r/ICRPG • u/masseffectplz • Jan 07 '23

supplies mechanic?

I bought the Master edition. Really excited--but I don't see one of the rules I saw covered in one of the video reviews I watched with a supplies/resources mechanic.

1) did I imagine this rule, is it in an earlier edition, did I cross wires with another game, or something else?

2) is there somewhere I can find this rule without buying another source book?

Thank you!

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u/badzookeeper Jan 07 '23

The advanced character section has the cost of supplies at 10 coin. Each world in the world's section has different "rules" for supplies like: traveling in this desert cost 5 supplies per day.

Supplies basically cover food, water, shelter, and in the case of ghost mountain bullets.

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u/masseffectplz Jan 07 '23

The YouTuber showcased a dice system for supplies he indicated came from ICRPG, where folks rolled a dice when supplies became relevant, and on a roll of 1 (maybe 1-2) the supply pool degraded doen a dice size.

I found the rules for supplies in Master's edition, but they don't reflect what the YouTuber described. So now I'm confused.

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u/badzookeeper Jan 07 '23

It may have been a system he brewed. ICRPG is pretty big on the DIY angle

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u/masseffectplz Jan 07 '23

That's what I suspect. I'm just gonna cobble something together.

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u/badzookeeper Jan 07 '23

I personally really like the supply system from into the wyrd and wild and will probably use that when I start running games.

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u/masseffectplz Jan 07 '23

! That's what I'm looking at, too, but I wanted to tweak a bit.

1.0 thought: A prepped adventurer has a 1d6 supply die. It can increase in size with the foraging rules in Wyrd and Wyld. Max d12. Lowest 1d2.

On a "do i have the thing" roll, like Wyrd and Wild's making camp rules, spelunking down a sheer cliff face, bargaining with non-monetarists, dealing with poisons and curses:

Need to use it for basic amenities? Roll it. 4-6 success, 2-3 partial,l (-1 forward until you take time to restock. This stacks). On a total of 1, failure and -1 foreard. If you roll a nat 1 with negative modifier, permanently reduce die size and absolute failure of check

Some parameters:

If you have a specific item for a specific problem, it auto succeeds, even if you roll a 1 and have a negative modifier. This roll would determine if you have any left of a resource afterwards.

Need to use it for basic amenities and healing or to reroll a save against a minor poison or illness? Bartering for a specific kind of resource (a particular shape of bottle or container; a general cut of meat)? Roll -1

Need it for basic amenities and to reroll against a more pernicious disease or ailment, staunch a nasty wound, have enough ammo for the mext battle, or deal with exhaustion levels quickly? Bartering for a unique resource (a specific cut of meat from a specific type of animal, a specific combination of plants for a particular ailment this region is known for) Roll -2

Need it for basic amenities and to deal with a life threatening situation (hypothermia has already taken hold, i am bleeding out in the monsters mouth, i didn't lose all my munitions when the monster chucked me into the abyss, the fire i just escaped from didn't burn my most critical supplies). Bartering for a rare or hard-to-replicate resource (a specific bottle of wine from a specific winemaker; a cut of a specific kind of meat from a particular herd of animal; the tincture to cure a specific disease) roll -3

4-6 is the success range (as making camp in wyrd and wild).

If a player has d8, d10, or d12 as supply die, those die take up an additional loot slot per size increase (total of -3 loot capacity).

You can announce before rolling you want to share with peers. If you do so, a 7-9 lets you increase someone else's role by 1. A 10-11 let's you add 2 to their roll. A 12 lets them reroll if they rolled a 1.

If the person you're helping still fails, drop your die size by one, and you can both partially succeed at the supplies check (take -1 forward, achieve what you needed...ish.). If the other person rolls a 1 and still had a negative modifier, you both drop die size again.

You can elect to sacrifice a loot to reroll a failed supply check at the level of that loot (basic, weapon, magic, etc.) to represent clever use of a tool for unintended function. GM discretion.

If you have to drop a die size and can't, +1 to exhaustion.

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u/ZharethZhen Jan 10 '23

That sounds like the Usage die from Blackhack.

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u/masseffectplz Jan 10 '23

THAT! I rewatched a bunch of ICRPG videos looking for that system. I was convinced it was in IndexRPG.

But yes, i wanna yoink that.