The Boys - Round 5 - Main Phase 1 - 4/7

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Round Length: split each round into two phases
Each phase lasting 24 hours maximum (if everyone submits their relevant actions, skip the waiting time and proceed to the next one)
So each round will last 0-48 hours

Order of Operations:

Main Phase 1:

First priority: The Greatest Scam must be used or holstered once it becomes available (so we need to wait for user to use or holster it before anything else can get activated) (in case this takes time I’ll extend the Round; you’ll still have at least 24 hours to submit at all times)
Then, all of these can be activated simultaneously (we don’t need to wait for an order)
The offer for Alliance must be activated and accepted in this time frame
Option 2 and Option 3 of Copy must be activated here
Option 2 is private, Option 3 is public
Russian Roulette creating a gun must be activated here
Insanity must be activated here, publicly
Restart? must be activated here, publicly
Game show Driven: must be activated here, publicly
Gambling? I’m in! Must be activated here, publicly (this requires back-and-forth interactions with me, so I will extend the Round in case I’m slow to respond due to time zones)

Private Action Submission (or Main Phase 2):

Everything here is submitted privately to the host
Basic Attacks and Basic Defend must be activated here
Giving people Good and Bad Minor Powers is submitted here
Big Punch must be activated here
Coerce must be must be activated here
Shooting the revolver from Russian Roulette
Lazer Eyes must be activated here
Swapper must be activated here
Pay Burn costs for certain abilities or to discard Bad Minor Powers

Damage Calculation:

The formula for calculating Damage is this:
Damage → Flat changes coming from Major and Minor Powers → % changes coming from Major Powers → % changes coming from Minor Powers → round to nearest integer (once only, at the end)
The same for calculating Shields → round to nearest integer (once only, at the end)
When resolving combat:
Life gain resolves first > Damage is taken next

Burn Phase:

Take any Burn (unblockable damage; shields don’t interact with it) from:
Coerce
Swapper
Discarding Bad Minor Powers

End phase:

Take damage from Leftover Shields
User targeted by Coerce may choose to Burn (immediately) or not

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10 PM GMT for Phase changes

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Combat mechanics:

• At the start of every round you gain Energy equal to your current Health
• Energy is the resource used for your Powers, Basic Attacks and Basic Defend
• Leftover Energy disappears at the end of every round

Every Round, you may:

• Submit Basic Attacks on any number of opponents by paying X Energy for each to deal X damage to that opponent
• Submit a Basic Defend by paying X Energy to gain X Shields. Shields block damage. Leftover Shields disappear at end of Round
• Pay Energy to cast Powers
• Burn Health as an alternate cost to paying for Powers and other things
  (you may do all of those things in the same Round)

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After Round 1, the following changes take effect:

1. At the end of each Round, take Burn (unpreventable damage) equal to 1/2 of your leftover Shields (punishes turtling)

2. At the beginning of each Round, each player publicly draws and reveals 2 Bad Minor Powers and 2 Good Minor Powers. Those will come from a pool that I have made beforehand. They’re small buffs and nerfs

Pick one of the Bad ones for yourself, and the other for an opponent of your choice
Pick one of the Good ones for yourself, and the other for the same opponent you picked for the Bad one (I want to incentivize Free For All / Battle Royale gameplay more so than Survivor-esque diplomacy team gameplay)
Each player privately submits this along with their normal action submission (attack, block etc.)

All of the Bad ones can be gotten rid of if their owner chooses to Burn 5 Health

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After Round 3, the unpreventable damage from leftover Shields increases from 1/2 to 100% of leftover Shields

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If the game isn’t over by the end of Round 9, the player with the most Health (calculated at end of Round) wins

In case the last remaining players die at the same time and nobody is left alive, the winner will be the one amongst them who had caused the most damage to other players throughout the whole game

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List of powers:

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1. Alliance:

Once per round you may publicly attempt to befriend a player. If they accept you can’t target each other with Basic Attacks and Damaging Powers for the rest of the round.

