Suggestions for D and/or D games

 You all know the famous game

Dungeons and/or Dikes

Dimes and/or Crimes

Demons and/or Devils

well, what about your game? what is your D and/or D?

Game of Tokens: Class Engineering

your players are all engineers and are solely playing the game to position their tokens to acquire results:

    - continued life is the greatest reward, because life means that the tokens stay in play

    - the impact of a token only affects the now - ignore what that mold underneath the house is doing unless it has a monster token that you can see on screen

    - anyone who does not have ITEM, ABILITY, or STAT BLOCK does not exist. you can safely ignore those people

    - gold is WORTHLESS until you can buy something with it... i mean, unless you're playing a different edition of D and/or D where touching gold instantly gives your token experience

How do you make your engineers happy?

    - Populate the world with creatures from the monster manual, but make them non-hostile by default. Actually, you might go get the Humanoid monster manual and fill it with bards, farmers, peasants, and sorcerer kings.

    - Attach them to a "family" of disposable tokens. Like their pet donkey, their 11 brothers who all have battle axes, and their 3 ft. wide house. While they don't "own" their family, they can borrow from it.

    - Present each store before the players find enough gold to buy things in it. Maybe add in multiple currencies with different purposes. Souls, commodities markets, gnome eyes, etc.

Game of Masks: World Algorithms

your players are all computer scientists and are solely playing the game to set up sequences of events to trigger

    - life is second to knowledge, and knowledge exceeds many of the boundaries of the formally defined game. literally if you kill them somebody else will come back knowing exactly what the person knew.

    - easily exploitable scenarios - the judge forgot to put in air holes to their cave encounter, or perhaps, they remembered to put a back entrance to the cave that you "aren't supposed to find". the judge decides that shooting fire at somebody with flammable materials will catch them on fire, or perhaps, they decide not to.

    - every rock that the judge put on the map was made to be opportunistically placed in a catapult. every pebble that the judge put on the map was made to have convert to dragon (8th level) or convert to blindness source (2nd level) or convert to lightbulb (0 level) cast on it.

How do you make your computer scientists happy?

    - Create scenarios that easily branch out based on trivial input costs and can quickly spiral out of the judge's control and into the players'. Infinite possibilities.

    - Create complicated sceneries that are made up of many parts. Sometimes those parts are to be collected - sometimes they are there so that the party has the resources to "fix" the scenery.

    - Introduce middle-men who neither obey nor attack the party, but who may go off to far-away lands and bring back things with them. Long-reaching actions with long-lasting payoffs.

To play the game of masks, you use the scenery, the wealth of options, the wealth of details, to mask your much more specific and much more sinister intentions. It is a delicate thing between a judge and their players that needs notes, because the player is relying on the judge to give them the mask.

Game of stupid shit: Actually just roleplaying

your players are your players and they just came to make funny voices and roll to seduce the chapter master

How do you make your players happy?

    - Write their story for them. Even if the chapter master is seduced and now speaks only in baritone and became a player character, he will still be the one to experience firsthand the terror that is the demon bands of the south. He will still be the one to have to bring that news to the king on horseback.

    - Literally if you don't do that then just give up. Well, if you have a book, then the book can spell out the consequences so that you don't have to decide.

yes im talking about liam who else would do that stupid shit