I'm thinking of holding a panel to introduce my RPG battle rules. I plan to do it right after the cosplay chess is over and use their board as an arena. I'm hoping to have anywhere between 8 and 32 players. I'm hoping to have time before the tournament to give people a quick opportunity to learn the rules and try them out before the tournament begins.
The basic rules are simple, but a little different than the normal Tenkaichi Budokai:
Play rock-paper-scissors until 10 points are scored.
Prop weapons are optional but only one per match and they MUST qualify as props as per the convention rules. If weapons and power cards are used along with R/P/S attacks, then it becomes turn based in RPG format, where players take turns choosing attacks, starting with the female player, or if both are guys or girls, the youngest, or even more the shortest. The winner of the tournament will be the Kumoricon Cosplay Budokai Champion! Complete with belt. So what's the safe part about this tournament? How can no one get hurt and still make attacks? Just playing Rock-paper-scissors is a lot faster, but for an actual role-playing feel, the attacking player starts their attack, but freezes frame in the middle, dropping the momentum. The two play rock-paper-scissors once and play out the outcome:
Attacker wins--attacker finishes their momentum-less attack and tags the target with their fist/weapon prop, scoring 1 or 2 points
Attacker and Defender tie--defender blocks/dodges the attack and the attacker follows through with their move.
Defender wins--defender blocks the attack and counter tags the attacker for 1 point. So really no one is swinging fists/weapons around, merely tapping each other if they hit.
So, anyone interested in learning or playing in this tournament?
