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[IronyOwl]

I don't even understand how this devolved this quickly. Nivm may have been right about attention spans.


Yes, I was planning/thinking of doing Endless RTD in Power Rangers style. Three people said YES DO THAT, then someone said WAIT WE NEED A UNIFIED SYSTEM, then everyone got confused somehow. This somehow resulted in Gatleos being volunteered for starting it using a universe-shunting A-Team instead.

I don't even.


Anyway, I still prefer Power Rangers to time-traveling mercs. I suppose either is pretty flexible, but I think Power Rangers has an extra level of "Because rangers work that way" for padding, which I like.


For combat, I generally go with attacker d6 - defender d6 = damage. That makes two rolls per combatant, but it's usually not too onerous, and lets you give bonuses to attack or defense separately. For a one-combat ranged roll, you could just ignore results where the defender wins, though that'd probably require ranged combat to be significantly weaker to compensate for the inability to lose while using it.


Finally, I'm also willing to be the index. I don't think there's any particular reason for a third party for that, since they'd presumably be less interested in it than a current/former GM/player.

[Superior_Tomato]

Ok, so I'm back. I require your help and would be grateful for any input you give me.

The main issue is this:
The basic setup has very little customisation, you pick your species and a name and go. So I have decided to add some more customization into the mix. The rough idea was you have a personal talent and a bloodline talent. Personal talents are, well, personal, meaning you happen to have them as a fluke of nature. They may vary from physical to physchic, meaning that a certain creature in a family may be psychic but not the whole family. Bloodline talents are inherited, and if you found any relations of yours they would likely have them.

I'm leaning towards Personal talents being free for the player to make up, and there being a set of Bloodline talents available. Tell me what you think.

[SeriousConcentrate]

@Irony: Frankly I prefer MMPR as well simply because it hasn't been done before. And I'm nostalgic that way. ^^^
@Tomato: That's a good idea, but you want to make sure Personal talents aren't overly powerful. Bloodline can be a little more so since there's nothing to stop multiple players from having them, which means it'll balance itself out, but the bulk of the abilities should probably come from the creature itself. That's my opinion, anyway.

[Gatleos]

Aw man, I already had an insane story involving Hitler written up.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The year is 84 of the fifth age, and the world is at peace. Man, Elf, and Dwarfkind alike live in harmony, and an industrious age of enlightenment has begun. After the Great Cleansing of the goblin menace 85 years ago, the world of Nalir Kalem entered a cultural and technological renaissance that has lasted to this day. Great steel railroads span the continent, black powder muskets have been perfected, and mass production of goods via automated factories has revolutionized the world market.

That all came to an end on the 17th of Midlas, 84.

On that fateful morning, the citizens of Meldania City emerged from their homes to find the city overshadowed by a great floating island. War machines the likes of which had never been seen flooded forth from the hovering monolith in the sky, and the city was overrun and subjugated in five short hours. Their leader, a tyrant calling himself Adolf Hitler, soon confronted the United Factions Council at their headquarters in Meldania City and laid out his demands. That was the day that the Republic of Meldania was usurped by a false ruler and became the Nazi Empire.

It is now the year 126 of the fifth age. These past few decades, the Nazi Empire has spread over the land and obliterated all resistance. Their alien technology is far superior to ours, and it did not take them long to overpower all who were brave enough to fight against them. Their leader, Adolf Hitler, rules with an iron fist from his floating citadel above New Berlin, formerly Meldania City. What little resistance remains operates in secret, constantly on the run from the Nazi Empire's seemingly omnipresent storm troopers.

But not all hope is lost. A five-member crack commando squad, armed to the teeth and possessing a lifetime of combat and field training, has been dispatched on a suicide mission to the heart of the alien tyrant's hovering fortress, to gather intelligence and hopefully discover the means by which they entered our world.

You are a member of that squad.

Can't say I don't agree with the Power Rangers premise having an extra layer of "absurdity insurance", though. Whaddaya think?

[lawastooshort]

Aw man, I already had an insane story involving Hitler written up.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The year is 84 of the fifth age, and the world is at peace. Man, Elf, and Dwarfkind alike live in harmony, and an industrious age of enlightenment has begun. After the Great Cleansing of the goblin menace 85 years ago, the world of Nalir Kalem entered a cultural and technological renaissance that has lasted to this day. Great steel railroads span the continent, black powder muskets have been perfected, and mass production of goods via automated factories has revolutionized the world market.

That all came to an end on the 17th of Midlas, 84.

On that fateful morning, the citizens of Meldania City emerged from their homes to find the city overshadowed by a great floating island. War machines the likes of which had never been seen flooded forth from the hovering monolith in the sky, and the city was overrun and subjugated in five short hours. Their leader, a tyrant calling himself Adolf Hitler, soon confronted the United Factions Council at their headquarters in Meldania City and laid out his demands. That was the day that the Republic of Meldania was usurped by a false ruler and became the Nazi Empire.

It is now the year 126 of the fifth age. These past few decades, the Nazi Empire has spread over the land and obliterated all resistance. Their alien technology is far superior to ours, and it did not take them long to overpower all who were brave enough to fight against them. Their leader, Adolf Hitler, rules with an iron fist from his floating citadel above New Berlin, formerly Meldania City. What little resistance remains operates in secret, constantly on the run from the Nazi Empire's seemingly omnipresent storm troopers.

But not all hope is lost. A five-member crack commando squad, armed to the teeth and possessing a lifetime of combat and field training, has been dispatched on a suicide mission to the heart of the alien tyrant's hovering fortress, to gather intelligence and hopefully discover the means by which they entered our world.

You are a member of that squad.

Can't say I don't agree with the Power Rangers premise having an extra layer of "absurdity insurance", though. Whaddaya think?

Ooooh.

[IronyOwl]

I have to admit, that story is beautiful.

I'm not entirely sure where it'd go from there, though.

[Gatleos]

I'm not entirely sure where it'd go from there, though.

That's the point. They find a trans-dimensional portal inside and proceed to have wacky antics in alternate dimensions while chasing Hitler. It could go anywhere with that premise.

[Bdthemag]

I'm not entirely sure where it'd go from there, though.

That's the point. They find a trans-dimensional portal inside and proceed to have wacky antics in alternate dimensions while chasing Hitler. It could go anywhere with that premise.

Two words.

Steampunk Hitler.

[Digital Hellhound]

The Power Rangers idea would be pretty inaccessible for people not familiar with the show. I'm all for a generic superpowered team, though, but we shouldn't set this RTD in an existing setting. Gotta say I like time-travelling/dimension-hopping Hitler more, but maybe the two could be combined? Superpowered team chasing Hitler through time and space?

[micelus]

Hitler...Steampunk...Alternate Universes...Portals...DO IT!!!

[Yoink]

Well yeah, I was more just excited about the general premise, you know, team of heroes in bright costumes running around kicking butt in over-the-top, cheesy fight scenes? I haven't watched the show in years, so I wouldn't really know much about the setting anyway.

[SeriousConcentrate]

Agreed with Yoink (and although I don't want to speak for him, I think Derm would agree too) that basically it'd be just a sentai team as opposed to the actual rangers. ^^^

[micelus]

Meh...not really a fan of sentai or rangers...Have fun though.

[Gatleos]

Remember, if we went with my setting I would only be controlling the first part of the story. You could Sentai it up all you wanted after that.

So. A few things. Should we have a separate discussion thread? That might be a good idea for a project of this size. Who the hell is starting the thread and indexing the turns? Which system are we using? I'd go with Irony's.

[Dermonster]

Gat, I suppose you can start it up.

Super-Sentai-AntiHitler-Time-Force GO!