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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by sleyvas[/i] [br]Was just thinking about an idea and figured it could be a fun little idea to share and see if anyone else comes up with something. I'm trying to leave the idea very open, because its more about creativity than "you have to follow this formula" The gist Think of a "game" of some sort played in our world Put a twist of some sort that would be realmsian in some way Come up with a new name for this game and anything else that you might think would particularly fit it (i.e. this game is favored by mages... this game is favored in the North... this game was created by the netherese... etc...) Throwing out the idea that came to my mind that made me want to do this. Base game... billiards. Twist... The cue ball (known as the beholder) is a hollow glassteel ball with a gyroscope/"top" in the middle. this "top" holds a pebble with continual light held in between two "plates" and has 10 "tubes" allowing a "spotlight" of this light to come out. This means that there are always 10 lines of light shooting out from this "cue ball" The game can be played by two to four players, and the number of balls is dependent on the number of players. Each player has 8 balls of all the same color, but one has a white stripe and must be the last ball sunk by that player. Other balls can be sunk in any order, and each ball sunk equals a point. Sinking another player's ball has no penalty, but removes the ability of that player to make a point with that ball... unless you sink their striped ball which eliminates you and gives them 4 points... but also ends their game. There are 5 by 8 rows of points on the table with flip over metal circles. There are screw in, highly polished/reflective, metal posts that go into these spots. Each player places a number of these posts based on the number of players (i.e. if 4 players, each places 2 posts.. if 3 players, each places 3 posts... if 2 players, each places 4 posts). Name of the game Bouncing Beholders Origins: This game was developed by bored Zhentarim mages, but it quickly became favored by the guards that often accompanied them. It was not uncommon for them to use item to turn a "Bouncing beholders" table into a piece of cloth and then returned to its normal form once a new encampment was setup. Ironically, beholders travelling with these Zhents took to this game as well, using cue sticks via telekinesis. Accusations of using their telekinetic ability to cheat led to the death of more than one beholder by another beholder, which led to a ruling at many tables that another beholder must focus its central eye on the table in such a way that still allowed telekinetic maneuvering of cue sticks from its outer edges. [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature. Check here to subscribe to this topic.