Kenisis Games

I was just wondering if anyone else wanted to play a "kenisis" style R2D, similar to the one that Dragonchampion hosted on the Wesnoth forums. I'd volunteer to make it, but I don't have the greatest track record of rolling on time for one game, so I won't try two. I like the simple yet freeform rules that kenisis-based games usually employ.

Step up and make a game where Vitakenisis is vital! A game where you can devise Multiplication and Division! A game where Cardkenisis is... cardy?

Oh boy, I'm bored.

I assume you are referring to Dragonchampion's Roll 2 Dodge Wesnoth Edition Part 1, id est before the party went through the portal to Base-Buildia and lost their psionic abilities?

I... don't think the abilities being named *kinesis and styled as psionic is as much a defining characteristic of that system as the “anything can happen with a good/bad enough roll”, and the die roll result scale giving a 1 in 6 chance of getting such a roll.

Yeah, that's perhaps a better description of what I'm looking for. However, the free-formity (NotAWord™) that -kenisis abilities allow for definitely helps to maintain some sort of realism, albeit a futuristic and implausible one, in my opinion..

Edit: I stopped reading after about page 112, before the thread got archived... Just looked through the trimmed thread and saw the direction the game went in. Interesting...

Saima wrote:Yeah, that's perhaps a better description of what I'm looking for. However, the free-formity (NotAWord™) that -kenisis abilities allow for definitely helps to maintain some sort of realism, albeit a futuristic and implausible one, in my opinion..

If you're saying that having consistent rules for magic/psionics improves suspension of disbelief, and having the aforementioned rules be that it can do almost anything allows the author/gamemaster to get away with almost anything while mostly retaining suspension of disbelief, then I concur, and was not dissenting; my point was that such abilities could be named *mancy or *urgy and be styled as magic, or be named *logy and styled as superscience, and it would still work, though it would presumably affect the theme of the game considerably.

Saima wrote:Edit: I stopped reading after about page 112, before the thread got archived... Just looked through the trimmed thread and saw the direction the game went in. Interesting...

I compiled the archive; I could attach a (compressed) copy if you'd like to read the other 35 pages.

That would be nice. I'll get to find out what happened with those shadow monsters

I like the flavour that kenisis(es?) give to a game, but that's just opinion. Mind you, that's what this thread is really about.

Saima wrote:I like the flavour that kenisis(es?) give to a game, but that's just opinion. Mind you, that's what this thread is really about.

Ah, so it's the theme too. Previously you only mentioned the rules.

Saima wrote:That would be nice. I'll get to find out what happened with those shadow monsters :D

Uh... I should have made sure this forum has an attachment feature before I said that... excuse me while I set up file hosting....

Edit, ~45 minutes later: Here.