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I'd have to say that Idol wins in the suggestion department, since he included a suggestion in how to deal with it all.

Talent show? Obstacle course? Whatever else that isn't direct physical competition (like arm wrestling) could easily be taken care of with a panel of judges scoring people on the quality of their submission.

For example, back in '03 I had a thread set up with an obstacle course. I'd sign people up to run it, each would write a big long post about how they went through, and then 2-3 judges would give them a score based on performance/creativity/hilarity/etc. and that would decide the winner.

I think something like that would work just fine for all those 'showcase your talent' competitions. But like I said, things like arm wrestling would have to be different... no idea how that would work in some fair system. It'd just have to be decided ahead of time unless people wanted to throw back and forth posts of "UUUUUNGH! I PUSH HARDER!"



Lulu and X make real music. Enki's a real DJ.

Plus there's always choreography people can try to RP if they want to get some kicks/think people will get some kicks from reading it.

But yeah. It's pretty stupid to have people RP getting up on stage, and then follow it up with a post that says "AND THEN THERE WAS MUSIC."

Yeah.

As best I can figure, though, things like that (competitions with a prize) would have to fall to some sort of judging panel throwing up the 0.0-10.0 cards. But it would have to be gaged heavily on creativity and entertainment value, as well as realism (in respect to the character's own limitations).

If Reiko and Kana enter a strength test and Reiko lifts a bus while singing the national anthem and wearing a cape, while Hawkgrrrrrl hoists a building off the ground and blows a kiss, Reiko'd win. Likewise, if Reiko does the same, but Hawkgrrrrrl writes this -great- post about how she couldn't get the weight an inch off the ground and failed miserably, who's to say she can't get the OOC prize for a great post even if Reiko wins IC for lifting the most weight?

...which kind of goes backwards since it may reward losing.

On that note, perhaps it would be better if the quality went hand in hand with actually accomplishing the task. An obstacle course would be easy. Lifting 200 lbs over your head would be possible for most characters, with varying difficulty that should be reflected in the post. Lifting a bus is something only a few people could do, so it'd be pretty wrong if people who can't did, or people who can didn't.

...hell. Complications.

Only thing I can say is that if everything is based entirely upon whether or not the character could do it, we'll end up with a pissing contest.


On a side note, I have no doubt that Kasuga and myself would be on that panel of judges, and thus intelligible.

Assuming that every character can do everything asked of them, it'd boil down to how stylishly they can do it.

Which is writing skills.

When people are put into direct competition with each other, either it's going to be an "I CAN" pissing contest or someone's going to be ahead simply by virtue of realistic character design/talent/build/etc. Hulk wins the deadlift contest. Flash wins the footrace. That simple. But do we give out RPing prizes simply based on the fact that someone rolled higher on their alcohol tolerance? We'd have to factor in style points.

Which is writing skills.

I mean, sure, we could pull people's bios and compare them next to each other to TELL you who'd win in a contest of _______ ability... but that's boring.

Actually... I know this automatically earns a double backhand, but gaia throw in those Dice for a reason. THIS was that reason.

I've been an avid follower of D&D for some time now and if we add the dice, then everything would flow EASILY. SUCH AS: Drinking. Drinking is your characters consitution. A standard saving roll for drinking is 5 or 10, depending on the drink, thusly said person would roll the dice and whatever the roll was + CON would be how drunk they were getting. The lower BELOW the line they got, the faster they got drunk, the higher ABOVE the line is how easily they are handling alcohol.

Arm wrestling is a players strength +1d20 vs. the opposing players strength + 1d20

Now, I KNOW Reiko that you think this is a horrible idea, but I know that MOST of the people in this guild have given base stats to their characters. I have Enkis and Ravens actually ON a character sheet.

Such as, Enki would win in a drinking game because his con is pretty high, but in all actually, Enki is relatively weak compared to every other fighter here. He relies on his con and dex, mostly.

Again, I know you HATE this idea, but it's the only way it'd really work well and still be fun because the dice roll could also determine how the player would react to the situation. And, of course, natural 20 = auto win. Critical Miss = Auto Fail!

A LOOOONG ******** time ago

Since before I've been around.

So... at least 3 years?

Mr. Crawley says, thou shalt not feign modesty.

Isn't Tomorrow some sort of lightning god?

Storywise, I doubt that you or anyone can move faster than him, except for Reiko.