The Heart, She Holler

[itsacoaster]

I just thunk up a simple, stupid TH, SH-themed board game that we can play here on the boards.

Here's the idea, which is incomplete, because I haven't worked out all the details yet:

You're Hurlan, Hurshe, Hambrosia, or Hoss, and you're trying to take over the holler. In the board game, the first one to the finish line wins the town deed. Along the way, you have to PLOT a strategy, THWART others' plans, and gain IMMUNITY from those trying to THWART you.

As suggested, there are three kinds of spaces.
PLOT: Your character moves up a certain number of spaces.
THWART: Choose another character to move back a certain number of spaces.
IMMUNITY: While on this space, you are immunized to THWART attempts.
Oh yeah, and free spaces, too.

So before I try drawing this up, is anybody interested in playing? We only need four players, and I can play, too.
Let's not give away prizes yet--we can experiment and tweak it for a while, and if enough people are interested, maybe we can have a tournament.

[Explosivo_420]

sign me up!

[noobull]

You can count me in on this.

[itsacoaster]

Well, good, there are at least some folks willing to give this a try.

So I sketched out what I thought the board would look like. Obviously I'm going to redo this in HTML before we play.



You roll the five-sided die by posting and looking at the message ID. Let's say it's Noobull's turn. You can see from my reply post that the message ID of Noobull's post is 63214409. Look at the ones digit. 1-5 represent their usual values, and 6 through 0 repeat 1 through 5. So the "9" means you move 4 spaces. If it's Noobull's first turn, he moves to Space #4. The token moves in numerical order.

The "P" spaces represent PLOT. If you land on this space, move ahead 6 spaces or, one row down, as the arrow suggests. "PLOT" is not triggered when targeted by THWART.
The "T" spaces represent THWART. If you land on this space, choose a character to move back 6 spaces, or one row up. There is one THWART space on the board that can be triggered by landing on PLOT first.
The "I" spaces represent IMMUNITY. As long as you are on this space, you cannot be targeted for a THWART. You can gain IMMUNITY both by landing on PLOT and being targeted by THWART. It is assumed that all players have IMMUNITY on the first row of the board.

You must land exactly on Space #30 to win the town deed. (It's not so easy to take over the holler!) If you overshoot it, move back to Space 25. For example, someone on Space 28 who rolls 4 goes to 29, 30, 25, 26. Unless you get IMMUNITY, you open yourself up to THWART attempts!

Whaddaya think?

[noobull]

Whaddaya wearin'?

[itsacoaster]

Pajamas.

[noobull]

Cool.

As I understand it, you stay in your row until you land on a plot space... is that more or less correct?

[itsacoaster]

Only on the last row when you have to land on #30 exactly.

Otherwise, you move your token numerically, even if you don't land on a plot space.

[noobull]

okay. gotcha.

[itsacoaster]

Here's a basic, mostly-working model. I just need to decorate it.

1	2 - PLOT ↓	3	4 - PLOT ↓	5	6
7 - THWART	8 - IMMUNE	9 - PLOT ↓	10	11 - PLOT ↓	12 - THWART
13	14 - PLOT ↓	15 - IMMUNE	16 - PLOT ↓	17 - THWART	18
19 - THWART	20	21 - PLOT ↓	22 - IMMUNE	23 - PLOT ↓	24 - THWART
25	26 - IMMUNE	27 - IMMUNE	28 - IMMUNE	29	30 - FINISH

[noobull]

I have decided to thwart your plans. Please go back six spaces.

[Explosivo_420]

ready to go let's party.

[noobull]

Apparently I have set the party back seven years.

[itsacoaster]

I'm working on this tonight.

[itsacoaster]

Whaddaya wearin' think??

1	2 - PLOT ↓	3	4 - PLOT ↓	5	6
7 - THWART	8 - IMMUNE	9 - PLOT ↓	10	11 - PLOT ↓	12 - THWART
13	14 - PLOT ↓	15 - IMMUNE	16 - PLOT ↓	17 - THWART	18
19 - THWART	20	21 - PLOT ↓	22 - IMMUNE	23 - PLOT ↓	24 - THWART
25	26 - IMMUNE	27 - IMMUNE	28 - IMMUNE	29	30 - FINISH

[noobull]

NO JOJO NO! DON'T EAT THE CHICKEN DINNERS!

[itsacoaster]

Now I need to write out official rules.

One other thing I was thinking about is, since this is a game where you take turns, there should probably be a time limit for those to take a turn. How does 12 hours sound? Fewer than that? If the 12 hours expires, the next person can go ahead and take their turn, but you aren't automatically skipped until the next person takes their turn. If you're on an IMMUNE space, there is no penalty for skipping your turn, but otherwise you're still susceptible to THWART.

[noobull]

I'd go with 24, despite what it might do with game pace.

Are you saying that if you are on an immunity space and you miss your turn, you are no longer immune?

[itsacoaster]

I was leaning toward 12 hours, because there's no guarantee that the next person in line will take their turn at 12:01. And you can still sneak in your turn if 12 hours has elapsed but the next person in line hasn't played.

If you're on an immunity space and you miss your turn, you're still immune as long as you sit there. Well, that's what I originally thought. I don't want this to turn into a game of attrition. Maybe, instead, you should move backwards to the nearest free space if you lose your turn.

[noobull]

well, we have time to test this out

You don't gain anything by just sitting on an immunity space, so I don't think it's a big deal.

[itsacoaster]

Well, let's try it out with 12 hours and no penalty for losing your turn. You still have to take your turn to win, so I don't think there's any inherent advantage to attrition. We'll see.

I'll write the rules a little later when I get home.

[itsacoaster]

Tomorrow. I will write them tomorrow.

[sorry guys]

[noobull]

NO THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE

j/k it's cool

[SwimMod_Luuv]

This is pretty cool.  I love the game board graphics.

As far as time goes, like speaking personally, I log in usually in the morning and have to squeeze in a ton of stuff into like an hour or so of posting.  Then I generally have more time on the weekends (overnight Saturday and Sunday).

But that's been something I've been thinking about too is how to do stuff like this on a message board, in real time, yet give everybody the chance to respond to it.  It's kind of interesting to try to think of these like "message board specific" type games.

[itsacoaster]

Yeah, you have a good point, there are some people that probably log on once a day. So maybe 24 hours is a better time frame.

I'm so conflicted.