It stops the following Damaging Powers:
Big Punch
Coerce
Your target shooting you with a revolver from Russian Roulette (but they may still give or pass you a revolver)
Lazer Eyes
Insanity
Game Show Driven (only the rewards that deal damage)
Gambling? I’m in!
(and Insect Swarm as that’s a Basic attack enhancement)

If power gets stolen you keep the temporary Alliance effect, if it’s in place

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2. Big Punch:

Spend X energy to attack a player for X * 1.25 damage.

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3. Coerce:

Spend X energy and choose an opponent.

At the end of this round, that player may burn 0.25 * X (unblockable damage) (round to nearest integer). If they do not, they can neither target you with a strictly harmful Power nor will their Basic Defend block your Basic Attack, for the next Round only.

It stops the following Powers:
Big Punch
Coerce
Copy Option 3
Your target shooting you with a revolver from Russian Roulette (but they may still give or pass you a revolver)
Lazer Eyes
Insanity
Game Show Driven (only the rewards that deal damage or permanently steal)

Doesn’t stop Insect Swarm, The Greatest Scam, Gambling? I’m in! (not strictly harmful) and any other Major Powers

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4. Copy:

If you bid on this ability, choose one of the three options below. It will act accordingly as chosen by the player, who bid the second-highest on this ability. (In case only one player bids on it, it will work according their wish)

Option 1:
When you get this ability from the Auction, publicly choose another Major Power from this game. This ability text transforms to that Power (can’t target The Greatest Scam)

Option 2:
Once per round, privately choose a Major Power owned by another living player that does not require activation during Main Phase 1.

In case of passive Power, you gain the passive from now until the end of the Round.

In case of a Power with activation: if that ability is activated by your target, during this Main Phase 2, you will immediately temporarily copy it and use it on a target of your choice (you need to pre-emptively submit that choice in case you succeed)

(end of round it will be revealed if you successfully copied anything, and your target)

Option 3:
Once per round you may publicly pay X health: Gain a permanent copy of any other Major Power, where X is the winning bid on the Power. You may only copy each Major Power once this way. Can’t copy The Greatest Scam

Interactions:

Each player has their own internal tracking for Option 3 in case of copying / stealing

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5. Russian Roulette:

Publicly activate this ability to give any player including yourself a revolver. It has chambers equal to the amount of currently alive players. One chamber at random has a bullet, the others are blanks.
It has the following characteristics for its holder:
During standard action submission, you may shoot any player (including yourself) with this revolver.
If you shoot the bullet, you deal 20 damage and the revolver is discarded.
if you shoot a blank at another player, you pass them the revolver.
If you shoot a blank at yourself, you heal for 5 Health (can’t overheal more than starting Health) and pass it to any other living player of your choice.
Each revolver may be shot at each player once only. If no more valid targets - discard it.
Once discarded, you can activate this ability to make a new revolver.

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6. Insect Swarm:

Your Basic Attacks Damage is multiplied by your Health (capped at 100 Health for the multiplication) and divided by 50.

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7. Lazer eyes:

Spend 20 energy to deal 30 damage to a player. If possible, you MUST use this ability the next round, on the same player, and then you are free to target elsewhere or holster this ability.

Each player has their own internal tracking for this ability in case of copying / stealing

If your target is swapped by Swapper, you must attempt to target whoever you ended up hitting the next Round (even if it’s yourself)
Clause is broken by Alliance

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8. Restart?:

Only one Power with the name “Restart?” may be used for the entire game total, by anyone.
Change every player’s health other than yours to their starting Health (which is their Health after bids). If anyone ends up losing Health due to this, record that, and make them lose double that.

If anyone gains or loses Health due to this ability, make them gain or lose that much Energy for this round only

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9. Swapper:

Burn Yx10 (unblockable damage) , where Y is the number of times you’ve used this ability. You may swap yourself with another player. All Powers and Basic Attacks targetting that player during Main Phase 2 only (excluding self-targets) will be considered to target you, and vice versa.

Disabled in F2.

Does not affect things that target outside Main Phase 2, and does not interact with the act of giving people Minor Powers.

