{"id":11383,"date":"2011-04-14T08:30:20","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T13:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=11383"},"modified":"2011-04-14T08:30:20","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T13:30:20","slug":"spoiler-warning-s5e7-you-may-already-be-a-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=11383","title":{"rendered":"Spoiler Warning S5E7: You May Already Be a Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bF1E23dOd3w\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bF1E23dOd3w'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>The encounter with the man and woman shooting each other is an interesting one.  Playing on the general do-gooder tendencies of the average player, the designers have her pleading for help. I&#8217;m not sure how, but it seems to be random which one of them wins the fight.  Sometimes she&#8217;s dead before you reach them.  Sometimes their fight goes on and on.  Sometimes she wins. Rutskarn was complaining about the fact that you lose karma for killing him, when it&#8217;s very likely that a first-time player will attack the guy in a misguided attempt to thwart injustice. <\/p>\n<p>Part of the problem is that I&#8217;m not sure what the designers mean by &#8220;karma&#8221;.  Is it a measure of the bad you&#8217;ve done, even when you mean no harm?  Like, accidentally running over a dog gives a person &#8220;negative karma&#8221;, even though it was an accident.  Or is it just a re-branded version of Ye Olde Slider of Morality? <\/p>\n<p>Is the winner of the fight determined by combat rolls? I don&#8217;t think so.  Their fight goes on for a long time, and usually the winner has a good bit of health left. Over that many dice rolls, we should not see wildly different outcomes. <\/p>\n<p>About the lottery winner: He&#8217;s a powder ganger, which means he&#8217;s with the group of murderous escaped convicts who have been raiding and making trouble in the region.  If you talk to another survivor in Nipton, you&#8217;ll find out that the Powder Gangers were here as part of a kidnapping, ransom, and robbery plot.  Their plans went sideways when the Legion rolled into town and started beheading and crucifying everyone. The legion held a lottery. The &#8220;lucky losers&#8221; were beheaded.  Then most of the rest of the town was crucified.  A few more were burned alive on tires. Then the second-place winner had his legs crippled, and the first-place winner was set free. The fact that a Powder Ganger won the lottery was just one final cruelty in a long list of injustices.  <\/p>\n<p>But the truth is, I kill the lottery winner because he&#8217;s the first guy you meet with eyeglasses, and I always take the &#8220;Four Eyes&#8221; perk. So&#8230; I don&#8217;t have a lot of moral high ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) The encounter with the man and woman shooting each other is an interesting one. Playing on the general do-gooder tendencies of the average player, the designers have her pleading for help. I&#8217;m not sure how, but it seems to be random which one of them wins the fight. 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