Smol TV Suggestion Thread

[Mini_Help]

Hey, Mini!

As many of you know, after TV3 we will be running a series of smaller games in the TV universe, exploring different game setups. While these games will be crafted and run by teams of staffers, we know there are lots of interesting ideas floating around that folks are keen to suggest, so this thread is the place to do so.

That said, a few ground rules/notes to temper expectations:

Anything posted in this thread is being offered to staff to steal, twist, mutilate, ignore, or otherwise do with as we please. If you have a super amazing mechanic you want to use for an AU and would be crushed to see altered, don't post it here! In all likelihood, things here will be picked up mostly if they catch the eye of a specific staffer, and may be heavily adjusted.

Additionally, certain subjects can be skipped, either because they're already in the public consciousness or because they're being held for later. If you suggest stuff about these, we don't mind but it also probably won't accomplish much, at least in the short term. Current examples are:

• Anything with teams, partnerships, or multiple characters winning: On hold until TV4! If you want to spitball these for the eventual TV4 have at, but it won't happen in the smaller versions.
• Ten-kill win mechanics of any sort:Ditto, paused until TV4, but feel free to spitball.
• BKA and/or calls home: This has been discussed a lot and we're aware of the interest.

That said, have at. No promises anything here is used, but we will read everything (unless you paste the entire text of Don Quixote here or something; we'll read everything on-topic and submitted in earnest).

[DerArknight]

One thing I would find awesome would be if we got to chose our character's starting weapon in one Minor.

I have some concept ideas for TV-characters that either would only work with specific weapons or would greatly benefit from a specific starting weapon.

Of course there would be limitations to avoid everyone having super-lethal shotguns or so.

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How about a Meanwhile-section for a version? With how big the lore for the TV-universe is, I believe there would be plenty of interesting stories to tell that happen outside of the arena.

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How about a version where just the names of the deceased and not the names of the killers gets announced on the announcements? It would surely impact the game, and the TV-verse is probably the most likely place where the people running the show would be willing for such experiments.

[Yonagoda]

I was thinking about playing with the environment- for instance, setting the game in a place that is total wilderness (well "wilderness" as in an artificial environment engineer by SOTF, but lacking in accommodations such as housing or running water, etc.) or the total other way, where the setting is very, very artificial (Like inside a skyscraper but unlike TV3 there might be more... deliberate environmental hazards) to the point where the immersion is deliberately broken. One particular idea I've thought is like... a place that's very deliberately jolly, like a resort island with a bunch of cute bunnies or whatever, or a working amusement park. Another far-fetched one is one where the students are kind of... visible irl, less like a big glass dome or whatever and more like there's a mountain just outside the arena where you can get a telescope and watch lmao.

An opposite of season 10, where we do have weapons that aren't assigned (hidden everywhere, first come first serve), except!!! They're all very, very shitty.

It can be an individual or team idea but im thinking of more variation of what was given to the kids, i.e maybe certain kids or a certain team gets more of a certain resource or a specific benefit or drawback... I know im spitballing a team idea but still!!

Awards that are not BKA- sponsorships from, say, certain companies, maybe public polls on "the most likely to survive," "best fight scene," etc, idk.

SOTF but everybody has drugs. That's it.

[KamiKaze]

• Trap setting: The arena features multiple death traps hidden throughout, placed deliberately by producers. Think stuff ranging from spike pits, to bear traps, to Saw-esque door traps, to nonlethal cages, to anything you can imagine. Plenty of environmental kill ideas, especially for a creative player! Might be an IC attempt at cashing in on the liked aspects of S61 in its own way?
• No assigned weapons: Exactly what the name suggests. Instead, players are asked to either find weapons hidden throughout the arena or improvise something.

