Role Play Creator the Second

[Celadon's Penultimate]

Zaleramancer wrote

You could try browsing the SRD if you like.

To get a understanding of D&D 3.5.

Oh, hey, I have that site bookmarked!

 Or, um, at least the section on psionics, anyhow.

Great idea, I'll give the rest of the info a look-see.

[Zaleramancer]

I had an idea for a game.

It's about a player versus player virtual reality fight-arena game with multiple strange races and wacky items.

Each match, two of you would roll a few random numbers, then I'd send you details on what your abilities and equipment would be.

Then you'd square off with the other person- who doesn't know what you are or what you can do.

The rules are still fuzzy with me, but I'm thinking.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

Another battle royale type deal? That could be fun.

To be honest, I think we have quite a few ideas we could make use of in the game section.

I can think of a few, and I'll post them later.

[Zaleramancer]

I'm coming up with ideas for the thing I mentioned.

I'll post them later today, after I get done with the Zzz.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

 Kay.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

I have a very rough Idea for a game.

The PC's are different aspects of someones personality (Love, Fear, Pride, Hunger, Obsession, Generosity, etc. etc.) You start the game when the "Hardware" is born. I'm envisioning something like Lords of Creation except, instead of a world, it's a person.

[Philote]

Philote wrote

Here are two RP ideas I thought up:

1. We would be a group of rebels set in a fantasy kingdom. At the start of the RP, our band has made it to the castle of the corrupted king and we move in to finish him off. As we go, everything in the world seems to be telling us to stop, but our willpower drives us forward until we kill the king. That is when the game world breaks. We find out that we are nothing but NPCs in a game and that we have acted out of script by successfully killing the king. We wake up in our home town and find that the world is not the same as we have left it. A virus has entered the game world and has fused with the king, bringing him back to life, and has begun unraveling reality as we know it. On our quest to set things right, the game makers step in, beings based around real life game developer positions, and attempt to remove us from the file, believing we are the cause of the world's destruction.

2. Another video game based RP, this one though would be a real-time mmorpg one. One person would be the game master while the rest would be hackers playing the game. The game master would post "patches" to the game, adding material in and adjusting stats. The hackers would be normal players in the game trying to progress until they've obtained legendary gear. While the game master is offline (from SPL forum) the hackers can attempt to hack their character to suit their needs. The game master can then patch them back to normal upon returning, or punish them if he actually catches them in the act.

Does anyone besides Zale have an opinion on these?

@Zale/Vaul: Both those ideas sound interesting.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

For One: I like the concept. It reminds me of Kid Radd. 2 things though;
1.If we are NPCs, then what are we doing something important like killing a king? That seems like something a PC would do.
2. If we were scripted to kill the king, why would the code break at that point?

For Two: What would be the point of hacking your character if the GM is just going to patch it away?

[Philote]

1. In this world there would be no PCs, the Game Makers would be running things behind the scenes.
2. They were scripted to NOT kill the king, but they went against their script by doing so anyways thus resulting in the opening for the virus.

1. You could use the benefits of the hack until the GM shows up, achieving what you could not before, and if you're lucky and subtle enough, keep the hack for the future.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

So, it's in Alpha, got it.
I'm assuming we'll find out how we went against our scripting, yes?

[Philote]

I was thinking that it was because our Willpower/Determination to overthrow the king led us to be able to overcome the scripting.

I'm open to a better suggestion though. I was thinking most of the RP would be after the event of killing the king.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

Have you ever seen Small Soldiers? Wonderfully cheesy movie about killer action figures, Tommy Lee Jones feasts on the scenery in it. The whole plot comes about when the idiots in charge of making the toy's decide to put Military hardware into them to make them smart.  

Or, lightning strikes the server and suddenly everything is sentient. Classic.

[Philote]

Yeah I really like that movie

I like how you're thinking about this, but I should be more clear with my original idea. This is not about a video game coming to life with the game makers outside trying to fix it, this is about a reality that has video game elements.

Before the event, as far as this RPs reality is concerned, it is just a normal fantasy universe. Once the event occurs, reality begins to break down showing the elements working behind the scenes.

The game makers aren't humans designing a world, but higher level beings that judge the world and keep it functioning according to their standards.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

Like a medieval The Matrix?

[Philote]

Sort of, the fantasy part would still be considered "Real Life" as far as the reality is concerned. The video game part is just the other side of the reality that was unseen before.

[Zaleramancer]

I remember that movie.

[Zaleramancer]

We need to start some roleplay now.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

 Kinda hard to do when nobody's on, or people are only on for a few minutes, or are never on at the same time, idnit?

[Zaleramancer]

Pick one.

I'll start it just for the sake of something happening.

[Mik_Hael]

Darned Generic fantasy roleplay, it has the most work put into it, it's over a year old, and everyone wants to play the freaking thing.