Game Idea - Quiplash: Unprompted and Uncut!

[Eddy]

I apologize upfront if this is a stiff read.

TL;DR Version - Quiplash, but the players put the prompts in.

Basically? It's a variant of Quiplash where the players put in their own prompts! The prompt-inputting is frontloaded so that all the prompts for Round 1 and Round 2 will be set in advance, though there's a "Help Me Schmitty!" button if you can't think of anything. Use of the "Help Me Schmitty!" button will get you a ribbing, but the actual penalties are mild; your avatar gets a dunce cap and you automatically get put on the losing end of any ties you wind up apart of. If you fail to input one or all of your prompts, the game will just fill them out for you while just kind of pretending you used the "Help Me Schmitty!" button, so that will come with the cap and tie penalty. If two players with dunce caps get put into a tie, Schmitty will comment about it, and the normal routine (whatever it is) is used instead.

While you will normally never get your own prompt, since SOMEBODY has to cover The Last Lash, that will fall onto the VIP, who can decide if it's an Acro-Lash, Word Prompt, Comic Lash, or Classic Lash (like Party Pack 2 Quiplash). For obvious reasons if Comic Lash is picked the comic will be decided at random, though the VIP will still be able to fill out the first word bubble. The Classic Lash, however, is changed to adhere to the Medals rule.

Now, while it's called "Uncut!", it doesn't have to be, as censoring is still available. If a prompt that the VIP feels should be censored comes up and they censor it, then that particular match will be halted while the censored prompt is replaced with a stock prompt (one of those that is also pulled up when the "Help Me Schmitty!" button is used) and the involved players are given a chance to put in new quips. If the censored player was censored for the entire match, then their next prompt of the round will follow the same routine, while their prompts for the next round (if this happened on Round 1) will quietly be replaced with stock prompts so the flow isn't broken up any more than it has to be.

Maybe have an easter egg where if someone fails to put in a prompt or uses the "Help Me Schmitty!" button, then instead of Schmitty announcing it as usual, Cookie Masterson will show up out of nowhere and comment on it instead, in return causing Schmitty to tell him to get lost and go back to Fibbage.

I know that Quiplash 2 has functionality for custom prompts, but barely anyone ever uses them on streams, and you can't be spontaneous about them.

Also, balance tweaks.

- If someone fails to enter an answer at all, the game will pretend they hit the Safety Quip button instead of awarding their opponents all the points uncontested, though any points they would have gotten will be quartered instead of halved.

- A jinx now gives an automatic 50/50 split instead of no points. No votes still gives a 50/50 split.

- Dip switch in the options to make it so that if you don't award medals during The Last Lash, you lose an amount of points equal to how many you didn't give. Off by default.

[SunsetSoloist]

I vote all of the yes for this.

*QUIPLASH*

[Fletcher Poole]

You can already make quips in fibbage xl