The Divine Sanctioned Trigalactic Imperium of Holy Light (Onsite PbP Setting Brainstorm All Welcome)

[khyron1144]

Looking good.  
Are we at all close to settling on number of points for PCs to be generated from?  
I'd kind of prefer to take the lead on designing my characters stats, rather than following Nomadic's approach.

Yea well you don't have 15 credits of college classes, a part time job, and a cbg 2.0 project to deal with :P

Why turn down the offer of a ninja slave when it's so openly offered? :D

Oh, I am not deriding you or your choice.

I was simply saying I'm eager to see how strong my GURPS-fu is in actual practice.

[Ninja D!]

I'll take a look at Nomadic's character in the morning. I was thinking 150 but I might need to bump that up to allow someone to do two different schools of magic and be decent at them.

[Nomadic]

Looking good.  
Are we at all close to settling on number of points for PCs to be generated from?  
I'd kind of prefer to take the lead on designing my characters stats, rather than following Nomadic's approach.

Yea well you don't have 15 credits of college classes, a part time job, and a cbg 2.0 project to deal with :P

Why turn down the offer of a ninja slave when it's so openly offered? :D

Oh, I am not deriding you or your choice.

I was simply saying I'm eager to see how strong my GURPS-fu is in actual practice.

Oh I know, I was simply stating my eagerness for a free ninja slave :D

[Ninja D!]

Other than being older (which doesn't make a difference if your character starts that way) were there any negative things you had in mind for your character, Nomadic? I'm just trying to determine what disadvantages, if any, I should give to him to lower the points. They could range from needing glasses to see properly to a sense of duty to a person, place, or organization to an obsession with something or compulsion to do something (like kleptomania). Also, phobias or missing body parts (from fingers to eyes to limbs, whatever). Even a strong dislike of something gets -1 point. Nightblindness is one I've used in the past to free up some points with minimal impact (obviously this only is bad when you're in the dark). Keep in mind, of course, that these thikngs all have mechanical effects which can create complications and that they need to be roleplayed as well.

[Nomadic]

Possible disadvantages:
- old (a given of course)
- stubborn/stuck in his ways
- nearsighted
- scarred
- etc etc... (any ideas you might have)

[Ninja D!]

I can work with those, yeah. Simple stuff, mostly cosmetic but in line with an aging man. Got it.

[Kindling]

Hi, sorry I haven't said anything about a possible character yet, I was working over the weekend and then just  had a real non-anything day yesterday.

I'm afraid I still only have a very vague idea of a character concept, but how does an Insectoid manservant(bugservant?)/bodyguard to one of the other characters sound? He'd probably be more intelligent than the average Insectoid, but still pretty dull by other races' standards.

[Ninja D!]

Yeah, we should be able to make that work.

One thing, though, I'm thinking that because insectoids are so different, physically, they either need someone that can translate for them or a device to do it. You'd get the device for free, of course. I was actually thinking an insectoid translator mmachine would probably be similar to the ball carried by Ood that light up when they speak.

[Ninja D!]

I didn't get to working on Nomadic's character any more this morning but with those disadvantages, I think we can probably shoot for the 150 point target.

[Ninja D!]

Based on the characters you guys are going to play, I've decided on how things will start out. You're all on the same transport ship (the sci-fi version of "you meet in a tavern"). There is a reason why you're all there:

Obviously, the Imperium is a rather racist regime. Not everyone is treated equally. One of the princesses thinks this is wrong and, after many years of trying, has convinced her father to reevaluate the way things are done. For him to do this, he has asked her to bring him some of the best among the races that are not treated fairly. Unfortunately for her, the aid she has assigned to gather these great individuals favors the old ways and has made no effort to find the best of these race, instead pretty much selecting the first volunteer or even the first member of the race they came upon. The result is a strange group; Not at all the best of the worst, though probably not the lowest of the low.

[khyron1144]

Based on the characters you guys are going to play, I've decided on how things will start out. You're all on the same transport ship (the sci-fi version of "you meet in a tavern"). There is a reason why you're all there:

Nothing wrong with using a classic.

Obviously, the Imperium is a rather racist regime. Not everyone is treated equally. One of the princesses thinks this is wrong and, after many years of trying, has convinced her father to reevaluate the way things are done. For him to do this, he has asked her to bring him some of the best among the races that are not treated fairly. Unfortunately for her, the aid she has assigned to gather these great individuals favors the old ways and has made no effort to find the best of these race, instead pretty much selecting the first volunteer or even the first member of the race they came upon. The result is a strange group; Not at all the best of the worst, though probably not the lowest of the low.

Sounds intriguing.  I look forward to it.

[Ninja D!]

If we could get characters finished up by the middle if this coming week, that would be great. Then we can really get things started. I just need to figure out exactly what the 'adventure' is going to be.

[Ninja D!]

Oh hai, look what I did.

[LordVreeg]

hey, wait...i recognize that url...

[Ninja D!]

The PDF thing is really nice.

I think a wiki is also really helpful in letting you see what needs to be filled out in a setting. I'm really enjoying working with this.

I've actually expanded the setting quite a lot in the last day, filling in little things and making it feel more alive. I'm also working hard to keep things fully connected with links everywhere.