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[Caellath]

Okay, maybe I'll take that idea.

But .... how? D:
That's always the largest question.

IronyOwl's magic system may be a good one to be used if he accepts it being used, since it is always prone to cause death and funny consequences.

As for setting a fantasy-medieval one, a Crazy Wizard with a Tower, Mansion or Anything Large and Magical Where A Wizard May Hide to house the sociopathic magic-user and by consequence, the player characters. There should also be nearby cities, towns or villages for grocery shopping. And most adventures could be had inside hammerspace rooms inside the Wizard's habitation itself.

If I failed to understand your question and answer it properly, ignore this.

[Skyrunner]

No, it's what I wanted

Hrm... I'm not sure if I should or should not :\

[Caellath]

No, it's what I wanted

Hrm... I'm not sure if I should or should not :\

If enough people happened to find the idea interesting, we could always poke IronyOwl.

Or not. I just thought he could find the idea interesting, since it spells "disaster" for the players with magic shenanigans.

What? Are you accusing me of insinuating IronyOwl is a sadistic GM? I am throughly offended.

[Spinal_Taper]

I had an idea for an RTD. It's almost done, just want some constructive criticism.
World:

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The gods exist. From every pantheon, they are not omnipotent, but they do exist, they are massively powerful spirits. One mortal has exceeded even them, his name is Nebuzharaz. This man has defeated the gods, and locked them into his arena, where they battle at his whims. Some of the gods have sent part of their power to the mortals on Earth. Interlocked with the Gods themselves, they are the new Demigods, meant for greatness or a quick death.

HP, PP and Faith

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Health (HP): I think one could guess how this works. It's drained by usual spells and hitting people physically. It's also effected by elemental advantages.

For Example:

Apollos Servant casts Sunbeam!

The Shadow takes 6 damage (3x2)

It collapses into a heap of ashes.

Psyche Points (PP): This attribute is decreased by mental attacks, used by gods such as Dionysus or Tyr. When they reach zero, the target loses their mind to the effects of the spell cast.

For Example:

Avatar of Tyr casts Beserk!

Mook takes 5 Psyche damage (5-5)

Mook is taken into a mindless rage!

Faith: This is what gives the gods their powers, it increases through impressing people or getting them to worship you. The issue with you gaining too much of it is that it attracts the minions of Nebuzharaz. It's essentially mana.

For Example:

Lil' Zeus lights an incandescent bulb by holding it. (4)

People are impressed. (+1 faith)

Attributes

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Strength: Matters with physical gods, such as Thor or Athena, who wield weapons. It increases the damage output.

Dexterity: Matters with all gods, but mostly physical, as it influences to-hit rolls and fine motor control.

Agility: Matters with all gods, it influences dodging.

Wisdom: Matters with all gods, but more so to Mage type gods such as Zeus or Hel. It helps one resist mental attacks, and gives a to hit bonus with magic.

Intelligence: Matters with Mage type gods, it increases the effect of your Faith and power of ranged abilities.

Nemesi and Contacts:

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(Thanks for the idea Irony.)

Depending on the god you draw your power from, different figures that opposed them may approach you and either attack or assist you.

For Example

Thor's Warrior sees a frost covered hill on the horizon. It's walking through the water unfortunately.

The hill expands into the air and roars.

Thor's Warrior realizes that it's not a hill. It's a frost giant.


An example of a contact:

Thor's Warrior strides confidently through the mountains underbrush.

He hears voices and the clang of hammers on anvils in a cave.

"Is e' back?" "No, ya idiot, they were all beaten."

He saw inside a collection of Dwarves.

"It is him! "Thor's back everyone!"

They agree to assist him, giving him a less powerful form of Mjonnlir and sending one of their warriors with him.

Other:

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Morale: It increases and decreases over the course of the story and the course of battles. This is a very important statistic, it gives bonuses or penalties to most stats.

For Example:

Artemis' Maiden throws a rock into the water.

Oceanus has awakened, startling the young demigod.

Artemis' Maiden screams.

In this example, her morale has become scared. It penalizes attacking and defending and gives bonuses to running away.

A More Positive Example:

Hel's Angel spies a graveyard on the horizon.

She smiles.

In this example, the graveyard reassured her, making her calm. This gives her a to-hit, dodging and blocking bonus.

Also, I would appreciate it if someone would watch the thread, if I ran it, and criticized it.

Criticize me, give me ideas, whatever.

[Scelly9]

Where is the RTD IRC located?

[Caellath]

Where is the RTD IRC located?

Found it after sticking my head into the nearest toilet and calling for it.

freenode l #bay12rtd

[freeformschooler]

Where is the RTD IRC located?

Found it after sticking my head into the nearest toilet and calling for it.

The best part is this sentence makes sense if you're a #B12RTD-er.

