(12-15-2014, 11:17 AM)Warren Castille Wrote: I hereby propose the "let's get as many people as we can" involved ruleset. Anyone who's attended the Grindstone knows it can be a bit of a grind when two parties of verbose mothereffers get talking and the dice result in defense after defense. To keep the frantic, rapid-motion feel of a snowball fight, why not just skip the defense round? Both parties roll a die and the higher takes the round, first to three. It guarantees someone's getting a facefull of frost after five rolls at best, and it helps keep things moving along.
The reason I'm proposing this is thusly: Teleporting to an aether and running two laps can be done in the time it takes some people to roll an attack and post. It wouldn't be impossible for someone to get eliminated, do their time and join back into the battle that eliminated them, resulting in snow zombies that never die!
Ah, that might be good, yeah! Just three rolls, highest gets the point - simpler and much faster. Of course, I'll probably still leave in the option for the combatants to agree to a higher point total if they want to really get that protracted snowball fight feel going.
And we could have a pre-made rolz chat room set up that people can join in and then just flip over to make their rolls instead of having to create a room each time a conflict comes up. Warren, you're more familiar with the site, is there a limit to the number of folks that can be in one of the rooms?
It should probably be noted that I actually added the two laps because I wanted to slow down their return to the fray, but not enough that it detracts from their experience. I would've offered a penalty of a lap around Camp Dragonhead's ramparts instead, which would both be lengthier and allow the runner to get a look at the chaos unfurling below but... I'm fairly certain it isn't a full circuit.
However, I'm up for other "penalty" options that would both delay the fallen's return to battle and hopefully make it interesting for them too. You lost the fight, but I still want you to have fun!
EDIT: Some minor changes made to the OP to reflect this.
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