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[Egan_BW]

A suggestion game centered around a deterministic combat system. In the RTD section, because why not.

The main character is a jungle hermit who hasn't seen or spoken to anybody in the past decade, who may or may not be fated to play a role in the destiny of the planet. She also happens to be a wolf person. The setting is JRPG-ish, though I have trouble ripping anything off without getting distracted and adding weird ideas to the mix.

Inspired by Extinction, less in the sense that I'm taking notes and more in that I'm encouraged by my friend Devastator's success in making a long running game with an interesting story. I'll try my best to do something like that.


Also have some complex rules:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Turn Order
The round progresses like this:
First, the enemy side submits their actions.
Then, the players may submit their own actions taking into account the enemy's plan.
The player characters then act first, before the enemy.
To aid in planning, this combat system is deterministic. Any random or unpredictable elements come into effect only at the end of the round.

Action Points
As expected, units generally need to spend Action Points to perform various Skills, and cannot do more on their turn than they can afford in AP. The exception is if a unit performs exactly one Skill on its turn, that Skill may exceed that unit's available AP, with the remaining cost being subtracted from that unit's next turn.
If this and/or other causes of AP loss result in starting the turn with 0 AP, that unit is Stunned. Stunned units may only use 0AP Skills.

Meter
Certain Skills may cost Meter to use. Meter is a single resource 'bar' shared between the whole party.
At the start of each fight, the Meter starts at the sum of every party member's Crisis stat, and Meter does not carry over between different fights.

Style
When submitting an action, in addition to specifying the mechanical side of the action (Slash Soldier 1, Dodge) you can also provide narration of what happens (Alice thrusts her sword into the knight's breastplate, leaving a big dent, and jumps back before he can retaliate).
This will be rewarded by increasing your Meter, which can be used for more powerful Skills.
You will gain 1 Meter for every character whose turn you narrate. You can even do this for the enemy round, gaining meter for describing the enemy's attacks against your own characters. I reserve the right to increase the reward for notably awesome submissions.

Damage Types
Damage from attacks comes in three different Types: Pierce, Impact, and Sweep. These are good for high single-target damage, disruption of the enemy turn, and fighting groups respectively.
Pierce: Damage dealt is not reduced by the target's armor. Though the attack will still be nullified if Armor is greater than the Pierce damage.
Impact: Damage dealt is reduced by armor. For any HP damage done, the target also loses AP on its next turn, potentially being Stunned and losing its turn.
Sweep: Damage dealt is reduced by armor. Can hit multiple targets with the same attack, so long as their combined Armor is lesser than the Sweep damage.

Combined Types
Certain more powerful attacks might combine Types. SweepImpact, SweepPierce, and ImpactPierce all inherit the benefits of both damage Types.
SweepImpact: Can hit multiple targets if combined armor is lesser than SweepImpact damage. Also, each target loses as much AP as HP.
SweepPierce: Can hit multiple targets if combined armor is lesser than SweepImpact damage. Damage is not reduced by Armor.
ImpactPierce: Damage is not reduced by Armor, and HP damage dealt will also damage AP.

Damage Elements
In addition to type, damage also has an Element, such as Fire or Lightning. Damage without a stated Element is Physical.
The Element itself doesn't have an effect on what the damage does, but certain targets may be resistant or vulnerable to certain Elements.
Immune: Takes no damage.
Resistant: Damage is halved.
Susceptible: Damage is upgraded to a Combined Type of the attacker's choice.
Vulnerable: Damage is increased by 50%.

Rolls
Sometimes you may need to roll on an Attribute. The die size depends on the difficulty of the task, and the roll is a success if you roll the Attribute's level or lower.
Rolls which take place in combat always happen at the very end of the round.
Endurance: Ability to keep going when injured or exhausted.
Toughness: Ability to resist injury, preventing it from happening in the first place.
Agility: Speed and precision.
Strength: Lifting and overpowering.
Crisis: Doing cool but impractical things.
1d4: Easy.
1d6: Moderate.
1d10: Difficult.
1d20: Very Difficult.
1d100: Heroic.

[Egan_BW]

The Dream

(You grumble and turn over in your sleep.)

Over you is an incomprehensible white orb.
Luna.
You have never seen it before.

Its light burns. Forces you to your knees. The soil is damp, though you cannot see. All about you is silence and darkness and petrichor.
It shines through you like a sunbeam through the lake, splitting...

