Posts made by Bobotron

@Songtress
I have last night's backlog in my MUSHclient window, so I can log it out and post it somewhere as well.

@Derp
But mayonnaise is disgusting.

@silentsophia

@nuku_v
Probably not me (I don't play any d20), but I have friends who this is right up their alley. I'll be facebooking them about it.

Hey nuku! I'm glad all is going well!

@The-Tree-of-Woe
Makes sense. I'm not a great fan of some of the new LARP metaplot (Cam believes and preaches Antediluvians are beneficient and loving fathers/mothers?), but others have great potential (the Independent Alliance of the Giovanni and Setites). I would bet that V4 doesn't end up using the exact same thing though.

@Songtress
The idea of the Shiten'ou and Asteroid Quartet being teachers at the Academy is something that I like. You could spread it out to any older FC you wanted to have visibility for as like a guest teacher (Class, we have a special guest today. All the way from Alpha Cygni, the Soldier of Flames and Light, Sailor Coronis of Plant Coronis. She's here to talk about zero-g combat.).

I had this thought typing that of of embassies and such to other planet that already have populations in Crystal Tokyo as well, and giving the concept to play like, a Coronis immigrant or a merchant from Mau or a courtier from Cocoon. I agree; my original statement of 'planetary people reincarnating on Earth' is weak, I admit; it seems that it happens in the show (like, all of the people from all of the planets in Sol that had populations would reincarnate on Earth, for example, due to Queen Serenity, but not elsewhere). The idea of awakening the Sailor Crystal/Star Seed to jumpstart the new planet (or reinforce a small-population planet that is still recovering after the Shadow Galactica War) holds a lot of cool ideas, and I like the cut of your jib there.

Other gems of power exist; Galaxia had the Saphir Crystal that was the source of her power, for example, and the Malefic Black Crystal grew on Nemesis, so there's precedent for there to be other gems of power out there (plus it gives easy McGuffin plots for people trying to help stabilize the galaxy), with the Silver Crystal as the strongest thing that came out of the Galaxy Cauldron.

The little things my partner's job does as little bonuses for their employees. They bought passes to an amusement park for all their employees and their spouses. So tomorrow I'm going for a day of roller coasters, water slides and funky shows on his company's dime.

@Alzie
Attribute trees are love.

@icanbeyourmuse
That actually kinda lines up with how the Galaxy Cauldron works in the manga, anyway; all things return to it, are reborn and go to 'where they need to be' and this causes, for example, all the Senshi whose crystals fell into it to be reborn on Earth.

The draw of potentials to Earth is, I think, a better option. That, combined with Neo-Queen Serenity being one of the few people able to bestow powers and activate the Sailor Crystals of uninhabited celestial bodies (it took activation for the Quartet to gain their powers, for example), would work to give the reason for lots of Senshi to be on Earth. Plus if potentials can be born on other worlds and come here to train, it leaves openings to tie in villains from elsewhere in the galaxy that are threats.

Heck, doing it this way ALSO nets you the potential to do 'lords and ladies' type stuff, as people do courtly stuff in Crystal Tokyo, as well as expected social RP -AND- magical make-up time fighting evil by moonlight, training to be a good senshi by daylight. This way you can have antagonistic PCs without having to be villains (and if people WANT to be villains, make it clear that it's going to be a rough road and probably without a successful ending).

I'll hit you up later tommorow night or Sunday. I can install most MU* servers pretty easy though Penn is the one I'm used to using and used to coding for.

@icanbeyourmuse
Blame me all you want. I would be interested in helping you out with this project. The concept of a galactic council works out well. As far as leaders, it's a good assumption; we only see leaders in the form of Queen Serenity or Neo Queen Serenity, and Princess Kakyuu (each of the Starlights had their own planet, as well, at least in the anime). The Senshi were princesses of their planets (which, at least according to Codename Sailor V, had their own populations; one of the villains in Codename Sailor V was a reincarnation Venutian soldier who was in love with Princess Venus).

Here's a thought. Take a page from Mai-Otome, and have Earth (which has one of the highest concentration of Senshi) have the Soldier academy, where people train and are given their powers by the Silver Crystal. This goes for both Senshi and Knights. I would try to stick to the setup for some canon stuff though: single planetary bodies have Senshi, which awaken if the planet is inhabited (implied by Saturn's destruction of Silver Millennium wiping out the populations of the other planets) or awaken if given some impetus (the Sailor Quartet being Chibiusa's guardians ala the Inner Senshi). Per canon, men can't be representative of a planet, but they can be empowered (the Shiten'ou were guardians of Endymion, princes of their own countries and generals given dominion over parts of the earth, for example).

@Songtress
Perhaps. It feels odd to me, considering we see the wider galaxy which holds to the Sailor Crystal/planetary guardian trope (see all the Animamates origins), but it's a workable concept in general. The big thing is, where do you draw the line on themes and how to define them. Because there was always pretty good consistency within the SM universe for the other Soldiers outside the galaxy (even if their sailor suit was made of ribbons wrapped around the private parts).

@Arkandel
So they're abandoning the metaplot-agnostic V20. Meh.

@icanbeyourmuse
You realize that's literally why all the bad shit happens on Earth in the manga, right? Incarnations of Chaos drawn to Sailormoon and the Illusion Silver Crystal's light?

