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[Gatleos]

This is the discussion and signup thread for Endless RTD, discussion of which started here. The game thread is here.

It's called Endless RTD because it won't be tied down to a specific author. The story will be ongoing, maintained by a series of "guest authors" who will each write one arc of the story. Sign up for the GM waitlist if you wanna write the next part!

Spoiler: Ridiculous Backstory (click to show/hide)

The year is 84 of the fifth age, and the world is at peace. Man, Elf, and Dwarfkind alike live in harmony, and an industrious age of enlightenment has begun. After the Great Cleansing of the goblin menace 85 years ago, the world of Nalir Kalem entered a cultural and technological renaissance that has lasted to this day. Great steel railroads span the continent, black powder muskets have been perfected, and mass production of goods via automated factories has revolutionized the world market.

That all came to an end on the 17th of Midlas, 84.

On that fateful morning, the citizens of Meldania City emerged from their homes to find the city overshadowed by a great floating island. War machines the likes of which had never been seen flooded forth from the hovering monolith in the sky, and the city was overrun and subjugated in five short hours. Their leader, a tyrant calling himself Adolf Hitler, soon confronted the United Factions Council at their headquarters in Meldania City and laid out his demands. That was the day that the Republic of Meldania was usurped by a false ruler and became the Nazi Empire.

It is now the year 126 of the fifth age. These past few decades, the Nazi Empire has spread over the land and obliterated all resistance. Their alien technology is far superior to ours, and it did not take them long to overpower all who were brave enough to fight against them. Their leader, Adolf Hitler, rules with an iron fist from his floating citadel above New Berlin, formerly Meldania City. What little resistance remains operates in secret, constantly on the run from the Nazi Empire's seemingly omnipresent storm troopers.

But not all hope is lost. A five-member crack commando squad, armed to the teeth and possessing a lifetime of combat and field training, has been dispatched on a suicide mission to the heart of the alien tyrant's hovering fortress, to gather intelligence and hopefully discover the means by which they entered our world.

You are a member of that squad.

Spoiler: Rules (click to show/hide)

We will be using standard d6 rules, to avoid nasty rule conversions when the turn is passed off. Combat will be handled as thus:

[Attacker d6] - [Defender d6] = [Damage]

If the dodge roll is greater than or equal to the attack roll, the attack is avoided. A dodge roll that is at least two higher than the attack roll prompts a counter attack from the defender, with a new attack and dodge roll. This cycle can continue indefinitely.

If the attack roll is one higher than the dodge roll, the attack is successful and can inflict minor to moderate injury. Each level after one higher signifies a more brutal attack, with more potential for greater injury depending on the combatants' equipment and the environment.

Weapons and armor, unless explicitly given a natural power to affect stats, don't affect combat rolls. Instead, they affect the result of the combat rolls. A clean hit against a player wearing armor vs. one not wearing armor (with the same rolls) will have different results. A solid attack with a sword will have more slicey results than with a fist.

Injuries
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Light Bleeding: 10 healing points. [-1 HP per turn]
Fracture: Requires medical attention and 20 healing points.
Heavy Bleeding: Requires medical attention and 20 healing points. [-5 HP per turn]
Very Heavy Bleeding: Requires skilled medical attention and 30 healing points. [-20 HP per turn]
Broken Bones: Requires skilled medical attention, then 40 healing points.
Missing Limb: Never heals, obviously.
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You make a healing roll each turn after an injury has been sustained; the amount you roll is added to your healing points, and the wound disappears when you have enough. For major wounds (anything above light bleeding), you can't make healing rolls until you've received the appropriate medical attention. Only doctors can provide skilled medical attention properly, anyone else gets a -2 to first aid rolls. Bleeding injuries drain health, of which each player starts with a maximum of 100. If a player has no bleeding injuries, they regain 4 hitpoints per turn.

Also, no spittin' n' no fightin'.

Spoiler: Signup Sheet (click to show/hide)

Keep in mind that this signup sheet is specific only to the starting setting. If you enter the game from the waiting list later on, you'll have to create a character that could reasonably exist in the setting we happen to be in at the time.

Name: what your momma calls you
Bio: personality and physical appearance
Inventory: one item carried on your person (in addition to whatever the GM gives you)
Skill: get +1 in a specific type of action; subject to balancing

Remember, we're keeping it simple.

Current players:

• lawastooshort (Hilda J Gherkin)
• BullDog (Zack)
• dermonster (Derm)
• Sinpwn (Fekod "the master explodinator")
• micelus (Baron James Ostal)

Player Waitlist:
Powder Miner
Noodlerex
DinosaurusRex_x
antlion12
Dariush
Tiruin
Darkfyre
Spinal_Taper

GM Waitlist:
Digital Hellhound
Bdthemag
lawastooshort


Let the clusterfuck games begin!

