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Apple Talk / Re: The Holy Man™ is IN.
« on: December 04, 2013, 04:22:14 pm »
Also, Quakers! Secret History! It still needs doing. Hmm.
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Also, Quakers! Secret History! It still needs doing. Hmm.
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Apple Talk / Re: PI with Malice Aforethought: Tucson Edition
« on: December 04, 2013, 04:12:38 pm »
That third entry, wow.
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Apple Talk / Re: Candybox 2 - there goes my life
« on: December 04, 2013, 02:32:56 pm »This thread is probably the best place to mention this
http://www.stanleyparable.com/
I suspect a lot of you would enjoy this. Some of you far too much.
I watched the trailer on Steam and it definitely caught my attention. Do you know if it's any good?
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Apple Talk / Re: Candybox 2 - there goes my life
« on: December 04, 2013, 01:53:19 pm »I love the way the world of A Dark Room unfolds as you dive into it. It actually tells a creepy little story.
I recommend hitting the little "lights off" option in the lower right, also. It adds atmosphere.
Dude. I found the wreckage last night. And then realized something. I'm not who I thought I was. Mind. Blown.
No! Damnit! Gah! I didn't want to beat the game! :P There was still so much to explore! So many more things to blow up! Gah!
****A DARK ROOM SPOILERS****
It's great, isn't it? I played through it again after that first round so I could explore the whole map. Once you find a few of the cities and battle sites you don't miss much by riding the ship.
I just loved how the game starts out with you and a pile of wood and just builds up from there. After you encounter your first scaly murderous terror in the wilds you start to think that maybe it isn't as simple as starting a primitive village. Then you hit abandoned suburbs and hospitals, abandoned cities and snipers attack you from tall grass. Armed and masked men are raiding your town.
When it's all over, I had this idea that yeah, I was doing alright by my village and helping the wanderers, but I was also barging into people's homes and murdering them, stealing their valuables and taking over their resources. I was a fucking monster and I didn't even know it until the end.
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Apple Talk / Re: PI with Malice Aforethought: Tucson Edition
« on: December 04, 2013, 04:39:56 am »
Really enjoying this, Roger.
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Apple Talk / Re: Re: Open Bar: the Vanguard of Modern Drinking (Cain Studies in Drinking Series, Drunk Publications)
« on: December 02, 2013, 10:34:05 pm »What's that thing that smells like bear mace, oh its my face.
Bear proofing the old face, huh?
Good idea, that. You know what bears are really attracted to? Taint. You should probably bear proof that next.
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Apple Talk / Re: Candybox 2 - there goes my life
« on: December 02, 2013, 02:27:08 pm »I love the way the world of A Dark Room unfolds as you dive into it. It actually tells a creepy little story.
I recommend hitting the little "lights off" option in the lower right, also. It adds atmosphere.
My dark room doesn't have anything but a campfire in it.
That's a different game!
You mean it's a different dark room?
I've only been down two corridors of the desert fortress, which I just found the key for.
I'm fighting the teapot right now. At it's current speed, it should be done in an hour and a half. I did the math. Unless I did it wrong, then it's something else.
No, I was referring to the game linked earlier in the thread in this post by CPD:Augh so my browser crashes and I whine about having to start over in the nano irc room and link to the candy game and someone else links to this : http://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com . . . so now I've got two going and it's insane and thank Bob I finished NaNo.
It's a full game, and I enjoyed it a lot.
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RPG Ghetto / Star Wars Murder Mystery
« on: December 02, 2013, 05:22:24 am »
My friends and I have done a Murder Mystery for the last four or five years on New Year's Eve. This year I think we were all sick of subpar scenarios that we still had to pay for, so I offered to write one myself. In the Star Wars universe. It'll be really Star Wars trope heavy, just enough to the characters are unique and accessible to play as. But since I've never done any design before, I thought I could run it by folks who have.
I grabbed a bit from previous modules we ran and from the Mafia parlor game (or Spiders, as we have it here). A few goals were:
-Have a clearly defined winner. Other ones we played it was a bit anticlimactic in that they felt like the players' actions had little effect on the result.
-Make trust necessary for success, but also dangerous
-Add a high risk/reward element with secrets
-Add some structure, because previous games had a few people losing focus
Players come in knowing their characters entirely - what they can tell people and what they shouldn't. However, some characters know secrets about others that they bring up in conversation to get the other talking. This is set up on Round Cards. There are three rounds and each has a Round Card. The card explains who you need to approach and what key phrase you need to use to get them to divulge information. It also says what information you need to divulge when someone approaches you with a specific key phrase. So during the social part of the round, the players MUST talk to at least two other people, and may talk to as many others as they like, saying to them what they like.
The players also start with a fixed number of credits. I'm playing the role of an Information Broker, holding one additional piece of important information on each player. Broker info is unique in that it can be either good or bad, depending on the player, so there is incentive to control your own as much as others'. After the social part of the round, any player can open bidding on any player's information - including their own. Bids are secret, so they hide a number of credits in their hands and all players reveal their hands at once. All bids, whether they win or lose, are final, and the Broker keeps those credits.
