Letrixia said:I am going to have to make another deck. The one I have kinda is useless now I just found out in the nexus thingy lol I will do it tonight before posting.
Initially, I was thinking more of the first one. However, what's your personal opinion on the second one?Kaybee said:If it's just a pyramid tournament then yeah, we should probably throw in some NPCs. If it's a round robin we could have some of the early duels match Players against players and the later ones be against NPCs
Razgriz said:Should be able to post later tonight as well.
Have a pretty good idea about what I'm going to do
Kaybee said:Round robin means that everyone duels everyone else (or in a sufficiently large group is paired up at complete random for three-to-five rounds of duels against a different opponent each time) and then win/loss/draw statistics for each competitor are tallied and the top 8 or 16 or so get to move on to the next round, from which point the tournament proceeds as a pyramid.
Basically it's just a way of separating the cream from the crop on a large scale without needing to mess around with getting the exact number of duellists you would need to have a perfect pyramid all the way down.
For the purposes of the RP, it lets the player characters potentially face off against each other and still all stay in the tournament despite one of them having to win and the other having to lose.
EDIT: It also gives time for players that finish duels more quickly to 'relax' and possibly get some early smutting in since each round everyone would have to wait for everyone else to finish their duels. Leaving some free time.
Also I think I might rework my deck a little more to be less full on. As it is I feel like it might be too ham for the RP. I might stick with it until I have a chance to duel some of the other player decks and see how it matches up though.
Kaybee said:I would say it's a tournament, it's probably going to grind a little either way while duels happen. On my personal note, I would say that I would prefer to be able to interact with the other player characters both in and out of duels before we hit elimination rounds, and that having to fight against a bunch of NPCs before the stakes can be considered acceptably high for my opponents to be PCs or GMPCs would be much more of a drag than duelling other PCs.
Mind you, I have a sort of hazy vision of how I think this will play out in my head, and that vision might not be the same as yours, so I will defer to your judgement in the long run. I guess I'm mostly projecting and saying that this is how I would run the tournament if I were running this. Doesn't mean that my way is the best way by any stretch of the imagination.
And just to say in fairness, an elimination tournament all the way down could also have perving time since each level needs to be completed before the next level can begin.
On the deck end of things, I see your point, and I want to say that I built my deck around a theme, but if we're being fair, I built my deck around a theme with some pretty good competitive shenanigans to it.
Like i said though, I'll try facing a couple other people and see how it goes. If I keep going 5-0 though, I'm toning it down.