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[tomas1297]

 Lacking ideas for the RTD I suggested earlier. Need different setting.
 Ideas:

 1. Grimdark magitech. For long, magic was a dark force that belonged to the demons. However, the greedy humans managed to steal it. Not much was known about the dark forces of magic. When it was unleashed upon the prime plane, it spread across the world, twisting living beings into deformed abominations. Mana - a liquid with magical properties, became the reason for many bloody wars and conflicts. The pure humans and magicians became an oppressive higher class, abusing and enslaving mutants.

 2. Post apocalyptic setting in a somewhat new light. Wars between countries lead to the invention of a perfect weapon - a bomb that is capable of destroying organic life forms without harming mineral or synthetic matter. Many of those were manufactured, but due to an information leak, some groups were prepared. Most of humanity was wiped out, but some people survived. Even though they have the resources to rebuild civilization, the political crisis gave birth to many hostile factions. Will the remaining survivors rebuild humanity or bring the complete end of mankind through infighting?

 3. Your idea. I will not take any overused ideas (high fantasy, WWII, zombies) except if they have an interesting twist and I will not make an RTD based on a game, movie, whatever I haven't tried (if you want one, just spam ideas, I'll probably know at least one of them).

[Draignean]

 2. Post apocalyptic setting in a somewhat new light. Wars between countries lead to the invention of a perfect weapon - a bomb that is capable of destroying organic life forms without harming mineral or synthetic matter. Many of those were manufactured, but due to an information leak, some groups were prepared. Most of humanity was wiped out, but some people survived. Even though they have the resources to rebuild civilization, the political crisis gave birth to many hostile factions. Will the remaining survivors rebuild humanity or bring the complete end of mankind through infighting?

We already have that.

[tomas1297]

 2. Post apocalyptic setting in a somewhat new light. Wars between countries lead to the invention of a perfect weapon - a bomb that is capable of destroying organic life forms without harming mineral or synthetic matter. Many of those were manufactured, but due to an information leak, some groups were prepared. Most of humanity was wiped out, but some people survived. Even though they have the resources to rebuild civilization, the political crisis gave birth to many hostile factions. Will the remaining survivors rebuild humanity or bring the complete end of mankind through infighting?

We already have that.

 Except this one isn't radioactive.

[Draignean]

 2. Post apocalyptic setting in a somewhat new light. Wars between countries lead to the invention of a perfect weapon - a bomb that is capable of destroying organic life forms without harming mineral or synthetic matter. Many of those were manufactured, but due to an information leak, some groups were prepared. Most of humanity was wiped out, but some people survived. Even though they have the resources to rebuild civilization, the political crisis gave birth to many hostile factions. Will the remaining survivors rebuild humanity or bring the complete end of mankind through infighting?

We already have that.

 Except this one isn't radioactive.

 2. Post apocalyptic setting in a somewhat new light. Wars between countries lead to the invention of a perfect weapon - a bomb that is capable of destroying organic life forms without harming mineral or synthetic matter. Many of those were manufactured, but due to an information leak, some groups were prepared. Most of humanity was wiped out, but some people survived. Even though they have the resources to rebuild civilization, the political crisis gave birth to many hostile factions. Will the remaining survivors rebuild humanity or bring the complete end of mankind through infighting?

We already have that.

 Except this one isn't radioactive.

Biological Warhead?

That could be pretty fun actually...

[Taricus]

Okay, I've a couple of Ideas for some RtDs

1: Overlord RtD: Sign up as a minion, Pillage, loot, burn, murder and drink your way following the master/Overlord

2: Modern near-future sci-fi: Taking the storyline from days of tension and putting it into an RtD. This would cover the entire WW3, from the initial assault on the US to the final battles in China. Players would be the conquerers and difficulty is measured by how much experience that the rest of the world has in combating the wave of Australian dominion. Or they could sign up in most other nations military and try and hold them off (Or get assimilated)

3: Fantasy WW2 RtD: German orcs, Soviet dwarves, Italian halflings, Commonwealth elves, Japanese Tengus ans Human americans.

[KaguroDraven]

Okay, I've a couple of Ideas for some RtDs

1: Overlord RtD: Sign up as a minion, Pillage, loot, burn, murder and drink your way following the master/Overlord

Yes.Yes.Yes.Yes.
I so call being a Green.

[Taricus]

Sorry, I forgot idea No.4

4: Z RtD: ROBOT WAR. Tanks, lasers, crocodiles that eat robots.

[adwarf]

Well I thought I would let you guys know that I have decided to start a making quite a few RTDs here they are. (Just rulesets not games for them that is)

Current Projects
Infamous RTD
Halo RTD
Warhammer Fantasy RTD
Gears of War RTD
Dead Space RTD

Completed
ARM RTD (Mech Warrior)
Assassin's Creed RTD
Oblivion RTD
Roll to be a Merc
Disgaea RTD
FMA RTD

Yet to be Started
Operation Darkness RTD
Final Fantasy RTD
Lord of the Rings RTD
Advance Wars RTD

Well thats all so far I still add some every now,a dn then, but I haven't had nay ideas lately besides those.

[IronyOwl]

Okay, I've a couple of Ideas for some RtDs

1: Overlord RtD: Sign up as a minion, Pillage, loot, burn, murder and drink your way following the master/Overlord

Yes.Yes.Yes.Yes.

@adwarf: Damn it man, pace yourself. You shouldn't just make a new RTD every time you see or remember something awesome.

[Dermonster]

He's just making rulesets for fun, I think.

[IronyOwl]

I hope so, but he's got at least four currently running.

