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[freeformschooler]

Except for the last one. The implication there is that I, you know, actually want to DM a bit. With mechanics and stuff. Crazy!

[Nerjin]

Well most of my games sorta fit that but... I suppose a "City Builder" like Finsterforst wouldn't be too hard to do. Granted I don't really know.

[monk12]

So guys. Homework is already killing me. Also regular work. What's a type of forum game that I can run that

1) Is primarily text based
2) Can be updated in less than 2 hours a day (don't worry I write fast)
3) Doesn't require long-term or constant commitment
4) Doesn't require a lot of bookkeeping
4) Is still pretty interesting and not flat-out a minimalist RTD or something like that?

Define "Is still pretty interesting."

If you want it to be mechanically interesting, well, that's a tricky one, since the more complex things get the more bookkeeping and update speed get affected. You can cut down on things a bit if you do something with a well established mechanical verse since that will require you to think about it less, and more importantly, if the players have prior knowledge of the mechanics they won't waste (as much) time asking you questions about edge cases. So like, Pokemon suggestion game? The only other route I can think of would be to invent a game system that meets your criteria, which would basically imply a non-minimalist RTD.

If you're willing to let things be interesting in terms of just storytelling, you can let the mechanics devolve to a narrative "you can do this/you can't do this" place based on a couple stats/established facts and just focus on telling a story or exploring a setting in a TSG (basically what I'm doing in You are Necromancer.) Of course, that just shifts the work from preparing mechanics to play with to preparing characters/places to interact with.

Also, The Stupendous Sojourn of Slog the Slime: A Prequel Story

[freeformschooler]

hohoho i already have my magnificent solution [posted]

Great suggestions though thx

[scapheap]

I would play that regardless, but I'm about to sleep so I'll hold off advice till the mor.

Okay, I going to question making healing magic part of the triangles, but other then that, seem good(Would like split promotion, but I'm not going to hold that against you).

[Furtuka]

I would play that regardless, but I'm about to sleep so I'll hold off advice till the mor.

Okay, I going to question making healing magic part of the triangles, but other then that, seem good(Would like split promotion, but I'm not going to hold that against you).

Well it's part of the triangle because of what it has in the A-Ranks spells. Logical extremes and such.

What do you by split promotions? I have it set up so each starting class has two options.

[scapheap]

I would play that regardless, but I'm about to sleep so I'll hold off advice till the mor.

Okay, I going to question making healing magic part of the triangles, but other then that, seem good(Would like split promotion, but I'm not going to hold that against you).

Well it's part of the triangle because of what it has in the A-Ranks spells. Logical extremes and such.

What do you by split promotions? I have it set up so each starting class has two options.

Huh? Oh, never mind, I misread it, you did them, I'm stupid.

[Fniff]

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Players buy skills at character creation and have four points at the start. Here is the varying levels a skill can have.

Terrible: You are horrible at this skill. Every time you put a skill as expert, you need to put another skill as terrible. (Needs a 20)
Bad: You aren't good at this skill. This gives you a point extra if you put this as a skill's level. (Needs a roll of above 18)
Inexperienced: You aren't used to doing things related to this skill. Default for all skills until you change their level. (Needs a roll of above 16)
Proficient: You're good with this skill. Costs 1 point. (Needs a roll of above 13)
Professional: You're very good with this skill. Costs two points. (Needs a roll of above 10)
Expert: You are an expert with this skill. Along with the reduced average for success, you can have a speciality: this is a thing you're especially good at. This is usually a specific situation like Convincing People To Fight For You or Shooting At People From A Long Distance. Situations where this happens will give you a +3 to the roll. Costs three points and you have to put down another skill as Terrible.(Needs a roll of above 8.)

Here is a list of skills.
Guns: How good are you with machine guns, assault rifles, or bows?
Explosives: How good are you with RPGs, mortars, or dynamite?
Stealth: How good are you with sneaking, laying an ambush, or making booby traps?
Physical: How good are you with fighting with a baseball bat, beating someone up with your bare fists, or running?
Medicine: How good are you with administering medicine, applying first aid, or creating poisons and drugs?
Speech: How good are you with trading, persuading people, or lying?
Mechanics: How good are you at repairing mechanical objects, rewiring electronic systems, or driving vehicles?
Knowledge: How good are you with remembering academic information, making plans quickly, or applying your knowledge to the current situation?

Okay, so I came up with a few mechanics for skills and rolls. If anyone wants to borrow them, go right ahead, just give me credit. The skills come from an RP idea I had, so there is a bias towards combat skills. Feel free to critique.

[Parsely]

So guys. Homework is already killing me. Also regular work. What's a type of forum game that I can run that

1) Is primarily text based
2) Can be updated in less than 2 hours a day (don't worry I write fast)
3) Doesn't require long-term or constant commitment
4) Doesn't require a lot of bookkeeping
4) Is still pretty interesting and not flat-out a minimalist RTD or something like that?

I hate numbers (but I learned to like math recently actually) so basically all my games are like that. I also hate inventory management so I usually just go with something like: Health, Items, Weapon(s) for inventories.

1st post after being gone and not touching a computer for about 25 days BTW. Feels fucking awesome to be back.

[Kadzar]

It's been a while since I mentioned it, but I'm starting up that Party Quest idea I had before.

[freeformschooler]

So. Question for future use. How would one best represent underwater, tile-based combat in a forum game?

Note the question is not "represent" but "best represent." I can do 3d, isometric, text-based, pretty much anything. How do we handle elevation, or do we need to? What game mechanics would make it cool and not just fighting but with a water backdrop?

[Remuthra]

So. Question for future use. How would one best represent underwater, tile-based combat in a forum game?

Note the question is not "represent" but "best represent." I can do 3d, isometric, text-based, pretty much anything. How do we handle elevation, or do we need to? What game mechanics would make it cool and not just fighting but with a water backdrop?

3D Animation would of course be the best way to graphically represent it . Realistically, I'd say an isometric slice view similar to DF would be best. Having three dimensions of movement is a must for underwater action.

[monk12]

How deep is the water we're talking about? DF-style slices is probably the best way to go about it if it isn't open-ocean; something like Surface/Middle/Bottom would be adequate for shallower combats, corresponding to Melee/Mid/Long ranges for weapons and such. If it's deeper... then it really depends on the scale of the battle, I suppose. If two forces are just going to blast away until somebody is dead, then you just need enough vertical slices to match the engagement ranges you usually use in horizontal battles, but if one side is in a running battle or can strike/influence the battle from farther away, then you have to account for that happening in any given direction. Off the top of my head, if one weak side flees by swimming straight up and dropping bombs or something that drop back down on pursuers/the rest of the battle.

[freeformschooler]

Depth would probably be abstracted to at least a Melee/Medium/Long thing, but I'd still need to represent it. This would stack with whatever range/movement system was already present in 2D land combat.

Oh, for reference: this is for a system that isn't breathing-agnostic. So the characters could totally be normal people who were holding their breath or chewing magic air gum. They might also be mermaids. I'm not sure if having an air counter is interesting in this scenario or just needless busywork, but Breath Bubbles ala the sonic the hedgehog games could be fun.

[kj1225]

Also you will probably need to account for speed reduction.