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by Ford Prefect
Tue Jan 31, 2012 11:16 am
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
Replies: 979
Views: 517760

Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited

I'd really love to see Sovereigns of the Stars revisited. Looking back on it now, I think there was a remarkable strength to it. Not necessarily because it was weird, though it was in its own a glitzy, grimy parody of real life, but because it had things in it which really only existed to give it fl...
by Ford Prefect
Tue Jan 31, 2012 1:40 am
Forum: Coulda Shoulda Woulda
Topic: Random Ideas (Input Requested!)
Replies: 503
Views: 338877

Re: Random Ideas (Input Requested!)

Image

Man this Project Cybersyn is something else.
by Ford Prefect
Mon Jan 30, 2012 12:07 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Art Thread (Concerns)
Replies: 1014
Views: 593642

Re: Art Thread (Concerns)

You're thinking like some guy designing a space galleon/elaborate fetish dildo. What do a billion greebles do which making the skin a phased array and just freeming people with lasers doesn't? As it stands it just ruins the lines and is really awkward looking. The 20th century casemates plastered wi...
by Ford Prefect
Mon Jan 30, 2012 2:27 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Art Thread (Concerns)
Replies: 1014
Views: 593642

Re: Art Thread (Concerns)

You really need to ask the question 'what do all these hundreds of turrets achieve'.
by Ford Prefect
Sun Jan 29, 2012 11:34 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Art Thread (Concerns)
Replies: 1014
Views: 593642

Re: Art Thread (Concerns)

Cut back on the number of weapon greeebles by like ... 90%.
by Ford Prefect
Sun Jan 29, 2012 10:23 pm
Forum: Coulda Shoulda Woulda
Topic: Open Character Creation Thread
Replies: 46
Views: 39776

Re: Open Character Creation Thread

Man is that a real building? It just seems too obviously like a giant computer running the Soviet economy. Actually it's interesting how a relatively benign idea has seemingly informed a lot of how the Soviet Union has survived into the 21st century. A lot of 'Soviets continue' things are honestly p...
by Ford Prefect
Sun Jan 29, 2012 3:32 pm
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Xenosurf
Replies: 13
Views: 11101

Re: Xenosurf

I thought I should take some time out to talk about the Aleph Manifestation Principle in detail. I have to stress that this a really vague part of the physics of the setting currently, but it's also a part which I can talk about without really spoiling what is close to the most important element of ...
by Ford Prefect
Sun Jan 29, 2012 11:55 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Art Thread (Concerns)
Replies: 1014
Views: 593642

Re: Art Thread (Concerns)

A deeply subtle design, Nox. ;)
by Ford Prefect
Thu Jan 26, 2012 8:58 am
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Xenosurf
Replies: 13
Views: 11101

Re: Xenosurf

Yup, this is definitely your shtick, and its fantastical nature works really well. I'm especially interested in the worldbuilding, though the story itself would be a good read as well. The setting and story is still in flux, so I think doing this sort of rambling psuedo-worldbuilding will be helpfu...
by Ford Prefect
Thu Jan 26, 2012 8:46 am
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Byzantine Imperium
Replies: 15
Views: 10536

Re: Byzantine Imperium

To what extent do you intend to divorce this particularly from the SDNW4 context, and the Warhammer 40,000 context. While I think I've sort of moved on from the existing or historical nation transposed into space motif, there's a lot of neat imagery involved in the fall of Byzantium, the rise of the...
by Ford Prefect
Tue Jan 24, 2012 11:48 am
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Xenosurf
Replies: 13
Views: 11101

Re: Xenosurf

Okay, so I think I've got something ticking over, but it still needs a lot of work here and there. Basically the society of the Great Surf has a caste system. In the past this was a really big deal and tied into a lot of beliefs regarding ritual purity, but it has since become less of a thing with v...
by Ford Prefect
Tue Jan 24, 2012 12:21 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: It's been a while, old friends
Replies: 38
Views: 26737

Re: It's been a while, old friends

Congratulations, Speaker!
by Ford Prefect
Mon Jan 23, 2012 1:14 am
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Xenosurf
Replies: 13
Views: 11101

Re: Xenosurf

I am nothing if not a total Ryusei lol As this is a writing project rather than a worldbuilding one, I more or less started with the characters. Actually, I tell a lie, I started with a caste system and a system of space magic, but both those elements have since changed (the caste system is in limbo...
by Ford Prefect
Mon Jan 23, 2012 12:44 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: It's been a while, old friends
Replies: 38
Views: 26737

