/erp/ - Erotic Roleplay★

>>58920

I'm going to say perhaps an attack penalty.

>>58874

I find it easier to get up if the alarm clock doesn't make me want to ignore it out of spite.

Get an alarm clock that can play music you choose. That radio function that's so common is total chance, and not to be trusted.

Pick something that's not totally jarring to hear out of a dead sleep. Elevatorstuck has been the best for me so far. You may want to change it up periodically though, novelty can help.

For those days where I have about 8 hours between end of shift and the start of a new one, I throw a 5 hour energy in front of my alarm clock.

>>58923

Works for me. I'll pen it in as a possible.

Right now i'm crunchign numbers and possibilities on anydice for my write-up - looking at the possibility of moving to D8.

Bear with me here - it would make combat a lot more interesting and kind of consolidate possibilities to 1 bad 8 good, and grades of 2 in between. also +'s and -'s making a bigger difference than on d10.

I said I'd try to get something up today, I may just barely sneak in by midnight.

I'll have some more action types to choose from as well as basic things like pass or whatnot being reexamined.

back to writing!

>>58928

d8 sounds nice, I mainly went with d10 because that's what Ero-Empire was using. It's also less clicks when setting die to a post. So crit hit/miss, and three results in between?

>>58930

Something like that.

1-3 on d8 is a 37% probability range, so its kind of a tossup between having 4 sets of 2(with 'crits' being the upper/lower half, not crits on 1 and 2).

a d10 attack currently misses on 1-3, which is either 1-2 on d8 or 1-3 on d8 and i'm not sure which.

Basic move odds as they currently stand

Move: 50% Success

Flee: 30% success, 30% at-price-win

Attack 60% success

Aimed: 40%

Purify: 60% hit 20% feedback

So the question is, err on the side of success or failure?

>>58931

I'd say tip towards success overall as anti-fustration. 37% fail rate is fine for most things.

Well, I was thinking it was 1 for a crit miss, 8 for a crit hit, and then 2+3, 4+5, and 6+7 being three different results for a total of five outcomes, usually. We could go with four potential results on all four pairs as well, based on the action in question. not everything needs a crit hit/miss.

Come to think of it, a crit miss on move is kind of up in the air, haven't thought up anything satisfying since the start where girls lost purity only when captured, which happened normally when HP was zero, with a crit miss move letting a monster capture at any HP level.

I kind of want to ditch aiming by the time d8 could be implemented though, I'd rather stop throwing attack power into the trash on the armor system than make healing just as complicated to compensate. As-is, we have layer buffers and attacks on bare or low-armor areas taking extra bites out of everyone's DPT in a way that I don't know how to calculate. Take that out and it's just the die, with everyone doing 75% DPT on average, where non-consecutive healing is 50%

>>58937

Working on d8ifying.

Hey, how big is the bonus against grappled characters? All it says in file is the rolls improve. How much on d10?

>>58951

Additionally, as far as intent: bonus applicable allies or enemies? Is it a field-day to gangbang anyone Captured, or is it mostly for the side controlling the capturing?

>>58951

>>58952

It was a +2 to rolls against a captured character. (Which I've been applying as everything between the crits slides two digits.

Arguably, it shouldn't be applying to friendly actions in what I've made because none of the actions targeting allies demand a roll.

>>58982

Oh, realized you might be asking just the one doing the capture or all enemies, and I'm going to say all, because there are capture traps.

Though now that I think of it, capture might be OP with that addition, it already prevents any actions besides "escape capture." Though if someone's immobilized, it doesn't make sense for hit against them to miss.

I've been thinking of increasing the chance that capture will work by having the strength of the capture vary. as-is, you need an 8 or higher the first turn, and that number is supposed to lower each turn you remain captured unless your escape is a critical miss.

>>58983

I've got that part covered, it was just a matter of intent. As is capture is good but also a downside if you don't make it count. More on that when my sunday game is done.

>>59005

I have a feeling that the long time between turns, despite being implemented to account for people busy, might've actually turned some people off the game. I know it can be bothersome waiting a long time for anything to happen. Unfortunately I don't really think there's a solution for this. I would say process daily and have the players give their character a little "ai" for the others to move for them in their absence, but that'll just turn people away for different reasons.

Maybe we should switch to doing checks on specific days instead, just so people get a sense of a schedule.

>>59014

Yeah, I've found it frustrating myself, as the deadline was meant to be the maximim number of days between turns, not the time when the turn would happen. I was hoping for daily turns most of the time.

Maybe pick two days a week as "hard update days" where a turn happens no matter what.

Maybe, I should probably go back towards my original ideas, and have rules as follows:

If you're absent for three full days, we move on without you (maybe giving an AI action as more recently decided.) After that we only wait two more days for you, and if you still do nothing, the character is set aside for possible removal so I'm not accumulating an army of NPCs. The day after is the last chance to jump back in before your character gets a soft retconning.

That's a full six days, most of a week. I don't think any of us want a single player to be slowing down the game longer than that with thier absence.

Yeah, I know things happen, but internet silence on an anonymous image board can mean anything, and we can't be expected to keep everything warm for you when there's no way of knowing if you'll ever come back at all.

On a lighter note, anyone care to try the 6d game out as we play the journey to the boss room?

>>59030

I think waiting for the deadline is almost an unavoidable inevitability, unfortunately. The way the game works, especially with it getting more difficult and complicated at times like during this fight, makes people want to discuss it more and more to be sure they're making the right move. But because everyone's free and busy at different times to one another, this often leads to long periods of waiting around for replies. I'm afraid a teamwork based game on a forum is always going to be slow unless everyone is free at the same times every day.

Should we have everyone try out the alternate system for this next part?

>>59014

I just added in a suggestion to the CD rules in the planning document with something along these lines, in the 'Other Clarifications' section. Basically, my thought is that absent magical girls can just have the GM briefly run their character until they return, using the Cooperation rules to add their roll to somebody else's action, rather than having actions of their own declared for them. It struck me as a potentially solid middle ground between absent characters just getting taken over entirely and absent players not being able to contribute much while they're gone. And of course, between floors would be the big checkpoint where inactive players are dropped off and new ones recruitment for the game.

>>59030

>On a lighter note, anyone care to try the 6d game out as we play the journey to the boss room?

>>59032

>Should we have everyone try out the alternate system for this next part?

Are you both referring to the CD rule-set? I'd certainly be up for trying those rules out. We could say that our characters escorted all the rescued girls out of the mansion and start back off in the entry room, perhaps.

>>59030

Sounds good to me, I'll try to be more prompt. And hell yeah I wanna try the d6 mode!

>>58937

Maybe take a page from Dungeon World and have one grade be "success, but…" with each enemy/room/trap having 2 or 3 things that could happen. Maybe make it optional, if you roll (range) you choose to either miss or hit and something bad happens.

>>59053

Having them cooperate isn't a bad idea, but we want to avoid ALL THESE NPCs. I feel like if we want their help it's on us to give orders and protect them.

>>59058

Starting fresh without any 'wild' Dark Magical Girls running around will probably help, there, as will offloading any players who fall into NPC territory between floors. Though, now that you bring it up, it probably would be worth considering some way to write out NPCs and NPC-ed player characters mid-floor if they wind up starting to get too numerous, especially if we can come up with a way to bring them back in if their players wind up returning.

>>59067

I need to check out cthulu dark, but I do kind of like having it as an option to handle like, investigative, social, romance('team building exercises') and other NON-combat features of a game.

It sounds like its pretty much a 'd6 roll high' system, though?

>>59069

Pretty much, yes. It was designed to be simple, quick, and easy to adapt pre-published Cthulhu-related scenarios for, so the rules were kept as light as possible.

>>59069

Yo wicked, i've been going over the design history for the Move/Flee commands

what exactly is a 'ambush by monster?'

Low rolls seem to change around between bonus attacks and captures - does that one spawn a monster to fight instead?

>>59025

>>59037

So are we all basically thinking of using the interactivity of the Eropad to play out a scene, and then pastebin the scene after it's finished?

>>59072

Well, "ambush by monster if present" is kind of the full idea. Most rooms had at least one at the start of any round. Basically, a bad roll when uncovering a room would have one of the monsters hitting you.

As for capture, I haven't come up with anything satisfying to replace the initial idea.

Originally, you just had HP and an alignment score where more than 10 was pure, while 10 or less was corrupt. Normally, when your HP was reduced to zero, a monster would capture you, which doubled as it's corrupting attack.

So basically your character starts getting molested when they run out of HP. Until you re-transformed, you'd be stuck at 0 HP, and any monster could re-capture you if you got away.

The critical miss on a move action would have a monster being able to capture you without emptying your HP.

>>59074

Hmn. Is 'ambush' a specific action, or just an attack?

regular moves went from from 2-4 monster gains free attack to 2-4 monster gains free ambush on the etherpad. Did an old ver get copied in by mistake?

>>59075

"ambush" is just an attack, wording was changed to be clearer.

We should totally come up with a common, canon backstory/explanation for the "academy", I think it'll be fun to be able to include it in more detail in scenes, but I didn't want to go ahead and just monopolise ideas for it myself whilst writing with those I've been playing with so far.

>>59149

Well, Since I started the game and It's somewhat based on my f-list characters, I'll lead. The setting is something like a magical x-men, where some people get powers around the time they hit puberty.

[Insert elegant name here] is located to the center of Connection City, a metropolis built around the meeting of three major highways.

The academy's headmistress is a woman named Sarah Carver, more famously the Silver Valkyrie. In her youth, she was a famous magical girl who's actions culminated in defeating "Queen Misery," a powerfully gifted girl who lead an army of magically powered outcasts in a conquest that took control of Connection City.

Both Queen Misery and Silver Valkyrie Vanished after the conflict, and young people within Connection City stopped gaining special powers, making it something of a more peaceful place than the surrounding world. Sarah herself lost all memory of her abilities and all related events, leading an ordinary life until a few years ago. A monster from outside the city wandered in and attacked her daughter, forcing her to instinctively call upon her magic.

What later became the academy started as a underground network of gifted women and girls who banded around Sarah's experience.

>>59152

So far I've been working on the assumption that at least some of the girls live within the academy itself (Splinter and El do anyway), though whether due to circumstance or merely convenience, I'm not sure. How many girls do we think are training at the academy right now? I don't think it would be a particularly big number, but more than there are players for sure.

>>59154

The academy is a new thing in-universe, and it's been built with much larger numbers in mind, so the place is pretty big and empty to the current students.

I'm thinking about fifty.

Some of the older members miss when it was more of a club, but Alex is glad she doesn't need to make LCDs for the communicators herself anymore.

>>59155

I'm assuming the academy also serves as a replacement for regular schools, meaning the girls take more traditional classes along with their magical girl studies. I was thinking the place is equipped to teach girls from as soon as they hit puberty all the way up to about 18. Anyone older than that usually works as a teacher rather than a student, or simply uses the academy as a hub of some kind whilst otherwise going about their lives as normal. Does that sound good?

>>59157

Yeah, that sounds pretty solid. There's also a building for veteran girls on "standing watch."

worldbuilding is what really gets me going

>>59152

>>59155

When it comes to Lily's backstory, the basic thought I had for him was that his mother was the original Lily Pure Samurai, and that he took up the mantle after she gave him the uniform and sword on her deathbed.

From the sounds of things, I'm guessing that the setting has a decently-long history of young people gaining magical powers and dressing up in colorful costumes to fight evil, but that the academy represents one of the first and most recent attempts to start openly organizing and forming a larger, united front among the colorful costumed crowd? If the academy's teachers and graduates get to have some level of recognition by and cooperation with various officials in Connection City as a result of that, it would certainly help with figuring out Lily's exact motivations in trying to pass himself off as a girl and become a student there. His overall motivation is to carry on in his mother's footsteps, and if the best way to do that would be to start crossdressing and enter an all-girls school, then he wouldn't hesitate to go for it.

>>59161

Well, let's get you going then~

On a more micro level, I don't know about the other girls, but I was thinking Splinter is in her last year, already 18.

This is an all-girls academy, right? Well, it's supposed to be, anyway. Are there going to be any male members of staff then? And whereabouts in the city is it? I figured it's more on the outskirts and in the centre, some place where they'd be able to have a big field and lots of land for sports and training.

>>59163

The Valkyrie's seal lasted no more than 10 years, and mixed feelings persisted after Queen Misery's invasion. It took some heroics on the part of the group to warm people up to the idea of supporting the gifted.

Of course, Silver didn't do it all on her own, and some of her previous allies took to watching for anything bad wandering into the "safe zone." Both so Sarah could enjoy her ordinary life, and because the people within had no means of defense against magic threats.

>>59164

Perhaps the system is more merit-based, and doesn't so specifically demand time. Especially since puberty is the usual time to be gifted and it can happen much earlier or later in some cases.

And I was sort of thinking of having a male group on the other side of town, almost in a mirror image, led by a love interest of Sarah's from before her memories were sealed.

>>59165

Do the male and female academies ever meet up for events and trips then? I don't know about the rest of the girls, but Splinter would relish the opportunity to "train" with the boys.

Either way, if there's a male school too, a corrupted magical boy or two would be a good excuse to get a few cocks into battles in the future.

Considering the constant danger of monster attacks, I'm imagining a world with a few really big cities that are safe and then very little between them. Smaller villages don't have the resources to both expand and defend themselves from monsters so there aren't really any mid-size towns. That sound about right?

And this probably doesn't need saying since I figured everyone's already thinking along the same lines anyway, but technology is more or less in line with the modern real world.

>>59170

Perhaps there's a traitor within the academy and Lily's mother realised this, but wasn't able to find out who exactly it was before she passed away. Along with her uniform and sword, she also gave him one final task to find the traitor, for the sake of everyone. Of course, if he were at the male academy, he'd hardly have the chance, so he finds his way into the girls' academy instead so he can look for clues whilst still training.

Of course, I doubt the picture is entirely untrue as well anyway.

>>59167

I was thinking the Mystic Knight Academy would be close enough to make cooperation easy, but far enough that it it's not easy for students from one to sneak to the other.

Well, monster's aren't roaming the countryside for the most part. All the magic comes from people, and some people have powers that let them make monsters.

Tentatively I'm thinking spirits whose influence is limited, and handing out powers is one of the few things they can do.

In Lily's case, if it were up to me, his mother's patron spirit stayed to watch, and gave the same gift upon transfer of the sword and clothes.

As for why lily goes to a girls school. . .

Maybe Lily has a twin sister who he's posing as. She gained very dangerous powers of her own and stands to be a problem. Maybe he's there to make sure she doesn't enroll and start to cause trouble.

Course, that's just a suggestion off the top of my head.

>>59173

So, the real question is, would Lily rather be raped by a corrupt teacher or his evil twin sister~?

Also, maybe we should brainstorm ideas for the academy's name? "Magical Girl Academy" sounds a little on the nose.

Maybe something like, "Valkyrie's School for Gifted Girls"

Also also, perhaps we should have everyone make their character's age (or at least apparent age) clear during character creation. Honestly, I hadn't even realised that Valkyrie was anything other than another girl of a similar age until this thread, so it would help to avoid confusion like that in the future.

>>59176

Oh, and in terms of age, given the second image in >>59181, I'm thinking that Lily is probably older than he looks, but is taking advantage of that to further obscure his identity. His school transcript says he's a 13-year-old girl, but his actual age is probably more around 16 or 17.

