Sounds like you want to do a pure text RP, Have not been in one in years, but takes more trust to do.
Works best when it is done something like
Laughing madly, Zinerath spun around and drove his scythe towards the Goblin's Neck.
You can add a lot of favor text to that, of cores, but the jest is you do a intended action. Works well in PvP and PvE(assuming nether Character is OP and all the players are alight with their characters getting hurt of cores)
It works worst when someone simply says X happens
Zinerath Lops off the Goblin's head.
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Boring for everyone
It also invites things like this from the DM
The Ogre sends a Cushing fist into [the gnome mage]'s chest.
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Might as well say the ogre kills the mage out right, so yeah, Pure text RP requires more trust then an RPG to do.
In the first case the DM, or Player, can affectively say the goblin dodges with ease from the over eager and telegraphed strike, narrowly dodges the brunt of the swift attack while losing the top of its ear, or just gets beheaded. and if the latter happens, it is sweeter it, the goblin, could have done just about anything really, but, this onetime, it went as planed.(As I think you can all tell, I like option 2 best) That said mindless combat can only go so far, even more so in pure text Role Play than in PbP RPGs
And it perverts the dice form controlling the game rather then contributing to it.(I was DM when a CR 1 street thug was dodging the, level 4 PCs for rounds... it was funny, to me... AC:15 too high for +9 to hit
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It also lets players have PCs of radically different power levels without having things be 'unfair'. I played the familiar to a mage one RP, that was just fun. Needless to say, my little drake was much less powerful, over all, than the rest of the party. You can get away with player options that are much more 'extreme' without ill affect from it, as long as you're willing trust the player in question to not abuse said trust (instead of letting someone do a hill giant and either nerfing their level or having them be way ahead of all the other PCs by stats.
... Now I want to do a pure text RP :/
