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[Tarran]

Personally, the sky-island idea always seems really weird to me (in a kind of bad way). But the alignment system is interesting, and the gods-versus-notquitegods idea is certainly more unique than what I usually see (gods-versus-gods/demons).

[lawastooshort]

Spoiler: Sorry (click to show/hide)

First, great big huge apologies to my current players that I didn't use this spare half hour to knock up a quick turn. I should have done but didn't.

An Evening With Accidental Yoghurt

The room swirls.

The accordion stops.

You take a minute to breath.

That was amazing, and you know you were right to come. You know you have to ask.

"That one, uh," mumbles Ellery Braithwaite, putting his accordion down, "That one's inspired by the lost explorers of Northern Canada, but it's mostly about love and depression. I guess it's kinda punk-folk. I guess quite a lot of our songs are about love at the moment. Love and accordions."

"Yeah," agrees Pembroke, stepping out from behind the drums and strapping on a shining wooden bouzouki as he speaks into a mic. "And this is one I've been working on since I was in Bulgaria, Ellery's added in this pretty serious shit about love and poverty... It really speaks to me when I'm playing, man... It's called Recalcitrant Heathen."

He starts singing a serious, mournful lyric about the Irish Famine, and between your flushes of musical pleasure you can just about concentrate enough to make out the deeply layered subtext about the global economy... about intimacy... about loss...

You look around. The room's packed. There's over a dozen people here, all of them as hard into folk as you. You've never seen the Dog buzz with such musical intensity, never seen such excitement here before. It's definitely something special. Every head nods in time to every beat from Ellery Braithwaites's tambourine.

You feel yourself getting lost.

You don't really notice the band finishing off, packing up, heading to the grubby bar at the back of the room. You don't really notice yourself walking over to them, entranced by what you've just heard. Suddenly you're speaking to them. Accidental Yoghurt. The most progressive folk act in the Black Country.

"So... uh... you looking for anyone to play with you a bit?"

"Yeah sure," says Pembroke, putting down his pint of bitter and wiping a little of it from his workmanlike beard. "We're always looking for collaborations, man. Keeps it fresh and stuff... What you working on at the moment? What do you play? You wanna come down to our band practice Tuesday night?"

You try not to soil yourself with excitement.

ROLL TO BE A FOLK STAR

This is a sample character application which also gives a little insight into one of the band's founding members:

Spoiler: Who are you? (click to show/hide)

With a background in academia, Ellery Braithwaite brings a literary yet distinctly modern approach to his musical process and lists Bowie and early twentieth century Scottish folk music among his greatest influences. He has travelled and studied extensively with the Nivkh in Siberia.

Spoiler: What are you working on? (click to show/hide)

Current project is Defecation Cowboy, a 19 minute folk trilogy by voice, harp, and bassoon.

Spoiler: What do you play? (click to show/hide)

Mostly tambourine and bassoon – he's really a lyricist kind of guy. Dabbles in acoustic guitar though, of course, and is learning the mandolin. Grade Three accordion too.

Spoiler: What? (click to show/hide)

It's too late for me to get into mechanics and whatnot, but this is your yearned-for chance to explore your musical creativity, your lust for folk, your lyrical genius.

Just describe who you are, musically, what collabrative project you could bring to the band and what instruments you play, and we'll jam with you on Tuesday night* and see where it goes from there.

*and by Tuesday night I mean once my other RtDs are finished.

[choobakka]

The d12 is a sexy, sexy die. Dem pentagons...

[freeformschooler]

I want to run a quick, generic fantasy RTD with no rules beyond the Gatleos/lawastooshort wound/ability system. I'm not sure I have the time, though. Most of my other attempts at stuff like this have been bogged down by maps/illustrations and management.

[Tsuchigumo550]

I never do illustrations, despite the fact I can (it takes a lot of time, though.)

[lawastooshort]

What about a game where players have some kind of save/reload function?

i.e. things go horribly wrong and so you can (a limited amount of lives or something) revert to how it was a turn ago?

It only occurred to me because I was thinking about Roll to Look After Baby, and every possible action I thought of ended up with the house burning down.

Spoiler: Also (click to show/hide)

Oh well

[Greenstarfanatic]

What about a game where players have some kind of save/reload function?

i.e. things go horribly wrong and so you can (a limited amount of lives or something) revert to how it was a turn ago?

It only occurred to me because I was thinking about Roll to Look After Baby, and every possible action I thought of ended up with the house burning down.

Spoiler: Also (click to show/hide)

Oh well

Kinda like savestates when you're playing an emulated game? Likely Super Mario World or one of its many ROMhacks?

[ExKirby]

Or TIME TRAVEL!

