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Total Members Voted: 6

[+!!scientist!!+]

By the Unwritten Book:
Laws are made to be edited.

   Concrete rules are overrated, so here’s a game where they nearly don’t exist. This will be a simple Arena RTD, until, that is, every single player gets his chance to mess with it! multiple times! That’s right, as the game continues the rules themselves will be changed by the players, I will roll to see what sort of thing the player can change, and then I will do my best to implement their choice into the game while keeping the game fun.  This is extremely experimental and possibly unbalanced, so the rules are open to change. Oh wait, That’s the point!


the few, necessary unchangeable rules:

There will be 8 active players at any given time.

When a person gets the chance to change rules they will roll on the following chart:

Spoiler: RANDOMNESS CHART (click to show/hide)

first roll: power (examples are of invetory changes which could be made)

1 – Sorry, nothing ([redundant]nothing[/redundant])
2 – Very little (everyone gets a paper clip (don’t underestimate (actually, do underestimate, if you can.)))
3 – Slight changes (everyone gets 20 ft. of Rope, YAY!)
4 – Actual changes (everyone gets a shotgun, free of charge!)
5 – Extreme changes (everyone gets a LAZER!)
6 – Game changers (everyone gets a lack of gravity!)

2nd roll: category

For power of 2-5: (max changes are scaled to power)

1 - Inventory
2 - Magic powers
3 - Anatomy (humanity is for losers!)
4 - Scenery
5 – NPC’s
6 – Weather/Nature (ranging from things like wind direction to things like volcanic eruptions.)

For a power roll of 6:
1 – Stats (Create, change, or delete a stat.)
2 – Battle Mechanics (you decide how combat works, be it dueling or dancing)
3 – Any other major game mechanic (make one if you want, or just edit one already there.)
4 - You are able to partially edit or undue any rule there is.
5 – Setting (you decide where the battle is going down)
6 – Reality (the laws of physics are in your hands, do with them what you will.)

I am the GM, and as such if the game is getting boring, I can change the rules to make it fun again.

The stat range is -5 to + 5, because that way not specializing in a stat does not mean you will instantly win or lose.

Which rules cannot be changed cannot be changed.


From this point on, everything is up for grabs!

Health is Chunky Salsa (no Hit points)

The original 8 players get a chance to make changes (all power rolls of 1 will be rerolled)

Anybody who kills someone else gets a chance to change the game.

You can use any item or magic power you create on the turn you create it, everyone else must wait a turn.

Character Creation:

Name:
Appearance:
Stats: must be balanced
Strength –
Dexterity –
Endurance –
Intelligence – (used for any magic, might also become useful if battling becomes math based, or some such nonsense.)
Optional: your biography, interests, beliefs, favorite color, anything, but it won’t affect gameplay.

Battling will be done similarly to just about every other RTD: roll + stat modifier vs. roll + stat modifier

The arena is a large circular room with concrete floor, walls, and ceiling, about 200 ft. across and 25ft high, all surfaces are smooth.

[+!!scientist!!+]

Spoiler: Player list (click to show/hide)

GreatWyrmGold
Name: MinMaximus
Appearance: This tense gentleman has beady black eyes that are like two onyxes. His luxurious, straight, very short hair is the color of obsidian, and is worn in an uncomplicated style. He has an athletic build. His skin is deeply-tanned. He has hollow cheeks. His wardrobe is mysterious and unconventional, with a mostly gray and black color scheme.
Strength +2
Dexterity +4
Endurance -1
Intelligence -5

Persus13
Name: John Maynard Keynes
Appearance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0nERTFo-Sk
Stats:
Strength: -
Dexterity: -
Endurance: -
Intelligence: +++
Optional: ECONOMICS!

Superblast
Name: Rand
Appearance: Black hoodie with red eyes.
Stats:
Strength -5
Dexterity 0
Endurance 0
Intelligence +5
Optional: He's evil. 'Nuff said.

Borno
Name: Easter Bunny
Appearance: He's a guy in a bunny suit who actually thinks he's a bunny.
Stats:
Strength +++++
Dexterity –----
Endurance +++++
Intelligence -----
Optional: His flight to the arena was delayed, so he's a bit late, but he's here to give easter eggs and death to other contestants.

Person
Name: That One Guy
Appearance: Generic
Stats:
Strength – 0
Dexterity – 0
Endurance – 0
Intelligence – 0

Xantlaos
Name: Blob
Appearance: A blob of flesh on the ground. It appears to be bubbling.
Stats:
STR: -5
END: +5
DEX: -5
INT: +5

Scapheap
Name:Ash Dust
Appearance:Half(right side) robotic woman with red hair and a green eye(robotic half's is red)
Stats: must be balanced
Strength +2
Dexterity –5
Endurance +2
Intelligence +1

Harry Baldman
Name: Burt
Appearance: Wears a large, bulky, goofy-looking, fuzzy bulldog costume. Underneath it lies only ancient, sweaty darkness that should never be seen by human eyes.
Stats:
Strength: 0
Dexterity: -1
Endurance: +1
Intelligence: 0
Backstory: once an ordinary (if somewhat awkward) high school student, Burt's life was changed forever one day in the school's science lab. Covered in odd, shimmering residue from an experiment gone wrong, he was about to take a shower, but alas, school pride came a-callin' and he didn't have time! After all, if he didn't participate in the pep rally, what kind of mascot would he be? However, misfortune struck, as the residue was an extremely powerful glue! Reacting with the sweat from all the running around and generally being a good mascot he did, it bonded poor Burt to the suit something fierce. So strong was the bond that the suit essentially became a second skin for him, and it wasn't possible to remove it without removing all of his skin as well. So they left Burt as he was, destined to never be taken seriously by society despite the fact that he was still essentially the same person.

