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[LordSlowpoke]

...put it in the faster than light universe and i'll go to the local priest, bring back some holy water and bless your idea

[The Ensorceler]

Has anyone here read The Borribles? Except for the part where nobody could start with a name, that universe could make a pretty epic rtd. There's no way I would be able to run it until this summer, but an Einstienian Roulette type mission system might work well, with new players going along with old to earn their names. I might even write up a Borrible book of proverbs if I can find the time to run it.

[Person]

...put it in the faster than light universe and i'll go to the local priest, bring back some holy water and bless your idea

Hey, it could probably be run that way. That might well be the best way to handle crew/where the players are in any case. Only problem with designing the ships that way is that it doesn't really leave much room for players to try and activate devices that the ship may or may not have. Not a necessary feature by any means, but I suppose leaving "technically" empty rooms would allow for new parts of the ship to suddenly be defined. That would probably end up requiring a rather massive ship in the end though. Honestly I was just tossing out the idea as a base.

Edit: Just for context: My view of the players' ship is some giant hulking box of metal, probably several decades out of date, far larger than the sleeker craft produced nowadays, with so many bloody rooms that even the onboard ai/captain doesn't know where anything on the ship is. It is ridiculously tough, slow, and damn if it doesn't have horrible mileage. But it has a lot of guns, and it'll probably get you where you're heading, minus several tons of armor.

Edit2: Sidenote, haven't there been a few sort of "GM advice" posts in this thread? I feel like I remember one by Tarran at least. If anyone finds those, I feel like they'd be a good thing to add to the first post. Regardless, I'll be downloading this thread to sort of go through it anyway, mostly to compile the number of idea dumps that probably didn't get used.

Edit3: Anyway, I might actually do a simple test in the testing thread, because y'know, that's what its for. It would probably just be one delivery or whatever, unlikely to damage the ship enough to kill it, but good enough for a test.

[Execute/Dumbo.exe]

Hello there, Having way too much time on my hands i decided to try to make a RTD! again! but i just want to make sure people would actually wnat ot play this little game that i made up in about an hour, and feel free to point anything you think is stupid out.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The 50 floor Tower Of Doom!
"Yup, 50 floors straight up and perfectly aligned, to the most precise measures we have and right now we have some pretty Thick-Headed scientists working around the clock of their own want to try to find any imperfection in the tower, I've heard that they're at the atomic level right now.''

''Well, I already know this, I've read the report after all, but judging from its sudden appearance and the atomic perfection thing..."

"Pretty much everyone thinks it's Extraterrestrial, yhea, a structurally perfect skyscraper the size of a modest country shouldn't appear in one night without a single disturbed drop of water to show for it."

"I've been meaning to ask about that part, the tower appeared in uhhh *Shuffle Shuffle* Antarctica, and has been... Terraforming the landscape around it?"

"Specifically, it's created this 'bubble' of some kind, clouds part around the tower, and any land within a mile radius looks like some idyllic landscape, it's sort of like what someone who's dreaming about the perfect picnic would imagine."

''And so far nothing has come out of it *shuffle shuffle* Jesus, this sounds like what that SCP foundation site would make up, but less dark."

The man sat back in his chair, massaging his temples to try to figure it all out, it can't be aliens, it can't be, but if it is...

He sat up straight suddenly, eyes gleaming with the prospect of what could be there, what riches this gigantic monster of a tower could hold, and as he swung around suddenly, back to the commander he said "Bring your best troops, sergeant," He said as he jumped up from his chair and strode to the door, "they can hold the door open for the cannon fodder."

THE STORY:
Pretty simple really, it's 2014 at an unspecified date because I can't be bothered with specific dates and a gigantic and indestructible tower has appeared in Antarctica Exactly 50 Floors high, not that the floors aren't massive of course, the name 'skyscraper' is a understatement here so i can take plentiful liberties with the environments I'll make you encounter here.

THE GAMEPLAY:
Basic RTD stuff, but charisma doesn't exist, instead success of speech rolls is decided purely by your RP reactions, Bias towards proper grammar may exist.
Hark! A character sheet appears!

