[s-d] Re: [s-b] [auto] EugeneMeidinger amends p170

[Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jul 18, 2005, at 10.53 PM, automailer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> EugeneMeidinger has amended p170.
>
> ---------------------------------
> Proposal 170/1: We require interesting targets eh?
> A Proposal by EugeneMeidinger
> Last modified on nweek 94, nday 4
>
> [[ I have a good idea for a story with this as a prequel to wonko's 
> but I'd like to wait and see if I can do it the way I want and it'll 
> fit in with the story.Rand out of time tonight. more to come 
> tomorrow.]]
>
> Add to rule 7-1 the following:
> {{
> All talismans have a type. A type is a marker for rules to 
> differentiate talismans.
> }}
> Give all talismans a type of charm.

I think the wands should be of type wand.

> Add the following rule to section 10:
> {{
> ==Stats==
> Each player has the attributes of Health, Alertness and Calm. These 
> attributes are called stats.
> Each stat is an integer in a range of 0 to 10 and is set to ten 
> initially. If a stat would exceed its limit, it is set to the extreme 
> of that limit instead.
>
> If a player's Health reaches zero, the following happens:
>
>  *Eir soul becomes lost. It has the same location as the player.
>  *All talismans belonging to that player of the type "weapon" or the 
> type "potion" are destroyed.
>  *Eir Health is set to ten.
>
> If a player's Alertness reaches zero, the following happens:
>
>  *That player now "asleep".

Maybe, that player _becomes_ asleep?

>  *While that player is "asleep" eir stats cannot be altered except by 
> the rules.
>  *While that player is "asleep" e cannot take any actin regulated by 
> rule 10-1
actin -> action

>  *2 nweeks after being "Asleep" that player's alertness is set to 10 
> and that player is no longer "asleep".

I don't think this should be a bullet point here - it's not something 
that happens when a player's Alertness reaches zero.

> If a player's Calm reaches zero, the following happens:
>
>  *All talismans belonging to that player of the type "weapon" or the 
> type "potion" are destroyed.[[A clear way to have them drop them would 
> be better]]

Move them to the player's location. I'm going to prop to allow 
Talismans and the like to occupy rooms anyway, soon.

>  *That player's location is change to the room called "outside".
> }}
>
> Create the following room
> {{
> __Outside__
>
> Description: The area outside the house. It's cold and raining. You 
> are lost.
> Ordinances:: None
> Exits::None
> }}
> [[I know there are no exits. I'll let you guys figure out a way to 
> deal with that.]]

Can we call it "West of House"?


The stats business bears some similarities to something I was trying to 
write up. I was thinking, however, that health should go up to thirty 
instead of 10 to allow more dynamic changing. I was then thinking that 
each player would have the stats Strength, Skill, and Acuity. Skill 
represents general dexterity and competence, and is needed to pick 
locks, swing across pits, outfence zombie hordes, and so forth. Acuity 
represents how focused and aware you are, and determines your ability 
to see past illusions and withstand psychological attacks. Strength 
determines how you fight.

To fight, one player simply declares that e attacks another in the same 
room. Each rolls 3dX, where X is eir Strength; whoever has the lower 
roll loses health equal to the difference in the rolls, and the fight 
continues until both sides back out.

The key point of fighting is that it would keep you from doing other 
things - most talismans, as well as things like levers for secret 
doors, etc., couldn't be used while you were fighting, and you couldn't 
leave the room or attack other players. This would be true even if you 
hadn't started the fight - thus, somebody could attack you to keep you 
from bringing the Emerald Water Wing to the Underground Lake. Another 
player, however, could then intervene by attacking your attacker, 
keeping em off you long enough for you to break away.

The goal was to encourage interesting teamwork: in order to get an 
object to a given room, for example, you might have one person running 
it through while two others ran with em attacking anyone who tried to 
intervene; another pair would go after the switch to open the necessary 
gate, one to pull the switch and one to keep the other team's guard 
busy.

This would be further complicated by the possibility of Stunning your 
opponent: if you hit em for more than 6 points of damage in one hit, 
you'd Stun em and e wouldn't be able to do anything during the next 
period, giving you time to run away, pull the necessary lever, or 
recharge your Amulet of Whoopass. When you Stunned a player, you might 
also get a chance to grab something from their inventory; or maybe 
you'd need a certain skill level for that or something.

Then we could play games like capture the flag, king of the hill, and 
tag in the House without adding much, since the interesting mechanics 
of moving around and stopping others from moving would be already in 
place.

Anyway, I only bring that up to draw comments on it, and also in the 
hopes that Eugene will make health go up to 30 instead of 10.

--
Wonko

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our 
thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one 
another in the waking state?
                -- Plato

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