The Campaign Builder's Guild

Very cool.

My vote is for the second idea. I like the sound of having to sway an NPC captain.   

Currently I really have no setting to speak of, but I would like to take part in this. Not really sure how it would work, just putting the offer out there.

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Titus Empyrean, the owner, is considered one of the world's shrewdest businesspeople and it is rumored he is the world's most powerful man. Yet, he is rarely seen. It is said that he has a debilitating fear of open spaces and of sickness and murder by business rivals and that he spends his days ensconced in a tiny room filled entirely with feathers. He communicates with the outside world and purchases provisions entirely by Color-Work Creatures who deliver his desires. There are some who say Titus perished several years before, but a stream of prostitutes to his quarters and the stories they tell tends to insinuate that the man yet lives.

A question, if Titus has a debilitating fear of sickness and murder by his rivals, why does he allow a steady stream of prostitutes into his presence?

Now I don't know where you are going with this character, but to me it seems that he would a cloistered harem or a regular concubine, someone that he can control and ensure that they are not an assassin or a carrier of any illness.  What you have so far , a revolving door of prostitutes doesn't seem to fight a person who is a afraid illness or assassination.  But that is just my two cents.

Also there is a very Howard Hughes vibe from Titus, don't know if that is a way you are going, but would make a nice bases.

I would avoid HP. Over the years I have bought two and each lasted just long enough for the warranty to expire.

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... I have actually never played a FF game.
Are they good? :p
(this is what I get for growing up with xbox and Nintendo 64)

EDIT: I have seen people play the fight scenes and that gameplay looks a little... stale? I am sure I'm looking at it the wrong way...

For the most part they are, every game franchise has a bad game or two.
If you have the means, I would pick up X, XI, VII (I think this game is MASSIVELY over rated, but most think it is the best game of them all), and VI.

As for the fight scenes, turn base combat always looks boring, but for some reason is highly addictive. 

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For me, FFVIII was a great game. Or at least, I thought it was until I recently went back and played it. The system of functioning and drawing really is pretty dull, and sometimes the story had some weird moments, but otherwise I still remembered a solid(ish) game from my childhood. I did note that a lot of my fondest memories were largely fueled by nostalgia, and without that, I might very well think it a pretty boring game.

Don't even start me on X-2. XII I had very mixed feelings about. On the one hand, it was a decent game BY ITSELF. As a FF game, I hated it. The main character looks like a porn star, has almost zero role in the story, and the game was no longer character driven, it was world driven. The game was also just a sell at their failure of an MMO that is XI. Yes, I'm fairly bitter about all of this :P.

FF X remains my favorite FF game.

X is near the top of my list, but IX holds the top stop just because it was the first one I played. X-2 was like playing Charlie's Angels the game. and we are not talking the campy 70's version, no we are talking about the Diaz/Barrymore/Liu abomination.

didn't FF just launch a new MMO XIV I think.

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WHAT!? FFVIII WAS GREAT!

EDIT: Oh you mean FFXIII... Yeah that game was made of poo. Wait no, I'm thinking of FFXI... Never played 13.

(trying not to sound like an ass)
IMHO FFVIII wasn't that good of a game. I'm sure some one here will tell me that it has the best story, but when you send most of your time getting in combat just so you can steal spells, to use in combat it gets a little boring. I think I made it to disc two before I just gave up.

FF IX is still my favorite.

I am very interested in knowing why you think it is so good? 

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IIRC, X-2 was the first game made without the original creator of FF. Without his guiding hands, the whole franchise has been down hill.

That I did not know, but it explains a lot.

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Still haven't gotten that far in, hell I haven't even picked it up since my last post. Be from your comments it get the feeling that I am going to be very disappointed with it. Hopefully it will not have the same effect that FF XIII had, and make me never want to play any further games in the series.

FFXIII was really bad. Like, really, really bad. Twilight Princess isn't great, and I wouldn't say it's a bad game per se, but compared to what the franchise has lived up to, it is, in my opinion, a bad game. By itself, it's decent.

FFXIII makes me cringe. I feel like Squarenix really just wants to make bad movies at this point.

Yeah FFXIII is the worse game I have played in the last few years. it was so bad that i had more fun playing Two Worlds, and that game is abysmal on every level.

