Gauging Interest
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@bear_necessities Xaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanth. OMG the pun-RP would fill to the rafters.
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@Too-Old-For-This so would the color of your panties rp which would be a big problem lol
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A Whoniverse game would be fun! I know one was tried somewhat recently, and seemed to have a few good months of play in it. I always intended to apply but never had the time, but if I recall correctly I think the biggest issue they faced (and seems likely to crop up again if you don't find some way to address it) is that the game was very group-oriented and individuals had a hard time finding RP.
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@Wizz That was me. It was, and likely would be again, a bit group oriented at first out of necessity. Having 6 players spread over 4 locations makes it hard to work RP.
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There's potential for it to be fun; and potential for it to be a lot of people doing completely unrelated RP for small groups. Someone's going to be a time lord with a harem of companions, that's just something we'd need to make peace with.
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@SquirrelTalk I can live with that. I'm going to make it a fairly open/broad time and space travel game allowing for people to play Legends-types, or Sliders-types, etc. The core metaverse will be Whovian, but as a foundation more than The One True Way.
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Definitely there for that.
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Also, looking at FS3, I'm okay with it/Ares as a backbone. It seems to be What The Kids Prefer these days, so.
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@Botulism Oh, I meant more for the arching plot in the Facility than the individual stories.
In an episodic game I wouldn't care if an individual episode was an IP (the Aliens one was my favorite! sorry I tried to blow up the station), but making the framing story Dr. Who (or whatever) would be a negative to me as well. I imagine if you don't want to come up with excessive amount of details/answer lots of questions, you could do something like the Facility where the 'outside' or 'between' adventures is just a mystery and you're not obligated to answer shit. But if the in-between was a bunch of people arguing Who-lore... meh?
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@bored There won't be an in between. It's just people going arond having adventures.
And they DID blow the station in the end!
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Yeah, Doctor Who doesn't really have a framing story. It's the mostly random adventures of a weirdo with an intergalactic time machine; and the game would presumably just be the mostly random adventures of a BUNCH of weirdos with time machines.
Not that I think anyone's trying to sell you on it, just trying to clear up inaccuracies/misunderstandings.
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@SquirrelTalk Basically! Randos in time and space, doing stuff, having adventures. There'd be stories and 'seasons', but th downtime is still seeing places and
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I'd play this game. Hell I've played a Time Lord before, I called him The Professor! Lmao original character do not steal.
But yeah I'd app into this game in a heartbeat. I love the idea of doing time travel shit in a MUSH and just going against the grain of what a place normally allows in terms of something like this. I think that it's okay to trust your players and do something cool and unique!
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@surreality BEEBO SMASH!
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@HelloProject Awesome! It - I hope! - will be a bit different than people expect/are used to.
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...Tales In Time/Space.
I give you TITS, ladies and gentlemen.
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ALSO I HAVE DIBS ON GARRETT HEDLUND I HAVE A PLAN FOR MY CHARACTER IN THIS GAME THAT I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT
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The basics:
Introduction
We are an Ares-powered FS3 game of high adventure, chilling horror, and everything in between set across all of space and time. Historical romps and dark dystopian futures await. Here you can explore space and tell stories of strange aliens and robotic monstrosities. You can also meet titans of history and help preserve the timeline from treachery. Even modern day Earth is full of surprises behind the curtains. Anything and everything you can come up with can be worked into play with a little effort.
Think of the game as a giant sandbox where all of time and space is in your toybox. You can tell stories of any genre, on any planet, anywhere in time We've made character creation very easy and you can be approved and RPing in as quick as 5 minutes. We are based around troupe RP, so group apps and bringing friends is highly encouraged, but not required. This helps make sure you have RP partners to play with, but we'll do our best to find you a place in the stories.
Hey, Isn't This Doctor Who?
