Quote from: Age of Fable;402631Maybe you could use it as a source of graphics too.

That has potential!

Just found that they also have Space Transformer.

Heh, we have that one on dollar store DVD...  every few months my son asks to watch it then quickly remembers why he forgot about it...

How is this going? I'm still working on my mashup film in between other projects.

I am confuse. Was the prologue about the Bollywood anime gebuine, or just the fact that the game is being written?

I think this game is like Mazes & Minotaurs, in that it has a fake back-story.

Correct - fake back story.

Some progress has been made, although a computer crash didn't help (I'm a googledoc convert now, I learned my lesson).

Hoping to have something worth sharing (say, the basic mechanics, some of character creation, some of the setting) between Thanksgiving and mid-December (at which point nothing will get done til January, but that's life).

Thanks for inquiring, though - seriously, it made my day.

Quote from: VectorSigma;415691Correct - fake back story.

Some progress has been made, although a computer crash didn't help (I'm a googledoc convert now, I learned my lesson).

Hoping to have something worth sharing (say, the basic mechanics, some of character creation, some of the setting) between Thanksgiving and mid-December (at which point nothing will get done til January, but that's life).

Thanks for inquiring, though - seriously, it made my day.

No worries!

I find that it's helpful to make myself do a bit every day, no matter how little.

Quote from: VectorSigma;415691Correct - fake back story.

Some progress has been made, although a computer crash didn't help (I'm a googledoc convert now, I learned my lesson).

Hoping to have something worth sharing (say, the basic mechanics, some of character creation, some of the setting) between Thanksgiving and mid-December (at which point nothing will get done til January, but that's life).

Thanks for inquiring, though - seriously, it made my day.

Ouch man. You have gmail as well? Can always email it to yourself (it stores it for you as well.)

Edit: Looking forward to this as well.



I use that and a thumb drive.

Progress report/talking aloud...  I realized I had to focus on one 'chunk' of the setting and rules in order to have something with which to start playtesting, so I've been working on the 'Battle Knights' portion - ie, humanoid mecha.

The current schtick is that the battle knights are owned/maintained by family lines, and powered by an engine chock-full of necromantic juju (it's a scifi/fantasy setting, remember).  A knight pilot is a member of this family, and it is his lineage (and inherent psychic ability) that allows him to interface with the machine and control it mentally.  A given knight (this is what I'm calling the mechs so far, but I think it might be too confusing...maybe go with 'knight' for the pilot and 'armor' or similar for the mech?) may have lots of newer parts, but the core is perhaps centuries old, and the mech contains within it shards/echoes of previous pilots (particularly those who may have died within the mech).  So part of the gimmick is that the pilot has the ability to 'sync' with the ghosts in the machine (as it were), gaining limited access to some of their skill, knowledge, etc.  Your mech will have a couple of different personalities locked away within it - probably relatives of yours who died in or near the mech and left echoes - and each of these personalities might grant you different buffs in different situations, based on the personality of the ghost.  There's also the possibility that if the pilot gets knocked out, one of the ghosts might temporarily take over the mech.

Of course, you could let your players choose the ghosts in their mech, but that's no fun.  I'm putting in a couple of random tables that will generate random ghosts and their associated buffs.  So during character creation you can have the fun surprise of discovering that your mech is inhabited by both your [roll, roll, roll] wise and pious grandfather, and your [roll roll roll] lecherous and foolhardy cousin, each of whom you might want to sync with on occasion depending on circumstance.

Everyone loves some random tables, right?

All right-thinking people, yes.

I missed this the first time it was posted.  It sounds incredibly awesome.

I actually believed the backstory at first - the existence of Robotech makes such things believable.

Need some nomenclature advice.

As currently written, the KNIGHT is the pilot, the AEGIS is the mechsuit, the HEART is the necromantic power-core of the Aegis, and a REVENANT is a ghost trapped in the Heart.

That's fairly clear, right?

Right now, all I can think of as a name for the blend of necromancy and technology that powers the thing are 'necromechanics' (the winner so far) and 'thanatech' (which I don't care for at all).  Some cheesiness is to be expected, of course, but I welcome opinions on the sound of this stuff.

Deathtech, soultech, necroneering?  necromechanics is fine.

Aegis is good.  You could also go with a variation of a horse name to go with the knight theme.

Quote from: Nicephorus;417307Aegis is good.  You could also go with a variation of a horse name to go with the knight theme.

I think I'm saving the horse-names for the mecha-horses.  I mean, if you're a mecha-knight, you want a mecha-horse, right?  All these young knights-errant on their oh-so-fashionable giant hovercycles...feh!  Back in my day, we had bigass mecha-horses, or weird alien giant-horse-things, and WE LIKED IT.

I'm also fiddling with some more theriomorphic twists if, say, your Aegis incorporates some of your family heraldry quite literally.  ("Y'know what, GM?  Forget the shoulder-mounted cannons.  The Pride of Ganesh has a flippin' elephant head on a humanoid body.  BECAUSE IT CAN.")