cool. Just needed the dodgeball specific rules for creative purposes.
I'm guessing we are suspending penalties for too many players on the court and the court size isn't going to be smaller than at least one player.
General rules:
Touching the opposite side of the court makes you out.
A ball is live once it has been thrown across the center line, and stays live until it hits the ground, walls or is caught. Standard deflection rules have a ball live after deflection, so still catchable and able to get a player out, same after hitting a player. A catch means thrower is out and catching team gains a player (or player is saved if ball bounces off of them and is then caught)
How do we deal with non-physical players?
For example can visionary throw a ball with her mind? Can Omnitron interpolate a ball and have it count as a catch, or throw?
For example can visionary throw a ball with her mind? Can Omnitron interpolate a ball and have it count as a catch, or throw?
I will leave that up to each player, so as not to restrict certain characters. My suggestion, use it as a point of contention. Have the other team protest the game because of cheating.
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
-Robert E. Howard, "The Tower of the Elephant"
I don't have access to the spreadsheet while I'm at work, and can't quite remember who was picked. If no one's called Matriarch, I'll go ahead and take her. Her armies of birds will make excellent shields.
Good ideas are usually just bad ideas a stubborn person eventually fixed.
Left: Apostate, AA, BB, Bunker, Dreamer, Ermine, Fanatic Fright Train, Haka, KNYFE, Mr. Fixer, Naturalist, plague Rat, Ra, and Spite.
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
-Robert E. Howard, "The Tower of the Elephant"
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
-Robert E. Howard, "The Tower of the Elephant"
Now that GtG is back from PAX, I should probably officially ask: GtG, you mind deciding the winner of the final round?
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
-Robert E. Howard, "The Tower of the Elephant"
I could be an arbiter, certainly. This is all going to be free-form description, correct? I will be judging based on how all of your handle your descriptions and such?
"Your goodness must have some edge to it — else it is none."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Yep, and essentially choosing which description is true and reflects what actually happens. We are almost done with drafting, and then the fun begins. There are 8 teams, so there should be 3 rounds, right? (8 -> 4 -> 2). We will have the community vote on the first two rounds, but GtG will pick the grand champion.
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
-Robert E. Howard, "The Tower of the Elephant"
Once that is done, I will randomly create a bracket and post the full teams. Once that is done, I will give everyone a few days to write how they think the match went. Then we can vote! I can't wait!
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
-Robert E. Howard, "The Tower of the Elephant"
Sure, after the drafing is finished, I am going to post the bracket that say which team is playing which. As an example, let's say you were paired with Nielzabub. The match would then be between the following characters:
AA, Mr. Fixer, NM, Sentinels, and Tachyon VS AZ, Akash'bhuta, Chariman, Naturalist, and Voss
Taking the teams into account, you will describe what happened in the match, and how your team was victorious. The method you use to describe the match is up to oyu, be creative. For example, you could just write a description like the F5 vs PW thread, or have a post game announcement where the coach is describing what happens. This is completely up to you on the approach you want to take, just make sure you describe how the match actually went.
The basic rules of dodgeball is that there are two times one each side, and you can't cross over. If you throw a ball and hit someone, that player is out. If they catch it, you are out and one player from the other team comes in. The game ends once an entire team is eliminated.
Now, these are the basic rules, which you can adhere to like a real or serious match, but you don't have to. For example, you can use Expatriette's Hair Trigger Reflexes to quickly catch a ball, or you can use it so that she pulls out a gun, shoots the ball, then catches it as it slowly falls to the floor. What type of game is up to you, the goal is creativity. Some other examples, Voss can use his minions as protection, then use Forced Deployment as a jailbreak to get them back.
Once you have finished your narrative, PM it to me. Once all of them are in, I will post everything. For each game (there will be 4), there will be two versions, written by two different people. The community will vote on which version they feel is the real one. The team with the most votes will move on to the next round by creating another story with the new match up.
Any other questions?
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
-Robert E. Howard, "The Tower of the Elephant"
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
-Robert E. Howard, "The Tower of the Elephant"
The bracket has been made!!! Since this is for fun, there will be no time limit (within reason). Once you have written your narrative, PM it to me. Once all are in, I will post them for people to vote!!!
