DOOM The Forum Game ACT ONE: Escaping the Flames

[Kasrkin Seath]

You dont know how it happened, but it did, all hell broke loose in the twin cities of Romeron and Port Carmack, quite literally in fact. The entire Mars colony program was now in danger, soldiers and security forces were locked in a desperate battle against the tide of demonic entities pouring out of the military base and against the former civillians and comrades while they tried to evacuate those who remained out of the hundred-thousand colonists.

You are one of those colonists...
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Okay, now that the really crappy opening thing is done I\'ll tell you what is going on here. Its DOOM, or at least a forum game set in the DOOM-Verse. It is a cross between an RPG and a TBS(Turn Based Strategy) but you only control one character. The game campaign will tell what happens to the relatively new colony on Mars after UAC goes and *** everything up again(like usual). I dont think I really need to explain what DOOM is, you should know.

The RPG Elements -
Levelling and Experience - There is experience given for every monster you kill, for finding secrets, etc. Experience goes straight into going up levels.

There is another type of experience, Weapon and Item specific experience. If you just got a Machine Gun, you will suck at using it. Hold it and use it long enough and kill enough, you will get teh hang of it and become better at using it. This applies to most weapons and items, however it effects different items in different ways.

A list of item specific experience and effects will not be given(mainly because I dont want to tell you) but I can assure you the more you use something, the better you will get at it.

Roleplaying - Its part RPG, and the RP stands for Roleplaying, so play the game like you are a character in it. Alot of what happens will be through a description-decision format(basically, I describe situation, you decide what to do; alot of the game will happen OUTSIDE of combat), so long as you are not in combat there will be no maps outside of the meta-map. There are firendly NPC\'s as well, and I would advise communicating with them. BTW, most of them operate on a Dont Ask-Dont Tell policy, if you dont ask, they wont tell. WHat you do will also have an effect on the outcome of the game.


The TBS Elements

Combat - Combat is where the TBS elements appear. Combat occurs on a grid like map. Based on an initiative roll, players and monsters will fall into an order for turns. Turn\'s are divided into Move actions and Action actions(to lessen confusion, just think of turns being Move/Action).

Move action - A few things can occur during a move action, a player can open a door(which takes all remaining move actions), they can actually move or they can forfeit their move(moving incurrs an accuracy penalty)

Action - Actions incorporate so many things that they will not all be listed. Actions include activating switches, switching weapons, attacking, etc. An important part of the Action is the ability to use it to Search or Observe.

When you search, you have a chance of any nearby secrets being revealed to you(if you try to open a random wall like a door, it actually could open, the action just reveals it to you)

When you observe, you can detect noisy monsters through listening, detect hard to see monsters or focus on a specific enemy to learn more about it.

EXAMPLE OF COMBAT/MAP
Start Turn


Turn 2


Turn 3


Terrain Types
Floor - Safe to walk on, doesn't move or do anything in peculiar. There are multiple types.

Wall - Impassable terrain that cannot be shot or seen through

Elevation Difference - Represented by a black line, the square with the line is higher than the adjacent square.

Door - Doors are silveryish grey in color and look like almost like a switch on-screen. The bar on the right indicates the type of door. Red, Yellw and Blue need their corresponding keys to be opened. White can be opened without any keys, or may require hittinga switch to open. Black represents an unopenable door, which functions much like a wall does.

Damaging Floor - An area that can be traversed but damages the paler while they do. They will often have a distinct appearence.

Lifts - Functions like a section of floor that raises and lowers between different elevations.




Keep in mind one thing - the weaponry and ammo system, plus health and damage are taken straight from DOOM. It will take the EXACT SAME amount of bullets to kill an Imp as it does in DOOM, the same number of shotgun shells to finish off that Hell Knight, the only changes are some new weapons and new items that can be used, as well as the addition of Attributes which effect some aspects of combat.

As for now, this is all you need to know. The rest will be told when needed and when I decide to metaphorically \'get off my lazy ass\' and add it to this post. All the essentials for now are here though.
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Baron of Hell(DM) - Kasrkin Seath
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2. death no more
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9. Arbiter Mereel
10. Tiny Tim

[capn qwerty]

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[Death no More]

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[XNate02]

ill give it a shot

[Nocbl2]

I SHALL SIGN UP

[dragoon9105]

Ill probably join up in act 2 as im going to be away for a few days.

[Kasrkin Seath]

it will be more than a few days before you get anywhere near act 2, but youc an really join in at any time

[dragoon9105]

kk put me on standby or something i'll join up when i get back

[PiEdude]

I didn't read any of this thread.

Where do I sign up?

[Kasrkin Seath]

okay.. thats more than enough people to get started right there, lol

[capn qwerty]

I didn't read any of this thread.

Where do I sign up?

Did you at least read the first post? If not, go read it. Right now. What part of now do you not understand?

[Angatar]

I'm playing. I was part of that test, I want to finish!

[Vtrooper]

im in

[Gold Spartan]

Count me in.

[tiny tim]

sign up!