I see in the forum that people are talking about assigning roles. I think this is dangerous talk. /tg/ projects live and die based on threads here on /tg/, not a small user-base on a forum. The moment a /tg/ project becomes disconnected from /tg/ is the moment it fails.

That said, I'm currently working on a BRP-mod to run this with. Will post it when I'm done.

BRP?

Yeah, I'm not sure about assigning roles being the main thrust of the project, but for example if the forum-people want to take charge of certain aspects, get some stuff done, and post it up for feedback, etc. I'm cool with that. It's a /tg/ project, so it'll be pushed forward by /tg/ primarily.

>>9152886

/tg/ talks a lot of talk, but a lot of the good ideas that it spawns never come to fruition due in part to the fact that it's hard to coordinate on an anonymous image board.

IMHO, a project like this needs a "base of operations" of sorts, such as the forum, to record and brainstorm, while at the same time keeping in touch with the greater /tg/ population for updates, input, and in general trying to get as many people in on the process as possible, either as designers or playtesters.

>>9153031
Its more of a assigning responsibility in hopes of getting something accomplished.

Current thinking is to have main "species" (like ants) with subclasses (worker, soldier, ???) with their own abilities. Real basic right now, but can be expanded.

Any other approaches?

>>9153103
There's precedent for 4chan projects moving off the boards and getting somewhere. Only one that comes to mind right now is Four Leaf Studios.

I would love to play this game.

>>9152886

Alright, so I've never really ventured seriously into the realms of Crunch before. So this might be completely arse-backwards but here goes:

BRP - ARACHNOPOCALYPSE STYLE

First off: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DELTG9Q9

Download that.

System's dead simple, for those who don't know it. Effectively, most stuff is reduced to rolling a d100 and aiming to get under a skill or stat multiple.

Obviously, this needs some pretty hefty modification, as would any system primarily based on people.

Firstly, I'd change stats to:

Strength: Brawn and raw muscle power
Constituion: Health, vigour and vitaility
Size: Pretty obvious
Intelligence: Problem-solving and reasoning
Power: Willpower, mental fortitude
Dexterity: Balance and deftness
Appearance: Generally only applies to members of your own species, basically, appearance and good looks
Movement: Speed and agility

Players can either roll 3d6 for each, and then look against a table saying what sort of stats a particular insect type should have, or look at the table and get set values for each stat. For example, and bear in mind, I'm not a Spider-Expert, so my stats could be entirely wrong, but hey:

TARANTULA
STR:13 CON: 12 SIZ: 14 INT: 12 POW: 8 DEX: 16 APP: 8 MOV:10

Once you've got these base stats, you have 10 points to spend to customise your Tarantula. Figures will change, but that's how I can see it working.

These stats are used to work out a variety of bonuses, best explained in the book. Mostly, they still make sense, except for Movement.

>>9153392

Speaking of which, skills!
Basic Skills: Hide, Move Silently, Spot Hidden, Listen, Insight, Foraging, Grappling, Intimidation, Negotiation
Weapon Skills: Bite, Claw, Needle, Launching
Unique Skills: Web-weaving, Trap-making. Nest-making, etc.

Basic Skills all have a yet to be decided base rate, possibly based on their stats. Characters with abilities will get unique skills to match them. Characters get a weapon skill for each attack type they have. Characters then have 100 points to spend to improve all their skills above base rates.

Special abilities are all taken from the mutations section of BRP. Characters are assigned appropriate "mutations" as befits their species

Suitable Mutations include: Adaptability, Camouflage, Group Intelligence, Hardy, Keen Sense, Luminescence, Natural Armour, Pheremone, Regeneration, Sensitivity, Venom, Wings.

Attack damage would be based on a set damage for each attack type, say: d6 for a bite attack, modified by Damage Bonus, which is affected by Strength and Size.

so what a frog is some sort of horrible monster to this setting? What about other monster types?
Will there be like insect taverns.
One other idea springs to my mind, dead bodies. Full of random insects, you can use em as a sort of hellish very deadly dungeon full of other stuff and the environment could kill you in lots of ways.

>>9153666

I imagine the undersides of rocks or the insides of logs would be the tavern-equivalents.

>>9153666
A boss fight with a dog would be kickass, just seeing a bunch of different bugs teaming up and using strategy to take it out.

