New Discworld Game

How about like paintball but instead of paint in paintball guns they could play with crossbows loaded with flags that have sucktion cups,

i could immagine detitrus's giant version suffocating someone by suction cup

you should check out the discworld football thread,quite good

it be here

there should be a game the watch play. like a basketball parody or something.

it would be entertaining to see how the dwarfs would manage against trolls etc and how Reg wll manage catching the ball without one of his arms falling off...

Ladies and Gentleman welcome to the first annual inter guild & city services fantasy volley ball championship.

The opening game Watch versus post office was an exciting match last night although we're not sure about the troll dwarf combo move pulled by the watch in the later half of the game, The post offices' captain assures me that with some liberal application of pig oil lubricant they will be able to remove the setters head from their outside hitters - shall we say nether region.

The game is open to anyone so list your six man fantasy teams here.

{ as a technical aside to the above, if we did randomly assign points to names in an official character list, people could effectively chose fantasy teams and then be awarded points over a period of a couple of weeks or so somewhat similar to a fantasy football league mmmmmm? ( goes off with penicil poised) }

Ankh-Morpork Fantasy Volley Ball League - you have $1000 to spend on your team.

We'd need a list of characters for people to buy players from, someway to record participants and teams, someway of trading players? Perhaps this is a little complicated an idea?

hmmm,would be cool,but would take lots of time and get very intense and confusing.but it would be awesome!!

i reckon we should try to organise something like this,where we have a list of players and a max number of teams depending on the players,cos you need subs and stuff.

i dunno,might be too complicated and take too much time and effort for it to be worthwhile.

true....

i'm thinking a spread sheet might be able to handle some of it - random nos. etc, teams an associated players, awarding teams points.

I can see two key problems:-
List of characters to include & costings.
Having a Large number of teams to track.

My thinking is :-

Say 50 Characters

I chose 6, you chose 6 - some maybe the same.

Random points awarded to 50 characters.

If my 6 characters awarded more points that week than your 6 - My team moves up the league...or vice versa.

This is still in the fuzzy stages, its been along time since i dabbled in I.T.

If anyone has a list of Discworld Characters they'd want to include, perhaps we could start listing them here?

cheers

bw.

ok,a list eh?

let me see...

librarian
death
ratdeath
angua
igor
sergeant lettuce
lu-tze/sweeper
vimes
carrot
ironfoundersson
nobby
colon
detritus
mr shine
rincewind
luggage
ponder
mustrum ridcully
nanny ogg
esme weatherwax
magrat
bursar
SANEAlex
moist vin lipvig
cheery littlebottom
erik
mort
patrician
foul ole ron
gaspode
conina
leonard of quirm
CMOT Dibbler
stronginthearm
ptraci
tawneee
dorfl
lady sybil

ok,that's 38,please give more

that's fab,

I could do with a few more names, maybe make it up to 50 players to choose from, Maybe one a lady sybils dragons and other side line characters could be in it, a feegle or two etc

I'm running a simulation spreadsheet hopefully today, so maybe a week from now we might be able to start a Fantasy Five A Side Dodge Axe League - Volleyball is too tame.

To actually do this you will have to make it an even game so it is fair.

the only way to do this is to have an equal or rival for each team. so the watch hasd nobby and postal has groat.

another good example is A.E Pessimal who is equal to Stanley, as they both are fairly week and shy but when they get angry the bite onto trolls and smash harpy's with a bag of pins.

or vimes and moist are equal. so im going to make more characters and make sure they are equal.

has anyone got any other ideas for teams rather than postal service and the watch

how about the guilds theres loads of them but finding the people that belong in them ? maybe you could just assign them to there own guilds!!
"touch my food
feel my fork"

right how about a game that involves disc s
"touch my food
feel my fork"

oooo,discs,good idea

What about a game where cheating is allowed as long as you arent caught untill after the game.

i could imagine Nobby being rely good at that.

as for the discs it could be like capture the flag but a pole with discs on.

each team has 2 disc-poles with 3 disks on each and you have to try and remove all the discs off one of your enemies poles whilst defending yours.

RULE NUMBER ONE: There Are No Rules!!!

