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Author: | Planetbox [ Thu Aug 06, 2020 11:14 pm ] |
Post subject: | Scooby-Doo, Starring You Post-Game Sockhop |
Well, that was certainly a thing. Thanks for playing Scooby-Doo, Starring You everyone! I’m glad so many people indulged in my ridiculous experiment. It was tons of fun putting together the updates and I enjoyed everyone’s characters. I also learned a lot that ought to be useful in future games I run. I’d like to give special thanks to the monsters for coming up with some great designs, as well as to those playing the canon characters. I don’t think future games like this would need the mystery gang to show up and it might be better not to have them, but you guys still did a great job. Additionally, I’d like to thank UkeleleLady for stepping in as a substitute for Deianira, and I’d also like to thank KamiPanda for providing a lot of game balance feedback before it was too late to change anything. I know the game had some design issues and wasn’t paced very well, but I’m thankful to those who still held it together and tried to be active regardless. I hope someone runs a new game like this in the future and tries to work out some of the kinks, and I’ll be posting some general ideas for future GMs later on. I think there’s a lot of potential that, like in Black Fable, someone can hopefully make something even better out of. Here’s the QTs, and then you can all begin with the GGs. Spoiler: QT Dump |
Author: | Joker [ Thu Aug 06, 2020 11:18 pm ] |
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gg |
Author: | Winston Payne [ Thu Aug 06, 2020 11:18 pm ] |
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gg |
Author: | Doctor Nanjo [ Thu Aug 06, 2020 11:22 pm ] |
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Congrats to Gamers for another great game! Some might even say "GG"! I liked playing. I feel bad that it kinda went off the rails but it was still fun to participate in. I really appreciated Moe, he was cool, but there were a lot of funny moments. |
Author: | Collin1002 [ Thu Aug 06, 2020 11:24 pm ] |
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gg |
Author: | WinterCoat [ Thu Aug 06, 2020 11:29 pm ] |
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That was fun. I definitely enjoyed 75% of the game. I have more specific thoughts I’ll post tomorrow, but good job PB. This was different and new and the fact that it was casual helped. Two thumbs-up |
Author: | DootDootDoot [ Thu Aug 06, 2020 11:33 pm ] |
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Nice. It may have had issues but tbh this was a really nice game just by how casual and light it was. It had a lot of opportunities for characters and things you usually wouldn't bring to another game and was a lot of fun just from that. Best cast 10/10 im just angry at myself i blew both Edward and Edgar on a goddamn shitpost character and now i can't use either name again even though i really want to. fuck. worst game 0/10 |
Author: | Kachu [ Thu Aug 06, 2020 11:40 pm ] |
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Great game. Really. As we’ve all said, there’s some pacing and game balance issues but it didn’t stop me from having a friggin great time! Pretty much loved all the characters here, and the band plot was kinda sweet. I think if we do something like a band again though we should really rein things in a little, though I know I was part of the problem with that because Moe was Moe. I did love him though. Monsters had some dope designs. Kinda mad we don’t get ENDINGS unless you’re an evil criminal but also I’m not mad at all this is a joke. I actually had some ideas for how another game would go but my brain isn’t very good at balancing things out. I think it’s interesting though even if it deviates from how this game went, look forward to it when I stop being a lazy bum which will probably take a while! Really wanna reiterate that I had a great time despite the issues I’d love to play a game like this again. |
Author: | Planetbox [ Fri Aug 07, 2020 12:29 am ] |
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If you want to write a real ending, I'll add it to the post after the epilogue. I just assumed no one would actually be interested, especially considering how many F7 has right now. And yeah, I'd love to play in a game like this too, so I hope someone gives it a shot. If you're thinking about GMing one, you can talk to me for advice if you want. |
Author: | Kachu [ Fri Aug 07, 2020 12:36 am ] |
