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Hello fair folk. My name is Rosewood. I am a wizard.

I hear you would like to make this town a borough. While there is no ruler in this land, I have come to help you create your own charter to set up your basic rights and responsibilities to help you transform from a smattering of peasants, to an organized, safer, and prosperous lordship. Do not be concerned I wish to deceive or rule you, no. You will establish your own guilds and hold elections. Perhaps some day you may have a kingdom and expand to other lands. It is a good thing, to dream. it is the magic any peasant can cast, but it takes practice.

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About:
This is a special game that is a medieval fantasy simulator. The simulation begins with nothing more than roleplaying. There are no basic gameplay mechanics, but this can quickly change. Past incarnations have created day night cycles, currency, exploration, combat, and much much more. Guilds will form around an aspect of gameplay expansion and upkeep. A player can join multiple guilds, and generally the more responsibility you take on, the wealthier and/or more powerful you become. This can serve as a light exercise to practice game hosting in a controlled environment with help, or more, or less. Though everyone will need to pull their own weight somehow. Different guilds can cooperate on similar pursuits. All it takes is someone to declare themselves a Guildmaster to form a new guild. They then create a thread and players can discuss that aspect of gameplay. Guildmembers can be promoted and assigned aspects of these responsibilities, and elect their leader. Then the guildmasters can elect the Lord to help regulate the guilds and overall game.

Sound like fun?

IC Thread

Guilds:
Just a Town's First Official Currency Guild

Citizens:
Charter Adviser Rosewood (roseheart)
Guildmaster Fodge (Pavellius)
Maple (FakerFangirl)
Hunlif (Imic)
Salade (The_Saladman)
Fenrir (TheRedwolf)

When you join, choose a fantasy name, bonus points if it kinda sounds like your username.

I can't see any recent images on my IRON GLADIATOR game. Can someone verify this?

This one seems rather popular on forums, and after glancing at the pages of history and old topics in the various nonsense I couldn't see one. So I'm making one!<P>Basically it goes like this. The first poster, which is me, states a wish.
Example: I wish I had a million dollars!
And the next poster corrupts the wish, and then posts a wish of his/her own.
Example: But the million dollars were stolen from a bank and you end up in jail!
I wish I had some pie! And so on and on. Ready? Let's start corrupting! I wish I won the top prize at the swedish lottery.

Same as that. Except roll the outcome of the above poster. You can use your own formula, but typically it is something like:

6 - Overshoot, Succeed so well it's bad.
5 - Success, your wish came true!
4 - Partial Success, your wish came true more or less!
3 - Minor Success, your wish came true technically speaking!
2 - Minimal Success, your wish came true in an ironic way or something!
1 - Failure, your wish came true! No. No it did not.

"Eh, hem."

*rubs lamp*

"I wish for an Ankylosaurus egg!"

About: I am taking this opportunity to work on my story telling. Which admittedly has traditionally taken a back seat to my gameplay tinkering. That said I see a few ways I can tinker with the RtD agenda to amuse me(and, hopefully you!).

Try to do/be/observe/ect. something cute.

New System:

6 - Too Cute
5 - CUTE
4 - Pretty Cute
3 - Fairly Cute
2 - Minorly Cute
1 - Minimally Cute

Now days indie video games become crazy popular, even with only a few or even one person designing the whole thing.

Each day it becomes easier to make games. For years players have made full conversion mods. Games have releases "map makers", with tools to make custom scenarios. I remember my poison of choice was "StarEdit", StarCraft's map maker. And I actually spent more time playing other's "custom maps" than the game itself, sometimes I was a gladiator, or a pokemon, or even a hero in "defense of the ancients", a map that later become a "Real" PC game. Tools like these make it so an amateur with an idea, has one less step between the idea and the players.

Introduce forum games. Maybe you have played one, Mafia perhaps? (yes, it also available in other formats, like board games) The first time I played it I was blown away. How could something be this exciting? And not a video game, but a text based roleplaying game? My eyes were opened. There is something here...this medium of games on forums isn't as limited as it appears.

Since that day I have dedicated myself to what I have found to be the medium of games that has the thinnest membrane between the idea and the players. Within a day,  I can see something I thought of being played by 6 players. As a former board game designer hobbyist, this meant going to meetups and playing each others games cold. Personally I am more a maker than a player, but it was polite to go through the gauntlet of people's half bakes games, so they might try yours, its only fair. But Forum games have allowed me to be selfish. I rarely play others, and that is fine. Everyone making games are finding plenty of players eager to test them out. I feel there is a quite renaissance happening in this medium. Or perhaps it's just at a highly optimal equilibrium of content creation and consumption.

Either way I have been so liberated by forum games. I used to dream of being a video game designer, but I just did not have the patience to code. Game mechanics are different. Though if I want, I can even improvise as I go. I keep seeing glimmers of there being something here, some way I can accomplish the kinds of experiences I'd like to deliver, in the most humble of all of gaming's mediums.

I am really excited.

You can do one of the following once per hour:

Add 2 to a score.
Subtract 2 from a score.
Add 1 to one, and subtract 1 from the other.
(Three consecutive votes limit.)

The first to 30, or last one standing, wins. Have a nice day.

NEW STUFF
If you finish the game, you may set two NEW things for the next game at 15 POINTS EACH.
You have one hour to decide, then anybody can do it.
When you conclude a game, why not post a commemorative picture of the victor?

Gum 15
Mint 15

(PLEASE COPY AND PASTE THANK YOU)

You can use lift, grow, or sink.