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Sentinel-825
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Jun '07
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Date Posted:
1/12 9:10pm
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RE: The Game Designers Guild
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I appreciate the praise from you folks.  Perhaps you all might see Velvet Trail launch one of these days. 
As for colors, Mr. Hammer, they won't be necessary.
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Darth_Brutus666
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1/13 5:40am
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Sentinel-825 posted:
I appreciate the praise from you folks. Perhaps you all might see Velvet Trail launch one of these days.
As for colors, Mr. Hammer, they won't be necessary.
So modest. Good job.
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Penguinator-176
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1/13 6:04pm
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As far as the comments on my game go, it's pretty much exactly what I thought after finishing it. I had these great ideas to begin with, then it kind of fell apart.
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LightWarden
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1/14 9:17am
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Who do I have to kill to get a game of D&D around here?
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NickLitYouAFlame
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1/14 12:07pm
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Stalin.
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SephyCloneNo15
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1/14 4:54pm
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Light, everyone knows D&D is relegated to your mother's basement. The internet has far more important things to do. 
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Darth_Vaders_cousin
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D&D is for dorks, geeks and losers. We are none of these. We are serious people and the RPF, like the internet, is serious business.
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Reynar_Tedros
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1/14 8:36pm
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Darth_Vaders_cousin posted:
D&D is for dorks, geeks and losers. We are none of these. We are serious people and the RPF, like the internet, is serious business.
Which is why every senator in the Star Wars universe is a tall, well-built human male in his thirties.
...Someone had to say it.
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Darth_Vaders_cousin
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Well just means we like to play as ourselves I guess.
Not to get off topic but my favorite sheet in the Galactic Senate Thread has got to be Darth_Nems. His name is Will Pitt, but in the character description he says, "Brad is 6'0"...."
Gee, I wonder who his character is supposed to look like... 
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LightWarden
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It's the truth
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Imperial_Hammer
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Date Posted:
1/14 10:32pm
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We're moving on to the next game mechanism discussion coming tomorrow. About competitive/tournament gaming. How it best can done. If its good to do at all. Etc.
Any initial thoughts about it?
The EUC is doing a very interesting Lightsaber Contest here. It seems to have been working pretty well. Do you think something like it could be utilized more thoroughly with games launched here? Maybe the same sort of thing, tweeked somehow? Or attached to a more story-built game?
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Saintheart
Title: Manager and Wandering Swordsman of the RPF
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1/14 11:27pm
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Hmmm. I've always been looking for a semi-decent and semi-quantifiable Force powers system here, so I looked into this one with great interest.
Would this system work for a thread here in the RPF? I think it's got promise -- if it's a sort of "RPG based around a sport" like Podracer. You could easily adapt aspects of the Podracer system (X number of posts to complete duel, shifting arena from one planet to another) and turn it into "Star Wars meets Street Fighter". Hell, you could turn it into the Mortal Kombat tournament with Palpatine as Shang Tsung.
The best part of the system to me is that it creates some credible consequences for godmoding, failing to read other people's posts, and failing to work in with reality within the game world -- and it takes control of who won the fight away from the guy who can 'you.missed.me' the most. I rather like the judging panel concept; although I would cut the panel size down to three, since you'll have at least a majority win without having five people to canvass. But there's all this and capacity for expansion -- why stop at lightsabers and Jedi/Sith? Why can't you have a Wookiee wielding a cortosis bat'leth? Or a genuine fencer with a Sith-alchemy blade? Or indeed turn it into a mixed martial arts competition with a Noghri or a Mistryl?
For our folks here I think you'd have a bit more intervention by the GMs if one player really starts fudging the game up, but in this limited example it does seem to work okay.
Would this system work in a more heavily story-based RPG? I doubt it -- unless you're prepared to have large tracts of OOC text from the GM saying why Player X won as opposed to Player Y. Also, duels in-game don't usually stop when one player says "Meh, good fight." They usually only conclude on death, people running away from each other, or some other intervening cause. Breaks the suspension of disbelief (thin as it is round these parts. )
Are tournament-style games good to have in the RPF? Yes, because they appeal to a particular subclass of player who does like to compete, and as Podracer attests, there is an interest for both that type of game and the "Risk"-style gaming RPGs that are also a common thread on the forum. But on the other hand IMHHO tournaments tend to put the roleplaying on the backburner, because people are traditionally more focused on the *objective* of the tournament rather than the *roleplaying* required to get there. Not that there's anything necessarily wrong with that -- but it is more linear, and more focused on the match/race/buttkicking contest at hand, and "serious" roleplayers need to appreciate that when they get into tournament RPGs.
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Reynar_Tedros
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DarthXan318
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I think it can work, but in the interest of fairness you'd have to restrict the Force abilities players can use, maybe even split the tournament into Force users and non-Force users, and so on. I mean... yes, a fencer with a Sith-alchemy blade could probably put up a pretty good fight against a lightsaber-wielding Jedi, but only if the Jedi didn't use the Force. There's no counter to "I Force-choke you to death from halfway across the arena."
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SephyCloneNo15
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1/15 12:34pm
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Not necessarily. The concept reminds me of Soul Calibur. Knightmare wields Soul Edge, the most powerful weapon in the game that turns him into an engine of destruction capable of razing villages and slaughtering armies in angst over a lost ipod or something, but he's hardly an unbeatable character. The same would go for a Force User. The Force would essentially be part of their "Combo List", not instant fight-ending moves. Rembember, there is a panel of judges; victory isn't determined by the will of the Force alone.
And of course, if someone Force attacks you, there's always the Atton Rand "cloud my thoughts with emotion so you can't manipulate me" tactic.
I think the judges would probably be heavily biased against Force users, kinda like they are in the 007 series, to encourage you to get creative and play non-Jedi.
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