You feel yourself splitting into two beams, one dumb and crawling, the other naked and helpless.
You fear that both cannot exist.

Which are you?:

• I am the Wolf.
• I am the Woman.

Spoiler: party (click to show/hide)

Wolf, Beast lvl 13/55

Status

Endurance 12/12 (3/11)
Toughness 0 (0/5)
Agility 3/3 (3/8)
Strength 3 (3/10)
Crisis 2 (2/11)

Hunting (2/10)
Pounce! (3AP 2 Meter. Movement. Melee. requires both hands to be empty. 2 Impact and target is Grabbed, preventing it and you from moving or meleeing other targets)
Bite! (5AP. Melee. Stunned or Grabbed target takes Str*4 Pierce)

Run! (6 AP. evade ALL melee. Using this two rounds in a row will remove you from combat.)


Woman, Human? lvl 6/21

Status

Endurance 4/4 (1/3)
Toughness 0 (0/1)
Agility 2/2 (2/4)
Strength 1 (1/7)
Crisis 2 (2/6)

Items

Wham! (3AP. Basic Melee. Str*2 Impact)
Run! (6 AP. evade ALL melee. Using this two rounds in a row will remove you from combat.)
Crisis Mind (X AP. Once per round. State something you'd like to accomplish or do which is outside the combat system. At the end of the round, roll Crisis + X. Variable difficulty. On a success, you may gain additional options or benefits.)

[King Zultan]

Wolf

[syvarris]

Woman

[Devastator]

Woman

[Egan_BW]

I am the Woman.

Your fur bleeds off of you, your teeth go dull, heavy wool is pulled around your head and you can hear and smell no more, left in the dark.

...And a wolf stalks you through the night.

The Nightmare!

Pounce the human!

Please submit combat orders.

Spoiler: party | Meter = 2 (click to show/hide)

Woman, Human? lvl 6/21

Status

Endurance 4/4 (1/3)
Toughness 0 (0/1)
Agility 2/2 (2/4)
Strength 1 (1/7)
Crisis 2 (2/6)

Items

Wham! (3AP. Basic Melee. Str*2 Impact)
Run! (6 AP. evade ALL melee. Using this two rounds in a row will remove you from combat.)
Crisis Mind (X AP. Once per round. State something you'd like to accomplish or do which is outside the combat system. At the end of the round, roll Crisis + X. Variable difficulty. On a success, you may gain additional options or benefits.)

Spoiler: enemy | Meter = 2 (click to show/hide)

Wolf, Beast lvl 13/55

Status

Endurance 12/12 (3/11)
Toughness 0 (0/5)
Agility 3/3 (3/8)
Strength 3 (3/10)
Crisis 2 (2/11)

Hunting (2/10)
Pounce! (3AP 2 Meter. Movement. Melee. requires both hands to be empty. 2 Impact and target is Grabbed, preventing it and you from moving or meleeing other targets)
Bite! (5AP. Melee. Stunned or Grabbed target takes Str*4 Pierce)

Run! (6 AP. evade ALL melee. Using this two rounds in a row will remove you from combat.)

[syvarris]

Wham.  Run starts us as stunned next round, which leads to bite instakill.  Crisis mind might work, but there's no description to give us a start on using it.  Wham also stuns us, but stuns the wolf next round too.  That might cancel the grab, which would get us a tie.  If it doesn't cancel the grab, we die, but slightly later at least.

Guess I should take advantage of the style system for free meter.  Maybe we can 6AP crisis mind something after the stuns resolve.

The woman steps back as the wolf approaches, her mind rapidly sifting through the myriad of options available to her.  She can't run, it would catch her easily.  She can't think of a plan, the glint of light off its fangs capturing her eyes and her thoughts.  That leaves only one option, as it prepares to leap.  To brace herself for the inevitable.

The wolf jumps, and she turns, raising her shoulder and slamming herself forward.  Directly into the airborne wolf's head.  The two collide, the wolf's greater mass and momentum carrying it into and through the woman, both of them being sent tumbling, separating as the woman is flung farther away.

She coughs as she lifts herself up on shaking arms, even the slam alone having half-killed her.  With blurry vision, she looks up to see the wolf picking itself up as well, the great beast growling.  Disoriented, from her surprising assault.

Pls gib 4 meter, I narrated both this turn and the inevitable "You are both staggered!  Anyways next round go."

