captain yesterday |
the other question i have is which one should be expanded into its own book.
so two questions
1) which would you use as a setting for your own games
2)which one would you LOVE for Paizo to expand upon
they can be the same if you wish:)
also i have no affiliation with Paizo (or any else in the gaming community really:)
just a nerd with kids, time and curiosity:)
Mikaze |
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1) which would you use as a setting for your own games
2)which one would you LOVE for Paizo to expand upon
VERCES
I want that symbiotic mix of magic and technology, faith and science, and fantasy and sci-fi. I want that optimistic, adventurous world. I want the Vercites. I want those parallel castes and their culture explored. I want Augmented. I want God-Vessels. I want Pure Ones.
I want augmented bards rocking nightclubs. I want digital fey. I want aetherships. I want hoverbikes. I want the harsh deserts of Fullbright. I want the chilling wastes of Darkside. I want the twilight pastoral villages and stretches of the Ring. I want those towering cities of steel. I want those sleek silver highways. I that want nu-retro sci-fi fashion hinted at in Distant Worlds. I want those frostbitten ascetic navigators integrated into their spaceships. I want the brave aethership crews they help fly out to explore distant worlds. I want cyborg outsiders. I want augmented paladins in angeltech full-body conversion armor with hardlight wings. I want hardlight melee weapons. I want laser guns and pulse rifles and EMP grenades.
I want street razor-riding gangs warring with demon cultists selling distilled dreams smuggled from Eox. I want Dominion of the Black cults. I want offworld culture enthusiasts. I want high technology gremlins. I want the Stewards. I want Steward adventures. I want the growing conflict with Kashak. I want power armor. I want to see a Steward on a hoverbike wielding a hardlight lance speeding towards a cyberdemon. I want the Stewards vs Eoxian and Dominion infiltration. I want big swathes of civilization that are actually genuinely great and fantastic places to live which only raises the stakes that much more to protect them from threats within and without.
I want Pure One martial and ascetic disciplines built around unlocking their own inborn organic potential. I want God-Vessels representing Vercite visions of familiar gods. I want to see characters that straddle the castes. I want Skydock. I want an adventure on Skydock. I want to have adventures exploring ruins out on the edges of Fullbright and Darkside. I want alien fey. I want alien animals. I want Verces-native dragons. I want cultural laws and codes regarding proper Augmentation.
I want electronic music. I want a world where a State of Trance collection and a Celldweller or a Nero album could both serve as a perfectly in-setting soundtrack. I want virtual realities that can be semi-demiplanes unto themselves. I want an internet teeming with artificial souls and life. I want sacred druidic biodomes. I want integrations of magic, technology, and nature.
I want the bloodbrothers. I want the birdmen of Qidel. I want tense adventures out to the sunfarms of Fullbright. I want terrifying journeys into the black winter of Darkside. I want high-speed vehicle chases and moving battles. I want rollicking adventures spanning the Ring of Nations.
This isn't even close to all I want.
captain yesterday |
i suspect the tech guide will help with expanding on Verces. Aballon and some of the moons around the gas giants need more expansion as well. so much to work with!
also i just got Distant Worlds a couple of weeks ago so i'm still in overload mode:)
"i don't need it" i said, boy was i wrong!
seriously, F%*%ING SPACE WHALES THAT YOU CAN HITCH A RIDE IN ITS F$+#ING STOMACH!!!
A MOON THAT TAKES A YEARLY DIP INTO THE GAS GIANT SO IT CAN REGAIN ATMOSPHERE THAT BURNS OFF!!!!!!!
ALSO EVERYTHING VERCES IS FASCINATING STUFF!!!!
Outstanding stuff!
Douglas Adams would've Loved it!
Neongelion |
Mikaze |
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Mikaze wrote:I want augmented paladins in angeltech full-body conversion armor with hardlight wings.You mean this?
It's a bit close to the mark. :) I'm imagining something a bit more sleek and streamlined but still with some decorative paladin-god-specific aesthetics worked in, and an exposed face(since it's a full-body conversion, it might as well be armor itself ;) ). And also with larger wings made of hardlight, with the "bones" of the wings being the projectors. And hardlight weaponry with celestial code worked into the projected blades. And a short-burst propulsor built into the back. And...
This is one of those moments when I really wish I had a knack for drawing.
