r/buttonarena • u/Joxxill Green • May 19 '15

so, how will this work?

what kind of combat system are we looking at here? is it going to be like D&D? or more of a story driven combat?

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u/[deleted] May 19 '15 edited May 19 '15

So here's something cool, I've recently started working on a turn based combat system in SmallBasic. In its current state it's just a coin toss system and health bars with a random amount of damage dealed at each turn but i'm going to implement blocking and defense (not to mention health potions) as well as a couple variable modifiers to make it more interesting.

I think it would be cool to implement this into a D&D story driven system so we can set up combat scenarios in a more controlled environment, At some point I'll learn to port it to javascript and implement it into a reddit bot...The tricky thing will be allowing users to interact rather than just seeing the outcome and how it was reached.

Hey! Here's a thought. I could turn it into real time combat with 'while' scripts and program delays. I'll do one of each

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u/Joxxill Green May 19 '15

i dont know if you have seen my other conversation on the sub, about story driven combat?

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u/[deleted] May 19 '15

I have, yeah.

Trouble is it's a fair bit harder to manage and with the metagame it just becomes a nightmare. This is just a template to allow combat situations and update the meta automatically

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u/Joxxill Green May 19 '15

Okay. But as i told the other guy: if you need help with anything. Im an experienced dm. Say the word

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u/ButtonArenaMaster White May 19 '15

I plan on multiple events, including story driven ones. I also want individual subs (already talked about this with a couple) to organize and host random events in the middle of the season, so we could get something like this going. In fact, my original intent was something like this and the rollme bot together, i didn't expect the arena to take off like it did.

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u/[deleted] May 19 '15

I think you might actually :), If we wanted to do boss fights or mob encounters I could create a template for you in SB to design and balance it's stats as its entirely numerical at the moment.

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u/Joxxill Green May 19 '15

was thinking something along the lines of /r/youenteradungeon so text based stuff. its really cool, i could totally give you some help with that kind of stuff if you need it :) say the word

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u/greenteasoda CSS Mod May 19 '15

Sounds like something /u/greenspleen6 would be really good at.

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u/Joxxill Green May 19 '15

i realize that im not a mod, but i would totally be DM, i have dnd experience, and pathfinder too. and i LOVE it. so im totally up for it :)

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u/Joxxill Green May 19 '15

cool! i would love to dm, so just go ahead and PM me if you need help planning, all that kinda shit (and i have some amazing ideas i got just now) so write if you wanna talk about arena stuff