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[Aklyon]

Some kind of [evil or chaotic] [thing or organization] causing [insert big problem here] could be used for a quite generic cooperative start, and then just say the antagonist(s) can never stick to a plan for long before being distracted/conviced something else is better/ generally being indecisive.

[IronyOwl]

Oh man, I just thought of a way for this to work. Hehehehe.

Think Power Rangers. Where'd all those monsters come from? Varies, right. Fired in a kiln, drawn on paper, whatever. The point is, most of them were basically made on the spot out of some other component. See where I'm going with this?

The players are all villains (heroes could work too) of the preprocessed variety. Something made em, and needs em to fulfill some task, or maybe a bunch of seemingly unrelated tasks that ultimately lead up to some scheme or another. From the players' perspectives, though, they're just here to work on some goal innate to their creation/existence/whatever, then they're out of there. Back to the nether, free from the contract, the details don't matter, the point is they're cooperating while trying to achieve their own goals or dying in the attempt.

[Aklyon]

Sounds like it could work.

[SeriousConcentrate]

I would totally reserve a spot in that.

[adwarf]

Final Fantasy RTD

Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)

Name:
Gender:
Age:
Description:
Bio:
Class:
Attributes:
Strength -
Intelligence -
Agility -
Charisma -
Endurance -

Spoiler: Starting Classes (click to show/hide)

Militia - Militia are the basic melee unit the have a balance of HP, and SP that makes them perfect for battles when they are supported by mages who have a variety of Strengthening magics. They are able to utilize most weapons, and armor which makes them good all around melee characters.
Status:
HP - 10/10
MP - 0/0
SP - 25/25
Starting Skills:
Double Strike - Allows the user to attack one enemy twice in one round at the cost of 4 SP
Parry - Allows the user to evade, and counter-attack the enemy's attack (1d10 chance 7, or higher is a success), but costs the user 1 SP per attack.
Allowed Weapons: Spear, Sword, Axe, Dual-Swords, Fighting Pole, Fists
Allowed Armor: Light, Medium, Heavy, Shields
Allowed Magic: None

Mage Trainee - These characters ar emade specifically to be magic user, and start with High MP, but low SP, and HP they are weak to physical attacks, and rely heavily on the front line (Melee Characters) to protect them from physical damage. These characters can not use Magic past level 2, but they are allowed to use three types of magic from the start.
HP - 6/6
MP - 40/40
SP - 8/8
Starting Spells:
Cure, Lvl. 1 - Allows the user to heal one party member (Int*SL+Magic Rank-4) for a small amount of HP. MP Cost - 10
Fire, Lvl. 1 - Allows the user to inflict fire damage on one enemy (Int*SL+Magic Rank-4, and then Subtract the enemy's MD from that to acquire damage) to deal a small amount of damage to the enemy. MP Cost - 10
Protect, Lvl. 1 - Allows the user to protect an ally from some physical damage (Ally only takes 9/10 damage, and lasts five turns) MP Cost - 7
Allowed Weapons: Staff, Book, Grimore, Wand
Allowed Armor: Light
Allowed Spells: White, Black, Green

Hunter - These characters are about average they have the ability to use magic, medium HP, SP, and MP, but can only used range weapons, and Lvl. 1 Green Magic. They are good for buffing allies, debuffing enemies, and providing long range attacks on enemies, but if faced with melee combat, or prolonged magic combat they will easily die.
HP - 8/8
MP - 20/20
SP - 15/15
Starting Spells, and Skills:
Protect, Lvl.1 - Allows the user to protect an ally from some physical damage (Ally only takes 9/10 damage, and lasts five turns) MP Cost - 7
Shell, Lvl. 1 - Allows the user to protect an ally from magical damage (Ally Recieves only 9/10 Magical Damage, Lasts 5 Turns, MP Cost-
Poison Arrow - Allows you to fire an arrow covered in numerous toxins at the cost of 5 SP (Bow, and Crossbow only, 50% chance to poison, does not effect bosses.)
Triple Shot - Allows the user to fire three arrows at once at the cost of 5 SP (Bow Only, 3 Sperate Attacks)
Allowed Weapons: Crossbow, Bow, Throwing
Allowed Armor: Light, Medium
Allowed Spells: Green

I am still working on this just posting it so you guys can check out what I have, so far, and if someone wants to run it just PM me, and I will get the Class Tree worked out for you, or you can create it as you go.