Name: Self explanatory really

Back-story: while optional,  It's nice for someone to write down who their character is.

Appearance: It's your characters, well, appearance.

characteristics: Just flavour text, mostly, also optional.

Abilities:
I'll say that 5 points in any skill guarantees a 1+, while having 1,2,3 or 4 in a skill means you have a big fat 0, another fat zero,  1/3 and a 2/3 chance respectively and a zero means a fat 1- in any situation that calls for it, while the basic number of points you can have is perhaps 16? I'll see how that goes:

Strength: How much you can lift, not that hard to understand.
Endurance: How durable you are, again, not that tough.
Agility: Dodging, shooting and lock picking take this into account, as well as any acrobatic feats you attempt.
Magic: As well as helping you cast spells this increases how many and how much you can cast before needing a rest.
Perception: Aiming a gun uses this, as well as finding goodies and seeing ambushes, keep in mind that any searching rolls are hidden unless you get a 5.
Intelligence: Surprisingly, this doesn't help you with magic, what it does do is help repairing or reconfiguring things as well as decoding certain... 'things'.
Upon completion of each floor, a certain amount of skill points is given to each player depending on how well each one did which you can use instantly, like einsteinium roulette.

THE COMBAT SYSTEM:
Chunky salsa system, meaning dynamic damage basically.

ZE LOOT SYSTEM:
Nothing special, I'll just make up an item you may or may not find lying around the place, the quality of said item (if it will be there at all) will also be dependent on the roll you get for it.

THE MAGIC SYSTEM:
Here, spells are unlocked through finding tomes about them, but as well as that, you can also find tomes that open up entirely new types of magic. (for example, voodoo magic or blood magic, it all depends on what the roll is, and what I decide to make up.)

[BlitzDungeoneer]

Hello there, Having way too much time on my hands i decided to try to make a RTD! again! but i just want to make sure people would actually wnat ot play this little game that i made up in about an hour, and feel free to point anything you think is stupid out.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The 50 floor Tower Of Doom!
"Yup, 50 floors straight up and perfectly aligned, to the most precise measures we have and right now we have some pretty Thick-Headed scientists working around the clock of their own want to try to find any imperfection in the tower, I've heard that they're at the atomic level right now.''

''Well, I already know this, I've read the report after all, but judging from its sudden appearance and the atomic perfection thing..."

"Pretty much everyone thinks it's Extraterrestrial, yhea, a structurally perfect skyscraper the size of a modest country shouldn't appear in one night without a single disturbed drop of water to show for it."

"I've been meaning to ask about that part, the tower appeared in uhhh *Shuffle Shuffle* Antarctica, and has been... Terraforming the landscape around it?"

"Specifically, it's created this 'bubble' of some kind, clouds part around the tower, and any land within a mile radius looks like some idyllic landscape, it's sort of like what someone who's dreaming about the perfect picnic would imagine."

''And so far nothing has come out of it *shuffle shuffle* Jesus, this sounds like what that SCP foundation site would make up, but less dark."

The man sat back in his chair, massaging his temples to try to figure it all out, it can't be aliens, it can't be, but if it is...

He sat up straight suddenly, eyes gleaming with the prospect of what could be there, what riches this gigantic monster of a tower could hold, and as he swung around suddenly, back to the commander he said "Bring your best troops, sergeant," He said as he jumped up from his chair and strode to the door, "they can hold the door open for the cannon fodder."

THE STORY:
Pretty simple really, it's 2014 at an unspecified date because I can't be bothered with specific dates and a gigantic and indestructible tower has appeared in Antarctica Exactly 50 Floors high, not that the floors aren't massive of course, the name 'skyscraper' is a understatement here so i can take plentiful liberties with the environments I'll make you encounter here.

THE GAMEPLAY:
Basic RTD stuff, but charisma doesn't exist, instead success of speech rolls is decided purely by your RP reactions, Bias towards proper grammar may exist.
Hark! A character sheet appears!