Rule number two: Any violence is allowed but no killing.

kinda like paintball

yeh like paintball capture the flag, you either have to 'catch' (smash, squash or trap) the opponent or paintball them but like i said before instead of paintballing the could fire suction-cup-arrows with bright red flags on the end to signify a capture

I am making up the watch and the postal team but as predicted the watch far outweighs the postal service.

I need to list all the charcters in going postal i already have the following:

Moist Von Lipwig
Senior Postman Groat
Stanley Howler HoS (Head of Stamps)
Pump 19 (Mr Pump)
Adora Bell Dearheart
Sane Alex
Mad Al
Undecided Adrian
Anghammarad
Mr Tiddles

i remember their being the coach driver people and some administration woman who was realy bossy and demanded the golems to have designated genders so they could clean the correct toilets etc but cant remember their names.
i also think some of the old postmens names were mentioned and maybe even some golems

I know that this is an rather old topic but the idea is very interesting and I think about implementing something. But I'd make it more "complicated" (on the inside).

Here's what I think about:
1. A character database.
every character has
-some values like speed, strength and agility and maybe a bonus point in something like cheating or l... support by the lady
-a price (based on the number of points assigned before)
-a short character describtion and maybe even a picture (both not necessary for the game)

2. Player accounts.
-every player can buy (and re-sell for half their value) characters for his team and select 6 of them as active players
-they get a start amount of money, victories will earn them more, so they can improve their teams

3. The Game
-One per week (let's say every saturday) teams will be selected randomly (where randomly means that teams are choosen by a script that groups the teams based on the total number of points the active players have, and selects teams with equal numbers of points as opponents, if there are no teams with roughly equal points left, the weaker team gets some extra luck bonus for that fight) to fight each other.
-The fighting is calculated based on the character points multiplied with random numbers and so on

What do you think? It's a game where players can join in anytime (and even continue to win if they don't do anything for a while, there should be a timeout if one does not log in at least once a month).

ha! made me laugh

um, well i say we flip a coin and see if it comes down or not

P.S. there is cripple mister onion...but i don;t like how limited it seems compared to how outlandish it sounded in the book

Another way of playing would be to have set teams (i.e. watch, post office, UU staff) and a schedule when they will play against each other. The players can bet on the results and get rewarded with points for correct guesses.

are we still taliking about cripple mister onion?

I was never talking about CMO. I was talking about a sport game/simulation. (The interesting thing from the programmers point of view is, that you don't have to care if it turns out to be a soccer game in the streets of A-M or a volleyball leage or a criquet variant.)

"cricket"

so you mean u want to estabish a TAB?

i reckon that sounds like a great idea.tourneys

UU vs the watch.

ponder and i would clean up,never mind including bursar and everyone else i'm forgetting about

sit back and take a lesson form the master

but isn't that another random game. it's nothing about skill just luck. isn't there a chance to change this?

like i said... a TAB

are you speaking about this kind of game, sarge?

in fourex, the TAB is the place where u place bets... mainly of horses

tally ho!!so what's the deal here?we betting on if we win or lose,or how we play the game?

like i said

my bad,i se the light

[sings] I'm reborn / I see the light / I'm re boooooorn! [/sings]

covers ears]throws peanuts

cries and runs of to join american idol

points and laughs,d'you think he'll make it past first round?

if a druid does it it can't be off-topic!!!

unless that druid is ook

well then,hmph!!!

do you even HAVE a point of view about this new discworld game sgt l,or are you just letting your fingers do the talking?

my opinion is thta we should do that but as far as we are concerned, it would need to be a game that invoolves NO ramdomness and no real things so that it can be done over the net
so probably a board game which we already have

then i guess we should come up with a new boardgame,wasn't hex working on one?

no doubt....maybe hexagonal thud with new species and rules

probably,i wonder what he's gonna call it...

maybe 'hexagonal thud with new species and rules'

rasnewith

come again?

H-exagonal
T-hud
WI-th
NE-w
S-pecies
And
Rules

H-T-WI-NE-S-A-R

which back to front it

R-A-S-NE-WI-T-H

RASNEWITH

ah. that makes sense.

of course it does haver, i thought it up

do you know any more words?