>>59181

I must admit, the idea of his sister showing up in the tower and spreading her corruption to him by riding him whilst mocking his inferior "swordsmanship" sounds super hot.

Matching names for the schools sounds like fun too. Would using Aphrodite and Eros as the names for patron saints be too on the nose?

>>59200

Perhaps her blade is cursed and corrupts on touch. That could be her trait, every attack causes one point of corruption too, as long as they're showing enough skin already.

>>59188

>Would using Aphrodite and Eros as the names for patron saints be too on the nose?

Very much so if they're conservative enough to divide students to cut back on fraternization. I was thinking something to so with the lead figures.

Perhaps the Fraternity of Nights and the Sorority of Valkyries? Haven't decided on anything specific for the male leader, aside from that he'd totally be married to Sarah in an AU where she hadn't lost her memories. So he could have a different theme to lend to the name of his school.

As for my characters:

Silver Valkyrie:

Gave a lot of her backstory already, famous, sealed her memories and powers, went ordinary housewife, had a daughter, and now her ememories and powers are back.

Age: 30

Crimson Axe

Age: 19

She was one of seven friends gifted together, who fought as a team. She was always the weakest of the group as she didn't tap into the full potential of her powers until one fateful mission where all six of her friends fell in battle. It was then she finally learned that her potency was linked to her anger, and single-handedly avenged her team. She carries a deep case of survivor's guilt, which causes her to avoid getting close to people, and becoming very protective of them when she fails to remain distant.

Sugar Diva:

Age: 17

Not really meant to be a warrior by her patron Spirit, Sugar Diva's abilites were supposed t make her a star. High regenerative skills are a accidentally re-purposed costume-changing ability. Her magic microphone allows her to speak into the hearts of others.

Passion Flower

Age:15

(On F-list, she's non-transforming, but adapted her to fit here.)

A girl with the power to grow and control vines from her body. She has a distinct lecherous streak, and takes advantage of other girls in need of her healing abilities with little lies about the process needing abundant contact with bare skin.

>>59161

>worldbuilding is what really gets me going

yes! :) then lets get you GOING.

Typed this up earlier but never posted them, i see this has taken off! Warning, latter halfs maybe rambly. Kinda tired over here.

My looose and unspecific assumptions for Isabel were that since Magic Is A Thing and she comes from a family with certain predispositions, that those with the gift and sorcery are kind of out there, but I wasn't sure how public or in or out of the shadows it was - i like the comparison to a semi-secret x-mansion.

So she had an earlier start with her magic, and she came from a private school of sorts. Generic, but just a nod towards needing an earlier start learning stuff. The kind of thing that might come about as a result of not actually killing this thing in their bloodline would be worse, but still have to carry on - with the MGA being an outstanding place to spread wings and gain experience under some wiser, established tutors who can do more than just instill framework and nurture the spark of sorcery. So, she's a transfer. Which seems to fit the way the others both look up to isabel and treat her as something exotic , something worth having.

>>59084

>but I didn't want to go ahead and just monopolise ideas for it myself whilst writing with those I've been playing with so far.

Man, just dump your trains of thoughts because I'd like to hear what's on your mind.

>>59200

So are we thinking, like - all girls boarding school, or more after-school club activity, or even some 'take other classes here while attending x y or z? that you see places outsource to'. Your age range is, I think somewhere in the ballpark of 16-22 and you want to invent a reason to put all those age ranges in one place.

I think the most fair basic comparison to make would be 'magical day care' that grew into something more as things started getting more serious, people had to train, then show their protege's how to do it - adding 'magical ymca' to the list of facilities, and then make use of people they had on hand to save the day… the x-mansion seems a fair comparison. But I don't think it would really stop there. You could stand to take it a little further - its not just a school. impressionable dangerous wizards shouldn't be kicked out and cut loose, but retained and continuing to grow.

You want to acknowledge and address the underage-issue on some level(wher's the cutoff? whats too young to be icky?) - and i think that limiting it to a certain age range of 'all high-schoolers' is ultimately, well, limiting. There's not so much years as courses, memberships - with collaboration comes community, and chances to help figure magic out. It smacks more of 'college lab' type situation only with sorcery, alchemy and science instead of chemistry.More of a magical community banding together. Or, really: Acknowledging that there's other places out there (that boys academy) and making the MGA self-aware that this is kind of a hard thing to do right - their draw and attaction is they just have a system setup where high and college flows together right under the same room - a positive atmosphere where people want to stay.

If you want to be more realistic, think about locale. There's flavors to draw upon: Europe has magical london of hogwarts, or the urban fantasy of large cities (dresden). This is not one of my strong areas though, and it may be better served with a generic or entirely made up location.

>>59204

those ages i think are a pretty good example of what i mean. You want to invent a reason to put those ranges under the same banner and then put them in a location where it wouldn't be out of place. Solve those issues, i think, and everything else will follow.

>>59204

on a side note, could you unlock the player character sheet?

We're gonna want to be able to update things come floor and system changes soon - current stuff don't change followed by scratch-space for later revisions?

>>59266

Right, if some people are just able to make monsters, it makes sense that the academy would have a few dark-arts specialists on tap (and a somewhat loose leash) for research and training purposes. wouldn't go so far as putting anything actually dangerous in the basement, the place is too new to have a pacified demon on the premises and Isabel transferring in probably raised a few eyebrows. How does she feel about donating a blood sample to the research lab?

Actually, that's an interesting thought. Is the school located in proximity to a seal or gate as a first line of defense/way to keep it hidden? Or is that a bit cliche?

>>59200

Oooh mystery~ I like it, looks like we have a rival set to appear at a critical moment. I wonder if any of the other students know anything, could be fun playing Scooby-Doo for a little if we make it that far.

Oh right, are everyone's names public knowledge or are they kept hidden in school records to protect the gifted and their loved ones?

>>59274

upon waking and some further consideration, i kind of likethe idea of a magical girl sorority - when sex monsters and corruption are the problem, safehouses and help for all the normal people who get caught up in it is a cool theme to have as well as a good way to both keep things semi-under the table as well as have high-profile backers.

also an overarching way to tie all the things the association and academy do together.

Thematic question for the players: Kissing

How good should it be? For you, for the target? Should it be an afterthought, or (in)decently good on its own, or somewhere in between the two?

Reworkin sensitivity mechanics - it'll be good - could use some input.

Current premise is going from

0.3 -> 0.5

.7 - 1

1 -> 1.5

=2->=3 and changing the attack values to be the same, while gradually uncovering those in half-point dings as armor is whacked off.

This also opens up much more fun with traps, statuses, situational modifiers, and rounding favorably depending on how much skin the tempter is showing. Think you'll all like it!

Also, wicked, if you could please post the current status effects for the players special maneuvers - stunned and distracted - and what causes them (spirit hawk is one of them), I don't have them and would like to take a look at em.

>>59286

Perhaps kissing could be an alternate take on Tease/Tempt? Take minor alignment damage in exchange for dealing guaranteed minor alignment damage to a single other target, or something along those lines? I like the idea of it being useful, but not quite as good as regular alignment attacks.

>>59304

Its more a question of how/when it factors into sensitivity equations, but i'll see what i can do

>>59287

Stun has all rolls a character was involved in with two digits of difference against them.

So +2 to attacks against them and -2 to their actions. Arguably still OP now that I think of it.

Distracted reduces the afflicted character's own rolls, so -2.

>>59267

Sure thing, it's just sitting there as-is.

https://oasis.sandstorm.io/shared/CK_KAoHsUcnLTPGiy3T6Yeh6697jdUQDJw7OuqL2HZz

>Actually, that's an interesting thought. Is the school located in proximity to a seal or gate as a first line of defense/way to keep it hidden? Or is that a bit cliche?

Magical bubbles may be a bit on the impractical side the way I see it. I'm going to just stick with the "standing watch" idea.

>>59275

>Oh right, are everyone's names public knowledge or are they kept hidden in school records to protect the gifted and their loved ones?

Good question. I'm thinking names are only released to certain people for compelling reasons, if it were public, Not only does that make them easier to target, But then also the fans for the more glamorous figures.

>>59277

>upon waking and some further consideration, i kind of likethe idea of a magical girl sorority - when sex monsters and corruption are the problem, safehouses and help for all the normal people who get caught up in it is a cool theme to have as well as a good way to both keep things semi-under the table as well as have high-profile backers.

Well, Powers tend to be unique in some way, and Empress Calista seems to have a very potent set of powers that are geared towards lewd for obvious dloylist reasons.

You get powered gangs, or lone nuisances, all the way to an army of magical people trying to seize the whole city. They have plans in place for things like powered invasions, but since membership is still relatively small. . .

Okay, I'm tired, so this is my last post tonight, in case any of you were hoping to get a quick answer while I'm here.

So… Slow night, huh?

>>59385

I'm writing <3

A fluff concern came to mind, having a magical girl academy being a publicly known thing while maintaining secret identities would be challenging to say the least.

If it's a dedicated facility, then it's a given about anyone who goes in or comes out is a magical girl. If they come and go in uniform, it's a simple matter of following them home.

So, the best idea is perhaps to conflate all of it by making it so magical girl training, registration, and counseling are functions that are part of, but not the sole purpose of, an educational/recreational facility. Perhaps a large plot of land in the center of the east half-circle. There will have to be some way of letting them transform while keeping their identities secret.

On more game-related notes, Block Exit.

Basically Block escape is one of the commands that makes turning players useful to whatever team they're siding with, but it's limited for the current scenario.

Kind of Decided to break from the usual to introduce and use this command, in-mind, it works like Protect or Block Escape, but I don't know what the requirement would be for keeping it up. Protect stays if the target doesn't try to attack enemies, while Block Escape requires the user to keep targeting the same. . . target.

Block escape may be single-turn, and non-spammable like healing in the end. In the current case, Axe can only have it up for this turn, then she's on the pure side and it becomes moot.

>>59597

Maybe you could attempt to push through? Roll ___ to pass. Maybe keep it for 2 turns, but if someone successfully pushes through it falls off immediately.

Also, Splinter is apparently having connection trouble. Just giving all a y'all a heads up.

>>59591

Sounds good so far. Will contribute if anything comes to mind.

Happy thanksgiving, girlsluts!

>>60518

I hope that you had a happy Thanksgiving, as well. I was a bit busy for a few days, but since I've got a little more free time now, I'll see if I can start working on some replies involving Lily later on tonight.

>>60674

….

and boysluts, too!

>>60674

That being said, I'm excited to see what you do in the thread!

>>60688

I hope you enjoy, then.

as a heads up my laptop just went down. Ill try to be in touch with people as best I can.

>>61756

this was me :( workn on fixes

OOC for the OOC thread!

So, I'm thinking of making a certain amount of fluff mandatory, to prevent things like how I originally failed to convey that the Valkyrie was a magical MILF.

Since we're generally using images for introductions, visual description is iffy.

Definitely background, such as how long they've had powers and what they've been doing with it. Source isn't so important, I generally imagine patron spirits floating around and handing out powers is one of the few ways they can interact.

Valkyrie: I think I've covered this well enough.

Sugar: She hasn't had her powers for very long, and sort of just joined because that's what she thinks you're supposed to do when you have powers. Loosely I picture her having been in some dangerous situations and getting out untouched with pure luck, feeding into a naive optimism.

Crimson: I'm thinking she spent at least a year with her original team, and was in her mid to late teens when the incident happened. After that she ran off on her own when her survivor's guilt and paranoia made it unbearable for her to be around people she cared about. After spending several years as both a shadowy hero and a nameless vagabond, Sugar broke through her shell and started something of a healing process.

Passion: When she first discovered her powers, she just used them to climb walls and peek in windows. Slowly she got more bold and creative, using her creeping vines to snag or tug at clothes. She went as far as full-fledged rape only a few times before another magical girl caught her. She was brought to Sarah who has been trying to teach her to set her impulses aside.

And as an aside, Players should probably try to think about what their characters would be like corrupted, though revealing that i probably saves for when it happens.

As I've described before, corruption dulls a person's sense of responsibility, worries, and fears. At the turning point, they start to desire to become fully corrupt so that this effect takes hold fully and allows them to become more carefree. Other parts of their personality, like their tastes, friendships, etc. remain mostly as they were.

There is an increase in sex drive, but it's not enough to render them a horny zombie. Basically it's strong enough that they default to sex when nothing else is going on, which is helped a lot by the above effects.

>>62080

I kind of like visual descriptions, as it gives people things to play off of! Pictures are excellent to get things started, but its nicer to be able to customize to a user putting descriptions out there.

That description sounds like kinda permanent high and/or drunk, which considering the effects of evil magic we've seen so far, seeeeems kinda fitting really!

i did like comet's take on bloodlust, and it still fits there under that lens, too.

>>61768

Anyway, verdict is in: Lost everything, unrecoverably unless i want to spend a few hundred bucks i can't afford towards data recovery. Its not traditional recovery, more 'shitty ssd bug shat everything'. I could get notes and stuff back for 300$ but I've barely had the machine for 4 months.

Good news is: I've mostly reconstructed most everything from memory, so major loss is pictures(my beautiful isabel stuff :( ), random notes for scenes, mainly being a setback for effort and fidelity. Stuff will progress, just obligatory "Augh Fuck!" Wanted to let folks know what happened.

>>62091

Yeah, personally I actually favor written descriptions because of the flexibility, though I was thinking people were favoring images more so far.

>That description sounds like kinda permanent high and/or drunk, which considering the effects of evil magic we've seen so far, seeeeems kinda fitting really!

Yeah, that's more or less how I've been imagining it working.

Too bad about your computer though. Are you at least not out of a device thanks to warranty?

Back from my holiday-time awayness Restart still slated for Jan 2.

>>63229

If there's any interest for new players, now would be a good time to speak up!

Interested Anon, are you still around?

>>64180

Not the same guy, but I got interested.

What to do?

How does it work?

How long will it take?

Will I get ignored to death if I can't write for a day?

>>64180

Interested anon right here, working on a character. I'm thinking something like a "cute witch" black magic girl themed around binding, sealing and releasing seals, with maybe things like scrying on the side.

You all see where this is going once the corruption kicks in

>>64580

>What to do?

>How does it work?

The upcoming ruleset is more RP focused, and you'll basically decide on a free-form action and narrate your character attempting it, and attach dice to your post to see how successful it is.

(Note that dice do not work, in the e-mail field, the option is under the post options drop-down.)

>How long will it take?

Honestly, I don't have a good feel for how long the game will run, as it will probably rely on the speed at which players take action, and how successful their characters are in their mission.

>Will I get ignored to death if I can't write for a day?

Previous leeway was four days, but the new ruleset allows some flexibility I may respond to player actions daily and let everyone move at their own pace to a system more like ero-empire, requiring a certain number of other players to act so that the most active players don't hog all the action or obliterate others if they turn.

However, since I'm adding a player cap, I've decided to swap out players that are idle for more than 8 days to free up the slot for others. After the game starts I may continue allowing character submissions in the OOC thread to build a waiting list.

I'm rethinking the limits on corrupted players. Particularly handling their physical presence. If they can only call for opposition die, we have either the problem of them not being able to move, or not having to move.

