Design Goals

We started this blog primarily because we’ve recently passed enough internal alpha iterations that we wanted to go public with progress. That being said, our roadmap at this point is looking pretty simple: we’ve got a solid skeleton and just fleshed out all the muscles, so we’ll running a testgroup to see how everything feels. If things feel good, we’ll go ahead. If things don’t, we’ll continue adjusting. Sounding simple and being simple, however, are two entirely separate things. This system’s been in development for a few years, and a lot of things have changed have changed. A LOT of things, actually. Our first test run was barely more than a character creation system with a few dice attached.

If there’s one thing I can safely say from beginning to end, though, I’ve had one specific goal in mind I’ve been wanting to emulate for this system: I wanted to play a run-and-gun platformer, and I wanted to play a run-and-gun platformer with my friends. Now, playing a video game of it is obviously going to be more efficient at this goal than any tabletop game is going to be. But I don’t think it’s an impossible prospect, and more importantly there’s freedom and flexibility in tabletop RPGs that video games don’t allow you to have. Having a 1:1 port is obviously not too feasible, but we can still focus on the basic aspects that make them fun to play and try to port them over.

To that point, what makes a platformer fun for me? What do I want to emulate?

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Let me show you my Pokeymanz! I’ve been working on this for the better part of several months, and I finally polished up the PDF enough to release.

If you like Pokémon and tabletop RPGs, and don’t gel well with the mechanics-heavy stuff like PTU and its ilk, I encourage you to take a look. Also, I shitposted furiously in the margins so maybe take a look anyway if you like jokes.

Pokeymanz: - Is relatively rules-lite - Is easily moddable for homebrew content like fakemons and custom moves and abilities - Is customizable with optional rules to add in complexity if your group wants it - Encourages players to be creative with their Pokémon and abilities Enjoy!

Self-plug on main! Not Mega Man related, but if you enjoy my sense of humour or happen to be into Pokémon, check it out!

I provided some design direction and helped proofread and test this.

Tabletop dev is fun.

DUMP-2v2.pk3: DUMP Episode 2: Dump Harder MAP39 (-1072, -944, 80) Author: TerminusEst13 (et al) Date: 2016-05-23 Description: For 2016, I really want to better my mapping abilities and put out some good stuff. Two friends, Mystical and Gardevoir, said that a good experiment might be to try speedmapping. Just get the shit out of the mind and into the editor, stream-of-consciousness work. 4-6 hours, Zandro compatibility, vanilla monsters/weapons. DUMP 1 began and it was a success, bringing a whole bunch of me and my friends into ZDoom mapping and just churning things out. Then another friend, AD_79, suggested I open it up to the public. I did, and the response was overwhelming. An unfathomable amount of people signed up for this, and we ended up with a grand total of 68 maps. A hub map, 64 normal maps, a secret map, a final map, and a Marathon map (of all things). As before, we now present to you a small hub leading to a handful of different maps. Beat X amount of maps to unlock the exit, with X being a variable depending on the difficulty level (ITYTD only requires a handful of maps, Nightmare requires EVERY SINGLE MAP), and defeat the final boss to win. Gameplay mods should be supported, though there’s been trouble in Zandronum so it may be better to use them in ZDoom/GZDoom. Pistol start is enforced, and monsters are vanilla (except for the Final Boss). As before, the primary purpose of this project is to have a way for all of the newbies to try and push over that initial hump together, to MAKE something. It’s the usual pile of quality you’ll expect from a gigawad of MyFirstZDoomMap.wad, but it was fun to band together to make shit. Again, as before, please feel free to point out any issues, troubles, errors, imbalances, and etc about the maps. Don’t feel the need to sugarcoat, give it to us straight–none of us are pro-tier mappers. We can’t improve if we don’t know what’s wrong.

they should make a third