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[TheBiggerFish]

...Well now I'm just envious.

[OceanSoul]

I have a strong urge to apply hugs to Draignean right now.

Someday, he'll make a forum game so complex, it has rules for hug circumference and arm grip. Wait until then.

[Felissan]

Someday, he'll make a forum game so complex, it has rules for hug circumference and arm grip. Wait until then.

*DING* That's hugwang!

[WillowLuman]

Here's a few pitches I plan on eventually doing something with:


A galactic criminal is hiding out on modern-day Earth, the government sends a number of agents in Earthling disguise to hunt them down. Possibly done in rounds, with the criminal having a different secret project each time. Players have the liberty of designing their operative and method of disguise.


Demons lurk inside the internet, and a chosen few fight them by combining video games with a certain spell to create avatars. Each demon has their own MO and methods for defeating it. Possibly the same setting as that spirits game I once tried to run.


Ambiguous large 1st world country. In times past, werewolves used to be shoved into asylums, but the government has been taking a more progressive approach. They are allowed to live in the general population, but under close supervision. Each werewolf is assigned a case worker who helps them live safely and secretly, and who is charged with "cleaning up" in the event their assignee is compromised.

All three concepts sound really interesting for sure, but the werewolf one piqued my interest the most. I'm not exactly sure why though. Maybe the idea of not having a character antagonist, but rather the werewolfism affliction, makes it stand out from the other two. Well actually, I guess for sure the duality of aiding the werewolf dudes live normalish lives and action/drama of something going awry is very appealing. It sounds like the police ideal to serve and protect combined with werewolves, but at the same time the game can take on plenty of other themes and tones. (I don't want to narrowcast the idea or anything, just went on a bit of a slight tangent.)

Have any thoughts on whether they'd be roleplaying or suggestion games? If roleplaying, I could see the first and second ones easily being competitive games with opposing sides and the third one possibly being either mission-based and focused on clean-ups or having players choose between taking the role of a case worker or a werewolf.

All RPs, for sure.

For the 1st, I suppose I could give the role of the criminal scientist to a player, but they'd have to PM me all their moves and probably not post IC until the climax.

For the 2nd, I'm thinking something more mission-based, with each demon being something that needs to be investigated, found, and confronted. For most of them I was thinking that the hunters would need to confront the demon from the computer of a recent victim, to avoid compromising their own security.

For the 3rd, I'm thinking there'd be equal numbers of werewolves and social workers, so that way everyone is paired up. Or perhaps 2 werewolves to 1 social worker.

[ATHATH]

Maybe you could have groups of three per werewolf: have one player as the werewolf's human side, another as the werewolf's animal side, and another player as the agent.

[OceanSoul]

How about each player plays a werewolf AND an agent? Doesn't have to be the agent of themselves.

[WillowLuman]

Maybe you could have groups of three per werewolf: have one player as the werewolf's human side, another as the werewolf's animal side, and another player as the agent.

I don't think splitting one character between two people in a non-SG is a good idea.

How about each player plays a werewolf AND an agent? Doesn't have to be the agent of themselves.

Could be a thing, though I don't know if separate pairs would be interacting with each other as much as the werewolves interact with their social workers, so it might not allow for as much RP activity.

[TheBiggerFish]

Maybe you could have groups of three per werewolf: have one player as the werewolf's human side, another as the werewolf's animal side, and another player as the agent.

I don't think splitting one character between two people in a non-SG is a good idea.

But it's not one character?  It's the humn, and the wolf.

For bonus points, human-side and wolf-side can talk to eachother.

[ATHATH]

Maybe you could have groups of three per werewolf: have one player as the werewolf's human side, another as the werewolf's animal side, and another player as the agent.

I don't think splitting one character between two people in a non-SG is a good idea.

But it's not one character?  It's the humn, and the wolf.

For bonus points, human-side and wolf-side can talk to eachother.

Especially since they'd probably vie for control over the body and have conflicting goals.

[OceanSoul]

How about each player plays a werewolf AND an agent? Doesn't have to be the agent of themselves.

Could be a thing, though I don't know if separate pairs would be interacting with each other as much as the werewolves interact with their social workers, so it might not allow for as much RP activity.

How about the players control their werewolf while they're human, and the agent while they're wolfin' out? Also, who ever said it had to just be werewolves? What about dryads, liches, harpies, skeletons, etc?

[WillowLuman]

How about each player plays a werewolf AND an agent? Doesn't have to be the agent of themselves.

Could be a thing, though I don't know if separate pairs would be interacting with each other as much as the werewolves interact with their social workers, so it might not allow for as much RP activity.

How about the players control their werewolf while they're human, and the agent while they're wolfin' out? Also, who ever said it had to just be werewolves? What about dryads, liches, harpies, skeletons, etc?

Because that's more "Area 51/MiB" stuff and less analogous to helping people live with a disability?

And again, splitting it that way might work, but when they're human, that still means people would have to handle both sides of the interaction themselves. Whereas having different players interact as agent and patient gives them more RP to do.

[AoshimaMichio]

I have been doing statistical research about what kind of games I'm good at. As GM, I mean. I have pretty good idea already, but that's my subjective opinion. Empirical research is needed to confirm that.

So here's a straw poll link. Pick what you think are my three best games.

Links to all my games are here. You'll notice few games missing from the poll, but that's because I consider those to be failures by all metrics. Didn't like them, didn't last long and so on.

So instead of wasting time and effort in future designing and running games I suck, I can focus where I'm already good at and produce better games.

[Chiefwaffles]

Is there any good tile-based map creator anyone can recommend?

At the moment I'm toying with a game that involves an XCOM-like base-building mechanic. I did something like that before, but it was through judicious use of select, layers, and the fill tool in paint, which is not something I want to go through again. All the stuff I've found so far is clearly meant for things such as D&D. I could theoretically use them for the base-building, but the goal is to just display a simple map of large tiles, where each tile represents a large amount of space. Some rooms take up one tile, some take up two, and the rare room may even have some kind of funky shape. And the programs I've found don't really do to well with my intentions, apparently.

[GiglameshDespair]

Is there any good tile-based map creator anyone can recommend?

At the moment I'm toying with a game that involves an XCOM-like base-building mechanic. I did something like that before, but it was through judicious use of select, layers, and the fill tool in paint, which is not something I want to go through again. All the stuff I've found so far is clearly meant for things such as D&D. I could theoretically use them for the base-building, but the goal is to just display a simple map of large tiles, where each tile represents a large amount of space. Some rooms take up one tile, some take up two, and the rare room may even have some kind of funky shape. And the programs I've found don't really do to well with my intentions, apparently.

Tiled, maybe?

[escaped lurker]

Is there any good tile-based map creator anyone can recommend?

Not sure if doing your maps in ascii is something you'd go for, but Rexpaint might be worth a look either way.
Also works great with our "local" tilesets, though getting additional / non-standard tiles into the mix, would be a bit more work than just replacing a pic.