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PnP: Love is Electric

Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 10:34 am
by RoanHorse
May 31st (or whenever I'm not busy) and onward, I hope to bring to nine of you a very strange... experience? Yes, let's go with experience. Something that may change how you view RPGs as a whole. A glimpse into my head. A glimpse into your heads, too, if all goes according to plan.
This is... frankly, going to be a very weird, very eclectic, RPG. I haven't decided what rule-set/system I'll be using, though something simpler (but just as flexible) as Sunrise's would be pretty freaking great.

Want in? Good. But, you better be serious. No, really. Really serious, about wanting to do this. It's going to require as much commitment on the player's part as the DM's. In many ways, the players themselves will be DM'ing as much as I.

Some things to note:
  • > PCs will be in three groups of three.
    > Each group will be from a different time period. Each group will be working together. Each group will meet up. No time 'travel' will be involved in this happening.
    > Each group will be made up of one magician or chemist (zebra, unicorn, or another mystical equaed), one flier, and one earthbound PC. At least one group will be > a 'standard' mix (unicorn:pegasus:earth-pony).
    > PCs won't be made individually. You'll need to work together to produce your characters. I'll explain a little more when I know there is some interest in this endeavor. Unfortunately, the secondary and tertiary groups will have to deal with some... duality, in regards to this element of the game. The first group's players will need to be available for the creation of their characters and scenarios.
    > When creating characters, Congruency is Key [CiK]. This will make more sense when the nature of the 'group character-building' is revealed.
    > You will die. You may die alone, you may die together, but however things go down, you will all die.
Spoiler: show
> Death is not the end.
Edit: Combat is not the focus of this game. Only one or two total PCs will have any combat focused achievements on their CV.

Re: PnP: Love is Electric

Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 12:26 pm
by Rippedshadow
This is an interesting concept. I personally probably cannot join in, but might follow along if I can.

Also, all I can think of with the last bit is "Oh good grief, it's going into homestuck territory".

Re: PnP: Love is Electric

Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 11:17 pm
by DamnfoolBrony
I'm interested, Roan.

I'm interested. c:

Re: PnP: Love is Electric

Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 2:07 am
by DontAskForCookies
You can count me in, if you'll have me that is.

Re: PnP: Love is Electric

Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 6:15 pm
by RoanHorse
... I'm going to make a post about... something... eventually...
... tomorrow....

Re: PnP: Love is Electric

Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2012 2:41 am
by Warp
Alright, well, shit. This sounds exactly like the kind of thing I love, the way you describe it in the OP. Color me interested.

Re: PnP: Love is Electric

Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2012 2:38 pm
by LuckyLeaf
I think I can more or less see where this is going, and I'd gladly participate.

Re: PnP: Love is Electric

Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2012 11:01 pm
by DontAskForCookies
I think I may be thinking the same thing Leaf is, but im still excited to hear an update about this after so long. Wonder what the news is going to be. Something good hopefully.

Re: PnP: Love is Electric

Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 3:59 pm
by RoanHorse
A list. Of 'wanted' characters. The races/jobs of characters I'd like to see but-don't-necessarily-want-to-force-anyone-to-use-because-that's-not-nice.
Spoiler: show
PREWAR (50 years before EoH used)
- Musical Earth Pony
Please note: Earth pony magic heavy. (see pink-ponie)
- Inventor Unicorn
The inventor of something that becomes prevalent in postwar society. Possibly radio. Maybe the television! Well, not television, but CRT monitors...
- Adventurer Pegasus
Not. Daring. Doo.
POSTWAR
- Two Ministry Ponies
- One Zebra
PRE-SUNSHINE-AND-RAINBOWS WASTELAND
- Ghoul. Can be any race. Preferably related to the zebra from POSTWAR in some way. In that way, a zony would be a good fit.
- Unicorn Raider
- Earth Pony Slave
Second, a quick description of an addendum to character building, and thus, character sheets. Don't read this if you don't want 'death' to be spoiled.
Spoiler: show
PCs will have several new facets to their stats. They will be labelled 'Constitutions', and will deal with some of the more out-there elements we will be dealing with.
- Ordinal Constitution: Replaces Perk and Traits. Similar in design, but more advantage:disadvantage oriented, and you can turn them on/off (or switch their effects). Ordinances will be linked between PCs, which mostly means that you can 'trade' or 'teach' them to each other.
- Physical Constitution: The physical constitution of a PC. Characters will change the very materials their body is made up of, to achieve certain effects. This includes elemental effects. There will be several ways to do this, most depending on the race of the character, but the method that will remain applicable in all races (for the most part) will be eating. PCs will eat things like clay, meat, whatever they think they need to be 'made of' to face the challenges they are presented with. I have a nifty idea for how this will be dealt with on character sheets, but I'm still figuring out what sorts of sheets we'll be using.
- Spiritual* Constitution: Spoilers.
*Mental for unicorns.

Re: PnP: Love is Electric

Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2012 5:02 pm
by NitoKa
im interested in playing this! Its sounds great! So we get random choices of the chracters or do we get to choose? (Cause if we do I want the Inventor unicorn)