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Post by Forresst on Dec 29, 2017 0:16:22 GMT -8
Hlo!
Recently I had a tiny discussion with a few other Jackers about how I go about making a setting. If people don't know, I have a couple of different ones I've built up over the years that are huge at this point, and like a few dozen little ones I built for smaller campaigns or just games that fizzled.
So since I've made myself a little system to make a system fairly efficiently, I promised to make a thread about it here on the forums. Please answer the poll, as it will determine what I will use for the process.
Surprise! Step 1 is the elevator pitch! We already started and you didn't even notice!
Step 1: Put your idea in the elevator and come up with a basic phrase or something to describe what you're going for. It can be a question, it can be like 4 unconnected words, it can be a bunch of swearing, whatever. Just something that you can put in your brain meat that will be your general tiny guide as you go through the process.
I should probably put in a little list of all the steps in short form, just so everyone knows how we're working and what's left:
1. Elevator! 2. Genre and tropes! 2 1/2. Pick a place! 3. Pretend historian TV show intro! 4. Geopolitics for imaginary dummies! 5. Microeconomics and domestic policy! 6. Who's got some money and a real mean plan? 8. The human interest soft feature! 9. Friends for your party! 10. Those last little bits
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Post by Forresst on Dec 28, 2017 23:53:17 GMT -8
I liked Tyranids the best because they were the most... like... flexible to paint. The Tyranid book even said "ehhh, paint em whatever colour you want, here's like a dozen colour schemes we like but we don't care go nuts" and so I went nuts. I eventually mostly settled on kind of a brown and green kinda vegetable-y motif but that was only if I was making a whole bunch of them at once for my own collection (I used to paint for other people who would buy me Tyranids as payment). I had purple ones,these super cool ones I made to look like they were made of lava, a bunch of really eye-bleeder ones, a couple that looked like they had pooped some metal... good times.
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Post by Forresst on Dec 28, 2017 23:39:11 GMT -8
Roshan Bayat, Assamite Vizier, diplomat of Alamut
You have to do your own stats for most of this:
BUT Viziers get an obsessive derangement centering around something intellectual that they do. I chose poetry. Haa
Also, he should get the 8-point Quietus power called Blood Awakening that lets him gain insights from the blood of people he touches.
From the moment of his embrace, Roshan Bayat has been seen as a creature of subtle irony. Originally from Persia, Roshan's name means Sunlight in Farsi. As his time in Alamut has passed, his face has darkened such that he can pass among the darkest africans without raising an eyebrow, but his soul became almost unbearably light, at least to his brethren. By from the year of his embrace, approximately 350 CE, to now, he has been tending to the Alamut herds, practising the sporadic diplomatic duties Alamut asks of him, and overseeing the logistical nightmare of getting supplies for mortals and sorcerers to a very secret location.
Roshan was one of the traditionalist Assamites who never embraced Islam. Being a Persian in life, he felt too tied to the Zoroastrian faith to commit the kind of spiritual treason that conversion would have demanded of him. During the first schism, even though he didn't convert, he expressly refused to condemn those who did, earning him a very tense couple of decades in and around Alamut before the Baali wars.
Roshan has been a Vizier since his embrace, and he never even considered wishing he could be a sorcerer or warrior. In truth, he'd been a mild-mannered functionary in the empire of Darius III when he happened upon an unfortunate murder in a dark alleyway. He made the traditional sign of the uninterested, fully expecting to back off and leave a coin for the hashsashim to forget him by, but instead he found himself in the embrace.
He took to unlife as a vizier like a fish to water: he found himself responsible for dozens of moretals within simple years of turning. From there, he trained other viziers, some of whom had been at it for decades longer than him. By 475 CE or so, he'd moved on from herd management to supplying the city with what few things they could not grow or procure themselves: strange ingredients for the sorcerers, the occasional raft of slaves to keep the herds from inbreeding, certain foodstuffs to stave off scurvy, medicine as it developed.
Still later, during the unfortunate schism where some of the clan converted to Islam and others did not, he was appointed as the vizier in charge of directing relations to first the Ravnos, then as he proved incomparable as a diplomat, eventually to the city-state of Carthage and all kindred who resided there.
