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The Big Picture
« on: June 03, 2012, 11:51:58 AM »
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An ancient empire rises and falls.
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Cavemen at the dawn of time found the first civilization.
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Mankind leaves the sick Earth behind and spreads out to the stars.

The current topic is "the big picture". We need to brainstorm and pick something big that will define our "world" within one or two short sentences, like the previous quotes.

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Re: The Big Picture
« Reply #1 on: June 03, 2012, 12:05:28 PM »
Are we designing a campaign setting, or just an adventure?  Or some sort of hybrid between the two like RHoD or Savage Tides?
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Re: The Big Picture
« Reply #2 on: June 03, 2012, 12:15:59 PM »
Are we designing a campaign setting, or just an adventure?  Or some sort of hybrid between the two like RHoD or Savage Tides?

The game lets you define a very large period of time and then enable you to "zoom in" to stuff that are interesting. So we can start with the campaign setting and then make an adventure out of the "zoomed in" period that we find is most suitable.
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Re: The Big Picture
« Reply #3 on: June 05, 2012, 12:59:26 PM »
So... do we start at the end of time or end of era?

End of time... (Dark tone Period)
"The last the elder brains, finds a way way to pierce the wall of time, and flee the destruction of all things. The Last Titan, Mose once called the Traveller, now, Mose the singularity, empty and alone fills himself over a forever with all matter in the universe, crunching all things into himself, and then himself until this iteration of the universe reaches an end. ... ... "

End of an Era: (Light tone period)
It had been a thousand years since the Desmondu had had a kingdom, and 2000 hiding in caves fearful and abandoned by all, but that was before they joined the League, and discovered their rightful heritage and place as a benevoent sanctuary, a land of free trade between the surface and the underdark.
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Re: The Big Picture
« Reply #4 on: June 05, 2012, 01:31:23 PM »
So... do we start at the end of time or end of era?

End of time... (Dark tone Period)
"The last the elder brains, finds a way way to pierce the wall of time, and flee the destruction of all things. The Last Titan, Mose once called the Traveller, now, Mose the singularity, empty and alone fills himself over a forever with all matter in the universe, crunching all things into himself, and then himself until this iteration of the universe reaches an end. ... ... "

End of an Era: (Light tone period)
It had been a thousand years since the Desmondu had had a kingdom, and 2000 hiding in caves fearful and abandoned by all, but that was before they joined the League, and discovered their rightful heritage and place as a benevoent sanctuary, a land of free trade between the surface and the underdark.

I'd prefer the latter, but it doesn't  really matter.
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Re: The Big Picture
« Reply #5 on: June 05, 2012, 04:02:47 PM »
Well I'm with that. Those were just examples so don't worry. You get to go first, LOL!
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Re: The Big Picture
« Reply #6 on: June 05, 2012, 08:48:02 PM »
So something like "A thousand year civil war among the races of [Middle Earth]."
Hmm.

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Re: The Big Picture
« Reply #7 on: June 06, 2012, 08:50:02 AM »
So something like "A thousand year civil war among the races of [Middle Earth]."

I like it. Anyone has any objections?
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Re: The Big Picture
« Reply #8 on: June 06, 2012, 09:36:32 AM »
Yeah.
Anything but middle earth.
Its my ban. So thats a long list of things. First I don't want the story campaign to starring the "races of the alliance" unless they've already lost.
Second I cannot stomach another J.R.R. clone session, not to start.
So yeah, my ban? Middle Earth like setting.  I was hoping to use it on "Guns" but sigh, there you go. . .
still the civil war is decent. . .

So something like "A thousand year civil war among the races of the Seas." (Sahaugin, Kua-toa, locanth, sea elves, tritons others.."

So something like "A thousand year war rages among the races of the ancient abberation world rulers, and thier servitors"

So something like "A thousand year civil war among the races of the underdark..."
would be find with me...

...except...

