I'm not here to do anything revolutionary, this is simply exactly what it is, an RTD.
The basic premise is this, you are a four man group of persons who travel the multiverse and solve various problems as you find them. This essentially means that you will play a series of mini-adventures with their own separate plots and objectives, versus one, grand quest or storyline. You will be given a limited amount of terms to solve each problem, usually around 5, though longer in some cases. All items and skills from previous worlds are kept, so use that to your advantage, especially in the case where you can't solve a certain problem on one world. You get bonuses for success with missions, but this may not always be possible.
The dice in this RTD are slightly different, due to the simplicity of the rules, I am reducing the die used from 6 to 4 sided, so only four sorts of results can occur:
4=Super Success, Goal achieved and something more.
3=Success, Goal achieved.
2=Failure, Goal failed.
1=Epic Failure, Goal failed, damage done to you or your ability to complete objective.
I'm reducing it to this because the 1-6 system didn't work to well for me last time, as I found it hard to quantify the 3 and 4 values a result.
All characters are to be made in the following format:
Name:
Bio:(Optional)
Skills:(2 things, anything mundane such as climbing or dancing, try to be varied here since I will throw a wide range of missions at you, plan these out carefully.)
Power:(1 only, something extraordinary or supernatural that the character can do. These you will need to run by me for approval, since I don't want uberpowers breaking the game.
You can train more skills over time by performing them and passing skill up checks, if you survive long enough to qualify for them. Additional powers are a special case I will have to judge.
And finally, BE PREPARED TO DIE, I AM NOT GOING EASY ON ANYBODY.
I'm going with 4 to begin with, as the rules stated, and I will take waiters for characters will be hard pressed to stay alive.
Players:1-
Name: Frederick VII
Bio: He was an orphan. He grew up in an orphanage, where he learned how to get along with others. He was schooled in public schools. He hates to see others suffer needlessly.
Skills: Diplomacy and Haggling
Power: Can I get mind reading?
2-
Name: UG (unpronounceable gibberish)
Bio: Imagine a bat, with a body about knee high and walks on its hands/wings causing it to be aobut human high. THATS ME.
Skills: Stabbing things with my wrist stabby things, eloquently speaking.
Power:Flying
3-
Name: Zeek Nagl Knipper Dibl Glim
Bio: ex special force soldier of the Gnomen empire. very short even for a gnome.
master of infiltration and assasination.
Skills: sneaking and acrobatics
Power: pressure point attack to stun enemys
4-
Name: John "Jericho" Orion
Bio: Born in a slum, his father abandoning his mother after his birth, berated through his entire childhood, and watching his mother burned to death at 15, John went into a psychotic break-down and went on a murder spree. By the time he was caught, he had managed to murder more that half of the city's population. After he was committed to death, he was put into a secret government experimentation, expecting to die from the prototype testing. Problem is, he didn't.
Skills: Close quarter combat, Fire arms
Power: Because of government experimentation, John has the ability to shape-shift.
1-
put me on the waiting list
Name: Bozo
Bio: he's an undead clown
Skills: he's great at scaring people. he can ride a monocycle, and often does
Power: as an undead, he no longer requires many of the bodily functions living clowns require, so he's exeptionally hard to kill
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