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[Fniff]

Any advice for showing and not telling? And how basic are we talking? A basic outline of the initial story, or a detailed explanation of the room you're in.

[Nerjin]

Basic: New York City. This bustling hub of commerce and tourism showcases the best and the worst that the American people have to offer. Industry Moguls work their craft, lovers enjoy summer days with each other, and charities allow the less fortunate a place to sleep for the night to avoid the cold nights. The nights are the worst for most. Drug dealers, gang violence, rape, and murder are but some of the more palatable activities that occur on a nightly basis. It is at night where you thrive. For most the term "Vampire" brings to mind cheesy science fiction movies and sparkly men in impossibly tight pants.

For you the term vampire brings to mind your daily job. You are forced to take to the dark streets and hunt your fellow man in order to stay alive. Every death prolongs your life for just one more day. The eternally burning thirst forces you to take to the street. It forces you to hunt. Etc. etc.


It sets up the tone, the location, and who you are. Let them be a new vampire. Let them discover rules for themselves.

[Fniff]

Thanks, Nerjin! That's a good level of detail to start off with.

[Nerjin]

Hey, no problem. I'm a literature professor* [just ask Tiruin] so I'm always happy to help people with writing.

*I am not, actually, a literature anything. I can barely write my name.

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

What do you guys think about a game where the main character has split personality disorder and all game decisions are one of the fiver personalities actions?
The personalities would be like; rage-brute, calm- peace keeper, inteligent- observation, melancholy- pessimistic, and happy- optimistic.
There would be five choices for any action and maybe a couple combined actions in certain curcumstances.

[Tawa]

Dunno... sounds kinda... enclosed? Not much room for creativity. The concept sounds cool, though.
I had an idea for a game: a homebrew RPG where the players play themselves, any way they see fit, as adventurers seeking a series of MacGuffins before an ULTIMATE STOCK VILLAIN and his crew of STOCK LACKEYS can get them. There would be a lot of surreal stuff going on, references everywhere, and generally wacky stuff happening. The system is based on on I used in an ISG one time where each person has seven scores, Agility, Alertness, Intelligence, Vitality, Strength, Willpower, and Charisma, each rated with a die instead of a stat. The GM rolls the character's die for the skill, then sees if it beats the opposed roll (for interpersonal checks) or a target number (for environmental checks.)

Spoiler: Combat blathering (click to show/hide)

Combat would be about rolling against another person's Agility score (with Strength for barehand and heavy weapons like clubs, Agility for light weapons like daggers, Alertness for ranged weapons like crossbows, and Intelligence for magic attacks); if the defender's result fails, the attacker's weapon's damage die is used to determine injury. You can just blindly attack the opponent, which deals 75% of the roll to overall health and 25% to two randomly selected body parts, or aim at a specific body part, which deals 25% of the roll to overall health and the whole roll to the selected body part. If the opponent is conscious, they can make a Vitality roll to reduce the damage by 25%. Reducing an arm or leg's health to 0 cripples it until healed; reducing the torso's health to 0 results in severe blood loss and a steady loss of overall health (with a tiny chance of instant death on the fully-reducing hit); reducing the head's health to 0 renders the injured one unconscious and temporary Intelligence die reduction; reducing overall health to 0 causes the target to explode.

Sound fun?

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

Ya it's a bit closed but it would definitely allow for me to have a set story line to run or set things to happen for each choice (*caugh choose your story type game *caugh). Though I may add a sixth,"Wild card" option where it would be a player submitted action, and like normal SGs it would be popular vote for what action to take.








@Tawarochir- That sounds like a fun game. I would play it, if I felt confident that I wouldn't immediately die from stupid choices.

[Tawa]

I don't suppose anyone plans to run another 3.5 DnD game soon?

I really wanna use my new Dragonfire Adept, Crusader, or Sorcerer and almost none of the games I'm in are updating. D:

[kj1225]

I don't suppose anyone plans to run another 3.5 DnD game soon?

I really wanna use my new Dragonfire Adept, Crusader, or Sorcerer and almost none of the games I'm in are updating. D:

I just want to run a wizard once.

[Nerjin]

I don't suppose anyone plans to run another 3.5 DnD game soon?

I really wanna use my new Dragonfire Adept, Crusader, or Sorcerer and almost none of the games I'm in are updating. D:

... I'm so glad you came by. I needed gall for an alchemical experiment and you apparently have it by the god damned wagon full.

[Tawa]

I don't suppose anyone plans to run another 3.5 DnD game soon?

I really wanna use my new Dragonfire Adept, Crusader, or Sorcerer and almost none of the games I'm in are updating. D:

... I'm so glad you came by. I needed gall for an alchemical experiment and you apparently have it by the god damned wagon full.

What was that you called bile?

[Chiefwaffles]

I've been pondering doing a game heavily based upon the You are a new God suggestion game, one of my favorite ones.
Of course, I probably wouldn't be able to do writing quite as nicely as was done in that topic, but it would at least be legible. The game itself would probably be a bit simpler as well. Since there's a decent amount of god games, inactive or not, what would people think of this?

[hops]

Does anyone know of any good names for a game where you gain power by eating other peoples' souls? Soul Eater is out of the question because that is the name of an anime.

Nixon Simulator 2014

[Andres]

Does anyone know of any good names for a game where you gain power by eating other peoples' souls? Soul Eater is out of the question because that is the name of an anime.

Nixon Simulator 2014

Canon.

[Mesa]

Recently I wanted to get back into forum gaming and one idea that was lurking around my head was a suggestion game where the players control an otherwordly eldtritch abomination/elder god/demon, influencing mortals to eventually enter their realm and conquer it.

Basically Dungeon Keeper meets That Which Sleeps. Might be a bit too large in scope for all I know but whatever. I'd gladly listen and probably accept any ideas to expand on this rather rough and admittedly not exactly original concept. ;p