[Jilly]

my horribly thought out and likely badly executed idea is doing, like:

- everyone starts out with rather meager supplies, maybe no weapons too or no really "good" ones in the context of normal SOTF
- everyone also starts out with a set amount of SOTF Funbucks (or SOTFCoin because idk crypto or whatever), denominated in bills with past contestents' likenesses on them such as Jewel Evans
- at the very start of the game and at specific intervals (say, for half an hour after each announcement), the contestants are allowed to "shop" for more supplies or even weapons and ammo, the catch being that prices fluctuate through the course of the game but tend to hyperinflate as the game goes on
- people are allowed to pool funds together, and are in fact encouraged though take that for what you will
- something something says a lot about society and capitalism

[Dogs231]

SOTF-TV Season Sixty-Eight - Television Debut:

I would like to suggest a thread similar to that of The Program Version 3 Prologue's A Beginning... thread, taking place during the casting of the show. I think it would be helpful for people who may not otherwise have a good opportunity to outline their character's casting for the show.

[Lilith]

A ‘retro’ version where nobody has collars (but something else to keep them in) and has a retro style to it

A ‘cruelty free’ version where no weapons or clothes are made out of animals or the production hurt the animals, and all the food is vegan

A ‘two side’ version where the arena is locked in two sides of the map, and at mid point, the two side of maps are combined as one

We talked about this but all gun or all melee version.

[KamiKaze]

• Arena has multiple secret passages: Exactly as the title suggests, there are multiple hidden tunnels, doors, and so on located throughout the arena. Would provide plenty of unique strategies, especially for stealth kills. Maybe combine with the aforementioned 'death trap' arena idea? If it's a building, maybe a lawyer-friendly thing clearly inspired by The Winchester Mystery House (another link), where there's stuff like doors and stairs that lead nowhere as well?

[DerArknight]

Some arena ideas:

- A Zoo

- A Mall (I know that already happened in the lore, but I think it would be fun to actually roleplay)

- An Airport

- A Ghost Town

[Applesintime]

An idea I've thrown about a couple of times on the Discord is an 'innawoods' version. Take a bunch of kids from like, New York or Los Angeles or somewhere, rich privileged kids who haven't done much survivalism or hiking or shit like that, and then throw them straight into the woods, with nothing but maybe a day or two of supplies and a map. It'd be an interesting setting, with much more improvised and brutal kills, and I think it would have an interesting atmosphere as well.

[Wham Yubeesling]

i want a hedge maze

[Jilly]

same but instead a corn maze

[AnimeNerd]

Some things I can't help but some up with:

-Season where the kids kids are taken from a state not seen before (maybe Alaska or Hawaii) and put in an area that's radically different from what they're used to.
-Probably complicated, but maybe an entire season set on a plane that's mostly in the air for the season? Smaller cast so it's not as crowded, parachutes being hidden somewhere for escape if anyone gets their collars off, maybe even some time limits similar to something from The Belko Experiment, AKA kill a certain number of people by this time or we'll kill double that number, something like that.
-Inspired by Discord stuff: Gimmicky season where, after discovering a flaw in a new collar design that causes it to explode in safe zones rather than danger zones, SOTF-TV decides to have a season separated in two parts. Half the kids have a normal collar while the other half get the Bizarro collar, and those that have the Bizarro collar are in the half of the that's immediately danger zoned. From then on it's basically two seasons in one, as the kids on one side can't really interact much with kids on the other side, though maybe some potential to get something interesting from that.
-Season where every kid is brought in with one (1) family member (siblings, cousins, maybe the odd uncle/aunt with a niece/nephew) and, if the last two left are related, they both get to live

I'll probably think of more as time goes on, but these are the ones I currently have for consideration at the moment

[The Honeless Beard]

I would like to move that we change the official title from "TV Minor" to "TV Spinoff". I have three points to support this.

1) The only real connotation of 'minor' is in sports (major leagues vs minor leagues) and it's not super applicable to television as a concept. Spinoffs, meanwhile, is a very recognized term in television and fits more thematically.

2) Calling them TV Minors seems like we're calling them inferior, where calling them Spinoffs means they can be the Frasier to TV's Cheers. Both very successful and universally loved.

3) It sounds too close to TV Miners, which is my own special TV version where everyone gets chosen to play as long as they're working on some form of mining - be it deep sea or standard coal. I cannot have my patents taken.

[Namira]

okay but sotf on an oil rig though.