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[Persus13]

I had an idea for this Roll to dodge when I first joined, but I decided to run a minimalist one first. I was just wondering what would people would think.

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Roll to Dodge: Cops and Robbers.

This is for 8 players. There are 4 cops and 4 robbers.

How a cop wins: A cop wins by getting promoted. This happens by getting one or more arrest. More arrests mean you get a higher chance of getting promoted

How a criminal wins: A criminal wins by getting and keeping $5000 in cash.

Ways to lose: Dieing causes you to auto-lose. Cops also lose if they get arrested or suspended. Robbers can also lose if they are convicted for over a year or if they have negative money, or if they violate probation.

What happens if you win or lose: You get congratulated, you get put on the winners list, and someone on the waitlist takes your place. If you lose, you are put on the lose list and a guy from the waitlist takes over.

Start with:
Cops:
1 handgun
1 pair of handcuffs
$100 at start
$10 salary paid every turn
1 police car
1 radio

Robbers:
1 crowbar
1 backpack
1 special item
1 skimask
$50
1 skill (+1 to certain rolls)
1 flaw (-1 to certain rolls)

Afiliations
Cops
Detective: Ordered to burglary sites occasionally.
Security Guard: Guards important stuff to stop it being stolen.
Officer: drives around mostly. Ordered to help other people catch robbers.

Criminals
Freelance: no obligations, but no help
Streetgang: lots of obligations, but lots of aid
Yakuza: access to Japanese weapons. Get money from obligations. They may help you get out of jail or they might decide to kill you or take some of your money.
Mafia: same as Yakuza (without Japanese weapons), but you get access to smuggled weapons that are normally illegal

Hidden characteristics: Can be corrupt cop helping criminals or undercover cop posing as a criminal. These you PM to me. Also, if your caught, you will likely lose.

Place of access
Cops: Police station, Donut shop.
Robbers: Gunstore
Gang hangout (not for freelance)

What money can be used for
Cops can give out money for information or an arrest. Also for gas
Robbers use money to buy equipment, guns, and ammo. Also for bribes, and to pay bail.

Arrested means you are handcuffed. When you are arrested, you go through the courts system:
1.   Charge Count
2.   Bail hearing
3.   Pay bail and be free for 3 turns before:
4.   Trial, or you just remain free
5.   Sentence (if served), go free on probation, or found not guilty and go free

If arrested on probation, you lose.

For the record, TCM's Syndicate wasn't the inspiration for this.

[Urist McBeanie]

Alright, now before I start my "Random" RTD, I have two questions.
1. Should some of the characters/encounters/setting elements be pregenerated (with a random generator), done on the fly, or some of both.
2. Should characters be done with the random generator and assigned, or created by the players?

Spoiler: General Idea (click to show/hide)

Alright, I decided my previous idea was stupid and pointless and thought of something else that may be more, less, or equally stupid and pointless, how about a game, where everything but the PCs is created with a random generator? I mean as a non minimalist RTD as well, I'd probably have it follow a similar ruleset to my current RTD, one of the things I would change would be to make 1s and 6s more chaotic. But as with my previous idea, I'll wait to fully look into modifying rules.

The generators I'd focus on would probably be those from Chaotic Shiny. Which I have start using for adding fluff to the RTD I am running at the moment. While this is a pretty simple concept, I'd like to get better at running a variety of situations in RTDs and something of this amount of variation/randomness could help that I think.

Also, with this kind of idea, would you rather, that locations and general plotlines and characters where randomed up before the start? Or done on the fly as needed.

[Persus13]

I'd like to see everything pregenerated, maybe you can give the players a choice between a random character (before you generate it) or one they can make themselves. Or assign players randomly generated characters.

[Tsuchigumo550]

I want to run a game- remember Tomb of Horrors? That one was fun as anything, but I don't have the skill to run that nor would I be able to resist wanting to play it. So that dosen't work out too well.

My plan is to come up with a few characters, then take a lot of randomly generated and then hand-picked stuff, spackle that together, and see if it holds. Monsters would be mostly random along with towns, and to some extent dungeons.

PCs is where I'm coming into trouble. I was thinking about running something closer to Tomb of Horrors, your class determined what you could do and your HP, and your HP was the only stat you really needed. I would like some form of stats however, and I have two solutions:

Secondary Stats: A hybrid of common everything-gets-stats and the ToH "HP and wizardry!". The three classes get boosts to secondary areas such as willpower, speed, or... something for ranged units.

This system would be HP + the three stats, where Willpower, Speed, and Focus(?) would help with general dungeoneering and the occasional irregular monster.

