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[Caellath]

So are we playing something close to a Killteam? I would immediately pick a Grey Knight and proceed to charge any nearby Ultramarine of heresy.

[adwarf]

So are we playing something close to a Killteam? I would immediately pick a Grey Knight and proceed to charge any nearby Ultramarine of heresy.

Sort of, you were all sent into the Warp to retrieve an artifact of great importance, all your memories of your mission are gone except for the nature of the artifact you must find, and that you must retrieve it, and bring it back to the Emperor.

[Caellath]

Into the Warp? You do know that the PCs would have shorter lives than usual for a marine, right? Inquisitors would be twitching their fingers to order all of them killed on the spot after returning with the artifact. Hell, maybe that is the plan.

[adwarf]

Into the Warp? You do know that the PCs would have shorter lives than usual for a marine, right? Inquisitors would be twitching their fingers to order all of them killed on the spot after returning with the artifact. Hell, maybe that is the plan.

You are a special team gathered to bring this artifact back to the Emperor, you were trained to resist the temptations, and taint of the warp (this does not make you immune to them), and your mission may very well end the Tyranid threat to the Imperium. The risk is well worth hat can be gained in exchange, also this game is meant to be a bit harder, and more deadly, but its still quite possible for you to survive with all the assets you'll have available to you.

[Caellath]

all the assets you'll have available to you.

So...Tactical Dreadnought Armor? 

Then would you ban the grey knights? Among the chapters they are hands down the best fighters if you take in account the average soldier and also the most resistant by far to the taint of the Warp. If I remember correctly, only the Grey Knights and the Black Templars have a record of no traitors ever emerging from their ranks.

[adwarf]

Nope their allowed, and will give you a better boost against resistance to the Warp, but you'll still be susceptible to the Warp.

EDIT: And I've finished the companion stuff for the most part, moving on to stats, abilities, and such.

[Tiruin]

adwarf, requesting IN on your RTD, however I'd like to inquire, how is the status of all your other RTDs going? 

[adwarf]

adwarf, requesting IN on your RTD, however I'd like to inquire, how is the status of all your other RTDs going? 

Crossing the Bright Void - Currently being updated
Oblivion RTD - Dead, because all my notes became corrupted, and I had a huge chunk of the game outlined in that

[Tiruin]

Oblivion RTD - Dead, because all my notes became corrupted, and I had a huge chunk of the game outlined in that

D:

I guess, you should make a post in there about it. 

[Spinal_Taper]

If I go Raven Guard I'll get a jump pack right?

[Skyrunner]

An idea.

About the colonization ship thing from the irc, I think I've decided what to do.

A large fleet departs from a nation due to *plot*. The players are either the officers (and captains) of the flagships (but not the flagship), or people who work under them. They are to bring about the success of the colony(s) in a forsaken world...

Fantasy, incidentally, not sci-fi or steampunk.

Anyways, I'm toying with a bunch o' ideas:(are not mutually exclusive)

(1) Making two threads, one the officers and the other more mundane people. -> probably can't work for numerous reasons......
(2) Making the officers also be heroes of sorts, having extraordinary abilities. Such as magic.
(3) How many players? o_o
(4) Having the game setting be not the physical world, but another plane. Such as the special place of Runners of Hyperion (I think) .  ((I wonder what happened to that game...))
(5) How would I keep the game from being a complete 4X game? XD It seems to simply demand itself to be so!

Anyhow; rambling 'till here. Better go to sleep now...

[Caellath]

Sounds good. And the two threads may wait until the game gets popular. Einsteinian's Roulette demand for a new thread appeared naturally. For the beginning, simply separating the different castes with a line should suffice.

[IronyOwl]

A large fleet departs from a nation due to *plot*. The players are either the officers (and captains) of the flagships (but not the flagship), or people who work under them. They are to bring about the success of the colony(s) in a forsaken world...

Fantasy, incidentally, not sci-fi or steampunk.

