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[Tsuchigumo550]

Increasing skill using changing die and explosive die:

Lv.0, or Basic Level: Single d6. No explode.
Lv.1, or Known Skill: d6>d6. The exploding die keeps the individual result mostly the same, but...

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1,1: Critical Critical Failure. Let's say you tried to eat toast. You nibble at it, gaining the least possible nutrients, it tastes bad, and you manage to choke to death on it.

1,6 Critical Failure Mitigated. Let's say you tried to eat toast. You take an average bite and start choking, but manage to get the bite down. You feel uncomfortable and want a drink, but you're alive.

Lv.2: Good At Skill: d6>d6+1

This level dosen't stop failures, but enhances explode results to make failures somewhat more bearable. Note that a 1,7 is basically a 2.

Lv.3: Masterful At Skill
d8>d6

Lv.4 Godlike
d8+1>d6+1

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I've personally wanted to use a d12 exploding die system: d12>d6, or d12>d4.

d12 would offer a wider variety of success/failure, but I'm actually using it as a skill value. You roll a d12 when you attempt something, like so:

Dude McGuy has a 0 Lockpicking skill. He tries to pick a lock(10). (5>2)
Dude McGuy fails, and the pick breaks in the lock, jamming itself in the lock. DudeMcGuy can't get the pick out.

or

(8>6) DudeMcGuy almost manages the lock, but the pick slips out right before he can turn the handle. (Temporary +1 to Lockpick)


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I like that Caged Mind idea. Seems like a nice combo.

[Harry Baldman]

What was your head canon for the Art of Minimalism?

It's a program for re-educating horrible criminals by having them participate in games, refining the system and introducing new limitations each time to try to create as constructive and engaging an experience as possible in the interests of making them productive members of society. Sadly, the criminals' imagination naturally tends toward destruction and violence, so this is an uphill battle at best and a Sisyphean task at worst for the administrator. It just came into my head one day and suddenly, all of it made sense.

[Xantalos]

What was your head canon for the Art of Minimalism?

It's a program for re-educating horrible criminals by having them participate in games, refining the system and introducing new limitations each time to try to create as constructive and engaging an experience as possible in the interests of making them productive members of society. Sadly, the criminals' imagination naturally tends toward destruction and violence, so this is an uphill battle at best and a Sisyphean task at worst for the administrator. It just came into my head one day and suddenly, all of it made sense.

That actually makes sense.

[ExKirby]

Sorry, but am I the only person who thinks of a face-mounted turret when they hear the word headcanon?

[Dermonster]

That would be head cannon.

[Harry Baldman]

Sorry, but am I the only person who thinks of a face-mounted turret when they hear the word headcanon?

I imagine it as more of a mouth-mortar than a face-turret (I associate the word "turret" with automated automatic weapons for my own reasons). Just seems more appropriate for the word "cannon".

[lawastooshort]

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE: THE VICTORIAN DATING RTD

You are one of the many Bennett sisters that your damned sister forgot to include in that stupid TV series of hers. They are England's most eligible bachelors. It is the biggest Ball of the season! On your marks, get set, GO!

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(Distribute 7 points between the below stats (name is not a stat) – 0 gives a -1 penalty; 1 gives no effect, 2 give a +1 bonus)
Name:
Beauty:
Wit:
Dancing:
Perception:
Learning:
Melee:

Also includes a hidden-from-the-player score representing your target's feelings towards you and much plotting and intrigue.

First one engaged wins!

((I would have sketched this out a bit more but I'm kind of working on something else and this was only the second best other game idea of the day. So if anyone wants to take this...))

[freeformschooler]

[1] You elope with Mr. Darcy. Your family is shamed for generations.

BAD END

[Harry Baldman]

I would play that. I would definitely play that.

Granted, I would try to get into fisticuffs and probably perform arson on the way, but that's what the Melee score is there for, no?

I am, however, curious on what Learning means and what it would be used for. Education? Hitting on scientists and professors?

Finally, I object to a player winning upon engagement. There are many ways to sabotage a marriage in the intervening period, I believe. Entertaining ways.

[lawastooshort]

I agree about the engagement part, and had marriage there instead until 5 seconds before posting. I just thought that it could make the game excessively long... Imagine an engagement period of a year.

I... can't remember what Learning is for.

I think it's because I forgot the sixth stat whilst I was busy doing something else and that's the first thing I thought of.

[Harry Baldman]

Maybe Learning could be used for knowing what you're talking about? Like, Wit is used for banter, but Learning - for discussion? This way you could have witty but ultimately vapid characters and awkward but ultimately educated and intelligent people?

And about marriage: first player to get married wins. So you'd have to try your hardest to shorten the engagement period through various methods of manipulation, intimidation and criminality. Very much like any proper Victorian woman.

[lawastooshort]

manipulation, intimidation and criminality

And masterwork corsets.

Yes, I like that. And the Learning - yes, I think that's what I was probably thinking of. That would then also make it easier to have a more realistic Influence score where Witty types wouldn't necessarily impress Learned types, for example.


edit: I would also totally play this, and I would love to run it, if nothing else than to be able to write up the action Heave my bosom at Mr Darcy on a roll of a [6]. Or a [1].

[ggamer]

So I was struck by an Idea after reading RTRedshirt.

Two RTD's run at the same time. One is in the style of RTRedshirt, with a large-scale loosely run assault on an enemy compund. The other is a more traditional, four-man RTD, as a group of spies utilize the diversion provided by the army and steal an objective from the compound.

That's all I got, I might develop it more later.

[Tsuchigumo550]

I'd play the Pride and Prejudice RtD even though I've never actually been arsed to read the book. Fun times.

[freeformschooler]

edit: I would also totally play this, and I would love to run it, if nothing else than to be able to write up the action Heave my bosom at Mr Darcy on a roll of a [6]. Or a [1].

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