Wheel of Time MU(SH|X)
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Any movement on this? I finished my reread of the series a while back (yes, all 14 books; yes, several of the books in the middle were lame; yes, I'm crazy), and getting a hankering again.
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Not yet. Was waiting for Ares to be released before poking at it
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@wildbaboons I'd still talk the shit out of a WoT game well before it opened.
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With Ares in beta... any word on how this is shaping up? I'm on book 3 on Audible ATM, and it's got the hankering going.
(P.S. Listening to these on Audible at 1.25x speed is perfect.)
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@krmbm You say that whilst on book 3, by the time you hit book 9 I suspect you will either have gone mad or put it up to like x3 speed.
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@krmbm said in Wheel of Time MU(SH|X):
With Ares in beta... any word on how this is shaping up? I'm on book 3 on Audible ATM, and it's got the hankering going.
You may not feel this way when you hit book...beyond 4 (I think 8 was my breaking point), but it's still a great RP setting nonetheless!
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I've heard that book 8 is the breaking point for most people.
I made it through book <something, I forget which one it was now but I want to say five or six> many years ago, though I remember skipping huge chunks as early as book two. I'm already finding that it's a lot easier to enjoy it as a distraction from traffic than as the thing I'm entirely focused on.
And I still think an alt-timeline or post-book timeline could be fun. Aes Sedai and Asha'man team up when the Seanchan break the peace treaty or something.
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@krmbm
Oh, yeah, I don' t think a MU with canon characters or in the Rand al'Thor period of the books is workable, but the general setting is a good one. -
Fortunately there are many turnings of the wheel. Many mirrors.
It is one of those settings that can easily /easily/ get rid of the big names if the game runners wanted to.
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I've not had a chance to look at it yet. But I've not forgotten either.
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My vote would always be for a Tar Valon setting. My Aes Sedai obsession when I was a teenager was... Ridiculous. I'm very interested though.
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The Wheel of Time would be an awesome setting for a L&L game honestly.
Take code similar to Arx's, or the same overall purpose, and then set the game somewhere big and melting pot like.
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To be honest, I'll believe it when it happens.
Then again, a viable alternative to Cuendillar would be nice. I know that game's been inactive for like a decade now, but every once in a great while you can log in and see Nynaeve made a post about how the place isn't dead yet, that if she can just do one thing or another she has plans to make some stuff happen again and...well, she needs to face the fact that the game's time has come and gone at this point.
It can certainly be a fun, intriguing setting with a few different paths to take characters in, but it really needs a firm setting and some clear outlines of what will and won't be accepted in order for it to work. Having things really spread out, at least to begin with, may allow for some alts in different areas, but it may be better to start out focused on one region and build out from there.
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I might tool around with it in Ares myself. I'm not 100% sure I could run a game with my limited availability, but - if I think it's do-able - I might see how far I can take it.
If nothing else, translating the One Power into FS3 is an interesting exercise.
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@wolfs
Cuendillar still technically exists? Damn. I thought it'd gone the way of dinosaurs years ago.The sad thing is, I feel like there was a time when, had it just closed, players there might've picked up the torch and started a new thing. Ah well. Maybe something will come of this discussion.
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@three-eyed-crow The place is still up, though there's only ever really one or two people sitting around there and we know who one of them is.
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I'm little late to the Wheel of Time party -- doing my first read through right now -- but I've already fallen in love with the level of detail RJ's brought to this world. I'm sure it'd make for great RP. Explored some of the ruins of Cuen and it makes me feel a bit sad to have missed out on the tales of Aes Sedai, Warders, Lords and Ladies, Maidens of the Spear...
Seeing the beginning of the Fourth Age would be great, as well as the history of the Westlands, or even a mirror-world. I'm sure this would get a lot of love, especially with that rumoured TV show coming.
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@yyrqun I envy you. The first four (arguably 5-6) books kicked ass, and I'd love to read them for the first time again.
But it did jump the shark afterwards.
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Yeah, even the earlier books seem a bit of a slog at times; can't imagine what it'll be like when I get to the breaking point... still, worth it to know more about the world's lore.
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It is a pity they became such a slog, but he needed a better editor. They easily could have cut a couple of books worth of material and been fine. It's been a long, long time since I read them but I remember just flat out skipping certain PoVs on the first read through and never feeling like I was missing anything substantial.
And this still is something I'm considering doing. I'm on the fence between rolling out an Evennia (since its Python and I want to learn that anyways for professional reasons) or re-purposing a WoT MUD codebase I have into a MUSH since it's in beautifully written C++ and I already know that. Waiting on a couple of things to fall in place before I pull the trigger.