Lilith |
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It's a bit close to the mark. :) I'm imagining something a bit more sleek and streamlined but still with some decorative paladin-god-specific aesthetics worked in, and an exposed face(since it's a full-body conversion, it might as well be armor itself ;) ). And also with larger wings made of hardlight, with the "bones" of the wings being the projectors. And hardlight weaponry with celestial code worked into the projected blades. And a short-burst propulsor built into the back. And...
This is one of those moments when I really wish I had a knack for drawing.
Then you too could join the ranks of artists who despair at not getting it exactly as it appears in your head!
Mikaze |
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Mikaze wrote:Then you too could join the ranks of artists who despair at not getting it exactly as it appears in your head!It's a bit close to the mark. :) I'm imagining something a bit more sleek and streamlined but still with some decorative paladin-god-specific aesthetics worked in, and an exposed face(since it's a full-body conversion, it might as well be armor itself ;) ). And also with larger wings made of hardlight, with the "bones" of the wings being the projectors. And hardlight weaponry with celestial code worked into the projected blades. And a short-burst propulsor built into the back. And...
This is one of those moments when I really wish I had a knack for drawing.
I wish I could get to that level of "not quite what I had in mind" frustration instead of my current "did the ghosts of a thousand dead monkeys possess my hand just now?" level. ;)
Thank God for commissions!
(also, I want augmented Vercite bards with projected mixer and turntable displays that can capture effects caused by sound or sonic attacks, remix them on the fly, and throw them right back out as a sort of alternative to Countersong)
Neongelion |
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Neongelion wrote:Mikaze wrote:I want augmented paladins in angeltech full-body conversion armor with hardlight wings.You mean this?It's a bit close to the mark. :) I'm imagining something a bit more sleek and streamlined but still with some decorative paladin-god-specific aesthetics worked in, and an exposed face(since it's a full-body conversion, it might as well be armor itself ;) ). And also with larger wings made of hardlight, with the "bones" of the wings being the projectors. And hardlight weaponry with celestial code worked into the projected blades. And a short-burst propulsor built into the back. And...
This is one of those moments when I really wish I had a knack for drawing.
"Celestial code". I vaguely recall you using this phrase before, and I think it's freaking awesome of a concept, even if I don't quite know what it means.
Added to my homebrew setting. Too late can't stop me it's no use
KtA |
It just seems out of tune with the rest of the setting to me. All other tech is either 1800s at best (Alkenstar/Akiton guns) or magical or quasi-magical (Akiton airships, Eox spaceships) or lost relics that are really pulp-ish (Red Redoubt/Numeria stuff).
Verces is a currently thriving culture that understands its technology (unlike the Technic League) and ... their tech just feels more like something from a near-ish future pretty hard SF novel than the much more pulp approach of everything else dealing with tech/SF-ish stuff (Akiton/Numeria/Mythos stuff/Rasputin as a spellcaster/etc.)
Plus the caste system doesn't really seem to make sense IMO, and doesn't really fit what otherwise seems like a pretty open and optimistic and advancing society...
Cthulhudrew |
It just seems out of tune with the rest of the setting to me. All other tech is either 1800s at best (Alkenstar/Akiton guns) or magical or quasi-magical (Akiton airships, Eox spaceships) or lost relics that are really pulp-ish (Red Redoubt/Numeria stuff).
How about Aballon? Their tech is more in line with Verces.
*sniff* No one ever remembers the Aballonians. First their creators forget them, and now you... *sniff* :D
Plus the caste system doesn't really seem to make sense IMO, and doesn't really fit what otherwise seems like a pretty open and optimistic and advancing society...
If it made sense to you, then it wouldn't be alien, now would it? :D
But seriously, for me a lot of the fun of alien cultures like the Vercites is trying to make it make sense. What doesn't work for us as humans but is established as working for them- why? What is different in their mental/emotional/social chemistry that makes such a system work? Cracking that code can be the key to establishing just how their society functions.
(Speaking of Aballonians, does Epoch remind anyone else of Deep Thought?)
Dragonchess Player |
Vercites = skulks. Those on Golarion (descendants of those kidnapped by Azlant/Thassilon?) have lost their original culture in the struggle for survival (first as slaves, then as small groups post Earthfall).
Personally, I'd be interested in a more detailed handling of their culture, as well.
Luthorne |
Depends how much room was in the book. Verces would certainly be interesting, but would probably require either a large book or many supplements to handle things like basic higher technology, technological augmentations, space vehicles, and lots more...one of the reasons it'd be so interesting. Conversely, I think Castrovel would require less overall effort, though might require a fairly substantial bestiary, but we do already have a number of giant plants and animals that might be appropriate, though more would certainly be appreciated. We also already have elves, formians, and lashunta statted up (as well as marax and shotalashu).
