I wholeheartedly support your continuation of this enthralling setting. However, it must be a requirement that your players are at least buzzed while playing, otherwise it shall appear to seem shallow and pedantic. Good day.

if the extreme dude is in fact of crustacean origin, as your pic leads me to believe, then all of my internets.

I do in complete earnest declare this very thread sanctioned for the use of gentlemanly vernacular, and as the younger generations so repetitively put it, "swagger". As such, I implore all future posters to observe this decree and consider sharing their thoughts and opinions of the matter presented to us in such manner.

Okay, just to continue on background; the game, if my handwriting is decipherable, is CRAB NICHOLSON'S EXTREME SLEEPOVER ULTIMATE BOARDGAME SURVIVAL ADVENTURE. I may trim that down, but considering it was written entirely in capitals, underlined twice, and circled with what appears to be purple ink, I think I have to leave it.

Basic mechanics are as follows; players choose from among several attendees to a sleepover at Crab Nicholson's home, including;
Steve, Death's Apprentice
Van Wizard
Darlene the Gnome
Mike
Partybot X01

Each player starts with three health, a speed stat (how many spaces they can move), and a special ability. Some of these are downright illegible; apparently, Mike has the ability to "Sleepy robot understand" with about three question marks after it.

Players attempt to survive the swinging moods of Crab Nicholson, as well as kill each other off, so that they're the last ones to survive until morning.

>>17183871
I do believe we have a winner here

>>17183871
At the start of each turn, a player draws a card from the ACTION deck. This contains events, such as tricking Crab Nicholson into leaving the room, regaining health in a certain room, or other special effects that move you around.

Some cards are red (if I'm reading this right); they change Crab Nicholson's moods. The available moods are;
Party Hard!
Running Around!
Everyone Get In Here!
Heeeeeeere's Crabby!

I have no idea what I meant by this. I'm assuming it means that he'll attack people, give bonuses to people, and other such items.

Players can also find equipment scattered through the map, by stopping on a space with the equipment symbol. They can carry two pieces of this equipment, called SWAG, which is taken from a separate deck. It can give health, make you harder to hit, and do other random things, like giving Crab Nicholson/other players cocaine.

Hitting another player involves rolling d8s; I don't know if I should have some stats to compare to, or if they should just have a straight roll-off, modified by any random equipment they have.

kinda reminds me a little bit of "13 Deadend Drive"
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1899/13-dead-end-drive

but i like the idea of having this completely unpredictable crab nicholson going about acting like an ever changing variable

>>17183951
I assume that "Heeeeeeere's Crabby!" would be psychotic axe murderer mode, like The Shining?

That's really all I've got, aside from a crudely-scrawled map. It involves several locations, including;
Bedroom
Bathroom
Crab Nicholson's Cave of Awesomeness
The Secret Sex Grotto
Hallway of Creepy Portraits
The (W)rec(k) room
Crab Nicholson's Gallery of Arms and Armor
The Kitchen
Wine Cellar

With some terrible drawings of a board on there. I also doodled what appears to be a spinner with some indecipherable phrases on it, although I have no idea where I was going with that.

So, I think I have an idea, although I paused at one point to write out all the lyrics to "Puttin' On The Ritz", and scrawled out a shit-ton of event card ideas.

I fully support this and swear to any supreme being(s) that may/may not exist depending on your beliefs and/or logical evidence that I will get my friends together and playtest this while drunk off our asses.

>>17183980
Your guess is as good as mine. I also started trying to sculpt him out of Kneadite, although it's really just a poorly-made crab with a dude's head on it.

Seriously, what the fuck was I thinking, and do I need to keep with this?

>>17184009
I'd say you should. Also,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7JB68sLGY8

>>17184009
yes goddamn it YES

>>17184009
Yes. Keep up with this. Like I said. I will promise to play any playtest you come up with of this, whilst drunk to get all the proper effects of this

crab nicholson's behavior and/or movement could be influenced by a spinner!

everyone loves spinners

>>17184067
All right, I need to figure out how to make a spinner.

Question; would people prefer different 'stats', like 'Attack' 'Defend' and 'Speed' for all of the characters, or should I just make it a roll-off, modified by the SWAG players find throughout the game and any events influencing the game? I'm debating between the two.

>>17184101
If speed is different between characters I see no reason not to give everyone separate stats. Otherwise whoever has the most equipment mojo dominates every fight

>>17184101
http://rotationhelp.com/rotations/games/wheel/instructions.html

If you're going to do it, do it well.

There is not enough money in the world for me to give you for this game

>>17184138
Okay, good. I'll work on balancing this shit, and then report back when the test version is done.

Seriously, I'm never drinking again after this shit. Or I'm drinking more. I'm not entirely sure what this is a sign of, beyond "drinking leads to strange decisions".

Can someone like screencap this entire thread when it's done, or archive it or some shit? This is going in my special folder when we have a full game.

Also; if anyone has any suggestions, I'd love to hear them. I have no fucking idea what I'm doing here, and it is clear that this project was delivered unto me by a divine power while I was deep in my cups. It is my solemn duty to finish it, and I will do so to the best of my abilities in the coming weeks.

>>17184161
Drink the same amount. Come up with more awesome ideas.

OP is like that guy in old science fiction stories who could only build incredibly advanced robots when he was drunk.

I suppose once I'm done with exams I can just get really loaded and come up with ideas for this.

Not really sure what useful stuff you'd get out of me, but I'd happily donate whatever drunken shit I come up with

>>17184161
You must drink more, clearly you have the spirit of crab nicholson in you.

