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[NJW2000]

Hello. It is I, NJW, the mysterious runner of at least one not-dead forum game, come to bestow great and wondrous bounties upon

I need your help. Testing and improving an idea, for what I hope may be a somewhat larger and longer-running forum game, via a short, scrappier RTD. This will be an arena-style combat RTD, involving some elements of (not quite random) generation, heavily inspired by Piecewise RTDs such as Intoxicated.

The premise is fairly simple: the players start with $3000 each, $1500 of which can be spent in each of the first three turns. These are character creation turns - you find five items on ebay, the sum cost of which must be less than $1500. These will be used to generate a champion (a human hero, but with various changes to their makeup and abilities), a weapon, and a steed or beast to fight alongside you. You can only, of course, spend up to $3000 throughout these turns. After this: you will be pitted against one another, 2v2, in an arena.

  You must show me your items by posting links or better, screenshots (less likely to expire), or even better, both, of the items you choose, showing the price and preferably a picture or good description. Anything goes. Don't repeat items, don't steal each other's items please.

Only 4 players needed at the moment, though if this works, I will change the setup a bit before running a proper game.

Please ask questions or give advice, thoughts, if I've missed anything or could do something better/diferently, etc.

So... 4 players! First come, first served, as there are no charactersheets in this version, just say you'd like to play and ask any questions you like, I'll kick this off fairly soon, given enough players. This round at least'll be informal as heck.

[Nunzillor]

I'll give it a try, if you don't mind.

Buy Now or Auction prices?

[NJW2000]

Buy Now, please. Shouldn't be too restrictive.

[DoctorMcTaalik]

In.

Do I draft my list now?

[NJW2000]

Yeah, sure you can start selecting the list of items for your champion now.

[IcyTea31]

Spoiler: Chainmail hauberk: $38 (click to show/hide)

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Spoiler: SUV: $250 (click to show/hide)

(link)

Spoiler: Heat-resistant duct tape: $3,56 (click to show/hide)

(link)

Spoiler: Circular saw: $107,99 (click to show/hide)

(link)

Spoiler: Telescopic mop handle: $16,35 (click to show/hide)

(link)

Total: $415,90

I'm guessing vehicles come with fuel, power tools with batteries, weapons with ammunition, and so on?

[Nunzillor]

1.  One Nunzilla - $25
2.  One bottle of growth hormones - $59.99
3.  One pyramid energy generator - $11.11
4.  One "Cthulhu" red octopus tentacle - $29.95
5.  Two fire breathing torches - $26.99

Total = $153.04
((To confirm, we aren't buying weapons or mounts yet, these initial items just define our characters?))

[NJW2000]

Yep, they get put into a generator, out of which come the champions. You don't always fully "get" what you buy, or at all, though, for example, buying all guns or whatever is likely to give you some kind of gun.

So we're just in the champion phase at the moment.

And you'll get ammo if you need it, though if you're too cheap or get something too OP, there may be a limited supply.

[IcyTea31]

I misunderstood how this works, but I'm keeping my list, just for fun. We'll see what kind of a champion comes out of those seemingly unrelated items.

[NJW2000]

Oh, I see what you thought of. Yeah, that could be fun too, I might try that version at some point.

Circular saw and telescopic mop handle... now what would he - good god.

[Gentlefish]

I'm up for it.

1.Goebel Victoria Ashlea Originals Porcelain Doll 1996 September Ltd Edit
2.F/S NEW Death Rabbits Feelings / Medium Two Summer Uncle CD Import JaPaN 0915
3.The Santa Clause 3 - The Escape Clause
4.Caustic Caterpillar X4 NM Magic Origins MTG Magic Cards Green Common
5.Black Pepper Whole 25g 50g 100g,200g,500g,1000g, Packets.Spices peppercorns (1kg, of course)

List created using this site, items picked and chosen.

[NJW2000]

Just McTaalik then.

[TCM]

I fully endorse using real life websites as random generation systems. I will watch eagerly and wish you the best of luck in GM'ing this. If possible, could I reserve a spot for round 2?

[NJW2000]

Sure, if the actual thing happens, which it should if this works ok.

I thought wikipedia wars was pretty brilliant, by the way. Dunno if I was thinking about it when I had this idea, but could have been.

Also, you guys feel like you have too much cash? We could stick to $3000 for now, but someone buying an SUV for $250 suggests that money could be more important.

[DoctorMcTaalik]

1.Male Skeleton Skull Black Mariachi Band Violin Statue- $22.23
2.Eight Carolina Reaper Dehydrated Peppers- $80
3.The Beatles- Magical Mystery Tour (vinyl)- $15.91
4."INDIANA JONES HARRISON FORD LIFE SIZE 6 FT 2 ARTIST MADE STATUE ONLY 1 MADE"- $1,199.00
5.Porcupine Lithograph- 19.99