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Planetbox wrote: If you want to write a real ending, I'll add it to the post after the epilogue. I just assumed no one would actually be interested, especially considering how many F7 has right now. And yeah, I'd love to play in a game like this too, so I hope someone gives it a shot. If you're thinking about GMing one, you can talk to me for advice if you want. Yeah I’ll probably hit you up about it when I get further along in development. Fair about endings too lol rip ever getting any more of those! |
Author: | UkuleleLady [ Fri Aug 07, 2020 3:01 am ] |
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This was a breath of fresh air. Great effort, PB! The whole cast was really fun. Every time a character was kicked from the game, I was genuinely sad to see them go. Moe, Ed, Gabby, and Blaze made me smile with pretty much every post. And everyone played off each other well. The roleplaying seemed to die out well before it should have, which is a bummer, but I understand that the way this game was set up wasn't the easiest thing to RP with. Plus, the low story stakes meant it was harder to keep everyone's attention. But I think low stakes was an appropriate tone for a first run of a game that hadn't been play-tested. It took the harshness out of the balance issues we were bound to face. Or maybe that's just me because I kinda both won and lost the game, so I don't feel like I did either. More like I was just part of a fun story. I also really liked subbing for Deianira. She had my favorite monster, which I unfortunately didn't accomplish anything with - but at least I got to try to give her a good send-off. I had a blast roleplaying her "I got caught" showdown. GG, y'all. (also, oh my god i just got that Ed was literally a shitpost character holy cow) |
Author: | Lone [ Fri Aug 07, 2020 4:38 am ] |
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gg, and thanks for hosting pb. despite only every being half aware of the rules or what was going on at any given time, this was the most fun i've had in an rp for well over a year (since F5). it was just a breath of fresh air to play something different for a change, and rping scooby wound up also being interesting due to being an animal. i wasn't even going to join the rp at first due to being busy. but i gave the op a read just for the lols, and it seemed interesting enough. i got what i needed from this, in that it helped take my mind of things. so thank you everyone with that said, the game definitely peaked for me around the middle, at the scrappy reveal and/or the deianara chase sequence. the events after weren't as good, so it really suffered from falling action syndrome. and even before, there were too many characters, and i wasn't really into many of them... until the skedaddling happened. with fewer characters, i felt the remaining ones finally had a chance to shine, and i wound up caring a lot more and getting more invested into the game as a result. both issues could be rectified with a smaller base cast, and fewer monsters to capture. idk, just something any potential future games of this format could take into account. i think that's all i really have to say. thanks pb for once again making me care... again. funny how pb rps keep doing that. |
Author: | KamiPanda [ Fri Aug 07, 2020 10:27 am ] |
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Thanks for hosting this, PB! As much as the mechanics were unpolished, conceptually it was all pretty fun. It's a solid basis for a game. I do wish people had kept up with the RPing longer, though. Or at the very least, I'd rather no posts than dumb posts like we were getting at the very end, which personally sours the experience for me. Special mentions to Pancakes for spontaneously creating the weird Dana/Blaze rivalry though, that was fun and added a lot. And of course I have to thank Franzise, we planned out a lot of stuff and it really helped elevate the experience. |
Author: | Winston Payne [ Fri Aug 07, 2020 12:43 pm ] |
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Like others have said, the game was fun but had some problems near the end. I haven't played a lot of forum games but games running out of steam/dragging on near the end seems to be a common issue and certainly isn't unique to this game. Overall, I don't think the game was too unbalanced but I think there were a couple of issues with some of the roles (which is to be expected since this was the first fg with this format). My role was quite weak because it was based on a bad card and the difference it made was quite small. An idea that could fix it (if there's a future game with a similar role) is that instead of simply blocking monster attacks if they are in my room, it blocks monster attacks in a certain radius (e.g. 3x3 or 2x2) or it can only block one attack but that attack can be anywhere on the board (idk how you'd justify this rp wise though). Another weak role was the saboteur. This was because their actions always affected themselves and therefore made the culprit quite obvious. A way to fix this (at least for one game) could be to give the saboteur a limited number of traps which they can place in the rooms they visit. However, the traps would only trigger if a person enters a trapped room in the next phase. This would allow the saboteur to leave the trapped room and their actions would be less obvious. I enjoyed playing as Shaggy but I certainly wasn't as active as I was in BF2 and my performance as James was probably better. Finally, I'd like to thank PB for running the game. Despite its flaws, it was still very fun. |
