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@Lord_Gareth I am home and present and in the market for this story! o/

Shalvenay

how're things going?

@Yuuki NPC MegaThirteen would also have Breath Weapon ∞

@doppelgreener The problem with Breath Weapon ∞ is that it's a Head feature and Head + Body features are essentially your health.

So I just gave him the special ability to attack all other monsters.

@Yuuki ooh, good point.... @BESW If I have Gargantuan 5 as my only body feature, and get hit in the body several times, do I go to Gargantuan 4 then 3 then 2 then 1 then lose it entirely, or do I lose it completely the first time?

10:25 PM

My first reaction is, you lose it incrementally.

I'd want to playtest it though.

@doppelgreener I think you count each instance separately.

@doppelgreener Wait, what you do mean by "get hit in the body several times"?

@Yuuki across subsequent turns

Shouldn't you only be attacked one at a time and then feature loss is resolved after each attack?

@doppelgreener Well, feature loss is resolved after an attack action and it wouldn't be very balanced (imo) to lose all of your Gargantuan just because one attack succeeded.

@Yuuki as you can see from MegaThirteen, balance is not a high priority

fun & awesome is

Well, I don't think it'd be fun either.

10:29 PM

could also do "lose half, rounded up" for stacks

5 -> 2 -> 1 -> gone

(but yeah point taken breath weapon ∞ wouldn't work if you don't lose the whole feature at once because that is HP ∞)

10:54 PM

> REVOLUTION VARIANT
Supermega Hydrazoid is King of Monsters, and you wish to dethrone him. Before monster creation, pick one person to play Supermega Hydrazoid. Every other player rolls once on each table to determine Supermega Hydrazoid's Features. The game ends when Supermega Hydrazoid is defeated or all others are eliminated. Whoever delivered the final blow is now King of Monsters. Long live the king!

@doppelgreener stand by

@BESW So Supermega Hydrazoid is like, 1 monster per player, each squashed together into just the one monster?

Yes.

@doppelgreener okay so are you familiar with the quest format

> DÉTENTE VARIANT
No single monster may have more than six Features at one time. If you would gain Features beyond six, it doesn't happen. (Supermega Hydrazoid is obviously not subject to this rule.)

nitsua60

11:01 PM

@Adam wait a minute... aren't teeth-as-currency rate-limited by the equilibrium established between tooth-creation-in-jaw and tooth-out-of-body-decay rates? So then the only way to increase the money-supply (once equilibrium's been established) is to increase population, which is exactly when modern economic thought says one should increase money supply?

(I don't really know anything about this, so perhaps I'm missing a huge factor...?)

(Also I'm temporarily back while I cover fuel for their break)

@nitsua60 forgive my brain fail, you did say late tomorrow night yes?

@Lord_Gareth i am not sure if there is a specific quest format to be familiar with

11:18 PM

@doppelgreener there is indeed! Strap in, I'ma learn you a thing

@Lord_Gareth [high-pitched whir of a seatbelt]

Questing is an online-only (well, for now) RPG format in which a Questmaster (QM) presents a scenario of any length or premise, and two or more additional players democratically control a single character within it. It's cadence goes Update -> Vote/Discussion -> Update

Karelzarath

@BESW That's concentrated evil. One drop of that could turn you all into hermit crabs.

Most Quests run in sessions the way an RPG campaign does, with that pattern lasting four six to eight hours per session

A Quest may or may not include hard mechanics, and may or may not invoke RNGesus

With me so far?

11:38 PM

@Lord_Gareth I am. So this is like Twitch Plays Pokemon, but with considerably fewer people and a tabletop RPG style of interaction rather than a video game.

Indeed

And with the significant addition of write-in options from the audience

Sec, walking

@doppelgreener So, the story in question, Dungeon Life Quest, is a completed Quest. I'll link the archive shortly but the format can be a bother depending on how much you want to observe the discussion and votes that lead to the choices made

If you don't care for the audience, ctrl+f for Vox will get you just my posts and writing

Otherwise you can read each thread as it happened

suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/…

Quest is archived in order

Thanks. :D

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