Man, I would KILL for a Bill and Ted game.

>>18389523
Here is your party

More reasonable then most anyway.
>>18389523
Billy, you are adjusting to the oddities of Time Travel most Excellently!

>>18389538
Honestly I wouldn't mind a world where air guitar was a universal greeting.

Ok ok, except the boots this armor makes sense when you realize she's a mounted fighter.

I can only seem to find reasonable armor from the waist up.

I feel that Joan reacted very well to having mysterious men appear from nowhere and kidnap her.

>>18389682
She probably thought they were Angels or other messengers from god.
She was praying for guidance in a cathedral after all.

In fact, other then Socrates understandable freakout after the first jump, all the historic figures seemed to handle it a lot better then anyone reasonably would.

>>18389713
Being 17 and naive probably helped.
They forcefully took the rest, save Khan, whom they lured in. Ok, Billy and Socrates came willingly for the most part.

>>18389782
>They forcefully took the rest
>Snagging Lincoln.
THE PRESIDENT HAS BEEN KIDNAPPED BY TIME TRAVELING BARDS!
ARE YOU A BAD ENOUGH DUDE TO RESCUE THE PRESIDENT?

>>18389800
Is that an onion?

>>18389538
>>18389523
I did have an idea for a Bill and Ted game where each of the players pick a historical figure like Elvis, Abe, Joan D Arc, who work for the Excellent future goverment.

Basicly they use their time machine to stop the forces of bogus from destorying the future in various time periods while learning to be excellent to each other.

>>18389713
I can understand Bill and Ted not knowing the ultimate fate of Lincoln or Joan of Arc but you think SOMEBODY would of said something.

"hey Abe, maybe you should stay clear of theaters. Like forever."

>>18389817
I'd play the shit out of that, it would be like Doctor Who on steroids.

>>18389817

That would be...Excellent.

This thread is now about Bill and Ted: The Awesome Adventure RPG

>>18389820
No, because paradox.

>>18389812
You know, you insult them deeply when you call them onions.

>>18389837
...Onion Knights are badass though.

>>18389820
With the exception of Billy the Kid, who was uneducated, no one was alive in the right time to KNOW what was going to happen to Abe. Maybe Freud too?
Though perhaps Napoleon should have said something to Joan...

>>18389861
Napoleon was too much of a dick to say anything.

>>18389836
Bill and Ted didn't establish paradoxes. so we do not know how attempting to change the past works in the Bill&Ted-verse.

we do know it is possible to affect the NOW simply by thinking about coming back sometime later.

All i know is that if i met Joan of Arc I would just feel terrible knowing how her story ends.

Oh god, the Saber 4chan banner just made me wonder...
How would the Grail Wars and Bill and Ted fit in with each other?

>>18389895
She gets canonized.
But yeah, I'd want to help her too. Getting raped in prison then burned at the stake for no good reason is terrible.

I honestly can't figure out if this elf is a man or a woman. I guess boobplate can have it's uses.

>>18389911 No good reason
She was a WITCH, you idiot.

>>18389917
Not... exactly.

>>18389917
The inquisition said that about everyone.

>>18389917
a witch you say?

Reasonable for a gladiator.

>>18389917
That wasn't why she was burned. She was burned for being a Heretic.
Because she refused to say that she HADN'T heard god. She was a threat to the church. (despite them HEAPING support on her before she drove back the British.)
She got the man they wanted onto the throne, but then she wouldn't step back and fade from site like they wanted. So they tortured and murdered her. A few centuries later the SAME organization canonized her as a Saint. WAY TO GO CATHOLICISM!

>>18389951
Well, that was last one I had, so now I will leave you with something completely unreasonable.

Goodnight.

>>18389917
She was burned for heresy, not witchcraft. Accusations of witchcraft in medieval Europe usually ended with the accused in jail as the Inquisition were VERY suspicious of such accusations. The majority of burnings, including the burning of Jeanne d'Arc were for heresy. And the charges were bullshit anyway, cooked up by the British as an excuse to brutally murder her.

>>18389962
Hey now, thanks for the pictures, but stick around!

>>18389949

The trial was purely a political move by those involved, I wouldn't say it's representative of the Catholic Church as a whole.

And the Inquisition overturned the Bishop's decision...but she was long dead by then.

>>18389995
All this history talk is nice and all.

But can we get back to Bill and Ted talk?

>>18390002
Ted, we didn't even brush up on this in our history report. If we keep listening, we might be able to get like... An A++!
EXCELLENT!

>>18390002
So, if Bill and Ted had decided to talke Jeanne d'Arc into not going back in order to save her from her own fate, which one would have scored, if either?

>>18389962
I can't figure out if that's her skin, but tattooed, or some lighter/more flexible metal with decoration on it. My brain keeps wiffle-waffling back and forth on it.

>>18389971
Pretty sure the guy was making a joke, yo.

>>18389995

Indeed. The court was only an Ecclesiastical Court in name. In truth it was a secular court controlled by the British and their puppet priests. A lot of the priests were serving under compulsion, not due to their own free will.

>>18390002

Agreed. History is fun but it's not the topic in question here. Clearly the Bill and Ted Time Period saved her through a series of wacky shenanigans that left everyone thinking her dead. That's why she's a time traveler now, saving all that is Excellent.

>>18390017
And is the medieval weapons instructor for the entire organization. Make it so.

>>18390014
They had the princesses. Both were faithful, and understanding. In the second movie they say that, even though it's frustrating the princesses want to wait until marriage, they understand.

>>18390017
So do you think they saved Lincoln too?

cause a crossover of TIME LINCOLN is just too good to pass up

>>18390050
Not him, but of course they saved Lincoln.

>>18389903
Hey Ted, don't we know that chick?
HEY! Hey Arthur! How's it hanging?

personally i would love to see a spin off with
Socrates and Billy the Kid.