The other solution is attack/defense/speed/intelligence/willpower/focus, but I don't know how to incorporate rolls into that.

The setting would be something akin to D&D but more of a drop-in-drop-out party game, where each dungeon takes far less time than a D&D campaign and towns are dispersed through the land, so that dungeon->town->dungeon->town etc.

I'm heavily leaning for "everyone gets an HP value have fun" and possibly "Each class has a weak but useful ability, such as Archers with their focus being better at detecting traps.

I'm going to start it up today or tomorrow, and take only 4 people for the first dungeon. From there I'll decide what happens, if I keep 4 or go to 6+, and such.

One other thing. Characters can be retired at a town, which allows you to jump out of a game or to the bottom of the waitlist and be "successful". At the end, the wealthiest retiree wins. What? Being the wealthiest.

Also, retiring and un-retiring give a small bonus. Voluntarily jumping to the bottom of a waitlist (depending on how large it gets) will net you something nice (the city rewards you for your deeds) with a unique weapon, armor, accessory, or item. It dosen't count to end-reitrement value much, but coming back and having a nice ceremonial knife that rips through the undead like butter or god-knows-what-other artifact is a prize of its own.

This is to encourage but not force players to cycle through the waitlist so that a survivalist dosen't clog the gears too much. There is a 3 item limit for these for the same reason, and they aren't all useful all the time, but it's just a perk.

The fist two towns and first dungeon are ready, which prompts me to start this already. Pre-ins here might not be seen at first but I will try to honor them; here's some information.

Classes:
Warrior: Uses any melee weapons, has 4HP. Special: When at 1HP, attacks autosucceed (dosen't mean they'll be useful)
Archer: Uses ranged weapons, 3HP. All types of bows, flintlock pistols and rifles, and slings. Special: Can detect traps much easier (+5 to d20)
Mage: Uses magic weapons such as tomes or staves, 2HP. Special: May be alerted to dangers behind doors or around corners by a sixth sense.

Races:
Human: No bonuses, no flaws.
Elf: Pointy-eared humans with longer lifespans.
Dwarf: +2 to searching floors and walls, -2 to floor trap avoidance. Dwarves are an intelligent, stout race known for their engineering and their beards. They're experts at finding things hidden in walls and floors, but stall when a trap hits from below due to their instinct screaming "earthquake."
Naga: +2 to dodging, -2 to navigating tight terrain. Naga are proud yet friendly half-serpent half-man hybrids. They're very agile, but they're large size makes it difficult to squeeze through some dungeons.
Kobold: +2 to theft, using devices/mechanisms, -2 to offensive actions (d20 only). Kobold are small, human-like creatures with a knack for theft but little natural ability to fight. There have been great Kobold adventurers before, and it seems that one in particular is the stuff of legend in their culture. Deebus, I think?
Custom: Suggest one of your own. The specials should be as non-combat as possible, as that will involve a d6. Kobolds -2 to offensive dosen't affect regular combat, only that which needs a d20.

Starting a character is easy.

Name, class, race, starting weapon, starting armor.

Name:
Class:
Race:
Weapon: (Can be anything so long as it fits your class and dosen't have any special rules tied to it- a plastic sword and a mithril one work the same- but no "more damage vs undead" or "glows when near X" or any of that.
Armor: (Armor does basically nothing, at least, starting armor dosen't. Try to make your choice fit that. Buying armor will get you the better stuff- resist damage, elemental protection, etc.)

You'll get some form of currency to spend. Going to make the official post, I think I'm ready.

[Yoink]

OKAY GUYS STOP PANICKING I'M BACK

Yeah, so, haven't had internet for a while. Sorry about that. Didn't expect to be away for so long.
Just letting you know I'm back, and then I'll start posting in all the games I'm no-doubt long overdue to post in. Sorry!

Also, I vaguely remember starting a randomly-generated RTD and abandoning it about a third of the way through the first turn as the sheer number of things I had to generate got ridiculous. Then again I am a pretty sucky GM, so you'll probably do a better job than I did.

[IronyOwl]

So as long as I've given up on it, I might as well mention an idea I had:

Gnomedome.

See, here in the evil empire of serpentfolk, we value all peoples. From minotaur slave-soldiers to gnoll slave-soldiers, everyone has a place in our evil empress' domain. Gnomes, for instance, get to serve as vital suppliers of protein and entertainment in death pits.

And that's where you come in. You're a gnome. You're small, you're tasty, and you've been thrown into a death arena to fight each other and various monsters to the death. Good luck!

