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Author Topic: Zodiac: The Mind of Madness  (Read 12909 times)

Greatness942

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Zodiac: The Mind of Madness
« on: May 21, 2017, 02:08:45 pm »

Main Theme: I Believe You-Celldweller
Spoiler: Prologue (click to show/hide)
Hello people of Bay12! Welcome to my crack at a Roll to Dodge Princess Celestia/Los Cazadores sort of adventure game. See, I came here because of RTDPC, so for the longest time, I wanted to take a stab at something like it. And now I can! But enough introductions, let's play.
Spoiler: Mechanics (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Pre-Made Sheet (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Extra Notes (click to show/hide)
Starting Players: 1. OceanSoul as Callie Effae
2. MastahCheese as Cromwell Jackson
3. Mallos as Amnis
4. IamElfCollaborator as Miki Satou
5. Shadowclaw777 as Terrance Peel
6. Stirk as Jacob Daniels

Waitlist: 1.crazyabe as Nixus
2. TCM as ___
3. ironsnake345 as Damien Ricard
4. FallacyofUrist as Samuel Lawrence
5. DolosusDoleus as ___
6. piratejoe as Miyako Koguchi
7. wipeout1024 as Nikki
8. FailBird105 as Hellstorm (and Bob)

OOC Thread: There is none. Instead, we have a Discord! It was just for Wiki-Warfare: Cataclysm, but you can still chat with other players here!
« Last Edit: June 12, 2017, 01:41:28 pm by Greatness942 »
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I desire, for whatever reason, to create Space Louisiana.

OceanSoul

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Re: Zodiac: The Mind of Madness
« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2017, 02:41:22 pm »

Reserve me.
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Work on a potential forum game for my return to Bay12. Figure out parts that puzzled me before. Find more things to figure out that I can't. Work on another game instead of solving them. Get distracted and stop working. Remember it a week or two later. Remember I'm still on hiatus. Illogically, Be too ashamed to return yet. Repeat ad nauseam.

Finally have a game completely ready. Wait a week before posting it out of laziness.

Greatness942

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Re: Zodiac: The Mind of Madness
« Reply #2 on: May 21, 2017, 02:42:46 pm »

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Offer them each a glass of a local drink, Rwandan Flower Wine, which contains secret ingredients to help calm the drinker such as crushed amethyst, dandelion wine and just the right amount of marijuana.
I desire, for whatever reason, to create Space Louisiana.

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Re: Zodiac: The Mind of Madness
« Reply #3 on: May 21, 2017, 03:06:24 pm »

Eh, why not. This looks fun.

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Re: Zodiac: The Mind of Madness
« Reply #4 on: May 21, 2017, 03:10:42 pm »

Eh, why not. This looks fun.

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I desire, for whatever reason, to create Space Louisiana.

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Re: Zodiac: The Mind of Madness
« Reply #5 on: May 21, 2017, 05:50:36 pm »

Awesome!

One question though: I put Passive/Active on my first ability because I wasn't sure which one it would count as.
Do we have a limit on how many times we can use active skills, or is the distinction in this case kinda irrelevant?
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Re: Zodiac: The Mind of Madness
« Reply #6 on: May 21, 2017, 06:07:33 pm »

Please reserve me.
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Re: Zodiac: The Mind of Madness
« Reply #7 on: May 21, 2017, 06:14:25 pm »

Awesome!

One question though: I put Passive/Active on my first ability because I wasn't sure which one it would count as.
Do we have a limit on how many times we can use active skills, or is the distinction in this case kinda irrelevant?
Ah, good point there. When I first thought of it, Active skills usually have a cooldown (as you can see in Dr. Baker's Pre-Made Sheet). Usually, they can only be done a certain amount of times per mission, of the same number as the ability's level. So, Crack Shot can be done twice per mission. If this isn't a good system, I can change it to a more traditional "turns until" system.

EDIT: Actually, I think it's gonna be a "turns until" system. An Ability having what amounts to ammo makes no sense. I guess it depends on the ability.
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« Last Edit: May 21, 2017, 06:16:22 pm by Greatness942 »
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Re: Zodiac: The Mind of Madness
« Reply #8 on: May 21, 2017, 06:21:00 pm »

Spoiler: hade ni ikuze (click to show/hide)
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Re: Zodiac: The Mind of Madness
« Reply #9 on: May 21, 2017, 06:23:33 pm »

Reserved

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« Last Edit: May 21, 2017, 06:47:24 pm by Shadowclaw777 »
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I desire, for whatever reason, to create Space Louisiana.

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Re: Zodiac: The Mind of Madness
« Reply #11 on: May 21, 2017, 06:30:34 pm »

Greatness, how would you feel about my character having skills based on random generation? It would pretty much entirely be theme on a per-use basis, but I'm not sure if you'd want me to do it, want to do it yourself, or just not allow it. An example:

Omni Barrier (Lv. 1 Active): Generates a protective barrier around up to 2 allies. The strengths/weaknesses of them are based on a randomly generated attribute. (ex. a Cat barrier would be effective against fleshy or birdlike beings, but be weak to canine beings, spray bottles, etc.)

BTW, I have Fniff's list in mind.
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Work on a potential forum game for my return to Bay12. Figure out parts that puzzled me before. Find more things to figure out that I can't. Work on another game instead of solving them. Get distracted and stop working. Remember it a week or two later. Remember I'm still on hiatus. Illogically, Be too ashamed to return yet. Repeat ad nauseam.

Finally have a game completely ready. Wait a week before posting it out of laziness.

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Re: Zodiac: The Mind of Madness
« Reply #12 on: May 21, 2017, 06:40:12 pm »

Greatness, how would you feel about my character having skills based on random generation? It would pretty much entirely be theme on a per-use basis, but I'm not sure if you'd want me to do it, want to do it yourself, or just not allow it. An example:

Omni Barrier (Lv. 1 Active): Generates a protective barrier around up to 2 allies. The strengths/weaknesses of them are based on a randomly generated attribute. (ex. a Cat barrier would be effective against fleshy or birdlike beings, but be weak to canine beings, spray bottles, etc.)

BTW, I have Fniff's list in mind.

Hmm, good gimmick, and it doesn't sound like a bad idea. The thing that sticks out would be that most of the abilities might not have many uses, but considering I'm running a Wiki-Warfare game right now, I know firsthand that random can still work. Sure, that's fine.
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I desire, for whatever reason, to create Space Louisiana.

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Re: Zodiac: The Mind of Madness
« Reply #13 on: May 21, 2017, 06:47:14 pm »

Reserved

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This works, but for Persuasive Monologue, what do you mean by "Has a Chance"? I guess that's up to me, but did you have a specific method in mind?
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Re: Zodiac: The Mind of Madness
« Reply #14 on: May 21, 2017, 06:47:55 pm »

Sounds fun! I'll reserve the last spot, please!

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