>>18390050

Clearly. They substituted a evil robot Lincoln for the real one. Dealt with both the Evil Robot issue and the 'Assassination' issue.

>>18390065
God, they were such a great pair, weren't they?

So the game would play like the Dr Who rpg.

would the role of Doctor instead be that of Rufus?
or would it be shared by the Bill & Ted characters?

>>18390078
>>18390065

I never would of expected such a great dynamic from those two historical figures.

>>18390098

I think Rufus would be more 'Mission Control'. There is an issue that could prevent the excellent future, you get sent back to stop it happening.

>>18390108
can I play as Death?

>>18390106
It was mostly in th ebackground, but it WORKED somehow. From the football to the picking up chicks, it somehow WORKED.

>>18390118
Only if you have the Bogus Adventure expansion.

>>18390121
Bogus Journey.
Stupid Robots.

I want this crossover to happen so much it PAINS me

>>18390118
Only if you can stand to get melvined.

>>18390118
> Whether you're a king or a little street sweeper, sooner or later... you'll dance with the reaper.
Station had about a million ranks in crafting.

>>18390148
FUCKING creepy looking though.

>>18390154
STATION!

>>18390118
That image needs a caption. It's so perfect for /tg/

OK.

Let's do this.

>>18391606

C-Can we have a "Righteous" stat? It'd be your stamina!

>>18391643
>C-Can we have a "Righteous" stat? It'd be your stamina!

YES!

OK, so we're looking at a fairly traditional system so far: characters are quantified using a collection of attributes. Does this sound like a good idea, or should there only be a small number of these like "Righteous, Excellent and Gnarly" (Stamina, Charisma and Formidability) with everything else handled in another fashion?

British? Not Plantagenet? Not Anglo-Burgundian? Not even fucking English?

Joan of Arc was accused by a man named Pierre, a member of the Burgundian faction.

Butt hurt nationalist faggot with a poor understanding of the complexities of medieval politics detected.

>>18391704
You're in the wrong thread, bozo. This is the thread for the Bill and Ted RPG.

>>18391681
Does it really need it's own system? Can't we just take something that's close enough (isn't there a Dr. Who RPG floating around somewhere?) and use that?

I'd rather have a thread discussing how to actually run a game based on Bill&Ted, ideas for plot hooks, encounters with historical characters, general semblance of "what the hell could we do in this universe" than putting together yet another half-baked roleplaying system.

>>18391793
>Does it really need it's own system?
Ya know, I was going to ask that too, but then >>18391643
posted and I got too excited.

What I was *going* to say was Continuum sucks ass, and I have never played the Dr. Who RPG before. There's also Time and Temp, which is a sort of indie time-travel RPG.

We need a new thread that isn't a boobplate troll magnet.

>>18391681
I want it to be a dice pool system. Wherein you have to do something excellent, righteous, or gnarly to use those dice. You can, of course, have other dice pools, each equally descriptive.

>>18391837
>I want it to be a dice pool system. Wherein you have to do something excellent, righteous, or gnarly to use those dice. You can, of course, have other dice pools, each equally descriptive.

I like this idea. Here's a thought: every character has four dice pools: Excellent, Righteous, and Gnarly, as well as a fourth custom pool specific to your character. The Babes, for example, might have a Totally Hot pool. Joan might have an Amped pool to get crowds fired up, Socrates could have his Reason...

Feng Shui can be used for ANYTHING

I am archiving this thread. Let's keep it up!

>>18391793
>>18391828
Why don't we just take an existing system that might work, and rename it's stuff? I mean, that's pretty much all we ever do anyway.

>>18392182
But that is not nearly as fun as making an entirely new system.

If that were the first option we would have gotten to it immediately and we wouldn't have gotten all these gnarly references.

>>18389737

I'm pretty sure the scales should be overlapping the one underneath them instead of the one above them to better deflect blows coming (as blows often do) from above.

>>18392328
>I'm pretty sure it doesn't matter since she takes it off in the next picture.

>>18392328
IIRC, horseman scale was designed to protect from below. I assume she is some Rus or Byztantine cavalry bint or whatevs.

>>18392059
>I like this idea. Here's a thought: every character has four dice pools: Excellent, Righteous, and Gnarly,

Mechanics:

Rolls are made on D10s, with a target munber as the goal. a target of 3 or 4 is easy, 12-15 tricky, 22-25 tough, 30+, feindishly hard.

the pool is expended when dice are used. ie, if they're trying to get an Gnarly score of 18, and they have a Gnarly pool of 6 D10.

So, they could roll 2d10's, and hope to get 9'son both, or they could elect to burn deeper into their pool to get more chance of rolling their result. How many dice to roll is the player's choice.

However, once spent, the dice are lost. the pool is only refurbished by performing actions which are Excellent, Righteous, Gnarly, or otherwise Most Excellent, at which point their actions replenish the pool by a number deemed appropriate.

thus, it is always advisable for the players to be Most Excellent to each other, while performing Gnarly, Excellent and Righteous acts...

>>18392360
>>18392328
Also it's Lamellar rather than scales, which are typically defined by being stuck to a backing, where as lamellar is attached top each other, for what is somewhat more effective and less prone to losing chunks.

>>18392391
Radical!

I had an idea: a "To-Do" list similar to Continuum's "Frag" mechanic (which is itself just a ripoff of the to-do list from BTEA). You can add something to your personal "to-do list" and gain extra dice for your pool, but you can't gain more dice than you have in your smallest pool and you can't regain that number of burned-out dice (can I suggest "burned-out" as the term used to describe dice that are temporarily unavailable until refreshed?) until you check off that line on your to-do list. For the sake of this example, we'll say you can draw a max of six extra dice out of your To-Do List.

