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[ExKirby]

So I just read the last 2 50-post pages of the thread that I own and yet don't really look at, and I'm just going to be a bitch and say that nobody has paid attention to the first post, paragraph(?) 2. I don't think I've EVER seen some point or reference to this thread, despite it being here for... a long time. Haven't EVER updated that OP. Anyway, I'm glad to hear that this thread is still in use, and will hopefully never need to be stickied. Even though the RTD Hall of Fame is the first sticky of the RTD boards, we can all relish in the greatest non-RTD thread of all time. ((Yes, I am that proud.))

Anyway, the main reason I came here is to drop some ideas. And being myself, I have a LOT of ideas to drop. A LOT. Feel free to have a look at them.

Spoiler: ApothecaRTD (click to show/hide)

Cheesy name aside, this is basically fantasy potion brewing. The players collaboratively ((That's the spelling Chrome decided upon)) run an apothecary, selling potions and such to the masses in a city. Of course, they have to be responsible for collecting ingredients, brewing potions, managing stock an ultimately, curing people of their ailments. It would be somewhat similar to that crafting game on the main games board ((The name escapes me)) but all the players would be working together. And of course, the RTD system would be in place, meaning you could make potions that can cure cancer... or give cancer. I suppose being a poison supplier could be a valid group gameplay style.

Spoiler: Spam Army (click to show/hide)

Again, cheesy name aside, this is basically "What if we gave the players 1Hp, an infinite waiting list and shoved them all in the cruelest puzzles known to man?" Players would have to collaborate, communicate, and at the end of the day, chuck someone into a pit of spikes to carry on with the game. An example puzzle might be "The ground before you is cut short-Derm looks over the edge and finds a 50m drop to a spike pit! The exit is beyond, but there is no way in heck you could clear that gap under your own merits." The solution? Keep tossing yourselves over the edge until the spikes are padded enough to warrant safe landing, then just fall on top and make a break to safety. It could be a real treat to see how cruel the GM can get, and the lengths at which players are willing to go to to achieve their goals. Also, tossing your "friends" off a cliff is always entertaining.

Spoiler: RTD Live (click to show/hide)

We had a good go at this about a... year(?) ago. The basic premise was "Let's play an RTD over MapTools" but I believe we can expand this idea to be a bit better. Basically, we get a set of GMs, who collaborate to form some kind of world and canon, and get to run RTDs in their world over MapTools. And of course, all the different adventures could reference each other... there isn't as much to put here because the world could be shaped in any which way we wanted to, but yeah, it could be a rather fun and different thing to do.

And now, because take a penny leave a penny, I will now rant about ebbor's ideas.

History Monks could be bun, but I know jack shit nothing about Discworld so I don't know how good you could make it. Although, ((Going off what you've wrote)) if everything is supposed to go a specific way as written in a book, and the book does not mention the Monks getting involved in a certain scenario BUT THEY DO ANYWAY, doesn't that technically mean that they are breaking their own rules? ((Loopholes FTW))

Futuristic Idea:



Yes, that applause was merited. We finally get a plot idea featuring cryo that doesn't involve defunct ships (And a prison complex in one case)! Thank you for being original. As far as the ideas behind it are concerned, I quite like it. Not the kind of thing I would be interested in, but good nonetheless.

Submarine Idea... Let's look at it like this. How are you going to make submarine piloting fun? And I mean actually fun, not "I'm going to toss these enemies at you for some unmerited reason". ARRRRRRTD was good because it gave players other things to do while on their ship-in a close-future environment, what can you do on a submarine like that? If you can come up with a logical reason behind it, then fine, but I honestly don't see a way to make it work AND be fun.

[Skyrunner]

ApothecaRTD sounds fun. Maybe I'll have a try, though I can't grasp what mechanics should be in place.. 

[ExKirby]

ApothecaRTD sounds fun. Maybe I'll have a try, though I can't grasp what mechanics should be in place >_<

Use my favourite: IMPROVISE!

Alternatively, assign all problems general names and numbers (Eg. Snake Bites could be Wounds 2 Poison 3), and assign ingredients similar stats, except in negatives if they cure (Eg. A Poisionous Berry could be Poison 1, but an anti-poision berry would be -1). Hide these stats from the players and force them to work things out. When potions are made, the numbers from the ingredients are added up and collated (Eg. Two Anti-Poision berries and one Poisonous one would work out at Poison -1). They then give the potions to patients and if the stats come to 0 or less, they're cured! I suppose immunity ingredients could be an idea: You can't go below 0, but get an immunity ingredient and you are now allowed to go to, say, -3.

...Wow, Kirby. A good idea? Are you on something?

[Tiruin]

Request: Could anyone set up the RTD FAQ? Specifically what die is for? d6, d10 and d20 are the common ones I've heard, to help those new to RTDs.

[10ebbor10]

Basic rules are: d6 for everything.

[Skyrunner]

@Kirby

Yes. Yes, you are. :-D

That sounds good ...

