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[Greenstarfanatic]

Today, I came up with 2 Roll to Dodge campaigns.
1) a normal DnDesque campaign, in which the players must travel a world in the aftermath of a apocalyptic war between some magical kingdoms. Also, the gods are being cast off from the heavens, Et cetera, Et cetera. BUT, the characters become hosts of the gods, and attempt to retrieve the shards of the artifact that was causing the gods to lose their power, and eventually have some battle that will decide the fate of all existence or something

OOH! THAT JUT GAVE ME AN IDEA FOR A KINGDOM HEARTS RTD! CAPSLOCK!

[Mr.Zero]

I generally believe that unless you totally design your own story line in that environment that it aint gonna work.

About that god idea, Count me in if you're going to make it..

[OREOSOME]

I generally believe that unless you totally design your own story line in that environmental then it aint gonna work.

About that god idea, Count me in if you're going to make it..

If and when I do that, I will add you in.

[ExKirby]

So I was looking over the boards and I had an idea. Having all of these threads is good and all, but I had the good(?) idea of making an archive. Basically, someone (most likely me) would scroll through the threads of important and interesting RTDs, take the turns from them and upload them to something. I'm thinking Wordpress for some reason. It would basically be a simple way of reading the cool games Bay12 have created without worrying about all the discussions etc. Is it a good idea?

[Greenstarfanatic]

Heck yeah!

[freeformschooler]

I see issues with compatibility. If you can find a good bbcode-to-html converter (haven't found a 100% working one for Bay12's tags), that would be AWESOME.

[ExKirby]

Or I could do it myself painstakingly. But I agree, BBCode to HTML would be an epic thing to have.

[freeformschooler]

If you wanted the full HTML, I suppose you could just go into the webpage source and grab it manually from there, proper tags and everything, but that's a pain in the butt, not to mention clumsy. Here's a generic BB-to-HTML converter:

http://www.bbcode-to-html.com/

It doesn't support glow, spoiler, teletype or code tags, though. Most other things seem to be working.

[IronyOwl]

Sometimes the discussions are a large part of the fun, though.

[Tarran]

And for RTDs that properly bold, and GMs that quote, chances are you won't miss anything no matter how much discussions there are unless you have some horrible inability to spot bolded text.

[Skyrunner]

I fear that my reputation is in shambles
I look behind me, and my trail is spotted with the broken cadavers of the games I dropped over a year of time. I don't have enough fingers to count them all. Every whisper of leaves in the wind makes me shiver as I feel the breath of the dead games misting upon me.

-> thus I'm a GM that drops games frequently. D: I need to do something about that. Gamedropper Sky. I don't even know why I keep doing that Dx

[Tiruin]

You may drop it, but you learn from it. That's the thing both player and GM gain.

Oh, and the fun and memories of course.

[freeformschooler]

Today, I came up with 2 Roll to Dodge campaigns.
1) a normal DnDesque campaign, in which the players must travel a world in the aftermath of a apocalyptic war between some magical kingdoms. Also, the gods are being cast off from the heavens, Et cetera, Et cetera. BUT, the characters become hosts of the gods, and attempt to retrieve the shards of the artifact that was causing the gods to lose their power, and eventually have some battle that will decide the fate of all existence or something

OOH! THAT JUT GAVE ME AN IDEA FOR A KINGDOM HEARTS RTD! CAPSLOCK!

I'd join that.

[Greenstarfanatic]

Today, I came up with 2 Roll to Dodge campaigns.
1) a normal DnDesque campaign, in which the players must travel a world in the aftermath of a apocalyptic war between some magical kingdoms. Also, the gods are being cast off from the heavens, Et cetera, Et cetera. BUT, the characters become hosts of the gods, and attempt to retrieve the shards of the artifact that was causing the gods to lose their power, and eventually have some battle that will decide the fate of all existence or something

OOH! THAT JUT GAVE ME AN IDEA FOR A KINGDOM HEARTS RTD! CAPSLOCK!

I'd join that.

Forgot to add that I probably wouldn't make it until BOTH of the RTDs that I'm currently putting off making a turn for are finished. That and a KoL RTD. I have so many ideas, but not enough willpower to make them happen. I'll maybe make write up the rules and stuff for the KoL one once the other turns are up and post it here. Then I should play the KH games. Maybe.

[Yoink]

So, it's occured to me that one of the main reasons all of my (decent) RTDs fail is due to me liking the settings too much.
Yes, I seem to just get bogged down in describing backstory, characters and suchlike, becoming more and more frustrated with my inability to write anything decent until I end up doing something else instead.

So, the other day I had a brainwave! (I was probably on the toilet. I do my best brain-motions whilst doing my best bowel-motions, too.) How about, I make an RTD in a really shitty setting that I dislike! It's a no-brainer! (Maybe not in a good way!)

Perhaps one of those blagh-tastic modern fantasy type settings, with derpy teenagers discovering their latent magical abilities and going on fantastic abilities? Or maybe one of those sorts of space operas that tend to cheese me off? Or just some generic, bland-as-you-like fantasy, David Eddings style!

Or I could even just let my players design their own settings, and roll a dice and cackle madly as they beat each other to death with rocks and TV remotes in a battle for Setting Supremacy...  What do you guys think?


_{Excuse this post's stupidity as I am kinda on a boredom high right now}