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[Remuthra]

Given the mild failure of my last game I'm going to try and run one last one that is very much based on the RP between characters. In fact there are no stats and the only combat that will happen is between players and I just roll a d100 for each side to find how successful they were. Really I will only exists as the GM to give people permission to do things. This is more an experiment then anything.

So, would anyone play it or do you have a suggestion to make it more fun?

As a supporter of forum experimentation, I would be willing to play this.

[kj1225]

Good because the game is very much an experiment. Mostly experimenting with making a game where the GM is just there to give permission to people on what they are allowed to do. Speaking of I will probably set up the thread tomorrow if there isn't another person wanting to play it.

[Chink]

Sounds interesting. I'll probably be seeing you there tomorrow, then.

[kj1225]

Oh look a second person that's interested. I'll go set up the thread.

Speaking of that, it is now up.

[Fniff]

I don't think that's a great idea, to be honest.

Freeform RPs don't work out. Even if you have a GM on hand, which I have tried myself, there's going to be godmoding and I speak from experience when I say that it really takes the spirit out of the roleplay when you're forced to deal with that kind of stuff and constantly be on hand.

[Rolepgeek]

They can work out. Ever heard of Myrealms? It's regulated freeform. VERY successful. Trick is to deal with god-moders in the best way for the situation: gently if their new, banhammer if they're munchkins.

[Fniff]

Myrealms has it's own site, meaning it's probably more professional and has more of an admin team working on it. However, if it's just one person, then it's much harder on that one person to constantly maintain order.

[kj1225]

The problem with trying to god mode in this game is if they don't cease and desist when asked or haven't gotten permission from me first I'm going to let the other players god mode. And I'll be dissapointed if they don't ask to god mode to do things from the start. Also I trust people on this forum enough to think they won't ruin anyone else's good time without a reason.

[Fniff]

So, what's stopping the RP from being a collection of people trying to either out-badass each other or out-lolimsocrazy each other?

[kj1225]

Nothing, really I don't think that's much of a bad thing.

[Fniff]

It is a bad thing. Because it's incredibly boring. There's no risk, no real point, and no real gain. It's basically just several people writing "I whip out my revolver and my katana, then start firing at you and slicing at you while spouting witty one liners" again and again and again until one of them gives up out of disinterest.

[kj1225]

That's not going to happen, if someone is fighting someone else then I roll a d100 and then the winner writes their winning, and if it results in a dead lose then I pull in some other poor sod.
Also one of the players is an obelisk, I don't think there will be much fighting unless there is a real reason.

[Fniff]

And what's stopping them from just... fighting the same guy again? And again? Cos their character is real badass and he wouldn't lose like that.

[IronyOwl]

I hurl a thousand and one suns into your galaxy-sized mech of pure plotarmorium, then trigger the Big Bang Crush Attack with them, thereby resetting the universe again.

Ninja'd by four other people resetting the universe before me.



...oh, but only if we roll higher than the other guy when we qualify as fighting. Otherwise their plotarmorium mech crushes us as intended and someone else joins the fray instead.

[Fniff]

And another thing, what if the players aren't fighting? What if one player's hacking into another player's computer? Does that count as fighting or is it an instant win?