#digidice

Inspired by @binarybreak, I decided to take a look at Digidice, the system they use, and make a lil guy myself even though I know I don't have the time or anybody to play with. (and also not being sure I did the bonus points right but OOPS)

Lupamon and Pugiomon are based on the she-wolf that raised Romulus and Remus and the Pugio is a roman dagger.

"This is so us," she says

OMG thank you so much! We've heard of folks listening to the show despite not knowing anything about Digimon, but you may be the first reported case of listeners starting a Digidice campaign with Binary Break as their only reference point. What an extremely humbling message. Thank you so much, you absolute freaks 😘

Just in case you missed the origin story for most beautiful and perfect digimon Didelmon who we all respect and who, notably, has never done anything wrong--

Here's the VOD for the very cool August 2024 Digidice episode of One Shot Theater on @bardrockcafe:

P.S. super excited about the new edition of Digidice and I'm extremely attempted to try and get my friends to play even though none of us (including me) have any good knowledge of the OG Digimon shows

Oh my gosh, thank you so much for the wonderfully kind words! Out of all the demographics that listen to the show, "not knowing anything about Digimon but liking Binary Break anyway" is certainly one of the most fascinating to me, lol

And yeah, in terms of Digidice, this entire podcast experience has kind of been one big playtest for the system, and I now have a lot of ideas for ways to expand it and make it better. Good things are coming!

'When you take this drawback, you may gain an additional free bonus effect.'

Does this mean Charge Up gives two total bonus effects? I am inclined to say yes as the GM, because it's alternatives, Cooldown and Stress-Inducing, are technically avoidable with good Heart rolls, while Charge Up is mandatory.

Yup, you read it correctly. Charge Up is such a bad Drawback that it gives you an extra Bonus Effect, in addition to the normal Bonus Effect you get from taking a Drawback.

Conversely, Triple is such a good Bonus Effect that it makes you take an extra Drawback, in addition to the normal one, AND it decreases the accuracy of the attack by one step on top of that.

Regarding Pierce, since it seems to scale where armor doesn't, is it intended to allow you to ignore some of a Digimon's Toughness as well?

I can see the argument for not allowing Armor to scale with Digivolution level, but Armor also doesn't outright state that it can be bought multiple times like Giant does. I assume that's the intention with how devastating Pierce is otherwise.

Yeah, in the draft of the rules that's currently up on itch.io, there are some abilities that scale their bonuses based on Digivolution Level. I've since revised most of those to just be flat bonuses instead, usually just a +2 bonus, regardless of Digivolution Level.

In terms of the whole Pierce and Armor stuff, I'm not sure whether or not I want them to be the sort of thing you can buy multiple times. Who knows, I may also take out those abilities entirely in future versions, or rework them. So far, I've had so few digimon with Armor in my games that the Pierce ability has been kinda useless. That could just be how my group has been playing the game, though.

We occasionally get questions about this, so -- Binary Break uses a game called Digidice, made by our very cool GM Claire.

You can get a copy FOR FREE right here: https://clairemulkerin.itch.io/digidice