Topic: Dwarf Fortress IRC game; (Read 24428 times)

MagicJuggler · « **on:** November 01, 2008, 06:06:40 pm »

DECEMBER 31 UPDATE:
Hello everyone. It's been a hectic past few weeks yet I believe I finally have been able to update things for better or for worse. We've had an entertaining set of adventures, and the game is speeding up in terms of raw combat awesomeness.

Current Roster

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Obituaries: The dead will be honored...or the butt of many jokes.

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Status Update: A recorded list of actions looks like this:

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Fortress Inventory and Locations:
Below is a partially completed list of everything located in the fortress. You'll notice a lot of tag notation in here; this is mainly because the information in there is to be manipulated through the DFGURPS program I'm writing. Depending on how much spare time I get, this project could get increasingly sophisticated. Assuming I end up creating an actual hexmap system for this badboy, I may end up building hex savefiles for everything.

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Character Creation Rules

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This game is being run using GURPS 4th edition. If you don't have 4th edition, GURPS Lite can be downloaded at http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/lite. You miss out on advantages, yet this will help you learn the system to a limited extent while a friendly team of gamers is out there to help you flesh out your character. If you have 3rd edition, there were point modifications so best to read Lite as well; fortunately most of the advantages from Compendium are still around, albeit with more modification.

You have 100 points with which to build a character; if you wish, you can spend 25 of those points to be a Dwarf or an Elf. Their templates are in the Template spoiler tag.
You can take up to 40 points in disadvantages, and 5 in quirks. Note that excessively damaging disadvantages or those viewed as counterproductive to the overall game (e.g. wanting to eat your teammates) may be vetoed, depending on the perceived severity.

One cannot take wealth/Status or Reputation as an advantage or disadvantage; these are kept track of independently of the character based solely on their actions. Characters start with the equivalent of $2000 dollars, with no employment and no cost of living. Wealth is solely for equipping your character...however, 400 of your dollars go into a "community chest" for buying group items like seeds, the party wagon, etc; for those coming into the fortress after the initial cleansing, it represents an initial citizenship fee that goes into the fortress treasury. Money roughly translates to 10$= a copper coin, 50$=a silver coin, and 100$= a gold coin.
Game is Tech-level 3+1 (e.g. Medieval technology with special advances in hydrotech); blackpowder has been discovered yet no practical applications have been discovered yet. Dwarf booze is highly explosive however, and can be used to comical effect. Dependong on player or NPC actions, the TL will eventually upgrade due to the never-ending arms race.

I am GM-overwriting some of the advantages. Most notably, Magery/Magic is not allowed at character creation although it may be learnable after the proper quests; if you want an exotic advantage or disadvantage, such as increased DR, contact me with a rationale for it. Alchemy and a modified version of the 25 pt version of Gadgeteering where you can quick-gadget technology but based on non-gadgeteering modifiers.

I am probably going to do some editing to the skills, to keep things streamlined and to mimic the skills in Dwarf Fortress we've come to know and love. I.e. I may eventually merge smallsword, shortsword, and longsword into "Sword User" and have specific benefits such as the parry benefit of smallsword buyable for a small number of points. This would allow some degree of flexibility in character customization. On the other hand, I might not do this because the ability to default skills to other skills helps represent the ability for skill overlap between multiple weapon types (i.e. if you know the smallsword, learning the shortsword should be correspondingly easier). The only consolidations I'm seriously considering are consolidating [Applied Mathematics, Mechanics, Machinist, and Engineering(Clockwork)]->Mechanics, and [Brawling, Wrestling, Karate, Judo, Sumo, Boxing]->(Unarmed!), with Unarmed being able to buy perks/advantages to represent its assorted abilities (i.e. Judo Throw is a technique that defaults as Unarmed-Blah, etc). The only one of those I'm REALLY interested in calvinballing is the Unarmed one just because it would allow more flexibility (I.e. degree of improvised weapons allowed vs. martial art defense bonuses vs. damage bonuses...fear the Fanged Kobold Monk with Chomp-Fu!).

I'm also interested in allowing Modifiers on Skills to represent unique items like a Helm of Superior Swordsmanship, or to represent Necromantic Spells like Steal Skill. This is partially because I disapprove of the tree-progression system in GURPS Magic and believe that for point-balance it would probably be best to buy spells as Powers with the Magical Modifier.

