Bloody Nine

Well, really, when you're trying to get the scope of realism down for a setting, it makes sense to get the levels across the board to be relatively even - like, if you want to cry for hyper-realistic science (and, by extension, levels of magic, the occult and the weird), then you should have people with a hyper-realistic perception of things.

I don't get itPeople are like "blah blah blah Starscape / IL hard sci-fi hardness how hard is it" but then when happiness and actual reason come into play, it gets cited as "Boo, you're destroying the illusion of the strange and the fantastic!"

It would be pretty easy to beat the Spartans in war, actually.Just snatch up those helots and watch the army of Leonidases collapse from no food.

So do you play as them, then?Because then there's not much motivation going on for them, besides 'Fleeesh.... kill.... hive mind...' because they're just that, a horde.

The difference is that CoF let you play the antagonist, eg, the vampires.Considering that the kraata have a lifespan that measure in weeks, it's implying differently.

Did anyone NOT drop battering ram of awesomeness at that relevant section?

The biggest pet peeve with this to me is that the antagonist is a 'global' one, so to speak, meaning that much of the 'meaningful' (Meaning not against raiders and the like) conflict would be people fighting against the GM and taking down cannon fodder NPCs. Not to mention that a zombie-esque survival horror RP is rather hard to play as, in general.

Yeah, you do. All 42 powers, and the whole shebang. Though pretty much everyone's forced to drop power in scale, Makuta, subjects, prisoners alike, just so there's an IC reason why people won't NOVAAAAAA or flip the proverbial table and blow everything up.

You're right, the goals aren't really defined, if at all.The gist is that if you're a Makuta, you can do whatever it takes to "stave off boredom". Abuse your prisoners, abuse your fellow Makuta, abuse the so-called escapees who have for some reason not been rounded up immediately. Or try to yank the speaker's position as head honcho - not really going to constrain you there since Makuta are big power players.Or you could be said escapees who are trying to eke out a living in Destral, choosing to stick under the radar or trying to 'do something' to overthrow your glorious dark overlords. Because, hey, you could even play without any knowledge of what transpired outside, actually.Or a Makuta's awesomely elite action lackey. Doing his dirty work and all.

