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[Salsacookies]

Hey, somebody with time please make a game out of this and especially this.

You play as a retired superhero, over 80 years old, with barely functioning powers, wearing his/her old clothes despite how badly those fit now. One leg already in grave. Could be funny.

I want this to be a real thing. I'd join.

[FallacyofUrist]

Zappy Zappy Bump.

I'm thinking about running a "StuffFestDeathMatch" RTD. Where non-players submit stuff to be thrown into a loot dimension which opens up every time someone dies to drop a random piece of the stuff out...
Basically, Looter's Delight, but instead of using a generator, spectators submit what they want to see in the game, and that gets added to a loot table.

Optionally, items could be assigned power levels so that luck rolls meant something.

[Whisperling]

Optionally, items could be assigned power levels so that luck rolls meant something.

Definitely a good idea, if only to avoid canes of omnipotence and portable black holes of instakill.

[FallacyofUrist]

Okay... let me set it up.

Edit: It's up.

[ATHATH]

Optionally, items could be assigned power levels so that luck rolls meant something.

Definitely a good idea, if only to avoid canes of omnipotence and portable black holes of instakill.

But the randomness is what makes it fun!

[Salsacookies]

I'd like to start up a themed Destroy the Godmodder game, with 5 Demi-Godmodders, each representing a horsemen in the Bible.

the Demi-Godmodders are...

Conquest: Creature of pure domination, strong in body and mind.
War: The master of battle, and also practices Blood magic
Famine: The essence of want and nothing.
Pestilence: A pitiful creature, sick in mind, body, and soul, and very contagious.
Death: The Doombringer, ender of everything.

Finally, the Final boss, and Godmodder, is...
Hell, the Judge, Jury, Jailer, and Executioner of all Mankind.

So, that said, never being in a Destroy the Godmodder game, how does it work? would minimalist D6 work?

[TheBiggerFish]

I'd like to start up a themed Destroy the Godmodder game, with 5 Demi-Godmodders, each representing a horsemen in the Bible.

the Demi-Godmodders are...

Conquest: Creature of pure domination, strong in body and mind.
War: The master of battle, and also practices Blood magic
Famine: The essence of want and nothing.
Pestilence: A pitiful creature, sick in mind, body, and soul, and very contagious.
Death: The Doombringer, ender of everything.

Finally, the Final boss, and Godmodder, is...
Hell, the Judge, Jury, Jailer, and Executioner of all Mankind.

So, that said, never being in a Destroy the Godmodder game, how does it work? would minimalist D6 work?

WAAAAAGH NOPENOPENOPE NOPE NOPE.
D6 and godmodding do not mix.
DICE and godmodding do not mix, unless you're making an attack that actually involves dice in the game.

[Salsacookies]

Okay, so you just say what happens, and others react, pretty much?

[TheBiggerFish]

Okay, so you just say what happens, and others react, pretty much?

Yes.  Pretty much.
I very highly suggest looking at how MCF did it.
And then moving this discussion to Gamer's Block instead.

[Salsacookies]

K, thx by

[flabort]

So once my current mafia game ends, I think I'll start another Perplexicon styled game. Here's what I have for ideas so far:

This time around I wanted all the useful stats to be derived stats; while you have 6 stats to choose from, your rolls aren't based directly on them.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Your choices are these six stats, which you have 5 points to distribute. You may gain an extra point by putting a -1 in up to one stat.
Bulk:
Stamina:
Cardio:
Wisdom:
Knowledge:
Soul:

And your derived stats are:
Strength: (2*Bulk+Cardio)/2 -1 (Determines Damage dealt with physical attacks)
Endurance: (2*Stamina+Bulk)/2 -1 (Determines damage resisted from physical attacks)
Dodge: (2*Cardio+Stamina)/2 -1 (Determines ability to avoid attacks - most useful at range)
Speed: Wisdom+Cardio -1 (Determines ability to act first)
Will: Soul+Stamina -1 (Determines ability to exert your will on your creations, and also to resist mental effects)
Aim: Knowledge+Bulk -1 (Determines ability to aim attacks - most useful at range; an exceptionally good roll may add extra damage)
Pool: (2*Soul+Wisdom)/2 (Non-roll: Determines how many words you can say at a time, max/out of combat; 0 or less you can't use spells, rounds up)
Regeneration: (2*Wisdom+Knowledge)/2 (Non-roll: Determines how much your pool refills per combat turn, up to your Pool; 0 or less you can't use spells, rounds up)
Potential: (2*Knowledge+Soul)/2 -1 (Determines how effective your spells are)