Mind, there's certainly some other possibilities; I'm curious about Nchak and what the original trox's statistics would be like, for example, though eight-legged sapients might be tricky to handle as a player race...
Echo Vining |
Depends how much room was in the book. Verces would certainly be interesting, but would probably require either a large book or many supplements to handle things like basic higher technology, technological augmentations, space vehicles, and lots more...one of the reasons it'd be so interesting.
I imagine the Technology Guide would help a bit with that.
Luthorne |
Luthorne wrote:Depends how much room was in the book. Verces would certainly be interesting, but would probably require either a large book or many supplements to handle things like basic higher technology, technological augmentations, space vehicles, and lots more...one of the reasons it'd be so interesting.I imagine the Technology Guide would help a bit with that.
A bit, yes, but not completely. The Technology Guide ultimately supports a paradigm where technology is - appropriately for the default usage - rare. It doesn't really cover everything needed for a society where technology is commonplace and is an integral part of that society, even if you adjust the pricing and come up with proper pricing for power plants and similar things. Honestly, I would probably turn to Age of Electrotech since it actually does focus on elements like this, designed as it is for an electropunk/Teslapunk setting.
Yakman |
Europa.
Wait, I think I misunderstood the question.
In Golarionese, it's called Kalo-Mahoi.
Anyhoo Verces is pretty neat.
Although for my money, I think Eox would be a ton of fun - vast abandoned necropolis cities, insane super-scientists (WITH SKULLS FOR HEADS), miles long bone ships on millennia long expeditions to the stars, bizarre magical experiments gone horribly right, and evil. So much delightful cartoonish evil.
Daniel Yeatman |
I'm so down for anything new about Aucturn; how it shaped ancient Osirion, their doomsday clocks, who or what King Carsai is, what's growing inside the planet (if it even is one). It's the perfect ground for the occult Lovecraftian themes that I adore! I've already worked the planet into a home campaign, even.
Barring that, Eox seems great as well, though a little one-note for now. The Diaspora seems like an interesting place to set up some adventuring, especially if it has to do with how the Diaspora was formed... perhaps the ghosts of the twin planets are returning, and are bringing ghostly versions of their homeworlds with them?
In any case Verces is still awesome, too.
Cthulhudrew |
Simeon |
I've always wanted to run a game where players are Formians on Castrovel. They'd start out as workers but as the campaign goes on they can choose to either continue gaining class levels or become the next type of Formian in the hierarchy. I'd also love to delve into Kasath, which is the homeworld of the Kasatha.
Tavo |
So, as I read the Skydock location on the world of Verces on Distant Worlds, it says (p.23): "The legendary needle-spire of Skydock, which is in fact a magical cable stretching all the way to space and tethering the satellite at the end of the cable in geosynchronous orbit."
I think find a problem with this (but I'm no physicist, so I'm unsure) because Verces is a planet which is "tidally locked" so it always shows the same face towards the sun. If this is the case, the cable mentioned above is not possible because the planet is not rotating on it's axis fast enough to generate centrifugal force to keep the cable taut!
Am I mistaken? Am I right?
Cheers! ^_^
Myrryr |
So, as I read the Skydock location on the world of Verces on Distant Worlds, it says (p.23): "The legendary needle-spire of Skydock, which is in fact a magical cable stretching all the way to space and tethering the satellite at the end of the cable in geosynchronous orbit."
I think find a problem with this (but I'm no physicist, so I'm unsure) because Verces is a planet which is "tidally locked" so it always shows the same face towards the sun. If this is the case, the cable mentioned above is not possible because the planet is not rotating on it's axis fast enough to generate centrifugal force to keep the cable taut!
Am I mistaken? Am I right?
Cheers! ^_^
First off, Magic, second, it can still work as it is in fact rotating, just at a rate of a single year before rotation, and third, it's called centripetal force. A centrifuge is a device that creates centripetal force, not centrifugal.
Echo Vining |
I second the above. Verces is rotating about its own axis, just at a rate that perfectly matches its revolutions about the sun. Because of this, geosynchronous orbits do still exist for Verces. I'd have to know more about Verces' makeup and do some math to tell you how fast the orbit would have to be for a particular distance, but I feel relatively confident in stating that one exists.