Belly of the Best The Makuta has won. The Brotherhood has lost.Two years. Ninety-one days. Six hours.It has been two and one-fourth of a year since our esteemed brother executed his gambit. it was a simplistic, yet flawless plan. Allow the chosen heroes to bungle forth in pursuit of their great destiny, and then... snatch victory at the last hands. Theft concealed by a facade of simple, brute war.But of course, even the best laid plans of mice and men go awry - upon the destruction of the Rahkshi Armada, the immolation of the Visorak Hordes... Teridax had no use for the rest of the Brotherhood, his brethren that he had promised to uplift to power along him. But the truth was still there.We knew the exact methods that the Great Makuta had used.We were liabilities.We were discarded.Upon securing power, the king among traitors granted to us our just reward for our choice. He loosed a mighty storm upon Destral, and the island sunk beneath the waves, never to be seen. At least, that was the plan.I thought differently. Covertly, in the shadows that he so favored, I altered Destral. I added a new program, the Calamity Trigger. When the planned end of days came... when the Ragnarok fell, I activated the Calamity Trigger. I removed Destral from existence before the Makuta could - removed it from one level of existence, into another, a boundary plane extruded from the universe. A place where we would be safe from the machinations of Makuta, until comes such a time when he would grow complacent, lax - such a time when we would return.I accounted for almost everything. I accounted for betrayal. I accounted for insurrection. I accounted for impatience.What I did not account for, however, was boredom.We Makuta are by nature, fickle and capricious beasts. Powerful, too, but that is not nearly as important. Those of us that have survived have found ourselves in the unenviable conundrum of having little to nothing to do.But of course, the Brotherhood has survived the ravages of war and treachery - we will survive this, and earn our just reward.Before...I finish...You may be asking... how did I know? How did I know, when so many of my brethren did not, that Teridax would betray us?The answer is simple. I only had to ask myself what I would do in his position. He made a choice. He made the choice to betray the higher order that the Makuta were crafted for... and if he could do that, if he could reject everything for ambition, then I thought, it would be no big deal to do it again.Setting and Features and stuff because disorganized thought jumblies:[Locationslocationslocations hereherehere]The Infinity Engine: It seems pointless to leave this thing's existence a secret. There is a machine powering this displacement. The Infinity Engine. So long as it keeps running, Destral will remain hidden. Secret. Safe.Destral's natural Energized Protodermis foundries are all but depleted, used to power the great machines of war. Whatever is left is kept under lock and key by yours truly, the Engineer of this island.Prisoners: The Destiny War has, at the very least, allowed us a veritable bounty of prisoners. Officers. Champions, delegates. All had their value as bargaining chips... emphasis on had. Now? They at least make good fodder for our own inclinations... vivisection... dissection... experimentation... the list goes on. Those that remain, at least. A full quarter of them had managed to escape during a certain incident involving a mad skakdi and his equally deranged army of Toa... however that happened. Perhaps they left the island and swam away. Or they yet lurk somewhere in Destral.Power and Arms: Because I do not wish to clean up after your messes, a Restraint Bolt is necessary. Affixing it to your being will prevent you from unleashing the higher extent of your might. Were they limited only to prisoners before? Yes. But if you wish to survive, you will wear one. If you will not, then I will have no choice but to eject you from Destral, and leave you to the tender mercies of the Traitor King. You need not fear your prisoners and experiments - you are Makuta. You are mighty- or so I hope.The Praetorian: My loyal guards, they are essentially my own Rahkshi, my own sons given power, entrapped in a seal of Makuta Armor rather than their standard form. They do not wear a Restraint, and are likewise not limited. They police Destral, ensuring that all runs according to efficiency.Character Sheet:Name:Species:Personality:Area of Study (Only if Makuta. Leave blank if not.):Biography:Appearance:Powers:

Persona 4 is hardly connected to 3, save for a few recurring / cameo characters.All that said, P4 isn't prime translation of the game... which is sort of to be expected, since that thing is holygodsomuchdialogue and the like.

Whoa... key to the beta? That's pretty neat stuff. You should toss it up to a moba fanatic for a better deal.

The hypocrisy is staggering. I know that. My point was that if I wanted to make a veteran guy, it's more likely that he'd be older than a 20 year old kid, no?

Shakespearean Fae aren't exactly... grimdark.But my concern would be the ranking thing. It's too much of a hassle to properly hurl ranks at people and whatnot.Au contraireThe primary plot of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" revolves around choosing which of two decadent monarchs gets to have a kidnapped Indian child as their henchman. Oberon eventually takes the child for his own by brainwashing Titania while he also forces an Athenian youth to fall in love with a woman he hates.That's at least a 6/10 on the Grimdark Scale.Try the Tuatha de Danaan. They went to Ireland, thought that it was an awesome piece of land, and basically forcibly ejected the Formorian inhabitants through war, war, and war. Their king got his arm cut off at the shoulder, so he had it replaced with a pimpin' arm of SILVER. Among their foes was Balor, a guy who could KILL YOU with a look.If straight-up war and bloodthirst doesn't quite suit you, we've also got Puca, who are shapeshifting creatures who prefer to ride around as demonic horses, enticing people to ride them... and then who knows what happens then. The only day they truly behave themselves is on November first. And that's because they're too tired after partying on Samhain/Halloween.Or changelings. If your kid gets carted off by a faerie, leaving a facsimile... your only option is to bake it. I don't think Oberon mentioned that part, did he?And of course, the Fae are the ones who own and start the Wild Hunt. A night of ghost warriors howling, lusting, SCREAMING after the souls of man.So yeah, when compared to the base myths, Shakespearean is kind of vanilla.

