I really like Flying Mice games

RPGPundit · December 07, 2010, 11:48:41 AM

And what's ToI about?

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flyingmice · December 07, 2010, 03:04:45 PM

Quote from: RPGPundit;423934And what's ToI about?

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Baseball, Pundit. Baseball. I'm doing it knowing there's no market. I don't care. It's on my Bucket List!

-clash

Levi Kornelsen · December 07, 2010, 03:57:53 PM

Quote from: flyingmice;423971Baseball, Pundit. Baseball. I'm doing it knowing there's no market. I don't care. It's on my Bucket List!

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I am all kinds of "What? Why?" on this one. I don't have any idea what the characters would do in a game about baseball, other than play ball. It has my puzzlement.

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flyingmice · December 07, 2010, 04:21:43 PM

Quote from: Levi Kornelsen;423978I am all kinds of "What? Why?" on this one. I don't have any idea what the characters would do in a game about baseball, other than play ball. It has my puzzlement.

If the baseball is good enough, that's the core of it. Otherwise, chasing skirts, maintaining family relationships while you are on the road, the temptation of performance enhancing drugs, and the multitude of small scrapes people get into.

QuoteAlso: Check yer mail.

Done! I'm thinking what would be the best.

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Bedrockbrendan · December 07, 2010, 04:28:19 PM

Quote from: flyingmice;423981If the baseball is good enough, that's the core of it. Otherwise, chasing skirts, maintaining family relationships while you are on the road, the temptation of performance enhancing drugs, and the multitude of small scrapes people get into.

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I actually think this might be fun, but I think you are right about the market. With all the drama surrounding our athletes these days, I can see a lot of possibilities.

flyingmice · December 07, 2010, 05:25:27 PM

Quote from: BedrockBrendan;423982I actually think this might be fun, but I think you are right about the market. With all the drama surrounding our athletes these days, I can see a lot of possibilities.

Thanks, Brendan! This is the general line I'm thinking along. The baseball games supply the base conflict, and the players are free to explore whatever else they are interested in.

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RPGPundit · December 08, 2010, 08:03:57 AM

Well, it might have some viability if you do two things:

1. Have a baseball game mechanic in the book; some way that you can emulate the whole experience. Use little tokens and a map of the diamond or something like that.

2. Have meta-rules for management of the baseball team. Buying and selling players, changing cities, making endorsements, etc etc. Not just the star players, but the team manager. That ties into the whole "fantasy football" style stuff that a lot of people like, and the ruthless business stuff; it becomes a bit like traveller at that level, where you can play the manager trying to make his team profitable.

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flyingmice · December 08, 2010, 08:28:20 AM

Quote from: RPGPundit;424081Well, it might have some viability if you do two things:

1. Have a baseball game mechanic in the book; some way that you can emulate the whole experience. Use little tokens and a map of the diamond or something like that.

That's all done. The baseball emulation was the easy part.

Quote2. Have meta-rules for management of the baseball team. Buying and selling players, changing cities, making endorsements, etc etc. Not just the star players, but the team manager. That ties into the whole "fantasy football" style stuff that a lot of people like, and the ruthless business stuff; it becomes a bit like traveller at that level, where you can play the manager trying to make his team profitable.

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Some of that is there, but not much. Most of that wouldn't work unless you had a full league of teams. This is an RPG, so it's designed for one group of players and a GM.

Really, I have no hopes of it being "viable". I'm writing this one purely for me, because I love the game.

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RPGPundit · December 08, 2010, 03:48:49 PM

Quote from: flyingmice;424088That's all done. The baseball emulation was the easy part.

Some of that is there, but not much. Most of that wouldn't work unless you had a full league of teams. This is an RPG, so it's designed for one group of players and a GM.

Really, I have no hopes of it being "viable". I'm writing this one purely for me, because I love the game.

-clash

You can't use random tables and NPCs to simulate a full league of teams? Won't you have to do some of this anyways, if you want to effectively emulate "playoffs" and the like?

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flyingmice · December 08, 2010, 04:14:06 PM

Quote from: RPGPundit;424248You can't use random tables and NPCs to simulate a full league of teams? Won't you have to do some of this anyways, if you want to effectively emulate "playoffs" and the like?

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Oh, I am, and I'm giving several ways to deal with that. It's just that it's the players who are running their team trading with the GM who runs all the other teams, and that's never as much fun as players trading with players. Basically, you only need to know the GM rather than each player's idiosyncracies and preferences.

You could do it perfectly well with each player managing a team, but that's not much of an RPG, really.

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winkingbishop · December 08, 2010, 05:37:14 PM

Quote from: RPGPundit;424248You can't use random tables and NPCs to simulate a full league of teams? Won't you have to do some of this anyways, if you want to effectively emulate "playoffs" and the like?

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Or use baseball cards?

"Oh, you want an NPC? This guy has an NPC somewhere..."

flyingmice · December 08, 2010, 06:25:44 PM

Quote from: winkingbishop;424273Or use baseball cards?

"Oh, you want an NPC? This guy has an NPC somewhere..."

The game doesn't use regular baseball stats.

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Bedrockbrendan · December 08, 2010, 06:26:57 PM

Clash, when this is ready for playtest, put me down to try it out. I think I could get some people together who would be interested.

flyingmice · December 08, 2010, 07:13:39 PM

Quote from: BedrockBrendan;424297Clash, when this is ready for playtest, put me down to try it out. I think I could get some people together who would be interested.

Cool, Brendan! I certainly will!

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