|
Post by thunderheadSeeker on May 26, 2012 14:33:36 GMT -5
Yikes! in my universe, Dr. Seuss just wrote kids books. R.L. Stein, on the other hand... He was involved in quite a few human genetic experiments and other fun stuff when he wasn't busy writing. Where do you think he came up with most of his monsters and shit? Funny thing, he was clearly not working alone, but any attempts to find accomplices or higher-ups went nowhere. When they raided his compound, they found an empty room with only an 8-ball in it, but nobody could figure out what the fuck it meant.
Oh, BTW, don't prototype Doctor Who DVDs. Books or audios probably count too. Whatever monster or enemy shows up in the story, imps take on traits or characteristics. I accidentally threw in my DVD of "The Mark of the Rani", and the imps have taken to either what I guess I could call "experimentation" on my consorts, or running around making ridiculous schemes to attack me.
|
|
|
Post by benignnetherworld on May 26, 2012 15:56:20 GMT -5
just assume anything dr who is bad.
|
|
|
Post by casualUcalegon on Jun 4, 2012 21:45:19 GMT -5
If U have any kind of food that's made of lots of different types of animals, groUnd Up into a paste and either kept that way or shaped to look more like food? Don't prototype that. It was horrifying and of coUrse my coplayer had to throw in some slime with it. That sprite woUld jUst... ooze over things and leave behind grist.
Not so mUch gamebreaking as jUst disgUsting and alarming.
|
|
openMineral
Junior Member
Onto Session 5 now.
Posts: 83
|
Post by openMineral on Jun 14, 2012 13:57:39 GMT -5
I highly recommend against prototyping anything related to billiards, like the cue ball or the 8-ball. One of my friend's session had someone prototype the 7-ball into the sprite pre-entry. That did not end well.
I also go against somehow prototyping one of the Queen's Rings or King's Scepters. That would result in a prototypception or something.
|
|
rubberScarab
Junior Member
I wield optimism like a weapon of mass destruction.%\0\%
Posts: 61
|
Post by rubberScarab on Jun 14, 2012 15:27:19 GMT -5
I saw a guy with some weird dreamself bug prototype a carapace he managed to smuggle onto the home planet pre-entry. That session was seriously messed up. I don't know how often it's possible, but if it is, DON'T. That probably goes for anything else from the medium too. Many confounding and often potentially deadly glitches will run rampant if you do.
|
|
|
Post by spacetimeCounselor on Jun 16, 2012 0:10:04 GMT -5
Okay, I don't know how widely applicable this is, but if you have a player who lives on a meteor in the veil and you need to do some kind of recursive entry bullshit in a space room with a closet full of weird stuffed animals and things, don't pick the creepy-lookin' ventriloquist puppet thing with the spear through its chest. Not because of the maiming necessarily but because fuck if it doesn't have the most hideous bugged sprite-language ever. WHY WON'T YOU STOP LAUGHING YOU GLASSY-EYED SON OF A FUCK
Actually creepy-lookin' puppets in general how about, like I am gonna have to deal with this creepy-ass face on all the monsters and shit. Like, if you want to toss your cookies looking at the genuine article maybe don't give its attributes to underlings
on that note, no need to put this on the list but hey, dead bugs are really fucking creepy and if they have wings then oops flying underlings. Actually, how about [winged things] in general, put that on there because I'm pretty sure ogres aren't normally supposed to drop from the sky like a nuclear bomb and then throw you off the top of your house.
|
|
|
Post by tungstenTinkerer on Jun 16, 2012 4:06:21 GMT -5
Well, tbh acquiring means of flight is so ridiculously easy in sburb that flying enemies are not that much of a big deal. Hell, usually I am airborne since day two at most in most of my sessions.
|
|
|
Post by stanzicApparati on Jul 14, 2012 18:16:37 GMT -5
Don't prototype super-extendible dolls or whatever they're called - the ones that are used as artist's models. I heard from unseeingAugur that a previous session of his had someone toss one of those into the sprite and long story short, they ended up with a 'wraith that could stick its hands back on.
Edit: Also, don't toss Perfectly Generic Objects into the sprite, even after you've entered the Medium. The "easily forgotten" property those things have is not something you want happening with underlings or your sprite, and especially not with royalty or 'wraiths.
|
|
psychromaticKampher
New Member
Wha7 have I go77en in7o...Oh, SHOO7 uh...Heads up 7or RANGOON %\0\%
Posts: 19
|
Post by psychromaticKampher on Jul 15, 2012 15:59:36 GMT -5
[Rangoon-You have been warned]
So...Where does Apoca1ypse 7rom 7he X-Men rank on 7he lis7 o7 "Do No7 Pro7o7ype"? I have a group o7 8, so how much shi7 shou1d I be 7i11ing my pan7s wi7h 7he knowledge 7ha7 we now have a nigh-omnipo7en7, mu7an7 mons7rosi7y 7ha7 shapeshi77s, is immor7a1 and knows no7hing bu7 HA7E (amongs7 o7her 7hings) a1ongside ha17 a bakers dozen o7her pro7o7ypings.
