Very excited for this mode, it looks hecka impressive. Basically the whole reason I backed hahaha.
The one thing I noticed absent, and admittedly I haven't been through the whole video, was some sort of triggered effect, some sort of "Scripting Lite." The GM was able to cause the same thing to happen but had to manually do so, which could be tedious... adding a simple effect trigger on an interactable could drastically reduce some of that tedium. Even if the trigger is one single effect.
I'm thinking of things like locking a door, and adding an "Unlock" trigger with a specific DC. When a player clicks the door, they are prompted with the appropriate dice roll check. The DC is the amount greater or equal to which the player must roll for the Trigger to react "positively." If fail, the trigger reacts negatively.
Each trigger would essentially have properties in an object-like structure.
Trigger:
{
DC: number
AssociatedAttribute: string
PositiveEffect: EffectObject
NegativeEffect: EffectObject
}
A DM would only need to provide these four fields. Of course it's simplified since it would also probably be connected to an interactable object. Potentially track the repeatability of an effect in this Trigger versus in the Effect itself, for modularity.
Effects could be modded into the game, but could also exist as the "conditions" as they already are in-game (e.g. Petrified, Poisoned).
I've heard scripting is out of scope of the GM Mode but a simple trigger set may positively benefit the approachability of GMing.
