GM Ideas:
* Town events. Wouldn't affect the plot. Would give a small bonus (maybe $?). Would help set the atmosphere.
* Monster-of-the week?
* Calling Card or symbol that is reused and comes back up
Sunday, July 25, 2021
Thursday, October 22, 2020
Friday, October 16, 2020
LitRPT - Story Brainstorming
LitRPG Idea
Competition Types:
The best at a judged thing. (E.g. Bakeoff)- Last the longest (E.g. Juggling Endurance)
- Travel the fastest (E.g. Formula 1 racing)
- Be the strongest (E.g. Fighting)
- Manipulate the best (E.g. Politician)
- Accumulate the most resources (E.g. capitalism)
- Unknown or mystical quality (E.g. Luckiest)
- Magic Ability (E.g. Almost anything!)
- Most skilled at something (E.g. Building automatons)
How to Measure progress:
- Quality of thing produced.
- Special abilities granted by consuming the thing you produced.
- Abilities of the thing you produced.
- Physical conflict.
- Tallying and counting an amount.
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Define your own winning condition
Can I explore the benefits of winning conditions?
Can we have an instance of a winning condition being achieved without advancement?
Can you show off perception of greatness vs. greatness?
Can the MC believe he is great without that actually being the case?
How do you take into account historical differences?
Power Sources:
- Natural (Plants, Animals, the "Heavens", metals, periodic table, aspects like earth fire, wind, water heart)
- Technological -
Monday, March 30, 2020
Tony Timeless and the case of the Kidnapped Car Dealer Scion
What will our story be about?
Saving a teenager from abduction by a splinter terrorist cell.
Hero: Tony Timeless
Appearance: Short. Glasses. One side of his head hair replaced by a skull cap made of circuits. One leg and one arm bionic. Has an Australian accent. Pet koala.
What is Tony Timeless good at?:
Tony's Action: I'm going to disconnect my neuroplug and walk over to pick the letter up. I examine the letter.
Description: The envelope smells of some sort of flower and is a bit sticky in one corner. Outside the door, you hear distant footsteps and a door closing. Looks like you won't be following the person who left it.
Tony's Action: Open it.
Description: Inside the envelope is single page with letters pasted on, that says "Simon Says play along. Jerry Fanicole's ransom is $1.5 million. Drop instructions to follow." The name is familiar... Fanicole is the last name of a local car dealership owner.
Tony: I try to remember everything I can about him.
Description: Succeed. Jerry Fanicole is the son of Simon Fanicole, who owns several local car dealerships. Simon's net worth, at last estimate, was $15 million. You don't know anything more about Simon Fanicole or his business.
Tony: I pick up my lump of playdough, put on my hat, and head out the door. I'm headed to talk to Jerry Fanicole!
Saving a teenager from abduction by a splinter terrorist cell.
Hero: Tony Timeless
Appearance: Short. Glasses. One side of his head hair replaced by a skull cap made of circuits. One leg and one arm bionic. Has an Australian accent. Pet koala.
What is Tony Timeless good at?:
- Remembering Knowledge. D12
- Creating things out of existing matter. D10
- Falling and Jumping. D8
- Pausing time. D6
Tony's Action: I'm going to disconnect my neuroplug and walk over to pick the letter up. I examine the letter.
Description: The envelope smells of some sort of flower and is a bit sticky in one corner. Outside the door, you hear distant footsteps and a door closing. Looks like you won't be following the person who left it.
Tony's Action: Open it.
Description: Inside the envelope is single page with letters pasted on, that says "Simon Says play along. Jerry Fanicole's ransom is $1.5 million. Drop instructions to follow." The name is familiar... Fanicole is the last name of a local car dealership owner.
Tony: I try to remember everything I can about him.
Description: Succeed. Jerry Fanicole is the son of Simon Fanicole, who owns several local car dealerships. Simon's net worth, at last estimate, was $15 million. You don't know anything more about Simon Fanicole or his business.
Tony: I pick up my lump of playdough, put on my hat, and head out the door. I'm headed to talk to Jerry Fanicole!
Friday, March 27, 2020
Tony Timeless and Finding the Enteramin Orb
What will our story be about?
Tracking down the baddies who heisted a small glowing orb that produces enough power to run a space ship. Outer Space detectives/police.
Hero: Tony Timeless
Appearance: Short. Glasses. One side of his head hair replaced by a skull cap made of circuits. One leg and one arm bionic. Has an Australian accent. Pet koala.
What is Tony Timeless good at?:
The Story:
On a giant space station, in a small section of what could be considered a science area, a small light burst forth in the darkness. It began to cut a small hole in the plate wall of the space station, starting a swirling vortex of air escaping the room. A dark figure floats toward a supply cabinet and upon opening it sees their target - a glowing orb, about the size of a baseball, which alternately pulses and swirls. The newly created enteramin passes into the hands of who knows who....
Tony Timeless relaxed in his comfy arm chair. It barely supports his weight because the mechanical parts of his body are made out of super-dense alloy and have increased his weight nearly 3 times! A blinking light appears in the corner of his vision, and he notes it and answers the call.
Prescient Malon: "Hi Tony."
Tony: Hi Malon. What can I do for you? Anything that can take me away from the boredom of reviewing my article for Gumshoe Quarterly?
Malon: Actually, yes, we have a wonderful opportunity for you to see the newest technology in the galaxy.
Tony: (Ah, you want me to go somewhere I don't want to go, eh?)
Malon:
Tracking down the baddies who heisted a small glowing orb that produces enough power to run a space ship. Outer Space detectives/police.
Hero: Tony Timeless
Appearance: Short. Glasses. One side of his head hair replaced by a skull cap made of circuits. One leg and one arm bionic. Has an Australian accent. Pet koala.
What is Tony Timeless good at?:
- Remembering Knowledge. D12
- Creating things out of existing matter. D10
- Falling and Jumping. D8
- Pausing time. D6
The Story:
On a giant space station, in a small section of what could be considered a science area, a small light burst forth in the darkness. It began to cut a small hole in the plate wall of the space station, starting a swirling vortex of air escaping the room. A dark figure floats toward a supply cabinet and upon opening it sees their target - a glowing orb, about the size of a baseball, which alternately pulses and swirls. The newly created enteramin passes into the hands of who knows who....
Tony Timeless relaxed in his comfy arm chair. It barely supports his weight because the mechanical parts of his body are made out of super-dense alloy and have increased his weight nearly 3 times! A blinking light appears in the corner of his vision, and he notes it and answers the call.
Prescient Malon: "Hi Tony."
Tony: Hi Malon. What can I do for you? Anything that can take me away from the boredom of reviewing my article for Gumshoe Quarterly?
Malon: Actually, yes, we have a wonderful opportunity for you to see the newest technology in the galaxy.
Tony: (Ah, you want me to go somewhere I don't want to go, eh?)
Malon:
Thursday, February 20, 2020
Acrocats
This was shared with me from my mother-in-law:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
The Acrocats!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
The Acrocats!
Wednesday, December 4, 2019
12/4
I left Jenny with Jazz last night while Lucy and I went out. She is tickled that I'm working on training Jazz, so I gave her the target stick and let her try out some training with Jazz herself. I will ask her later today about how it went and if she did anything. We got home after 10:00p, so it was too late to chat.
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