Question: Does Night Eyes work in Keku?
Hmm, I was going to be all glib here, but it appears we actually forgot to mention how Night Eyes works on the Keku page - thank you for bringing it up!
Night Eyes does work in Keku, but only if you can beat the realm's roll; if you roll your Darkness boons against the realm's 25 dice (and the realm counts sixes as successes) and win, you have asserted your dominance over the purview of Darkness even in its most primordial form and your Night Eyes works for the scene. If, however, you fail, your powers over Darkness could not overcome the ancient source of all Darkness itself, and you are just as blind as the next person.
Even if your Night Eyes works, you're still subject to the -15 successes penalty to Perception rolls; Night Eyes can't help the fact that your other senses are thoroughly deadened, too, and Keku keeps its secrets even from the gods of night themselves.
I've got to ask: why the different "counts sixes as successes" mechanic for Titanrealms? Surely there's a handy equivalent way to get the same odds just by changing the size of the dice pools around a bit.
ReplyDeleteIs it a sort of psychological ploy to reinforce the "these things are bigger than you, gods" thing using the dice themselves?
Oh, man, I just noticed that John and I talked about this and then never answered it. We must have both thought the other one was doing it.
DeleteBut yes, mostly it's a psychological thing. You could just adjust the difficulty, but that just says to a player that they need to buff their roll more; when you adjust the mechanic, it tells the player that they're dealing with something on a very different power level from themselves.