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[Greenstarfanatic]

OOH! I just had another RTD Idea.

A ghost-hunter Co-operative RTD, but less in the style of Ghostbusters, and more in the style of Luigi's Mansion.

After being out of work for what seems like AGES, the GhostCrue Paranormal Removal Agency gets a call from a wealthy homeowner, claiming that her entire estate has been cursed by her lawyer when he was over for dinner the previous week. After he got up, complaining about the meal, she refused to pay him for his most recent financial endeavour he performed for her. She claims that he uttered a long string of inaudible words, and promptly left the house, vowing his revenge. It wasn't until that night that things began...happening. Floating objects, disappearing furniture, and even sightings of ghosts just...lounging around, being slobs! She says that they've even been stealing her money! She says that if you get rid of them, you can keep whatever you find.

That's where you come in.

Each character chooses a ParaUnNormal^TM weapon and Flashlight model to fight against the ghostly menaces, And can choose to go alone into a sector of the extensive estate, or team up with others to explore. After a job is complete, the Crue can go back to their offices, and choose to spend the cash they've found on upgrades, new items, or advertisements, which can bring in extra jobs. Different types of ghosts can haunt different types of houses and rooms, so watch out, as, sometimes, you might not have the best mean to dispose of them.

ParaUnNormal^TM weapons range from Destroyer Models, which erase the ghost completely, but do it quickly and more efficiently, to Collector models, which keep the ghosts for studying, but take longer to catch ghosts. Flashlights an be fitted with extra abilities, such as Brighter Lights, Strobe Lights, Flash Bulbs, or Black Lights, all with their own special advantages and disadvantages.

This is all I have so far for the plot and mechanics, but would anyone be interested?

[scapheap]

Hell yeah!

[anailater]

Bay 12 mansion?
I'm in.

[Harry Baldman]

I just had an RTD (or a forum game, doesn't matter) idea. Many of you are familiar with the Metamorphica. Many of you are also probably familiar with the Metamorphican Madness games. Well, my idea is in a similar vein.

Roll to Help Your Poor Dog!

You've just had a crappy day at work. You had to stay in late, the workload was abominable, plus the network went out, like, twenty times during the day. You could go on and on, but the short version is that it sucked. Hard. So you went home on the skytrain, and while you were looking at the sprawling, yet decayed urban landscape speed on by you, all your worries slowly passed and you entered a more tranquil state of mind. You see, you've learned to think happy thoughts and to concentrate on happiness-related concepts and objects. And you have one object of happiness to concentrate on - your dear old dog. You got it some time ago on your government-mandated psychotherapist's advice, and it's done you no end of good. Dear god, you love that thing. You don't know what you would do without it.

So, after watching the mandatory train exit corporate ad and exiting the skytrain, you make your way down the halls of your living block. It's a nice enough block, you'd say. Not too shabby, but nothing to jump with joy about. As you climb the stairs up to your apartment, you are in a happy place. A calm place. A good place.

You unlock the door and go in, making sure to triple-bolt the door behind you. These are dangerous times, after all. You call for your dog. It comes to you, whining sadly.

Something is wrong with it. Terribly wrong. Immediately apparent levels of wrong are before you, and it is a bit difficult not to retch at the mere sight of it.

Good lord, how could this have happened? What has happened here?

Only one thing can help you now.

The vet.

You make sure to wrap your dog up in order to avoid disturbing the other passengers of the skytrain and take a ride over to the nearest vet, Dr. Kohler. You sit down in the waiting room.

You notice that there seem to be five other dog owners here with you among the legion of lightly traumatized cats, antisocial parrots and genetically engineered companion apes with painkiller addictions and gunshot wounds all over their body. There seems to be something terribly wrong with their dogs as well. Hopefully it's not an epidemic or something.

Wait, something's happening to your dog again. Uh oh.

Spoiler: How does this work? (click to show/hide)

Well, very much like Metamorphican Madness, you have to deal with random mutations and their effects on a living organism. However, said organism is your dog in this case. Your main objective would be to stop these horrible things from happening to your dog (or if you're a creepy bastard like that, figure out what's happening to it and submit the process to your will).