Of course, as players gained in experience, they'd start getting amusingly competent. Cute little gnomes with eyepatches and tooth necklaces would start cropping up, good strings of rolls would allow ridiculous combat maneuvers no gnome was meant to survive, that stuff. You'd also basically have free reign to dig out your quarters below the arena proper, meaning you could give them some nasty surprises or just come up with contingencies if that's the way you wanted to do it. Do note that gnoll beastmasters would like nothing better than for you to escape, though, so setting up a custom forge or something might be a better short-term goal.

Finally, the magic system would be inspired by Perplexicon. In other words, you manage to acquire a book of magic words, and then have to figure out what you're saying through trial and error.


I am now sad that I don't think I'll be running this. Maybe I should reconsider. :x

[Xantalos]

I would be happy if you (or someone else) did.

[Empiricist]

A RTD I created, I haven't finalized the how the stats and skills will be used though I'm leaning towards using a similar system to Einstienian Roulette for those. I figured I might as well post this here since I wouldn't have enough time to run it. I'll probably update this over time since I have my notes are currently scattered.

Schrodinger RTD Draft

Plot:

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You are the players of a Virtual Reality medieval-fantasy game. The game is designed to allow for on-the-spot modding by the GM who is running the game server. There is no maximum amount of party members but quests may have a maximum player number, players not in quests can do whatever the hell they want in a non-combat area.

Rules:

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Standard RTD dice rules apply, a HP and MP system is used. However, gameplay is different from conventional RTDs.

Exploitation of metaphors, figurative speech and exact wording will be key gameplay elements. Debating with the GM will pretty much be mandatory for success. Furthermore, everything exists in a superposition unless details are explicitly stated. If the GM didn't mention an alcove for you to dodge into (or the absence of one), then you can issue the command to dodge into it and as long as your roll succeeds (this roll is not affected by any skill or stat), you will attempt to dodge into the alcove that spontaneously appeared (you will still need to make a roll for the action). Penalties to the roll will be applied for things less likely to be there, the less likely, the harsher the roll penalty.

Arguing a point to the GM will use the Charisma stat and Speech skill.

Each argument is self-contained and has no impact or relevance to past or future arguments.
For example, a character could have used a powerful healing spell that damages the undead to heal their teammates several times in the past, however, they can still argue in combat that "undead" can mean "not dead" and therefore the spell should damage the living when casted thus killing an enemy. Furthermore, they can then immediately heal their teammates straight afterwards with no question asked about why the spell was able to spontaneously damage a target and why it didn't do that in every other time it was used.

Dead characters immediately respawn out of the current quest, they can exit so that a new character can be created or the player can place them back into the party at the cost of resetting their stats, they also lose possession of their equipment to whoever looted recovered it.

Classes:

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Breacher: Your skills are focused entirely on negating, bypassing and circumventing walls. Sure these skills are invaluable for neutralizing threats with your high-caliber fire arms while remaining in cover, but the fact that they are engineered solely for use against walls results in you being overspecialized. Unless, of course, you can argue that the various objects around you are, in fact, walls. After all, a hostage is just a person being used as a wall to deter you. Shields are just portable walls and armor is just a wearable shield, therefore armor is just a portable, wearable shield. And what about the fourth wall? It's even called a wall, thus you don't even need to contest your argument in order to start disrupting damage, healing and RNG functions with bullets.

Nekomancer: Using the power of dark magic, corruption and the almighty force of indefinitely spamming images of cats, you can distort the nature of the world. Corrupt you enemies to screw up their AI, dodge bullets by inducing lag via DoS. Dark magic encompasses forbidden spells as well as a limited-access developer interface. Just be vary that your powers tend to be difficult to fully control: modding and the dark arts tend to have high degrees of unpredictability and seeing as you are using both, sometimes in tandem, this uncertainty may screw you over when you least expect it.

Attorney: By adding unnecessary clauses, terms, conditions, general circumlocution and legal padding you can manipulate the rules to you advantage. And if you add so many that the GM starts getting a headache from trying to decipher what the fuck is supposed to happen, they'll be quite happy to smite your enemies with localized calamities if you get rid of the mass of bureaucracy you have dumped into the game. If circumstances won't allow you to start complicating the game, you can always just use your specialized sabotage equipment to neutralize your foes.

Gambler: You're not sure what you are or how you are even alive. Neither does the game. You are some sort of eldritch conglomeration of traits that are generally possessed by knights, liches, magical girls and subatomic particles. It isn't more difficult to kill you than anyone else. The issue is with keeping you dead. You exist in some sort of superposition between which means that things that require life functions have a 50% of failure for you, dying forces you into a state of death but unless sufficient force is used, this will only be temporary. You can summon weapons into combat if required and delay RNG functions so that their outcomes are withheld temporarily.