The first round is:
Cobra Lily
Meerkat MADNESS
Awesomelaser
The Kitten Mittons
Team Venture
Rick's Taco Barn
Sentinels of the Freedom Watch
The Fighting Mongooses
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
-Robert E. Howard, "The Tower of the Elephant"
So far, I have gotten 2/8 of the descriptions. This is just a reminder in case somebody forgot.
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
-Robert E. Howard, "The Tower of the Elephant"
Completely forgot about that. At this point, if a character has more than one card for your team or your opponents, pick which one you want in your description.
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
-Robert E. Howard, "The Tower of the Elephant"
cool. Just needed the dodgeball specific rules for creative purposes.
I'm guessing we are suspending penalties for too many players on the court and the court size isn't going to be smaller than at least one player.
General rules:
Touching the opposite side of the court makes you out.
A ball is live once it has been thrown across the center line, and stays live until it hits the ground, walls or is caught. Standard deflection rules have a ball live after deflection, so still catchable and able to get a player out, same after hitting a player. A catch means thrower is out and catching team gains a player (or player is saved if ball bounces off of them and is then caught)
How do we deal with non-physical players?
For example can visionary throw a ball with her mind? Can Omnitron interpolate a ball and have it count as a catch, or throw?
I will leave that up to each player, so as not to restrict certain characters. My suggestion, use it as a point of contention. Have the other team protest the game because of cheating.
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
-Robert E. Howard, "The Tower of the Elephant"
I don't have access to the spreadsheet while I'm at work, and can't quite remember who was picked. If no one's called Matriarch, I'll go ahead and take her. Her armies of birds will make excellent shields.
Good ideas are usually just bad ideas a stubborn person eventually fixed.
Left: Apostate, AA, BB, Bunker, Dreamer, Ermine, Fanatic Fright Train, Haka, KNYFE, Mr. Fixer, Naturalist, plague Rat, Ra, and Spite.
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
-Robert E. Howard, "The Tower of the Elephant"
(The Matriarch was already picked, pick one from Pydro's list Niel)
Stop lurking, it makes you look like a villain target
When you do things right, people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all
I'll go ahead and take Argent Adept then.
Good ideas are usually just bad ideas a stubborn person eventually fixed.
Fanatic and Ermine are the final members of Rick's Taco Barn.
I'll go ahead and take Mr. Fixer then.
Good ideas are usually just bad ideas a stubborn person eventually fixed.
The Naturalist will just pop the dodgeballs with his horns or teeth
Crush your enemies, drive them before you, and laminate their women! - Guise, Prime Wardens #31
Ra will burn them all!!
I'll take the Rat!
imprimis5, you're up!
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
-Robert E. Howard, "The Tower of the Elephant"
Now that GtG is back from PAX, I should probably officially ask: GtG, you mind deciding the winner of the final round?
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
-Robert E. Howard, "The Tower of the Elephant"
I could be an arbiter, certainly. This is all going to be free-form description, correct? I will be judging based on how all of your handle your descriptions and such?
"Your goodness must have some edge to it — else it is none."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Yep, and essentially choosing which description is true and reflects what actually happens. We are almost done with drafting, and then the fun begins. There are 8 teams, so there should be 3 rounds, right? (8 -> 4 -> 2). We will have the community vote on the first two rounds, but GtG will pick the grand champion.
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
-Robert E. Howard, "The Tower of the Elephant"
I will take Baron Blade. He'll set up some impulsion beams at the edge of the play area to keep balls from getting near.
Twitter: imprimis5. Follow away!
Which Baron Blade? He has 2 decks.
Whoops. True enough. I'll go Vengeance. He's a little more hands on there.
Twitter: imprimis5. Follow away!
Woohoo! Only 2 left! Meerkat then Matchstickman.
Once that is done, I will randomly create a bracket and post the full teams. Once that is done, I will give everyone a few days to write how they think the match went. Then we can vote! I can't wait!
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
-Robert E. Howard, "The Tower of the Elephant"
Can you give a full list of rules as well. I'm still not fully clear on it.