Example: Bill and Ted need a distraction to sneak into the principal's office:
"Hey Bill?"
"Yeah, Ted?"
"How about after we save the world (AGAIN), rescue The Babes (AGAIN), and stop this evil time-traveling dude and his totally smokin' but totally evil dudette, we come back here and set up some firecrackers to go off right before we get here?"
"That is a most excellent idea, Ted."
>Righteous but hastily-performed air-guitar solo

Ted puts "Firecrackers in teacher's lounge" on his To-Do List and gains an extra three dice for his Excellent pool. The firecrackers go off a moment later, and he uses the extra Excellent dice to sneak into the office unseen. Ted's Excellent pool is normally 10, but he gets to use 13 dice for this. He uses five (the three firecracker dice and two from his Excellent pool). Until he goes back in time and sets up the firecrackers he can only draw three more dice out of his To-Do List.

>>18392059
>Excellent, Righteous, and Gnarly
So then what do these three attributes correlate to specifically?

>>18393044
see
>>18391681

>"Righteous, Excellent and Gnarly" (Stamina, Charisma and Formidability)

>>18392391
>Rolls are made on D10s, with a target munber as the goal. a target of 3 or 4 is easy, 12-15 tricky, 22-25 tough, 30+, feindishly hard.

You know what... one downside of the Star Wars d6 RPG is having to add all those dice together to get a total. It's not *hard* per se, but it's not a very fast resolution mechanic either.

I kind of feel like we should try and come up with some kind of original mechanic that incorporates a telephone keypad.

Most Excellent Adventure is a pen and paper RPG where the players must fix possible alterations of their own timelines (which could affect the rest of humankind in the future) only armed with their wits, coolness and a phone booth.
-Simple narrative system where mistakes can be fixed by a simple travel in time.
-Your character has died? Don't worry, defeat Death in an epic duel of Twister or any other tabletop game you are familiar with.
-Meet historical figures like Socrates, Freud, Napoleon and the genius from Alpha Centauri, Station.

>>18393137


...Getting rows/colums (i.e. 123, 147, 159 etc) gives a bonus to the roll? With 2580 being a rare but awesome thing you can get.

Gentlemen, what if we created a time-traveling scenario that brought EVERYONE together?

>>18393207
There was an image floating around /co/ recently, something where the evil dude of the comic was killing off time travelers and he had a vault full of their vehicles and equipment. (Which of course were all artifacts of pop culture, the T.A.R.D.I.S., delorean, the hot tub time machine, guardian of forever, dagger from sands of time, ect ect ad infinitum.)
Does anyone happen to have that? Because it seems fairly relevant.

>>18393188
>Getting rows/colums (i.e. 123, 147, 159 etc) gives a bonus to the roll?

What if you played it like Boggle and had it so everyone would roll their pool and quickly figure out how long of a number they could dial without moving more than one key over at a time?

Ex: Bill rolls 1,1,6,8,5 and 2. He can dial this as 1-1-2-5-8-6 (a six-string number). Evil Robot Bill rolls 3,9,3,9,1,1. His longest string is two numbers (either 9-9, 3-3 or 1-1). Bill wins the whatever-they-are-doing.

This sounds kinda complicated, but I think if you had the keypad right in the middle of the character sheet it would be pretty easy.

>>18393207

EVERYONE?

>>18393250
>>18393300
EVERYONE

Each time you do a critical.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=Yx8FanC70S4

>>18393325
Star Trek/Legion of superheros crossover.

I don't think there will ever be a better time to unbox this!

>>18393429

>>18393435
How exciting!

>>18393438
Bogus!

I'm watching BTEA right now!

>>18393325
That can't be an all-inclusive list though.
Is there anything obvious that we're missing?

>>18393460
Dr. Doom's time platform isn't on there.

>>18393484
Neither any time device developed by Kang and Immortus.

>>18393183
>Most Excellent Adventure is a pen and paper RPG where the players must fix possible alterations of their own timelines (which could affect the rest of humankind in the future) only armed with their wits, coolness and a phone booth.
>-Simple narrative system where mistakes can be fixed by a simple travel in time.
>-Your character has died? Don't worry, defeat Death in an epic duel of Twister or any other tabletop game you are familiar with.
>-Meet historical figures like Socrates, Freud, Napoleon and the genius from Alpha Centauri, Station.

By the way this is totally the tagline now.

>>18393565
Sounds like a fun and simple beer and pretzels RPG.

>>18393484
>>18393511
It's co-published by DC Comics, what do you expect?

Woke up to find this thread still alive.
MOST RADICAL

>>18393968
Common sense

>>18390017
>British
>Bringing modern national identities into late medieval dynastic struggles.

Yeah, no.

Most Excellent Adventure is a pen and paper RPG where the players must fix possible alterations of their own timelines (which could affect the rest of humankind in the future) armed only with their wits, coolness and a phone booth.

Every character has four pools: Righteous (running, eating contests), Excellent (being cool, making friends), Gnarly (nut-punches, lassoing), and another stat that you make up. You have 40 d10s to split between your four pools. You can’t have more than 12 dice in any pool.

When you get into trouble you take some dice out of one of your pools (depending on what you’re trying to do) and roll them all at once. Take those numbers and try to dial the longest phone number you can without moving more than one key (horizontally, vertically or diagonally). The longest phone number wins!

Ex: Bill rolls 1,1,6,8,5 and 2. He can dial this as 1-1-2-5-8-6 (a six-string number). Evil Robot Bill rolls 3,9,3,9,1,1. His longest string is two numbers (either 9-9, 3-3 or 1-1). Good regular Bill wins!

The dice you use are burned-out until you get them back. Write the total of burned-out dice in that pool on its antenna.

You also get a free d10 for having a Bud! Every time one of your Buds helps you succeed you gain back all the burned-out dice in that pool.