Yeah
7ucking c1unky in7er7ace
7ucking c1umsy server p1ayer
|
|
|
Post by ExtropianDreamer on Jul 15, 2012 18:11:29 GMT -5
[Rangoon-You have been warned] So...Where does Apoca1ypse 7rom 7he X-Men rank on 7he lis7 o7 "Do No7 Pro7o7ype"? I have a group o7 8, so how much shi7 shou1d I be 7i11ing my pan7s wi7h 7he knowledge 7ha7 we now have a nigh-omnipo7en7, mu7an7 mons7rosi7y 7ha7 shapeshi77s, is immor7a1 and knows no7hing bu7 HA7E (amongs7 o7her 7hings) a1ongside ha17 a bakers dozen o7her pro7o7ypings.
Yeah
7ucking c1unky in7er7ace
7ucking c1umsy server p1ayer In my experience? Relatively fine, actually.
There's a scaling effect in place. Overpowered fictional entities can make things nasty, but their capabilities are scaled somewhat to keep things roughly in line with the degree of threat an enemy is supposed to pose. They'll be more dangerous, sure, but you're not going to get Imps wandering around with god-like power (unless you prototype the Debug NPC).
Apocalypse, if I'm remembering the comics right, mostly displays his abilities as enhanced strength and durability mixed with some shapeshifting. Nothing really too hard to deal with, when appropriately scaled down. Just means you have to fight a bit more conservatively over the course of the game and do a bit more level grinding to stay ahead of the curve.
Nothing apocalyptic.
The real danger for prototypings is when you add something that's either glitched (like Pumpkins or Harlequins), legitimately dangerous in the form you prototyped (like the Glowing Green Asshole or an actual Horrorterror) or adds traits that are hard to deal with regardless of magnitude (like time aspect powers or an intelligence boost - making the Imps smarter is never a good idea).
|
|
psychromaticKampher
New Member
Wha7 have I go77en in7o...Oh, SHOO7 uh...Heads up 7or RANGOON %\0\%
Posts: 19
|
Post by psychromaticKampher on Jul 15, 2012 19:54:32 GMT -5
[Episode V: Re7urn o7 7he RANGOON]
We11, 7he bi7 abou7 7he imps is reassuring, so 7hanks ED. And 7he sca1ing business wou1d PROBAB1Y be more reassuring i7 I hadn'7 jus7 fought my firs7 tier 3 enemy.
I encoun7ered my 7irs7 basi1isk in a cavern jus7 a 7ew minu7es ago. Fe11 a bi7 o7 a ways down ou7 o7 one o7 7he (apparen71y) abundan7, mercuria1 7unne1s 7ha7 span my p1ane7 in7o an expansive, frozen, underground 1ake (s7i11 parsing ou7 wha7 exac71y 7he 7hemes o7 7his p1ace are, so bes7 no7 ask).
I7, p1us a dozen or so imps and a pair of ogres 7ha7 were pre77y easi1y dispa7ched, go7 7he drop on me in my disorien7ed s7a7e. When none bu7 one imp remained, 7he imp shi77ed in7o i7's na7ive, basi1isk form and rea11y s7ar7ed 7o bea7 me down. I7 s7re7ched i7's 1imbs, 7ripped me up wi7hou7 7ouching me and sho7 more 7han jus7 7he 7ire I've heard 7ha7 7hey norma11y brea7h, and a 7air bi7 7ur7her 7han I wou1d've 7hough7 7hey possib1y cou1d.
I don'7 rea11y remember wha7 happened a77er 7ha7...
I came 7o nex7 7o a re1a7ive1y 1arge amoun7 o7 gris7 and a fair1y devas7ated cavern. Bu7 7ha7's no7 7he poin7 o7 7his.
I was ripping 7hrough mu17ip1e ogres a7 a 7ime, wi7h a pre77y good se7 o7 weapons and I near1y DIED 7o one o7 7hese guys. Wha7 happened? Wha7 happens when I 7ry 7o 7igh7 a 1ich or gic1ops? Is 7his how di77icu17 7hey a1ways are 7irs7 7ime you mee7 one? Or shou1d I be 7aking 7his 7o 7he g1i7ch 7hreads, 1ike ha1f 7he o7her shi7 7ha7's been going wrong wi7h my 1i7e 7oday?
|
|
|
Post by musicalDecay on Jul 15, 2012 22:03:38 GMT -5
Music players. Any kind of music player really. Not dangerous, just really really annoying when you have to listen to imps constantly spam music at you.
|
|
|
Post by captianMaudlin on Aug 22, 2012 9:21:52 GMT -5
I have an addendum to the "Don't prototype yourself" one. Self-portraits count towards that too.
My session's Heart player threw a drawing of his fursona in the thing, and now he's forced to kill infinite waves of idealized versions of himself. I mean, the rest of us just see it as a bunch of dopey dragons, but he's pretty shaken.
|
|
cutthroatcanadian
New Member
In this cold, unforgiving world, I shall thrive%\0\%
Posts: 43
|
Post by cutthroatcanadian on Sept 22, 2012 17:32:49 GMT -5
why not pokemon cards?
|
|
|
Post by genesisArtificer on Sept 23, 2012 13:41:07 GMT -5
You get Arceus-King and Mewtwo-Queen. And Pikachu-imps. Hello, electrocution.
|
|