[lawastooshort]

Name: Hilda J Gherkin PhD
Bio: Hilda's a tall and athletic blond human woman in her late twenties. Her young adult life and cheerleading career were ruined by the paranoid delusion that she was a male medieval minstrel called Janet questing for the Holy Grail, but she's totally over that now, and has spent the last couple of years since being let out finishing her Engineering doctorate and then training for the Commandos. Her favourite colour is red. Her favourite clothes are skin-tight. Her favourite wrenches are large.
Inventory: A large wrench
Skill: Improvised (Melee) Weaponry +1

Last edit: skill edit, since there is not another melee specialist in the group now after BullDog's edit.

Spoiler: The skills I had down first and second and third (click to show/hide)

Improvised Melee Weaponry +1 (If there is another melee specialist in the group: Engineering +1). I can change back if best/anyone objects, but I figured mechanicking would cover engineering and making traps and building steam powered robots and the like. Or maybe I should just keep it simple and bash people over the head with a large wrench. Hmm. Then I put down: Mechanicking +1

[Gatleos]

Forgot to mention, there are five spots. Everything after that is on the waitlist.

[BullDog]

Reserved if you don't mind, sheet in a bit.

[Digital Hellhound]

Ranged combat has a slight difference, in that the defender cannot cause damage to the attacker unless he also has a ranged weapon, no matter how good his/her roll.

Why no GM waitlist? The GMs need to plan out their story arcs/episodes beforehand, otherwise the game will have an unnecessary pause every time it changes hands.

[Gatleos]

Why no GM waitlist? The GMs need to plan out their story arcs/episodes beforehand, otherwise the game will have an unnecessary pause every time it changes hands.

The story could have radically changed by the time they get to the front of the line with their arc... but I suppose that's better than having nothing ready. I'll take this post as your signup, then.

[Dermonster]

Name: Derm
Bio: A (Comparitively) young Dwarf Necromancer, former archaeologist and one of the last of his profession. Twisted by the forgotten book under the lost goblin kings tomb, Derm seeks to restore order to the world so he can upset it later. Nobody knows this bit and no one can afford to be picky in the resistance. He wears the black robes as usual for his profession, except a bit more practical, along with a small ritual dagger in case of emergency. His hair is brown-blond. His eyes are a startling shade of green.
Inventory: Tome of Eldritch lore, the book from which Derm learned his dark craft. Some of the pages are unavailable to him until he learns from the pages he has yet to read.
Skill: Necromancy +1
World based offa DF. DF has Necromancy. I like being magical. Logic!
[Remembers about sentai thing] ... Still doin it!

[Digital Hellhound]

Well, obviously, but it still gives them extra time to prepare unless there's some last-update twist that changes everything. And yeah, I'm signing up. Exciting times.

[lawastooshort]

I'd also be interested in a GM slot sometime in the future when my PC is dead and so is at least one of my other RTDs. Not too soon though please!

[Yoink]

Wait, what happened to the whole colour-coded power-ranger style outfits? This all looks too serious-like for me.
I see 'crack commando squad', but I don't see any mention of their zany styles of dress! D:

[Dermonster]

Well this crazy commando team now has a possibly insane Dwarf Necromancer so theres the black ranger, I guess?
 
He's the guy who laughes at nature and causes thirty people to throw up when he does his routine, right?
 
Honestly at any second now I'm expecting a 'Hey you can't do that'.

[Gatleos]

Don't worry, this is going to be a lot less serious in practice. The backstory is just there to set up a background for it all.

[Sinpwn]

Name: Fekod "the master explodinator"
Bio: A grizzled, one eyed dwarf seemingly completely covered in scar tissue. Fekod has always had a soft spot for explosives. He has a beady brown eye, a leather eyepatch covering the other with a cartoon bomb weaved into it. He has a few patches of scraggly brown hair covered by an exotic leather hat and he is wearing what could best be described as a trench coat with many pockets and hooks for explosives.
Inventory:Old Faithful: A heavily modified and mismatched explosives launcher.
Skill: Explosives.

[BullDog]

Name: Zack
Bio:
He is 28.
He is trained in the art of healing.
He saw much pain when he was a child, including seeing his mother killed by bandits.
When his father died from an infection when he was 15, he vowed to learn the healing arts.
He is direct but kind.
He wears the white robes of a medic.
He has blue eyes, blond hair and is of average height.
Inventory: healing herbs
Skill: +1 to first aid 

[micelus]

Name: Baron James Ostal
Bio: A noble by life and trade, and a human one at that, James lead a somewhat interesting life. The assassinations, the endless games of intrigue and the appeasing of the Nazis. One false step, and you found yourself either in a gas chamber, or a noble-hating dwarf fortress. Unlike his colleagues however, he grew bored and disillusioned with it all, so he found other hobbies; robbing and smithing. He spent his time making swords, gears, keys, doors and the such during the day, and robbed homes and shops during the night. Of course, everyone in the neighbourhood knew that he was a terrible thief, but they let him do what he wanted, just to make him happy...Then he actually got better at it and soon he was forced to run out of town, since his friends got sick of his stealing.
Inventory: Thieves Kit/Skeleton Key (whichever is more balanced)
Skill: Gets a +1 to thieving and lockpicking