Elf: You are a tree-hugging, pointy-eared, androgynous, bow-and-arrow using elf. It is quite easy for people to disguise themselves as an elves. Thus your "race" is quite upset by the amount of assassins, black operations units and spies who disguise themselves as members of your kind. At least, that's the official statement. Funnily enough, elves do not exist. The so-called "civilization" that you belong to exclusively consists of assassins black operations units and spies. People might suspect that some of you are actually human, but no-one will suspect that you are all human. You can used advanced weaponry and cast away your false limitation as long as the only people who survive are allies, if you drop your act, combat cannot end until all witnesses who are not allies are kept safely away in the respawn queue. You can also switch out your disguise and identity to reset all known knowledge of yourself.

Stats

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 These affect your capacity for action.
Strength: Melee capability and recoil control. 
Dexterity: Ranged weapon capability and dodging skills.
Endurance: Hit point amount and capability to endure pain.
Charisma: Creating a desired presence. Arguing your point to the GM.
Intelligence: Magic capability. Not being an idiot. Remembering how to breathe.
Willpower: Skill capability. Courage and resistance to psychological attacks.

Skills

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 This affects your degree of success for actions.
Speech: For talking to people, the GM, animals and inanimate objects.
Analysis: Ability to use instinct, reasoning, ability usage, intuition and tactics.
Handiwork: Creation, destruction and modification.
Melee Weapons: Capacity to not stab yourself with a sword. 
Ranged Weapons: Knowing which end the projectile comes out of.
Magic: Not setting yourself on fire.

RP Status Effects

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These are permanent status effects that have an overall neutral or slightly positive net result. Players acting in a certain manner will unlock the associated RP Status Effect and can choose to accept or deny the effect. Yandere and Tsundere can be temporarily applied via a potion though the user must make a will roll to ensure that the effect is directed at their love interest or a random party member if they have no love interest. Lower numbers result in greater inaccuracies, ranging from random people to random entities or a specific subatomic particle that might not be remotely near your current location.

Yandere: Characters with a lower will stat are easier to persuade as they are frightened, all other characters will be harder to persuade. There is a chance for a combat roll bonus. Charisma and Speech are penalized slightly. Gains temporary stat bonuses when helping or attacking their love interest, this buff scales when the latter is in danger from someone other than the Yandere. Will prioritize helping love interest, making other available options impossible to perform. All other characters with possible romantic connection to the love interest can be targeted during combat and high collateral damage acts have higher chances of hitting them. Has a chance to lower enemy will.

Tsundere: Gains non-lethal attack bonuses against all other party members (they all become targetable with non-lethal actions), may utilize such attacks occasionally without the controlling player inputting anything. Gains intervention bonus when assisting love interest (the bonus doesn't do anything unless the love interest is severely threatened).

Asshole: Gains bonuses when acting like an asshole, these bonuses scale when such actions are chained. Slight charisma penalty. Can be targeted by non-lethal party member actions.

Omnicidal: Characters with a lower will stat are easier to persuade as they are frightened, all other characters will be harder to persuade. Severe combat bonus against anything regardless of hostility or combat incapability. Severe charisma and speech penalty, this penalty does not apply when arguing a point to the GM. Significant roll penalties for any action that attempts to end combat without killing every hostile. Can be targeted by non-lethal party member actions.

Death Seeker: Has a will bonus and is immune to intimidation. Cannot flee from combat, other player characters will have to take strength and dexterity rolls to forcibly drag them away if they wish to flee from combat. Receives a temporary debuff every time they respawn due to the futility of their actions.

[Harry Baldman]

Sounds like a pretty good idea, but there should be an overarching goal of some kind, some kind of nebulous future benefit that you seek to obtain.

[Gamerlord]

I would be interested in playing this, but it requires more RP SEs. May i suggest you take a stroll into TV Tropes?

[Xantalos]

I am also interested, though you know not the horror you bring upon yourself by allowing Bay12 to argue with you.

[Empiricist]

there should be an overarching goal of some kind, some kind of nebulous future benefit that you seek to obtain.

I actually didn't get around to thinking about that as I realized before then that I didn't have enough time to run it, so I just posted it here in case anyone would want to use its concepts or something. It probably would have just allowed the players to decide what their goal was and just adjust the plot to fit those goals.

I would be interested in playing this, but it requires more RP SEs.

The copy I posted was unfinished and just the initial concept. If I ever get the time to run this, I will definitely add more RP SEs and probably modify the mechanism for creating potions to include some risk of adverse effects if done incorrectly.