If you adhere to the way SM time works (one contingent timeline that can be altered but if the alteration is undone it snaps back to the prime timeline, which is why Serenity couldn't just... destroy the Wiseman instead of banishing him, because of stable time junk), the Shadow Galactica War is long over by the time of Crystal Tokyo. Which works for me, because having things like Sailor Mau and Sailor Cocoon as 'training friends from another planet' would be awesome for plots.

Setting it in Crystal Tokyo era , you could even fudge it as to why the Starlights (and the other restored Animamates like Coronis and Mermaid and Chuu) are long-lived like the Court of Crystal Tokyo (exposure to the crystal, or being a member of Kakyuu's court in the same way the Inners/Outers are long-lived due to being part of the Queen's Court.) And all the villains are (if you go by the manga) incarnations of Chaos trying to regain the other half of it (the light of the Crystal), so the onslaught of bad guys has just been on reprieve after Galaxia.

One thing you could do is, set it up so that PCs can't play antagonists except as NPCs for plots, and staff control the 'big bad'. Set up the expectation that the good guys might have temporary loses (Mamoru's constant kidnappings, the Dead Moon's stealing of all the Dream Mirrors in the anime; Galaxia's destruction of the Senshi in the manga, though that's a heavy thin), but will win in the end. Trust me, it may sound antithetical to the ideals of the WoD community, but it works. And with PCs not playing the villains, but having risks (did tha sector of Crystal Tokyo just get wiped off the map? OH NOES!) and outcomes for not always succeeding (again, see Black Moon's initial invasion of Crystal Tokyo, where EVERYONE DIES until the timeline is fixed), you can have satisfying plots and closure.

@Songtress
I'm curious what you mean by 'themes'? do you mean thati n the same way BF and MM do (IE: someone created a magical girl series based around sealing youkai, for example)?

In the Crystal Tokyo era, you could (if you'll allow me to wax plotly for a moment) the Stargate route: Earth, while perfect, is growing overpopulated. The human race needs to spread out, due to this and due to the extinction potential (due to the Crystal making Earth the prime target for Chaos Incarnations). In order to do this, other Senshi are needed to protect those planets. Thus Serenity empowering a bunch of young girls as Senshi and men as Knights (ala the Shiten'ou because I love them too), and training on Earth. Eventually, as characters retire, they can go off to protect the planet of their power source. Each arc villain is a different incarnation of Chaos allowing staff huge amounts of freedom to do things (such as, hey, there was still Dead Moon Circus people sealed in the Eclipse; there are Animamates that Galaxia left out in the galaxy that haven't been healed; there is a Black Starlight Army in the vein of the Cylons and Zentraedi conquering swathes of the galaxy in the name of the Great Emperor Ingues).

@icanbeyourmuse
The concept of a Crystal Tokyo-era setup, post Black Moon Revolt, is really viable, particularly since you have the capability to have the Inners and Outers interact with the newbies as staff-controlled stuff for plots and things.

I have the Guardians of Order Sailormoon TTRPG around here somewhere, and one of the scenarios in the book is just that: a new order of Sailor Soldiers getting granted powers from planets in a new sector of the galaxy, and dealing with Jadeite's awakening after Beryl's sealing of him per S1 of the original anime.

(YAY!)

@icanbeyourmuse
There used to be an 'after the Shadow Galactica War' MUSH that was 'all the Sailor Crystals find new hosts on Earth'. It was terrible.

The problem with doing a Sailormoon MU* and not allowing the FCs is... you end up diverting some of your core audience, and the push behind Sailormoon is often a love of those characters and a desire to RP as them or with them. And that will cause the core group who might be interested in the game to turn away (it's the same thing that happens with Star Wars and Jedi bans, or Transformers without <X> character setup, or any genre-based game where the features are what makes a lot of the desire for people to come).

Now, you could go the route of the Shadow Galactica arc and use the manga-stylings. Have Earth be the final battleground for all Soldiers in the galaxy (prior to going to the Galaxy Cauldron, anyway), both those Galaxia hasn't stolen the Sailor Crystal from (thus having powerful soldiers ala the manga, where everyone is powerful and can blow people up) and those that Galaxia has (and thus giving the capability for Animamates, and the potential healing of those Animamates into their normal forms, like Aluminum Seiren into Mermaid, for example). Gives you room to work, even with the FCs.

If you're dead set on not having FCs, have it be done in the Sailor V-style, where it's the same world and it references (like Sailormoon references Codename: Sailor V), but in another city where agents of Galaxia are set up and hunting Sailor Crystals (or go the manga route and do Star Seeds, which means random dudes can get attacked, due to that weirdness.)

(Yes, I am a Sailor nerd. Don't judge me!)

@SG
They got married. They owned the Inn of the Last Home and had some kids (one of whom became the leader of the mages, and one of whom was named after Sturm).

@Arkandel
You're not alone.

I still regularly go back and read a lot of the Dragonlance and FR books that I have on the shelves (particularly the Cleric Quintet and the Age of Mortals stuff from DL)

@Rainbow-Unicorn
Eh. I don't think a system can force cooperation between people. If people don't want to cooperate, they won't regardless of system. Trust is the thing that promotes cooperation, and people somehow have an intrinsic inability to trust each other, from what I keep seeing and reading, on WoD MU*s.

@The-Tree-of-Woe
That sucks. Of course, my favorite location in the Realms is the Moonshae Isles. Celtic land FTW.

@BetterJudgment

Policies that limit the RP potential

I understand that 'fifty years of marching from the Shire to Gondor' is the desire, but fuck, that's moronic.