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We know how to make them and they're useful, mainline production.

4 (33.3%)

They seem out of place and run rather counter to a fantasy setting, avoid them.

2 (16.7%)

Get outta here, nerd, nobody finds guns that interesting.

1 (8.3%)

Go ahead and have the NPCs make em, but not worth player input.

1 (8.3%)

Support, but they shouldn't be the standard weapons.

4 (33.3%)

Total Members Voted: 12

[MoonyTheHuman]

Opium... Are there any dwarves in the fort addicted to it?

[Amperzand]

No, because the current supply is very limited and restricted to medical use.

[Amperzand]

Welp, late-night updop is here.

[TheBiggerFish]

Late-night?

[Amperzand]

Posted at a stupidly late hour, this bump is from later.

[Amperzand]

I am continuing to be busy. You can likely expect an upturn in updates after finals week, with maybe an update squeezed in between then and now, depending.

I've basically been either doing schoolwork, doing something important, or keeping myself sane with entertaining dross 18/7 for most of the last while.

[Amperzand]

Spoiler: Option #1 (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Option #2 (click to show/hide)

[chaotic skies]

Now I get to try to understand what's going on here. The glowing-person/god-thing looks cool, and I'm not sure where to even begin with the dots, but the wierd dots seem like they'd be safer, if less !FUN!.

[Amperzand]

The Dancers, one of whose death at the hands of its own kind nearly killed you and Fish, look reasonably similar to Option 2, if less purely humanoid.

[Amperzand]

Given that the poll has remained tied for several days, I shall assume both are equally liked and go from there.

Now, I'd like to talk hypothetically about player death, plot armor, and player infighting. I'm not really sure what it's useful to say starting off, but I would quite like to see your opinions on them.

[TheBiggerFish]

Player death:Not unless everything else is also dying in an apocalyptic event.
Plot armor:For us?  Sure...
Infighting:It's going to happen.

[LordPorkins]

Already has! Fish is probably planning my death as we speak!

[Elagn]

Player death - It should be doable without some apocalyptic event
Plot armor - Against it, it encourages people to take risks and get away with them
Infighting - Inevitable, and should be allowed

Note, I'm not saying I want any of our characters to get killed, but it should not be overly hard to happen if, say, people are reckless or careless or extremely unlucky.

[Chevaleresse]

As a host of my own RPs on another site, I generally give players a fair amount of plot armor. As long as you act in-character (though this doesn't really have any sheets or anything to judge that by tbf) and don't do anything outrageously stupid (or do a large number of slightly less but still irritatingly stupid things) I promise to keep people alive. (Of course, if they fail to resolve key plot points, then they're gonna die along with a lot of other people.) Infighting can happen but shouldn't result in PC deaths unless it's something the two have already planned out.

[Amperzand]

While I have no interest in getting rid of the minor plot armor that keeps you from being casualty numbers, I do think player death won't be terribly difficult to achieve.

That said, I'd rather it wasn't some arbitrary system, and would like to consider various ways of adding a "health" system, and of what happens with the player after their character dies.

My initial thought was to have a system of "Wounds", where you can receive a certain number of major injuries before dying, though obviously instant-kill scenarios, like killing a Dancer at close range or collapsing the fortress on your head, would, in fact, be instant kills.

I also assumed that following the D&D convention of just rolling up a new character would work well enough here, especially since things are based on competence and knowledge rather than experience point gain.