>>18394344

Watch out, though: The circuits of time are full of totally evil dudes and dudettes that want to like, destroy any opposition to their complete and most heinous grasp over the whole of reality! They only have one pool called Bogus, but they get a TON of dice.

If you ever run out of dice in a pool you’re dead. But don’t worry, dude! Just defeat Death in a game of Twister, Connect Four, or any other game you’re good at and you’ll be totally back to life!

Since you’re like, an unparalleled genius at manipulating the circuits of time, you can get extra dice for putting something on your to-do list. You can have ten dice in your To-Do List.

Example: Bill and Ted need a distraction to sneak into the principal’s office:

“Hey Bill?”

“Yeah, Ted?”

“How about after we save the world (AGAIN), rescue The Babes (AGAIN), and stop this evil time-traveling dude and his totally smokin’ but totally evil dudette, we come back here and set up some firecrackers to go off right before we get here?”
“That is a most excellent idea, Ted.”

(Righteous but hastily-performed air-guitar solo)

Ted puts “Firecrackers in teacher’s lounge” on his To-Do List and gains an extra three dice for his Excellent pool. The firecrackers go off a moment later, and he uses the extra Righteous dice to sneak into the office unseen. Ted’s Righteous pool is normally 10, but he gets to use 13 dice for this. He uses five (the three firecracker dice and two from his Excellent pool). Until he goes back in time and sets up the firecrackers he can only draw seven more dice out of his To-Do List.

>>18394344
>>18394348

I went to bed back when we were still joking about this on this thread. I wake up to find character sheets, rules and campaign suggestions
I love you /tg/

There needs to be a "Bogus" stat somewhere. Maybe something you can use to make your opponent reroll their success based on it or some such.

>>18394344
Finally! A system with percentages more complicated than ORE!

>>18395171
maybe instead of "burnt out dice" the dice you use go to a "bogus dice pool" that the DM uses against you.
or maybe bogus is simply your character's weaknesses or vices. gambling, babes, ect.

just my $0.02 thrown into the ring

There should be a "No way!" mechanic in this game. It would represent the chance to save your character from a dead end situation by using of time travel awareness, like in the first movie when the historical characters are put in jail and Bill & Ted must save them.

>Come back from work.
>Thread is alive.
>Thread is totally righteous!

And now opening for Iron Maiden... The Wyld Stallyns!

I totally want to think up some ideas and such.

Bogus stat or "points" or what have you sounds like a great idea.

>>18395504
"Bogus!" Should be the alternative name for misses or basically negative points the PCs do something which is not Excellent. The GM can use those negative points in any moment for make an action fail.

>mfw not until reading this thread that I realized that making their time machine a phone booth was a Dr. Who reference

>>18395583
>Even better!

Or fail with comical results... to you know... keep that B&T tone.

I love you, /tg/. I have nothing to contribute but this most heinously small picture, discovered in ages past.

Be Excellent to one another, and party on, dudes!

>>18394344
>>18394348

Simple...but it works.

>>18395171
>There needs to be a "Bogus" stat somewhere.
Bogus is the pool that evil dudes use.

>>18395424
>There should be a "No way!" mechanic in this game. It would represent the chance to save your character from a dead end situation by using of time travel awareness
That's the To-Do List

I'm not trying to be dismissive, but does this address your concerns?

http://www.mediafire.com/?c8gcf8a4y4q67

Has anyone archived this yet? Because we really should archive this.

>>18396338

>I'm not trying to be dismissive, but does this address your concerns?

No way!

>>18396380

I... ham not shoor if you are joe-kehng.

>>18396374
>Strange Days comic

BE STILL MY HEART

This whole thread is epic.

>>18392725

I read "burned-out" as "bummed-out", but then it turned out to be "burned-out"... Make the dice "bummed-out", because that totally fits better.
Rock on this project, dudes.

As the OP of this most triumphant thread, I must express my happiness at the direction this thread took.

>>18389971
Actually it was all French or Burgandian, the English only handled the jailing and preparing the execution.

It was also an English guard who made a cross for her out of sticks.

>>18397012
>Make the dice "bummed-out", because that totally fits better.

Sheet /dialing creator here. This is a most awesome suggestion, dude!

>>18397589

Example dialing resolution from the book

>>18398167

That is most righteous.

>>18398167
>>18394348
>>18394344

I'm still a tad confused. can someone post an example of combat? or the Bill & Ted equivalent.

>>18398167
I'm worried it might be "too easy" to dial long numbers with the current rules.
Let me roll some dice real quick.
(10 sets of 5d10 dice rolls)

5,4,5,8,5
(5)
6,8,3,9,8
(5)
4,7,9,2,5
(5)
1,3,1,6,9
(3)
0,5,3,1,8
(4)
3,8,0,6,2
(5)
4,3,2,9,8
(5)
4,9,2,7,2,
(4)
6,8,1,4,0
(4)
4,9,8,0,6
(5)

Thoughts? Maybe we should remove diagonal movement?

>>18398833
>>18398833
All of those but the following can be made.
4,9,8,0,6
6,8,1,4,0
0,5,3,1,8

I think removing diagonal movement, or maybe restricting the number of times per dial, needs to be done.

>>18398833
>Thoughts? Maybe we should remove diagonal movement?

I rolled 10 sets of 5d10 and got the following string totals without using diagonal movement: 3, 2, 4, 3, 3, 2 ,4, 3, 3, and 4. I rolled again using 6d10 without using diagonal movement and got 2, 4, 6, 4, 5, 3, 3, 3, 4, and 5. I wouldn't mind playtesting this over IRC sometime either Thursday night or this weekend.

Here is a more fleshed-out example of conflict.

>>18399443
>>18399288
>>18398833

Here's a thought: What if the Most Excellent Adventurers can dial diagonally but Bogus dudes cannot?

>>18399443
question: should the # and * keys play a role?