I realized as I was typing this why its better to script the end of time, the begining of time, then epochs, then eras... and on down, because basically the big play sets the cosmology, and keeps things in the background that you KNOW how it all ends.
However even if the setting is the thousand years war  you much like jepordy, have phrase the statment a certain way I'd think.

So here:

"Marruk, the Wilting Dream, formally accepts the fealty of the remaining Elvish lords, and executes Rilman, last of the human kings, ending the 1000 year war.

So now you have the fate.
You have 2 main characters. Marruk, the Wilting Dream. Rilman, one of a number of human kings.
Background stubs: The elves actually officially surrender "the remaining" ones anyway, and 1000 years of war.

That should be an amiable compromise...

Your move.



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Re: The Big Picture
« Reply #9 on: June 06, 2012, 09:50:20 AM »
The most important rule is: don't share your ideas with other players! Let's take it step by step. Let's agree on the big picture, then the end and starting eras and then we can take turns building the setting.

Just for clarification, I thought that [middle earth] was a random setting that had humans, elves, orcs and similar creatures, not Tolkien's world.
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Re: The Big Picture
« Reply #10 on: June 06, 2012, 10:26:31 AM »
Hmm... okay. Well how do we do this exactly on a forum?
How do we agree on a big picture without sharing our ideas?
 I"m online this time everyday by the way, so this is the time when I'll be contributing most.

On tolkien...
I can see where you're coming from but saying that means different thing to different people as you can see. It is a setting with those things but the orcs aren't a playble race, they're irredeemably evil servant status generally speaking, elves have a flavor, humans have a flavor... naming conventions etc. . . a bunch of things. So you know.

I'm totally cool with Random D&D world though.

So.. in anycase... K. Big picture time.

 I'm not sure how many people are actually in on this, I see 4 which is awesome, because I've worked with Sir, and Sky before, in games, so theres a small bit of familiarity.
 
 So if the big picture is
"Story of the 1000 Years war" I'm on board, Skydragonknight suggested it, you're onboard... so... we just wait to see if Sirpercival approves? Yes?

I see in retrospect that my end is too detailed. Hmm... Made a scene that was already somewhat scoped in on. LOL, this is going to take some getting used to, and likely take sometime.


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Re: The Big Picture
« Reply #11 on: June 06, 2012, 10:33:53 AM »
Hmm... okay. Well how do we do this exactly on a forum?
How do we agree on a big picture without sharing our ideas?
 I"m online this time everyday by the way, so this is the time when I'll be contributing most.

I thought you're going to use those after the game starts, when we'll be building events and such. The game prep (big picture, starting and ending and something else that i don't remember right now) is the only part of the game that the players can cooperate.
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Re: The Big Picture
« Reply #12 on: June 06, 2012, 05:04:17 PM »
I said [Middle Earth] because I couldn't think of/was trying not to name the planet/setting...though I wanted Elves, Dwarves, etc.
Hmm.

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Re: The Big Picture
« Reply #13 on: June 09, 2012, 09:47:42 AM »
Alright. So we have our big picture. Anyone has any objections? Or should we continue to the next phase?
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Re: The Big Picture
« Reply #14 on: June 09, 2012, 09:54:08 AM »
I will be contributing at some point, I promise!  I'm just on vacation (and busy with work during it... blech).
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Re: The Big Picture
« Reply #15 on: June 12, 2012, 04:30:58 PM »
Waiting patiently...
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Re: The Big Picture
« Reply #16 on: June 29, 2012, 10:17:25 PM »
OK, I read the Microscope rules the other night.  First of all, I love the system, that's a great find DM.

I'm all for that big picture, I think it could lead to a lot of interesting meat :D  Now I'll head over to the Bookend History thread.
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Re: The Big Picture
« Reply #17 on: June 30, 2012, 03:19:38 AM »
Still here.
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Re: The Big Picture
« Reply #18 on: April 28, 2014, 09:49:45 PM »
Looking for group. . .
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