... though there are a host of more issues xD
Oh, well, I'll hopefully make it by today.

@ebbor

Except when they're not. :3

Percentile dice are used when you have a very small chance that is less than 11% for something!

[ExKirby]

Randomblurt: I have taken it upon myself, on of the senior RTDers, to write the FAQ. Here's what the questions look like so far (and I only just started):

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Q: So what is an RTD?
A: An RTD is like an interactive story-you are the main characters and the GM controls everything else via the aid of a dice.

Q: What does RTD stand for?
A: Roll To Dodge. It's on the subforum name, god damn it!

Q: Why is the RTD system better than X?
A: To run an RTD, you literally only need a six-sided dice and Notepad. Actually, you don't even need either-What Plot has no note making from the GM at all, and the vast majority of GMs use RANDOM.org to roll their dice.

Q: X can do that as well!
A (Which is also a Q): How much did you pay for X?

Q (Which is also an A): <<INSERT SOME MONETARY VALUE HERE>>
A: Yeah, the RTD system is FREE. In all sense of the word.

Q: So how do I play an RTD?
A: Find an RTD that needs players, and do what the GM says to do on the OP.

Q: What's a GM/OP?
A: Game Master and Opening Post respectively. Basically, the GM makes a thread by posting the OP, and then everything else happens from that.

Q: I made it in, now what?
A: Every turn, you should post an action-what you want your character to do-in first person (Not an actual requirement, but in good taste anyway) and in some form of notification-usually it is commonplace to bold your actions by putting (squarebracket)b(squarebracket) and (squarebracket)/b(squarebracket) around it like so;

Code: [Select]

[b]THE ACTION GOES HERE[/b]

This is going in its own thread later: as much as I hate clutter, I don't think grouping the Library and FAQ together is a good idea because people may be lazy bastards who can't be bothered looking at a library as well. Also, I intend to allow people to ask more questions, so I doubt mixing them with the nominations is a good idea =P

[Yoink]

Good to see you back, ExKirby!
Anyway, I've been pondering some RTD-related matters, and I was wondering: If an RTD was run using a D12 instead of the usual D6, would there still be just two numbers for crit sucesses/failures, or would you increase that number?
Also, would the GM using some kind of, not sure how to put it, 'morale' system be a good idea? By which I mean, rolling against a 'willpower' stat in certain cases to determine whether a PC is brave enough to attack X, whether they're heartless enough to slay an unarmed opponent, whether they aid their allies when horribly outnumbered or simply run away, or a whole other bunch of situations.
At first I thought the idea sounded cool, but then it started to seem rather railroad-y... And then I realised it was 2AM and my brain wasn't working so I figured I'd just make a poorly-worded, sleep-deprived post on here and be done with it.

[10ebbor10]

And now, because take a penny leave a penny, I will now rant about ebbor's ideas.

History Monks could be bun, but I know jack shit nothing about Discworld so I don't know how good you could make it. Although, ((Going off what you've wrote)) if everything is supposed to go a specific way as written in a book, and the book does not mention the Monks getting involved in a certain scenario BUT THEY DO ANYWAY, doesn't that technically mean that they are breaking their own rules? ((Loopholes FTW))

The book just details the history of the world, but the Discworld, due to it's highly magical nature, tends to have problems with keeping the time organised. It helps that the Monk can actually manipulate time, including keeping rogue timeloops alive. Also due to an accident that will not be mentioned in this RTD, because it't what's the book about, time in Space on the disc are fractured. The Monks are just making a patch-up job.(For example, there's a certain battle that has happened several times in history). The book is quite inaccurate as it is.

The most important thing that you must know is that narrativium excist, and powers the entire world. Stories and other things have real power there. Also the way  thinks work is that the Present is defined as the moment you're currently experiencing. Both the future and the past have already happened and you are simply moving from A to B. There are also all sorts of complex things involving the Trousers of Time and such, but it often works out in the end.

Futuristic Idea:

Yes, that applause was merited. We finally get a plot idea featuring cryo that doesn't involve defunct ships (And a prison complex in one case)! Thank you for being original. As far as the ideas behind it are concerned, I quite like it. Not the kind of thing I would be interested in, but good nonetheless.

Bah, I want to respond to this but I can't really do it.

Submarine Idea... Let's look at it like this. How are you going to make submarine piloting fun? And I mean actually fun, not "I'm going to toss these enemies at you for some unmerited reason". ARRRRRRTD was good because it gave players other things to do while on their ship-in a close-future environment, what can you do on a submarine like that? If you can come up with a logical reason behind it, then fine, but I honestly don't see a way to make it work AND be fun.

I can't find the ARRRTD thingy, but there's lot of things you can do on and around your ship. Also, each player pilots his own ships and oil platforms. You can board ships, explore drowned cities in diving suits, visit underwater labs and others.

