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wakkace

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George Rozas said :
I actually had a similar rroleplay concept a while back. Mutants with weak powers, but over time they advance from stage 1 through to stage 5, each stage increasing/mutating their powers further to become far greater.


cancer is not a superpower
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19-Apr-2017 19:22:12

Westenev

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wakkace said :
George Rozas said :
I actually had a similar rroleplay concept a while back. Mutants with weak powers, but over time they advance from stage 1 through to stage 5, each stage increasing/mutating their powers further to become far greater.


cancer is not a superpower


A superpower that grants cancer sounds like a great idea though.

GOOD JOB BREAKING IT, HERO.
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20-Apr-2017 02:47:39

Westenev

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Annie1227 said :
Hello???? Is anyone here?????


I am!

The release of the new thread has been interrupted in part to me working out a new system of combat/play. In order to... *ahem* entice newer role-players onto the scene (I'M OPTIMISTIC, DAMN YOU), I'm envisioning a writing style that lists precisely what you mean to say what you plan to do, without the spiels of unnecessary descriptions.

For some threads, one-to-three post descriptions works - but for others, it just leads to godmodding, rooting back to my ideals that inaction is in fact an action. In keeping with this, I'm hoping to revive the ideals of a moderate-skilled thread from 2010.

The idea is basically cutting the fight in two steps - an action step, and a reaction step. The action step is handed out by the attacker, while the reaction and subsequent action step is given by the defender - moderated by the GM.

Another important thing I would like to add is the "interrupt" step, which can be employed at any time. This would allow a player to revert time, and discontinue everything from that point in the post onwards in order to insert their own actions. From there, the active role-players must decide if things would play out similarly (and thus copy and paste), or if drastic changes must be added.

I would prefer that "interrupted" steps were not edited out.



Keep in mind this is only rough brainstorming, and I don't have any samples I'm willing to share just yet.
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21-Apr-2017 03:04:04

Azi Demonica

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I think that would work well West, though I will admit I don't know how to help you in this case. I think an action-to-reaction system works very well, and the interrupt could be a parry, block or dodge.

Anyways, it seems I accidentally set our old little camper on fire. I was raking dead grass and leaves, burning it in a spot, and afterwards, I went home to relax. It seems some fire ended up going under the camper, and it soon caught fire. I was alerted by a neighbor, who struck my door, so I went to investigate, and he ran away absolutely terrified. I saw flames rising about nine feet out the engine and windshield of the camper, and mind you, it's in-between two mobile home/trailers, ours and a neighbors.

Regardless, I fought the flames by pouring water repeatedly for about ten minutes, and to make things even worse, the water pressure was extremely low during that time. Nevertheless, me and my dad fought the flames with more and more water, pots with just a few inches of water every time. Opening the side door and hood, orange flames erupted and fumed thick smoke at me. Fighting through the inhalation of dark smoggy smoke, I managed to subside the blaze, but it was still burning like crazy in the engine which started popping. Eventually, the fire department came, and finished off the last 10% of flames with a fire hose.

Kinda funny that I did more work than the freakin' fire department with just pots of water; the flames were several times worse before they came. I take pride in this accidental adventure; I did not panic, was not scared, and calm the entire time, and showed that fire and smoke who's boss.

Fortunately, that camper had nothing valuable, did have two tanks of gasoline and a few bags of charcoal, which ironically did not catch fire. Also ironic, that despite practicing traditional blacksmithing, it was not temperatures that heat metal red-hot the caused a fire, it was freakin' dead grass, just smoking -.-

21-Apr-2017 05:21:13

Westenev

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Azi Demonica said :
I think that would work well West, though I will admit I don't know how to help you in this case. I think an action-to-reaction system works very well, and the interrupt could be a parry, block or dodge.


Not quite; a parry, block or dodge would be a reaction to a post, and potentially an action for the next post. An interrupt would only occur if a post contained multiple actions, each reliant on a character or the environment acting in a way they wouldn't.

If that makes sense!


Azi Demonica said :
Fortunately, that camper had nothing valuable, did have two tanks of gasoline and a few bags of charcoal, which ironically did not catch fire. Also ironic, that despite practicing traditional blacksmithing, it was not temperatures that heat metal red-hot the caused


Well, I mean, if it were hot enough for the METAL to begin melting, I don't think it'd be wise to be throwing pots of water at it!
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21-Apr-2017 08:23:41

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