Your dog would start with a certain number of mutations (sort-of-natural-like ones - supernatural ones will not be possible at this point). It would probably have one of the mutant features from the Mutant Features Tables, with more appearing over time, as well as other, potentially less obvious ones from the Mind and Body sections. The rate of mutation would be rather slow and likely to conform to additional rules to make sure you don't get some kind of non-functional abortion of sanity in the first few turns of the game. At least, not all of you.

In the character creation process, you would define yourself - name, gender, appearance, personality and short biography, from which your skills would be extrapolated, and your dog's name, gender, appearance (breed, if there is a certain one) and general personality. You would control yourself while the dogs' behaviors are up to the GM to put into play according to the supplied personalities and gained mutations.

You, the 6 dog owners in the same place, same time and largely the same circumstances, would then proceed to have zany adventures while trying to control your respective mutated canines and prevent them from or encourage them to destroy society as we know it.

Does this sound like a good idea to anyone? It just came into my head, so it's a bit rough.

[Xantalos]

I love that idea.

[scapheap]

This speak to me.

[Greenstarfanatic]

Sounds pretty good. Seems like it would be nice to have the mutations happening on things other than the players.

[anailater]

I would love to play that, but I will encourage my dog to destroy society so I could become KING!

[Persus13]

that is one the coolest RTD ideas i have seen in ages.

[Furtuka]

OOH! I just had another RTD Idea.

A ghost-hunter Co-operative RTD, but less in the style of Ghostbusters, and more in the style of Luigi's Mansion.

After being out of work for what seems like AGES, the GhostCrue Paranormal Removal Agency gets a call from a wealthy homeowner, claiming that her entire estate has been cursed by her lawyer when he was over for dinner the previous week. After he got up, complaining about the meal, she refused to pay him for his most recent financial endeavour he performed for her. She claims that he uttered a long string of inaudible words, and promptly left the house, vowing his revenge. It wasn't until that night that things began...happening. Floating objects, disappearing furniture, and even sightings of ghosts just...lounging around, being slobs! She says that they've even been stealing her money! She says that if you get rid of them, you can keep whatever you find.

That's where you come in.

Each character chooses a ParaUnNormal^TM weapon and Flashlight model to fight against the ghostly menaces, And can choose to go alone into a sector of the extensive estate, or team up with others to explore. After a job is complete, the Crue can go back to their offices, and choose to spend the cash they've found on upgrades, new items, or advertisements, which can bring in extra jobs. Different types of ghosts can haunt different types of houses and rooms, so watch out, as, sometimes, you might not have the best mean to dispose of them.

ParaUnNormal^TM weapons range from Destroyer Models, which erase the ghost completely, but do it quickly and more efficiently, to Collector models, which keep the ghosts for studying, but take longer to catch ghosts. Flashlights an be fitted with extra abilities, such as Brighter Lights, Strobe Lights, Flash Bulbs, or Black Lights, all with their own special advantages and disadvantages.

This is all I have so far for the plot and mechanics, but would anyone be interested?

I'd play it

[superBlast]

Got my new RTD up. The one with the big huge all characters of every story to have existed in a huge deathmatch.

It's here

[Digital Hellhound]

I don't know if anyone remembers Serious' Roll to Alter Someone's Life, but I was thinking about Roll to Manipulate the Chosen One(s). Basically, the players are incorporeal powers within the head of the Chosen One. You want to lead him/her on the path to become a champion for whatever god/primordial force you embody while negating the influence of the others - and still make sure he actually survives, fulfills the prophecies and saves the world, because he's an ignorant peasant and really could use your guiding hand.

Failure to influence him/her enough will make your patron god/power unhappy, and you don't want that to happen. Failure to actually help him along will bring about the end of the world. But, like, no pressure.

Additional fun could be had if it's a party of heroes, not just a single Chosen One. And if some of the players actually do want him/her to fail.

[freeformschooler]

I kind of want to run Roll to Dadge again.

[Doomblade187]

I kind of want to run Roll to Dadge again.

DO EET!

[Scelly9]

I don't know if anyone remembers Serious' Roll to Alter Someone's Life

Someone needs to revive that, again. It's fun as hell.