>>18399443
I'm free -- just tell me when and where.

I can't help but suspect that the whole "dialing" mechanic won't feel as satisfying without an actual keypad to punch the numbers into -- with the appropriate sound affects, of course.
Anyone know of a flash program or something that might work as a simulation of the above?

>Thread about womens in armour
>Turns into Bill and Ted the RPG

/tg/ you give me hope in the darkest of days

>>18399579
>question: should the # and * keys play a role?

You push those both at the same time after you dial to start the time machine.

>>18399599
I have been meaning to make a Bill and Ted RPG ever since I was exposed to the wreck that Continuum is. Then /tg/ got me off my butt and working on this.

>>18399657
you know what i mean.

>>18399686
Well... if no one can dial diagonally, what if the Most Excellent Adventurers could use them to cross from 7 to 10 to 9? Even if the keys don't count as part of the number dialed it's still handier than having to roll an 8 to make use of any 10s.

Thalia, Guardian of Thraben {1}{W}

Legendary Creature - Human Soldier
First strike
Noncreature spells cost {1} more to cast.

2/1

>>18399769
Interesting character concept.
but you forgot to break down her abilities into Righteous, Excellent, Gnarly, and Other.

>this thread

Looks reasonable to me!

>>18399751
I support this idea.

I will not be satisfied until EVERYONE in this picture is stated!

bonus points for Billy the Kid and Socrates getting special bro rules

>>18400201
Oooh, that's another idea. You should be able to team up with one other person, PC or NPC, for special Bro moves.

>>18400257
Like with Billy the Kid when Bill and Ted distracted those guys?
"LOOK! It's the Goodyear Blimp!"
"I can't believe they fell for that!"

>>18400268
>>18400257
I fully support this idea!

>>18399751
Best number to roll in this system: 5,8
okay numbers: 2 4 6 7 9 10
Shit numbers: 1, 3

Based on the connections.

>>18400257
Very much so, I feel the game should be very rule light and reward creative thinking.

Like let's say that Buffalo Bill and Elvis had been sent back in time to stop some Bogus Robots when a giant T-Rex attacks! Instead of Elvis attacking, Bill attacking, T-Rex attacking, repeat, Elvis and Bill could decide to team up to stop the T-Rex. So Elvis could sing a lullaby to distract the Dino and let's say Elvis passes his CHA test by 4. Buffalo Bill could then add that 4 to his roll to sneak up behind the T-Rex to hogtie him. Such teamwork could reward the players a 'Be Excellent to each other' point.

Now as the game moves along, players build up a BETEO pool through acts of Teamwork, which they can spend on re-rolls, avoiding death or Deus Ex Machina. Now let's say Elvis and the rest of his party have been caught by Bogus-Bots. Elvis can spend a BETEO point from the pool to try and call his T-Rex friend with a song. Elvis rolls and fails the test, but then all the other players join in as back-up singers, allowing Elvis to pass test his singing test. Elvis summons the T-Rex and he starts to cause some serious Dino trouble for the forces of un-excellent.

There is the problem of running out of dice too fast, if you use 5 dice per roll and have a max skill of 12, what if upon success you regained 1/2 (Rounding up for excellence!) of the target + by how many numbers you beat it.
Ex.

Bill is going to hit on some totally hot babes to try to get them to join their quest, Bill rolls 6 dice in his excellence and gets a number string of 5, the target was 3, so Bill succeeds in talking to the babes, excellent! Since the target was 3, 3/2=2 (rounding up) + 2 because he surpassed the target.

Also, perhaps if the roll is 5+ dice and all work in a number, it's a crit success and the bummed out dice of that skill get so hyped on the EXCELLENCE that they refil to the max?

Bumping awesomeness

>>18399582


Didn't know of one, so I made one.

http://horobox.co.uk/u/ShepherdsPie_1332382970.swf

Very basic, can add more if wanted.

>>18401326
Dude.
Awesome.

>>18401326
I don't know shit about programming, so this might be a bit reaching, but would it be possible to make a display of what you've typed into it or make it so the user could type in his roll on a number pad and enter his roll that way?

>>18392394
You try writing 'Lamellar' on a phone keyboard...

>>18400257
>You should be able to team up with one other person, PC or NPC, for special Bro moves.

>>18400735
>There is the problem of running out of dice too fast

Here's what I have written so far on the subject:

>You also get a free d10 for having a Bud! Every time one of your Buds helps you succeed you gain back all the bummed-out dice in that pool.
>When two characters work together, they both try to dial the longest number they can, and the winner gets to decide how they pull off the winning action. More than two people can help you out at the same time, but you only get one extra d10 no matter how many people are helping.
>If more than one Most Excellent Adventurer is trying to succeed they all get an extra d10 (as long as they’re all in the same place or otherwise all helping out at the same time).

I don't know how much more complex this should be... I *really* don't like the idea of having a list of special combo moves (waaaaay too crunchy for this game). When I was writing this my thought was that when you were with your buds you were nearly invincible but if you're separated you will quickly be picked off, thus rewarding teamwork and penalizing lone-wolf behavior. Funny enough, I've been thinking that the RAW are *too* lenient for the Most Excellent Adventurers, since they gain back ALL their bummed-out dice in that pool when they succeed with a buddy's help.

Thoughts?

"Be Excellent To Each Other"- Player can Bum Out dice to recharge a Bud's Bummed-out dice. This only works for pools they share. Elvis can't Bum his Jailhouse Rock to be excellent to Billy's Cowboy, but he can Bum his Righteous to Be Excellent to Billy's Righteous. You can only do this when you are in the same area, in all 4 dimensions, as each other.

"Station!"- Whenever a Bogus Dude or Dudette has been forced into retreat by your most awesome actions as Buds, you are both allowed to recharge your bummed out dice from the dice that once was bogus. For each die bummed out by the Bogus ones, you can choose to recharge one of your bummed out dice. No Bud? Who's gonna share this most excellent event? Not Station.