FFXIII was so bad that when x-play gave it a 5 out of 5 i stopped watching the whole channel.

but Square has been going down hill since FFX-2, its like they have forgotten how to make good games. you are right it is like they are trying to make CGI movies, but it is a downward trend in all media. these days it is all about style over substance. 

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Sorry to hear you've been having the problems with history - any particular area you're stuck on?

no, there is no real problem. I just write something, don't like it then rewrite it, still don't like. Then when I get something that I like, I reword it to make it sound like it wasn't written by a two year old. so it is just a lot of rewriting. 

Don't have anything really to contribute right now, but I am very impressed with how the setting has progressed.

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Currently working on: System

What I should be working on: Fluff!  :)

Super short term: come up with a name for my setting.

Short term: Trying to finish the history write up. I started it a week ago, but every time I sit to work on it, I just can't focus.

Long term: Finish the history section, then a working outline of the current state of the world (factions and nations), and finally a rough work up of the game system. 
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I feel sorry for Link, he gets shafted when it comes to titles!

I mean he's the one who does ALL THE WORK and yet every game is named after that good for nothing princess!

Here's an idea for a game: Legend of Link: Zelda Actually Does Something!

There is a game where Zelda does get off her ass and saves Link. It was created for the Philips CD-I system, in a joint venture between them and Nintendo. Not that the game is any good, that any one really ever played it, or the fact that Nintendo barley acknowledges it, but it is there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelda%27s_Adventure#Zelda.27s_Adventure

but you are right, he does get the shaft, the only times that Link's name is used in the official games is as a secondary title, and even then one of them is a bad pun.

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Permadeath is never fun, but that is just my opinion.

As anyone here played the Legend of Zelda: twilight princess? if so, is it any good? I just picked up a copy.

If you've played Ocarina of Time, you'll probably find it's nothing new. But it's well worth playing for one reason: Midna. She vreeging rules.

I haven't made it that fair into the game yet, but so far I am rather bored. I remember when spent this much time in Ocarina of Time i was already hooked.

I was not a fan of Twilight Princess, and, sorry NC, I hated Midna :P. I never felt attached to any of the drama associated with her, and as a player I found little reason to invest any interest in her or any of the other characters. At least in Ocarina of Time they didn't try to push that sort of story upon you as much as they did.

Twilight Princess is also incredibly easy. The wolf form felt gimmicky, too.

The game isn't terrible, but coming from a franchise with such success, I'd expect much more.

Still haven't gotten that far in, hell I haven't even picked it up since my last post. Be from your comments it get the feeling that I am going to be very disappointed with it. Hopefully it will not have the same effect that FF XIII had, and make me never want to play any further games in the series.

If you feel that this entry does not meet the requirements, then please disregard

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If you are going to use this I would limit it to only our solar system, or maybe even just the inner planets. Like you say in your post it might make the setting too large. But if you do want to go this route here is an idea. There is a G.O.O. that covers the entire surface of the moon its byproducts cause an atmosphere to form making it habitable for people to live on. The residents from a symbiotic relationship with the G.O.O.; they form their buildings from its flesh and grow food in its pores. In return the people must make sacrifices of the old, sick, and injured on a daily bases to the G.O.O. Sometimes, if the G.O.O. doesn't feel that there have been enough offerings it will take victims from their homes or right of the street. Since everything is made from the G.O.O. it just absorbs them directly into itself. Maybe its skin is somewhat translucent and you can see the person being digested.

That idea might be a little morbid.

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It's a lovecraftian horror world where Elder Things have ruled the Earth for about 400 years - morbid is kind of the point. :P

As for that idea, I love it. If I do go that route, I'll almost certainly steal it - I just have to decide if I will. Definitely limiting it to our Solar System if I do, though I want to leave the Gas Giants as options so it'll go beyond just the Inner Planets. Good news is, I can start the setting without making a decision here yet, so I might let it simmer on the backburner for a bit before I do.

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Oh, no worries, I understood what they were for, but they totally sent my brain spinning in a differnt direction - thanks for the clarification though in case  my brain spinning had completely befuddled me. I might just play fast and loose with history and up the birthdates for one of those figures, because (as you'll see in my OOC posts), I'm playing much looser with history than I originally had planned. :P

always interested in what you come p with. looking forward to it.