[CBGuide] Worldwalkers (or, ElDo's crazy idea)

[Wix of Bel-Air]

There will be a fair share of humor and seriousness, rest assured-- and trust me, I've already taken a lot of your concerns and ideas into consideration. Without revealing too much, I'll say there is a multi-world threat and a small group of heroes with the knowledge and ability to travel between the worlds-- that's all I'm going to say at the moment.

I'll be introducing you guys to the characters I have in mind fairly soon, and I hope they'll be both exciting and adaptable.

Until then, I'd like to start compiling a list of people who'd like to be featured in the project. I'm not sure how the featured setting will be chosen, whether by dice roll or selection by myself (equally as random, with my zaniness :P).

So, if you want to co-author an installment, either tell me below or PM me.

First off, that adventure is exactly like the PbP I was setting up (weird...).
Secondly, Golia would love to be in your article.
Thirdly, with the mages adapting magic, would they have a system of determining how to adapt their magic and how to classify it?

[Wensleydale]

Haha... I can just imagine a mage who had just learnt Fireball discovering that it was completely useless in Mahi or Aelwyd...

[Elven Doritos]

There will be a fair share of humor and seriousness, rest assured-- and trust me, I've already taken a lot of your concerns and ideas into consideration. Without revealing too much, I'll say there is a multi-world threat and a small group of heroes with the knowledge and ability to travel between the worlds-- that's all I'm going to say at the moment.

I'll be introducing you guys to the characters I have in mind fairly soon, and I hope they'll be both exciting and adaptable.

Until then, I'd like to start compiling a list of people who'd like to be featured in the project. I'm not sure how the featured setting will be chosen, whether by dice roll or selection by myself (equally as random, with my zaniness :P).

So, if you want to co-author an installment, either tell me below or PM me.

First off, that adventure is exactly like the PbP I was setting up (weird...).
Secondly, Golia would love to be in your article.
Thirdly, with the mages adapting magic, would they have a system of determining how to adapt their magic and how to classify it?

The mage will most likely be more sorcerer-like, relying more on intuition than scientific observation. More on that later.

[SDragon]

i, for one, would love to see Xiluh thrown into this mix.

'course, last time there were the "strangers from a strange land" there, it didnt go too well....

[Túrin]

This idea is very cool. Orden's Mysteries is totally in.

As for the mage: as in most stories it will be sensible not to stat out the characters, or give any very detailed information of how powerful they are. The adaption from world to world could be very easy this way. You probably alreday thought of this, but I'm pointing it out nonetheless. That's what you get for not giving us info! :P

Túrin

[Elven Doritos]

This idea is very cool. Orden's Mysteries is totally in.

As for the mage: as in most stories it will be sensible not to stat out the characters, or give any very detailed information of how powerful they are. The adaption from world to world could be very easy this way. You probably alreday thought of this, but I'm pointing it out nonetheless. That's what you get for not giving us info! :P

Túrin

Trust me, when co-authors are selected, information will be plentiful. Until then, I'm going to be a clam.

And the characters will all have 10 levels in "plot device", with appropriate skills and abilities.

[Ishmayl-Retired]

You should make this very "Quantumn-Leap"-ish.  At the end of every episode, he (the protagonist) gets transferred to the next setting, where he just has enough time to look around and observe his surroundings, before something ker-RAZY happens!  Or you could do something much cooler :)

(Sorry to derail.  Sounds like a great idea, ElDo).

[Ishmayl-Retired]

sweet, cliffhangers are great i      it when like book chapters end with one and then i HAVE to keep reading ;)

Hee hee. When I read this and thinking about ElDo's Worldwalker Quantum Leap popped into my head. (The fact they ended each with the beginning of the next.)

Dammit, you guys beat me to it :(

[Elven Doritos]

You should make this very "Quantumn-Leap"-ish.  At the end of every episode, he (the protagonist) gets transferred to the next setting, where he just has enough time to look around and observe his surroundings, before something ker-RAZY happens!  Or you could do something much cooler :)

(Sorry to derail.  Sounds like a great idea, ElDo).

I believe admins are invulnerable to derailing. It's in the stat block. ;)

[Lmns Crn]

You should make this very "Quantumn-Leap"-ish.  At the end of every episode, he (the protagonist) gets transferred to the next setting, where he just has enough time to look around and observe his surroundings, before something ker-RAZY happens!  Or you could do something much cooler :)

And then, at the end of the thread... Luminous Crayon posted something!

*dramatic music!*

Tune in next week!

[Ishmayl-Retired]

You should make this very "Quantumn-Leap"-ish.  At the end of every episode, he (the protagonist) gets transferred to the next setting, where he just has enough time to look around and observe his surroundings, before something ker-RAZY happens!  Or you could do something much cooler :)

(Sorry to derail.  Sounds like a great idea, ElDo).

I believe admins are invulnerable to derailing. It's in the stat block. ;)

Yes... Yes, I believe you may be correct, sir.

[Elven Doritos]

It's an interesting idea.  How do you intend to explain the presence of such a character in a world without an overlapping cosmology?  For example, not all campaign settings posit alternate material planes from which a traveler could come.

Or sometimes campaign settings include a great deal of information on their planar layout, such that one preclude the existence of others.[/quote]
A different suggestion just occured to me, that I'll throw out there, and you can use or discard as you choose.

Might it not be better to accept a piece of fiction for each setting with characters specific to that setting.  Perhaps each interested author is allowed to submit, but you can't be chosen again from selections for at least a few issues (as with setting of the week).  Then you select the most appropriate, best, or whatever from the submissions and add that one to the fiction column.
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I think it would be better if more people posted this sort of fiction in the Crossroads. It's a solid idea, and we could use it for interrim moments when a Worldwalkers is in development or on hiatus-- it'll be filed among the "awesome ideas that we may use later."

[Poseptune]

sweet, cliffhangers are great i      it when like book chapters end with one and then i HAVE to keep reading ;)

Hee hee. When I read this and thinking about ElDo's Worldwalker Quantum Leap popped into my head. (The fact they ended each with the beginning of the next.)

Dammit, you guys beat me to it :(

Of course I did, because I'm just that cool. ( I realize you could just delete all the threads where I mention Quantum Leap, but I am still that cool :P)

[Ishmayl-Retired]

Hmmm.... not too bad of an idea there, Poseidon.  Not bad atall....

[Elven Doritos]

So, the current interested worlds are:
Xiluh (sdragon)
Golia (Wix)
Orden's Mysteries (Turin)
Jade Stage (LC)
Shadowfell (Ishmayl)
Aelwyd (Golem)
Daerderak (Endless Helix)
Ifpherion (Realm Weaver)
And of course, some Red Valor goodness.

Did I miss anyone who wants to, or add anyone who wasn't interested?