Each player has their own internal tracking for this ability in case of copying / stealing

If one player is targeted by two or more copies of “Swapper” - negate the resolution of all of them

Interacts with the following:
Basic Attacks
Big Punch
Coerce
Getting shot at by the revolver (but not self-shooting; and circumvents the revolver restriction to be unable to shoot same person twice)
Lazer eyes

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10. The Greatest Scam:

Only one Power with the name “The Greatest Scam?” may be used for the entire game total, by anyone.
May not be copied.
Use this ability only if you have 5 or more Good Minor powers

Lose all of your Good Minor powers. Each other player gains a copy of a new instance of those powers.

Then, permanently steal a Major or Minor Power from each other player, other than the instances you just gave them.

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11. Insanity:

Start of every Round the host announces a different posting restriction / gimmick. Then, once per round, you publicly target another player with this ability. Resolves as soon as you do that (host isn’t needed). For every time they mess up their imposed restriction / gimmick, you take 10/5/1 health off of them PERMANENTLY (depending on severity; host discretion) and give it to you instead. Can overheal above starting Health. Only affects main thread, not PMs.

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12. Game show Driven:

Once per round, you may have the host run a Hunger game scenario with all players (dead and alive) as the contestants
https://brantsteele.net/hungergames/reaping.php
You may bet up to all your energy each day on a player including yourself to win. (So always 1 in 7)
If that player wins depending on how much energy your bet on them win a prize
¼ of energy – You may deal half your energy worth of damage to an enemy (submit during Private Action Submission)
1/3 of energy – You may gain up to half your energy worth of shield (submit during Private Action Submission)
½ of energy – You may deal half your energy worth of damage to an enemy while also gaining up to half your energy worth of shield (submit during Private Action Submission)
2/3 of energy – You may gain a 1-shot copy a Major Power of the player you bet on. You must use it as soon as possible and use any of your invested energy to pay for it, but no more (so no more than 2/3). If Passive, you gain it until end of Round (submit during Main Phase 1)
¾ of energy – Same effect as above, except all Major Powers instead of only one (submit during Main Phase 1)

ALL YOUR ENERGY – YOU HAVE UNLOCKED THE CAPITALIST GOD OF THE HUNGER GAMES. YOU MAY FORCE THE PLAYER TO GIVE YOU A POWER UNTIL YOU FAIL A BET OR YOU DIE.
(You steal a Major or Minor Power)

Once you die, you fail a bet, you holster making a bet, or you are unable to make a bet - you return it.

Interactions:
If you copy/steal Alliance you copy the ability to make an offer, not the existing alliance
If you steal Alliance you don’t void the existing Alliance
If you copy/steal Copy you may use the winning Option only
If you copy/steal Russian Roulette you get to make a new gun
If you copy Insanity the host posts a new gimmick and you choose your victim

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13. Gambling? I’m in!

Choose an opponent. Play a game of Blackjack with you as the dealer - rules following the ones in Tess Ardent’s Casino, sidebets included. They must wager a minimum 10% of their energy, or 10 energy, whichever is higher. 0 isn’t valid. If the player loses, they immediately take as much damage as their wager. If the player wins, the dealer (you) immediately takes as much damage as the player’s payout.

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14. Lair of Evil

Your rolecard is public, and your private decisions are publicly made instead. You have 2 hours less than everyone else to submit your actions during the Private Action Submission (Main Phase 2).

Delay anything coming from other players that’s activated during Private Action Submission (Main Phase 2) that interacts with you by one Round, except the act of giving Minor Powers.

Doesn’t delay Burn

Interactions with Lair of Evil:
Basic Attacks are recorded and come the next round. As if they come from a third instance, not from a player
Big Punch damage comes next round
Coerce may be paid for the next round. The burn, if paid, is taken that same round. If not, Coerce takes effect the next round (no double delay)
Copy Option 2 copies any of Lair of Evil user’s powers immediately, but they take effect the next round (frozen in time, as if coming from a third instance)
If the Lair of Evil user is shot at by a revolver from Russian Roulette, delay the shot resolution by 1 round
Doesn’t delay being passed a revolver
Lazer Eyes come the next round
The swap of Swapper will be delayed by 1 round. If any targets die before that, it becomes void
Everything from Game show Driven that’s activated during Private Action Submission (Main Phase 2) is delayed by 1 round. Return of stolen power is instant

[Squirrel2412]

/in

[ElizaThePsycho (Willow)]

terrifying

[Hazardwaste]

Tutuu Game! /in

[Marshal]

IN

[Ash]

Will spec for the moment, but if signups are still going by this time next Thursday, I’ll join.

