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Penal Force is a game based partially on Rimworld’s setting where two factions, the freedom loving and resource hungry Coalition and the Authoritarian and resource hungry Empire, are vying for the control of a resource rich planet. You’re a force under the control of the Coalition being made to help with that by expanding the penal colony for the Coalition to gain a foothold on the planet..

The two factions each control expansive areas of space and are currently locked in a cold war. Under the control of both factions are worlds in various areas of technological development though most don’t know it. This means that within reason players could, for example, easily play a knight from a feudal world next to a cyborg gunslinger from a Rimworld. There is also magic, though none of you can use it except through enchanted items as it requires many mages to attain any appreciable effect. As a side note, you tend to not see enchanted items that are more complicated than a few hunks of metal attached using cloth due to each individual part needing to be enchanted with the same enchantment. Quicker and easier to just make a really nice sword and then slap a sharpness enchantment on it.

The system will be using fudge dice, to resolve conflicts. Everybody gets four dice to use. After rolling and seeing how many successes a character has they add their skill bonus to the roll. Then, their equipment bonuses will be added. Then the winner is decided. For attack rolls, if the winner is the attacker the loser will lose a dice. When out of dice, the character is incapacitated and should their allies not rescue them they will die at the mission’s end. Rescuing characters means you lose one die on all checks until you leave them or otherwise aren’t restricted by them. This lost die isn’t counted towards incapacitation. As a side note some enemies may try to take incapacitated allies. They will receive the same penalties as rescuing an ally.

If one is so inclined, they can heal a wounded ally and allow them to fight as if they were good as new. To succeed on a heal check you must roll your dice plus your relevant stats against the number of wounds the character has taken times 3. If you succeed you heal a wound.




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It's a fairly typical Friday for you all. You got up this morning, went to school, sat through some hours of instruction... Well, fairly typical as your homeroom teacher, Mr. Johnson, asked for you all to come to his classroom after school. And so, for one reason or another you've decided to do as you're told, perhaps it's simple obedience to the man, or perhaps it's curiosity about just what it is he wants. After all, you aren't involved in any relevant clubs as far as you know and there aren't any school activities coming up that you know about. Whatever the case, the door is currently locked and the lights are out, so it's likely he went to the bathroom before you arrived and will be back in a bit. Might as well talk to these losers while you wait right?

OOC Thread

This is it, the big first day. No matter what previous schooling you had, if any, it’s hard not to be somewhat excited and in awe at the majestic front gates of the academy, towering so high that even a giant would be hard pressed to touch the top. Those with any experience in such matters would accurately be able to assume that the gate, and indeed all the walls, are made with magic, the stone flowing together a little too perfectly, the mortar holding up a little too well, the lack of dirt and grime affecting it. Really, it is to be expected that mages worked on it though, it’s simply the most convenient way to do construction even with the constant danger of an inexperienced mage working on the project. With that in mind, the anti-magic field was probably put in afterwards. As you walk further in past the massive red metal doors, probably some kind of magic alloy, (possibly from the school's patron deity?) you would approach a gathering of other students in front of a stage with a rather… interesting group of people, a masked shirtless man and an appropriately fancily dressed monster woman, (Maybe some kind of flying monster?) a rather small faerie man on a walking stool and a pony sized centaur woman and finally twin mantis women. Recalling off the top of your heads you would recognize some of them and their names with the exception of the masked one and the well dressed woman. The mantis women are well known as the two monster biology teachers at the school, Tsubaki and Akira… you forget their last names. The faeire is the history teacher, Brom Sparkleson. The centaur is of course the food preparation teacher Layara Foreststrider. Somewhere you're sure the rogue’s teacher Kate is hiding. Damn rogues.

A tall, stout, bearded man clears his throat from the front of the stage, his voice cutting clear over the gathered students with ease. The assembled group quickly ceases talking as he raises a hand for them to stop. Taking one last look around the crowd he nods before he begins speaking in a voice that’s both authoritative and very much carrying the brough of the emerald isles to the North.