I'm thinking that corrupt characters are considered present wherever they sabotage. If the roll succeeds despite their interference, they are exposed, giving the pure players a chance to capture them for purification, taming, or whatever else.

If their sabotage succeeds, they can call for an additional indecency or corruption check on the player they sabotaged (Henceforth known as the target), or choose to expose themselves in order to redirect the additional defense check to a player besides the target.

And another potential option for the list is exposure in exchange for taking one active action against the target, using one or two die in a trade-off between potency and reliability.

Say a corrupted player wants to pull the target away from their group, using two die would limit to human ability, and thus putting them in the next room at best. But using the competency die alone would allow something more ambitious, such as teleportation, allowing the target to be moved further on a good roll, or be hidden/trapped inside something in addition to being moved.

>>64897

The general assumption I was making with Dark Magical Girls was that they wouldn't last very long. Players would get corrupted, could have fun sabotaging the rest of the party for a bit, and then would be subdued and brought back over to the side of the rest of the players.

Your thoughts on handling physical presence go along with that fairly well (though I would also make a note that players can roll to look for a corrupted magical girl, as another way of exposing her), but I don't think that forcing an additional indecency or corruption check is necessary. The magical girls will be risking indecency or corruption themselves if they want to reroll in order to succeed in spite of the dark magical girl's opposition, after all.

As for allowing dark magical girls to take an active action against a target… The original thought was that most actions would only require one opposition die when a call was made for a player to fail while performing them. Dark magical girls are worth two dice in an opposition roll, though. Perhaps the dark magical girl could increase the opposition die against a player by 1 by stating that she is acting directly and openly against that player? Failure would mean that the player has to make an immediate corruption or indecency check, or accept some other negative result narrated by the dark magical girl's player, but either success or failure would leave the dark magical girl exposed, and thus open to being subdued by her fellow players.

>>64899

Ah, Kind of re-wrote that a few times, one other issue that came up is only being able to give opposition rolls might not be that fun, but if it's a short run, that might not be much of a problem, maybe not big enough to be worth addressing.

Corrupted characters being a temporary hazard to their current group seems fine, I think I'll save those rules though, in case there's a scenario such as a pair that loses one member when both of them are in bad shape, and thus the survivor decides to run to the safe room before addressing their former ally.

>>64899

Kind of responding in parts, heh. Now to contemplate more than your first one-line paragraph:

Yeah, the bonus risk check is probably a bit much. As for having two die in an opposition roll, I'm rethinking how corrupt girls work there now. I'm thinking the second die should go ahead and still be justified by their Theme or specialties, just for the sake of fluff still being somewhat relevant.

>>65173

I'd like my character icon to be a purple star, if one of the older characters doesn't already have dibs.

Here's a link for a quick view of my kinks, as well as some elaboration on my Traits. I'll try and figure out how to edit myself into the doc when it's not 2 AM.

https://www.f-list.net/c/mahou%20star

>>65173

A blue bracelet would be nice or if that doesn't work a red ribbon. Also I've put my preference stuff up on the document and will try to get an opener done either tonight or sometime in the afternoon. Really looking forward to playing with you folks and seeing where this takes us!

>>65177

I just realized I may have made a weak character. Since my Competency, Black Magic is by its definition abnormal, I'll almost never be rolling Competency and Normal together unless I come up with something very convoluted or by using magic to do something any normal person could have done anyway.

>>65180

>or by using magic to do something any normal person could have done anyway.

Well I mean, isn't that what mages do? What good is having magic if you can't use it to be lazy.

>>65180

>Whether or not a task is within human capabilities depends on the level of Corruption involved in the task. Normally, a Magical Girl will be able to add the die to all tasks, but when traveling through heavily-corrupted areas or facing particularly powerful and corrupt opponents (such as a Dark Magical Girl, as described below), the task is considered to be outside human capabilities and that die is not rolled.

You get to roll the Normal die most of the time, actually. Just regular Black Magic alone isn't enough to deny it to you.

For reference, just list the die you're using and bold the whole line.

Also, if you come back to take another action and have to take a indecency/corruption check, you don't have to post separately, add one more die to your post. This will be your check die, and should be noted first.

However, you may not want to if you're checking an attribute at 5, since everything you wrote would become invalid if you turn or were using your magic as it gets broken.

Also, as I mentioned, I can be a bit more free-form in updating results, this game seems open to not being turn-based, So I just might go ahead and respond to those turns as I see them.

I think the action wait should be high for same-day, and reduce as days pass. I'm thinking 4 other players between same-day, and one less each day that passes.

>>65180

Eh, we're all learning. Might as well see if it works or not.

As for my icon, yellow lighting bolt sounds fine

Almost done with work, so I'll be able to post soon.

In the meantime, i'll go with a green shield to represent my character.

If you've still got my map symbol from the last run of the game, feel free to use that. I think it was a purple flower?

By the way, did we confirm retcon or is it still up in the air?

>>65224

Definitely retcon to before anyone stepped inside. I changed the overall situation to fit the new game mode.

So unless Isabel wants a new icon, just re-use what I have now?

>>65225

Got it. And that sounds good to me.

I accidentally three posts in a row.

Also, anything is fine for me iconwise, as long as it's recognizable and not way too silly.

>>65235

Yellow fortune cookie. Make it happen.

Also, would you be okay with Em and Star having some history together? I mean, they were both renegade troublemakers before they signed up for Valkyrie's team, so it certainly wouldn't be out of the question…

I suppose in that sense though, most people here would have history with Star, but I wager much of everyone else's past with her is best summed up as "Hey, cut that shit out"

Rolled 6, 2, 6, 4, 3, 5, 6, 1, 6, 6 = 45 (10d6)

…So, I've just noticed a potential problem. The forum dice-roller appears to always list the dice rolls in order from lowest to highest, which is definitely going to cause problems with the way this game works. If the highest die is always last, then anyone rolling the Risk die will wind up always needing to make a Corruption or Indecency check.

I'll roll a lot more dice to test it out properly, though. Hopefully it isn't the case after all.

>>65237

Ah, good, looks like I was wrong. Never mind, sorry for the false alarm.

>>65237

> If the highest die is always last, then anyone rolling the Risk die will wind up always needing to make a Corruption or Indecency check.

>implying we all don't secretly want to fail and turn into magical sluts

>>65239

>implying it's secret

>>65239

The game is already designed so that the magical girls will be spending the majority of their time walking around in ripped-open clothing and a state of constant arousal as they fight off the attempts of various monsters to assault their nubile young bodies. Add in that you can risk Corruption or Indecency any time you want to get a reroll (and even risk it multiple times until you get the roll you want), and I think we're already at the point where we don't need the help when it comes to turning into sluts…

Alright, a few things to clarify and re-designate.

First off, list only the die you are using and bold the whole line. for brevity, it's probably best to list your Risk die as the stat you're risking, either Corruption or Indecency.

Movement is free between a pair of revealed and connected rooms in this version. Running further through a chain of shown rooms will demand a roll.

When revealing a room, your action should be thought of as examining the room more than entering it.

Dragon's first move is nulled because it's an unneeded move action to a revealed room, making the second valid, which it wouldn't otherwise be due to the turn rules. I'll call it cool down. After you take a turn, you get four cooldown points. you lose one cooldown point each time another player moves, and when I make my nightly check-in to update the map and player status.

The starting cooldown can be adjusted as we go, but that's where it sits for now.

>>65236

I don't mind, although Em was more of a vigilante that beat up normal thugs with magic instead of… I dunno, firing Care Bear Stares at them or whatever law-abiding magical girls do, than a mischievous rogue like Star.

that said, I don't have anything against making her a delinquent with a qipao so maybe they would've gotten up to shenanigans

>>65245

Well, whoops. It's fine I guess, nothing of note happened there, also I dun goofed, does risking Indecency give you a reroll or an extra die?

>>65247

Using a risk allows re-rolls, but it's because any failed checks stand, basically meaning that if you insist too hard, you can cost yourself a lot on one action.

>>65251

I see. Good thing everyone's been rolling 1s on their checks. It'd be quite silly if we all lost our clothes against the first wave of mooks.

also for some reason I thought checks to resist were roll-over, not roll-under. makes more sense mechanicswise I guess. roll-over does more thematically, a more damaged outfit gets ripped up further easily and whatever. i'm a dum

>>65245

Oh, didn't catch this before I did my last action. Will keep the movement stuff and dice format in mind in the future.

>>65245

>for brevity, it's probably best to list your Risk die as the stat you're risking, either Corruption or Indecency.

Won't certain monsters prefer to target either a magical girl's purity or her decency in combat? I think we'll need you to tell us which of the two stats we're risking when fighting monsters, but aside from that it should definitely be possible to name which stat we're risking.

Also, don't forget to roll Opposition Dice for monsters.

>>65255

Oh, yeah, kind of forgot those for these two monsters, but I'll keep it in mind going forward, still getting into the swing of things.

But hen players are choosing to risk for a roll the doesn't demand it, they pick what they're risking. We're still early on, but I'll denote mandatory risks as they come. How explicit should I be in warnings? I kind of want to leave some level of surprise.

>>65281

You could probably just type in something like 'Monster Name: Risk (stat)' when you introduce a monster, or something along those lines.

Hey, quick question. Let's say that instead of opening a door to examine a room, I just want to open the door and lob a frag grenade in before shutting it.

Can I do that?

pardon my stupidity, but is there still a monster in the room with Emerald Dragon, Devil Buster Midori and I, or was that one left there by mistake?

>>65293

Hold on operator, are we doing an investigation or just wiping out everything inside?

Game-wise though, you may be able to since this is a bit more freeform than the first game, but then we should expect the monsters to fight dirty as well. If we can snipe from another room there's a good chance they can too.

>>65295

>Call me Valkyrie out here, And that goes for the rest of you, code names everyone. With that, let's begin the extermination.

Sounds like wipe out what's here to me. I expect the enemy to be full of tricks as well.

>>65284

I'd say either put some vague, easily missed hint in the description that only makes sense in retrospect or keep it a complete surprise. If an identical monster shows up later we might remember what it checks.

If we get punished for risking the wrong thing and get punished, that's gambling.

>>65297

Now, while I expect surprises, going "you open the door and fine 3000 rapemonsters whoops should've seen that coming :^)" is just frustating. I may be here to get fucked by big cocks but that doesn't mean I don't want a chance to fight back and get to be the one on top.

>>65306

Oh fuck that, I meant in regards to knowing whether a monster forces an Indecency or Corruption check. If we always know what it's going to shoot for it makes Risk a bit less of one.

In case Wicked is wondering about my method here, the Lock of Solomon is just for restraining, and doesn't actually do anything to persuade a monster to switch sides. The intent is to force her into submission, yes, but unless the fairy is exceptionally weak-willed (or just really kinky), I don't expect her to break from just being tied down.

>>65312

In other words, you're attacking to subdue, rather than kill, and if you succeed at doing that you're planning to move on to Taming the monster on your next action?

>>65316

Exactly

Assuming nothing nasty comes out of the bushes to attack me while I'm nice and vulnerable that is~

>>65317

Looks like whatever's in the bushes doesn't want to wait. I'm sure you'll enjoy the double-teaming, though.

>IRL dice that we have no way, shape or form of confirming other than listening and believing

Gonna have to call bullshit on that, WN. What's stopping you from claiming all opposition dice are always 6s? Like you did just now?

>>65323

>What's stopping you from claiming all opposition dice are always 6s?

Firstly, it should be noted that rolling 2 6's in a row isn't exactly a miracle, but to answer the question, nothing except our willingness to trust that, as a GM, his goal is to make sure we have fun and not to "win" the game.

>>65323

>>65325

If it helps, Wicked has also rolled IRL dice on both previous iterations of the game, and hasn't tried those sorts of abuses before, or at least nothing flagrant enough to be noticed. It probably wouldn't be hard to do a 'rolling dice' post before each response, but I'm willing to trust him to not lie about his rolls.

>>65326

and as it's been said before, probably not many of us actually mind losing a fight that much

honestly, thinking about how little control we actually have kinda gets me hot~

>>65326

He could as easily just roll dice with his status updates and just say "dice 1 is for enemy X, dice 2 and 3 are for enemy Y" and so on. It's not difficult to understand and it doesn't let him fudge the dice whenever he wants.

>>65327

It's not about winning or losing, it's about playing fair. If I wanted to keep getting lied to and played for a sucker I'd stayed in cuckchan.

>>65334

The issue is that making dice posts would get pretty spammy, I'd have to make one post to get the die I'd be posting the results of, and then make another one for the actual results.

Also, using physical dice allows me to toss in an additional response if one is posted while I'm writing. I can be responding to one player, and then another two posts show in while I'm writing.

Though, if it's enough a point of contention, I can switch over and just use the OOC thread to dump dice posts since it still leaves the main thread clean as a result.

Since other players don't mind, I'll start making dice posts here for you, plus the others that haven't weighed in on the issue yet.

Rolled 3 (1d6)

Opposition die for Midori.

>>65340

I'm fine one way or the other personally, I kinda figured your explanation was why you were going about it that way anyway.

Besides, at the rate I'm going I'll probably end up corrupting MYSELF without help from the monsters, so~.

>>65425

>I'm still on the fence whether I want to give monsters a specific risk type, or let it all free-from based on what players pick. How do people like the idea of trying to guess which type of threat a monster presents more, with checking both being the penalty for a wrong guess?

My basic thought when designing the rules was that monsters would have their own preferences, but also that many monsters would fight intelligently and actively target whichever stat was closer to being filled.

As for the possibility of checking both, I think I'd have it so that you have to check whatever the correct stat is if you guess it wrong, and also have to check the stat you guessed if it comes up highest. So, for example, if I risk indecency against some slutty succubus and she goes for a corrupting attack, I'd have to make a Corruption check for certain, and if my Indecency risk die came up highest, then I would also have to make an Indecency check as well.

>>65425

>It's basically compensation for this version not being so turn-based, monsters don't have their own turns as it is, so the mandatory risk covers their attempts to counterattack.

Yeah I picked up on that for what it's worth, it was mostly just a matter of mentally justifying which one to pick that threw me off a little.

As for preferences I think it's straight forward enough that what we're fighting makes it easy to dictate risk outside of a couple weird situations "If you try to melee the wasp you'll get stung (assumedly corruption risk)" "The plant can fire sap at you if you aren't careful (indecency)" etc., but having telegraphed ones (either subtly or clearly) for more esoteric monsters might be interesting (an Alraune that releases pollen into the air prompting a corruption risk while slinging sap that attacks decency or something of the like).

>>65442

This. We should be able to figure it out.

>>65440

Being able to pick and choose which one they go for would make for especially dangerous enemies. I like it. But only for certain ones.

Also, apologies for triple post nonsense. I was having trouble posting and somehow missed that it went up. I'll try to not let it happen again.

>>65452

I may just do it occasionally, I've been thinking out hidden traits to monsters to make it a little more varied than number of opposition dice, like "coloring" one opposition die with a special effect.

>>65490

Oooh, that sounds fun. Color me interested.

This game is a lot more freeform, so feel free to let the monsters shake things up.

Rolled 5, 3, 2, 5 = 15 (4d6)

Internet fizzled out on me. Don't think I ragequit or anything.

Also, when I mentioned WN rolling for all opposition dice in a post I was thinking something like this.