Name: Self explanatory really

Back-story: while optional,  It's nice for someone to write down who their character is.

Appearance: It's your characters, well, appearance.

characteristics: Just flavour text, mostly, also optional.

Abilities:
I'll say that 5 points in any skill guarantees a 1+, while having 1,2,3 or 4 in a skill means you have a big fat 0, another fat zero,  1/3 and a 2/3 chance respectively and a zero means a fat 1- in any situation that calls for it, while the basic number of points you can have is perhaps 16? I'll see how that goes:

Strength: How much you can lift, not that hard to understand.
Endurance: How durable you are, again, not that tough.
Agility: Dodging, shooting and lock picking take this into account, as well as any acrobatic feats you attempt.
Magic: As well as helping you cast spells this increases how many and how much you can cast before needing a rest.
Perception: Aiming a gun uses this, as well as finding goodies and seeing ambushes, keep in mind that any searching rolls are hidden unless you get a 5.
Intelligence: Surprisingly, this doesn't help you with magic, what it does do is help repairing or reconfiguring things as well as decoding certain... 'things'.
Upon completion of each floor, a certain amount of skill points is given to each player depending on how well each one did which you can use instantly, like einsteinium roulette.

THE COMBAT SYSTEM:
Chunky salsa system, meaning dynamic damage basically.

ZE LOOT SYSTEM:
Nothing special, I'll just make up an item you may or may not find lying around the place, the quality of said item (if it will be there at all) will also be dependent on the roll you get for it.

THE MAGIC SYSTEM:
Here, spells are unlocked through finding tomes about them, but as well as that, you can also find tomes that open up entirely new types of magic. (for example, voodoo magic or blood magic, it all depends on what the roll is, and what I decide to make up.)

Go for it. Now. Or else.

[Execute/Dumbo.exe]

Hello there, Having way too much time on my hands i decided to try to make a RTD! again! but i just want to make sure people would actually wnat ot play this little game that i made up in about an hour, and feel free to point anything you think is stupid out.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The 50 floor Tower Of Doom!
"Yup, 50 floors straight up and perfectly aligned, to the most precise measures we have and right now we have some pretty Thick-Headed scientists working around the clock of their own want to try to find any imperfection in the tower, I've heard that they're at the atomic level right now.''

''Well, I already know this, I've read the report after all, but judging from its sudden appearance and the atomic perfection thing..."

"Pretty much everyone thinks it's Extraterrestrial, yhea, a structurally perfect skyscraper the size of a modest country shouldn't appear in one night without a single disturbed drop of water to show for it."

"I've been meaning to ask about that part, the tower appeared in uhhh *Shuffle Shuffle* Antarctica, and has been... Terraforming the landscape around it?"

"Specifically, it's created this 'bubble' of some kind, clouds part around the tower, and any land within a mile radius looks like some idyllic landscape, it's sort of like what someone who's dreaming about the perfect picnic would imagine."

''And so far nothing has come out of it *shuffle shuffle* Jesus, this sounds like what that SCP foundation site would make up, but less dark."

The man sat back in his chair, massaging his temples to try to figure it all out, it can't be aliens, it can't be, but if it is...

He sat up straight suddenly, eyes gleaming with the prospect of what could be there, what riches this gigantic monster of a tower could hold, and as he swung around suddenly, back to the commander he said "Bring your best troops, sergeant," He said as he jumped up from his chair and strode to the door, "they can hold the door open for the cannon fodder."

THE STORY:
Pretty simple really, it's 2014 at an unspecified date because I can't be bothered with specific dates and a gigantic and indestructible tower has appeared in Antarctica Exactly 50 Floors high, not that the floors aren't massive of course, the name 'skyscraper' is a understatement here so i can take plentiful liberties with the environments I'll make you encounter here.

THE GAMEPLAY:
Basic RTD stuff, but charisma doesn't exist, instead success of speech rolls is decided purely by your RP reactions, Bias towards proper grammar may exist.
Hark! A character sheet appears!