>>17184233
What you need is multiple spinners. cause and effect spinners that change the story. Such as cause[Crab Nicholson killed the pizza guy] then effect [police arrive. Everybody hide/get outside]. Also you need to draw up an outside as well, such as Crab Nicholsons gnarly Garage/Divine driveway wombo combo and Crab Nicholsons Bodacious Backyard.

Spinner should definitely control crab nicholson. It could determine what room he's in or how many many spaces he moves. The spinner should also control when you draw a new mood card.

Maybe each player can move their SPEED in a turn, but then they get to spin for the crab, so they can fuck over other players by moving him around or whatever.

Also, drinking should be a part of this game. Handing out drinks to apponents, getting drinks via cards, etc. You can have rules for determining who goes first via drinking games before you actually bust the board out. Could also determine starting swag. If so, make sure the board is waterproof

All right, I've managed to piece together exactly what I drank last night, by consulting a friend of mine, whom I started the evening with.

>We began around 8:00, after finishing some studying, by polishing off a 12-pack of hard cider
>Two bottles of imitation Champagne was located and consumed
>At this point, we went to a small party a friend was throwing. An unknown quantity of shitty beer in cups was consumed; apparently, seven games of beer pong were won in a row by us, including a shut-out.
>We proceeded to take shots for a short period of time; numbers vary based on witnesses
>We were finally kicked out after I seized control of the DJ station, began scratching over some Propellerheads, and freestyled about how someone named Sarah was a bitch
>Upon arriving back to our apartment, vodka was consumed in unknown quantities; there is an empty bottle of Icelandic vodka in my freezer, with a two-dollar bill in it.
>More cider bottles are emptied, three broken pencils are found in the bathroom, along with the aborted sculpture of Crab Nicholson

This is what happened last night, as I have pieced it together today. I'm not sure how I'm alive, if I'm still drunk, or if this is a hallucination.

>>17184349
Honestly, I feel like the best way to do that would be with a list of possible drinking games to play with it. For instance, if you ever begin your turn more than 6 spaces from CRAB NICHOLSON you drink

You can make it so they can even roll 2d8 or something to determine which drinking game they should play with it

>>17184399
This way no one knows which character will work best for the given drinking game until after they've picked who they are.

Characters could also have a second "PARTY HARD" ability that's in effect only as part of the drinking game.

>>17184385
That's a helluva bender.

>>17184399
An excellent idea, but it might make the game take forever.

Is there some way to attach blank white cards to this? Maybe have the players make the "party foul" deck each time you play.

>>17184399
There should probably be drinking and non-drinking variants of this particular game. I feel like it could be fun to play even when people aren't drunk.

The outside will be necessary, if only to make the BARBECUE HELMET make sense. Cops showing up could be an event; the need to scatter.

Tiny crabs; good idea, or what? I feel like a bunch of crabs running around, assaulting players in the name of their father might be a bit much.

>>17184399
also, I like the idea of trying to balance your distance from nicolson. If you're too close he forces you to drink. If you're too far away he starts screaming at you and tries to shoot you with his handgun because he thinks you're hitting on his woman. Where you want to be is largely dependant on his current mood card.

>>17184437
crab nicholson probably has crabs from fucking fugly hookers. make it an event card.

>>17184463
Bitches are already an important part of this game.

Bedding one of Nicholson's Hot Crab Prostitutes in the Bedroom/Sex Grotto/Hallway gives you back a point of health. If Nicholson sees you doing this, he immediately attacks you for disrespecting his women.

I have no idea where most of this is coming from. It's as though I'm channeling a divine force, and it flowed into my notebook last night.

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Assuming my liver can take it, I will try and replicate the conditions that led to the creation of this game next week, when I have finished most of my grading for the semester and have little else to do. In preparation for this, I will acquire a large case of hard cider, a bottle of vodka, pencils, some crabs to steam, and perhaps some tequila.

I only pray my death does not result.

>>17184433
I was thinking that the drinking game would just be determined at the start and stay constant throughout the whole thing

Party fouls would be a good. You could have one called "Fuck it, we'll do it again" which forces whoever drew it to finish their drink and then roll for a new drinking game. The game proceeds using that drinking game rather than the one it was using before.

>>17184578
You'll be good. Really, if you can do that without getting alcohol poisoning, you're fine. It's not like you don't do awesome things when you're drunk.

Though if you ever wake up with all your clothing on minus your boxers (which you never find again), please don't blame me for it. That happens sometimes.

Once you get what you need puzzled out, post it on /tg/, we can get drunk as shit and come up with new events or gear

You are on to something... needs more drinking

Players will need to remain fairly close to Crab Nicholson. In the drinking game variant, they will be penalized for failing to maintain proper partying distance. Another penalty will be determined for the non-drinking version.

As for drinking games . . . I think a unified ruleset is more in the vision of this game. You're going into a known quantity, ruled by the whims of fate and Crab Nicholson, noble knight of fate and partying. Other players can penalize you, force you into drinking, and cause problems, but otherwise, you know exactly what's going to happen the moment the dice first hit the board and Crab Nicholson first bursts forth from the box.

This game will hopefully work; I've already contacted a graphic designer to help me with board graphics for the test version, which we will discuss while I'm getting work finished on a tattoo this week.

Well, thank you for your help, /tg/. I will continue on this quest, and hopefully create something I can be proud of. Now, sleep is my best option, as I need to teach tomorrow, and I suspect that this hangover won't go away until then.

If anyone has anything else they want to exist in this game, let me know; I'll check to see if this is here before I head in to work tomorrow. Dealing with children while hungover is never fun, but at least I have something to sketch out when I'm not teaching.

>>17185037
What do you teach?
And please, do deliver when you finish!
It will be awesome
I know it will take time, but probably some day i'll be browsing suptg and find the archived thread with the test system