Interesting.

(1) Making two threads, one the officers and the other more mundane people. -> probably can't work for numerous reasons......

Not sure I see the point.

(2) Making the officers also be heroes of sorts, having extraordinary abilities. Such as magic.

I would have thought that'd be a given, at least in the cases of officers who aren't incredibly good warriors or similar instead.

(3) How many players? o_o

Depends on how complex you make it. Without knowing anything about the system, it's impossible to know the idea number for gameplay or GM sanity. Six makes a nice default, though.

(4) Having the game setting be not the physical world, but another plane. Such as the special place of Runners of Hyperion (I think) .  ((I wonder what happened to that game...))

Sounds good. Having an excuse to throw anything you like at players can be handy.

(5) How would I keep the game from being a complete 4X game? XD It seems to simply demand itself to be so!

I fail to see how this is a bad thing.

OH! You mean for your sanity in actually tracking and balancing all this stuff. Erm, just abstract it, and if necessary abstract it to the point of not existing anymore. Research could just be a simple "order our researchers to find this" as opposed to specifying amounts or whatever, and they could make breakthroughs at set intervals or arbitrary dramatic moments if rolling for it or accumulating points was too tough. Worst case, you could even say that research is assumed to be going on, but only really breaks through when you actually put it into practice, which is a polite way of saying it doesn't exist but you'll let people do or have things they didn't use to after a while.

[10ebbor10]

Not an idea for a game, but for a setting.

Spoiler: Warning, moderate amount of text (click to show/hide)

Everybody knows everybody dies. It's a well known and universal fact. What however not everybody knows is that things, ideas and stories, which in some way, have a live of their own, can die too. This is a story about what happens with them after their death, as we follow them down into the depths and are the first to set foot in and explore the Bay-Twelvian underworld. A strange domain, on which time has no grasp and place is only there for a matter of convenience. A place were everything that was, that will be and could have been ends up. But first, we had to find the entrance.

Our search lead us to one of the most deserted and abandonned places in the forum, The forum Guidelines section. After a several day journey through the godforsaken area, in which we didn't see any other living being, we finally found it. A massive wood and iron door, majestatically decorated with Gold and wood cuts, looking so old that it seemed to have become one with the stone around it. Above the door the following words were engraved:

Abandon all sanity, ye who enter here.-Cat in fetal position-

It seemed to me that this was odly appropriate, but yet we decide to continue our expedition. We pushed open the door, and continued into the depths. After a few days the floor started too level out, and the tunnel opened up into a more expansive cavern.  From where we were we could see the shore of some sort of large cave river and miracously, and old men in a boat who was ferrying things across. We catiously advanced towards him, but we only got halfway before a gigantic monster with 3 heads ran towards us. We managed to hide in the tunnel in time, with the Cereberus charging behind us.

After we managed to pass the beast, who knew this beast would like fish, and managed to barter our passage over the river with a whole lot of rocks lying around we were finally able to explore the underworld. The underworld is divided into multiple places for different types of threads and posters. There's the hall of heroes, where legendary threads feast and fight forever, their memories kept alive by the sigs commemerating them. Then there's the Elysium, a place were good threads go. The Elysium is a strange place, because all the creativity and talent and lost potential often causes the creation of small miniuniverses, which are then ruled by the threads as if it was a world and they were the gods. And in a sence it really is.

A bit further along the riverbanks unremarkable threads are drinking from the water. Everytime they do so they slowly fade away a bit more, untill there isn't even a memory left of them. The whole of the underworld is lighted by an orb of fire in the cieling, were the spam bots burn for eternity. Hell however, is a strange place. Because it is timeless and exists in any dimension, everything that could be and will be is there already, which can result in some embarrasing situations. It's best not too look for your own spirit.

The original idea was to have a Godhoodgame were every player represented the idea of a certain dead forum thread. It somehow got intermingled with Roll to underworld however.

[Darvi]

Cue three people representing the pony threads.