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tylertks

Anyone play Cortex Prime yet?

Since the SRD has been out for a little while now, I wanted to know everyone's impressions of Cortex Prime.

I've yet to get a chance to play it, but I like how modular it can be. Specifically how you can swap skills, roles, relationships, etc. depending on what best fits your specific setting and game.

Anyway, let me know what your impressions are, and what your actual play experience has been like, if you've gotten a chance to play it.

Posted Oct 23, 2017, 2:50 PM UTC

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FireVisor•

I am looking forward to getting the physical book.

I find it helps waving it in the face of players to get buy in.

It feels more like a real game that way, I guess.

I hope it will feel more like a solid product than the Hackers Guide.

I'm open to playtest it online however, but I haven't got a regular schedule in my life. So it feels difficult.

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tylertksOP•

I've already got one regular game that I GM, and I don't think anyone else I play with would want to GM Cortex Prime, so I've been waiting to maybe run a one shot in it.

I personally am pretty much all digital these days, and a lot of my players are willing to try new things. So the lack of a physical copy isn't a huge deal to me.

Mostly I'm just waiting for the right time to run something new.

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FireVisor•

Well, if you feel like running a one-shot I am all for playing, if you need another player.

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tylertksOP•

I'll definitely keep that in mind.

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thunderchunks•

Ran a sci-fi oneshot. It was pretty great. Still getting the hang of things. It really is modular AF.

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tylertksOP•

Awesome. Did you stick with the default skills and attributes? Or go with something closer to Drama or Action rules?

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thunderchunks•

Slight tweak to skills- shortened the list by a few (rolled a bunch of social stuff into influence for example). Used a doom pool. Ended up half heroic half action. Worked very well.

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Jlerpy•

Not as such, but I've been kitbashing parts from several of the Cortex Plus games together for years now. (Mostly Smallville, with Effect Dice from Marvel, plus a bunch of the scene economy borrowed from Robin Laws' DramaSystem).

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neuronphaser•

I used the SRD to test an update to my zompocalypse hack HEAD SHOT! and found that it was a breeze. More importantly, I found the Prime SRD actually explains everything so much better that I can't wait to revise Head Shot and re-release it so that it's cleaner and my little tweaks and hacks are much less kludgy.

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Jlerpy•

Oh cool! I'm curious what's changed.

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neuronphaser•

Better integration of the Viral Pool so there aren't two difficulty pools (my biggest mistake with the original design). The Character Creation chapter will be a lot smaller, since it follows the "core" of Cortex Prime a lot more closely.

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Jlerpy•

Hot. :)

I still think the Viral Pool should be called "The Horde" though ;)

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neuronphaser•

Holy hell I love that and hope you won't sue me if I change it to that!

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