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Introduce NPCs to Socialize with.

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Some Other Idea (which I'll undoubtedly inform you all about).

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I just selected this option because it existed.

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Total Members Voted: 25

[AbstractTraitorHero]

I like your ideas, Emp. Maybe it could work something like this:
Everyone gets a dice pool of... Some size. I don't know what. You can expend dice on your turn to attack people, or save them to negate enemy attacks/abilities. As such, actions/turns would have to split into three phases given the PbP nature of the forums. Reaction (to use dice to stop enemy attacks), Refresh (where your dicepool regenerates), and Act (to expend dice to attack). So you could go for an alpha strike and hope to keep the initative afterwards, or husband your dice and counter your opponent's moves. Everyone would get a certain number of skills to customize and make the game a balance nightmare. Some would be passive boosts, like having a bigger dicepool or more health, while others would involve expending dice to do stuff. Like manly shouting to boost your dice pool or trying to inflict curses on people.

Sounds good? The details still need to be hammered out, of course, but it is an idea.

I'm fine with it.

[Empiricist]

Sounds good, reminds me of the new Perplexicon system actually.

[USEC_OFFICER]

New Perplexicon system? I have no idea what that is, honestly.

[Empiricist]

One of Piecewise's game systems. I think it's only been used in one actual game so far, run by Hawk. Though it may not have been a full implementation either. Since it's quite slow for full turn-based gameplay.

[USEC_OFFICER]

Oh. Can I get a link if possible?

[Empiricist]

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[Empiricist]

Sorry for the double post, turns out the file doesn't actually have the pool spending mechanics either for some reason. >__<

But he did post the rules during a system test here. Note that the stats were not balanced for it. Also, that Derm was so heavily min-maxed that he was still slower than someone bleeding out from a missing leg.

Oh and since the dropbox for the maneuvers are down, here are the ones they had available.

[USEC_OFFICER]

Thanks a lot. The major difference I can see is that they're using multiple dice-pools and a preset list of maneveurs. But other than that, they are extremely similar. Admittedly the test-game seems like it plays somewhat slowly, which might be a problem. Eh. We'll see how things go when I finish the system.

[Empiricist]

Yeah, that's probably why no game has actually used it full implementation yet, though it may work a bit better here seeing as this is one of those quick-post RPs rather than something where everyone posts at a different hour on a different day.

[USEC_OFFICER]

Yeah. I think that their system takes so long because it splits turns up into multiple segments (for a good reason) which one player has to respond to the other in sequence. For battles between multiple characters or players in opposite timezones that would really slow things down. Whereas my invisioned system lets everyone post in any order they wish during a turn, though I'll probably split it into two segments too to simplify people's orders. I don't want to deal with massive conditional tables depending on how Reactions resolve after all.

[Empiricist]

*cue someone making a character whose ability literally is that to assign conditional actions*

[AbstractTraitorHero]

Timezones for most players here?
I'm north american but it dosent matter since i typically go to sleep at 12 and wake up at 4:30

[Empiricist]

I probably have the short end of the stick, living in Australia. But, Ernesto's designed to act more like a walking stalemate/battlefield-control with no direct combat capabilities anyway.

[USEC_OFFICER]

*cue someone making a character whose ability literally is that to assign conditional actions*

Oh, what is this? Is it the GM veto? Why, I do believe it is! In other words: Fuck 'em.

I'm north american but it dosent matter since i typically go to sleep at 12 and wake up at 4:30

How are you still alive?

[SOLDIER First]

i dont sleep; sleep is for mortals
i hibernate