Imminance & Survivor

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Well ok, MMO's are cool - but they are cool specifically because they are massively multiplayer online games.

As I understand, Imminence will not be online, massive, or multilplayer - will it?

In which case I would say that it would be more focussed as an RPG rulebook? Something like dungeons and dragons or pathfinder or something?

If you go through this path as an RPG rule book, then you can have rules for everything (and of course the dungeon master/games master will control the npc's). to turn it intro a boardgame, you will probably need very simplified nd abstracted rules. The game would need to be "on a board" (that could perhaps resemble graph paper as you say) and of course you could release expansions.

But I think the thing you really need to work on would be the actual rules. Remember that rules for something like hero quest are "Each character can move x sppaces, each has x hitpoints and can do x attacks" - that's the kind of thing you need to work out.

How do I move? How do I attack? How do i win the game? Am I against other people or are we in a team? Are there resources? Are there little cardboard circles of gold to collect? How is combat settled? With Dice? With cards? What kind of game is this?

And remember that MMO's are cool, and it would be great to play one but: If I want to play an MMO, I would play an MMO. If I want to play a boardgame, I will play a boardgame. If I want to play an RPG, I will play an RPG - where does immininence sit?

:)

hope iv'e helped man!

sam

Hiya Blazing!

Ok well that makes more sense, the dice rolls seem pretty high on first observation - but a very interesting way of doing it too.

So players can ally, players can fight, players can build houses and create things (like minecraft) and there are quests to go on, npc's, and a games master to move all npc's.

So this game, assumingly (like an mmo) is a very looong game. So it is not "2-6 players, play time 1 hour" it is "2-30 players, play time ?? hours "

I imagine this like one of those epic wargames that remains "set up" in the garage permanantly? Or like an RPG campaign that takes years to go through? If you are making this an RPGish boardgame in the style of an MMO, it will take a long long time to "play through" - especially as we don't yet have a win condition.

So it's going to be pretty cool I think, I would propbably say that you either need it to be on paper (like a proper rpg) or you need to make the map relatively small scale, so as you and the guys will come over to your house every wednesday evenening to play, you will need to keep the map easily (enough) to expand without requiring additional table space :)

s

You have a vision which would be great for a core "RPG" game. Most table top RPG's like D&D have supplemental maps for purchase which adds to scenarios, but what you are creating is the world in which the players will dwell. I wish in my "hayday" playing D&D there was a world map which depicted our adventures, so you may have something unique.

However, the die (D6) mechanics for attacking is pretty much straightforward. 1 & 6 misses if I'm correct. Have you thought about assigning each monster/unit with a armor rating that would determine success/failure? For example, a vampire might have an armor rating of 12 (d20) and unless you roll a 12 or greater, you miss. Or in the case of a d6 mechanic, a vampire might have an armor rating of 4, so anything below a 4 misses. I'm thinking a d6 mechanic may be too simplified, just my opinion. However if you are assuming that each unit/monster has equal chances of hitting one another, d6 mechanic may be the way to go.

As for your "logging" in for later games, have you considered what would happen to your MMO community if the map was accidently bumped into and all the pieces were scattered or worse, in the floor? If there is a clear, identifiable GM (Game Master), then he/she could basically control the NPC's and make up quests and determine the randomly generated encounters which would make more sense. If you make pre-determined attack - radius zones, then players are going to memorize those values and ignore certain zones of control to avoid encounters.