Re: It's been a while, old friends

Not in education anymore. Times are hard and all in the family need to contribute, so I'm working for an American free publishing company as a copyeditor. Better money, although, yeah, long hours and really crappy manuscripts. That sucks a little, but if the family is struggling I guess you do have...
by Ford Prefect
Sat Jan 21, 2012 10:38 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: It's been a while, old friends
Replies: 38
Views: 26737

Re: It's been a while, old friends

Man, 50+ hours a week? That's crazy. Are you still at the same school, or have you moved on to a new location of employment?
by Ford Prefect
Sat Jan 21, 2012 1:42 pm
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Xenosurf
Replies: 13
Views: 11101

Re: Xenosurf

I will continue with more of the supporting cast. So far detailing this stuff has been pretty helpful - I was able to break through some gaps in my knowledge of the plot thanks to it. Anyway, continuing: X enosurf - III - The Supporting Cast Probably the most important member of the supporting cast ...
by Ford Prefect
Fri Jan 20, 2012 3:05 am
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Xenosurf
Replies: 13
Views: 11101

Re: Xenosurf

I guess the most important element of the story is the cast itself, and to a lesser extent the giant robots they pilot. I should probably stress that while the giant robots are instruments of the wider plot, Xenosurf is not really a 'giant robot story'. I suppose the distinction between a story abou...
by Ford Prefect
Thu Jan 19, 2012 11:25 pm
Forum: Literature & RPGs
Topic: Eldritch Enterprise (RPG)
Replies: 30
Views: 17479

Re: Eldritch Enterprise (RPG)

Middle management is a lot more dangerous when you notice that sometimes its shadow appears to have tentacles.
by Ford Prefect
Thu Jan 19, 2012 10:17 pm
Forum: Coulda Shoulda Woulda
Topic: Open Character Creation Thread
Replies: 46
Views: 39776

Re: Open Character Creation Thread

Oh man, Charlotte. Now that's the name I was looking for.

And that is pure Stark, I love it.
by Ford Prefect
Thu Jan 19, 2012 10:05 pm
Forum: Literature & RPGs
Topic: Eldritch Enterprise (RPG)
Replies: 30
Views: 17479

Re: Eldritch Enterprise (RPG)

Silent Hill 4: The Room was not a great game, but the central element, the titular room, was a fundamentally pretty cool idea. As you delimit the environment in which characters operate, I think you can really increase the tension and drama.
by Ford Prefect
Thu Jan 19, 2012 3:14 pm
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Xenosurf
Replies: 13
Views: 11101

Xenosurf

Recently I felt the need to mirror Takahashi Tetsuya's ( Xenogears, Xenosaga, Xenoblade ) attempt at a cosmic epic. At its core, Xenosurf is a story which follows the protagonist, Arjuna Fudo, and her six companions as the attempt to unravel they mysteries behind their world and solve a cosmic puzzl...
by Ford Prefect
Thu Jan 19, 2012 12:53 pm
Forum: Literature & RPGs
Topic: Eldritch Enterprise (RPG)
Replies: 30
Views: 17479

Re: Eldritch Enterprise (RPG)

Man, there is something quite thematic about the whole 'financial firms as avatars of dark entities and at the root of a total apocalypse scenario' ,though perhaps it is not the most subtle. ;) it strikes me as being potentially interesting that the setting's finance elements mean that you could the...
by Ford Prefect
Thu Jan 19, 2012 12:33 pm
Forum: Comix!
Topic: Interesting Link and Content Thread
Replies: 373
Views: 203545

Re: Interesting Link and Content Thread

C-C-Comrade Felix!?
by Ford Prefect
Thu Jan 19, 2012 7:53 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: It's been a while, old friends
Replies: 38
Views: 26737

Re: It's been a while, old friends

I've been spending way too much time at TEO. Feel these guns Shroom these are the guns which will bring us back together at O1 etc etc What goes into the last year of Law School? You just cover some new courses. It's fundamentally the same as other years at the faculty, though fifth years are expec...
by Ford Prefect
Wed Jan 18, 2012 10:10 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: It's been a while, old friends
Replies: 38
Views: 26737

Re: It's been a while, old friends

Maybe try starting in media res and running from there. You'd be surprised at how well dropping a character into the action (the narrative action, I mean, not the literal kind necessarily) works as an introduction. You can cover how they work together, how they act in climatic situations etc etc. Th...