[lawastooshort]

I don't know, hadn't really thought about it enough. I guess normally for an rtd death and a new player work just fine.

[Mr.Zero]

Totally offtopic, but is the chat broken or is my client just borked? Because i can't see the captcha at all.

Nvm, fixed it.

[Nicholas1024]

Roll to Time Travel:
So, it's the beginning of the 23rd century, and after a LOT of trouble, the renowned scientist M. Oron has finally created a working time travel device! The initial invention is rather unreliable and can only time travel for short distances, but his later designs grow more and more intricate, until finally reaching a usable point. However, not content with this, he begins experimenting with time paradoxes, using a bomb inside a time machine to destroy an earlier version of itself, and so on. Finally, one of the resulting temporal anomalies completely consumes his lab, scattering several of his devices across the timeline.

You've found one of those devices.

Spoiler: What is this? (click to show/hide)

You're an ordinary person from any point in history, and you've found a time machine! What are you going to do with it? Well, that's up to you! Should you set right what once went wrong, quantum leap style? Go back and kill Hitler? Go to the future, accumulate technology, and use it to rule the past?

Spoiler: Time machines (click to show/hide)

You see, as M. Oron was a rather eccentric scientist, his time machines actually come in all sorts of variants. Some were rather standard full suits, making the user look somewhat like an astronaut. Others were entire vehicles, letting you take multiple people and any number of items through time. Still others were disguised as every day items, like a pocketwatch or an Xbox 65536 controller. One heavily encrypted file contains plans for a time machine that was going to be built into a hovercar, and would only activate once you accelerated to 88 kilometers per minute.

Additionally, form aside, not all time machines are created equal.

Precision: Sure, travelling back in time is great... but you don't want to leap right into the middle of a WW2 battlefield! Increasing this gives you a much better chance of actually ending up where and when you want to go.

Power: Rather than leap only a couple decades at a time and risk something going wrong, wouldn't it be more convenient to just get it all done in a single centuries-long warp? Additionally, if you want to transport other objects that you can't simply carry (say... a tank, another person, or perhaps the Pyramids), you'll need a more powerful time machine to get it done.

Activation time: Being able to flee through time to escape tough situations is great... but if you need three uninterrupted hours to program your time machine, then that makes it rather difficult to successfully perform a jump.

Spoiler: Time paradoxes and other dangers (click to show/hide)

You see, obviously what you do in the past is going to affect the future, sometimes rather drastically. For instance, if an assassin went back and murdered your grandfather, then you're probably going to end up erased from existence entirely. However, it takes a little while for these sorts of changes to propagate through the timeline, so if you figure out what's going on quickly, you can race back to the moment of the paradox, and stop it from occurring... or go back, and kill the assassin's father, thus stopping him from existing, and preventing your grandfather from dying.

Additionally, there are other time travellers out there (mainly the players, but perhaps a couple NPC's), and they can easily go back and fight or otherwise interact with your past (or perhaps future) self. If the other player only does minor things (or things you don't notice), your personal timeline will proceed as normal. However, if they do something that would significantly change things (say... by trying to kill you), you'll gain control of your past character, and can do something to react.

Also, regarding other dangers... the further you go into the future, the more aware people and governments become of time travel, and in general there will be stronger safeguards to prevent people from abusing it. Additionally, if you do something particularly notable to change the past (for instance, helping the british defeat the American colonies in the war of independence), there's a good chance that people from the future might figure it out and come looking for you to stop you.

Also, if you create a true time paradox (by killing your younger self, for instance), then this can cause drastic and extremely dangerous effects on anything related to the paradox. (That is to say, it gives me the ability to do whatever on earth I please to you, and anything you've accomplished.)

Oh, and one more thing. So far, nobody knows that M. Oron actually

Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)

Name:
Time Period:
Background:
Apperance:

Strength:
Dexterity:
Endurance:
Intelligence:
Willpower:

Time Machine Description:

Precision:

Power:

Activation:

The actual stats system has not yet been determined, but it will probably be something similar to what Piecewise uses for Einstenian Roulette.

So yeah. I think this RTD could be really fun, simply because nothing is EVER set in stone, and literally anything could change on the whim of a particularly intelligent/skilled/lucky time traveller. You could completely wreck history in any number of ways, bring past players back to life by interfering in the events that lead to their deaths... really, the only limit on what's possible is the imagination of the players and the sanity of the GM.

[anailater]

Thats really well thought out!
One question, how many points do you get for stats?
Anyway Pre-In!

[monk12]

I would be in that in a heartbeat.

Dibs on Carmen Sandiego!

[Nicholas1024]

I haven't completely ironed out the stats yet, but it'll be similar to the Einstenian Roulette system.

[Tsuchigumo550]

I'd most definitely want in.