Also, actually reading through Hot Guys Making Out (an RP linked recently, cannot link on phone P:) because I have nothing better to do with the rest of my lunch. It really gets the source material. There are some things I don't care for, but it breaks down the appropriate structure quite well.
I understand what it is, like an item proc that delivers an effect on hit for example. But what does PROC actually mean? Does it stand for something or is it short for another word?
@Althis MUDs are named after MUD, MultiUser Dungeon, which was a remake of an old adventure game Dungeon but supporting multiple players over a network
they were a popular genre of games for a while. basically text adventures with other players that could appear in rooms and do stuff
text based MMO is pretty accurate but some were graphical
You get all sorts really, some who treat it like D&D some who treat it as a social platform with a bit of character leveling and such in between and those who treat it purely as a combat system
Is it a mud if the only programming is automated dice rolling, and everything else is described by players and GMs following rules? (like, Players can't introduce NPCs)
@AlexMitan It has a few things, yes you have immortals which will run quests and such, which have impact on various levels from a personal level, a city level or even a world level.
It's similar except that there is an engine behind it which controls the combat and such
Players get involved in RP that's run by Immortals and sometimes the outcome of that changes things in the world.
Example the current world quest has the God of Honor imprisoned by the evil gods, and good and evil are striving to either free him or prevent it. If good fails he may be slain forever
@Pixie A new player that recently joined said he was on another mud where he got charmed and forced into a sexual situation and which he complained the imms told him to suck it up and RP it out.
@Pixie Dark and Shattered Lands, a MUD I'm an admin on
Yea Keep it to private rooms/houses, nothing in public, and even then nothing that's considered illegal, even if consentual.
@AlexMitan There are 5 base classes, Warrior/Mage/Thief/Cleric/Bard
You pick one of those then level up and after level 11 usually level 51 you reclass into one of the advanced classes. Base classes are usually not worth playing.
Yes, they hit like wet noodles but are good defensive. Can't be assassin's. Nightshades are kinda meh atm need some fixing which is in the pipelines. Ninkja should be in within a month or so so could wait for those.
We generally recommend something like Crusader which is a cleric reclass for new players, it's a decent hitter and casts well plus healing.
Hell my main mortal character is female, created her years ago to just be a break from my immortal and she ended up leading a clan and being a pretty well know.
@Emrakul Yeah, I was thinking about something really simple. Like, hey kids, make a scene object. Write what you want the game to say when you enter it, and make a pointer to the connected locations.
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Are you interested in the story aspect of an RPG at all?
And, "Kids, here is an enemy, as you can see it is a player object, and you just plug in this A.I. module(that I am going to program tonight, that is.)"
@Emrakul Not really. Just the mechanical parts as you mentioned.
No stats, and it was mostly writing responses to commands. I recall it being very easy to grasp, but then I don't know how it would play out in Python, which I haven't really done direct work with.
D&D didn't emerge from a vacuum; it started as a direct translation of wargaming rules, modified for individual characters rather than groups of combatants.
I don't know for sure, but I'm guessing so. At any rate, it should be unsurprising that the earliest iterations of D&D had some "advanced" forms, because they were drawing on prior experience with similar concepts.
Wait. If Sandwich was a chich, she'd make herself. So she must be an ageless god vampire chick. (Ok, the pun was lame and sexist, I know. Bear with me.)
@Sandwich We had a similar one in one of our other games, the Wizards Tower had a curse on it (mistakenly discovered/placed by the previous tenant) where the occupant had a sudden insatiable desire for cream buns...
@Zachiel OK... so a "bunus" is either a) an "origin" or "basis"; or b) "a term for one paranormal group trying to one up another by stealing their hard earned investigation sites by following what they do on face book and stealing their ideas."
My players managed to do a lot of silly things tonight. One was supposed to distract a desk clerk, but managed to pull his weapon and kill a guard who asked him to stand down ... Another player decides to come to his aid, and gets him self implicated as an accessory. In the mean time, the first player kills another guard and threatens to kill the clerk as well.
This whole stunt was supposed to end in a few minutes but it is now a full fledged murder/hostage situation.
The three other players are none the wiser and assume the first two completed their task and decides to go for the BBEG alone.
Being only three, they don't managed to do well and are all knocked out after some interesting battle.
So the night concluded with all players down, three at the mercy of the BBEG and his henchmen, and the other two at the mercy of the law/possible already dead.
I'm trying to decide what to do. On one hand, it's an entertaining end to an almost two year campaign, and we get to start out with some new fresh characters. On the other, they would likely enjoy keeping their characters some more.
I usually go by the rule of thumb that I never let players die from my own mistakes. But this is a series of bad mistakes by my players.
Killing innocents, not standing down, running from the guards, trying to take on the BBEG alone.
Have them all wake up dead, on the Astral plane, with minimal knowledge of how they came to be there other than the fact that they're 100% sure that they died somehow.
Then have them go to the plane of a good deity as petitioners to petition for a return to life. Make them work for it.
The astral plane has portals that lead to every plane in the planar cosmotology
They could screw up and end up in the demonweb pits
@William'MindWorX'Mariager Other idea. The prisoners tell the cops what happened and the BBEG is a menace big enough that they understand and save punishment for later (escape before that happens might be another adventure maybe). Rescue squad.
Hmm, both those ideas have sort of been done. They botched up an elemental combat trial and I had them retrace the steps in a spirit world and argue for what went wrong and how to fix it. It was quite interesting. And I've had them imprisoned before as well, although on their own terms at the time.
I could do the planar thing as a final ending thing, but I'd risk this ending being less interesting. I'm sort of in a golden opportunity at the moment. :P
@Ben Ok, being Italian I should just ask you what's that [snip] you're trying to put on my pizza but since my favourite one has french fries on it I'll just ask what the toppings are. I suppese applepine for hawaiian?
@William'MindWorX'Mariager -- at least your player didn't waltz into a yard and uncouple the propane tank car with the bad handbrake from the rip track, sending it rolling away into the middle of town
@William'MindWorX'Mariager we had a WoD campaign ending with a guy in our party blowing up the bunker we were in before we could talk with God. The campaign ended with a boom. Literally.
The guy who played a conspiracy theorist under pills who wanted the government to stop hiding God from humanity was a little pised off. Half dead, with me trying to revive him, the device to speak to god at less than 50 inches from us... and we blow up.
I understand what it is, like an item proc that delivers an effect on hit for example. But what does PROC actually mean? Does it stand for something or is it short for another word?
