Roll to Dodge Darts – A PBP PVP RTD
Darts is totally a noble and traditional Great British game, so it makes sense for Bay12 to have its very own noble and traditional Darts champion.
This will work very simply.
We will go straight into the quarter finals for this first ever RTDD Championship. You enter by posting something witty, such as "In". [edit: may as well also post your first action too] The first two people to post will start the first quarter final, and so on, until 4 quarter finals are full.
The game itself is complicated and requires technical skill, so I will be calculating results using a d6 (a real one!). The aim in each round (there is only one round per match, at least at this stage) is to get from 301 down to
exactly 0. You do this by, each turn, throwing 3 darts at the dartboard. On the dartboard you can aim at numbers 1-20, or doubles or even trebles thereof (these are more difficult to hit as smaller, or a number 25, or the bullseye, 50. The score of your 3 darts is then subtracted from 301 (or whatever score you are now at) until someone gets to 0.
But! The final score to get to 0 must be a double, or a treble, or a bullseye.
As darts is complicated, this game uses the Exploding d6 system popularised by the ever-loveable Harry Baldman. I don't know if he is bald. This means that 1s or 6s result in another dice being rolled to examine the seriousness of the aforementioned 1 or 6.
Each turn you may choose to drink a pint of Bitter, Lager, or Mild. If you are from the south you will probably drink Lager, but that is okay, kind of. Each pint you drink adds (or subtracts) 1 to the dice rolled when your 6 or 1 (respectively) explodes. This is a fairly accurate representation of the true professional darts world.
So: each turn, you state which numbers you are going to throw your 3 darts at, and whether you want to refresh yourself (and what with) and anything else you want to do, such as intimidatingly trashtalk your noble and traditional opponent, in a polite Great British way.
Remember – there is an umpire and darts is not meant to be a contact sport.