Cs & Ca - Quirky d20 game

[gamecat]

Sitting trapped in a classroom, I developed the coolest setting for a d20 system game: City-states and Compressed Air.

In AD 2006, gunpowder was wiped from history. Gone. All attempts to synthisize the explosive substance failed. Combined with the destabilizing social condition, all major cities declared independence, forming their own City-States.

Because humankind has always had need of weapons, compressed air still remained. The weapons of the once popular game of paintball, thought of as toys, became the weapon of choice for humans. In the societies of the City-States, weapons that caused actual physical damage became sort of taboo. Paintball markers became effective weaponry, and a sort of dueling society arose.

In 2009, something bizarre happened. The cards of a defunct game became tools for these new magicians, calling themselves "card mages". Magic: the Gathering became truly magic.

So, whaddaja think? I've made classes, I've statted paintball markers, I've come up with rules for magic card flopping. Worth continuing, or should I leave it in the classroom I was trapped in?

 

[mistergone]

April Fool's Day is over, man.

 

[gamecat]

I'm aware of that.

I seriously want to run this. Some input please?

 

[Ranger REG]

Are we using lethal air bullets, like acid?

 

[gamecat]

While that is possible, characters who use weapons that inflict physical damage rack up Bad Form points. Each BF incurs a -5% XP penalty. Characters who roleplay or fight intelligently gain Good Form. GF is a 5% bonus. You lose a point of each when you level.

Subdual to death all the way baby.

People from the city-states of Hamburg, Munich, and Berlin can pass this up. (Kind of a Rammstein thing)

 

[Robbert Raets]

Wi3rrd.... But not much weirder than most card-game commercials cartoon series. Do you intend to use real Magic cards/deck in the game?

 

[gamecat]

Yeah. I've written a program to assign a random deck of a single color to a starting card flopper. Each day could be thought of as a single game, each phase of each turn a standard action. Once your're decked, you can't play cards anymore. Cards you have out are used in a method similar to psionic combat (but with magic rules, damage assigned through cards is inflicted as subdual damage.) Card floppers can take subdual damage equal to twice the casting cost of the card to make it effect reality.

For example:

Nathan the Card Flopper, beset with a trio malchicks visiting his native Tokyo from England, realizes that they aren't joking about the old ultra-violence. Looking to the illusory plane, [the fourth dimension where cards are played as psionic combat] Nathan realizes with his control blue-white deck that he has a Serra Angel. Gritting his teeth, Nathan takes 10 points of subdual damage as the Serra Angel manifests before the three thugs. The odds have been evened...

 

[bebo]

i have reclectnly played this game with gamecat andf my self and the crew here in nonwhere's vile but nayways it is intersitng how he did the whole bad from and how paintballs cant use the magic or melle weapons and weapon user cant use magic or ranged weapons so it makes each class more indiviudal and helps the gurp not relvoe of all jack of all trades and so this is not a late aprial fool's joke but a bunch of paintballers wanting to chuck dice and play paintball in ur favoite other then paintball hobby.

 

[Assenpfeffer]

This may be the lamest campaign idea I've ever heard of. Must cleanse brain with booze.








You did ask.

 

[gamecat]

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Yes, You did.