Discussion/Sign-Ups

Okay so this is a reimagining of Smashona and it's my first attempt at doing one of these type of open world Vitcon type games. Now before I begin with an official sign up I want to get some input from you guys.

So do you want to be two different realities like a real world and the world of Smash? Or just one reality?

It's your game, you do what you want, but I feel like real world VS smash world would just turn this into Dating Sim: Smash Edition. I understand that you want to do something Persona-related too, but I'd try to avoid redundancy.

Do you guys want a hub world type thing where you go from world to world? Or just go from one world to the next?

That's really your choice to be quite frank. Do you want to make a story where we go from point A to point B? Or do you want a story with no clear ending?

How about character wise? Normal person in the real world and transform into your smash character? Or just play as the actual characters?

My response to the first question probably answered that, but yeah, the actual characters. You're going for a Persona-themed thing though, so instead of making a human character become a Smash character, maybe you could have the character have their own "Persona" forms. Obvious examples would be Ganondorf summoning Ganon and Bowser summoning Giga Bowser, but we could also go toward something unconventional like Kirby's persona being Whispy Woods or something.

Do you want to be able to choose any of the Smash characters (including Joker and Piranha Plant)? Or just start off with the original 64 cast and unlock others along the way?

I'll come back to that on a later question, but this definitely depends on if we can play as multiple characters or not.

Do you want permadeath? Once your KO just KO ed for the battle? Dragon Quest style that once your KO you have to go to a place and pay a price to be revived?

When I'm GM, I like to have this be situational. I usually go for "character is KO'd, but the other players still have one last chance to save it by winning the fight.". I'm all for permadeath, but I prefer if that death is caused by the whole party failing. So my opinion is give us permadeath if the whole party failed.

Again though, it should be situational. If I'm going with Ultimate's bosses, Rathalos would probably move on to a living foe once he KO'd a character, therefore not going for the permadeath. Dracula though? Dracula would definitely continue attacking someone who's already KO'd to make sure they don't come back up.

How many characters just one character or the ability to switch between multiple characters?

I'll go back to the locked character thing. You're talking of the characters nbeing locked, so your idea seems to already be that we're gonna play as multiple characters, unless you meant that the rest of the characters we unlock are NPCs.

What this means, is that if we only get only one character each and the rest of them are NPCs, the players can only pick one of the original 8/12 which really limits the freedom in our character creation and might cause conflict, since it has a higher chance of 2 players wanting the same character.

So my opinion is simple. If we get multiple characters, you can have us choose between the original 8/12 only and then we move from there.

If we get only one and the rest are all NPCs, give us access to the whole roster.

So... I have a lot of questions for you to consider.

Would characters have access to their canon abilities or only their Smash movesets?

They would start off with their Smash moves but they have a chance to gain canon moves or make there Smash moves stronger. 


Ex.) Kirby can gain more complex copy moves. 

Captain Falcon: Faster Falcon Punch.


Do characters from the same series know each other? Are the event of their series canon for this game?

Yes everyone from the same series knows one another.  For the most part the series canon is canon for this game. 

If the videogames are canon, can we pick where in it's timeline our character is from? (For example, could Kirby be from Kirby 64, meaning he's unaware of the events from RTDL and later?)

The default answer is that the character is at it's most current form to date. 


Ex.) Kirby is based off Star Allies. Mario is based off of Mario Odyess but the M&L games and Paper Mario games are also canon (at least I apply it to all the times I use Mushroom Kingdom settings).

If the player wants there character to be from a different time period then sure as long as it existed in the game. 

In cases like Link or Fox, could they choose the timeline/multiverse they're from?

Again up to the player.

In cases like Ganondorf where the design is obvious, does it have to be OOT Ganondorf?


It doesn't have to be OOT Ganondorf if you don't want them to be. But the only other place he shows up is TP. Unless you really want to use WW Ganondorf not going to make a big deal about it. It's your character so it you want to then. 

Would Samus and Zero Suit Samus be separate characters like in Smash or a single entity?

Hmm we could say Zero Suit Samus is a different Samus from a different universe and Samus (with the suit) is a completely different Samus. What they are based off of personality wise and how they act leave that up to the player.

In cases like Yoshi and Inkling, are they unique or there's an infinite number of them?

Its up to the player but there can only be one player as that character. So if Player wants to be Blue Yoshi. Player B can't be Yellow yoshi. Only one Yoshi Yoshi Yoshi... sorry tend to slip into my old tounge. Same thing applies to Inkling. 

Are the Koopalings, Leaf, Alph, etc. playable?

Yes the Koopalings and anyone else who's a different character but is a skin can be selected. Again same rule appiles to Yoshi and Inkling. If someone is Alph then someone else can't be Olimar. If someone is Roy (who's our Boy) then someone else can't be Bowser Jr or another Koopaling.

Would Galacta Knight, Dark Meta Knight or other similar cases I'm not thinking of right now be playable?

Maybe it depends but some of those characters might be appearing in the story so.

Would characters who can't communicate still be unable to?


Again I will leave it to the player. If you want a character unable to communicate normally then you can keep it like that. My rule I use is if there is an instance the character has ever used spoken dialogue then yeah they can communicate normally. 

If I use a character that can't speak normally. I but what they say in ( ) so that the GM gets what I am trying to say and the NPCs will still hear whatever the character uses as a form of communication