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[Fniff]

You know what'd be good?

A godhood style game (Minimal mechanics, narrative focused) that isn't focused on gods.

[Persus13]

You know what'd be good?

A godhood style game (Minimal mechanics, narrative focused) that isn't focused on gods.

Can you give an example?

[Dorsidwarf]

Like the dragon one that's just starting?

[Digital Hellhound]

Ooh. Yes. The system (or lack of one) is brilliant. They're more creative writing exercises than games anyhow, as I see it.

[Fniff]

You know what'd be good?

A godhood style game (Minimal mechanics, narrative focused) that isn't focused on gods.

Can you give an example?

Well, how about this: you are one of several leaders of supernatural creatures in a city, like werewolf clans or vampire nobility. I ripped that off Digital Hellhound, so don't use it without his say-so.

I personally had an idea where you were the warlords of modern-day pirates on a series of tropical islands. Basically the setting involves a mix of old "sea myths" tropes mixed with modern day piracy, so that could explain why they'd have god-like abilities.

[Harry Baldman]

Or maybe all the players are representatives on a legislative organ of some sort - kind of like DH's mage council idea, except you don't actually have any personal power. Rather, the acts you get are the motions you propose - you can propose one or two per turn, and the rest will vote for them. You could even separate players into several categories, like there'd be 3 people in a triumvirate - rich, powerful people by their very nature, but very dependent on their subjects. And then you have the other players, who would play as lobbies (lobbies get an act of their own per turn), enticing council members with material rewards, death threats and other interesting diversions from politics. If a member of the council (rather unfortunately) perishes, you have to replace him or her with somebody from a lobby. Each lobby would have certain goals, which they'd realize in the aforementioned fashion. And the councilmen would have goals of their own, Tropico style - getting as much money as you can, making the general populace happy, being respected by the people long after your passing.

This is really the sort of game I wanted when I said I liked the mage council idea.

[Persus13]

-snip-

I'd like to play or run a game like this, but I'm running 2 RTD projects I like, so I'll just hope someone else runs this.

[Tsuchigumo550]

I'm really tempted to run a super vicious, toned-down D&D dungeon.

Taking a note from the badass kobolds, and have laid out ideas for the first floor

Spoiler: Devious ideas like these. Don't read if you'd jump in, because it may spoil the kind of evil I've brewed (click to show/hide)

Architectural Bastardism- these Kobolds have taken up in an old Dwarven stronghold, and there's quite a few ways for them to kill you without ever being hit- one hallway is literally comprised of two walls filled with murder-holes, and the kobolds are going to start turning whatever's inside it into a pincushion if it so much as moves.

Satan Inc. Trap Designs- It's all extremely hard to detect, and good at murder. Such as a false room that's floor collapses into a pit of magma, flooding traps, if it's devious, cruel, and likely to kill an entire party, it's there.

Expect false traps that are traps attached to worse traps.

Example: An easy to spot tripwire is actually a double tripwire, the second of which is much thinner and harder to spot. Finding the first one makes it that much harder to find the second one because you don't expect it, and tripping either causes pottery filled with Greek Fire-like napalm fall from the roof. That's bad, but dodgeable- what you didn't know is that the floor is also false, and burns away quickly- leading to a mostly impassable death pit.

And then, there's the bloody Kobolds themselves. In one of the last rooms, there's about 15 or so all armed with daggers, and as soon as you enter they all pour some vile yellow stuff all over themselves. In 3 turns, they all die, and this seems like an anticlimax- until you open the door to continue, activating a necromantic circle and raising all the poison-covered Kobolds again, and this time, a hit is almost guaranteed death.

[freeformschooler]

So in a theoretical scenario where I ran yet another silly Mario rtd would you guys take me back

[lawastooshort]

yes

[Dwarmin]

@FFS: I do think we've all enjoyed those alot, FFS. Would be nice to see them come back...

Though, I'd also be likely to ask if you ever wanted me as a player again. <_<

[freeformschooler]

@FFS: I do think we've all enjoyed those alot, FFS. Would be nice to see them come back...

Though, I'd also be likely to ask if you ever wanted me as a player again. <_<

Im fine with anything.

This time around I am thinking of dropping the semi medieval focus and going with something very close to the games

[Dermonster]

Paper mario you said.

[freeformschooler]

Paper mario you said.

I did? This isn't that other thing

[Dermonster]

I never read whatever other thing you said.

It's just when I think of 'mario games' I automatically revert to Thousand year door.