Opposition Rolls (1d6 Mahou Star, 2d6 Emerald Dragon, 1d6 Electric Idol)

The rolls are interpreted in the order they're rolled, thus the first die is from the monster opposing Mahou, the second and third the one opposing me, and so on. That's just my idea, WN can take it or drop it if he thinks it's too much hassle.

>>65514

That's probably what I'd do anyway if I found a batch to roll against at once, though if it's a scenario where I see one player move, and another comes in while I'm writing, and then another after that before I hit post, I'd basically have to make a dice post for each if they all have opposition die.

It's not just that it would be a hassle and eat away at post limits, but I also kind of ordered an assortment of colored d6 in anticipation. Though I have been using them for other internal rolls, like deciding how strong the monsters in a room should be.

My main sticking point so far has been deciding on specific monsters, I have a theme going, and I'm trying to come up with things that fit both the theme and the players uncovering the room.

I think I'll re-use some that got annihilated too fast to do much.

>>65577

On the monster front, reusing monsters is probably a good plan, gives a sense of consistency, maybe expand on what you have like having a room that's been converted into a beegirl hive/wasp nest or something (though that'd probably end up as more of an environmental hazard/trap than an actual fight given the numbers that'd likely be there, unless the whole group heads in at once). Something like that would give the place a sense of inhabitance rather than just being populated by random clusters of monsters and reinforce the sort of theme you're going for with them.

Rolled 2, 2 = 4 (2d6)

Opposition die for Emerald Dragon.

Rolled 5, 4 = 9 (2d6)

Retrospectively, I'm remembering that the indecency die was supposed to be a d6 variant of the armor and sensitivity system from the last version of the game.

So really, decency should be tested more often than purity, since part of the lore was an MG's outfit helped defend against corruption.

Remembering that, decency will be the default risk, and almost all monsters will test decency unless it's already at 6. Some might have an "effect die" that switches the check to corruption, and other situations might call for corruption checks, but it won't be all over the place anymore.

A player will be able to choose a corruption check instead, let that be on the strategic side.

So is it just me or is the link to the ruleset suddenly not working for anyone else? It seems to get stuck in the little spinning loading animation and not actually display anything. All the other links seem to work fine except that one.

>>65707

It's a bit of an art knowing what to spell out and what to leave vague, but what I decided was that monster attacks hit decency unless:

1. It wins with an effect die that can change the check

2. The player calls for a corruption check to indicate their character is acting in a way that risks their purity in exchange for defending what's left of their decency.

Consider the "guess which type" idea totally scrapped, it wasn't even in play last turn. However interacting with certain things will demand specific risk rolls, which I'll denote before you have a chance to try going forward, or at least aggressively narrate. (Don't want to have to go "no, you have to include a X risk die to do that.")

However other situations like traps and stuff may simply demand you check those stats independent of your action roll, like being in a dangerous room

I think a few elements present in the mansion are already understood pretty well, but I think I'll make note in some way all the same.

>>65709

Yeah, I may just have to get a lewd gmail or something since sandstorm is giving reliability issues.

>>65719

If I wanted to play out a scene and not clutter up the thread with each partner having a separate post, is there a place we can make IM play happen and put the log in a single post?

>>65728

There's F-List's F-Chat but that might require making a profile specifically for your magical girl which might be a bit of extra effort just for the game unless you plan on reusing them elsewhere/the next run/what have you.

>>65732

For what it's worth, Star already does have an F-list, so now I suppose it's up to Wicked to decide whether he wants to play a cute little fairy for me to harass

>>65733

https://www.f-list.net/c/wicked%20nightmare/

>>65732

If you're too lazy to make a profile on F-list, you could always use IRC.

it's good at least for the sake of recordkeeping since it saves everything in convenient plaintext files

>>65736

IRC logkeeping depends on what client you use I believe.

Rolled 3, 5 = 8 (2d6)

Opposition die, Isabel vs. vines.

Rolled 5, 3 = 8 (2d6)

Oh, and against emerald dragon

Rolled 3, 1 = 4 (2d6)

Opposition for reroll

>>65748

Sorry for rerolling after the fact, bossman. Internet went on the fritz for a whole hour and didn't notice you had made an opposition roll. I still don't have the whole mechanics under my belt yet.

>>65751

Some of them are still being fleshed out. I'm still on the fence as to whether a monster's opposition die should just make the attack fail, with a check happening if the risk die is highest, or impose a decency check every time.

But another small note is that the risk die only calls a check if it's the highest, not in the case of a tie.

>>65774

Alright, Time to abandon sandstorm I guess, the reliability just isn't there. Guess I'll just start some Gdicks.

Currently looting everything that's on there to make a backup.

The rules doc was mostly copy paste from the whiteboard, so no major loss there. I'm going to re-edit what's there, and use it as a chance to change some things that feel wonky I'll want to change for the transition from the field test to the game proper.

>>65777

And of course as soon as we start discussing this the rules doc starts working again (at least through the ErosPad page), still might be good to have a more reliable back-up but the rules should be easily salvaged now.

Maybe it was the 7 trips that did it who knows

>>65783

It's not the first time sandstorm has given issues, and there's a few functional gripes I have that make me want to try others. Going ahead and defaulting to google.

Since you were able to get in though, do you still want me to roll for you?

>>65798

>Since you were able to get in though, do you still want me to roll for you?

I think it was Mahou Star that requested that actually.

>>65774

Going ahead with this then.

For Mahou Star:

Competency, Risk (Corruption)

and

Opposition, Fairy

Rolled 4, 1, 3 = 8 (3d6)

Batch Opposition rolls:

Electric Idol

Devil Blaster Midori

Emerald Dragon

Actually, shouldn't my Indecency be still 3? I just risked Indecency once from the reroll.

The main problem is actually that I've been bungling all my corruption rolls and I'm at 4 now wew

by the way depending on things go right now i'd like to see if it'd be possible to request a corruption purge at 4 for the purpose of a scene but i guess that's a bridge better crossed when we reach it

>>65890

Yeah I'd be the one at 5 (though I think I somehow picked up an extra point somewhere as that last one would have just pushed me to 4 or kept me there had it already been at 4)

So just a quick question to make sure, are we still on 4 posts between actions or have we reduced that?

>>65954

Well, 4 was decided for the 8-player cap, so at least half the other players got a chance to do something before the same player moved again, but three seems more reasonable now.

Do keep in mind that my nightly check-in where I usually post the map also counts against your wait, so at this point Emerald Dragon should be the only one waiting.

>>65989

Ah crap. Somehow I missed the part where we were told to regroup. My bad. I'll about face asap

Rolled 6 (1d6)

opposition die

Rolled 3 (1d6)

and another

>>66082

Do I make a roll to go into the purple room since the storage room door hasn't been used yet? Or does it count as a free move?

Also, was there an action for crossing 2 rooms at once?

Gonna be honest, if one of us ends up falling before the other (rather than at the same time which is how our current totals are making it look), I kinda want there to be a showdown between Emerald and Midori. Just because having the two big breasted, reckless, hand-to-hand fighters in the group go at it over each other's purity seems like it'd be pretty fun with how our characters are playing out.

Not to be confrontational or any of that, this just seems like something that'd be interesting to see play out~.

>>66089

I'm going to say passing through the room demands you use a corruption risk die, while staying in the room to do stuff (though you kind of already cleaned out that one) incurs a corruption check each time.

And actions aren't rigidly defined in this game, but yeah, if you want to move further than the next room over that's a roll action.

Basically I just decided it would be pointlessly sluggish if each player had to roll to step into the next room over, especially if the first player got a good roll.

Though, one thing I might press on revealing rooms is you aren't rolling to move, you're rolling a perception check on the room you're going to. If you get a bad roll going in, you're got going to spot much aside from the monster that jumps you.

>>66091

It'd be pretty interesting, but how things are progressing, it'd be more likely for Emerald to, ahem, help Midori (or Mahou)/ask for help removing Corruption when it hits 5. Lewdly. While El watches.

p.s.: i didn't bring this up during submissions but Em can manipulate her body in several ways that have no mechanical use with Chinese qi whatever. tl;dr: she can grow a dick if needed.

>>66540

Yes there is, here: https://oasis.sandstorm.io/shared/rAya5egPTVkFQoOy2k56K1fwOkh1yO-HcXOtmlKvWmS

I finally finished another pass of the rules, going to make a few more tweaks and put them back in. Seems formatting got janked all up though.

Staying at sandstorm for now since we're so settled in, I'll start exploring gDicks as a backup though.

Rolled 6, 1, 1 = 8 (3d6)

Retroactive compensatory roll.

Been waffling on how opposition rolls work, they've been simply cancelling out your action if your risk die doesn't roll highest. I decided that's kind of dumb, since the opposition die represent the monsters fighting back. Moreover, it slows the game down since it makes more turns come down to nothing.

Still, no double-dip if regular monster die win and your risk rolls highest.

Effect die however, will hit you with whatever other effect plus the indecency check going forward. Like your risk die, the effect die has to be highest to kick in.

One behind-the-scenes note, I've been rolling die to decide threat levels for rooms, with the number I get being divided among the monsters present. I suppose I should roll that into traps and the like as well. Hazard points have been giving effects to some two-die monsters, so it's like a tier between two and three. Consequently, three-die monsters will have at least one effect.

>>67238

>>67239

Wow these rolls. I think the dice are telling me to get fucked (literally).

Also I like how the banner that came up when I made that post was the "Found Great Academy" one

>>67240

The dice seem to keep wanting Lily to be a badass, on the other hand, though I am at least starting to have to make more Indecency checks now.

Man, what happened to the rules page? Everything's full of weird gaps, like someone hit Tab every few words. Does it look like that for anyone else?

>>67515

Sandstorm done fucked up is what happened from the sounds of things.

>>67515

>>67523

Is it that bad? Well, really it's because I used Copy-pasted to move it between the grain and my word processor, and the results were janky as all get out, and I never bothered to fix it.

>>67545

It's readable, just a nuisance. I'd say go for it if you get bored, or if enough people start bitching, but don't sweat too much on it

>>67557

Mostly fixed, I exported to plain text, ran a word processor with "find and replace" for the gaps, and then had to manually remove excessive line breaks.

Formatting like text size and bolding is gone, but that's a project for later.

And interested anons should speak up, as it looks as though I have room for more players.

I just finished adjusting the regeneration rules. It goes a follows:

Roll a die, your indecency drops to the die's number if it's lower. Mind you could totally roll a six and take the cost for nothing.

If your indecency is already six, it costs an automatic corruption point. If it's lower, you roll a corruption check.

When addiction comes into play, it will become a "floor" for your character's indecency. (The same isn't true of corruption however, which can go down to 1 with enough purging.)

>>67650

I don't think that recovering Indecency was actually underpowered, since the math works out so that it's harder to lose Indecency the higher up it goes, but I also don't think that this pushes things towards being overpowered, either.

This will cut down on how often we'll have magical girls going through the mad scramble back to the safe room that I had originally envisioned when coming up with the rules for being stripped naked, but it will make it even more desperate during the times when they're forced to do so, so I think I'm alright with the trade-off there.

>snake eyes

Well at least we're in a safe room. I made it worse, didn't I.

>>67693

I see what you mean, this makes the safe room less of a necessity. Though the main reason I changed up regen was so that it didn't pale in comparison to doing a corrupt transform. wait till I'm naked and get up to my whole costume back for one point of corruption, or gamble and maybe get one point.

While thinking over the transform action i considered it making it cost a point and a check, but that seemed overkill in the end.

I might revert these changes, especially when the girls are climbing the tower and are that much closer to the source of the corruption. This change might have made things just a little too forgiving.

>>67964

Been meaning to draw myself, especially since I'm using the same setting and characters between this game and f-list. Maybe this is the push I needed.

I almost called it a "cannon" but that seems to be the wrong word. The details change for almost every use of the set.

I guess I should start with the Valkyrie, since she's the most central figure, but who should be my focus afterward?

>>68002

Do a Queen Misery/Rachel Smith before-and-after

Also, the link to Sarah Carver in your hub profile is 404ing now that you changed her profile name to Silver Valkyrie. You should probably fix that.

Rolled 4 (1d6)

A board die.

Rolled 6 (1d6)

Shoot. If you still want that die roll I'll do it here. If not, well it's not in the main thread.

>>67964

Oh cool! I guess I'll try my hand at drawing my girl. Could be fun.

Rolled 5, 2 = 7 (2d6)

Opposition die:

Vines Against Electric Idol: 2

Soon as Star catches up to the rest, someone's gonna get called Leeroy for the rest of the adventure…

I'm wishing that I'd had the chance to declare that Lily healed himself up in the safe room before we moved on to the boss fight, myself. That's mostly my own fault for being busy that evening, though.

Rolled 6, 4, 1, 2, 3, 1, 1, 6 = 24 (8d6)

Some opposition die, I'm away from my IRL dice so everyone gets board opposition, even if you chose to be on the IRL die list.

Goldenrod 3d6

Vine ball (right) 2d6

Goldenrod again 3d6

Opposition die:

Alurane vs Electric Idol: 2 d6

BTW, Since we are becoming turn-based again, monsters are getting turns! If you deal a really good hit, you'll incapacitate weaker enemies for the next turn. Otherwise, expect the active threats to pick a target from recently active characters.

Rolled 2, 4 = 6 (2d6)

>>69007

>>69007

>BTW, Since we are becoming turn-based again, monsters are getting turns! If you deal a really good hit, you'll incapacitate weaker enemies for the next turn. Otherwise, expect the active threats to pick a target from recently active characters.

Would it be possible to cooperate with NPCs or tamed monsters in order to have them watch your back in a fight, in that case? Not that I think we need it in this fight specifically, since the ratio of players-to-monsters is currently pretty even, but it will probably come in handy later.

>>69015

That' actually exactly what I've been thinking for a while. Using a PC-NPC should offset the inactivity of the absent player by preventing monster turns in busier rooms.

Since the bosses are supposed to be challenging opponents, Goldenrod is capable of multiple actions. Kind of like late game Golden Sun bosses Making her pretty dangerous to leave unpressed. I'm still hammering out the specific bonuses and limits, but this helps me figure out how to make bosses challenging but fair.

Rolled 3, 6, 5, 1, 3 = 18 (5d6)

Opposition Die:

3 Goldenrod Guardian

2 alurane

So I'm coming to realize that my regularly scheduled updates have been coming a bit close to the epicenter of player actions. I'm considering running a long turn and then making regular update time come in a different time frame so that DM action isn't splitting between multiple actions.

What do you think? I think I'll postpone "tonight's" turn till tomorrow morning and then making that my usual check-in time.

Rolled 6, 3, 2 = 11 (3d6)

Board die:

Goldenrod guardian, 3

For the curious, Wicked and I ironed out hard rules on my purity potions. Drinking one makes you take a Purge Corruption action without summoning a monster. I don't think we discussed if the potion should limit the number of points removed (since normally those would become the opposition dice for a monster). Anything you'd care to add on that note, GM?

>>69416

I was thinking of it being a simple one-point attempt, but I'd consider it acceptable to use one to subtract one die from the monster created if you're going for more points.

Because I'm a huge nerd, I spent the last several hours re-teaching myself probability calculations and crunching the numbers that show your chances of getting hit with stat checks in a few scenarios.