Crush your enemies, drive them before you, and laminate their women! - Guise, Prime Wardens #31
Sure, after the drafing is finished, I am going to post the bracket that say which team is playing which. As an example, let's say you were paired with Nielzabub. The match would then be between the following characters:
AA, Mr. Fixer, NM, Sentinels, and Tachyon VS AZ, Akash'bhuta, Chariman, Naturalist, and Voss
Taking the teams into account, you will describe what happened in the match, and how your team was victorious. The method you use to describe the match is up to oyu, be creative. For example, you could just write a description like the F5 vs PW thread, or have a post game announcement where the coach is describing what happens. This is completely up to you on the approach you want to take, just make sure you describe how the match actually went.
The basic rules of dodgeball is that there are two times one each side, and you can't cross over. If you throw a ball and hit someone, that player is out. If they catch it, you are out and one player from the other team comes in. The game ends once an entire team is eliminated.
Now, these are the basic rules, which you can adhere to like a real or serious match, but you don't have to. For example, you can use Expatriette's Hair Trigger Reflexes to quickly catch a ball, or you can use it so that she pulls out a gun, shoots the ball, then catches it as it slowly falls to the floor. What type of game is up to you, the goal is creativity. Some other examples, Voss can use his minions as protection, then use Forced Deployment as a jailbreak to get them back.
Once you have finished your narrative, PM it to me. Once all of them are in, I will post everything. For each game (there will be 4), there will be two versions, written by two different people. The community will vote on which version they feel is the real one. The team with the most votes will move on to the next round by creating another story with the new match up.
Any other questions?
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
-Robert E. Howard, "The Tower of the Elephant"
Yes. Why has BlueHairedMeerkat not drafted yet?
Stop lurking, it makes you look like a villain target
When you do things right, people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all
Because a) He's been really busy.
b) He's kind of rubbish.
c) He picks Haka.
d) Oh look he's picked! Yaaay!
“You gotta have blue hair."
-Reckless
A team isn't complete without at least one Redhead, so K.N.Y.F.E. is the pick. Also stabbing dodgeballs should be useful.
Stop lurking, it makes you look like a villain target
When you do things right, people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all
The final teams are:
Rick's Taco Barn
phantaskippy
Ermine
Fanatic
Kismet
Omnitron
Omnitron-X
Sentinels of the Freedom Watch
Nielzabub
Argent Adept
Mr. Fixer
Nightmist
Sentinels
Tachyon
Team Venture
Powerhound_2000
Absolute Zero
Akash'bhuta
Chairman
Naturalist
Voss
Cobra Lily
jagarciao
Ambuscade
Citizen Dawn
La Capitan
Ra
Wraith
The Kitten Mittons
Foote
Chrono-Ranger
Gloomweaver
Plague Rat
Proletariat
Visionary
Awesomelaser
imprimis5
Baron Blade
Expatriette
Matriarch
Parse
Scholar
Meerkat MADNESS
BlueHairedMeerkat
Ennead
Friction
Haka
Setback
Unity
The Fighting Mongooses
Matchstickman
Iron Legacy
KNYFE
Legacy
Miss Information
Tempest
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
-Robert E. Howard, "The Tower of the Elephant"
The bracket has been made!!! Since this is for fun, there will be no time limit (within reason). Once you have written your narrative, PM it to me. Once all are in, I will post them for people to vote!!!
The first round is:
Cobra Lily
Meerkat MADNESS
Awesomelaser
The Kitten Mittons
Team Venture
Rick's Taco Barn
Sentinels of the Freedom Watch
The Fighting Mongooses
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
-Robert E. Howard, "The Tower of the Elephant"
I should have something by the end of the weekend at worst.
Crush your enemies, drive them before you, and laminate their women! - Guise, Prime Wardens #31
So far, I have gotten 2/8 of the descriptions. This is just a reminder in case somebody forgot.
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
-Robert E. Howard, "The Tower of the Elephant"
I haven't forgotten. I just haven't taken the time yet. My creative time has been dedicated to writing up rules and preparing a prototype for a game.
Twitter: imprimis5. Follow away!
Yeah. I remember too. Just been SLAMMED with work. I have a 14 hour flight tomorrow night though... Perfect time to write this.
I'll go ahead and declare regular Nightmist and Darkwatch Mr. Fixer.
Good ideas are usually just bad ideas a stubborn person eventually fixed.
Completely forgot about that. At this point, if a character has more than one card for your team or your opponents, pick which one you want in your description.
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
-Robert E. Howard, "The Tower of the Elephant"
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