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.