Natural 1s with a 0 or negative modifier are BAD.
1s not resulting from natural 1s are failures.
2s are failures.
3s are partial failures.
4s and above are succesful, more succesful higher they are
Natural 5s result in crits (bad things happen with -3 or more modifier)
Natural 6s result in more than your intended result, often both good and bad

Partial stats are a 50% chance for rounding up, 50% round down, except for Pool/Regen, which round up all the time.

Spoiler: Example Character (click to show/hide)

Cain
Description: A blood covered almost-naked hooligan with a look of pure evil on his face.
Bulk: 2
Stamina: 1
Cardio: 2
Wisdom: -1
Knowledge: 1
Soul: 0

Derived Stats:
Strength: +2
Endurance: +1
Dodge: +1.5
Speed: 0
Will: 0
Aim: +2
Pool: -.5
Regeneration: -.5
Potential: +1

Spoiler: Example Character 2 (click to show/hide)

Able
Description: A thin and gentle wizard in simple wool clothes
Bulk: 1
Stamina: -1
Cardio: 0
Wisdom: 3
Knowledge: 0
Soul: 2

Strength: 0
Endurance: -1.5
Dodge: -1.5
Speed: +2
Will: 0
Aim: 0
Pool: 3.5 (4)
Regeneration: 3
Potential: 0

Yes, that means the wordlist will be publicly available this time, no bullshit experimental mechanics with private wordbooks. When you gain a stat point from killing a player, it goes into your chosen stats, which then affect two derived stats.

[FallacyofUrist]

Assuming Down the Foxhole doesn't update, I'd play.
Although wow that's needlessly(maybe?) complicated.

Why is all the stat craziness necessary?

[heydude6]

Me hate minmaxing.

Because of that.

To elaborate, Fabort tried to run a perplexicon using the exact same stat system that you are currently using in looter's delight, and encountered the exact same problems that you are currently having in looter's delight. In systems like these it's either min-max or die. I'm assuming that flabort wants to have the occasional moment when the underdog beats the specialist.

[flabort]

Me hate minmaxing.

Because of that.

To elaborate, Fabort tried to run a perplexicon using the exact same stat system that you are currently using in looter's delight, and encountered the exact same problems that you are currently having in looter's delight. In systems like these it's either min-max or die. I'm assuming that flabort wants to have the occasional moment when the underdog beats the specialist.

Well said.

Yes, it's to prevent minmaxing being so OP and to introduce a bit of balance, while also allowing for some crazy stuff.

Let's say you wanted to maximize your regen, so you could use the best spells in combat. Regen's primary stat is Wisdom, so you make a Wis 6 character and put your negative point into Stamina. Well, you have 6 regen but only 3 pool, so you're capped at 3 regen. You'd have to move two points into Soul in order to max regen; now you have 4 pool and 4 regen, 0 potential (better than the -1), and you still have a negative point you have to put somewhere, probably Stamina. Now you suck at physical actions, but have 4 words a turn, even in combat.
And if you spread out your points, you're not crippling yourself by not minmaxing. Let's say you put 1 point each in every stat except Bulk, which is 0. Your end stats would be Str -.5, End 0, dodge 0.5, Spd 1, Will 1, Aim 0, Pool 1.5 (2), Regen 1.5 (2), and Pot 0.5, which would make you a not-bad wizard, and not have crazy penalties to combat either. The minmax-or-die mentality is minimized by making the relevant stats derived.

[FallacyofUrist]

Huh. Interesting.
Sure, seems like that would work.