Thank you both!
Let's see... my campaign is D&D, set on a planet that orbits an orange star in a star heavy region of space, so the night sky is spectacular. There is a cobalt and a violet moon, plus a ring system from another moon that had been shattered in ages past. The story starts with the players on a ship that find a sinking ship. There is no one on board but two strange looking children, a twin brother and sister, who are terrified, but no one knows why. The brother seems to be in shock, but when he regains awareness, he screams, there is a bright light that envelops the party, and then they find themselves along with half of the sinking ship in a jungle, with no idea where they are. We've only managed a couple of sessions. Right now the players are being held captive in a yuan-ti camp. They'll need to eventually find their way back home and discover who the children are. (The reincarnations of twin gods that destroyed each other which flung their world outside of time and space.)
My novel idea starts on a world with no sun, where the sun had been destroyed over a millennium ago with highly advanced technology, but over a long period of time. (Well, relatively short in comparison with a multidimensional timeline.) Kind of "siphoned" away, if you will. The catch is is that it's a fantasy setting. Elves are the predominate race, with human empires long since crumbled, now having to rely on the elves for survival. A third new race has found this world, having been forced from their own, and once they regained their bearings, are on a path of conquest. While the world has little in the way of resources with no sun, creatures manage to survive in isolated pockets of life. The main life form is fungus. There is more advanced technology that keeps the surface temperature liveable, but no one alive has any clue why they can survive with no sun. The ultimate goal of the characters is to bring back the sun.
I do have pretty much the entire story either in my notes or in my head, it's just a matter of organizing my thoughts. I can scatter pretty easily. But yeah, the plan was to write the entire thing, then submit it as a trilogy. I appreciate the advice!
I really liked Star Ocean 2: The Second Story. I think some of the original PSX RPGs were the best I've ever played, aside from a few NES and SNES ones. Don't get me wrong, Nintendo had GREAT games. Just my opinion.
Star Ocean: Till the End of Time, for the PS2, was a lot of fun as well. I've played the first Xenosaga only of that series. It's a lot like SO: TET graphically. I have not played the Star Ocean for the XBox 360, though, but I am quite curious about it.
I'm a HUGE fan of the Dragon Warrior/Quest series. 4 was probably my favorite, for the NES, and 8 is right up there for the PS2. Final Fantasy.... who doesn't love Final Fantasy? 13 was a big disappointment for me though. I love most all the other ones though, even the original, and Tactics simply rocks, imho.
I dig the Prince of Persia games quite a bit, and the game that I think kind of set the standard for puzzle games of that type, Ico for the PS2 . For it's time, it was visually stunning, had a great storyline, presented challenging puzzles, and had brief but intense combat.
What other games do you get into, and what is your novel about?
