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[Doomblade187]

Just start Roll to Twit. Please.

[Digital Hellhound]

Lawas you are the most amazing person.

[Dermonster]

Also screw god games and sandboxes? What is wrong with you.
In fact, I should make a visual novel RTD just for you.

I've discovered that my greatest problem with sandbox and god games is that you cannot derail a train you have yourself built.

[Tarran]

Also screw god games and sandboxes? What is wrong with you.

For reference, he's one of the players who chose to quit RTD of the Dragon. One of the first, I think.

But I can definitely see where he's coming from. RTD of the Dragon achieved almost nothing in its entire lifetime. It achieved something: Players as dragons. But it had no plot. No substance. No direction. I won't run an RTD like it again, not without a serious plot plotted (heh) in the background.

Of course, it could have just been me being a crappy GM. That's also always a possibility.

[freeformschooler]

No, I think RTD of the Dragon is actually a great exercise I would recommend to any GM. Which is the ability to come up with interesting things for the players based off their actions and rolls rather than the world you've already built. Wasn't quite my thing, but sandbox games can be hard to run. With exceptions.

[Tarran]

No, I think RTD of the Dragon is actually a great exercise I would recommend to any GM. Which is the ability to come up with interesting things for the players based off their actions and rolls rather than the world you've already built.

I... don't really remember doing much or any of that.

[10ebbor10]

No, I think RTD of the Dragon is actually a great exercise I would recommend to any GM. Which is the ability to come up with interesting things for the players based off their actions and rolls rather than the world you've already built. Wasn't quite my thing, but sandbox games can be hard to run. With exceptions.

So making stuff up as you go along. Tend to do that way to often.

[Harry Baldman]

No, I think RTD of the Dragon is actually a great exercise I would recommend to any GM. Which is the ability to come up with interesting things for the players based off their actions and rolls rather than the world you've already built. Wasn't quite my thing, but sandbox games can be hard to run. With exceptions.

I'm actually doing that with Life Begins At Death. I roll for everything - locations, loot, people the players meet, their reactions to the players and so forth. The result is frequently madness, though the players seem to like meeting all sorts of weird things just fine. Well, that is, until most of them lost their characters to horrible misadventure as a result of one too many 1s.

[lawastooshort]

Just start Roll to Twit. Please.

I'd like to, but I should really finish one of my other games first or they'd all get less than one update a week.


Gosh, DH. Where is the blushing emoticon?

[monk12]

Spoiler: Mansion First Floor (click to show/hide)

Alrighty, so there's that. Look good? Legible? Eyes not bleeding? I swear the geometry is totally Euclidean, if not precisely to scale.

Second floor will feature the Lounge, Study, Library, and Billiards Room (since my knowledge of what rich people houses are like is based on Clue) and as many bedrooms as I can stuff in there, as well as Stairs to Attic. The Attic and Cellar don't need maps, I think, since they're each just a really big room crammed full of crap and monsters. Similarly The Hedge Maze, Observatory, Tennis Court and blah blah blah are all areas outside the Mansion proper that don't really need their own map, assuming the family doesn't decide to flee the obviously haunted mansion and camp out in the shed the rest of the winter.

Any rooms that I'm missing or would be cool to add? Since the plot is setting-based, I figured I should start with figuring out what rooms are in the Mansion and the surrounding area.

[Gamerlord]

A Gymnasium?

[SeriousConcentrate]

Maybe an indoor pool, sauna, or jacuzzi? Something of that nature, anyway.

[Harry Baldman]

There has to be a trophy room, definitely. And the cellar has to have lots of wine in it.

Also, what's that red triangular unmarked space? Just bricked up or a chimney?

Finally, that's going to be a pretty unusual-looking mansion.

[IronyOwl]

Should probably have a creepy faces room. Hallway full of paintings, room full of busts, just anything that's probably supposed to be classy or cultured but makes you wonder why they would ever make something like this during a rainstorm.

And yes, definitely a trophy room. Maybe even two! One for tribal relics and possibly strange puzzle boxes, another for stuffed animal heads that staaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaare at you while you're trying to enjoy the fire in your big red chair. Also a musket over the mantlepiece, naturally.

[Tiruin]

Should probably have a creepy faces room. Hallway full of paintings, room full of busts, just anything that's probably supposed to be classy or cultured but makes you wonder why they would ever make something like this during a rainstorm.

And yes, definitely a trophy room. Maybe even two! One for tribal relics and possibly strange puzzle boxes, another for stuffed animal heads that staaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaare at you while you're trying to enjoy the fire in your big red chair. Also a musket over the mantlepiece, naturally.

Ugh, no trophy room can be a trophy room without that plush red carpet and the sidetable for that nice mug you've always been wanting to drink from but couldn't.

Also, a glass case. Because nothing is better to display your possessions than a breakable glass case!