[Persus13]

I had an idea for this Roll to dodge when I first joined, but I decided to run a minimalist one first. I was just wondering what would people would think about it.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Roll to Dodge: Cops and Robbers.

This is for 8 players. There are 4 cops and 4 robbers.

How a cop wins: A cop wins by getting promoted. This happens by getting one or more arrest. More arrests mean you get a higher chance of getting promoted

How a criminal wins: A criminal wins by getting and keeping $5000 in cash.

Ways to lose: Dieing causes you to auto-lose. Cops also lose if they get arrested or suspended. Robbers can also lose if they are convicted for over a year or if they have negative money, or if they violate probation.

What happens if you win or lose: You get congratulated, you get put on the winners list, and someone on the waitlist takes your place. If you lose, you are put on the lose list and a guy from the waitlist takes over.

Start with:
Cops:
1 handgun
1 pair of handcuffs
$100 at start
$10 salary paid every turn
1 police car
1 radio

Robbers:
1 crowbar
1 backpack
1 special item
1 skimask
$50
1 skill (+1 to certain rolls)
1 flaw (-1 to certain rolls)

Afiliations
Cops
Detective: Ordered to burglary sites occasionally.
Security Guard: Guards important stuff to stop it being stolen.
Officer: drives around mostly. Ordered to help other people catch robbers.

Criminals
Freelance: no obligations, but no help
Streetgang: lots of obligations, but lots of aid
Yakuza: access to Japanese weapons. Get money from obligations. They may help you get out of jail or they might decide to kill you or take some of your money.
Mafia: same as Yakuza (without Japanese weapons), but you get access to smuggled weapons that are normally illegal

Hidden characteristics: Can be corrupt cop helping criminals or undercover cop posing as a criminal. These you PM to me. Also, if your caught, you will likely lose.

Place of access
Cops: Police station, Donut shop.
Robbers: Gunstore
Gang hangout (not for freelance)

What money can be used for
Cops can give out money for information or an arrest. Also for gas
Robbers use money to buy equipment, guns, and ammo. Also for bribes, and to pay bail.

Arrested means you are handcuffed. When you are arrested, you go through the courts system:
1.   Charge Count
2.   Bail hearing
3.   Pay bail and be free for 3 turns before:
4.   Trial, or you just remain free
5.   Sentence (if served), go free on probation, or found not guilty and go free

If arrested on probation, you lose.

For the record, TCM's Syndicate wasn't the inspiration for this.

[Gamerlord]

Here's some "rules" for that rome rtd i mntioned. Please don't yell at me. 

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ROME RTD PREMISE:


The world is about to change - the people of Rome stand united, their collective voices represented by the Senate. Great families expand their holdings throughout Italy and armies ready themselves for war.

ROME RTD RULES

d6 rolls determine success with modifiers provided by skills, attributes and extenuating circumstances.

Attributes:
Str: combat damage,
Dex/Agi: combat to-hit, speed, actions requiring finesse
End: health, disease, wound endurance
Int/Education: affects relevant rolls
Will: mental resistance
Char: self-explanatory
Rep: changes throughout game, different scores for different factions

Traits: offer special abilities or bonuses/penalties
Combat: (damage type)+(magnitude)+(bonuses)=damage
(To-hit)+(bonuses)+(speed)vs (dodge)+(bonuses)+(speed)

Social rolls
Skill roll+char bonus+trait/circumstance bonus vs will roll+circumstance bonus

Damage types:
Edged: +5 to flesh, -1 to armour
Blunt: +1 to flesh, +3 to armour
Pierce: +4 to flesh, +5 to armour (no armour damage, only penetration)
Fire: +8 to flesh, variable to armour (by material)
Crush: +6 to flesh, +6 to armour

DEATH: When a PC dies, the player is put to the bottom of the waitlist with their character being their oldest living descendant. Failure to produce an heir will result in the loss of all Family wealth you have attained.

Player sheet

Name:
Age:
Gender:
Race:
Description:
Bio:
Stats (15 points base, more given by certain beginning traits, from 0 to 5)
Str:
Dex/Agi:
End:
Int/Education:
Will:
Char:
Traits (choose your own within reason):
Family Members (this is important):

Gods and Myths

Gods and the Divine
Any god may be worshipped by a PC, but divine aid is only possible within decent proximity of a temple or large group of worshippers.

Mythological Creatures
They all exist. Each and every one. Want to free Typhon? Go for it. Want to party with Frost Giants? Be my guest. But mortals are not meant to consort with such beings, so beware. (Side note: Please refrain from interbreeding with the monsters. Attempts to create powerful future characters will be met with increased difficulty.)

[Persus13]

Sounds interesting. Would the players be together or would they be separate?