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[Parsely]

Hey, what are you two whispering about?

_{RESERVING A SPOT FOR SRW RIGHT NOW.}

[USEC_OFFICER]

Giant robot action, of course. Or lack thereof in the case of SEED. _{Actually, SEED had some good action stuff. It had an alternating plot/action episode thing going on so you barely saw any of it though. But that did not make up for the rest of the show. The characters I hated shut up Flay got way more screentime than the more likeable ones. Which disappoints me since I liked SRW J and SEED had some good moments there.}

[Mesa]

Progress update on forum MOBA:

- I have some basic lore going on but it needs some extra fleshing out still

- I only have one character done mostly for general "testing" (as in trying to figure out a good template) purposes
- Characters have 8 stats (health, physical damage, special damage, physical armor, special armor, speed, initiative bonus), each of which can be increased by items
- Characters have a unique basic attack, two regular abilities and an ultimate ability - there are no secondary resources like mana (right now - some characters might be centered around having a unique resource but nothing in that regard)
- Characters start out with all their skills (ultimate included), and certain aspects of their skills scale with their stats

- Characters can hold up to 4 items which increase their stats and possibly provide other unique bonuses
- Items can be bought at the base with gold, which is gained passively each turn, collected from around the map and from killing enemy minions and heroes
- There's no crafting system - however, certain items can be bought multiple times (without taking up an extra slot), giving extra stats this way

- The main base splits up into 3 lanes (hallways/corridors), each containing two smaller chambers
-- Characters can use teleport pads at the base to teleport to their team's chambers
-- Chambers are guarded by two golems each (one ranged and one melee) which are confined to the area of the chambers
-- Chamber golems have relatively low health compared to towers in actual MOBAs, however once they're down to 0HP, they will revive themselves a few turns later
-- To prevent the golems from respawning, players have to destroy generators present in the corners of the chambers - each golem has their own generator that needs to be destroyed
-- The main base contains 4 golems with their own 4 generators - destroying the generators and enemy golems guarantees victory
--- Upon destroying a base golem, a bridge will rise, leading to a platform containing its appropriate generator

Spoiler: ASCII Imagery (click to show/hide)

A base, containing golems in the middle, generators in the corners, teleporter pads on the left, pitfalls and exits.

Chambers (standard and cornered layouts), containing golems, generators, pitfalls and teleporters.

A tunnel.

A game map. (4x4 squares representing bases, 2x2 being chambers and gray tiles being tunnels, with a neutral area in the middle of the map)

(I may drop the special/physical damage split for the sake of simplicity though, among other things but I'm definitely open for ideas here.)

[Nerjin]

Just a quick hop in here... Get rid of the special/physical split. You have to keep an eye on a bunch of these numbers and you're bound to forget one. It's easier, quicker, and overall better [in my opinion] to make it just "Damage" and "Armor".] Speed and initiative bonus could also likely be merged into one.

Less stats = Less work = More enjoyment for the mod = More updates = More fun for the players.

At least that's my experience.

[IronyOwl]

Possibly, but it does fulfill what I'd consider an important purpose- it lets some players be weak or strong to things without just being more or less powerful. A very well-armored tank might still be concerned about a mage in a way that they're just not over a warrior, even if they're of the same general strength.

Of course, this would make it borderline mandatory to have a mixed-damage team for exactly that reason, and the split damage attributes are perhaps of more concern. It's usually not going to be worth it to build both, which means at some point you might as well just give heroes and critters a Physical or Magic descriptor rather than worry about their exact values.

[Mesa]

The stats are fairly simple though:

Health - pretty self-explanatory.
Damage (renamed to power) - added as a percentage bonus to abilities and basic attacks, exact bonus percentages vary per skill. Split into physical and special.
Armor - an extra layer of health on top of one's regular health. Regenerates when out of combat for n turns. Split into physical and special, affecting physical and special attacks respectively.
Speed & Initiative - self-explanatory. (initiative rolls are based on a D6 roll [feel free to hate me for that] and the bonus initiative is added on top of that)

Depending on how I get around to the actions per turn (I'm thinking of 2 or 3 unique actions per turn, that being moving, using an ability/attack, using an item or interacting with something), you'll hardly be using all the stats at once. Even then, they're fairly simple to manage.

I've also made the map more compact to reduce the amount of rooms I need to draw in REXPaint, plus it makes things a bit more action-packed, so that's also a good thing.

I think all I need to do now is make some heroes (aiming at 6 for now, working on the second one) and some items to boot and I could start it pretty soon, I suppose.

(I know that my armor is kind of lame but should still makes tanks good at tanking.)

[sjm9876]

So, would anyone be up for a worldbuilding game?

Brief rules summary below:

Spoiler: Basic rules (click to show/hide)

On each players turn, they may create a single piece and a single event. Creating a piece costs power. Events must use pieces that are already in existence.

Spoiler: Pieces (click to show/hide)

A piece is a figure of importance, an empire, a location, or an artifact. it could be a powerful spell, or an ancient beats, or a god itself. Creating a piece costs a default of 5 power. If for any reason a piece is destroyed, it becomes [Ruined] - it can still be used in events, for example as the ruins of a once great city, or a king’s tomb. Pieces can also have subpieces - for example, if the world is destroyed, so are all sublocations. If an empire is destroyed, so are all the factions within.

Spoiler: Events (click to show/hide)

An event is well….. a noteworthy event. Something worth recording in a worlds lore. It can only use the pieces that are in place so far, however.

Spoiler: Karma (click to show/hide)

Karma is lost for creating dramatically interesting events.
Karma is gained for the destruction of pieces unnecessarily, or spitefully.
The Karma value is applied as a modifier to the power needed to create a piece - so a negative karma value is ideal.

Spoiler: Power (click to show/hide)

All pieces draw a fragment of power if not [Ruined]. All players receive an income of 5 power per turn base, but each piece currently in play (ie not [Ruined]) reduces this amount by 0.1

[BlitzDungeoneer]

Seems interesting.

[Remuthra]

I believe someone did something like this with a map a while ago and was rather successful. I think it was nerjin?

[Kadzar]

A piece is a figure of importance, an empire, a location, or an artifact. it could be a powerful spell, or an ancient beats, or a god itself.

I want to create ancient beats so sick that anyone who hears them will contract some sort of divine plague.

[Remuthra]

A piece is a figure of importance, an empire, a location, or an artifact. it could be a powerful spell, or an ancient beats, or a god itself.

I want to create ancient beats so sick that anyone who hears them will contract some sort of divine plague.

Can I invest power in my beats to upgrade them to jams?

[sjm9876]

I tried something similarish with a map a while back, but it was becoming a touch of a hassle to manage because the rules let people interfere directly with the world - which lead to people messing with each others creations for no real reason other than that they didn't want the other player to make that. Hence the Karma system.

A piece is a figure of importance, an empire, a location, or an artifact. it could be a powerful spell, or an ancient beats, or a god itself.

I want to create ancient beats so sick that anyone who hears them will contract some sort of divine plague.

Can I invest power in my beats to upgrade them to jams?

10 power will up them into grooves.

[Digital Hellhound]

And the final form is the rhythm divine.

[kj1225]

I don't think encouraging people to be dicks will be good for the game.

[sjm9876]

Encouraging them? Negative karma is good, as it's applied as a modifier to power cost.