[Fluffe9911]

Wham.  Run starts us as stunned next round, which leads to bite instakill.  Crisis mind might work, but there's no description to give us a start on using it.  Wham also stuns us, but stuns the wolf next round too.  That might cancel the grab, which would get us a tie.  If it doesn't cancel the grab, we die, but slightly later at least.

+1

[Egan_BW]

syvarris:
The woman steps back as the wolf approaches, her mind rapidly sifting through the myriad of options available to her.  She can't run, it would catch her easily.  She can't think of a plan, the glint of light off its fangs capturing her eyes and her thoughts.  That leaves only one option, as it prepares to leap.  To brace herself for the inevitable.

The wolf jumps, and she turns, raising her shoulder and slamming herself forward.  Directly into the airborne wolf's head.  The two collide, the wolf's greater mass and momentum carrying it into and through the woman, both of them being sent tumbling, separating as the woman is flung farther away.

She coughs as she lifts herself up on shaking arms, even the slam alone having half-killed her.  With blurry vision, she looks up to see the wolf picking itself up as well, the great beast growling.  Disoriented, from her surprising assault.

Wham.

Party turns:
Wham! -> Wolf
Wolf -2HP -2AP
Overspent: -1AP next

Enemy turns:
Pounce -> Woman
Woman -2HP -2AP. Grabbed.
Overspent: -2AP next

Round end: +2Meter
Round 2:

Bite neck.

Wolf is not stunned, you are. The only available option to you is Crisis Mind, which only takes effect at the end of the round. Bite is lethal.
Checkmated.

Spoiler: party | Meter = 4 (click to show/hide)

Woman, Human? lvl 6/21

Status
Grabbed
Stunned!

Endurance 2/4 (1/3)
Toughness 0 (0/1)
Agility 0/2 (2/4)
Strength 1 (1/7)
Crisis 2 (2/6)

Items

Wham! (3AP. Basic Melee. Str*2 Impact)
Run! (6 AP. evade ALL melee. Using this two rounds in a row will remove you from combat.)
Crisis Mind (X AP. Once per round. State something you'd like to accomplish or do which is outside the combat system. At the end of the round, roll Crisis + X. Variable difficulty. On a success, you may gain additional options or benefits.)

Spoiler: enemy | Meter = 0 (click to show/hide)

Wolf, Beast lvl 13/55

Status

Endurance 10/12 (3/11)
Toughness 0 (0/5)
Agility 1/3 (3/8)
Strength 3 (3/10)
Crisis 2 (2/11)

Hunting (2/10)
Pounce! (3AP 2 Meter. Movement. Melee. requires both hands to be empty. 2 Impact and target is Grabbed, preventing it and you from moving or meleeing other targets)
Bite! (5AP. Melee. Stunned or Grabbed target takes Str*4 Pierce)

Run! (6 AP. evade ALL melee. Using this two rounds in a row will remove you from combat.)

[Egan_BW]

You glare at the sun shining through your roof. The sun is annoying. It also ended that annoying dream, so...
You're hungry. Could go for biting something to death and then eating it. And some carrots and onions.

You're in your shack. It has:
Your bed. Frame. It was nicer when there was the soft part, but it got smelly. You once tried to wash it using water but it just floated away on the lake after you tossed it in.
The oven. Mom told you not to mess with it, so you don't.
Next to the oven is a bunch of useless blocks of wood. And a metal... what was it? You think it's called an axe. It used to be shiny but now it's red.
A dresser with clothes. All of your clothes are too small for you. Also, pointless? You have fur, wearing that stuff is just too hot.
The dresser also has some things in it. Weird devices and toys, mostly. Not interesting.
Oh, and under the bed is a box with some shiny things in it. Some of them are metal, but they're still shiny and haven't turned red yet.

Nothing good, but it's nice to not get rained on in here. And it's your home.

You go through the door. Sky is blue today.
You see a fiery thing falling to the sunsetward. Looks like a shooting star, but it keeps going and doesn't disappear.
Hmm. You don't like fire.

Where to go?:

• Investigate the fiery thing! (sunsetward) (bold adventurer!)
• Go as far away from that thing as possible and hopefully that means it won't catch you on fire. (sunriseward) (safety-minded)
• Stay home to protect your shack from whatever that is! But you're hungry... (stay here) (protective, sentimental)
• Whatever. You want fish. Lake time! (lakeward) (apathetic. fish lover!)

