Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[ExKirby]

To keep it on the front page, you need good ideas.

I am suddenly reminded of a game someone ran ages ago. There were two kings who set bounties on everything an an army of peasants who did the jobs to grab the bounty. And it was done on Lego. Anyone remember what it was?

[jc6036]

I always have random ideas for Freeform games floating through my head. I'm trying to come up with mechanics that can work and keep the game going. So far I've found that tons of player influence on the world and story are good, without going into the realm of Godmodding. Whenever I start one, I normally post world events that either spark actions or are consequences of actions from the players, which helps to keep the players from doing whatever in the Hell they want and adds some structure. There is, however, a point where they don't have hardly enough control at all. Keeping Freeform afloat is tough, to be sure. Now I'm just rambling, but eh, whatever.

[Fniff]

The trouble with freeform is that people go into arcs that no-one can really get into, which is a problem. Another problem is that if one stupid player stumbles in and godmods, you can't really get rid of him truly without asking Toady to ban him, which is a bit much. And plus, that one stupid player can in fact drag the whole game down.

Speaking of, I was thinking of reviving Keeping Up With Bay12. Any thoughts?

[freeformschooler]

Freeform is the one game type I always avoid because of the inherent problems Fniff stated among others. I'd prefer to have an RPG with a GM, even if it was completely open-ended and we could do anything or be anything (like a free-form RP) outside of the GM telling us what we see and hear (and possibly determining success and failure on actions, though not required).

[Fniff]

What do you think would keep a new KUWB12 afloat? Cos I really liked that RP.

[IronyOwl]

I am suddenly reminded of a game someone ran ages ago. There were two kings who set bounties on everything an an army of peasants who did the jobs to grab the bounty. And it was done on Lego. Anyone remember what it was?

Majesty, LEGO edition. Don't remember the proper name or who did it, though.

[jc6036]

I Fucking Loved keeping up. It's what got me on these forums in the first place. And like you said, one player can drag things down. I had a rather good Survival Horror freeform going in which the players were trapped in a steampunk city sized starship that was under assault by horrorterrors. It was going good up until somebody started godmodding, and while I'm not going to drop any names those that played know exactly who I'm talking about. You see, everybody had a certain amount of sanity that was restored by light and safety, and in the only true encounter I got to before the game died the godmodder decided to shoot at a horror terror, causing it to scream and make them lose sanity. Oh, except for the godmodder because he was Ythian or some shit. And thus, with no regard for the rest of the team, even though they were being driven increasingly insane from the shots and the screaming, he kept firing and firing. No body could put up with his shit and everybody quit.

[freeformschooler]

What do you think would keep a new KUWB12 afloat? Cos I really liked that RP.

Oh, except for the godmodder because he was Ythian or some shit. And thus, with no regard for the rest of the team, even though they were being driven increasingly insane from the shots and the screaming, he kept firing and firing. No body could put up with his shit and everybody quit.

Finding a way to prevent stuff like this, possibly.

[OscarComrade]

God Domnot Fniff when are you going to finish Kobold Quest

[FuzzyZergling]

I've been thinking of doing an illustrated suggestion adventure based on my Objecticon game, but I don't think I'd be able to keep up even a few updates a week with my terrible art skills and tendency to procrastinate...

[Fniff]

Eureka!

Basically, godmodders get "Warned" at first to stop godmodding, and their godmodding posts are said to be "Non-canon". If they continue, then the first post is edited to add them to a thing called an ignore list. Any person on the ignore list is to be ignored by other players when they post on the thread.

And Kobold Quest...

Well. I have respect for the dead, and I think that my ideas for Kobold Quest have floated away from me.

[freeformschooler]

I've been thinking of doing an illustrated suggestion adventure based on my Objecticon game, but I don't think I'd be able to keep up even a few updates a week with my terrible art skills and tendency to procrastinate...

Oh yes. I loved reading Objecticon.

[10ebbor10]

Eureka!

Basically, godmodders get "Warned" at first to stop godmodding, and their godmodding posts are said to be "Non-canon". If they continue, then the first post is edited to add them to a thing called an ignore list. Any person on the ignore list is to be ignored by other players when they post on the thread

But who's going to decide that. If it's one person, what are you going to do if he posts when you ain't online. After all, the thread will have moved one.

If there are multiple, what to do if there was  a conflict.

[Fniff]

The players would be trusted to ignore their posts, since it'd be the first post with big red letters saying you should read it before posting.

[lawastooshort]

Have every post sent by PM to the vetting OP who then posts every suggestion that makes it.

Sorry, I'm getting carried away.