Yes and no. While the game is set in the universe of the Doctor Who TV series and related media, it is not a Doctor Who game. For starters, unlike the show, The Doctor is not the star of our game, or even a playable character. This game is about your stories, and can have little or nothing at all to do with the Whoniverse. Time travel stories of all kinds can be woven in, like Legends of Tomorrow, Sliders, Stargate, or pretty much anything else along those lines. We frame it all in a Doctor Who metaverse, sure, but it's a BIG metaverse, and there's room for everyone. You can have as much or as little Whoniverse involvement as you like. It's all up to you.
What You Can Be
Honestly? You can be just about anything here: humans, dozens of different ready-made aliens, your own original creations, or even a robot or android. Characters can be from Earth's history or future, or from modern day, or not Earth at all. There are very few limits on the kinds of characters you can make, except for one big one: no canon characters from existing IP. You can be a Time Lord, but not The Doctor, or The Master, for example. You can be from the Time Bureau, but not a Legend. You can be from Torchwood, but not Captain Jack.
Types of Characters
There are two classes of characters here - Time Travelers and Companions. A Time Traveler is someone with access to technology that allows them to travel through, well, time and space. Companions are everyone else, those who are taken on by Time Travelers and join them on their adventures. Human, Alien, or Robot, they come from all walks of life. A player may only play one Time Traveler at a time, but may play unlimited Companions with one catch we'll get to in a bit.
Time Traveler Requirements
Anyone who plays a Time Traveler must try to run stories for others, ideally 2 scenes a month. As a Time Traveler player you're being asked to help carry a bit of the burden of running the game and entertaining others. Playing a Time Traveler here is a responsibility as well as a privilege.
Time Travel Crews
Whether a TARDIS in Doctor Who, the Waverider in Legends of Tomorrow, or any of a number of other examples, there's a cast of characters working together – a Crew – and this is what we are basing our troupe-oriented design on. To help keep players clustered together instead of all spread out through everywhere and when, we want to organize people into Crews so you have some guaranteed RP partners. Whether you and some friends come in together as a Crew, or we help hook you up with others, the goal is to get you situated with people on at similar times as you and, hopefully, with common interests and tastes. You aren't required to be in a Crew, but being an Independent means you're on your own to find RP and get involved in stories.
Since RP is centered around the Crew, the Time Traveler who leads it is expected to tell stories for the group, as mentioned above. Obviously you get to be in those stories with them, but we ask that you share the spotlight and let them all be stars in their own right. Anyone can run stories, of course, you can never have too many stories! But Time Travler players have requirements.
There is no hard cap on how big a Crew can be, though ideally it would be 4-6 players so that the scenes aren't too big and overwhelming to play in. There can also be more than one Time Traveler in a Crew, but only one time travel device, and each Time Traveler must tell stories, either for your Crew, for Independents wanting stories of their own, or for other Crews where the Time Traveler(s) wants to just play sometimes. Teaming up with the other Time Travelers in your Crew and 'co-running' a scene doesn't count for your individual requirements, or else everyone would just do that. Only one Time Traveler per scene gets credit for running it.
You can play as many Companions as you like, as mentioned before, but can only play one per Crew. That's the catch. Companions and 'extra' Time Travelers can come and go, changing up a Crew's membership over time. It need not be static.
Independents
If, for whatever reason, you opt out of joining a Crew, that's okay. Time Travelers on their own still have to run scenes, though, and Companions may find some success 'freelancing' with various Crews for a story but not staying long-term. Another idea is to pick one of the static locations in the game - 'public' areas that are set in a certain time and place - and call it home. Now when Crews come through, you get to be the locals they interact with. A few of these are provided for you.
Independent Time Travelers get a time travel device and can do as they please, but again, you are expected to run stories.
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@Botulism Just to throw something into the mix (I apologize since it looks like you're already starting to roll), maybe look at the setting for 'The Strange'. Don't cling too closely to it since I've heard that Monty Cook can be rather tightfisted with his IPs but just the general idea (characters are special individuals who can move between worlds created out of the collective consciousness of humanity and so many worlds are based on fictions, myths, and history).
It really gives a lot of room for the 'world' to move. You can easily justify 'summer camp horror world', 'space quest world', 'cyberpunk world', 'steampunk world', etc. depending on what people want to do at the moment.