One possibility is to use d12 instead of d10. 11 is * and 12 is #. They don't have any numeric value, and are a real bummer to get... Unless you get an 11 AND a 12. Your future self/selves come out of nowhere and lend you a most radical hand. Since this is the you of the later and not the you of the now, the Excellent Adventure Master is going to control their actions. They use a massive Radical pool to help you out.

>>18401326
Shep, this is most awesome.

>>18403386
>One possibility is to use d12 instead of d10. 11 is * and 12 is #. They don't have any numeric value, and are a real bummer to get... Unless you get an 11 AND a 12. Your future self/selves come out of nowhere and lend you a most radical hand. Since this is the you of the later and not the you of the now, the Excellent Adventure Master is going to control their actions. They use a massive Radical pool to help you out.

I was unsure about this before, but now I'm liking it more.

I have to go to work for a few hours. When I return, we shall continue this most excellent line of thinking. In the meantime, I leave you with this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVXGC896Jdw&feature=related

Another way to deal with the "running out of dice" problem is to make it so that when you succeed at an attempt, you only Bum Out 1 die. If you fail, all the dice you use are bummed out.

>>18404465
Why is this movie so damn awesome?

>>18406840
Character. It bottles the hopes, dreams, and innate bond of two high school kids in the 90s. Those of us who remember the movie coming out remember being just like them, having ambitions far beyond our means and having noone to believe in them but your friends. We live vicariously the the Wyld Stallions, as their dreams come to represent ours. Somehow, somewhere, they are going to change the world for the better. They just needed a head start. How many here have seen their youthful dreams ground to dust by an uncaring and "bogus" world? A world that drives friends apart and subjugates ambition into mindless thralldom. Perhaps, every time they do an air guitar riff, our jaded hearts do the same.

Captcha: ergiese wretched

Captcha agrees.

>>18406417
I like this one the most. It gives a slower reduction to heroism in the game, encourages more risk taking towards excellence (which is what the game is all about, anyway), and still manages to fit with the themes of the game as a whole.

Let's go with that, because failure is always an interruption, but success means you can keep on coasting through your plan.

>>18406912
I was nine years old when BTEA came out. Bogus Journey was the first movie I got to see in the theater by myself. I never looked at a DustBuster the same way after that.

By the way...

>>18400201
>>18393325
>>18393207

You guys know who else time-traveled... back to feudal Japan...

>>18407094
So, If we go with this, the rules system would go like so...

Most Excellent Adventure is a pen and paper RPG where the players must fix possible alterations of their own timelines (which could affect the rest of humankind in the future) armed only with their wits, coolness and a phone booth.

There are three kinds of characters: Excellent Adventurers (Such as Bill or Socrates), Radical Friends (Like Rufus and Future Ted), and Bogus Dudes (Like Evil Robots or the Principal). You will control one of the Most Excellent Adventurers, and one player (who presents you with challenges) controlls other Excellent Adventurers, the Radical Friends, and the Bogus Dudes. He's the Excellent Adventure Master.

Every Excellent Adventurer has four pools: Righteous (Movement), Excellent (Charm), Gnarly (Strength and Combat), and another stat that you make up to represent abilities unique to your Most Excellent Adventurer. You have 40 d12s to split between your four pools. You can’t have more than 12 dice in any one pool.

When you get into trouble you take some dice out of one of your pools (depending on what you’re trying to do) and roll them all at once. You can never take more than 7 dice out of the same pool at a time. Take those numbers and try to dial the longest phone number you can without moving more than one key (horizontally, vertically or diagonally). 10 represents 0, 11 means the "* key", and 12 is for the "# key". More on those two later. The longest phone number wins! Whoever wins returns all but one of those dice to their pool. The loser forfeits all dice used. These dice are considered Bummed-out. Write the total of Bumned-out dice in that pool on its antenna.

Ex: Bill rolls 1,1,6,8,5 and 2. He can dial this as 1-1-2-5-8-6 (a six-string number). Evil Robot Bill rolls 3,9,3,9,1,1. His longest string is two numbers (either 9-9, 3-3 or 1-1). Real Bill wins!

"*" or "#" aren't ever really a part of a phone number, are they guys? That's right, if you ever get those on your rolls, they get wasted. But if you dial "*" and "#" in the same number, you activate the phone booth, and the Excellent Adventure Master will use it to call Radical Friends to your aid! Often times, this results in your victory.

Remember, be excellent to each other, gentlemen. You are always stronger together than you are apart. If two or more of you work on the same problem at the same time, you each gain a bonus die during your attempt. If you succeed, this bonus die is the one that gets Bummed-out. Teamwork always keeps you from getting Bummed.

Like, let's say that Buffalo Bill and Elvis had been sent back in time to stop some Bogus Robots when a giant T-Rex attacks! Instead of Elvis attacking, Bill attacking, T-Rex attacking, repeat, Elvis and Bill could decide to team up to stop the T-Rex. So Elvis could sing a lullaby to distract the Dino while Buffalo Bill could sneak up behind the T-Rex to hogtie him. Since they're working together, Elvis gets a Bud die that he adds to his 4 Blue Sued Shoes dice. The T-rex has 20 Bogus Dice, and uses 5 of them to try to stay awake. Elvis strings a larger number together, so Mr. Dino starts getting sleepy. Buffalo Bill uses 4 of his Rodeo dice, plus the Bud die. T-rex is sleepy, so he can't use more than 3 Bogus dice. Easy win, Dude!

Since you’re like, an unparalleled genius at manipulating the circuits of time, you can get extra dice for putting something on your to-do list. You can have ten dice in your To-Do List. You can choose to draw upon them at any time, creating an event that must later be set up. Even if you succeed at whatever you are attempting, the dice from your To-Do List are Bummed-out until you accomplish the task.

