As we all know, this is a guild for roleplaying and roleplaying is serious business, but for once I imagine that perhaps we could also look at a slightly lighter side of things. Following this comes a suggestion which I would like to hear your feedback about.
What I am proposing is that I- given enough starting members (say, five)- will start a game of Roll to Dodge, free for everyone to join whenever. There will not be a deadline to join, since it is a free-for-all. Since not many people are familiar with the idea, here's a short rundown:
Roll to Dodge is a turn-based, game-mastered dice game. The very basic idea of the game is that you, as the player, will decide the action you want to do- pretty much anything, because things like physics, logic or reason don't have that much of a say in this game. Then, once a number of posts have come in, the game master will roll a die for each player's action. From the roll, the success of the player's action is decided according to the following formula:
[1]: Epic Fail. You fail so hard that you end up doing something close to the opposite of what you wanted.
[2]: Fail. Nothing special happens. You just didn't make it. Try again.
[3]: Meager success. You did.... something. It happened, but it wasn't very good.
[4]: Success. Just that. Your goal is achieved.
[5]: Epic Success. Because not only did you do what you wanted to, you did it in a really awesome way!
[6]: Overshot. Too good! Actually, your action succeeded but the universe is taking affront to your epic skills and something crazy is now bound to happen.
Here is an example of how this might play out:
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I look up in the sky, hoping to see a giant potato:
1: You accidently stare at the ground and see a carrot going up your nose. (-1 to next roll)
2: You fail to look at the sky, and you certainly see no potato.
3: You see a potato! But it falls on your head. (-1 to next roll)
4: You do see a potato in the sky.
5: You see a golden fairy potato, that gives you powers! (+1 to next roll)
6: You not only see a giant potato... you see a thousand of them! You must ROLL to dodge them!
1: You accidently stare at the ground and see a carrot going up your nose. (-1 to next roll)
2: You fail to look at the sky, and you certainly see no potato.
3: You see a potato! But it falls on your head. (-1 to next roll)
4: You do see a potato in the sky.
5: You see a golden fairy potato, that gives you powers! (+1 to next roll)
6: You not only see a giant potato... you see a thousand of them! You must ROLL to dodge them!
As a result of the more light-hearted tone of this game, there will be no particular requirement of skills or post length- if you want to write a paragraph describing what you do, awesome! If not, that's fine too: after all, the game is all about doing crazy stuff and probably ending up with some even crazier results. Just to give you all some idea of what kind of thing might be going on, here are some quotes from previous versions of this game.
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> Summons apples. Crisp, baked, apples.
Your roll : 1
You summon unbaked, soaked lemons. You're sad.
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> Challenges Death to a game of tic-tac-toe until he gets bored and quits, ensuring my immortality.
Death does not wish to play tic-tac-toe with you.
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> I look for a town
Your roll : 4
You sucessfully see a town to your left.
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> Try to find Bessy, my trusty cow, to ride on.
Your roll : 1
You fail to see Bessy, and instead you find her half-brother, Bull Mckillington. He's not happy to see you, he charges!
ROLL TO DODGE!
Your roll : 2
Bull Mckillington hits you squarely in the chest and you suffer immense pain! (wounded)
Quote:
Your roll : 6 (+3)(+1)(+2)
(This one actually broke the game)
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The morning sun was rising slowly as orangedragonfire woke up on a grassy plain. He blinked, unsure of where he was. There was a distinctive feeling of deja-vu... hadn't he woken up on a grassy plain before? But he couldn't remember. Oh well. Maybe he should find breakfast.
> Find breakfast.
> Find breakfast.
The above are only some choice selections that I personally found funny- if someone wants to rummage in the archives, there's a lot to go through. Original threads, for inspiration and some light reading, can be found on the xkcd forums. I'll even provide a link or two.
So..... share your opinions! What do you like about it, what would you like to see (special events anyone?), are there improvements you'd like to be made and, most importantly of course, would you want to play?
