An idea about a "Fighting" interactive fiction/game

[MariusKeint]

I've been toying with an idea about a story that i'd like some opinions on please. I've always liked CHYOO and interactive fictions, and I've also always liked the older adventure games like Lone wolf and the fighting Games series (among many). If you've never played the series the following may make little sense to you, but the basic concept is that you play through an interactive fiction as usual but your character has some stats (attack value and health, plus some special abilities and/or items, spells etc). So, in addition to choosing what actions your character takes (going to the related chapter/page) you also get involved in combats (usually resolved by rolling certain dice and comparing your Fighting score with the enemies'). Your special abilities and/or items might give you more options to choose from for your actions, increase your fighting or health, help you persuade enemies that you're an ally, or any of various other things.

Now, while a full fledged fighting game might be beyond Chyoo's scope, I've always thought its possible and would be willing to try it. The story I have in mind is really a variant of my existing story (tales of Keldorn- http://www.chyoo.com:81/index.php/main.story.cover/3372 ), a medieval fantasy world I've used on numerous occassions and developed for my D&D games. It will be a fantasy erotic story (as the current one) and i may even make it part of the existing story by adding a thread as an option leading to the rules and changes (note that people not wishing to spend time fighting enemies or whatever, could simply choose the result they like most from the options and keep reading). Unlike traditional Fighting Games losing a combat won't necessary result to death. There will be a follow-up thread describing the result, be it being killed, captured, humiliated, raped or whatever (and no, all defeats for female characters won't result in rape....not always anyway ). Before I go on starting the thread or story, I'd like some feedback on the idea, and the moderators permission, since this is not exactly an Interactive Fiction, but more of an interactive game. All opinions are welcomed. thank you

 

[RicoLouis]

I don't know how well it would work if you used dice. Not everyone just has a pair laying around though I have a feeling a large number of people here do. Since there are several medevil fantasies written here. However I like the concept as long as the system is realtivly simple. One of the first interactive stories I ever read was called like wizard and warriors or something. You picked either the wizard or the warrior at the start. If you picked the warrior you got to bring along three weapons out of several. If you picked the wizard you got all his spells. But at certain points you had to pick a weapon to use or a spell. ( Imagine my surprise when I cast a shrnking spell on a t rex only to find out there just as deadly when there man size. ) The system was very simple and relied on stratgy.

 

[MariusKeint]

Something as simple as that is what I was thinking about. Wizards would choose fro a list of spells, Fighters from weapons and armor, thieves from special abilities like hiding, trap searching pick pocketing etc. As for die rolling its not really necessary to have any available really. You an find various die roller programs on the internet for free, and I could put a link or something in the rules page for people who wanted to get them from there.