[Chomps]

is there a /sign but just for making stuff and discusing?

[tutuu]

feel free to take part in the discussion of the powers, i can ping you when that happens

i didnt plan on letting people submit powers without them playing, nah

[Chomps]

sure that works i can discuss

[Chomps]

/discussion join

[Garfooled]

/in
for my homie tutuu

[Marluna]

/in (if it doesn’t start tomorrow.)

[Nerbins]

/in

[tutuu]

Signups open till Thursday

[Marshal]

im hoping for more but if this gets exactly 7, then itd be good flavoring we could be the 7.

regardless i will design a char based on the powers I ultimately get

[tutuu]

signing up?

[Ash]

Can’t; midterm meant for today got postponed to Tuesday, so I have to lock in for that.
Will be involved with the power discussion stuff, but I don’t really have the ability to play.

[tutuu]

@Squirrel2412
@Hazardwaste
@Marshal
@Garfooled
@Marluna
@Nerbins

game starts! please design your two powers and submit them to me in the next 54 hours

feel free to ask me about stuff

here were the powers from last game to give some example:

Summary

• Stockpile: If you have unused Energy at the end of the round, it will go to the Stockpile and can be used later. The Stockpile may only hold up to half of the owner’s current Health.
• Chronoshield: If you take non-burn damage, instead you will Burn that much damage next round.
• Defensive Overload: Gain X shields, where X is anywhere between 1 and your Health. After damage calculation, Burn for Y, where Y is your excess shields. This ability initially costs Burn 0, but this cost increases by 10 every time you use this.
• Final Gambit: If you are one of the last two players alive, you may activate this power to swap any number of powers with your opponent (including this one). Then, this power de-activates and cannot be used anymore.
• Parasite: All damage you do to other players (including via power) is halved (rounded up). If you die, this power goes to the player who damaged you the most that round (or whoever killed you, if not applicable)
• Absorb Pain: When you take damage from a player, your Energy next round is increased by that amount, and that player has their energy reduced by that amount. Does not affect Health.
• Quasi-stellar Obliterator: Once per round, draw two bad mutations that cannot be stabilized. Then, give one to yourself and one to another player.
• Call Option: At the start of the game, M becomes the sum of all Energy costs for powers (variables are 0). Spend 20 Energy and submit a value X greater than (M / 3). Then, you regain Health equal to [(Y - X) - (M/3)], where Y is all Energy that is spent on powers this turn.
• Devils Bargain: Strike a deal with another player, binding them and yourself to the terms. If the deal is broken, the violator is penalized according to the terms of the deal. (All potential deals are veto’able by the host just to prevent bullshit. I probably won’t veto, but still.)
• Incinerate: Your Attacks deal bonus damage equal to how much Health you have Burned this game.
• Power U- wait this is just dragon install what the fuck: To activate this power, submit cool theme music to the host. Then all of your powers are upgraded, and the host posts your cool theme music.
• Replication: Spend 15 energy and target a player. If that player targets you with a power, that power’s effects are negated and you gain a copy of that Power that disappears upon activation (or at the end of the next round for non-activated powers). If this does not negate anything, gain a Strike; when you have 3 Strikes, this power and anything created by it vanish. This power cannot replicate itself.
• Shadow Council Executive: This power goes immediately after the first round of bidding to the highest bidder. You may then participate in a third round of bidding, where you may bid on any power you have been previously outbid for. You also Mutate after round 2.
• Cursed Soul: - Once per game, spend all of your Energy to swap this Power with another player’s Power.

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dont worry too much about balance yet. after you submit we will have a discussion phase for balancing stuff. so for now just try to think of ideas you’d like

have fun ^-^