A while back lily explained that it's a bad trade off for the player because your chances of taking a check increase more than your chances of getting a good roll.

>>69085

Here Isabel rolled double risks, and I decided to just take the corruption because it was the highest and the first risk listed besides.

Rolling four die

6^4 = 1296

6, 671 ~48%

5, 369 ~28%

4, 175 ~14%

3, 65 ~05%

2, 15 ~01%

1, 1 ~00%

Rolling three die

6^3 = 216

6, 91 ~42%

5, 61 ~28%

4, 43 ~20%

3, 13 ~06%

2, 7 ~03%

1, 1 ~00%

Chances of Risk Die Rolling Highest:

Rolling three die (1 risk)

55/216 ~25% Risk Check

161/216 ~75% Risk die equal to or lower than highest other dice

Rolling four die (2 risk)

55/1296 ~04% Risk dice tie for highest

450/1296 ~35% One Risk die is highest

791/1296 ~61% Risk die equal to or lower than highest other

So, I think I'll go ahead an re-adjust the rules listed to allow quad-die moves. Now, it's a bad trade off already, but I really think that it's more fun if a tie of the risk die results in a double-check so that there's the minute chance you can risk everything and pay for it big time.

>>69529

Welp, +2 Corruption for me, and all for a mere -1 to my Indecency. I'll have to see if I can dig up a good corrupted costume image for Lily.

>>69443

Sounds good to me. There should probably be a little note somewhere in the eventual finished version of the rules stating outright that risking both stats is a bad tradeoff, and cautioning players that they should only risk it if they're absolutely certain that they need the extra die.

That said, if you're in a situation where the only thing that you can roll is your Risk die, then rolling two is certainly better than rolling only one.

Rolled 5, 2, 3, 1, 6, 4, 1 = 22 (7d6)

Some board die:

Goldenrod counter, 2

Alurane counter, 2

Goldenrod counter, 2

Goldenrod action, 1

Rolled 5, 3, 4, 2 = 14 (4d6)

Board dice:

Goldenrod opposition, 2

Goldenrod opposition, 2

So, purification tactics. I've been handling similar actions as different turns for the most part, but with how purification works, you may want to do cooperative actions if your theme or specialties don't count, forcing you to only roll corruption.

Basically, if you agree with another player's action, point to their post, and declare your action as "assist," and I'll combine your dice for a single action. Losing a corruption battle gives the losing side a point, not a check.

As before, alignment battles are the main source of lewd, but feel free to declare the action alone and then post something in the lewdlog later. The initial idea was to flesh out things that happened earlier in the first place.

Oh right! Elaboration!

So here's how bosses are probably going to work. A boss will have three die, as seen already. They will be specified as Superhuman, Theme, and Corruption. If you lose to these opposition die, the consequences will correspond to the highest opposition die, with a left to right priority.

They'll also be able to multitask. Basically as a boss I'll decide which and how many of my three die to use in opposition to player moves. The defense die will be rolled for each action targeting the boss, and in some cases anything the boss is defending, while any die left to perform actions will attempt a boss action. These will probably be room-wide conditionals. For example, on an earlier turn, Goldenrod's action was a 1. If it were a 3, everyone would have to take a check roll to see whether they were tangled by vines.

The same way a blackjack dealer has to hit for a hand under 16, the boss will have to add a defense die for each action they defend against, preventing boss actions if they're targeted by three different actions.

Assists do not count as a new action however, they lend your dice to another player's action, so an assist dogpile will only tie up one die. (This would maybe make more sense in real-time as opposed to on a board.) If opposition die win despite a group effort, the actor and all assists will share the penalty. If another player gets a 6, doing an assist for them would waste your turn. However if for example someone is trying to purify a dark magical girl without a competency die and they get a 2, you'll probably want to help them.

>>69847

>Yeah, the safe room is OP as written, corruption down to addiction at no cost? That's going to change later. For now you get it, since the current floor is a slam dunk for you at this point anyway. I think I'll let this stop dragging and close up the prologue.

It's not quite no cost, since there is an Exposure check each time, but I suppose that lowering the recovery rate would be a good idea. Maybe lowering both Indecency and Corruption by 1 in exchange an Exposure check would be a better idea? And down to a minimum of one's Addiction rating, of course.

My general thought was that the safe room NPC would be a bit more powerful than normal recovery methods, due to being a limited resource that turns into an extra problem for you if you use her too much.

>>69906

Well, I did alter the rules right after that post, but then again you wrote the conversion so maybe you remember how it was. Well, The history can be checked. When I was going through the rules. (I gave everything a look-over that time.) I'm pretty sure the only thing that mentioned an exposure check was dark girls, it was probably being poorly implied for other uses.

>>69946

The basic intent had been that non-combat NPCs would just have an Exposure stat and an Addiction stat, and any time you made use of that NPC's services, you'd roll an Exposure check and risk having the stat go up.

It probably was poorly implied in the original wording, though. As I recall, I basically tried to copy a lot of the wording from the original Cthulhu Dark base system, and that was written up by a man who both had no editor and was deliberately trying to shrink everything in the rules down to fit onto a single page. I tried to clarify some things in my writeup that I saw him having to provide clarification for when I did more research into the system, but obviously I didn't catch everything.

>>69960

Alright, I suppose I should go back and retroactively check Cleric's exposure. I kind of didn't expect people to want to continue the dive, and just went total reset.

I like safe room Regen being complete for decency, making it fair for tapping into exposure risk. Corruption I want to be harder to deal with. I was thinking of having the exposure check replace monster creation, because your shield NPC is supposed to be better at that sort of thing, making it safer to do a three point purge.

field regen options might be nerfed to one point later, if players feel too much like they don't need the safe room.

>>70344

For what it's worth, my "two teammates" was supposed to refer to Lily and Moxie, but Idol misinterpreting Star's meaning is almost as funny as nearly all of us leaving Midori to fend for herself

>>70347

oh whoops. I actually thought you WERE trying to start something

>>70352

Maybe with Lily, but nah you were just collateral damage :P

I hope I'm not the only one that finds it funny that Idol's witnessed about half her team in compromising situations, and it's been in that kitchen each time so far.

Oh hey, something I just noticed. I think Star has a few potions too many. I remember she started with 5, and she used one on herself before the Goldenrod fight, and then we used some on Goldie to subdue her. By my count, I should be down to at most 3, if not fewer.

Update time is in the air presently, it seems like 03:00 UTC might simply be the best time for me currently, leading me to revert, even if it cuts in the middle of time most players are active. For now I'm shooting for 01:00, most of you are active after my old update time, and I tend to treat update times as "start working on" rather than "time of update." So with that, maybe I'll get to a point where updates hit at 10PM where I'm at, because I start working on it earlier.

>>70883

If you find yourself spoiling a significant amount of text, take it to the OOC. A big part of the point of this thread is to minimize the number of black bars in the main thread.

In any case, yeah that makes sense, I guess I've just been slowly looking for subtle ways to ramp up the difficulty. I'm going to try to be more creative with hazards and lean less on monsters.

Also, sense of urgency. I'm thinking of having "timed" events that encourage risky behavior. Countdown will be based on player actions so you don't get screwed over if holidays hit or whatnot.

Though now it makes me want to be more picky about the competency die maybe, but I won't go there unless it really ends up feeling like it's being taken for granted like a second normal die.

It was clever the first time, but it seems like Midori's ribbons are a staple power now. I think it puts me off a bit because now a character that was unsuited to a particular task now has just the thing for it, and I don't want that to keep happening to the point where everyone ends up all-purpose.

Though looking back at the character sheet, I can see it as a clever use of "sewing" paid for by the indecency risk.

Rolled 6, 4 = 10 (2d6)

To keep from slowing the game down, I'm doing dice for Isabel's action

>>70925

>Though looking back at the character sheet, I can see it as a clever use of "sewing" paid for by the indecency risk.

Pretty much this yeah (Basically using her barrier to manipulate the fabric rather than using her hands/needle and thread), I had been planning stuff with the ribbons for a while now but never got an opening for it. I think, really, the 'all purpose' thing is just a consequence of the system being so simplified, since everything is the same dice with the same bonuses so no power a character might be able to use will be stronger or weaker than the others (which has bitten in the opposite direction with Midori trying to do fancy super attacks that weren't much stronger than her just throwing a simple ball of energy). A solution for the ribbons would maybe be that it doesn't directly count towards a 'hit' to take the monster out but rather occupies one of their actions trying to break free or something of that nature, making them less impactful against three dice enemies with multiple actions but good for helping to manage weaker enemies. Another one (which might impact this round) would be to make it something that requires focus and thus either doing something else with the barrier drops or weakens the bind or rolling poorly risks having it broken in addition to normal consequences (or even failing an indecency check maybe), though that could be adding a layer of complexity too much.

On the other end, this is also something she'd be able to wield against the other girls if she ever falls so over reliance on it could still come back to bite either way.

>>70954

Yeah, so I'm not going to get stingy on any die at the moment, we can basically change it from "human capabilities" to "normal for a magical girl," Canonically even Sugar has enhanced strength and agility, though it's next to nothing by superhuman standards.

Nullifying die I find invalid is still on the table, but I'll probably only do it if it's particularly egregious. The "no normal" list is currently the following:

Direct interactions with dark magical girls, including purification.

Taming familiars

Moving more than two rooms.

If I wanted to kick off hard mode, arguing the above could mean the "normal" die represents magic, and competency then becomes specialties only. Come to think about it, that would make the rules closer to the source game. Maybe the specialties should have been something like 2 superpowers and a non-magic skill/attribute.

But that's on the "maybe" pile, along with my long-discarded idea to make the theme die and indecency risk the same.

>>70960

The source game is based around the Cthulhu mythos, so the rules there were set up around making it so that players were unlikely to get to roll anything other than the insanity die when performing magic in order to make it feel like a particularly risky and unpredictable thing to do.

Changing the Normal Die to something that applies when you're performing actions that are within the capabilities of a magical girl sounds good to me. It sounds like flavor-wise, that includes some very basic and straightforward uses of magic, like using it to enhance your physical abilities or the basic detect magic spell I had Lily do in the last thread.

Just going by the way the rules work by default, any magical girl can technically use any spell at any time currently, but those without a fitting Theme or Specialty for it are more likely to get poorer results and more likely to take damage if they attempt it in combat, due to the lack of a Competency Die in their rolls. If you decide to keep that option around, perhaps it would be due to the magical girl in question needing to call out a long, complicated magical incantation to achieve whatever magical effect she's trying to accomplish, versus the innate talent for magic of someone who has a magic-related Theme, or the hours spent studying and mastering a single specific type of spell that would be represented by having an appropriate Specialty?

As for Midori's trick with the ribbons, I think that that's probably stretching it a little too far for it to be covered under a simple sewing Specialty. It would be a great trick for a magical girl with a tailor Theme, but it goes just a little too far as a use of a Specialty. That said, if my interpretation of the rules above is the way you want to go with this game, it would be pretty easy to fix. Midori only rolled two dice when using her 'ribbon bind' spell, so that Competency die could just be renamed to a Normal die and the action would otherwise not need any changes.

>>70999

>As for Midori's trick with the ribbons, I think that that's probably stretching it a little too far for it to be covered under a simple sewing Specialty. It would be a great trick for a magical girl with a tailor Theme, but it goes just a little too far as a use of a Specialty. That said, if my interpretation of the rules above is the way you want to go with this game, it would be pretty easy to fix. Midori only rolled two dice when using her 'ribbon bind' spell, so that Competency die could just be renamed to a Normal die and the action would otherwise not need any changes.

Well, the intent was mixing her knowing her way around fabric (I probably should have put 'tailoring' or something as the specialty but sewing was the first word that came to mind) and such with manipulating her protective barrier (part of the whole energy projection bit of her theme). But I could also just not use it anymore going forward if it's that much of a contentious point. I just thought it was a kinda clever idea.

>>70999

I'm liking this re-working of the competency die more and more as we discuss it. It also makes having to roll corruption for all actions when stripped less arbitrary. If the normal die represents common magical abilities, then it goes away when indecency hits 6, meaning unless you can apply a non-magical specialty, the corruption die is all you have.

That might be a bit overkill though, and we never did get to try out the panicked dash to the safe room. As-is having some decency is so important that if you're naked, you're as good as converted already. I kind of want it balanced so that streaking to safety is viable. (with some variance based on positioning.) I want indecency and corruption to work like "shield" and "health" stats respectively, where the primary purpose for one is to protect the other, and sacrificing the latter for the former is a rare and desperate strategy.

So the rules have been updated, and you'll need to re-pick your specialties before the next stage of the game.

Two of them will now be your magical powers, replacing the vaguely defined "theme" we're currently going by. The third will be a more ordinary trait or skill. Strategically, this would be well-spent on something that plays into a kink for purging corruption if you end up fully stripped.

You're only limited to two powers from a gameplay standpoint, other powers for flavor are fine on the roleplay side.

Would you like us to post updated profiles for our characters here when we're done with them, or would you prefer if they were put up in the IC thread when the next stage of the game starts?

>>72863

Do it here, and then maybe I'll remember to keep the players doc properly updated and linked this time.

>>72903

Nice, any particular feedback you have as a watcher?

>>72912

>any particular feedback you have as a watcher?

None I can think of, though I'm not exactly sure how the dice rolls work for this. But I assume that will be explained again at the start. Maybe a post for general story recap in between stages.

Also I may have missed it, but how did they get to the final boss? Was there a key they needed to find?

In any case, I've enjoyed watching.

>>72928

>I'm not exactly sure how the dice rolls work for this.

Well, I've seen people declare moves like: 3 d6

Normal/risk/indecency That I don't know what to make of myself. Indecency is a risk die, so I've just treated it as double-risk with the unspecified risk being the other, usually corruption.

So here's a general refresher:

Basically, there are four regular dice on your character.

Your normal die can be used most of the time, but certain situations or obstacles won't allow it.

Your Competency die can be included when any of your character's specialties can be applied to the action being performed.

Your Indecency die represents the state of your magical outfit, and is a risk die with a corresponding score. A score of 1 means completely undamaged while 6 represents being fully stripped to the point that magical powers no longer work.

Your Corruption die represents the level of influence Empress Calista's charms have over your character, with 1 meaning none, while 6 is enough for the character to abandon their previous convictions in favor of following the empress.

IF none of the other dice tie with or roll higher than a disk die, the risked stat must be checked. If both risk die tie and are higher than all other die, both stats are checked.

If you tame a monster, you can add a die for it, but since you're working with corrupt creatures, you must roll your corruption die as well.

>Also I may have missed it, but how did they get to the final boss? Was there a key they needed to find?

I left it ambiguous because it was supposed to be part mystery.

There were four "keystone" plants in the corner rooms which held the door sealed, but the center door had the alternate option of breaking a root bundle that connected to all of them in a heavily corrupted room.

>>72912

Alright, let's give the new character creation rules a shot, then.

Lily Pure Samurai

Lily is a male student from the magical knight school across town. After his sister's mysterious disappearance from the magical girl school, he disguised himself as a girl and enrolled in order to find out what happened to her. A sword-wielding warrior with samurai training, he's serious and dutiful, but rather easy to blackmail into things if you know his secret.