Templates:
I miscalculated the cost of Martial Trance (I.e. treating the corresponding disadvantage as its own disadvantage that only activates when the advantage is on, rather than a limitor to the advantage) and am going to see if I can balance Strange Mood with it in order to keep base point cost fair. Otherwise, I may end up giving extra points to the nondwarfs to compensate. Additionally, I may drop strength for the Elf and Kobold (i.e. St 8 for a Sm-2 creature is a generous amount especially since weight is derived from St), and balance it out with more stuff. If this is an issue, feel free to PM me.

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The World of Destruction

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Emeseyece: An elf kingdom to the south of the New Empire, noted for its freezing temperatures and Elves savage even by Elven standards. They additionally have trained such creatures as Frostwolves and Yetis to assist them in protecting their homelands. Unlike other elves, these ones happily use what precious obsidian they can find from volcanic geysers.
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UPDATE:
A thread cannot exceed 40000 characters in length, so I deleted this chapter here. I may move the story to a different site when I get the opportunity. Sorry.

Istrian · « **Reply #1 on:** November 01, 2008, 06:39:51 pm »

I would be interested in joining, though you might wish to give a link to a character sheet and a summary of the rules you are using (i.e. cost of skills/equipment/etc...).

Also, how do you intend to coordinate the game ? Everyone joins an IRC channel at a fixed time and play for a few hours (which would be problematic when people live in different time zones) ?

MagicJuggler · « **Reply #2 on:** November 02, 2008, 08:30:24 pm »

Everyone Emails me a time they can play? I generally work best starting 6:00-9:00 weekends EST.

namad · « **Reply #3 on:** November 02, 2008, 09:10:44 pm »

i'd like to give playing a shot too
6-9 on sunday might be a decent time for me but i'm not sure 3hours a week would be enough would it? maybe?

i've got a lot of other available times but 6-9 on friday and saturday are probably bad for me

i'd prefer if instead of artist dwarves had talent in moonshining

actually the best times for me are probably afternoon/evening EST weekdays but i doubt that'd be good for anyone at all but me

Istrian · « **Reply #4 on:** November 03, 2008, 07:01:05 am »

I can be available on WE starting 13:00 (GMT+1) on Saturdays and 11:00 on Sundays.

Roundabout Lout · « **Reply #5 on:** November 03, 2008, 01:35:21 pm »

I can attempt to make myself available on the weekend during whatever time is agreed upon, I can't promise though. I'll be drafting up a dwarf just to be ready.

Spoggerific · « **Reply #6 on:** November 03, 2008, 02:33:56 pm »

I am interested and would gladly do this if I could find out more about the rules somewhere. A link is needed!

namad · « **Reply #7 on:** November 03, 2008, 02:42:04 pm »

the rulebook is nearly 600pages long
you can find torrents of .pdf's of the rulebook but we shouldn't provide links because it's illegal .. ask in irc or use google or use your favorite torrent searching method

GURPS is the name

http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/lite/ thats a link if you insist on having a link but i'd recommend getting a .pdf of the full rulebook (you won't actually have to read all 600pages of course)

Aqizzar · « **Reply #8 on:** November 03, 2008, 03:09:32 pm »

Just my luck. Finally an online DF GURPS game, and I can't distract myself until at least Thursday.

Reserving space, if allowable. _{Dwarf Assassin, perhaps? Yeah...}

Roundabout Lout · « **Reply #9 on:** November 03, 2008, 08:35:59 pm »

I've never heard of anything so cool as a dwarven assassin!

I only read GURPS lite, am I at a huge disadvantage? Or is it enough to let the GM handle things?

MagicJuggler · « **Reply #10 on:** November 04, 2008, 10:15:30 am »

It's not a *Huge* disadvantage as you're mainly missing out on a large amount of advantages and skills, but we can help you fill out your character idea.

What kind of Dorf do you wish to be?

Neonivek · « **Reply #11 on:** November 04, 2008, 11:55:00 am »

I think you should decrease the Dwarven Alcohol Dependency disadvantage... Not only are Dwarves capable of living years without water, it is their prefered choice of drink when nursing other dwarves back to health.

It should instead possibly cause an agility (or dexterity, whatever it is called in Gurps) decay after a long period of non-drinking (lets say 1-2 weeks)

MagicJuggler · « **Reply #12 on:** November 04, 2008, 12:00:10 pm »

I'm contemplating how to do it, but as alcohol already provides water input, its a moot point anyway. The agility/work penalties are covered by inverting the drunk table, so Dwarves are sober so long as they drink...

Roundabout Lout · « **Reply #13 on:** November 05, 2008, 01:08:55 pm »

Is there an agreed time? This dwarf with a troubled past wants kill a GCS.

MagicJuggler · « **Reply #14 on:** November 07, 2008, 09:31:26 pm »

Looks like Sunday at 7:00 EST.

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