Spoiler: ApothecaRTD (click to show/hide)

Cheesy name aside, this is basically fantasy potion brewing. The players collaboratively ((That's the spelling Chrome decided upon)) run an apothecary, selling potions and such to the masses in a city. Of course, they have to be responsible for collecting ingredients, brewing potions, managing stock an ultimately, curing people of their ailments. It would be somewhat similar to that crafting game on the main games board ((The name escapes me)) but all the players would be working together. And of course, the RTD system would be in place, meaning you could make potions that can cure cancer... or give cancer. I suppose being a poison supplier could be a valid group gameplay style.

Could be fun.  Probably would be.

Spoiler: Spam Army (click to show/hide)

Again, cheesy name aside, this is basically "What if we gave the players 1Hp, an infinite waiting list and shoved them all in the cruelest puzzles known to man?" Players would have to collaborate, communicate, and at the end of the day, chuck someone into a pit of spikes to carry on with the game. An example puzzle might be "The ground before you is cut short-Derm looks over the edge and finds a 50m drop to a spike pit! The exit is beyond, but there is no way in heck you could clear that gap under your own merits." The solution? Keep tossing yourselves over the edge until the spikes are padded enough to warrant safe landing, then just fall on top and make a break to safety. It could be a real treat to see how cruel the GM can get, and the lengths at which players are willing to go to to achieve their goals. Also, tossing your "friends" off a cliff is always entertaining.

Oh, I would join one of these. Maybe you could also have the waitlisters suggest new and dangerous traps for the G.M to use.

Good to see you back, ExKirby!
Anyway, I've been pondering some RTD-related matters, and I was wondering: If an RTD was run using a D12 instead of the usual D6, would there still be just two numbers for crit sucesses/failures, or would you increase that number?
Also, would the GM using some kind of, not sure how to put it, 'morale' system be a good idea? By which I mean, rolling against a 'willpower' stat in certain cases to determine whether a PC is brave enough to attack X, whether they're heartless enough to slay an unarmed opponent, whether they aid their allies when horribly outnumbered or simply run away, or a whole other bunch of situations.
At first I thought the idea sounded cool, but then it started to seem rather railroad-y... And then I realised it was 2AM and my brain wasn't working so I figured I'd just make a poorly-worded, sleep-deprived post on here and be done with it.

If you want to have the same crit succes: 2 numbers.
For the other one, I would give the player the choice to do such things, but you could give him or her penalties.

[Gatleos]

I have to say ExKirby, as a magnificently lazy individual, I applaud your innovation in the field of foisting GM duties onto the players.

Good to see you back, ExKirby!
Anyway, I've been pondering some RTD-related matters, and I was wondering: If an RTD was run using a D12 instead of the usual D6, would there still be just two numbers for crit sucesses/failures, or would you increase that number?
Also, would the GM using some kind of, not sure how to put it, 'morale' system be a good idea? By which I mean, rolling against a 'willpower' stat in certain cases to determine whether a PC is brave enough to attack X, whether they're heartless enough to slay an unarmed opponent, whether they aid their allies when horribly outnumbered or simply run away, or a whole other bunch of situations.
At first I thought the idea sounded cool, but then it started to seem rather railroad-y... And then I realised it was 2AM and my brain wasn't working so I figured I'd just make a poorly-worded, sleep-deprived post on here and be done with it.

This is one of those cases where player choice comes into direct conflict with game mechanics. At what point can the GM tell a player that they can't perform a certain action because "your character wouldn't do that"? In my opinion it doesn't matter what a player does, the GM should never prevent them from doing it just because it's "out of character". Roleplaying should never be affected by in-game mechanics, only the results of players' actions should ever be determined this way.

Of course, morale can be an exception in extreme cases. Dwarf Fortress adventure mode allows you unlimited freedom to walk around and do what you want, but if your character is exhausted to the point of passing out that doesn't really matter. A player should only be prevented from a certain action by physical or mental means, not because their conscience (i.e. the GM) forced them not to do it. I think the example you gave works.

[IronyOwl]

Request: Could anyone set up the RTD FAQ? Specifically what die is for? d6, d10 and d20 are the common ones I've heard, to help those new to RTDs.

I really need to get on this.

[Tiruin]

Don't strain yourself Irony  , just one thing crossed my mind.

d10, d20 dice. What are they for? More variability in an RTD or another way of calculating the fate of the action?

>FAQ 

[Skyrunner]

GM call.

...So actually both.

As far as I know.

[Gatleos]

Don't strain yourself Irony  , just one thing crossed my mind.

d10, d20 dice. What are they for? More variability in an RTD or another way of calculating the fate of the action?

It really depends. RtD is designed to only use d6, because it's more common. Unless you're using a detailed skill system or something, I see no reason to use anything higher than that.

[Skyrunner]

For my random effect tables, I  put 5 as 'see other table' and 6 as 'roll twice and combine'. Think it's OK? o_O


(Of course, it hasn't seen any use yet. Apothecary >.>)