Specialties:

- Samurai Swordsmanship- With the magic sword that he carries at his side, Lily is able to cut his enemies to ribbons in melee combat, or by channeling magical energy through his blade he can create bursts of cutting wind to attack enemies at a distance.

- Situational Awareness- Between a zen-like focus and a little magical augmentation of his senses, Lily is able to maintain excellent awareness of his surrounding environment and the status and tactical situations of his allies.

- Well-Endowed Trap- Lily's slender frame and generally androgynous appearance allow him to quite skillfully disguise his true sex when wearing the right clothing, but when stripped naked, his manhood often leaves onlookers wondering how he was able to hide it away in the first place.

>>72951

That makes a lot of sense. I'll be sure to keep that in mind when playing. Plus I gotta work on some specialties now. Thank you!

Rolled 6, 2 = 8 (2d6)

Opposition die against electric idol.

>>72912

Devil Blaster Midori

To say Midori was an average high school student would be accurate in terms of performance and grades and little else. A devout otaku who's primary hobby is designing her own costumes and getting her friends to model them, her wild imagination and boundless energy led her to be scouted for a secret project dedicated to protecting humanity from the forces of darkness. To this end she was granted the Blaster Dynamo, an experimental device that converts strong emotion into magic and grants the user incredible physical strength and durability. The stronger the emotion the more potent the effect and different emotions affect it in various ways; anger generates more powerful, but unstable offensive manifestations but makes defensive abilities harder to maintain, fear causing barriers to manifest almost reflexively in the face of danger, and so on. With the sudden disappearances surrounding the mansion and reports of evil lurking within, it was deemed a perfect site for a proper field test of the device and Midori’s capabilities as its controller.

Specialties:

- Energy Projection- The blaster dynamo draws on and store emotional energy allowing the wearer to fling bolts of energy, manifest blades, or create protective barriers.

- Super Strength- The dynamo also greatly increases the wearer's strength, allowing them to deliver devastating blows bare handed and grapple with foes many times their own size.

- Power of Friendship- Due to her otaku nature and exposure to various forms of fantasy media, Midori stands rather firmly by the idea of supporting one's friends and giving anyone who proves willing a chance at friendship, it also makes her somewhat reluctant to attack enemies that don't fight back, however.

>>72912

Electric Idol

A bit negative and hard on herself, this girl has been attending the academy for a few years now. Her interest in ancient civilizations was no doubt inspired by her father's travels and the trinkets he would send home, among them a necklace said to grant protection and strength. As luck would have it, its benefits were a bit more tangible than anyone expected. The worn and partially broken chain she wears is both the source of her power and a memento.

Specialties

- Electric Burst - Idol's necklace allows her to generate a powerful electric current, which can be released at a distance or maintained for a shocking physical strike.

- Thunderclap - A clash of opposing currents can be used to distract or stun enemies with a flash and a bang.

- Escape Artist - What happens in every story about amazing adventures in strange lands? The hero gets caught and tied up somehow. To help avoid this inevitable occurrence, Idol has spend some of her private time learning to escape several kinds of bindings. Sometimes she dawdles a bit, but it's not like she's enjoying it or anything. That would be weird.

I just copied my latest post over to the lewdpad, if Wicked Nightmare and/or Mahou Star feel like playing out the rest of the rest of Lily's attempt at taming the fairy swarm.

I'm thinking of re-introducing fluff types and their connection to rules. I kind of already have actually with the fairy swarm.

"Swarm" type monsters will have a chance to resist being subdued and tamed, requiring a second success against them if their "resist roll" is high enough. The resist roll comes after a success, and only applies once per entity.

Since this makes this type harder to tame, it should probably come with a bonus as a trade-off. Right now I'm thinking that a swarm's die in an action can be a "auto assist" to an ally depending on how your roll turns out.

Another I was thinking of was slimes, which could have a resist roll to having their opposition die destroyed (You may have noticed that singe-die monsters only take one success to kill, while others lose dice as they're hit by attacks.)

The types I have in mind are mostly the same from the first test run:

slime (defense)

swarm

tentacle (corruption)

monster girl/boy

furry? (offense)

beast

For the sake of accommodation, these specific types are optional, and I'm listing them more as fuel for ideas for perks for monsters to have against players, and when tamed.

That certainly seems like it could help add some variety to the different enemy types. I believe you've already got it so that certain monsters can add on additional negative effects in addition to their standard attacks, right? Things like the Papillon in the current room hypnotizing Mahou Star, or that one slug that slimed Lily and Midori and stuck them to the floor.

Perhaps, going back to one of my original suggestions for the rules, certain monster types would jump immediately to making corruption attacks and bypass the indecency track entirely? These monsters would probably be best if kept relatively rare to help make them feel a little more special, of course.

>>73437

Eh, the old idea just seemed a nice fit because of how there were three stats and three in-between, making six results. I'll just invent effects at random. Corruption effects will be reserved for progress-blocking monsters.

I've been waffling on how those effects play into monster "hp" since it's been based on their number of dice. Part of this is how a point of "threat level" could add a die to a monster OR give it an effect. I'm thinking of changing it to bulk buy and having the effect die be eliminated normally in exchange for a threat point giving effects to two or three monsters.

>A thought just occurred to me but outting how many opposition dice a tamed monster contributes next to their uses might be handy, especially for monsters that were rolled for off screen.

Oh right, The idea of monsters having multiple die slipped my mind in regards to the tamed ones. They'll be harder to catch because you need a success for each die. I'll add dice notes for them to my doc then.

Sorry to be out of it for a little while without warning, everyone. Work got incredibly busy and then I was sick for a few days, which wasn't fun. I'm feeling better and have a clearer work schedule for at least the next week, though.

Hey guys, I'm sorry I sort of fell off the map. One thing happened, then another, you know the drill…

But I'm game for another floor if all of you are.

>>75476

Ah, you've been away a good while, looks like you just missed a discussion about changing the nature of specialties back when you first vanished.

Basically I've decided "theme" is too vague and ends up as a second "normal" die. To bring things closer to the source rules, two of your specialties will represent magical powers, and I'll likely ask you to start declaring which specialty you're using.

The third specialty is a non-magical trait like before, and is still available when stripped.

Well, all things considered, I think I'll officially declare a break and work on coming up with some content besides monsters to populate the tower. Sine we have a rp-focused rules-light system, I'll try to cut down on monsters in favor of traps, tricks, secrets and non-combat encounters with some corrupted NPCs.

When I feel like I have enough to get started, I'll open a recruiting thread which will then serve as the OOC when the game thread opens.

Lurking anons can go ahead and post characters here ahead of time, it'd be nice to see characters, and seeing your themes might even give me ideas for rooms or bosses.

>>75490

Less combat more exploration seems preferable, granted it will take a bit more prepwork. It may be a good time to ask if we're going for "sexy adventure" or "adventure with some sexy stuff." Having smut as a consequence for screwing up makes thematic sense but may not be the best thing mechanically. Or I just rp'd badly. That's possible.

>>75734

I lean for "sexy adventure" but I may lean more on "adventure with sexy stuff" earlier on so that there's a sense of escalation.

Ideas aren't exactly flowing just yet though, Maybe I'll give the monsters/familiars more personality and just decide "If you fight it it will have this many die."

I was going to think of types of rooms and then fit them into maps, but maybe if I just make maps I'll get ideas for what the rooms will be.

Suggestions are very welcome!

>>75759

Heya, one suggestion is more transparency with what dice rolls do. Maybe I'm ignorant but what is the difference between say a 5 and 6 if the check is won?

Also I wanna post my character but I don't know if I should do it yet.

>>75792

Well, that's part of why I want to move away from combat a bit, in those scenarios I was basing it more on whether or not the player's dice beat the opposition dice, and since that raised the floor, there was really less room for variance, so it was simple pass/fail a lot.

There were a few occasions where a 6 took out an effect die completely while a 3 would have just removed the effect for the die, but most of the time it was more of a yes/no. On the roleplay end, there's more room for nuance.

>>75803

> On the roleplay end, there's more room for nuance.

Right. At the end of the day combat is mostly throwing dice at each other, so it can be difficult to make interesting in the long run. Describing actions goes a long way to help.

Maybe split up the level of success based on how well they roll? Like, giving a challenge a number for great success, disadvantaged success or failure (player picks. Can be a neat rp opportunity), and great failure. Granted you don't need to follow this template always and it'll probably over complicate things with risk dice. Might be better for single success challenges than battles.

>>75759

Gotcha. I figured that's what we were going for, it's getting to that second phase reliably and fairly that seems tricky. Maybe have ties for highest roll force a check as well? It won't make it unfair, but the frequency of checks will be increased a little.

The room with all the pollen was cool. I wouldn't want that all the time but it was a neat challenge. Each floor should have at least one room that breaks the rules.

Actually… having monsters do non-combat things could be interesting. No idea how to implement this.

>>75828

Then again, If I extrapolate the outcome of the first run, there will be a natural escalation as corruption and addiction accumulate. Cleric's healing was OP because I expected us to go to the tower right after the boss battle. When we restart, you'll have to choose between a full outfit regeneration or up to three points of corruption for each check to your healer's exposure.

Also, one thing that might show up eventually is autofail It's likely you'll never see it unless you decide to do something absurdly stupid, or blatantly beyond what any and all player characters should be capable of.

However, I reserve the right to use it for rare dramatic wham events to show that a particular obstacle will require a different approach to what you've attempted.

These will kind of fit the above criteria, though I'm already imagining one situation where the first thing you're likely to try will obviously not work in my mind, but not be so obvious to players.

Topical Embed is spoilers for Bleach.

>>75828

Covering more of what you talked about. . .

>Actually… having monsters do non-combat things could be interesting. No idea how to implement this.

At the time I was thinking it would be as simple as having them offer a more unique challenge, but I'm just realizing it's easier said than done. Perhaps more things like the hypo papilon, only they tend to run off when their attempts to sabotage you fail.

In this way, there's some incentive to fight, as it helps get the familiars out of the way rather than allowing them to continue pestering you.

Given that however, I'll have to try to make whatever else they do less dangerous in comparison, lest kill everything become the most logical choice.

Perhaps an option between killing and taming, which is less final, but gets a familiar out of the way? Maybe leave that fluid, with your roll determining how long it works or how aggro the familiar is to you afterward.

Well, maybe lean more on inventing totally non-monster threats, and then have the familiars work as part of them.

>The room with all the pollen was cool. I wouldn't want that all the time but it was a neat challenge. Each floor should have at least one room that breaks the rules.

Well, that was a shortcut to opening the boss room. I'll try to have something inventive and challenging on each floor, either a faster way of opening the next floor, or a challenge blocking the way to something useful or important.

>Maybe have ties for highest roll force a check as well? It won't make it unfair, but the frequency of checks will be increased a little.

Maybe, considering some "safer" options are in the works.

Oh, but one rule change, when using a tamed corrupt creature, the tamed creature's dice will no longer count against the corruption check.

So if you

competency/corruption/fairy swarm

with 3, 5, 6: you get a corruption check.

though with a 4, 2, 5 you won't.

Kind of only makes sense, since they're part or all of the corruption risk themselves.

>>75862

Whatever you end up doing, I really look forward to seeing it. I just hope people actually stick around to RP until the end.

>>76229

>I just hope people actually stick around to RP until the end.

You and me both. The good news is we'll probably have a few open seats if anyone wants in on the next round.

>>75862

>>75842

I meant to reply to these about a year ago.

That's very fair. We did get a full end-of-level recovery right after beating the big boss. If we didn't, going for a full clear may have been a bit too much for us.

Autofails as described make sense. Reserving them for YOU IDIOT or specific puzzles is good and I wouldn't want them anywhere else. Or very often at all.

Easier said than done indeed. They would almost need to have a room (or in extreme cases, an entire floor) built around them. Maybe some enemies do [something] when they die? Something that, while not completely crippling, is dangerous enough that killing them might be a bad idea.

As for other non-lethal solutions, Mahou Star had the whole chains thing going. Maybe some sort of imprisonment? To make it so we're not just chaining down everything, maybe make it so it has to be maintained by the caster and they can still be attacked while it's up. Attacking the bound beast would also have a chance of breaking them out.

Failing that, there's always the intimidation route. Although that runs the risk of the target coming back later or running off to who knows where.

>Well, maybe lean more on inventing totally non-monster threats, and then have the familiars work as part of them.

Sounds fun

>familiars and corruption

Makes sense to me. I like it

>>76434

>You and me both. The good news is we'll probably have a few open seats if anyone wants in on the next round.

I sure do. Got a kitty girl character in the works.

>>76572

Love the new blind. Can lead to some pretty interesting stuff with floor design or shifting rooms. Those are probably quite rare though.

Reputation is interesting. But at that point shouldn't we be rolling persuasion every time we want a familiar's dice? I dunno. Like you said, it's worth exploring

>aggression augmenting surprise

Now THAT is interesting. It would force more teamwork in a way, since of one of them does all the fighting they're more likely to get picked off or get over excited and run ahead. I think I like it.

>>77128

Well, to clarify that, I meant NPCs like blue cleric or the other helpers. But I was mainly bringing it up to explain how I thought of the aggression die.

I'm thinking the check roll should decide both how potent the surprise is, and how much aggro goes down after the check.

Shifting rooms were definitely something that came to mind. Aside from that though, I'm still heavily drawing blanks. I want to get at least one floor planned out before I begin actually trying to recruit.

>>77150

Oh I get it now. Blue being reluctant to help could somehow tie into her corruption maybe? The higher it goes the more reluctant she is to aid girls who beat up the others, fluff could be her getting emotional and putting her friend's feelings or well being over the mission. Even though they're corrupted they're still the same people, right?

You could play with the floor plan a bit. They don't all need to be symmetrical or even follow the same scheme. Could be something as simple as having the doors in different locations on each side, or go so far as design the entire for around the placement of rooms. Like a floor that is almost a maze with how complex the layout is. Maybe a large, particularly hazardous room with a bunch of small rooms around it? Or something forces half the team to the complete opposite side of the floor and they have to find their way back. I don't know if that's what you meant (or if they're even good idea) but I'm just spitting out anything that comes to mind.

Surprise vs. Aggro is a puzzle. I guess there are 3 ways to do it

>fixed reduction, you can suspect X surprises based on aggro

>scaling reduction, the more dangerous the surprise the less you have coming up

>random reduction, might get off eat, might get punished hard

Seeing as it's role play focused, I think fixed is the wrong choice as that might be a little too gamey (god I hate that phrase). It might be better to have it as a hidden stat and just give hints that something is about to happen. Something like a "you feel as if you are being watched" or "you have a bad feeling about this."

Time for an update!

Which is to say, let everyone know I haven't forgotten but have totally not gotten anything done. RL feels like a grinder right now, and I haven't really done any lewdplay on over a week.

Right now I'm trying to come up with something that will help decide types of room fillings to flesh out. I'm thinking of a few categories like "obstacle" Where something blocks progress to further rooms, "objectives" Which are things like the plants that barred the stairs in the mansion, and "Encounters" Which will have more flavor and roleplay, and are less about serving as some kind of challenge.

I think deciding on one of those will help me decide how to flesh out rooms when I finally get back around to mapmaking.

Also, for a while I've had a major suggestion I wanted to put out there for an ero-empire revival.

