DWD Arena! - Fighting & Sex Sports Entertainment (Interest Check + "BETA")

[Eobelle]

Oh and as a caveat, there should be a "referee" for each game.  this person isn't a GM, what they do is receive messages from the players as to what their declarations are for a round, so it stays secret.  Then they roll the dice pools and posts the results to the OOC page. So the players can write the fiction of that round.

[Twisted Crow]

I am afraid I'm already set in what I have implemented. While I do appreciate the suggestion, a lot of this wouldn't be a good 'fit'... for multiple reasons. Chiefly, it would be an obtrusive infrastructure for a group roleplay like this. A few in-depth reasons (among many) would be...

1. I wouldn't find any enjoyment at all in a scheme like that for this game. Sorry, but I just wouldn't. 

2. Nobody would be willing to do the referee thing for very long (when this given medium for role-playing is kept in mind). I mean, I wouldn't want to do this at all if I were a player. People lose track of PMs all the time. I would know, I am one of many. As there are others that PM them for things all the time on Elliquiy (solo role-play pitches, staff disciplinary nudges, plot discussion for ongoing role-plays, general chit-chat, etc.). One 'lost' PM stops the entire party in a scenario like that (that is, if I am understanding it right). The only alternative is off-site messaging systems, such as Discord. While I have and use Discord, not everyone does. To have this as a prerequisite would only limit possible players all while system games are already niche (and nigh-impossible to sell) on Elliquiy as it is.

3. Third, the referee proxy would absolutely throttle the pace down for all players involved. If it is just two people soloing in an "arena/match" thread, the pace can go as long the actual players are available to keep it going until it is concluded. However, if you add an arbitrary third wheel, role-playing stops entirely once the referee is unavailable... even if they are just calling it a night. This would further choke the pace of the game considerably. There are many instances of potential chaos that this could cause where it just wouldn't be tenable. Not for DWD, anyway. The PM 'Officiating' idea sounds feasible until one evaluates everything that can go wrong with it. Not to mention, it is more fitting for a wrestling RP. Date with Destiny is not limited just to pro-wrestling gimmicks. This is somewhat closer to something more like Dead or Alive or Street Fighter, where all sorts of fighters are on the scene, not just pro-wrestlers.

4. I don't want my OOC chat flooded that stuff. I want OOC to focus more on player interaction within the group, not carrying the burden of a combat log. Can you imagine trying to ask other players for matches (or some other character interaction) and have it be drowned in a bunch of constant "Christy rolls X, John rolls Y. So-and-so wins round Z..." everywhere? It would be distracting for me when trying to interact with other players and... chances are, there are people I know that would likely feel the same way. Not to mention, I am sure it would also be tedious to have to actually fish around through OOC (and every time) so that they have to reference these results. It risks too much of the natural flow in the game being stagnated by the sort of infrastructure being proposed, here.

Edit: ALTHOUGH, speaking of referees and officiating... you have given me an interesting idea for something else I could work in the system later. 

5. Finally, I'd rather not drastically change the flow or pace of the system I have been putting in place (and certainly no more than I already have in the past).

So, while I do appreciate the suggestion... I am afraid I'm going to have to pass on turning my game into (at that point, it would essentially be) Shadowrun. I love Shadowrun's world, but I find it's system wouldn't be ideal at all for this game's intended pace. My "d20-3E lite homebrew" scheme, at least, didn't bog the game down too much. However, something like this most definitely would, unfortunately.

But I am still leaning on a dice pool system mixed with what I already had in place before.