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[Parsely]

Would any of you guys be interested in participating in Darkness Redeemed: Necromechanic 3 if Shadestyle started it here, or should he look for another forum?

Why are you asking instead of Shadestyle?

[ATHATH]

Would any of you guys be interested in participating in Darkness Redeemed: Necromechanic 3 if Shadestyle started it here, or should he look for another forum?

Why are you asking instead of Shadestyle?

I asked of my own initiative before he did, and we just left my post up instead of making a new one.

So are you interested (or at least not opposed to it)?

[IronyOwl]

I need to run something. If I knew what I'd be running it already. Help.

I have, as always, half a dozen actual ideas and dozens of things that with work could charitably be considered neural activity. I'm also open to entirely new suggestions.

Spoiler: Half of a Civilization Game (click to show/hide)

My first choice would be a civilization builder, but I can't figure the damned thing out. I could go into a lot of detail on the history and mechanics involved, but:

-Heroes are your main workhorses, rather than cities. This is because heroes are interesting and flavorful, whereas watching cities throw resources onto the pile tends to get a bit tedious for a forum game.
-Cities/settlements, then, serve largely as your base of operations. They hold buildings, technologies, and other things that allow for crafting/building better stuff.
-Basic turn flow is for your hero(es) to run around gathering up resources and crafting them into things you like, which levels them up and grants special techs; research is therefore a function of what your empire does, not how many libraries you have piling beakers onto which tech node.
-Much of your civilization, like people, owned territory, and structures that aren't crafting stations, is more or less residual from your heroic efforts. Repeatedly mining a resource will tend to build your empire up around it, for instance, which will in turn tend to make it easier to access, defend, place convenient things nearby, and so on.

The problem: Everything. I can't figure out how rolls will work, I don't know exactly how cities/settlements/pops work or what exactly they do that makes them worthwhile. I was leaning towards a King of Tokyo style system, where you throw a fistful of dice and reroll some of them, but I don't think I have enough results to map, I don't think I want that much granularity, and the rerolling thing works better in person. I also don't know how heroes should work; I'd like to avoid straight roll/output bonuses, but I'm not sure what else to do.

Spoiler: Blood of the Gods RTD (click to show/hide)

You're a god. Run around the universe creating anything you like without want or fear!

BWAHAHAHAHAHA

Gods are ranked by their size and correspond to celestial bodies. Different categories move up or down two spaces, so a Large Moon is the same size as a Small Planet.

Tiles	Moon	Planet	Gas Giant	Star
-	Tiny	-	-	-
1	Small	-	-	-
2	Medium	Tiny	-	-
4	Large	Small	-	-
8	Huge	Medium	Tiny	-
16	-	Large	Small	-
32	-	Huge	Medium	Tiny
64	-	-	Large	Small
128	-	-	Huge	Medium
256	-	-	-	Large
512	-	-	-	Huge

Size indicates how many things a body can contain, both in godly equipment and surface features. A celestial body is closely tied to its god, so a fertility god's planet will become lush and fertile, a war god's planet will become wracked and volatile, and a dead god's planet will become cracked and dead.

Speaking of dead gods, most courts are ruled by Star-tier abominations, with a court of Gas Giant elders, a mass of Planet gods, and assorted Moon lesser/demigods. Players are nascent Planet-tier gods, so they're capable but directly below scheming jackasses themselves below a literal monster plotting against other literal monsters served by their own hierarchies.

In addition, each god has a Fetish, which is a part of themselves that amplifies and symbolizes their particular focus. A god the hunt might have crystal eyes, a forge-god might have arm muscles of corded ruby, and a fertility god might have a golden dick. Oh, and Fetishes are transferable, so if you gut somebody you can literally take their guts. Similarly, entities with absolutely no reason to take issue with you otherwise might still want to eat your skin.

Accordingly, players will have to fight bloody conflicts to forge and keep their creations. Possibly meat grinder bloody. Dead gods can be revived, though they'll probably be pissed about coming back without their magic brain or fancy toes.

The end result should be a mixture of creating things and ripping each other open to steal their organs.

Spoiler: Tactical Combat Thing (click to show/hide)

If you've noticed Draignean's combat test, think a slightly saner and faster paced version of that. If not, you have a few actions or AP and attacks are aimed at the ground, so dancing around where an enemy expects you to be and predicting where they'll be in turn is rather important. Ideally this leads to a lot of, you know, "I did everything right and owned that guy with an epic anime flash step counter" moments, as well as the opposite. The ones where the shambling husk of a knight sidesteps your blow and then butchers you like a fattened hog.

Spoiler: The Answer Is Always Mages (click to show/hide)

Wield great power! Probably using an RTD system! Meaning you will inevitably use said power on yourself and your allies!

In this particular case, I was thinking about a mission system amidst floating islands in a floating island dimension. So the actual roster could be of theoretically any size, with players rotating out to actually go out on individual missions or stay home and craft or what have you, and the missions would involve invading other islands for loot and defending your island against tides of unstable mutant shadows.

