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[Darvi]

Roll to Flashback? Sounds like a solid idea to me.

[Tarran]

Maybe. Though it doesn't sound like an RTD.

[Digital Hellhound]

Sounds like an excellent Mini-RTD idea to me. I can already see my opening post...

'S'okay, so there I was, just mindin' my own business, when all of a sudden these goons bust in! No, no, I know what you're going to say, officer, I know I have a criminal record as long as your arm, but I swear I wasn't doing nothin'! The gun? How did it get into my hands? Well it was all very chaotic, and one of these guys dropped theirs on the floor, and I just, well, I took it in case I needed to defend myself. And that's when the police arrived. Eyewitnesses? What eyewitnesses? You of all people should know eyewitness statements are never trustworthy. So, are we done here?'

[IronyOwl]

That does sound pretty awesome.

Trouble is, I'm not clear on how the truth/lies thing would work. The whole thing has to be a lie so you didn't actually do it, but the truth so you're forced to work together.

Unless you mean the whole thing is "the truth" but spun to your convenience, ie "Yes I helped rob the bank but it was derm who blew everyone up, as noted by my fabulous [6] roll for that part, so you should let me go as I'm least guilty."

[Gatleos]

One way of putting it is that a "lie" retroactively warps reality in the story. Players try to shift blame onto each other by lying and refuting each others' lies, changing the story as it's being told. When suspicion is stacked against you or you add something inconsistent to the story, your "Cover" meter (like health, I guess), goes down. You "heal" by pinning the blame on others. The lies, like a stack of cards, get more complicated and harder to manage until they come crashing down on someone.

It's true about everyone being guilty in the end, though. The setting might have to be changed so that the act committed was done by one person and everyone's a suspect. And like Tarran said, it might just work better as a different type of game.

[Powder Miner]

Can I get someone to co-mod an RTD with me?

I tried to host it already (Palette RTD) but failed because I'm none too reliable when it comes to updates.

[Darvi]

I'm too busy at the moment.

[kisame12794]

Can I get someone to co-mod an RTD with me?

I tried to host it already (Palette RTD) but failed because I'm none too reliable when it comes to updates.

What would this entail?

[Superior_Tomato]

New idea I just came up with:

Roll to be a teddy bear (or any other stuffed animal).

You are the child's guardian, and must protect them from nightmares. General plot advancements would be the kid seeing new and horrible things to fuel their nightmares, and the kids growing up. I'm sure someone else can elaberate, different toys get different powers, and so on.

[lawastooshort]

New idea I just came up with:

Roll to be a teddy bear (or any other stuffed animal).

You are the child's guardian, and must protect them from nightmares. General plot advancements would be the kid seeing new and horrible things to fuel their nightmares, and the kids growing up. I'm sure someone else can elaberate, different toys get different powers, and so on.

Nice. I like it.

[Theifofdreams]

That's... actually pretty cool. Someone should do that.

[Gatleos]

When was the last time someone ran a good, old-fashioned... game of RtD? You know: no plot, no rules, and the story and setting are completely undetermined until a player says something. Like Sean Mirrsen once said:

"Think of it as a massive Schroedinger's Armory in the middle of Schroedinger City. The rolls (and the GM, to a lesser extent) run the gamut, there are no limits other than the ones you set for yourselves."

I love a RtD with a good plot and complicated and well-thought-out system, but I'd like to see a quick, dirty RtD with no plot (initially), no rules but the standard d6 and perhaps player inventory/abilities, and a universe that bends to the Rule of Funny. A purist's RtD, you could say. It's the kind of thing that dies out quickly if the GM isn't interested enough, I know, but I'd just like to see one again.

[Tarran]

Definitely not something I'd GM, and very likely something I'm not interested in anymore.

Anyway, if you want to see one again, you could start it yourself, because I seriously doubt that anyone else will do it because we appear to be in a shortage of idle GMs.

[kisame12794]

When was the last time someone ran a good, old-fashioned... game of RtD? You know: no plot, no rules, and the story and setting are completely undetermined until a player says something. Like Sean Mirrsen once said:

"Think of it as a massive Schroedinger's Armory in the middle of Schroedinger City. The rolls (and the GM, to a lesser extent) run the gamut, there are no limits other than the ones you set for yourselves."

I love a RtD with a good plot and complicated and well-thought-out system, but I'd like to see a quick, dirty RtD with no plot (initially), no rules but the standard d6 and perhaps player inventory/abilities, and a universe that bends to the Rule of Funny. A purist's RtD, you could say. It's the kind of thing that dies out quickly if the GM isn't interested enough, I know, but I'd just like to see one again.

I have just the Rtd for you. Netland VII: Subversion of Innocence. It's run by a guy called Schilcote, and it is really silly. Not too many rules, no complex rolls. We have our own version of Derm, flooding Cyrodill with !!Magma!!. We also have real Derm, or at least NPC Derm.

[Dermonster]

My presence is now a bragging point. My climb to fame has only just begun!

Also Netland is a bit... ah... well, it's run by Schilcote.