it comes to having a default structure.
I gave away my hand that much?When I saw your laughter reaction to my post, I assumed you might be wondering that.
One of the only times I played poker was one of my first nights in college. We'd been playing for a few hours, so I announced I was going to go to bed after the next hand. I'd been doing about average up to that point. I got a lucky draw on the last hand, and a few other people must have too, or at least were bluffing, as people kept raising and raising until it was the biggest pot of the night. I won it, gathered the pot, and followed through on going to bed, giving everyone the impression I had hustled them.Note to self: never play poker with Baulderstone !
Not even strip poker? What kind of a college life is that without it?It gave me the reputation as a master card shark for the rest of my time at college. I steadfastly avoided ever playing again in college in order to keep that reputation alive.
Now you mention it, there were strip poker games. The amount of alcohol involved meant they didn't come immediately to mind.Not even strip poker? What kind of a college life is that without it?
Ah well, hope you won there, too!Now you mention it, there were strip poker games. The amount of alcohol involved meant they didn't come immediately to mind.
(FILE NOT FOUND)Ah well, hope you won there, too!
My experiences with Hero and GURPS have turned me sour on universal games.
I ran Fantasy Hero 1st edition, and found lots of problems with the scale of the game. With the average character having Speed 2, variation in Speed was really major. And Speed 1 is almost unable to do anything... I never really resolved the clash of magic items with the birth of the system as Champions where equipment costs points...
"American beer's like makin' love in a canoe..."Real Australians don't drink watery American beer.
Fosters is even brewed in the US by Coors, the wateriest of watery beers."American beer's like makin' love in a canoe..."
If you're using the words Coors and beer in the same sentence without a negative you've misunderstood one of those two words.Fosters is even brewed in the US by Coors, the wateriest of watery beers.
I agree. My main point wasn't really that all-American beer is bad, but that Fosters isn't even a popular beer in Australia. I tried to convince an American friend of this a couple of years ago when he was was talking about only drinking Fosters for his upcoming trip to Australia. When he returned, he had to admit he never even found Fosters anywhere in Australia during his travels.The main thing about American beer is just don't order anything from a major brewery. US has fantastic beer... the major breweries are just garbage.
You’re working in the backyard and want something ice cold and refreshing, a standard American style lager, like a Budweiser longneck will do. Sometimes the Hopsbombs and Stouts you eat with a knife and fork are just too much. Michelob Ultra is perfect for that too. Light, refreshing and very low carb.
All I know is San Diego Mexican food is the best Mexican food, and therefor the best tacos. Tortas are a Mexican sandwiches. They are both delicious.
On a hot day give me something like the Creature Comforts Athena (a berliner weisse), or Atalanta (plum saison). Three Taverns Lord Grey (earl grey sour ale), Terrapin Watermelon Gose (a... watermelon gose obviously), Monday Night Brewing Dr. Robot (blackberry lemon sour ale). (Obviously I picked all Georgia beers, as I am in Georgia )
You’re working in the backyard and want something ice cold and refreshing, a standard American style lager, like a Budweiser longneck will do. Sometimes the Hopsbombs and Stouts you eat with a knife and fork are just too much. Michelob Ultra is perfect for that too. Light, refreshing and very low carb.
Give me some greasy *bertos at 2am please.
Now, I do think that carne adovada (a New Mexican specialty) is the pinnacle of Mexican food, but man San Diego has the best greasy carne asada. We found a place that claims to do legit SD style carne asada here, I need to try it soon.
For sure. For regular drinking give ma a good red, amber, or brown any day.
You have GOT to be kidding. Why not just drink water?You’re working in the backyard and want something ice cold and refreshing, a standard American style lager, like a Budweiser longneck will do. Sometimes the Hopsbombs and Stouts you eat with a knife and fork are just too much. Michelob Ultra is perfect for that too. Light, refreshing and very low carb.
Then again I hated beer for most of my life because everybody was pushing lagers and IPAs in my face. I can choke down lager, but most IPAs are undrinkable to me. It wasn't until I tried some brown ales, porters and stouts that I began to intentionally drink beer (still very infrequent, a 6 pack will easily last me 3-6 months). I have become particularly fond of bourbon barrel aged stouts. My friend and I were debating lager vs stouts, his view is if you drink 3 or 4 stouts you will be on your ass, my view is why would you drink 3 or 4, I'm only going to drink one so I want it to actually be good.
I am a fan of Mexican food, and am always amazed at how much regional difference there is between California, Arizona, Texas and New Mexico. Most of which has only a passing similarity to actual Mexican food which also has regional variations.
Then you have Cuban and Puerto Rican food which is completely different, but also delicious.
Because I need to be *that guy*: Tex-Mex can go to hell.The only answer is "yes, they are all different, and all delicious, and you should learn to appreciate them all because they are all delicious".
I will fight you.Because I need to be *that guy*: Tex-Mex can go to hell.
I'm quite aware of what SPD means. At least in the original Fantasy Hero, a PC who didn't optimize for SPD was SPD 2. Therefore I put zombies at SPD 1. Zombies were useless. I think we also had one PC who wound up with SPD 1. With most folks at SPD 2, SPD 4 is getting twice as many actions per round.Haven't flipped through all the pages of this thread yet, but for reference:
Speed rating (SPD) is on a scale where each game Turn is 12 seconds (Segments) and the SPD number is the number of Phases you get per Turn, so a SPD 2 character gets 2 moves in 12 seconds. SPD 2 is Joe Average. SPD 1 is mobility-challenged, basically. Heroic (non-super) protagonists rate a 3 or 4 cause they're heroes. Real soldiers might rate a 3 after training and veteran status, a Special Ops person would be a 3 or 4. They say that SPD 5 is above human max, but it seems to be the standard for Champions supers. 6 is for super-level martial artists like Batman (where SPD 4 would be in a non-super game). SPD 6 is the minimum you would need to be a speedster.
Then start combat on segment 1. Starting combat on segment 12 was a later addition to the rules arriving in 3rd edition Hero System.(SPD 1 is awful because you don't get an action until phase 2 and you probably have the lowest DEX, so everyone else has gone twice or more before you get to go at all).
A Georgian Beer Snob. That’s cute.Yeah, nah. The characterization of craft beers as "hopsbombs and stouts" is pretty inaccurate to begin with. I'm a craft beer snob and I'm actually not that big of a fan of those styles of beer.
On a hot day give me something like the Creature Comforts Athena (a berliner weisse), or Atalanta (plum saison). Three Taverns Lord Grey (earl grey sour ale), Terrapin Watermelon Gose (a... watermelon gose obviously), Monday Night Brewing Dr. Robot (blackberry lemon sour ale). (Obviously I picked all Georgia beers, as I am in Georgia )
Yea, maybe something like that would have fixed it. In the end, I abandoned Fantasy Hero as being just as complex to run as other games I was running and didn't come close to giving me the results I wanted. And in too many places it just didn't feel suited for lower power games. Now I don't know if it's a better situation now, but in the end, between my experiences with Hero System and GURPS I've decided universal systems just aren't for me. If I felt like trying something super heroic again (actually pretty unlikely) I would consider pulling out my old Champions stuff, but otherwise I'm leaving these systems behind.Then start combat on segment 1. Starting combat on segment 12 was a later addition to the rules arriving in 3rd edition Hero System.
Or take advantage of "Unless the GM rules otherwise" found in several editions.
A Georgian Beer Snob. That’s cute.
Come to the West Coast, where “craft” beer is so plentiful it’s just beer, and we’ve been over the Beer Snob thing, for over a decade at least.