Author: | Doctor Nanjo [ Fri Aug 07, 2020 3:07 pm ] |
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KamiPanda wrote: I do wish people had kept up with the RPing longer, though. Or at the very least, I'd rather no posts than dumb posts like we were getting at the very end, which personally sours the experience for me. I get this. TBH, I thought and hoped things would be goofier? I guess I wanted to live out the cartoon life, but also we literally didn't get any serious discussion because it was too challenging for us with our characters. In retrospect I wish I had maybe played someone else. Mechanically the game was pretty repetitive but also too complex? Like obviously it required a ton of maintenance for PB. I enjoyed playing it casually and having fun with it even if I didn't understand everything. |
Author: | Planetbox [ Fri Aug 07, 2020 6:36 pm ] |
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Here’s my thoughts for future GMs sorted in no particular order. Spoiler: Extended Thoughts |
Author: | Joker [ Sat Aug 08, 2020 2:57 am ] |
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Thanks to PB for hosting this game! Although I wasn't around for too long, I did have a lot of fun. I don't have too much to say about the game if I'm being honest. Like some others said I don't think the saboteur was really necessary and uh that's it I guess Thanks again PB! |
Author: | WinterCoat [ Sat Aug 08, 2020 3:11 pm ] |
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Spoiler: Thoughts & Thots |
Author: | Lone [ Sat Aug 08, 2020 3:43 pm ] |
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Oh, if we're discussing the OC characters, since WC and Joker have expressed concern with them, I guess I should too. As said, at the beginning, I felt there were too many of them, and as a result I cared for very little of them. Especially being a Scooby-Doo game, I wished the mystery gang were more front and center. Instead, these people I'd never seen before, nor had any emotional investment in were gobbling up the spotlight. Didn't help that the rest of the gang wasn't too active, barring Velma at the beginning and Daphne at the end (and i got my timezone too, which probably contributed to the problem). I found myself wishing, that the OCs were separated into smaller categories too. WC's idea of say the Although, I will reiterate that most of my issues with the OCs stopped once the skedaddling started. So if a future game has a smaller cast, then this will also no longer be an issue. Just had to throw my early-game feelings out there, since the topic had come up. |
Author: | Franzise Deauxnim [ Sat Aug 08, 2020 3:54 pm ] |
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This was a good time, thanks PB I guess I don't have much to add that hasn't already been said, the game certainly had balance issues but I appreciate the effort to adjust things along the way (and I wasn't too hung up on winning anyway, I tried of course but I think it's better for the narrative if the villains don't win?) I do echo Panda's sentiments in that the inactivity and lack of real RP posts in the second half was pretty disappointing especially since this wasn't even that long a game so I don't get the burnout argument I'm also of the opposite opinion about the OC characters; they're pretty much the only ones I cared anything about, mainly because the original cast was so inactive (although Velma had a good last post and Scooby did a couple things during the chase/fight scenes) Special shoutout to Moe, didn't think I'd like him since he was just kind of a meme for most of the game but he grew on me once he started showing another side |
Author: | WinterCoat [ Sat Aug 08, 2020 4:08 pm ] |
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next game should be 10 characters 5 oc mystery gang 5 [whatever] |
Author: | UkuleleLady [ Sat Aug 08, 2020 4:12 pm ] |
