New game workshopping and brainstorming

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

Two B W one S

I meant the other second one :pac:

hahah lads, this isn't the game!!!!!


Suggestions only pls :pac:

tusk wrote: »

I meant the other second one :pac:

HAHA, that penny must have been dropped from the 72nd floor, only arrived now.

Given how difficult it is to create unique original picture-based Catchphrases, this could be the ideal opportunity to run Catchphrases and Catacombs, the "slay-what-you-see" text-based tabletop RPG!.

You are in a 100ft square room, which you entered from the south. In the center of the room is a large open chest, brimming with gold coins and priceless jewels. On your arrival, the chest quivers and then slowly, inexorably it begins to inch towards you.

On the far side of the room, through the only other exit, you see a small figure enters - humanoid, roughly child sized with reddish reptilian skin, a rat-like tail and a head like a scaled dog. As it enters, the chest judders, halts, and begins to slide in this creatures direction, and no matter what you do it refuses to halt it's glacial progress.

"Uh..... Fortune favours Kobold?"

CORRECT!

Can you play D&D online? I always wanted to play, but only one of my friends plays, and he plays miles away!

sKeith wrote: »

Did you somehow miss this sub-forum? D&D

Didn't miss it. Just never bothered looking because d&d always seemed so daunting.

tusk wrote: »

Didn't miss it. Just never bothered looking because d&d always seemed so daunting.

I wouldn't worry people figure it out pretty fast. I felt like I was doing it wrong when I first started as well.

Don't worry, dude. It's an interactive and collective story-telling experience, there's no* wrong way to do it.
Its easy. Before you declare any kind of action, you ask yourself a few questions and stop if you hit a No:

Is this the right thing for my character?
Is this good for the table?
Is this action free of assumptions that would require the GM to interpret an ambiguous rule exactly the way I do as a player?
Am I acting in a way that does *not* force a movement, action or thought on another player's character without their consent?
Is it really that big a deal that he got the sword and you didn't?
Do I really need that chicken?

And then you're good to go.

Catchphrase is LIVE!

I just need to name the game, any ideas, all welcome, Screen Spielboard / The Casting Gooch / Movalrus / Harvey WriterScreen / Castyourway / Hollywould

a premier league werewolf. utd are the duds, you think you have a good role but in reality you can do **** all! :P

I will open up Hollywould then

Spook_ie wrote: »

So I was at a loose end and bitterly disappointed that the new Bond movie has been put back again, and was thinking "well that's going to screw the Oscars up a bit with loads of films being held back" so I decided maybe an Oscar's related quiz is needed.

So thoughts are a picture quiz, all answers will be from Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress winners and nominees

Example from 2003 The actor was nominated but didn't win best actor


Now the questions and scoring I was thinking

A choice of 5 pictures per year from years between 2000 and 2019, not all of the years, maybe 10 to give a choice of 50 films to give answers to 10 of them

1 Character Name

Bob Harris

2 Film

Lost In Translation

3 Actor or Actress

Bill Murray

The scoring and this is where I really need advice I was thinking of
Scoring it similar to a Peehs but with

1 a bonus of anyone getting all 3 answers to a film correct getting a -10 to their score,
The name of the characters I think will throw a lot of people so I expect the number of 3 correct answers to be low

2 anyone not attempting all 3 answers penalised +10 and the normal Peehs score of 1.5x the top answer

3 any wrong answers penalised the normal Peehs score of top answer x1.5

Any thoughts? Any thoughts on a name for it?

i'd a got bill murray, didn't know the 1 and 2 answers, but if known i'd be penalized for not answering would have said 1, james t kirk, 2, star trek 5, the undiscovered country.

Great is idea spooks. I ran something similar last year with movie quotes.
I would suggest just regular quiz scores, having peehs makes it complicated. Also, would you think of opening it to more than post 2000, my knownledge would be better pre 2000 . Of course you could run more installments over different eras.

As for the name, The Spooks

'tis the season to be jolly...
Well, nearly!

I've had an idea of how to redo the sheep advent calendar, just wanted to see what people think.

Similar to last year - one question each morning, answers in by early evening, little reveal each evening.
However, no way I can think of 24 sheep questions again! So I thought about doing numbers ("How many pumpkins get sold at halloween?" type thing, but Christmassy!), with a slightly geeky scoring system. But we're all geeks here, right?

I was going to give a standard score - that is, each person's score is the difference between their answer and the average answer, divided by the standard deviation of answers. The details don't actually matter - basically if you're near the average you get a low score, far from the average you get a high score. So lower scores are better. Dividing by the SD just means questions where the answer is millions get scored about the same as those where the answer is 10

Using the average also means the correct answer is kind of irrelevant, it's just how much you agree with people. Sheep style.

I did a couple of examples in excel to test how it works

Example one - average answer 1 million


Example two - average answer 10


What do you think? Am I overcomplicating it? Will it scare people off?

And what if someone misses a day?
Give them the highest score? Or scale that up somehow?


*true geeks might notice I've actually calculated 10x the absolute value of the standard score

ETA: not sure if I'll bother, but do you think people would be happy with Google forms to enter rather than PM? Basically a link to three boxes - username, answer, comments
Not sure how much effort it is to do but in theory it would make scoring much easier for me

Neowise wrote: »

aaronjennings wrote: »

May I ask, in these two examples from the first table, how the answers that are further away from the average end up with fewer points?

Should M not have a lower score than K, and T a lower score than R?

I'm assuming just a snag in whatever wizardly formula you've concocted, but if you do go with this method, better to get it buffed out early doors

Unless I've completely misunderstood, which is entirely possible

The real answer does not matter.
The Average of the answers is 1070360.9, so thats the number you are getting lowest score close to, not 1000000.


Does that help with the checks?

processing...

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

'tis the season to be jolly...Well, nearly!

Boo wrote:

Did someone say Christmas?

I've had an idea of how to redo the sheep advent calendar, just wanted to see what people think.
Similar to last year - one question each morning, answers in by early evening, little reveal each evening.

Boo wrote:

Oh we did ENJOY last years so!

However, no way I can think of 24 sheep questions again!

Boo wrote:

We has a Christmas lovers forum for jest this sorta thing

So I thought about doing numbers ("How many pumpkins get sold at halloween?" type thing, but Christmassy!),

Boo wrote:

That works too... I am no good at maths.

with a slightly geeky scoring system. But we're all geeks here, right?

Boo wrote:

ehh, sure, I am great at maths! :cool:

I was going to give a standard score - that is, each person's score is the difference between their answer and the average answer, divided by the standard deviation of answers.

Boo wrote:

S=(TA-AA)/SD ...oh look, shiny!

The details don't actually matter - basically if you're near the average you get a low score, far from the average you get a high score.

Boo wrote:

Sheep=low score
Ace=High Score

So lower scores are better.

Boo wrote:

Oopsie...
Sheep=low score
Ace=High Score

Dividing by the SD just means questions where the answer is millions get scored about the same as those where the answer is 10
I did a couple of examples in excel to test how it works



What do you think? ...Will it scare people off?

Boo wrote:

NOT WHEN IT'S ABOUT CHRISTMAS !

...do you think people would be happy with Google forms to enter rather than PM?

Boo wrote:

I do most everything in google sheets, cos Chromebook...

fyp :pac:

Can't wait, EN - Thanks for doing this again!

EN....

Tldr: ok lol