Name: Self explanatory really

Back-story: while optional,  It's nice for someone to write down who their character is.

Appearance: It's your characters, well, appearance.

characteristics: Just flavour text, mostly, also optional.

Abilities:
I'll say that 5 points in any skill guarantees a 1+, while having 1,2,3 or 4 in a skill means you have a big fat 0, another fat zero,  1/3 and a 2/3 chance respectively and a zero means a fat 1- in any situation that calls for it, while the basic number of points you can have is perhaps 16? I'll see how that goes:

Strength: How much you can lift, not that hard to understand.
Endurance: How durable you are, again, not that tough.
Agility: Dodging, shooting and lock picking take this into account, as well as any acrobatic feats you attempt.
Magic: As well as helping you cast spells this increases how many and how much you can cast before needing a rest.
Perception: Aiming a gun uses this, as well as finding goodies and seeing ambushes, keep in mind that any searching rolls are hidden unless you get a 5.
Intelligence: Surprisingly, this doesn't help you with magic, what it does do is help repairing or reconfiguring things as well as decoding certain... 'things'.
Upon completion of each floor, a certain amount of skill points is given to each player depending on how well each one did which you can use instantly, like einsteinium roulette.

THE COMBAT SYSTEM:
Chunky salsa system, meaning dynamic damage basically.

ZE LOOT SYSTEM:
Nothing special, I'll just make up an item you may or may not find lying around the place, the quality of said item (if it will be there at all) will also be dependent on the roll you get for it.

THE MAGIC SYSTEM:
Here, spells are unlocked through finding tomes about them, but as well as that, you can also find tomes that open up entirely new types of magic. (for example, voodoo magic or blood magic, it all depends on what the roll is, and what I decide to make up.)

Go for it. Now. Or else.

I have it already in the start new topic section, i just wanted to see if anyone was interested.
edit: done duckaroony.

[Tavik Toth]

I have an idea.

Roll to Corpse Party.

[Digital Hellhound]

Roll to Communist Party.

There ain't no party like the Communist Party 'cos the Communist Party NEVER LETS YOU GO

[monk12]

In America, everyone is always looking for the party.

In Soviet Russia, Party is looking for you!

[IronyOwl]

Roll to Party Without The Party
Oh no! The most awesomest party ever is happening in a Siberian gulag, and you're stuck over on the Pacific coast! Time for a road trip of epic proportions, but wait! The evil GOVERNMENT wants to send you to a different gulag where there is no party! Only brutal, brutal interrogations and publicly being made examples of. Better throw dodging them into your plans!

[smurfingtonthethird]

...I'm free to dakka my shitty ideas over here? SCORE

Roll to Civilisation
Play as human nomads. Settle someplace, learn shit, research technologies, and raise a civilisation.

[Tavik Toth]

Roll to Corpse Party: Die Horribly Edition

You are stuck in Heavenly Host Elementary! What are you going to do now?

Die a horrific death if you don't escape of course!

[IronyOwl]

...I'm free to dakka my shitty ideas over here? SCORE

Roll to Civilisation
Play as human nomads. Settle someplace, learn shit, research technologies, and raise a civilisation.

This could be really, really entertaining for watching the civs develop.

[6] Your people invent bronze working! In fact, they fucking LOVE bronze! Bronze everywhere! Bronze statues, bronze tans, bronze codpieces!

[1] This concept of "Literacy" confuses and enrages the mighty Nukulei. They'll be having none of your devil-tricks spreading to infect the general population.

[2] Horse, Noun: A very large uncooked roast.

[TamerVirus]

Roll to cook

Let's throw all of you maniacs in a kitchen and see what you can make for dinner service.

[Yoink]

Thinking of running an RTD where players work at an Alien Petting Zoo on Mars, using a random generator to create the various creatures they have to keep under control. Would anyone be interested? I was feeling pretty inspired earlier, figured I should make a post so I don't forget about it.

I also considered a modern-day piracy RTD or an RTD based around the zany adventures of a group of kids, Ed Edd and Eddy style.