Example: Bill and Ted need a distraction to sneak into the principal’s office:

“Hey Bill?”

“Yeah, Ted?”

“How about after we save the world (AGAIN), rescue The Babes (AGAIN), and stop this evil time-traveling dude and his totally smokin’ but totally evil dudette, we come back here and set up some firecrackers to go off right before we get here?”

“That is a most excellent idea, Ted.”

(Righteous but hastily-performed air-guitar solo)

Ted puts “Firecrackers in teacher’s lounge” on his To-Do List and gains an extra three dice for his Righteous pool. The firecrackers go off a moment later, and he uses the extra Righteous dice to sneak into the office unseen. Ted’s Righteous pool is normally 10, but he gets to use 13 dice for this. He uses five (the three firecracker dice and two from his Righteous pool). Until he goes back in time and sets up the firecrackers he can only draw seven more dice out of his To-Do List.

Watch out, though: The circuits of time are full of totally evil dudes and dudettes that want to like, destroy any opposition to their complete and most heinous grasp over the whole of reality! They only have one pool called Bogus, but they get a anywhere between 10 and 40 dice in that pool. On the flip side, there are others who are looking out for you. Those Radical Friends we mentioned, they have their own Radical pool of 10-40 dice.

If any one of your pools gets completely Bummed-out, you die. But don’t worry, dude! Just defeat Death in a game of Twister, Connect Four, or any other game you’re good at and you’ll be totally back to life! In this case, the Excellent Adventure Master will play in the place of Death. Just don't tell the grim dude, he'll get depressed.

Anyone got any valkyries?
Unfortunately, I don't.

Bumping for more Bill&Ted RPG

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B9iXY4btM829ZnlqY1RVckVRWE9nZFFETWJGa3RYQQ

Ladies and Gentlemen, a most outstanding adventure awaits.

>>18410350

The character sheet has been fixed to read "Bummed-out dice" instead of "Burned-out dice".

>>18410365

Bummed-out dice rules have been updated.

>>18410350
>>18410365

>>18410392

I will probably catch some harsh flak for this, but I did not go with the * + # = future you idea, AND HERE'S WHY:

According to my playtesters, "if all it takes is a pair you have 1 - 11/12^dice chance of getting a future clone which is like 65% at 12 dice and 40% at 6".

So to avoid having future you show up every scene, there's a mechanic that ties into your To-Do List to ensure that you cross paths with past you before the game is over.

And there you have it. I will probably try to playtest it tomorrow or into the weekend on suptg's IRC server.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand...

/tg/ got shit done.

>>18410447
STATION!

>>18410461

Station.

>>18410350
>>18410365
>>18410392
>>18410441

/tg/ you make me so happy sometimes.

>>18410365
>>18410441
The format for this looks awfully similar to that of the F-Zero RPG rulebook. Is that just the standard font and graphics library for Google Docs, or is it my imagination?

Either way, nice work. Can't wait to get in on the playtest.

>>18410516
>awfully similar to that of the F-Zero RPG rulebook

Sounds like Viral advertising to me.

>F-Zero RPG
>a /tg/ homebrew
>viral advertising
I... I don't follow.

>>18410516

Yes, I also published the F-Zero RPG. I try not to namefag when I can help it, but I guess the cat's out of the bag.

>>18410350
>>18410365
>>18410392
>>18410441
Tell me this has been put up on 1d4chan

>>18410742

I'll do it now.

>>18410742
>>18410836

http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Most_Excellent_Adventure

>mfw how awesome this all sounds

However, I do have a question. Are the players going to just be Bill and Ted or will they be able to pretty much be anyone?

Could the "San Dimas High rules!" guy be one of the player characters? What about the myriad of other stereotypical 90's high school kids?

What about the historical figures that Bill and Ted picked up? Could you instead have Theodore Roosevelt, Samuel Clemens, Leonardo DaVinci, and Harriet Tubman all time traveling and being excellent?

>>18411724
One of the sample stats is the mentioned "San Dimas High rules!"

You can be pretty much anyone.

>>18389513
Okay, so one or more of the PC have to be time travelers, or otherwise have access to a time machine. We wouldn't have a game without it.

Are the future-space-dudes and dudettes the only one with access to time travel, or can we have independent chrononauts from different time periods running around?

Assuming that the entire party wants to play historical figures or characters from the "present", how do they get their hands on a time machine anyway? How would you get the party together in the first place?

>>18412201
>"You should climb up that jagged cliff and jump off. It'll be cool!"
>"Fuck off, fire angel."

>>18412217
>"I'd catch you..maybe."
>"Fuck off, we both know you'd not."

>>18412029
You're trying to save the future from the Evil Dudes and Dudettes! That's important to the future, so you got a time machine.
They give the things out like candy!

>>18413610

>Modern day characters
>A group of friends, or future-friends, particular time-line is being threatened; which will have devastating, far-reaching consequences upon the entire world.

>Historical figures
>A few players could be from the same time-line (Samuel Clemens and Nikola Tesla, Theodore Roosevelt and William Taft, The Beatles) who's futures are threatened. Other player's characters could have 'accidently' been picked up along the way.

>Combining the two
>See the fucking movies

By the way, I now imagine Theodore Roosevelt wanting to go on safari in the Mezosoic era and Taft is his scaredy-cat partner.

>>18412029
>Are the future-space-dudes and dudettes the only one with access to time travel, or can we have independent chrononauts from different time periods running around?
I don't see why your party couldn't consist of Marty McFly, April O'Neil and George Washington.

>>18412029
>Assuming that the entire party wants to play historical figures or characters from the "present", how do they get their hands on a time machine anyway? How would you get the party together in the first place?

A representative of the Excellent future government shows up and informs you that you are vital to the safety of the circuits of time. Get cracking!

