Action is your normal action in the fight — attack with a weapon, cast a spell, shoot from ranged. You can change this at any time or slot nothing there.

Reaction is an action your character takes automatically based on some condition — healing (a certain target or all nearby targets), attacking a weak spot, ducking out of action, etc.

Mood must be earned by not running when your bravest mood says you should. Actions and reactions come with experience. Weapons, spells and heals are dropped. No classes (just slot the actions and reactions you want to use), but there are levels. Gaining levels allows access to tougher fights. Early encounters are soloable, later ones will require friends. A death penalty of some sort must exist to give the character a reason to run if things turn bad.

You can change mood/action/reactions as much or as little as you like.

@Malekith — that is an incredibly cool idea. Kinda reminds me of that FF:Crystal Chronicles game for the Wii, where you would basically train up NPCs and have them go on adventures, and then you would receive their descriptions of what happened afterward.

Once a day, short event. Nice.

What if it was a game like a raid, you would have this beast on some sort of # channel, and every player would have some basic gear and commands like, #raid cast magic missile, #raid attack with short sword or whatever, and every fifteen minutes or so, the game would tally all actions, the monster would respond, perhaps killing some people off (who would need healing etc), and then when the monster was dead, everyone would get a trinket, some gold or a piece of gear.

Something quick and dirty like that could be done fairly quickly without being TOO spameriffic. It’s not Zork, but it might be fun.

if you start the tweet #tiparpg then can you say whatever you want? What about limiting it to one task or discovery daily. That way the majority (or best) responses of those following the game make the action for the following days play? Also makes it easy for players to follow the game without following everyone if you see what I mean by visiting http://hashtags.org/

I realized I left off the player replying directly to the bot after I posted. That should have been in there.

I was thinking, though, about making a straight-up, combat oriented game for Twitter — that would definitely be a direct message thing. So thanks for the great idea :)