[IronyOwl]

I've just had a crazy idea. Not even sure what it'd be called.

Basically, you take one GM, preferably of the ADD sort, and have him make a game.

Then, when he gets tired of it or comes up with a new idea, he just shifts the current characters into the new setup, transferring or translating all their current skills, items, abilities, and so on into the new game.


Ideally, this would result in an extraordinarily silly, utterly fascinating game or series of games, since you might have a character that starts off as a bronze age vampire hunter, transitions into a railroad tycoon, serves a stint as a power-armored space marine, fights Nazis as a supernatural cowboy, and is currently attempting to master the Power of Friendship in order to activate his magic ring and save the world, hopefully hanging on to a few items, skills, or other goodies from each incarnation. Somewhere between Multiworld Madness, what Endless RTD was supposed to be before it became another of Gatleos' Masterpieces, and a very, very, very anachronistic series of mini-games.

As for what the in-game explanation for all this would be, I have no idea, though at the point where a power-armored cowboy is using financial calculations to bring down a cyber-Nazi I'm not sure how much of an issue this really is. Maybe they could be Sliders, randomly or intentionally shifting between dimensions for poorly defined reasons, or maybe someone just let the chaos god out of his box and now the entire universe shifts at random every now and then.

[lawastooshort]

in-game explanation

Some kind of out of control time-space continuum disrupting artifact that the PCs own or are looking for or something. Nice idea, incidentally.

[Tarran]

Well, that sounds both good and bad at the same time.

On one hand, you won't have to worry about getting tired from the universe. And it's always something new.

On the other, you might not want to spend time tediously transferring stuff to the new setup. And players might get too disoriented or they might utterly hate the new universe. For example, if the previous universe was space marines and it transferred to steam punk, I would lose my want to play because I'm just not interested in steam punk.

It seems like the negatives make it so only a small amount of flexible players that will play anything at any time will be able to play without problems.

[IronyOwl]

It seems like the negatives make it so only a small amount of flexible players that will play anything at any time will be able to play without problems.

True, though I'm guessing there'd be more overlap than you'd think. If the same GM that made X decides to do Y, it makes sense that the players of X would be more likely to also like Y as well. In some cases having a character they like and/or the hope of something better down the line might push it over the edge as well.

The transfer stuff probably wouldn't be tedious, as such, since in most cases it'd be more an issue of translation than just copying things over. That can be its own kinds of problems, but I'd assume it'd be more "difficult" or "daunting" than tedious. And "stupidly useless and/or overpowered" in some cases, but that's always one of the main issues with mixing genres.

[Tarran]

True, though I'm guessing there'd be more overlap than you'd think. If the same GM that made X decides to do Y, it makes sense that the players of X would be more likely to also like Y as well. In some cases having a character they like and/or the hope of something better down the line might push it over the edge as well.

Though you have to consider that the players don't know how long the phase will last. It's like watching a movie that you don't like with no idea how long it will last. At some point, each player is going to reach his/her limits on how long it's taking versus how good it could be and decide they're not interested anymore.

Anyway, that's besides the point. Just because they're going to continue playing in hopes of it getting better doesn't mean they're not playing without problems. Chances are they'll still upset about the change, no matter how much better it could be. You cannot simply remove the negative emotion with a positive, you can only blanket it temporarily. You have to remove the negative emotion directly.

[Digital Hellhound]

what Endless RTD was supposed to be before it became another of Gatleos' Masterpieces, and a very, very, very anachronistic series of mini-games.

Hey now, I still have perfect faith that Gat is going to finish his episode at some point and allow me to take the reins and promptly retcon everything he's done.

[IronyOwl]

Though you have to consider that the players don't know how long the phase will last. It's like watching a movie that you don't like with no idea how long it will last. At some point, each player is going to reach his/her limits on how long it's taking versus how good it could be and decide they're not interested anymore.

Anyway, that's besides the point. Just because they're going to continue playing in hopes of it getting better doesn't mean they're not playing without problems. Chances are they'll still upset about the change, no matter how much better it could be. You cannot simply remove the negative emotion with a positive, you can only blanket it temporarily. You have to remove the negative emotion directly.

There's a lot of middle ground between loving something and wanting it to continue forever and hating it and wishing it would end. Not everyone who signs up for a steampunk adventure is going to be alright with building a scifi theme park, but a fair number of people who wouldn't bother to sign up for a scifi theme park will keep playing and enjoying themselves so long as they're already there and using a character they like.

The number of people who are going to burn out immediately, or hang on but be horribly grouchy about it, probably wouldn't be that great. The number who would slowly lose interest or enjoyment might be a bit higher, but I wouldn't think that'd be too bad either.

[Caellath]

I would play IronyOwl's Setting-Changing game up to the point he considered or tried to make every player character wear frilly dresses. Then I would quit.