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Mr. Palau

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What was the most enjoyable forum game you ever played?
« on: May 03, 2012, 08:35:19 pm »

What was the best forum game you ever played?

Was it a suggestion, RPG, RTD, ETC.? What was it about? When was it? How long did it last? How detailed was it?

In general because this isn't a game.
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Re: What was the best forum game you ever played?
« Reply #1 on: May 03, 2012, 08:57:38 pm »

Take a guess.

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Re: What was the best forum game you ever played?
« Reply #2 on: May 03, 2012, 09:01:27 pm »

Hm. Is validly related to forum games, though, since it's more or less a discussion of what you like in them and what makes them good.


As for me, I don't know that I could point to one and say it's the absolute best. Several of the absolute best have been as follows, though:


Arcanum Octet II. [Link] An RTD with skill-leveling and creative magic use and combination. Consequently, every turn felt like Christmas, as you waited to see how much Fire Magic experience you'd gain or whether carving that rune onto your armor made you invincible or cut too deeply and shredded it into not armor anymore. It had a fairly long run, was several years ago, and was pretty detailed; there were several armor slots, for instance, fractional damage resistance was possible, and damage was split into Piercing, Slashing, and Bludgeoning.

Not coincidentally, several of my own forum games (like Staggered Magi RTD) and one of my other favorite forum games (Westlands RTD) were heavily based on it.


Potash Maker Adventure and Potash Maker Adventure II. [Original] [II] An illustrated forum game with that RTD-ish You Die feel and skill leveling. You play as a dwarf with a completely useless profession (Potash Maker, Soaper, Crutch Walker, etc) and are somehow thrown into battle, conspiracy, drama, and more. Mostly as serious as dwarven peasants are likely to get, but occasionally veered into (usually audience-inspired) madness. The pictures added immensely to the feel, the possibility of getting less useless and better equipped was nice but didn't usually work out (in a good way), and the GM was very good at making things interesting. It's probably a year or two old, and it wasn't massively complex, but did feature an area hit system with different damage multipliers on each part from armor and innate value (ie hitting the head was more damaging than the leg).


Elves of Amanareli. [Link] An outright famous suggestion game featuring a band of elves trying to make their way past hostile wilderness with a trading caravan. Superb artwork and brilliant storytelling help make it a true masterpiece, along with the usual insanity that is to be expected from Bay12's suggestions and a creative GM. Probably the only community/suggestion game I'd consider for a list of the best things ever (on this forum, at least; Prequel is a stunning example of something similar elsewhere).

EDIT: Wait that's a lie, You are minifig was awesome. The Empress shall rise again!

Obviously, not very complex, at least as far as we were aware. It did feature precise stockpile recordings, but I don't think that included food eaten or other such nonsense, just the supplies we lost to frogmen or whatever. I have no idea when it was last active, actually, but it did die and then shamble back at least once, possibly more.



I could go on, but I suppose I'll stop for now. Other candidates include Knight Otu and Vanigo's civ building stategy games, several Dwarf Fortress: The Forum Games (especially Shade-o's, but Hastur's and Neyvn's were pretty good as well), and probably some stuff I've forgotten. All of which died at least in part due to overcomplexity, incidentally.
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Re: What was the best forum game you ever played?
« Reply #3 on: May 03, 2012, 09:04:04 pm »

Elves! I never actually got to play, but reading it was EPIC.
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Re: What was the best forum game you ever played?
« Reply #4 on: May 03, 2012, 09:05:34 pm »

Roll to Dodge to Dodge. Never played, was amazing.
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« Reply #5 on: May 03, 2012, 09:31:16 pm »

I've got really fond memories of BOTGII and the first ZA, although neither ever finished, sadly. Some of the other RP heavy with awesome premise type games of old as well, just because I still think of what could have happened.

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Re: What was the best forum game you ever played?
« Reply #6 on: May 03, 2012, 09:39:57 pm »

My island games will never be mentioned here, but they were hellaciously fun to run.
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Re: What was the best forum game you ever played?
« Reply #7 on: May 03, 2012, 09:42:02 pm »

The best I've ever played? The one that comes to mind is the TPN mage game Skyrunner is doing right now. It hasn't gone too far yet, but it has been top-notch thusfar and I'm looking forward to continuing it. The Roll to Be Gentlemen Spies RTD is one of the funniest ones I've read.
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Re: What was the best forum game you ever played?
« Reply #8 on: May 03, 2012, 10:19:04 pm »

Witches' Coven 2: Coven Harder. That was a really fun game right up until I lost.
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Re: What was the best forum game you ever played?
« Reply #9 on: May 03, 2012, 10:23:32 pm »

My island games will never be mentioned here, but they were hellaciously fun to run.

i enjoyed one of those, though it died quickly unfortunatelly. i remember hoborobo's cavemen game fondly too

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Re: What was the best forum game you ever played?
« Reply #10 on: May 03, 2012, 10:42:35 pm »

The first 10 to 15 pages of Terraforming were very hilarious, then the GM started throwing a piss fit about how we weren't allowed to jettison the captain, or inject harmful bird DNA into the scientist, who both were trying to shut us down. At that point, the game lost a lot of its charm, so I threw in the towel. I never did bother reading through the rest to see if it got better.

Ultimately, I'd have to say that Space Prospector is my current favorite, and it's barely even started. A simple dice based game with a class system, and other fun stuff like spaceship carpooling, and combat with drills.
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Re: What was the best forum game you ever played?
« Reply #11 on: May 03, 2012, 10:52:05 pm »

BMM42's Homestuck RPG. Seriously, no contest.
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Re: What was the best forum game you ever played?
« Reply #12 on: May 03, 2012, 10:53:14 pm »

BMM42's Homestuck RPG. Seriously, no contest.
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Re: What was the best forum game you ever played?
« Reply #13 on: May 03, 2012, 10:57:12 pm »

The Elves of Amanereli.  It was what got me to stop lurking and actually register on this forum.
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Re: What was the best forum game you ever played?
« Reply #14 on: May 03, 2012, 11:26:10 pm »

Some stuff that really stood out for me

You are wizard
   The story of Vix the wizard of many titles and his rise to greatness. One of the first You Are Games, very long runner with magic hijinks.

Trapped
    5 fighters defend a colonization dome from the zombie monster hordes through a variety of weapons, power armor, traps, improvisation, and couches. 'twas very fun especially with the crazy improvization and off the rails stuff near the end of its life

Guys I think we have a problem (rapture)
   A freeform game made last year when hat guy tried to predict the end of the world. Was made a little bit after the predicted date passed and featured a world where the rapture truly did happen as the survivors struggled against the Angels and demons alike. Power escalation  eventually resulted in all the players being rediculously overpowered as they killed off most of the mythological pantheons. Has some fond memories for me due to being one of my earliest experiences with freeform role playing games.

Keeping Up with the Bay12
    a very long running freeform game featuring the misadventures of bay12vers within an apartment building. Includes eldricht basements, fey (no relation to changeling the lost), space dragons, the scp foundation, mad scientists, episodic formats, golf carts, mop swords, final fantasy, and disturbing relationships with ponies.

Objecticon
   A mon style game in which items are placed into cubes that when equipped can be turned into weapons or creatures.
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