The Obligatory Fishing Minigame
A downloadable game
Have you ever found yourself wondering what your game was missing? Did you ever worry that there just wasn't as much fishing as you'd hoped in the slickest and latest TTRPG that just hit the market? Well worry no more and get on down to Simple Farmer Sam's Watering Hole! Simple Farmer Sam will even supply you one of his old rods and some bait he found between his toes! With such a headstart you'll be fishing till the sun comes up!
The Obligatory Fishing Minigame is a system agnostic Tabletop RPG made to emulate the classic video game fishing minigame found in damn near every video game made in the last decade and a half. The Obligatory Fishing Minigame can be played on its own as a standalone game or ported into any game your table might be running. The Obligatory Fishing Minigame is even solo friendly, able to be played by yourself. When you've got The Obligatory Fishing Minigame, you don't need anyone or anything else!
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I played this game for a little while and it has a lot of admin. Current money + value of fish - the cost of the bate every single time. I am getting 5G each time. The next rod (quality rod) cost 100G. I happened to notice the cost of bait increases faster than the value of fish. Quality bait cost 2.25x more than poor quality bait. The large fish are worth about 2x more than medium fish (not accounting for the dices bell curve and the fact trophy fish get more rare the larger they get.)
I feel whoever made this game is allergic to math. There is a 20% chance catching a god fish will not lose you money. Gold tackle will almost always lose you money. The simple fix is to lower the cost of every item.
Hey! Thanks for playing our silly little fishing game! We're not allergic to math, but some of the choices were intentional to drive home that Simple Fisher Sam is scamming you. The game's silly, it's meant to be light hearted, and it's meant to be irreverent to the fishing minigames you find in a ton of games.
1. The cost of bait is relative to the most likely fish you can catch of the lowest Grade possible for the Bait, up to Huge Bait. Huge Bait has been lowered to 15. Kyle got cold feet on that and raised it to 20 but we think you're right, that the price should be lowered and we've updated it to reflect that change. The rest however -
For example, you are more likely to get a Fox Faced Fancy which is 9g rolling on the Medium Fish list, and then more likely to get a Zeta Fish which is 13, or Sam's Little Angle which is 10g.
The cost for Poor Quality is 4g so you can, just on the most average roll, buy two Bait per the most likely chance to catch Medium Fish. We made the game assuming you'd be using the bait to catch the highest level fish you could, but we still wanted to leave the choice for people on the off chance you get a trophy of a lower grade Fish.
2. If you're using the Gold Tackle on anything lower than Huge then you're not making an optimal choice which was intentional, honestly. The money choices for the higher stuff was made with the intent that if you can afford it, you're catching larger fish and not bothering with the smaller fish.
You get 5 uses out of the Gold Bait which guarantee a Trophy catch. The lowest Trophy cost of a Huge Fish only requires 2 to break even at the most likely of roll and everything beyond that you're likely to break even on a single roll. You get three or four more uses after that. So if you use the Gold Tackle on a Huge Fish, you're never wasting money. You can't ever not break even if you only use the Gold Tackle on Huge Fish.
3. Catching a God Fish is a special little thing, it's not the end goal. It's why you can't purchase the bait. It's not really designed to make a profit or really what you're aiming at. Huge Fish and Oddities are where we expected people to level out at.
I hope that helps.
- Kyle
King Whopper doesn't seem to have a price? (It's just "G").
That'd be because I didn't put it on the master sheet when I sent it to our graphic designer. It's 12 and 36 respectively. Thanks for the catch! - Kyle