Chink
Name:Jayf
Appearance: Short, and quite fat.
Stats: must be balanced
Strength – -2
Dexterity – +3
Endurance – -3
Intelligence –+2

Spoiler: wait list (click to show/hide)

kj1225
Name: Kyle
Appearance: A tall man wearing only assless chaps, boxers, a cowboy hat, a condom, and two holstered daggers.
Stats: must be balanced
Strength – -2
Dexterity – +2
Endurance – -5
Intelligence – +5
Optional:  He works as a stripper to pay through college.

Spoiler: rules (click to show/hide)

• Everyone's skin is purple.
• Everybody has a rod of wonder which produces random effects on either the user or the target.
  
• Everyone has the ability to shoot flaming bacon grease.
  
• Everyone will have a live R.A.B.I.D.™ St. Bernard© grenade flying at them when they spawn.
  

[GreatWyrmGold]

So, Roll to Fluxx? In.

Name: MinMaximus
Appearance: This tense gentleman has beady black eyes that are like two onyxes. His luxurious, straight, very short hair is the color of obsidian, and is worn in an uncomplicated style. He has an athletic build. His skin is deeply-tanned. He has hollow cheeks. His wardrobe is mysterious and unconventional, with a mostly gray and black color scheme.
Stats:
Strength – +5
Dexterity – +5
Endurance – +5
Intelligence – +5

You never said that the stats needed to be balanced!
If they do...

Strength +2
Dexterity +4
Endurance -1
Intelligence -5

[Persus13]

Sounds cool

Name: John Maynard Keynes
Appearance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0nERTFo-Sk
Stats:
Strength: -
Dexterity: -
Endurance: -
Intelligence: +++
Optional: ECONOMICS!

[Chink]

Name: Hobo Joe
Appearance: Scruffy, covered in rags, extremely smelly and dirty, with a large beard.
Stats:
Strength – +0
Dexterity – -4
Endurance – +3
Intelligence – +1

[Remuthra]

Name: Archmage Joe Bridger
Appearance: Old, long beard, fedora, wraparound shades, pink bathrobe, bunny slippers, walking stick, falconing glove
Stats:
Strength – -5
Dexterity – +2
Endurance – -2
Intelligence – +5
Optional: He's a crazy old guy who happens to also be a powerful mage. He also specializes in falconing, and has a pet falcon named Sasha.

[superBlast]

Name: Rand
Appearance: Black hoodie with red eyes.
Stats:
Strength -5
Dexterity 0
Endurance 0
Intelligence +5
Optional: He's evil. 'Nuff said.

[+!!scientist!!+]

Stats do have to be balanced, I added that to the OP, although it is a rule which can be changed. Sorry, Persus13, you'll have to take some negatives for that high intelligence.

Also, started a player list.

Edit: My last RTD died when I got so sick that even getting up from the couch and going to the computer was a difficult proposition at best. This one won't die, and I plan on making it !!FUN!! at all costs

[GreatWyrmGold]

He seems to have a Strength penalty. They're all the rage these days.

[+!!scientist!!+]

For some idiotic reason I thought those were blanks, not minuses. you're good, Persus.

[Persus13]

For some idiotic reason I thought those were blanks, not minuses. you're good, Persus.

I think using colons instead of dashes would have been a better idea as dashes and minuses can be confused.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Alright, I know which my character is so here's some Optional.

MinMaximus is not normal. From an early age, he heard gods or spirits, saying things like "Yes! Natural 20!" or "Does a 13 make it?" He managed to create a list of things said and made an entire system around which he bases his actions.
He is almost entirely wrong.
To prove himself, MinMaximus went to a cave infested with monsters...alone. He died, but came back...different. And here he is.

[borno]

Name: Easter Bunny
Appearance: He's a guy in a bunny suit who actually thinks he's a bunny.
Stats:
Strength +++++
Dexterity –----
Endurance +++++
Intelligence -----
Optional: His flight to the arena was delayed, so he's a bit late, but he's here to give easter eggs and death to other contestants.

[Person]

Name: That One Guy
Appearance: Generic
Stats:
Strength – 0
Dexterity – 0
Endurance – 0
Intelligence – 0

Looks like a lot of people are gonna dump intelligence.

[Xantalos]

Name: Blob
Appearance: A blob of flesh on the ground. It appears to be bubbling.
Stats:
STR: -5
END: +5
DEX: -5
INT: +5

MIN ... MAXIMIZATION!!!!