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Nirur Torir

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Darvi

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terrahex

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digital hellhound

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the Arena

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Total Members Voted: 24

[wolfchild]

Name: Ser Neil
Class: Dragon Knight (medium armoured warrior-mage, using dragon themed spells)
Intresting: Was origionaly from a small village, so unimportant it did not even have a name, when it was raided by (barbarians/another kingdom) for (sport/morale warfare) Neil Refused to back down, and held the entrance to the village hall's cellar with a hatchet. He came out of it wounded, but his actions kept the villagers alive untill a mesenger on thier only horse could get help and return,. His actions inspired the young lordling that rode to the village's aid, the lordling knighted him then and there, and proceded to train him. Later Ser Neil went on an adventure to grow as a person, on the way he proved himself, both in valkour and skill to a young dragon who was hiding as a human, by "saving" (she could have protected herself) her from a wyvern close to a city that refused to even launch arrows to help, she expressed her gratitude by teaching niel the rudiments of dragon magic.
Item: Magic-Channeling Sword

[Darvi]

What world man, what world?


I suggest we wait with the character creation until we actually have the rules set up and stuff.

[wolfchild]

What world man, what world?


I suggest we wait with the character creation until we actually have the rules set up and stuff.

im already in nurir's world and he asked for a character

[Gatleos]

Maybe we shouldn't use this thread for signing up and figuring out what the hell everyone's signing up for.

[Riccto]

Yeah. Its getting a bit cluttered. Maybe ideas and general sign ups here.

[Nirur Torir]

Sorry for trying to move ahead too quickly.

I think that there should be a total of five MacGuffin parts per GM, with one or two in the arena, and the rest scattered randomly throughout other worlds.

I really can't think of a way to ensure that the GMs control the players of rival GMs in their domain fairly. Even if they're rolling fairly and trying to be fair, interpreting the results is so subjective that it would be really hard not to skew that. I guess we could have a % of MacGuffin gained based on rolls, but that'd be boring.
I feel that it should take 2-3 turns with really great rolls to find a MacGuffin part, and 5-7 turns with mediocre rolls.

[Dermonster]

All of you don't need to fret about favoring your own team, you guys are already completely sadistic towards us players in your own RTD's.

[TolyK]

OMG THAT WAS 5 PAGES OVERNIGHT!
 

well then, huge post ahoy!

The first step to getting a point system is to propose one.

Spoiler: Proposed Point System (click to show/hide)

Each GM starts with 10 points.
1 point is gained when the GM first obtains each of his/her MacGuffins. yes
0.25 points are gained per turn per GM-specific MacGuffin held. yes
0.25 points are given out per turn as a freebie. yes
X points are given out by master GMs for doing awesomesupercoolfunstuff. ... determined by GodMods

3 points - Give a +1 item to a player. Drops on death. May be stolen. works
10 points - Give a +2 item from a player. Drops on death. May be stolen. works
1 point* - Give a player a +1 or -1 bonus or malus to one skill for one turn. works
3 points - Give a group of players a +1 or -1 bonus or malus to one skill for one turn. works
3 points* - Give a player a +1 or -1 bonus or malus to one skill for four turns. works
5 points* - Force a single roll to be anything, before it happens. works

1 points* - Create a creature with -2 to all rolls and 33% standard player health. works
3 points* - Create a creature with -1 to all rolls and 66% standard player health. erm mostly
8 points* - Create a creature with standard player health. not quite sure...
20 points* - Create a +1 creature with 125% standard player health. eh
75 points* - Create a +2 creature with 175% standard player health. yep.

Free - Revive/summon/create a player that died in own territory, at their initial location and with full health. yes, but only 5 respawns (or none if race disallows it)
3 points - Revive/summon/create a player that died in the arena, at their initial location and with half health.yes, but only 5 respawns (or none if race disallows it)
6 points - Revive/summon/create a player that died in another GM's territory, at their initial location and with 25% health.yes, but only 5 respawns (or none if race disallows it)
2 points* - Restore <33% of max> HP to one player. x3 cost if in combat. yes
5 points* - Fully restore one player. x3 cost if in combat. yes
5 points - Restore <33% of max> HP to any/all of a group of players. x3 cost if in combat. yes

* - Only usable one one target, once per turn.