“Good morning, it’s nice to see so many new faces arriving to our prestigious academy! I’d like to say a few words of thanks before I get onto the bits I’m sure you all are most interested in. First I would like to thank our returning teacher of those who are choosing the warrior's path for continuing to work despite the accident with that artifact,” The masked man raises his hand in acknowledgement. “, Next I’d like to thank our lovely new healing teacher for accepting our invitation to work here. I’d also like to extend gratitude to the other teachers that have stayed at the academy for the previous year. Now then, on to business, I’m sure you all are itching to get to the famous opening gathering for first years to meet, greet, and with any luck form into teams… though those of you who prefer to not to get involved with a concrete group are free to offer yourselves for groups with less than the standard six person group size or other groups… but some things to keep in mind when you’re socializing and making merry. First of all, thank the cooks if you see them, they work hard on the buffet each year. Second, Don’t challenge others to fights just yet, the fighting pits have to be cleaned still. Finally… have fun.”

With the announcements seemingly done there is a round of applause before the gathered students file into the great hall that is indicated behind the stage. Entering it, you would note… well, the first thing is probably that the man who was speaking never actually said who he is or what he does. But the next thing would be noticing how great the food in here smells; various dishes from this region and those from others, one could find any food they want here. There’s also a table of various drinks being manned by a halfling on a stool looking generally happy as is often the case with them. The hall -being, well, great-is easily large enough for you all to easily navigate and form up into your own groups without having to worry about getting in the way. As you each go to do your own thing, a thought comes to mind. Just who are you going to group up with now, and what are you going to call yourselves?

OOC Thread

Today was the day, whether you were a hobo with an angry tadpole or the professor's own flesh and blood, you were going to get your pokedex, the final piece of the puzzle needed to deemed an official pokemon trainer. There was just one problem... The lab is being blocked off by a large Arcanine and of course, Officer Jenny. Now, a Jenny with a Growlithe would be worrying enough, but this is clearly a very important matter if the more experienced one is being used. Jenny is explaining something about patience or some crock like that but you aren't really listening until the end of the speech.
"... Now I know you're all excited to get your pokedexes, but with the recent appearance of a third gang kidnapping pokemon a place with as many pokemon as the lab needs another security... Oh, they're done, you can go in now."
You all look up to see two more of the Jenny sisters each with an Arcanine of their own exit the building. One of them seems to stare at you all as you enter the sterile environment of Brich's lab. You all can see the large man sigh and shake his head as he turns to tend to something, seemingly unaware of the entrance of your group.

OOC Thread

Somewhere, far away... no farther... a bit farther... THERE! Somewhere about that far away people do not behave like us. They have some odd thing about them that makes them anywhere from about as strong as us to able to kill us in one punch. Somewhere in the middle, is you 'heroes'. You are... Martial Artists. You guys get to run around and defend the weak instead of work in an office and feel your soul getting sapped by your painful existence. You are going to fight for the order of the Red Dragon, and find out where that thing he wants is. You know, the thing that crashed through the forest and was quickly taken by some thugs a couple months ago? That thing. Anyways, you... You guys need to fill out these forms before you actually go out and test the system... Huh? I didn't say anything about a system. Just fill out the fucking forms.

... You probably want some explanations. It's a good thing I already wrote them up!
Each of the attacks and their relevant defense gets the total bonus on the roll added. Also of note is that the stats can be used in the same way as attacking in other situations.

Oh, you don't already know you're perks? Weird. Obviously I already know what they are since I'm looking at you. Well, don't worry, I have a list here as well. If there's any I missed, do tell me and we can negotiate it going on the list.






Now then, chop chop, can't keep the Red Dragon waiting.

This thread is to test an idea for a system that borrows an idea from Hotline Miami and uses it as a base for the rest of the system.

The main stats for this system is Accuracy, which lets you beat in the heads of others, and Reactions, which let you beat in the heads of others before they can do so to you. These start at six, which means you roll a d6 for them. Every time you gain a point you upgrade the die by one. (So, d2, d4, d6, d10, d20) after you gain a d20 you gain a d2. So on and so forth until you die or finish the level.

I recently decided to make a fairly simple adaption of Payday to a turn based RPG.

In this game you play a new gang of criminals hired by the wonderful mister Bain to do jobs on the west coast. Mostly because you're easily expendable if something goes wrong during this start up. Not that it will. You ARE professionals after all. And the reward is worth it.

Rolls are made on a d100 and with lower rolls being better, A weapons accuracy stat being the number you roll under for that particular weapon to hit.
Anyways, this is the current character sheet and class description. Don't worry about the stuff under the stats, Bain will keep track of that for you.