Illuminati: Suggested rools?

From: rkelly@carina.unm.edu (Robert Kelly)

Date: Mon, 18 May 1992 05:28:11 +0000

Blowfish sez:

>OK- there seems to be enough interest in PBM Illuminati that I will be
>willing to try to GM a game of it, via e-mail.

EXCELLENT!!

>PBM Illuminati will have to go a bit differently than regular Illuminati-
>Those changes are listed below. If I leave any out, let me know and I'll
>change them at my discretion :)

>I will be using the 'full set' of Illuminati cards (I understand there is
>a smaller set). It includes 8 possible playing entities.

We could always make more.  In fact, the actual Steve Jackson
PBM has like 30 or so illuminati.  I'll hook up to the BBS
and get the info.

>First- no cheating. It would be difficult anyways, since I am the one who
>controls the entire universe in this game. The GM is quite open to bribes,
>btw, and they are encouraged, though results of bribes are at your own
>risk :)

Can we sacrifice pizza to you?

>Second- the choosing of entities- this will be done in true Illumaniti fashion-
>randomly.

Boo, I say we start off with bidding with pizza slices. :)

How about hidden illuminati?  We don't know what the other players are (and it
x's out ufo's), but it makes everything so interesting.

>Third- the playing-
>
>Gee, what fun this is going to be to parse :)

What about the third expansion set?  Huh?

>Basically put, in every attack order, you should list how much money you are
>willing to spend, what the max/min roll you will allow will be, and what you
>will do if the other entities go for or against the attack.

How about this:

ACTIONS

I suggest a separate line indented for contingecy plans, to make things
easier on you.  Maybe even a simple code like the following:

MB = MegaBucks, POW = power, T-POW = transferable power, R = resistance

Action  	attacker:POW	target:R	MB	mods
# to attack	aiding:T-POW
MB spent	(MB aid)

EXAMPLE 1
Control		Hackers:1   	Comic Books:1  	8 MB	+4 Weird
10		CIA:4
MB:2		(Gnomes)		       10

Thus  	       "The Hackers, aided by the CIA, are attmpting to control
		Comic Books.  They have 8 MB to do this.

roll
  5	|	I have a total attack of 5
  4	|	- 1 for resistance
  8	|	+ 4 for like alignment
 10	|	2 MB spent makes this a roll of 10 or less.  My illuminati is
		ready to spend 10 more MB to control this group."

Because the minimum roll is usually 10, we can call it a default unless
otherwise specified.

This way the GM will only have to check the attack ratio.  Here's where
the IF statement comes in.

EXAMPLE 2
Control		Hackers:1   	Comic Books:1  	8 MB	+4 Weird
10		CIA:4
MB:2		(Gnomes)		       10

IF sucessful: place north of Hackers.
	IF fail: transfer 4MB into Hackers from CIA

"North?"

POWER STRUCTURE

Use north, south, east, west rather than ascii art.

EXAMPLE 3

Gnomes of Zurich (70 MB)
	North-Mafia (22MB)
		North - Underground Newspapers (4 MB)
		West - Post Office (1 MB)
	South - CIA (12 MB)
		South SMOF (5 MB)

You get the idea, hopefully.

DEFENSIVE VALUES
If someone is being attacked, they will need to make a contingency plan
as a Standing Operating Procedure, included with every entry or a value
rating preset by the GM.

EXAMPLES
Invaluable	Will spend all money in group, all money in Illuminati, etc.
Semi-precious	all money in group, 20 MB tops
Iwannakeepit	all money in group, 10 MB
worthless	I left money in that group?  shit!

So how's this for a concept?  Too complicated?

Robert Kelly
rkelly@triton.unm.edu
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References

Illuminati???
melissa@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Melissa C Merrill)
Tue, 12 May 1992 21:10:24 +0000
Re: Illuminati???
rkelly@carina.unm.edu (Robert Kelly)
Wed, 13 May 1992 16:24:35 +0000
Re: Illuminati???
ghost@ra.nrl.navy.mil (G. Host)
Fri, 15 May 1992 13:11:16 +0000