>>9153666
Anything larger than a hand is probably a holy terror to face. Cat-sized and up, deadly as hell. Humans? Best run unless you spit acid and are strong as hell.

>>9152579
You guys need to make friends with these people on their forums
they are all artho enthusiasts
tell them about it, get them involved

www.bogleech.com

>>9153743

There was some Wii game that dealt with this (I think). It had a scorpion and tarantula in it.

never thought I'd see this again

here's the original thread that spawned it
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/3137124/

and another one
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/3138463/

I hazily remember an RTS where you made your very own anthill colony and had to defend it from shit, gather resources.

You mean that game system based on district 9 we did?

apparently not the game based on district 9, however shit was so cash.
i almost believed it existed too.

>>9153910
arthropocalypse predates District 9

and i always though that arthropocalypse referred to the post-apoc version with mutant bugs

>>9153890

SimAnt?

PARASITIC WASP

I WANT TO BE ABLE TO LAY EGGS IN THE LIVING FLESH OF MY FOES

>>9153933
nah people started to call the whole idea arthropocalpyse after the word was mentioned

Are we meshing aquatic arthropods with terrestrial? Or just giving them different settings and not letting them overlap?

>>9154128
Different settings for now. They're different enough to be separate worlds.

>>9154128

I imagine they'd have to be seperate, requiring different settings, with Amphibious organisms being able to go either way.

That said, it'd be interesting to throw in boss fights that go out of a given party's medium - An aquatic boss for a terrestrial group (Perhaps battle on lily pads?), and a terrestrial boss for an aquatic group (A lizard has blundered into your pond - Kill it before it can get to the shore!).

>>9154197
There's some critters that can go back and forth: bugs that walk on water and diving spiders come to mind.

There's just so much you can do with either biome, they're both rich in life.
Damn. Now I want to play a hermit crab wearing a can covered in nails.

You are crazy, those caterpillars are all messed up in the head. They are either getting high on deadly fungus, eating or sleeping.
You don't need to be in that kind of company.

>>9154322
But when they become a butterfly that throws crazy dust around, they become awesome.

>>9154322
Some of them are toxic, etc. thanks to their crazy noms. Others have bristles, etc. and might be a good way to guard your flanks.

Out of curiosity, what would people want to see in such a game?

>>9154534
Dungeon crawl and other tabletop classics in the world of the minuscule.
Suddenly a whole campaign can be fought all within a backyard.

>>9154534
Ability to play as all sorts or real species would be the big one. It's what got me into the 'we gotta make this game' thing.

I can imagine an earth worm loaded with tons of bags and such like a mini caravan maybe two or three of these guarded by the party.

Must do a campaign where ants are getting infected with fungus.

Fucking Zombie ants. Tell me this shit aint neat.

>>9154683
Aphids kept as livestock and defended against aphid rustlers.

>>9154683
I would love to see the role of worms in this game.

>>9154810
Livestock or part of the scenery maybe.

yeah earth worms as cargo animals, caravans. Other types of worms maybe something else.

>>9154810

Psychotic attack commandos, obviously.

OP, is that an Elephant Hawk moth? I think I've had one of those flutter into my room once, fuck, I can't remember for shit.

>>9154956
No idea. It's tiny, look at the finger in the pic though. I grabbed it for my D'awww folder from /tg/ a while ago.

>>9154975
I just thought because it's pink and that's the only pink moth I know they might be one the same, damn that just bugging the hell out of me (no pun intended).

so is this thread archived? some one should submit it.

>>9154956
That is a rosy maple moth, native to the eastern united states. Should be hatching out soon where I live.

>>9155215

>>9155215
Your bugs are so colourful. If anything's that bright over here, it's usually a sign not to go near, let alone have it on your finger.

Ausfag here, if you didn't know.

>>9155469
You live on a fucking deathcontinent. 99% of shit is deadly and trying to eat your ass

>>9155469
I trade the moth for warm winters and coral reefs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dryocampa_rubicunda
They are a small relative of the lunar moth.

>>9155522
Yeah. It's great.

"Jack jumper ants cause more deaths in Tasmania than spiders, snakes, wasps, and sharks combined."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_jumper_ant

Tasmania is the *safe* part too :P

>>9155561
How have I never heard of these before? Damn.
Sure is nice living in Michigan. Winter kills everything dangerous.

