Red November/Grey December OOC discussion

[Xward]

This is a discussion thread for Gob's "Red November" thread, Gob wants to make this slightly more complicated than the usual slice of life comedy thread. So I thought this might be useful for when complications get complicated.

{{G-1 Edit: This thread is now for discussion of Red November, Grey December, Chartreuse/Mauve-Plaid January, or whatever may come afterwards as part of the Month threads series.}}

[gobby gobberson]

Good. we want to know, should we find a way to implemant a "Combat systrm"? And if so, please tell us some ideas.

[Xward]

forums.sufficientvelocity.com/

There's a section on this forum called Quests and another called Roleplaying near the bottom. These are some examples of forum based combat system if you want to look at them

[Uh-Oh Nautilus]

Yea, i'd approve of some stuff like that. Just for some semblance of order. If we are going to do dice rolling, then I'd suggest some kind of [[meta]] announcements system for sneak attacks, bonuses, and what people are aiming for. Also, as an important rule, nobody should be able to decide what someone else's character does or write for someone else. All actions should also give time to react.

[gobby gobberson]

Nov 24, 2014 3:37:43 GMT Uh-Oh Nautilus said:

Yea, i'd approve of some stuff like that. Just for some semblance of order. If we are going to do dice rolling, then I'd suggest some kind of [[meta]] announcements system for sneak attacks, bonuses, and what people are aiming for. Also, as an important rule, nobody should be able to decide what someone else's character does or write for someone else. All actions should also give time to react.

Could you link to a dice rolling thingy?

[Uh-Oh Nautilus]

www.wizards.com/dnd/dice/dice.htm
I'll also put it in my signature.

[ThatOneGuy]

Nov 24, 2014 3:37:43 GMT Uh-Oh Nautilus said:

 Also, as an important rule, nobody should be able to decide what someone else's character does or write for someone else. 

Unless they are given permission, like when gob was doing bad things while I tried to stop him in the body of MegaThulu.

[Uh-Oh Nautilus]

Okay

[Uh-Oh Nautilus]

I've started working on rules. Trying to keep randomized rolls to a minimum here. First comes size class. Here's my size chart.

Microscopic - .0001 m
Miniscule - .001 m
Tiny .01 m
Small - .1 m
Medium - 1 m
Large - 10 m
Gigantic - 100 m
Colossal - 1000 m
Unending - 10000 m

There will be scaling bonuses and debuffs for different size class interactions. Generally larger foes are easier to hit, slower to react, less precise, and less agile. They also hit harder, have more health, and are stronger. Smaller foes are opposite. We might also want a mass scale and/or an intelligence scale.

Attacks will be determined by a single roll, heavily modified by armor, weapon, stats and circumstances. Damage will be flat, based on gear and strength. Crits happen when the final roll is above a certain number, again determined by gear and circumstances. Crits will add more flat damage, which is not determined by gear, but by the defender.

I think the system's relatively flexible, but we have yet to see. Please leave comments and ideas.

[High-Heeled Spider Crab]

Nov 24, 2014 5:14:14 GMT Uh-Oh Nautilus said:

I've started working on rules. Trying to keep randomized rolls to a minimum here. First comes size class. Here's my size chart.

Microscopic - .0001 m
Miniscule - .001 m
Tiny .01 m
Small - .1 m
Medium - 1 m
Large - 10 m
Gigantic - 100 m
Colossal - 1000 m
Unending - 10000 m

There will be scaling bonuses and debuffs for different size class interactions. Generally larger foes are easier to hit, slower to react, less precise, and less agile. They also hit harder, have more health, and are stronger. Smaller foes are opposite. We might also want a mass scale and/or an intelligence scale.

Attacks will be determined by a single roll, heavily modified by armor, weapon, stats and circumstances. Damage will be flat, based on gear and strength. Crits happen when the final roll is above a certain number, again determined by gear and circumstances. Crits will add more flat damage, which is not determined by gear, but by the defender.

I think the system's relatively flexible, but we have yet to see. Please leave comments and ideas.

Ah, so we should figure out the size classes of our characters? What a good idea, mine has always been rather vague...

[Uh-Oh Nautilus]

Size class is capable of change, but yea, you should have a rough idea. I might also work up mass and intelligence charts.

Should we have anticrits? If you roll too low you could hurt yourself. As for lethal damage, I'm going to make it possible to run and probably implement an unconscious effect where if you take too much damage in a turn you are knocked unconscious. Probably only sucessive really bad damage will be able to kill you. Fatalites will be possible but rare. I'm going to rely more on permanent / long term injury since we are all made of pretty tough stuff.

I'm going to try to make the system intuitive and stuff so that it shouldn't cause anything strange. It should be pretty inobtrusive. Also, you are allowed to do anything to your own character that you want.

[gobby gobberson]

Mark Scopes shit:
Literal fire axe
Steel armour
Jump boost granted by spring sticks on boots
Red orbs, around 6, used for healing
Fairly tough, as one would expect from an assassin
6`2 without spring sticks,9`2 with

[Grigor Mortis]

Nov 24, 2014 5:14:14 GMT Uh-Oh Nautilus said:

I've started working on rules. Trying to keep randomized rolls to a minimum here. First comes size class. Here's my size chart.

Microscopic - .0001 m
Miniscule - .001 m
Tiny .01 m
Small - .1 m
Medium - 1 m
Large - 10 m
Gigantic - 100 m
Colossal - 1000 m
Unending - 10000 m

There will be scaling bonuses and debuffs for different size class interactions. Generally larger foes are easier to hit, slower to react, less precise, and less agile. They also hit harder, have more health, and are stronger. Smaller foes are opposite. We might also want a mass scale and/or an intelligence scale.

Attacks will be determined by a single roll, heavily modified by armor, weapon, stats and circumstances. Damage will be flat, based on gear and strength. Crits happen when the final roll is above a certain number, again determined by gear and circumstances. Crits will add more flat damage, which is not determined by gear, but by the defender.

I think the system's relatively flexible, but we have yet to see. Please leave comments and ideas.

Not that psyched about size charting because I do not want to stat up literally every form Enigma takes, to say nothing of the powers they'll get after they feed enough.

[Uh-Oh Nautilus]

We are re-formatting the statting policy for more freeform stuff. Don't worry.

[gobby gobberson]

I hope this works?