The system looks great overall, comments in bold.

That point system is fine by me. But it brings up two issues:

Free - Revive/summon/create a player that died in own territory, at their initial location and with full health.
3 points - Revive/summon/create a player that died in the arena, at their initial location and with half health.
6 points - Revive/summon/create a player that died in another GM's territory, at their initial location and with 25% health.

• Will players respawn indefinitely? It would probably be a good idea to enforce perma-death so new players can join in.
• What kind of health system are we going with? Will it differ depending on which GM's domain the injury is sustained in?

1. Permadeath after either 0 (no-respawning races)/5 deaths, OR 0 (no-respawning)/infinite and new players are either one man armies or join any GM.
2. I'm working on it! Give me a sec to finalize!

Sorry for trying to move ahead too quickly.

I think that there should be a total of five MacGuffin parts per GM, with one or two in the arena, and the rest scattered randomly throughout other worlds.
how about 6 in the arena and 4 for each GM?

I really can't think of a way to ensure that the GMs control the players of rival GMs in their domain fairly. Even if they're rolling fairly and trying to be fair, interpreting the results is so subjective that it would be really hard not to skew that. I guess we could have a % of MacGuffin gained based on rolls, but that'd be boring.
Folks could request that the GodMods re-roll that turn.
I feel that it should take 2-3 turns with really great rolls to find a MacGuffin part, and 5-7 turns with mediocre rolls.
I was thinking a bit more, about 2 times more..

Should the GMs always roll for their own team, or for any team in their world?

I was thinking any team on their world, if folks want us to re-roll a turn that would work I guess (not expecting too much unfairness, seeing that this is Bay12 and the GMs are well-known (mostly )

All of you don't need to fret about favoring your own team, you guys are already completely sadistic towards us players in your own RTD's.

This should be sigged.
Yeah, on a more serious note, don't help your own team with rolls too much...

I like the idea of only being able to travel to "adjacent" worlds, unless you travel through the central arena. It prevents the central arena from becoming a bottleneck, but still makes it useful for "cutting corners". I like the fate points idea, too. I think we're keeping it like that then.

Also, I propose perma-death should be in effect. Whenever a player dies, a new player rotates into that team and spawns somewhere in that team's home world. Not quite sure. How about perma--death for no-respawn races and up to 3-5 respawns for respawning races? Or new players go to a GM or become one man armies maybe? I think there should be seven MacGuffin pieces for each team, one in each area including their own. Hmm... I think there should actually be 5, I'll explain in a bit. Players can't go to other worlds until they collect their own MacGuffin. This encourages GMs to avoid making their MacGuffin piece impossible to collect for other teams or too easy to collect for their own team. This works.

I'm gonna have to double post, almost finished the rules.

[Gatleos]

Terrahex hasn't chosen a theme yet, but...

[TolyK]

Warning: while you were reading 56 new replies have been posted.

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Proposed Rules
Rolls are based on 1d6.

Spoiler: Basic Move Rolls (click to show/hide)

0- Worse than a fail.
****- MODIFIER LINE****
1- Complete fail
2- Major Fail
3- Fail
4- Success
5- Good
6- Great success
****+ MODIFIER LINE****
7- Hyper success
8- Overshoot (a GodMod rolls with the "Overshoot" system)

The game area is split into 6 worlds, each controlled by a GM, and the Arena, controlled by the GodMods. Scattered around these areas are 6 identical copies of the 5 pieces of the broken "Artifact of Eternity", which every GM seeks to have. Players start on a GM's world and must reach the arena through their actions. The GM's may help them through the use of "PowerPoints", which give them "Hand of God" abilities. These will be explained further. GMs must be fair in their rolls obviously. GMs decide on the nature of their starting world, the types of entities their players can choose from, and such. They must use the same movement and combat system as a base, but may add their own things for their worlds (radiation, etc.). The GM's world is not only for their starting players, but also for folks from other realities that are looking to get their piece.