Call the new game "Lewd of Conquest" and intermingle things like wonders with the ruleset for Lords of Conquest (It's a primitive 4X game) People wanted expanding color-blobs, so plugging in a simple ruleset might give us a way of adding that. Also, it can give us a win condition, which would be a way to close off the game and reopen it with a clean slate for new players without just abruptly cutting off the game. Competition might even help keep the game alive.

Not going to be working on that myself, just putting the idea out there. If someone decides to run with it, I have some ideas on how to intertwine the two already.

>>78151

> RL feels like a grinder right now, and I haven't really done any lewdplay on over a week.

my God, do i feel you there. hello again, i thought I'd take a second to say hi.

i am the WORST at going 'oh yeah i have time' and a reversal happening. my bad for disappearing on you wonderful folks.

Hey all, hope life's been treating you well. Often checking back to see when next round is coming up.

Family issues have come up, putting this even more on hold. Haven't worked on it at all.

Feel free to periodically light a fire under my ass. Not to go too into details about PL, I feel like I might need to be reminded that I'm capable of creating a thing people are willing to wait for.

And so, I'm opening up my image editor NOW and starting a little map making.

Minor update:

Did some of the first floor map. I placed important rooms first and I'm going to build the other rooms around them. And then I'm going to pre-plan what's in each room instead of rolling internally to decide how dangerous the room is. (Which seems pretty dumb now that I look back on it.)

Considering a new mechanic where the decency die can help against corruption checks. A big part of the old system was that as you lost armor, you became more vulnerable to corruption, and the end result of a corruptive hit was decided by how much protection your character had.

Submitting that for discussion and how exactly it should work. One Idea I had was that you could roll both indecency in opposition to a corruption check, and pass the hit ti decency if indecency rolls higher, but the problem with that is that it doesn't depend on your current decency.

Maybe it just can't work that way in this system, and just have direct corruption checks happen only at important challenges or to fully stripped characters.

>>80573

That might be a bit too much crunch. The elegance of the Cthulhu Dark mod is a simple ruleset that doesn't get in the way of role play. If you want to do something like that, maybe add a penalty at low enough decency. But again, this is one more thing to remember, so keep it simple. We already have a character be considered [DEFEATED] at 0 decency and lose some dice, right? Or was it "roll corruption on every action?" We could try both, having one kick in at 0 and the other at 1 or 2. The consequence of this is accidentally creating some very unfair situations due to prior fuckups but then some people may be into that so w/e. Another possible consequence would be having to pass 2 corruption checks to avoid losing a point. You'd still only lose 1 per attack, but they would be harder to resist.

Again though, these are all one more thing to remember.

>>80595

Well, in plain terms the current plan is to have two of your character's three specialties represent magical powers, which are lost when indecency hits 6, as well as including the corruption die for all actions when fully stripped.

And it's probably bad to add a lot of new mechanics when we mostly have things pinned down anyway. Back to mapmaking.

Okay, I have a map made. Here's the hard problem. I need content.

It's easy enough to come up with assorted monsters, but to make things more of a roleplay and less throwing your dice at opposition die, we need more interesting scenarios. Here's what I have in mind:

Traps: I'm being more flexible with how these work. Some may still trigger when you step into a room, but others will trigger when you interact with something specific or take a particular action. They generally happen once per room. In some cases they might come in the form of one of the below being hidden on the first time through.

Obstacles: Things that block your movement between entrances to a room. It can be a maze or a wall of stone blocks, or something like a pit of vipers. Some may be one-time, others may stay and need to be overcome again if you need to pass through the room again.

Hazards: Something that is present in a room and poses a threat. While an obstacle is only a problem if you need to pass through, a hazard will need to be avoided even if you decide to turn around. But conversely, it might not prevent you from moving forward.

Encounters: Leaning more roleplay, you'll meet a character. I'll set up the story so that not everything will be in league with the empress, but it will be a game of telling which is which.

Anyone know of like a resource book for tabletop games I could pull ideas from or something? Direct suggestions are nice, but if you can point me to a rulebook or lore dictionary to pull from I just might be all set.

Also, character rivals. Lily's sister was an idea I intended to use eventually, and if you want me to tie your character's backstory to a floor boss I'm open to it.

>>80825

>Here's what I have in mind

Alright, long time watcher and will definitely be joining in next round, so I'll give feedback if that's cool. I think your scenarios are fine already, it's more about finding interested people who will stick around anyway.

One thing about stuff like traps is the need for balance. If there are monsters in that room already that can absolutely wreck someone, it might be a game ending room if rolls are bad. Of course, it's a chance you have to take, but balance is all I'm thinking of.

Encounters are interesting. It definitely adds more of a story element. I wouldn't mind it at all. I think what some players were doing last game that mimicked encounters was training familiars, which I like but it's odd when everyone has a familiar running around. Kind of game breaking in that sense.

My character is brand new and I have a backstory unrelated to anything that's happened so far, but I wouldn't mind any new story elements.

Finally, I've never done tabletop games in real life or otherwise, so I have no idea. But I do like what you've been doing so far.

>>80825

I don't think I've ever ran into a rule book before of just situations or encounters or traps. I imagine that most of that stuff is just learned from other GM's or players.

I'm not sure how much focus will be on the sexual aspect but two that immediately come to mind is a toll gate that could be fought through, sneaked past or paying the toll with their bodies if they meet some type of corruption requirement. I'm not sure if you've ever had a shopkeeper appear before but same type of deal, paying with sexual favors is a big thing in most sexual fantasies.

>>80978

I was looking to drastically cut down on the number of monsters, since they aren't that good as roleplay fodder. Not getting rid of them completely, they'll be in the "hazard" category. Traps and monsters in the same room will generally involve the monster getting a surprise attack when it first appears.

As for how traps work, it strikes me that this is what opposition dice are for. For example, if you try to pass through a room that has a hidden obstacle, it's triggered and I'll roll a d6 for the trap.

And I think I'll use the "floor raising" idea of having opposition die potentially reduce the quality of your success even if you pass. So for example if you tie at 3 the result is more like rolling a 1. Same for the reverse however, so if you don't lose by much it won't be a drastic penalty.

Okay, going to start on the second floor soon. I think it'd help me populate the tower with specific things If I come up with more ideas for dark magical girls (or guys) that would be around the tower.

To that end, any kink requests? It's best to beet the interests of players, so if you throw a few my way I can build characters around them.

>>81146

Well, if there's space I'll be down for round 3. Can take a break if someone else wants in. copypaste from pad

>plants

>slimes

>mind control

>Fetishy outfits in general, especially latex and living cloths

>various bondage stuff

>tentacles of course

I'm sure there's more I'd like, but let's see what everyone else is into.

Given that ero-empire is back, how much time do you think I should give for hype on the other game to die down before launching? As it is, there's actually enough to start with if I just go ahead and dot the map with event markers and ad-lib. (which is probably a better idea than pre-inventing everything and writing little notes all over, since going on the spot lets me match the fluff to the kinks of the players involved.)

Also character entries are officially open as of now.

>>82056

At work, gonna reserve a spot lest i wait another 6 months. I'll throw up a profile after. Any limits or changes?

Also I'm open with kinks, though i have a place in my heart for petplay. No idea how that could work but I thought I'd put it out there.

>>82106

Well, besides corruption/indecency checks, bad rolls may earn you complications Which now that I think of it, should probably be mentioned in the rules. Players from the last round should remember a few of these.

I can definitely work some kind of petplay in if things head in the right direction.

Added complications to the rules:

https://oasis.sandstorm.io/shared/7zZVKeo5Gg3VszC0X7KFqRBG2WMBIDGQQRsP1jJfEvo

It's mostly a summary, but it's there.

So any actual comments on if I should stagger this to give ero-empire some space or just start full-on recruiting right away?

>>82434

Hey I decided to hold up on creating my character until maybe someone else who has been previously playing, since I will definitely get something wrong.

A for starting now, I don't see why not.

>>82660

Well, yourself aside interest has plummeted. I probably let it get too cold.

Maybe someone will be up for this, but ero-empire is up and running so that's going to soak up some attention. Maybe I'll play with them a bit, and start trying to grab players in a week or so.

Though I'll keep the thread up with lore or whatever else I think might be interesting. Did you have a solid idea for your character, or would you like some world-building to run off of?

Well, since a spam bumped a very old game thread, I'll post something.

How to make a character

To start with, come up with an idea for your character, and then describe them. You should include a physical description, a summary of your character's powers, and give some idea as to what your character's background and personality is like.

The game takes place in a "modern magic" setting, like many magical girl anime and manga. In this alt-earth setting, a small portion of people, seemingly at random find themselves gifted with superhuman abilities. The story centers around Connection City, a hub metropolis that is literally at the center of where three major roads meet.

A key character is the Silver Valkyrie/Sarah Carver. As the Silver Valkyrie, she led a group of heroes to stop an army of magic users from using the city as a place to start a global conquest. After the event, her knowledge and memories were sealed, allowing her to become a normal mother and housewife. Eventually her memories and powers were unlocked, and she began using her experience to teach a new generation of magically gifted girls.

Unless you decide differing specifics, your character will be a young woman who as at the very least, met Sarah/The Valkyrie and been given a communication device.

For the gameplay side, You need to pick three specialties and choose a symbol.

Specialties are the specific skills, experience, or traits that can help your character achieve tasks. The first two will be your character's magical abilities, while the third should be an ability or trait that doesn't depend on magic.

The symbol will represent your character on the game map. Choose something that can be a solid-colored shape.

Final Short-term interest check.

Well, I thought since this game is a bit different, it wouldn't be directly competing with ero-empire, but discussion has been dead. Or perhaps it was already dead from when I was going through a very unmotivated period.

I'm considering a less crunchy "storytiem edition" Where I mostly rip off Sinclair Estates. (/storytiem/ is essentially a dead board at this point, so it would happen here.)

For those who aren't familiar with this game already, it's a pseudo-tabletop game about magical girls invading the lair of a magic user with seductive powers in order to stop her plants to control the world with her invective charms. The system we used last is a modified build of "cthulu dark," a rules-light d6 role-playing game.

>>83917

That description feels cut off.

To elaborate, I made a game board and markers for players, and played dungeon master as they explored the map, trying to complete goals to move onward. Comparison-wise, this game is meant to be faster-paced than ero-empire, with the game guiding the fluff.

The last test game ran in two threads, which are still here for you to read to get a good idea of what the game is like in action.

>>64550

>>68904

I plan on using the same basic rules, but doing more interesting things than throwing around a bunch of monsters for you to throw dice at.

It all started after the previous attempt at ero-empire failed to gain a decent playerbase. Thanks to a random bump, the original thread is still here:

>>47922

Dang, I've been doing this almost a year now.

>>83917

I remember seeing the thread a while back and being somewhat intrigued, but it seemed like the actual lewds and game were bogged down by a ton of rule changes and obscure systems. Assuming the system is settled out by now It might have been worth it to give it another shot.

I think the real problem is the board's current population. I'm sure there's no shortage on interested parties in general, but as it stands /erp/ is kind of a ghost town of what it was like a year ago (which was already pretty small back then).

I guess for the record, I'd be interested in playing assuming the game got of the ground. Been wanting to try lewd tabletop games but god knows a good group is hard to find on F-List.

>>83917

Still interested, just don't want to seem like I'm hogging posts though. I assume people will be vocally interested again if it starts? I don't know.

>>84945

Checked off preferences. Really I'm good with anything on that list, just have a few I like more.

Current Game thread

>>84284

So I decided to put down some lore discussion, give you material and opportunity to flesh out your characters, or for a sixth player to jump in while doing the above.

Like most magical girl settings, it's modern. If I have reason to flesh out the world more, it will be one that came out mostly like the RL today but has some assorted shake-ups in history. Among those is that a few lucky people (about 1 in 500-1000) are gifted with magical powers.

The general setting for this is a metropolis called Connection City, a hub town full of national and global headquarters. In the past, a magically-gifted group of outcasts invaded the city, led by a mind-controlling girl titled Queen Misery. Silver Valkyrie led a team of heroes to stop them. Following the conflict, the outcasts we banished, as the heroes kept guard over the area. However, both Queen Misery and Silver Valkyrie seemed to vanish. For years the city became a "calm spot," a place that produced no new magic users. This ended when suddenly the Valkyrie reappeared, and gifted were suddenly being gained at a speed that seemed to be trying to make up for lost time.

The previous relative peace to the outside world caused the city to boom and renovate. Two national highways were diverted and joined with a third new one into a massive roundabout that circles the majority of the city, called the inner ring which is divided into four districts by major roads.

In the east district is a community center that acts as home base for Silver Valkyrie's program for "gifted young women." It's mostly a mentoring program where the Valkyrie and her allies from her fight against Queen Misery share experience and advice for using powers, handling how they affect personal lives, and overcoming the temptation to exploit powers for selfish ends.

Side note: the "communicators," which are more than just that and need a catchy name. They were invented by, and initially hand-made by Purity Alchemist using her ability to manipulate materials. They act as multi-channel communication devices, and have radar capable of triangulating itself and other devices and showing location.

>>86602

I like it! Nay, i love it. This city setup just smacks of 'magical saints row' and shenanigans over the inner rings.

Because i love character driven humor and jokes, an occasional references, I would volunteer a nickname of MultiSass(er) for communicators. Cuz hey, now that we have them, the bosses can can tell EVERYONE what to do at one!

realtalk though, do you want an official name for the device, what everyone calls them, or just terminology less clunky for talking about using them?

do you have any sense of what else the city has to offer? i love fluff

Rolled 6, 4 = 10 (2d6)

Opposition dice, harpy.

>>87290

Kind of both? Just calling them communicators leaves out the tracking and positioning features. Maybe something like a catchy acronym. Maybe. . .

Tracking

Navigating

and

Communicaion

Radio

System

TNaCRS

Seems okay, but something that's clever, cute or funny while actually making practical sense IC would be ideal.

>>87290

Oh, and for the fluff you wanted. . .

The very center of the city is packed with towering skyscrapers. Many of them are central offices for megacorps, but a few luxury housing towers are peppered in. Outward from there lies upscale shopping centers, giving way to housing, schools, and community centers. Just inside the roundabout lies hotels, motels and more stores. Overall The luxury of the city declines as it goes further from the center, taking a big drop outside the inner ring.

The remainder of the city is called the outer ring. The outer edge of the roundabout is lined with warehouses, eventually connecting to factories further out.

Community centers are multi-purpose to save on space, such as the same classroom being grade school in the morning and college later int the day.

In the east district's community center, many secret passes lead underground to various functional areas of the Valkyrie Center for Gifted Women and Girls. The main office has a few historical exhibits dotted about a lobby that leads to a row of spartan offices in front of a meeting hall surrounded by a variety of counseling rooms, taking several aesthetic directions but all intended to be comfortable and soothing.

Underground there is a laboratory, and several sturdy and empty rooms centered around a storage area. The blank rooms are used for all kinds of practice, such as use exercises, sparring, and experimenting with unfamiliar abilities.

Rolled 3 (1d6)

Indecency check

When is this die even appropriate to be used? Also why did I have to roll?

>>87364

Well, to summarize: The risk dice represent threats to your character's condition. both of them can be used to increase your character's chance of success, but for the cost of possibly having to roll a status check.