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I think one of the issues is that the OG players had a lot of OCs to keep track of. It didn't feel like too much to me, but that's because I was one of the OC players and I was there to see all of them created, so I didn't have to learn who was who all at once at the start of the game. One suggestion for a future iteration of this game: perhaps we could have two sets of five characters (like the detectives and the band), like WC said. And in each set, the five players can get together before the game and come up with their characters together. This would give us a smaller cast and less new information to process. And the bad guys could be spread out between the two gangs, lending to the "villains in teams of two" mechanic a bit better if we went with that again. |
Author: | Kachu [ Sat Aug 08, 2020 6:56 pm ] |
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This post is probably gonna seem disjointed and weird. Sorry for that, I just want to get a bunch of thoughts down before I forget them. Interesting stuff to see about the OCs. I get why the Canon Characters didn't like the much though, it makes sense to me. I went in assuming this was gonna be an RP that was basically the Adel and Cups FTE but I tried to quickly adjust my attitude once it seemed like it totally wasn't going to be that. I'm glad some people got into Moe near the end because I tried to shift things a little so the Band had some sort of sense of normalcy. I thought before the game even started that we just had too many people. 5/5 for a total of 10 or maybe a bonus 11th seems ideal to me as well. Do people think that we need a group of people with special powers? Would the 5/5 split have OCs made in two groups or would it be better if the whole cast knew each other, like in this case if it was only the Band at the park. I really enjoy PB's idea of everyone having their own deck, and they pick cards from it that're used up or maybe they can spend a whole turn doing nothing to reshuffle the whole thing? I'd honestly like to see more opinions on how that'd work because it seems like a really nice solution to me. It also seems like a bunch of people were expecting some more serious posts and Roleplay while others wanted a game that was basically a board game with Adel x Cups level posts. I'm curious if people who wanted a goofier game would be interested in one with a more serious plot/tone. Not exactly disallowing goofy posts but something more serious than a wacky band with a small Moai gremlin at a spooky amusement park. |
Author: | WinterCoat [ Sat Aug 08, 2020 7:09 pm ] |
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if the plot is serious and requires me to pay attention to anything beyond submitting my actions i feel like you lose some of the casual appeal of this it sounds shitty but an excuse plot is the way to go for this imo |
Author: | KamiPanda [ Sat Aug 08, 2020 7:19 pm ] |
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I think there's a wiiiiiiiiiiide breadth of space between "serious RPing" and "Adel x Cups FTE". Though whatever the end result, it needs to be clear prior to signups what the moment to moment posting will look like. |
Author: | Planetbox [ Sat Aug 08, 2020 8:07 pm ] |
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It doesn’t need to be serious but I’d personally prefer if all the posts had clear thought put into them. There’s definitely a different between comedic RPing and a slew of shitposts. But yeah, the GM can make that stuff clear before the game. I agree that an excuse plot is generally better especially if the game has a large luck factor. I think you can keep the game goofy though without having the OCs feel so bizarre and incongruous. I think the OC mystery gang is worth a try, though I’m not sure if they need abilities. It seemed like the canon characters this time wanted to have a more proactive role, though I’m not sure how you could accomplish that. More reliable abilities might help though. I was thinking if everyone got deck they should keep the option to draw additional cards. Having that in addition to reshuffling would probably make the game too complicated though. It might be better to only allow for one. |
Author: | CaptainPancakes [ Sun Aug 09, 2020 12:41 am ] |
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gg |
Author: | Southern Corn [ Sun Aug 09, 2020 1:19 pm ] |
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Oh right I forgot to post here. Uhh gg everyone great game. It was a bit simplistic for my tastes ultimately but I really enjoyed my role as a saboteur. My final turn was probably the most impactful one of the game so that was fun to do. Obviously my being Scrappy was perfect and my reveal was my favourite part of the game. Sadly my interest dipped after that but I kept reading in intervals still. It was fun, I agree with a lot of the suggestions posted but I don't have much of note to add. Anyway fun times bye oh almost forgot but gabby best character |
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