Oh, cool.

It would, however, make sense for a player who made a 40-year old character to be a sergeant, since fluffwise, he's supposed to be a veteran. But with this regimented ranking system, he'll have to be stuck as a private until he somehow manages to meteorically rise through the ranks in the span of two months or something. If everyone starts as a private, then nobody will be able to do anything cool from the start, anyways. Though I would say that, from the very start of things, an all-out war with battles joined by thousands of people is a pretty bad way to roleplay conflict in the first place. People aren't going to duel and fancy stuff in the first place without breaking up the point of a battle. You're just going to pop out, shoot someone, and shoot someone else. If you're concentrating on the same person for more than half a minute, then you're doing it wrong. But I'm kind of digressing in the first place. A linear progression of ranks runs the risks of1. "Wait, how did a private become a captain in the span of two months?" Suspension, disbelief, blah blah blah.2. Sort of reminiscent of a leveling system anyways.3. Really constrains the type of character you can make. I'd be barred from making, for example, a posh guy from a posh family whose connections were used to get him in a good start of the military, as an, I dunno, second Lt., and would have to learn to grow up as a result (Character development!). Or a grizzled veteran who's perfectly fine as a Sergeant and turned down three separate promotions. I'd think that being a good storyteller, responsible, etc is its own reward. You don't need a golden star to show it. And considering the number of ranks you have, it would take a long time for people to get from private to capn, or something like that, unless you're handing promotions out like candy.What I'd suggest is something like such- Keeping the generic bones of the ranks, but allow people to have a character capable of starting at X rank or lower. At the same time, make it harder to progress. That way, if I wanted to play ACTION HERO, then I'd keep him a private, and he wouldn't have to mature through the ranks until he's CAPTAIN ACTION DESK JOCKEY. Likewise, I could build stern, grey-bearded Lt. with an eye for tactics, if I so chose, and so on.

It's still a pretty kludgey system. That's the sort of stuff that seems better off as a touch and feel system, rather than YOU ARE PRIVATE. NOW YOU ARE SERGEANT. NOW A WINNER IS YOU! etc etc.

Shakespearean Fae aren't exactly... grimdark.But my concern would be the ranking thing. It's too much of a hassle to properly hurl ranks at people and whatnot.

AMD? What, you mean like Oblivion's Embrace and that other thing that I forgot what it was called but assume is the one you're referring to?...Nah.It wouldn't have much of an appeal besides 'lol, how about dem nostalgia bones', tbh.

Considering that I used my cavalry to tear apart infantry by the bucketload in M2, the fact that dudes on feet with little swords could beat a full on charge sounds kind of hilarious.Angry scots with pikes, on the other hand...

No. Just PvP so far.

Yeah, they already released Dominion, if that's what you're asking. I got in after it was released, so I dunno if there's any other update for it.Though I don't play it much, because lag hits me harder there.

Welcome to Summoner's Rift, BZPers! Minion spawn in thirty seconds!So anybody here play League of Legends? For those of you not in the know, it's a multiplayer online battle arena, where you pick a champion and fight others.

IC: Fire. Fire, hotter than hot, fluidly flowed towards the golem, targeting its right leg. It wasn't the piddling sort that magicians were so fond of calling, nothing less than the primordial forces called by a dragon. A sustained stream of the liquid fury hissed and burbled out of a black-scaled dragon's jaws. Its head reared back, hissing, as it ducked under a lumbering swing. It sinuously spun on the spot, still keeping up the deadly stream. If one cared to look, they would have seen that its neck ended, not at a majestic plumage of scales, but at a man's shoulder.Nero kept his distance, calmly allowing the dragon-aspect to work its power.

Well, what units are available in Conquest? Because it occurred to me, that on a strategic level, Mr. I FORCE LIFT THE WHOLE COLISEUM might be a tad game breaker'y.