[Draignean]

One of the issues with Roll to Dodge a Song is that being attrition-heavy is kind of the point. Half the fun is seeing what your song creates, which also doesn't mean your character is necessarily something you want to play for long. I suspect that might have something to do with their apparent tendency to die.

That would also make a more focused game somewhat problematic, since it's either Revolving Door Adventuring Party the RTD, or Get Random Character the RTD. Maybe you could figure out a way to make the players more cooperative while still killing them off and/or allowing them to complete their goals and retire with reasonable frequency.

Well I had an idea after the last one of those died...

What if the character features from the song only lasted for a number of turns equal to (1x 2x 3x etc) the number of minutes the song lasts rounded [Down / Up], and then you pick a new song and the cycle repeats. It mitigates the character boredom handily enough.

Or each character could select a playlist of character songs that was "shuffled" through, so you don't really know what your next personality shift is going to be.

[IronyOwl]

Well I had an idea after the last one of those died...

What if the character features from the song only lasted for a number of turns equal to (1x 2x 3x etc) the number of minutes the song lasts rounded [Down / Up], and then you pick a new song and the cycle repeats. It mitigates the character boredom handily enough.

Or each character could select a playlist of character songs that was "shuffled" through, so you don't really know what your next personality shift is going to be.

Don't like basing the duration off song length, but Roll to Mutate A Song could prove pretty interesting as well.

[Draignean]

Well I had an idea after the last one of those died...

What if the character features from the song only lasted for a number of turns equal to (1x 2x 3x etc) the number of minutes the song lasts rounded [Down / Up], and then you pick a new song and the cycle repeats. It mitigates the character boredom handily enough.

Or each character could select a playlist of character songs that was "shuffled" through, so you don't really know what your next personality shift is going to be.

Don't like basing the duration off song length, but Roll to Mutate A Song could prove pretty interesting as well.

*Shrugs* It makes perfect sense... Ah well, when has sense ever mattered on the DF forums anyway?

Sign me up if it ever gets made.

[SeriousConcentrate]

RtMaS? Explain yourself, please, Irony. ^^

[IronyOwl]

Well, instead of your character being built around a single song, it's built around a song that keeps getting changed, and presumably you keep residual bits of your "history" in the process.

It'd also be set in Rhapsody, and I have no idea what that is but I can't imagine it wouldn't be set in a place called Rhapsody so, yeah.

[SeriousConcentrate]

Hmm... not really sure how that would work. Would it start off like a normal RtDaS, only the player submits a number of songs and the GM switches whichever one he's using at set intervals/randomly?

[IronyOwl]

I'd probably tend more towards just requesting a new song every X turns.

Otherwise, it'd go something like this. For the sake of simplicity, we'll assume every song corresponds to an animal.

RtDaS: You send in a song, you get Cat. You play as a cat, and then either die or catch the mouse and leave.

RtMaS: You send in a song, you get Cat. You play as a cat, and then at some point send in a different song. You get Dog, and are now a dog with cat ears and the ability to climb trees. Then you send in another song and get Walrus, and are now a climbing walrus with a good sense of smell and cat ears.

I don't know exactly how this madness ends.

[Bdthemag]

Reserve me a spot so I can spam everyone my list of Metallica songs~

[Talarion]

A reserve would be nice/interesting. Just like Bdthemag.

[Dermonster]

I would like to remind that I had a spot reserved and that is still a thing but if it isn't reserving a spot now.

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