As Rome expanded and smashed Carthage into the sea, Roshan was recalled before the slaughter and sent to direct relations almost anywhere anything had started to go sour for the Assamites. It's during this time of (relative to the long patience of undeath) short assignments in every direction that Roshan developed a particular fondness of poetry. He honed his craft in any time where he was not actively working, and in the 300 or so years that he's been practising, he's become a rare master in many languages.
This began to influence the way he handled important social and political events. He would throw a lavish party for a person, and compose a poem that summed up his observations of the person, hinted at his desires of them, and celebrated whatever attribute he felt was most useful to Alamut. Then he would have it recited by whichever person he felt had the right voice to bring it to the air as the centrepiece of the party. These poems are observant, trenchant, breathtakingly beautiful, and bordering on creepy in their detail. Roshan's poetry has been known to scare kindred who resisted any attempt at forceful intimidation.
Roshan is a very old, very experienced, and very very skilled ambassador, spy, and party host. He would never dream of speaking roughly to you. But be careful he doesn't put out a gold piece for the hashashim to remember you by.
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Post by Forresst on Dec 28, 2017 22:28:37 GMT -8
I want to make your Assamite please!
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Post by Forresst on Dec 8, 2017 1:24:24 GMT -8
My sad pirate!
Every Monsterheart I ever made!
Mo'vereck Kal'tross, the grouchiest inventor ever to grace the land-dwellers' dry sea prison! (he learned to fight and kinda wrecked shop)
Perrin Greenbottle of the downriver Grenbottles!
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Post by Forresst on Dec 2, 2017 20:40:46 GMT -8
Don't be afraid to play a wimp. Vampire is all about being a sneaky, underhanded jerk The best way to win a fight is to convince the other guy it was canceled!
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Post by Forresst on Dec 1, 2017 15:17:30 GMT -8
That's a pretty great concept! The only thing I'd say is, it might be fun to learn Dementation anyway but keep it at 1 or may 2 points so you can accidentally drive the people around you a little nuts, maybe they start to believe you if you explain enough?
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Post by Forresst on Nov 30, 2017 12:09:07 GMT -8
Hlo! I'm pretty sure the best place to put your character is here: click me!I'm excited to hear about your vampire!
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Post by Forresst on Nov 23, 2017 14:27:05 GMT -8
I see your targeting algorithm has realised we're not talking computer games here. Too bad you're still link farming for questionable SEO practises.
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Post by Forresst on Nov 16, 2017 14:37:41 GMT -8
Can I help you make up the Crab GMPC's attitude? I got a great idea!
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Post by Forresst on Nov 14, 2017 10:47:42 GMT -8
It's because this post was made by an ad blog spammer, and it looks like they were banned today.
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Post by Forresst on Nov 12, 2017 10:42:43 GMT -8
YEah, I'm pretty sure this is spam.
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Post by Forresst on Oct 30, 2017 15:34:50 GMT -8
I make up a name and then roll 2d6 3 times. If it's just a thing they're gonna fight, you only need the 3. If it's an actual NPC, then it gets all 6 but you should probably put the numbers where you think they should be.
If not animal or TL<4, give a gun. CHange gun based on the TL your fight npc is at. If not a level 0 gang member or other miscellaneous mook, give armor 1-5ish depending how annoying you want the fight to be.
Copy paste this as many times as necessary to achieve desired crowd size!
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Post by Forresst on Oct 29, 2017 19:36:53 GMT -8
Man, I had the most insane idea once for a character sheet but it seems way more suited to like... an anime or like ghibli sci-fi type of game.
They still sell those transparent sheets for projectors, even if nobody's used a projector in a million years. And you can usually print on them. So if you put all the text on the transparency, you could then layer it over a paper with whatever art you like, and literally change it on the fly if you want a different gender or species or whatever.
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Post by Forresst on Oct 27, 2017 10:56:57 GMT -8
awesome! If you like to make stuff pretty there are a bunch of really nice star sector maps with space backgrounds and stuff you can use out there. Most of them are for photoshop.
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