OOC DISCUSSION MEME;

[theearth]

Save the Earth requires a good deal of thought to apply into. Because of this, it can't hurt to get some input into your ideas or to get some idea of how other players will feel about them.

This post is exactly for that. Think of it as a creativity workshop where there are no stupid questions, bad ideas can get weeded out and good ones can get fed properly. However, this space is for constructive criticism only. Please remain mindful of that.

How it Works:

Put forward your idea for a character you wish to apply. Point out the parts you like most, the holes you want help with, the parts where you can't seem to make up your mind either way. Consider what sort of goals you'd like to achieve in the game, why you think the character is a good fit and what sort of roles they'll be able to fulfil. Don't be afraid to let it all If you have an app in progress, you might want to link to it. Similarly, linking to a resource to let others know the preincarnated character better might be a good idea.

Then, discuss with others! Hopefully you'll be able to make your vision more complete and understand the game better. Potentially you could formulate future CR or even pre-game CR.

Comments

[professorwolf]

Yesssss we're getting Arhu <3 I kinda love him, okay? ... I also love that someone recognized him :B Late 90s young adult lit for the win?

(And hey, if Fred wants a kitten...? :D )

[seriallylucky]

I kiiind of have all of the YW/FW books prominent on my bookcase. Along with a second copy of SYWTBAW because I found one with the David Bowers cover, with which I first started reading them, in a used bookstore. And a second copy of AWOM because I got that in hardcover as soon as it came out and then wanted a paperback copy to match my others. And occasionally I have to remind myself that borrowing my library's first printing of SYWTBAW and "forgetting" to return it, while thematically appropriate, would not be an entropy-reducing action. So...<3 :D

And actually, that other AU of Felix I mentioned in the back room SYS? Was a YW crossover. For a while I was going to have him know Millman, but that didn't work out.

(Prooooobably not, say sorry. His dad's allergic, and I'm trying to figure out how to handle the bunch of creature Echoes that would start as cats and other pet-like critters.)

[professorwolf]

XD I tried to get into the other books, but at the time I didn't really enjoy them when they weren't about cats ^^' I keep thinking I should pick them up again and try again, now that I'm older :: chinscratches ::

(Ahaha, oh well, it was a thought XD )

[seriallylucky]

Ah, you should. Fair warning: the first three are a bit tricky to get into (though the New Millennium Editions are supposed to fix that; I haven't investigated those, and as far as I can tell they're ebook-only at the moment), so you might want to start with number 4: A Wizard Abroad. Which, probably by coincidence, has a (non-wizardly) kitten as a moderately prominent character.

Just, ah... try not to get too attached to any one-shot character, especially if they have a nickname; Duane has a tendency to kill them off, especially in the earlier books. Though I think there's only one character (or two, for sufficiently broad definitions of death) who's died in a book after the one that introduces them.

/too lazy to switch accounts again, but this is a Dassa

[strokeofgenius]

I've never heard of those books :|c what are they about?

[professorwolf]

The Book of Night with Moon and To Visit the Queen are the books Arhu is in. The universe they're in are the books from the "So You Want to Be a Wizard" series, by Diane Duane. They include books like Young Wizards, Deep Wizardry, and the series-title book, So You Want to Be a Wizard. They're modern fantasy, with the "magic" being solidly based in physics, which I find cool, and with the goal of wizardry in general to slow down entropy, the heat-death of the universe, and to protect life.

I REALLY enjoy the two books Arhu is in, because they take place from the point of view of the cat wizards, who have a whole different culture, which is really made of awesome worldbuilding and fun stuff. I couldn't get into the others, but that may've been cuz at the time I was really into animals? XD

/also too lazy to switch; is seriallylucky-mun, not Gail

[kd7sov]

The basic premise is that some people are wizards.

A slightly more useful version of the premise is as follows: Entropy happens. Back when the Powers That Be were making the universe, the Lone Power invented entropy and tied it into everything else, so He/She/It (Powers being essentially genderless, and also capitalized) got kind of kicked out of the club. But entropy was still a thing. So the other Powers invest some of their power into certain mortals, who then are wizards with the responsibility to slow down entropy as much as they can (because even the Powers don't know whether a new universe will come from the destruction of this one). The main series focuses mostly on human wizards, and a fairly small set of those, but the Feline Wizardry side-series focuses on a bunch of cat wizards who control the "worldgates" (teleport portals, basically) at Grand Central Station.