Spoiler: party (click to show/hide)

Awoo, Bestial Soul lvl 18/55

Status

Endurance 16/16 (4/11)
Toughness 0 (0/5)
Agility 5/5 (5/8)
Strength 4 (4/10)
Crisis 2 (2/11)

Fightin'! (3/10)
Duck! (1AP. evade next Sweep attack) (or kill a waterfowl enemy)
Pounce! (3AP 2 Meter. Movement. Melee. requires both hands to be empty. 2 Impact and target is Grabbed, preventing it and you from moving or meleeing other targets)
Bite! (5AP. Melee. Stunned or Grabbed target takes Str*4 Pierce)

Items

Wham! (3AP. Basic Melee. Str*2 Impact)
Run! (6 AP. evade ALL melee. Using this two rounds in a row will remove you from combat.)
Crisis Mind (X AP. Once per round. State something you'd like to accomplish or do which is outside the combat system. At the end of the round, roll Crisis + X. Variable difficulty. On a success, you may gain additional options or benefits.)

[Fluffe9911]

Other than being creative with Crisis Mind I don't there was anyway we could of won that anyway Investigate!

[King Zultan]

Onward to adventure INVESTIGATE!

[Egan_BW]

You watch the thing fall for a second. Then you set off.
As you walk towards where the sunset would be if it were sunset, the woods grows thicker, more trees and vines and bushes. After a little bit it's enough that you lose sight of the falling thing as it gets lower down in the sky.
A minute after that, though, you hear it. A kind of massive FWOOOOOOOSH sound, and rumbling in the earth and trees. All of the animals which were already staying away from you go completely quiet at that.

The fiery thing is nearby... you don't detect a forest fire, but it's best to be careful anyways. You start walking on your hands and feet and stalk quietly closer.
Crouching under a bush, you spy into a smoldering clearing, the ground blackened by fire. In the middle stands a... big... shiny pyramid, thing? It's taller than your own shack but narrow, standing on a number of posts, or legs, or something.
This whole place smells unfamiliar and... unpleasant. The only part of the smell you understand is 'burnt', and there's a lot of burnt here.

Standing beside the pyramid and poking at certain things, is a... human? Something like the woman who visited your mom sometimes. Or like you, you suppose. But they're covered in strange, angular shapes, in black and white and red, all over. And they smell strange as well, like paint and fish and water.
They speak, a tinny and small voice. Their head turns towards you as they do so, but that face has no eyes, just a blank, shiny surface.

"Ah. You were not hard to find. Apologies for the loud entrance but I was in a hurry... no time to land in the capital and then travel all the way out here. I intend to create and maintain your biography as my thesis project, your fate is written in the Seed. To begin, I'd like to perform a survey."

What did any of that mean?!
how do you respond?

• "What's a thesis project?"
• "What's a biography?"
• "What's a capital?"
• "What's a survey?"
• "Who are you?"
• "What is that?"
• "Why are you here, again?"
• "Do you know my mom?"
• "Why was there a firey thing?"
• "Why don't you have eyes?"
• Nod along.
• Grrrrr...
• Keep hiding in the bushes. They probably haven't seen you and are just talking to someone else.

Spoiler: party (click to show/hide)

Awoo, Bestial Soul lvl 18/55

Status

Endurance 16/16 (4/11)
Toughness 0 (0/5)
Agility 5/5 (5/8)
Strength 4 (4/10)
Crisis 2 (2/11)

Fightin'! (3/10)
Duck! (1AP. evade next Sweep attack) (or kill a waterfowl enemy)
Pounce! (3AP 2 Meter. Movement. Melee. requires both hands to be empty. 2 Impact and target is Grabbed, preventing it and you from moving or meleeing other targets)
Bite! (5AP. Melee. Stunned or Grabbed target takes Str*4 Pierce)

Items

Wham! (3AP. Basic Melee. Str*2 Impact)
Run! (6 AP. evade ALL melee. Using this two rounds in a row will remove you from combat.)
Crisis Mind (X AP. Once per round. State something you'd like to accomplish or do which is outside the combat system. At the end of the round, roll Crisis + X. Variable difficulty. On a success, you may gain additional options or benefits.)

[King Zultan]

Grrrrr...

[syvarris]

What are you?

Back away slowly.  Watch them for hostile movement.  Make sure you have a path to retreat.