>>9155215
meanwhile...

Polyphemus Moth.

HAVE. YOU. SEEN IT?

>Rosy Maple Moth? more like CUTE CUTE CUTE HHHNNNGGG!

>>9155618
A quick look at Wikipedia makes the weather out to be fairly similar in Tasmania and Michigan. So our deadly species are just hardier :P

>>9155561
i hope those things don't jump. Jesus fuck.
I just imagined a swarm of jumping ants ganging up on you.
Jumping on you everywhere...

>>9155882
They jump. It's in the name.

Can I join in? I make cyanide and smell like almonds.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/9152579/
for future reference.

>>9155882
Oh, they jump. "Their characteristic jumping motion when in an agitated state gave them their name."

On topic, what system should we use. If everyone wants to file into http://arthropocalypse.forum-motion.com/crunch-f3/system-d-t5.htm and vote, I've set it so you should be able to vote as a guest.

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

what happened, did everyone fall asleep :/

>>9156599
Dunno, I'm chilling at the forum.

>>9155451

I would eat that moth if it weren't a moth. I see those every once in a while where I live.

Did you guys ever contact the artho enthusiast guys?

We have a forum! Hot damn!

asdfg

Needs moar Tarantulas

I'd rather play that baking RP that we had a roll thread about a while back...

>>9155561


Ants that are deadlier than SHARKS?

Alright, that's it. I give up. Mother nature wins.

>>9157629
The bit it doesn't mention is that no-one goes swimming in tasmania. Not in the ocean anyhow. It's England, but bigger and with more sharks. There are some scenic waterfalls with rock pools though, if you don't mind the cold.

>>9155692
Polyphemus Moth? They wont be out to mid may.

Bump for nighttime /tg/.

im on the forums now. I'm the guy trying to push a variation on Dogs in the Vineyard for character creation. Hope i'm not being a bitch.

>>9159482
Nah, more ideas the merrier.

BUMPAN'

-bump-

The Colony Ship Pequeno had finally reached it destination after countless light years of travel. While the ships hull had kept the countless passengers safe, the cryo vats had glitched somewhere along the journey. ANy technology, regardless of how advanced it is, if left alone, will eventually fail, and the cryo vats had failed in a way that none had detected. The vats would pump chemicals to keep the passengers alive, but now, they had also mutated them. Their once soft skin had hardened, their eyes bulged out from their original locations, and their ears had extended in directions. They were human, but they were now insects. As the rest of the systems activated, they rejected their occupants, and ejected them onto the surface of their new world.

With no equipment, tools, or even the familiarity of Earth, they went their own ways on a new, more dangerous world.

But what of those on the ship that remain un-mutated? And for what reasons did they build the colony ship?

>>9152579

>>9161015
Oh wait, that's not how it happened.

A scientist for the military, crackpots that they are, decided that instead of following proper procedure, dumping the chemicals down faucet was okay.

They teach you not to do this at home, at school, and in your first chemistry class, but this was a military base, and it was for the purpose of getting to the SCIENCE! faster. Surely, the military wasn't so cheap as to invest in a water purification system in case such things happened, all the people there were smarter than that, right? RIGHT?

Of course you'd be wrong, it's the military. Now the insects near the base have developed sentience, but this only makes things harder for the little guys, for now they can truly understand the concept of fear. They can understand hate, and they can understand the feelings they get from killing each other.

It's up to you and your ragtag group of chitinous allies to make the world, or at least the three square feet you call your universe, safe for yourself and your families. Do you have what it takes?

No-one knows how it happened. There a stories about the huge-mans, and their world of giants, but they're just that, stories. But now you're aware. More then your parents were, something is new. And it's a rapidly changing world. Bugs now gather under logs to tell stores and trade, ants sell protection in return for food, and enterprising bugs now travel around trading food and information, living on their wits and instincts in this new world. . .

http://arthropocalypse.forum-motion.com/forum.htm

BAMP

>>9152579

I don't usually find bugs cute but THATS A FUCKING ADORABLE MOTH

Interesting, bumping this in hopes of further progress on this project.

>>9164328
no love for cutespider?
>>9164318

>>9164451
We need /tg/ to cast its vote:
http://arthropocalypse.forum-motion.com/crunch-f3/system-d-t5.htm

>>9164508

You mean the photoshopped creature? If it needs help being cute, ITS NOT CUTE.

