Unfortunately it suffers from the same issue where there are so many inputs and triggers to remember that coding them is trivial compared to remembering to input them.

The first half of my post was describing easy to deal with issues the bigger issue is simply remembering when to implimemt the rules without them being in a huge glob of text that I have to review any time anything acts. It continues to get more difficult at the higher levels. Our highest level headmate is only 9 and there was a lot of mistakes ny then. Where it looks great then a series of revelations leads to failure or the other way around. In other words, SheShe or I start making so many errors that the magnatude of errors overshadowed the RNG.

How we dealt with that is by accepting errors as they go, but it can appear to be very unfair and even more incidious is the creep of errors lean toward a desired direction. In SheShe's case, to the detriment of the poor and downrrodden enemies. These are clearly an invisible hand of bias.

In your case, I would like nothing more than for my innocent and humble monsters to win, which will no doubt cause no end to Alice's complaining, and Cat's corrections.

This is another reason for the pause. Either I would need to get a hold on this or demand that my errors become irrefutable canon. It's a sacrifice I'm willing to impose but obviously this wouldn't have the integrity demanded by extra-system players.

We are ironing some of this out now, only testing will tell if it's enough.

Update:

Bear and I are already attempting to streamline and bring down the level of effort of a burdensome task to something less time consuming.

So far we have mapped out attacking and all attributes and skils in excel. Now it has become a spaghetti factory of links and formulas that are made confusing the moment they're completed. The lack of one key function makes this especially difficult, namely looking up where a variable or cell is used. It may be a thing but we don't know that trick.

The addition of color coading and automatic calculations have promise but...

Consider feats like Sentinel and Alice's reflection and opportunity attacks and compound that with summons and half a dozen enemies each with their own unique rules and what happens is, these are not automatable in our understanding yet and so it requires a long list of actions and reactions to list and group and color and categorize and most importantly remember for every monster and character and feat.

This is what makes how we're doing it especially difficult for me, since you all depend on me to remember all this where usually the characters keep track of their own abilities.

More work is needed, clearly.

Yulya is not unhappy too shift the burden of decisionmaking to Alice.
Fine let us proceed this way then. Be careful!

The sound of a loose stone falling catches your attention, but it's hard to tell direction as the sound echoes through the tunnels.

Where did that sound come from? Did you hear that Ashley?
Yulya retreats 15ft SW tl Ashley and hands Alice the Ring of Dark Shadows as well as GUIDANCE with a tap. She tries to make as little noise as possible and holds this position nervously looking around as always.

yeah midsummer and christmas season. people drink a lot - stuff happens

Ashley zones out, bored out of her mind.

Alice rolls her eyes
We'd be a lot faster and it would be a lot less boring if you used your truesight and the summons a scouts instead carrying and talking them to sleep! Whatever, I'll do it! Send the expendable alien in front. Somebody has to do it!
Yulya I wanna borrow your stealth ring for that!

Cat looks at the East tunnel with unease
Nyaa I don't like that look at the shoring and the floor Nya! We should go North or turn back Nya!

Alice agrees.
Yeah that looks like the main shopping avenue here. We shouldn't waltz into the middle. Let's take the dug out tunnel to bypass the sketchy tunnel east. I'll scout ahead in dim light, You follow up with a lamp behind me!



Alice uses stealth to explore the dug out tunnel. She picks up the glowing rock and tosses it back to the main tunnel. In near darkness she advances further East along the tunnel wall while carefully searching the area.