>>18415103
>By the way, I now imagine Theodore Roosevelt wanting to go on safari in the Mezosoic era and Taft is his scaredy-cat partner.

This is probably not an acceptable use of time-travel technology...

>>18412201
It took me a minute to remember why people are posting sexy armored girls in a Bill and Ted thread.

>>18415243
>By the way, I now imagine Theodore Roosevelt wanting to go on safari in the Mezosoic era and Taft is his scaredy-cat partner.

>This is probably not an acceptable use of time-travel technology...

You try telling that to Teddy.

>>18415767
Agreed, if there was a way for him to hunt dinosaurs he'd have his clothes and rifle packed before you finished explaining it to him. Hell he'd probably bring one of the smaller ones back with him to keep as a pet, not like the whitehouse wasn't practically a zoo when he was living there.

Bumping with some most excellent jams.

Glad to have thrown about some ideas.

I totally would like to be in on some playtest if we go the IRC route.

I just finished watching the movie again for the first time in quite some time.

Party on dudes!

>>18418201
Doh!

http://youtu.be/WmfnOerNYuE

>>18389529
>Saber
>Not best in cute dresses

>>18400549

/tg/.... keep being awesome, ok?

bump for righteous adventures

Holy crap, this thread is still up?
EXCELLENT!

69 dude

Still waiting on that sweet, sweet IRC playtesting.
Is there anything that needs going over in the meantime?

Most Excellent bump for playtesting goodness!

There should be a streaming of the two movies as we don the play testing.

>>18431577
Damn dude I dusted off mah DVDs and just rewatched both for the first time in years.

I showed the game to my friend, who's response was "We should play this". Help me come up with an Excellent Adventure, /tg/

1. Should Bill and Ted themselves be characters in the game? I wouldn't actually feature them, but they could certainly be referenced.
2. Time machine: given to the PCs or discovered?
3. Bad guy: Evil terminator robot? Would-be dictator starting plans to create a totally bogus future? Heinous puritan/WBC-type character who wants to destroy all Rock n' Roll forever?
4. Who are some good time-travellin' Buds?

>>18433073
>Saving Rock
This would be an awesome full on campaign hook.

And remember you could even make up characters to float in there occasionally. Like that one chick in Bogus that invented the thing I can't even begin to type out.

But for a starting. I don't know. Technically Bogus set it up like they bring a lot of historical figures to them to learn from and even go back in time. Maybe the players get stuck or somehow mess things up in the time circuit. So now they have to totally make things right most expeditiously.

Upon realizing they PCs have a knack for being excellent at righting stuff in the time circuit the most non-heinous High Council makes them troubleshooters.

Cue Saving Rock N Roll.

As with everything, skies the limit. Thats just one idea for a small to a big hook. And the Radical Friends could be ANYONE. I would go for like the first movie, something that would be sorta comical. Lightness is obviously a centerpoint to the theme of the movies. Keep it rolling. Give them friends who would probably be a little comical, confusing, or even bumbling.

Its a Most Excellent Adventure dude. Make it yours!

>Station

>>18433073
>>18433281
I really liked the idea of historical characters banding together to save the future. I agree with the idea about
>that one chick in Bogus that invented the thing I can't even begin to type out
(Miss Ria Paschelle, inventor of the statio-phonic oxygen amplifier). I was thinking that while most PCs will be drawn from OUR past, anyone born before 2688 is fair game, which includes Ms. Paschelle.

Re: modern-day characters. Keep them low, is my advice; maybe have one of The Beatles that's still alive, or Stan Lee as the janitor at Mission Control ("Hey, didn't you True Believers know Marvel made a comic about The Two Great Ones?"), stuff like that.

>>18433281
Saving Rock 'n' Roll is apparently the plot of the rumored third Bill and Ted movie that's in the works.

>>18433073
Just make sure its non-non-non-heinous.

>>18410582
Oh, Viral, you're so attractive.

BEANNNSSSSS

THE THREAD THAT WOULD NOT DIE.
But this is no bad thing.

Oh hey, a 'women in reasonable armor thread.' Cool, since the tumblr blog slowed down to a crawl lately

> Bill & Ted role-playing game.

/tg/ , you never cease to amaze me.

Well then, I might as well be a dick and start posting actually babes in reasonable armor so the tread can hit image limit and autosage and die after 4 days

Totally bogus dude. But I do like the gorgeous and most excellent babes in armor.

well, more or less reasonable, there are a little cheating in this at the wrists and hands

>>18439257

and as much as we can see on this could pass as reasonable too

this one is pretty much reasonable too

>>18439280

All very much so.

See I'm a reenactor but I've always kinda wanted to do a LARP thing. But not really LARPing as say skirmishing for kicks.

Damn you guys have some talent (and good lookin' ladies) out in Euroland.

>>18439366
well, thanks

Yeah, It's pretty light amor but this artwork is great

Remember that movie about queen elizabeth?

It had a poster with a redheaded chick all decked out in plate. I was walking to a bar with a friend and when we saw it we decided that shit, this here movie has a chick in platemail and now we have to see it. So we went

Fucking ripoff, she only had the plate on for like 2 minutes

>>18439410

you mean this armor?
>>18439280
>>18439285

Lessee what I gots here
Also, nicely done with the Bill & Ted system, /tg/
You guys still got it

>>18439309
"Dicks? Yes, please."

>>18439499

I see CLEAVAGE.

I just this is...

Damn, /tg/ damn.

Only here could a BiRA thread turn into so much more.

I'm so proud /tear/

and there goes the image limit

Well dudes. Its been most excellent, hope to see some totally awesome gametesting and expanded ideas/plot hooks. Don't let this idea die dudes. That would be totally bogus.

Be excellent to each other and party on dudes!

>>18439861

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Dr2OUe-KmE