>>9164328
Wew'll I nevah!

>>9164561
It didn't need help, the original is pretty D'AWWWW, photoshop helped it anyways.

>>9164561
>>9164693

>>9164708
Awwww! It's just like a little conjoined miscarriage!

It's kind of funny that we find pairs of large, forward-looking eyes cute and sympathetic when they're the mark of a fearless, aggressive predator.

>>9164879
THAT'S WHAT THEY WANT YOU TO FEEL BEFORE THE FANGS STICK IN YOUR FACE

>>9164896
D'aww look at the cu- AUUGH!! AAAARRRGH!!!

This is your character

>>9165353
Kung-fu mantis wanderer. WATAAHHHHH

>>9165353
This is your BBEG

>>9152579
>>9161088
Is your caster

>>9165398

...

I want to run a campaign that takes place in a terrarium now.

>>9165432

FEEDER CRICKETS FROM THE PET STORE IN A SURVIVAL CAMPAIGN AGAINST A LEOPARD GECKO

FUCK YEAR

Deadly Creatures!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wldnQPctFKA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnnGin60bXo

If your reaction to those videos is "fuck yeah", then you will probably enjoy Arthopocalypse.

>>9165501

>Feeder crickets
>Leopard gecko

How exactly do you win?

>>9165550
Choke it with your fallen sisters?

>>9157281

>>9165353
guys!

GUYS!

I JUST GOT PROMOTED!

HUZZAH!

>>9165622
I know matt, we all just leveled up. Except Jim, he has to reroll. Pic related.

>>9165571

Nah, you hope the DM isn't a dick, and gives you someplace to drown it.

If that doesn't work, then suffocate it when it sleeps.

>>9165550
If my gecko is any indication you fill yourself full of parasites and then get eaten.

She'll eventually starve to death or at least cost her owner a lot of money with trips to the vet.

>>9165709

Mine just starved ;_;

Athena, how I miss you...

>>9165744
She won't even eat the gecko food slurry I made for her. She hasn't eaten a damn thing in like a week and a half. I'm sad.

>>9165744
Motivation for the next BBEG now your characters are epic level.

>>9165759

Force-feed her with an eyedropper if you have to.

>>9165759
:(
Try the vet yet?

>>9165776
The eyedropper isn't working and I'm not going to risk injuring her by prying her mouth open and shoving it down her throat. Another visit to the vet is in order, that's all.

>>9165781
Been and gone. She had flagellates in her gut and she was tube-fed some antibiotics. The doctor said they could be the problem or just a symptom of it. Looks like it's the latter case, unfortunately, because she's still not eating and she's doing weird things like sleeping in her water dish. I gave her a warm bath to try and soothe her indigestion. She didn't enjoy it but she's stopped sleeping in the water.

I need to get her to another vet, though, because the herp specialist who treated her last time is as far as I know still on vacation. I hope she improves soon. This is what she looked like late last year. I want to see her like this again. (Minus the toe she seems to have chewed off. Don't know what happened there.)

>>9165759

Had something similar happen to one of my geckos. Vet gave something specific for it, don't remember exactly what, had to force feed it to her. Ended up having some internal organ or something turning colorful and visible through her belly right before she died. Might want to take her to a vet before it gets worse.

>>9165759
What do you use for bedding in her cage? Could she have ingested it and bee bound up?

>>9165855
Slate tiles, with calcium sand filling the cracks. There's not really enough sand in the cage for her to get impacted with. I've gone through all the possible causes and an infestation of some sort seems to be the issue. Just need to wait for the animal clinic to open up so I can give them a call.

Odd that I posted a thread in /an/ asking for advice and nobody gave a shit, but when I come into /tg/ and post about her everyone wants to talk to me.

>>9165893

That's because /an/ is quite possibly one of the slowest boards on 4chan.

also you need to be careful about that, if she goes malnourished for too long her bones become very brittle, and if you're force feeding you could easily fracture the skull or jaw. fuck i need to go feed my carpet python

>>9165893
She hasn't been wheezing or sneezing has she? My ball python went of feed for a while and the vet trip revealed pneumonia

>>9153890
Battle Bugs?
Sim Ant?

>>9165944
She's been sleeping and that's it.

Bump'de'dump