In the fluff, using the indecency risk die should be represented by performing the action in a way that might cause physical harm to oneself, which your character's magic will prevent at the expense of some of your character's magical outfit. Corruption risks outside of specific scenarios can generally be explained by drawing on the tower's corrupt energy for extra power.

In some cases risk rolls will become mandatory. This is something I should note in my posts, though generally I've omitted it in combat because fighting poses an obvious indecency risk, and the previous round was full of combat.

I'll note mandatory risks going forward.

>>87390

I tend to roll corruption if isabel is doing something risky with possible sources of it, or if she's drawing on the darker side of her powers to get something done.

Basically both extra risky die are risk-reward; one of them is for physical grief the other is for the spiritual side of things.

Would referring to the risk die as a combat or conflict die clarify things?

>>87393

No, I think risk is arguably the best possible term.

Also did that fluff get you going, or can you direct me to a more interesting topic of my imagined setting?

>>87404

Is it safe to assume the risk and corruption dies can be added to any roll? As well as consecutive separate rolls? Outside of pillow fighting a marshmallow golem in a room made of clouds, I'm sure we can always find a fluff reason to hurt ourselves, but I didn't know if there was a cool down or if it might be unsportsmanlike to just add risk to everything.

>>87407

Yeah, you can use risk dice as much as you want. It's also mandatory if you initiate combat. There's no limit because of the simple fact that each time you use it there's a chance you might have to roll a check against your stats.

Also if you risk both indecency and corruption not only are you giving yourself a strong chance for a check, but you have to check both if they tie for highest.

Quick question for my newer players and any interested lurkers.

Have you read the rules document? Did you find it easy to understand? Do you have any questions about specific rules?

>>87886

Everything looks clear, but I have one question. What happens if a risk die ties with normal or competency?

Also, I hope lurkers do join, it's definitely not too late.

>>87902

To trigger an automatic check, the risk dice must be higher than all non-risk dice. If it's a tie with normal or indecency, then you don't have to check based on that. (If it's a tie at 1 or something, you may have to roll a check because your roll went so badly instead.)

The base rules this game is built on say "If sanity rolls higher than all other dice." Which under a careful reading specifies that it has to win outright, it hasn't rolled higher if it's a tie.

>>87404

Overdue response here. let me see.

I usually kind of try to think about characters in terms of where they come from, how they go about their day - as an undercurrent to whatever else they have going on. if they have a nice place, for example, or a hastle commuting to work - those are little subtext i can draw upon for interactions and help coming up with speech n stuff.

Isabel, for example, in that context is still the foreign student hottie - so everything about the city is kind of novel and new to her!

the valkyrie center sounds a lot like it was built on top of an old theatre or operate house. secret passages are kind of their thing. possibly an embassy.

Do most of the girls have the opportunity to live on site, or an option for their own place?

Its got a magical girl x-mansion vibe to it and i love that about it tho.

>>88028

Yeah, "magical x-men" definitely came to mind a few times in thinking about his setting.

But for "built on top of," I'm thinking this is all new construction. I have in mind that members of the "old guard" (the heroes that helped the Valkyrie stop Queen Misery) collaborated with government. When the Valkyrie re-awoke and the "calm spot" vanished, they already had strong enough ties to get the facility made.

When it comes to housing on-site, maybe not quite. Definitely some places adjacent. I'm imagining the main office of the Valkyrie's center being one of several facilities like schools, a museum, event areas for trade shows, etc. all gathered loosely in a park-like atmosphere that has playgrounds, fountains and gardens.

Maybe some homes, but mainly for the groundskeepers and the like, and come to think of it, probably some holding rooms for special cases underground. Like I said, places adjacent. Definitely some dorms across the street from the community center on all sides.

Fuck, now I'm imagining a tiny apartment building that happens to be closest to the Valkyrie Center setting up some kind of magical-girl twist on Hidamari Sketch.

>>88047

the reason i ask is i think… Idol? asked about homes at the MGA or places to stay a thread or two ago, and i was kind of curious if the answer evolved along with the concept - i believe the answer then was along the lines of 'yeah, probably.'.

kind of like how the x-mansion has boarding as an option for younger/more dangerous students, or dorms for schools.

>>88070

Read back the thread, yeah I did say something like that, but I guess housing on-site never merged into my ideas that well. Mostly because of the issue of having girls live IN the Valkyrie center while having secret identities.

Logistically it's as simple as throwing a few housing floors on top and around of the offices etc.

At first I was thinking a few dorms, mainly for girls who simply can't have secret identities because of mutations or having their face all over the news, because that cancels out the problem that if they live at the center everyone knows they're magical. Possibly other reasons, but then again, I'm open to alternate ideas, perhaps the program is immersive for the newly gifted and the housing is well-guarded from prying eyes.

Bumping the thread and laying out quick character creation for interested new players. New players can join at any time so long as there is room under the six player cap.

First of all put your character name on your posts, especially the one that introduces your character. Gameplay-wise you need to decide on a symbol to represent your character on the map, and three Specialties. Your character's specialties are the skills, knowledge, or even physical traits that allow them to do things more successfully than the average person.

The first two specialties will represent your character's magical powers This can be an ability like gravity manipulation, or an enchanted weapon your character can summon. The third should not be dependent on magical power, being things your character can personally do without any supernatural help.

For the fluff side, Give a general description of your character. Stuff like personality and background. Include a visual description and/or image. The setting is a modern metropolis in a world where rarely people find themselves gifted with supernatural abilities, seemingly at random.

The typical character will be a magical girl that's newly been accepted into a training and mentorship program for gifted women and given a communication/tracking device for coordinating heroic efforts.

If you have questions feel free to ask! Especially over the next hour or two because I'll be lurking since a turn happens tonight.

I just found out that I wasn't done yet with her story, oh well!

>>89177

>>89179

Looks great so far! One thing I forgot to mention is the "kinks list" of sorts in a group document.

https://oasis.sandstorm.io/shared/UxvnbHbe8PPLaUsfNkpowjW0e4gStbdCXMpysC52ChU

It's a bit of a mess presently, but the idea is that I've put various themes in and I want players to note if they have preferences towards or against certain things.

For current players, I added and messed with some things in there, so take another look please. Especially you Isabel, I placed your character name under like for a new monster section I think matches what you were saying.

>>89181

out of curiosity, was PRESS START an npc or another player?

I was kinda figuring that was the reporter woman who we rescued, and are kinda on a miniquest to find her crew and gear

>>89181

Should I put what I like/dislike there or until I'm actually in the game?

Also, what exactly does Partners refer to?

>>89182

No, that was kind of a joke. Unless it got lost in transitions between my main computer and laptop, I also slipped an INSERT COIN In there as well.

>>89183

Well, for the short version you really just need to know how to take actions. First need to add your dice to your post, which are in the post options and limits under the bar for image files. Dice should be six sided. There's four basic dice, and you should list what you're doing

Normal You can use this for most things. I'll try to specify the situations you can't as they come up, but you'll generally be able to include it unless you're attempting something dramatic.

Competency You can use this die if one of your character's specialties will help do whatever thing you're trying to do. Going forward, just list the specialty you're using.

Indecency This die is mandatory when your character takes action in a room with a hazard (Triangle warning sign.) You can also use it to increase the chances of an action succeeding in exchange for a risk if increasing your indecency score.

Corruption This die may be mandatory in rare cases when dealing with strong sources of corruption. Like Indecency, it can be used to increase chance of success in exchange for the risk of raising your corruption score.

If either or both of the risk dice roll higher than all other dice, you must roll a check against your status to see if your score raises. (Again, six sided.)

There's plenty of examples in the thread, so putting an example here may be unnecessary.

>>89184

You're in as of the end of this turn, so go ahead. Just add your character name where appropriate. (Under like for themes you would enjoy, under hate for themes you don't want to role play your character involved in.)

Feel free to add ideas if you think any should be on the list!

Rolled 6, 3 = 9 (2d6)

EI, Missing risk.

Mop Creature, opposition die.

>>89189

Alright, I got it now, thanks.

Before I go any further, I'd like to suggest a change to one of my abilities.

SOS : Marina calls for a magical ferry that takes an ally to a room she had previously visited.

So it could be used as a warper, either to send her allies back to a safe room, or send them back to the frontline.

With two conditions, it has to be a room that Marina has visited previously in order to transport them over there, and she can't use it herself, it's only for her allies.

Also, if the room has already "gone dark" in the map, they could encounter any danger that could be hiding over there.

And if the roll is low, they could end up just half way there.

What do you think, GM? If it sounds like too much, you could "nerf" it for me, or it stays as it is. I'll leave it to your consideration.

>>89324

Sounds just fine, even with the both ways addition. There was kind of an implied nerf from the get-go since something like that won't be able to include the normal die. So either you take your competency die alone, or risk your decency or purity for a better chance of pulling it off.

>>89326

Oh that's right. Well hopefully that will make her useful enough for the team.

I'll take the first two lines of the explanation for the description, as the last two are merely just ideas in case of low rolls, but I figure your storytelling will take care of such things when it happens.

Well, that's it for now!

I'm going through the rules, trying to make them easier to understand. I Just started trying to add rules for trying to purge corruption from an ally. It's getting a bit complicated as I think about how it should work.

I was thinking of having to roll against an opposition die, and having only a relevant specialty and corruption usable. I'm of the mind that if you try it without a specialty, your chances of taking corruption yourself should be no better than your chances of removing it.

But a desire for sense-make creeps in a little, since in older versions your ability to purify was linked to your own alignment score, making you a more effective purifier if you had less corruption yourself. In the above, the best time to attempt purification is when you already have corruption, so that there's less chance of you failing a corruption check.

Anyone have ideas?

>>89330

Inverse of surprise rating/surprise die?

>>89335

You will probably have to elaborate for me to quite understand what you mean, but it did get me thinking in a different way.

Perhaps use your current corruption as a static opposition die. That way the action can't fail when you have no corruption, and less corruption gives you a better chance of success. You may still take corruption since you need to roll a check if corruption rolls higher or you don't have a relevant specialty.

Sucessful actions should give reverse corruption checks to the target, maybe two in the case of a crit success.

About to process tonight's turn! Real quick I wanted to ask if my work on the rules doc makes it easier to understand. I worked through to the "Purging Corruption" section.

>>89437

Crap! uh! typing faster then!

Rolled 5, 2, 5, 2 = 14 (4d6)

Opposition dice.

>>89307

2d6 Frying Pan Crab

>>89438

2d6 Frying Pan Crab

Rolled 4, 6 = 10 (2d6)

>>89458

Frying pan crab,

2d6

Ow my roll was kind of low.

>>89708

Three and four are kind of "meh" tier. In most cases I won't know how to to things differently between the two.

Things are really only going to go bad if you get one or two.

Rolled 1, 1, 1 = 3 (3d1)

Frying pan crab

>>89707

1d6

>>89788

1d6

>>89841

1d6

>>89848

I'm curious but why is it a 3d1?

>>89885

In case the opposition die rolled higher a few times, keeping the crab in play. It was wounded last turn, causing it to lose a die.

also, i hope you guys and gals are making use of free porn day! i know i am!

>>89962

I wasn't aware of this. Hmm well, it sucks that I don't have much libido right now.

Footage of EI and Nia hacking

https://youtu.be/1Y2zo0JN2HE?t=13s

Rolled 1, 1, 1 = 3 (3d6)

1d6, netted

2d6, centaur

>>91610

Well, it seems a lot of your action posts happen close to when I usually check in. This isn't a new thing, but given how Isabel especially ends up racing the clock a lot, I'm thinking of switching to a different update time that's about 10 hours later than I've been doing it. Less certain I'll be able to be consistent this way though.

What do all of you think?

>>91616

Poor Isabel!

I don't mind, really.

>>91616

Lets see, in the interests of keeeping things easy to manage for the Gm….

I'm at GMT -7 which just ends up being awful inconvenient for morning-coordination across large bodies of water. I suspect i'm just running into 'oh shit post by midnight' stuff being slightly inconvenient timing for your mornings.

I'd say no, don't change anything. I could use maybe an hour delay, but ten isn't necessary. Mostly its pressure on the weekend, as thanks to other stuff going on, i kind of have to get the friday and monday balls rolling mostly at the same time over the weekend. If you've noticed a stretch/just in the nick of time things, its because i've all day affairs sunday.

I'm not worth bending over for (mrawr) scheduling wise. i just wish I had more time to devote to game, being around, and contributing.

I'm really enjoying the change of pace from every-day updates of the last few threads. I think only electric idol's the only one who's been in since then.

>>91621

Well, the "10 hours later" idea was basically going to bed earlier and then doing the update in what's the late morning for me. (Evening shift sucks. Maybe not as much as overnight overall, but some of us don't do so well having "work later today" hanging over our heads.) Which would have me get to work on the game around 15:00 GMT usually.

I also thought maybe flipping how I look at update time. I usually read the thread and start working at "update time" which is why sometimes you'll see me get it in very late, because distraction or things like re-drawing or inventing new icons delay my work.

Instead I can make my response to everything ASAP, and then wait till a designated time to post. Do one last refresh at the designated time and include any actions, but otherwise the turn goes up on-schedule. If I'm doing it like that, I kind of lock myself into staying up late. (Which despite my preference, I'm being pressured to NOT do IRL.) But leaves me able to do a more consistent schedule anywhere from 07 to 09 GMT until DST ends.

Question. Does anyone else (other than our GM) use F-list?

I'd be open to play something on the side, if you ever feel like it.

>>91784

On the topic of side items, I started a chyoa where you play as a villain(ess?) that has already captured my OCs.

https://chyoa.com/story/Heroine-Harem.9371

>>91795

That's nice! I want to see the Silver Valkyrie stripped from her pride, slowly descending into corruption as she experiences a new bottom with each passing day, constantly being reminded of who she used to be prior to becoming a sex slave. Degraded to the point that she's nothing but a lustful woman whose only desire and purpose is to serve those serving beneath me, human and monsters alike.

And I'll be standing by Lady Calista's side, taking great delight from watching how insignificant this woman turned out to be, one who dared to oppose my Empress' wicked might. Now, Sarah Carver is just a slut vastly shadowed by her own former glory.

Couldn't resist a little post based on our own side play!

>>91621

Yeah, I've been liking the not-every-day format a bit as well partially due to me being terrible at time management. It takes a little pressure off.

I'm sure some old friends will show up again.

>>91704

Hey, whatever works for you. You're the guy running the show after all.

I'm really screwed. I don't want to have to give up this character.

>>91784

I feel like most of the players likely do, just off of how popular it is. I definitively have an F-List account, though I don't have a profile for Silver.

>>92083

If I'm reading the rules correctly, this is the first time you're reaching 5, so you should have an opportunity to lower your indecency next turn. Besides, even if you do fall from grace we can probably purity you back, and that just means finally getting to the sweet, sweet lewds!

>>92083

I'll cover your back, Nia.

Once I'm clear with the current issue in my own hands.

I think we really are pushing it by going all out. I was hesitant on going my own way or joining Idol to assist her. But I chose my own little adventure.

And like Fenrir says, we might get the lewds sooner. So there's that. ~

>>92090

I see, me neither! (Well, I do, but it's pretty much an empty profile.)

Rolled 4, 3 = 7 (2d6)

1d6, Harpy

1d6, centaur