One of the pieces in the starting world is given to the players at the start, but the other piece cannot be taken by the locals. At the arena, teams battle one another to see who gets the sections of the Artifact. They may be influenced by the GMs' "Hand of God" abilities.

Spoiler: GM: Making worlds (click to show/hide)

When making your world, you need to specify:
 - Setting, including whether it is magical fantasy, sci-fi, ponyland, etc.
 - Terrain, features, size
 - Approx. time period (relative to Earth/Terra)
 - The races that inhabit your world and their abilities
 - Where players start and where the "lost" piece is
 - Other info

Spoiler: GM: PowerPoints and Hand of God abilities (click to show/hide)

*This section is already in the thread, I like that system more than mine

Spoiler: GM: Making races (click to show/hide)

You have 200 Creation Points (CP) to use for each race, and you can make up to 3 races.

Races are characterized by:
 - Attacks (Attack Power or AP)
   - 2 CP for +1d6 damage
   - 2x(damage) CP for splash/AoE (area of effect)
   - 10 CP for ranged
 - Strength (1 CP for 1 strength)
 - Agility (1 CP for 1 agility)
 - Intelligence (1 CP for 1 intelligence)
 - Accuracy (3 CP for 1 Accuracy)
 - Toughness (2 CP for 1 toughness)
 - 10 CP for magician
 - 10 CP for flying
 - 30 CP for [NO_THOUGHT_CENTER]
- 50 CP for respawn ability

Spoiler: Player: With or Against the GMs (click to show/hide)

Players can work with or against the GMs, as a team or as individuals,infighting or working towards a common goal.

Spoiler: ALL: Health (click to show/hide)

Health is standardized throughout all worlds and the arena.
The standard is 50 health, and it gets upgraded with extra toughness (see above).
Health goes up by 5 with [NO_THOUGHT_CENTER]

Spoiler: ALL: Combat (click to show/hide)

Combat is standardized throughout all worlds and the arena.

ATTACKERS: Roll 1d6. Damage attempted is 1d6 x AP, modified by:
 - Strength for melee (+1 for every strength)
 - Intelligence for magic (+1 for every intelligence)
 - Accuracy for ranged (+2 for every accuracy)

DEFENDERS: Roll 1d6. Damage blocked is 1d6 x Agility / 3, modified by:
 - Strength for melee (+1 for every strength)
 - Intelligence for magic (+1 for every intelligence)
 - Flying for ranged (+3 if has flying)

ARMOR: Armor has hit points as well, decided by GM and modified by GodMods outside of own world. Some races can have natural armor. Armor has a 1/4 to 1/2 chance to abosb damage done to player, and a 1/36 chance (two 6's on a 2d6) to reflect.

[Dermonster]

Should pack in the overshoot system just under the 'roll' section.

Anyway, It all looks... decent? I wouldn't know.

It presumably needs tweaking.

[TolyK]

it's a draft so far.
yeah, I'll add the overshoot system and the Hand of God things, also with the pieces it was my conception from yesterday, it's just a placeholder.

[Dermonster]

I read draft as daft for a second there.

[Digital Hellhound]

That looks alright, I guess. Are we going to have to pay PowerPoints for every creature we spawn, even normal enemy mooks? Going to be a really empty adventure if so...

Writing up detailed setting now.

[Sean Mirrsen]

What's the use of the point system for race creation? Since this is an RTD, you need only speak in roll bonus terms. Think Master Of Magic, with its "picks". You get 10 picks per race, for instance. A narrow/specific bonus is 1 pick per level, a broad one is 2 picks, a special ability (magic, flying, etc) is 2 picks per bonus level, you can stick respawn ability with 3 or 4. Since races will get approved by Master GMs anyway, you can work out the problems and revise anytime.