All the while, of course, honing your skills and using them for really just awful things, either by design or because you rolled low. Major focus on combining skills, so your exact repertoire will likely differ even from your fellows with some skills in common.

[Draignean]

Well, my votes are for Tactical combat and Mages. I have no advice to offer for Civ Builders.

One, because I'm mentally grumbling about 'saner and faster' (), and two because Mages are fun.

[TheBiggerFish]

Mages mages mages mages

Magicka-style?

[Parsely]

Blood of the Gods sounds hype, but Mages looks neat too. Civ sounds like you wouldn't have very much fun running it.

[OceanSoul]

I might like the magic game. The floating-island part reminds me of an idea I had.

Spoiler: Spoilered, in case you don't want to read it (click to show/hide)

It, too, was based on floating islands, but they were more along the line of pockets of reality in a void. Players would be random people stranded on one of these "islands", and I would have a small selection of islands ready for players to pick before the game starts, ranging from magic to robotic, modern, maybe even medieval or western. Other "islands" would occasionally float by, which the players could loot for resources, including parts of the islands themselves to add to their own. Eventually, other islands would invade them, leading to a fight to keep their island safe, usually by protecting the center of it, which keeps it together. Very rough, but I never had much desire to use it in a game, so I never spent much time on it.

[IronyOwl]

Mages mages mages mages

Magicka-style?

No, like that colony builder thing you were an omnibold in, only hopefully better designed. Rather than combining Arcane+Earth or Arcane+Arcane buttons/elements to produce a laser, you use your skill in Destruction to project something and your skill in some kind of energy manipulation to make that something said energy, then specify you're projecting said energy in the form of a solid beam. And, of course, roll a [1], point-blanking yourself with it instead.

I might like the magic game. The floating-island part reminds me of an idea I had.

Sounds pretty similar, except I'd been thinking more jumping ship for better islands than breaking chunks off to build up yours. Players hate leaving absolutely anything behind, though, so maybe that'd be a better idea.

[OceanSoul]

If the game goes on long enough, maybe you could make the players have multiple islands? Probably 2 or 3 max, but it opens up some possibilities, such as having a fortified island for defence, a weaponised island for offensive maneauvers, and a developed island for rest/research/testing/practice/etc.

[Digital Hellhound]

I'm imagining the players riding around their magical island, absorbing/attaching smaller islands to their own and growing bigger and bigger all the time. Katamari Mage Island go?

Blood of the Gods sounds rad, too. I'd love to tear out the guts of gods to gain their powers. Let us cut God to see if He bleeds!

[OceanSoul]

What if each player had their own, small island that they are bound to? Or, maybe just a fragment of a shared island? They can revive as long as their fragment of the island is safe, but if it gets destroyed, so are they. On the other side of the coin, getting stronger makes your piece of the island bigger, more powerful(useful structures, abilities, etc), and vice versa; adding to your island makes you stronger based on the attributes of the island. Someone with a forest island may have an ability to make plants grow, whether as wooden spikes for attack or a sturdy stump for defense. If a dryad appeared on the island, they might be able to summon them briefly in battle. Something like that.

[Tyrant Leviathan]

New idea: Trailer the rpg. Making a thread and write in detail your ideas as if a ad or movie trailer sort of deal. Can include what's in works or already in play. Just beware of spoiling too much.

[IronyOwl]

If the game goes on long enough, maybe you could make the players have multiple islands? Probably 2 or 3 max, but it opens up some possibilities, such as having a fortified island for defence, a weaponised island for offensive maneauvers, and a developed island for rest/research/testing/practice/etc.

I'd rather just make islands large and varied enough that you can have fortresses, farming valleys, some kind of siege tower, and so forth on the same island.

What if each player had their own, small island that they are bound to? Or, maybe just a fragment of a shared island? They can revive as long as their fragment of the island is safe, but if it gets destroyed, so are they. On the other side of the coin, getting stronger makes your piece of the island bigger, more powerful(useful structures, abilities, etc), and vice versa; adding to your island makes you stronger based on the attributes of the island. Someone with a forest island may have an ability to make plants grow, whether as wooden spikes for attack or a sturdy stump for defense. If a dryad appeared on the island, they might be able to summon them briefly in battle. Something like that.

Too abstract for my tastes. Among other things, it badly messes with anything you'd want to do to "your" patch of land yourself, because that's largely your xp's job.

[S34N1C]

I've been considering making a game based off the game Oxygen not Included. Still thinking about some of the kinks to iron out, but the idea is growing on me. Anyone interested?

[Person]

I really like the island ideas. I had a similar idea a long time ago, but I've mostly forgotten it. Iirc the cosmology involved a lot of small orbiting/floating spheroids. Think king kai's planet, except the gravity is relatively normal despite the size(save for escape velocity being lower). I feel like the system involved a lot of planet hopping and incentivized questions like "should we dig all the goodies out, or keep this place as a stepping stone?" Consider planetoids from minecraft/terraria, if you know those sorts of maps.