Once players have the information, they can choose to do with it as they wish. If it helps to clear their name, they can let others know. If it helps condemn someone, or if it's not entirely clear which, they can accept bribes in credits from other players, who then are free to keep it to themselves or say it aloud as they see fit. At the end of each round the Broker presents to everyone one new piece of evidence in the case that will point toward the murderer.
At the end of three rounds, a simple majority determines which player gets brought to the authorities - using the acquired information from the broker, social rounds, and evidence, they have to convince each other to turn someone in. If the murderer is not chosen, they win. If the murderer is chosen, the winner is the player who voted for the correct person and has the highest remaining number of credits.
I'm really looking for simplicity here, but with the potential for enough strategy that it's still interesting. Any feedback is appreciated!
I grabbed a bit from previous modules we ran and from the Mafia parlor game (or Spiders, as we have it here). A few goals were:
-Have a clearly defined winner. Other ones we played it was a bit anticlimactic in that they felt like the players' actions had little effect on the result.
-Make trust necessary for success, but also dangerous
-Add a high risk/reward element with secrets
-Add some structure, because previous games had a few people losing focus
Players come in knowing their characters entirely - what they can tell people and what they shouldn't. However, some characters know secrets about others that they bring up in conversation to get the other talking. This is set up on Round Cards. There are three rounds and each has a Round Card. The card explains who you need to approach and what key phrase you need to use to get them to divulge information. It also says what information you need to divulge when someone approaches you with a specific key phrase. So during the social part of the round, the players MUST talk to at least two other people, and may talk to as many others as they like, saying to them what they like.
The players also start with a fixed number of credits. I'm playing the role of an Information Broker, holding one additional piece of important information on each player. Broker info is unique in that it can be either good or bad, depending on the player, so there is incentive to control your own as much as others'. After the social part of the round, any player can open bidding on any player's information - including their own. Bids are secret, so they hide a number of credits in their hands and all players reveal their hands at once. All bids, whether they win or lose, are final, and the Broker keeps those credits.
Once players have the information, they can choose to do with it as they wish. If it helps to clear their name, they can let others know. If it helps condemn someone, or if it's not entirely clear which, they can accept bribes in credits from other players, who then are free to keep it to themselves or say it aloud as they see fit. At the end of each round the Broker presents to everyone one new piece of evidence in the case that will point toward the murderer.
At the end of three rounds, a simple majority determines which player gets brought to the authorities - using the acquired information from the broker, social rounds, and evidence, they have to convince each other to turn someone in. If the murderer is not chosen, they win. If the murderer is chosen, the winner is the player who voted for the correct person and has the highest remaining number of credits.
I'm really looking for simplicity here, but with the potential for enough strategy that it's still interesting. Any feedback is appreciated!
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Apple Talk / Re: Glittery Sparkle-Hands Holyday Cards
« on: December 02, 2013, 04:30:57 am »Some of these are sparkly. Some of these are...not exactly sparkly.
I do hope you enjoy.
If anyone else wants in, it's never too late.
FUCK YEAH I DO
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Apple Talk / Re: Candybox 2 - there goes my life
« on: December 01, 2013, 06:41:15 pm »
I love the way the world of A Dark Room unfolds as you dive into it. It actually tells a creepy little story.
I recommend hitting the little "lights off" option in the lower right, also. It adds atmosphere.
I recommend hitting the little "lights off" option in the lower right, also. It adds atmosphere.
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Discordian Recipes / Re: Candied Yams
« on: December 01, 2013, 06:40:14 am »
I RECLAIM THE TERM BUCKET PIE FOR USE TO DESCRIBE A PARTICULAR TYPE OF POOP
THIS IS ONE (1) DAY OLD BUCKET PIE.
JUST KIDDING, I'M NOT POSTING A PHOTO OF POOP
THIS IS ONE (1) DAY OLD BUCKET PIE.
JUST KIDDING, I'M NOT POSTING A PHOTO OF POOP
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Think for Yourself, Schmuck! / Re: Intermittens Presents: XX and other works
« on: December 01, 2013, 06:36:21 am »
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Apple Talk / Re: Candybox 2 - there goes my life
« on: November 30, 2013, 09:56:15 pm »
I beat it.
And the other one too.
I am ashamed.
And the other one too.
I am ashamed.
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Apple Talk / Re: Candybox 2 - there goes my life
« on: November 30, 2013, 05:51:31 pm »
Really? That's possible? Hmm.
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Apple Talk / Re: Candybox 2 - there goes my life
« on: November 30, 2013, 04:07:14 pm »This thread is amazing if you have no idea what candy box is. It's like you're making up non-sequiturs and pretending it's part of some massive imaginary game.
That's my favorite part about not being able to watch the various youtube links at work. I just see comments with no context.