[Tarran]

Off-topic, but Irony, are you gonna start your RTD soon? Or are you taking a prolonged break?

Anyway, speaking of making rulesets, I have a lot of partially-finished RTDs I made before The Westlands that are just rotting at the deep ends of my "Stuff" folder. If anyone wants some rulesets/stories and wants to see what I've got, or wants to rip pieces off of them, just say so and I'll post the rulesets. And afterwards, if you really keep at it, you may also be able to convince me to start the RTD if you're not in the mood to start it yourself.

List of RTDs rotting:
Simple future-end-of-the-world-from-alien-bastards-run-away type RTD. Pretty much in working condition, though there's no information on combat (though it was likely made on very simple 1d6+-modifiers combat).

Complex Medieval RTD. Somewhat similar to The Westlands, though I didn't use it instead. Pretty much ready to go. May be useful for ideas.

Simple Medieval single-dungeon-crawling RTD ("Dungeon Crawling Fun"). Pretty much in working condition, though there's no information on combat (though it was likely made on very simple 1d6+-modifiers combat).

Some future-colony-type RTD. Just story and a tiny bit of the state of the colony. Has ASCIIDraw image of colony.

Simple Medieval RTD. Very little made for it.

Some RTD based in the USDF Spaceship RTD. Slightly modified history from USDF, human groups made, not ready to run because it has literally no rules. May be useful for ideas.

And finally a complex futuristic special-forces RTD with possibly deadly wounds along with a minor block-o-text for combat and stuffs. Pretty much ready to go as far as I can tell, though it's missing an actual story so far.

[Talarion]

Okay, I've a couple of Ideas for some RtDs

1: Overlord RtD: Sign up as a minion, Pillage, loot, burn, murder and drink your way following the master/Overlord

2: Modern near-future sci-fi: Taking the storyline from days of tension and putting it into an RtD. This would cover the entire WW3, from the initial assault on the US to the final battles in China. Players would be the conquerers and difficulty is measured by how much experience that the rest of the world has in combating the wave of Australian dominion. Or they could sign up in most other nations military and try and hold them off (Or get assimilated)

3: Fantasy WW2 RtD: German orcs, Soviet dwarves, Italian halflings, Commonwealth elves, Japanese Tengus ans Human americans.

I like all of these. *Thumbs up*

[IronyOwl]

Off-topic, but Irony, are you gonna start your RTD soon? Or are you taking a prolonged break?

Prolonged break. It's not intentional, so much as I can't quite figure out how to make SM2 work how I want it to, and don't want to rush it. It's theoretically under construction, but there's no telling how long it'll be until I figure out how everything should work.

I guess I might as well describe what's wrong, and that'll either generate useful feedback or just assure you that it's not stuck on "but that would require effort" or something depressing.

Spoiler: Spells and Specializations (click to show/hide)

So, to start with, I like the old system of "I'm a necromancer, therefore I do Necromancery things even though I've never done them before and have no training in them." That said, there's two things I'd like to account for.

Specializations: Basically, imagine two different Necromancers, one who usually raises undead and one who usually spams lifedrains. I'd like the mechanics to support this distinction in some way- I'd rather they not be equally adept at using each others' specialties.

To some extent, my intention to be more liberal with special abilities will cover this, since at some point it's likely the skelly necro will pick up "undead minions gain +1 to attack rolls" and the vamp necro will get "+1 to life draining spells," but I'd rather it not be exclusive to that. The concept of spells might do the job also, but I don't fully know how those will work so I can't say.

Simply put, skill level and school type differentiates between a novice fire mage and a master, or a necromancer and a healer. I'd like to also differentiate between a healer and a buffbot, or a wind blade mage and a wind buffet mage, but I'm not entirely sure how.


Spells: I'd like players to be able to learn spells. I'm not entirely sure what they should do, however.

Ideally, I'd like them to be precious objects- players could theoretically develop them on their own, but finding them on scrolls or being taught them by a master could be as useful or better than a new piece of equipment. As mentioned, however, I'd like anyone with the proper skill and/or luck to be able to do anything, so they'd likely give a bonus on the casting roll or give an increased effect, rather than allowing the effect in the first place.

It's also occurred to me that they could take the place of specializations- the difference between two necromancers or priests or fire mages could be what spells they know, and thus how good they are at their chosen field. I don't know that I like this approach because it's rather specialized, however- a curse necromancer is only better than a minion-heavy one as far as his current spells are concerned; when casting anything else, they're on even footing.

I'm also entirely uncertain how different levels of spells would work with spells known.

So, there's that.

[SeriousConcentrate]

Hmm. You could try Sean Mirrsen's progressive RTD system and do something like this:

Say I'm creating the vamp necro and Tarran's making the summon necro. We are both allowed two skills related to necromancy, and I choose Health Drain and Mana Drain. Tarran picks Summon Ghost and Summon Skeleton. Since it's been established that all four of these are necromancy skills, I get the two I picked at [6] and the two I didn't at [3]. So I can still do those things, but not nearly as well as Tarran, and he can do the things I picked in a similar manner.  It would take some work to keep up with though, because if say Talarion joined and picked Raise Dead and Summon Mummy as his skills, Tarran and I would get both those skills at [3] as soon as he made them - they're necromancy, after all - while he would get all four of our picks at [3] as well.

You could also make requirements like 'if you start as a fire mage and want to learn water magic, then when you successfully learn water magic you only get one skill at [3] instead of all the established skills and have to study the others since they're not your main area, while you'll still get the fire skills since that IS your area of expertise.' I dunno, I'm just rambling. It's a thought but I'm not sure if it's good for what you want. ^^;