Probabilities and Game Making

[t3knomanser]

I got a bug up my ass the other day, and started working on making a set of rules for a miniatures strategy game. Being the sort of person I am, this is no normal combat game- it involves time travel.

Not the whimsical variant of time travel you'd see in a game like Chrononauts, where you're looking down on all of history and playing with it. No,

Comments

[miusheri]

Doppelgänger / Doppel

(Ich bin Nazi der deutschen Grammatik!)

[dreamingkat]

so, in your scenario with Shaftoe, is he buddy dead at the end of the round?

[t3knomanser]

Yes, the buddy stays dead. That's why there's a paradox- events have happened (and we never undo events, because that would get confusing), so instead we punish the side that perpetrated the paradox with something Bad™.

I haven't fleshed out the paradox rules, yet, but it'll be Bad™.