Dice and Invasions

[1:26:27 PM] Kate C. (Siren):There should be a really rare Invasion roll that gives you the option to invite a mage of an opposing faction of a suitable rank (Or combined rank) to the job...
 Then a Super-Rare roll called the Megaboss >;3
[1:28:08 PM] Kate C. (Siren): Rolling Invasion or Megaboss would be good cause to make use of the Reinforcement rules,  if it ends up too hard.

Speed Demon Zack wrote:I actually quite like this concept.

However, if we roll the 'invasion dice'. Do we HAVE to have someone come in and invade? Same for megaboss

Almyra Bys wrote:One instance where it definitely would not work would be in Size Matters. Unless the megaboss is shrunken down for some reason. Besides, people will just cheese their way into beating the megaboss unless it's controlled by someone not doing the job.

Almyra Bys wrote:True. Though for Size Matters you could easily just not fight the megaboss and say it goes on its merry way without you fighting it. It won't notice you because you're the size of a bug. That or have it attack the person who shrunk them, causing her to shrink it. Or the players could grow to normal size to defeat it, then shrink down again. Still, I feel as though people will find a way to cheese them. They already make jobs much easier than they should be.

Almyra Bys wrote:I see. It's a really cool idea and I hope they implement it. Perhaps we could have some separate ones for international jobs, even, like different legendary monsters and such for different areas. Bosco would be fairly easy to do that for, considering they fight giant monsters on a daily basis. Perhaps the exp/jewel penalty for calling reinforcements could be removed if a megaboss is rolled as well. That's also probably why people don't call in reinforcements.

Kirahunter wrote:Maybe we can add in as a monster possibility(along with Megaboss) the "Catastrophe" dice. In which something completely beyond the players control goes horribly wrong threatening them with job failure. Now while the player will be allowed to create their own catastrophe it will have to meet two criteria for the job to be approved:
-The catastrophe must present obvious danger to the fulfillment of the job's objective, failure to deal with the problem will cause job failure
-Preventing the catastrophe may not help the player complete other objectives

The first one is obvious but just for an example, "You must sheer the sheep to win! Catastrophe! The stock market crashed!"  The catastrophe(while catastrophic) had no impact on the completion of the job so it's a no-go. The other thing is with a catastrophe "oh no we failed to stop the catastrophe but we can still pull this out of the water!" is also a no-go. The catastrophe must cause job failure if not prevented, it can't just make things harder. Because people just cheese "difficult" things. Anyway preventing catastrophes doesn't have to be hard, it just has to be high stakes.

The second one is a little harder. The gist is catastrophes make things worse not better. It's hard to phrase it right but the idea is if you are at 70% job completion and a catastrophe appears once you prevent the catastrophe(and assuming you do nothing else) the job completion is still at 70%. So like if your job is to kill 10 dragons 5 dragons appearing is not a valid catastrophe because defeating them will forward the completion of your job. However that doesn't mean you aren't allowed to make lemonade of your lemons. If say a meteor starts falling on the town you're defending from invaders, once you've stopped the meteor there is no reason you shouldn't be able to throw the meteor at the invaders. But that's different from having the meteor fall on the invaders instead of the town.

The goal is similar to megabosses but it just allows jobs to go wrong in ways other then GIANT MONSTER ATTACK! I mean giant monster attack is cool, but not every job failure ever can be caused by giant monster attack. That's just silly.