Conversation for Direction the game will take after April.
Jan 19, 2015 15:42:56 GMT -8
Post by Storyteller on Jan 19, 2015 15:42:56 GMT -8
Direction that our game can take:
There are multiple factors and ways we can take our quest in the galaxy cauldron… And many “formats” our game can take. So since we all play here we’re going to be making it a conversation. Ultimately it needs to be something I can push a story for so I’m going to have a large “veto” on various ideas- but I’d like, and prefer, that we all come together as a group for the conversation about what game we’d like to play.
There have been two serious conversations about it in the staff chat between Kat, Nick, Sam and myself. Those are the two I’m going to detail below. If anyone else has an idea or a concept they think might be worth developing, this is your chance to throw for it- including things you’d like to see from the sailor moon universe specifically- such as the Ice Age or Rise of Crystal Tokyo…
The first “concept” is that we take our intrepid heroes (and villains) back to the golden millennium where everyone is just establishing their kingdoms. There were ten planets, and of course, the moon. The Asteroid field between Mars/Jupiter was a planet that Solaris destroyed and was the “home base” of both the Rhapsody’s berth as well as the Solar Kingdom- between the Inner and Outer planets. The moon was established as a science research center that was working with the crystal that was found (In Sailor Moon Crystal this is the giant Crystal in the prayer tower--- and in our mythos the base of all crystal technology with the silver, gold, prism and the other crystals, including black.)
Each planet has a sort of “pre-established mindset” in Sailor Moon and the Greek Mythology that it spawned from. (For Example) Mars is spiritual but war like, Venus is love and seduction, Mercury are fast, brilliant messengers and healers… Jupiter are strong warriors with heightened abilities to make plants grow. Earth is one of the only places where there was an established ecosystem that wasn’t need to be created by scientists and is something of a “nature preserve” and back up world if the other worlds fail – thus it’s protected.—etc. Each planet is sponsored by a “Royal House” who are from the original planet and people who weren’t apart of the nobility “choose” which “path” of thought/belief to follow. Knights and Senshi are born and created out of those royal families/ military people from the Sol House.
Game would be just as much about establishing your house on your planet, trade between planets, dealing with outside threats inside threats, etc. Players would play either Royalty or Senshi/Knights (they are ‘not’ exclusive… being a knight or Senshi takes time away from being a royal… it’s hard to protect a queen when nobles want money and peasants want to .. you know.. EAT!) Players would be in control of most of their populace- with Storytellers influencing NPCs or sending people scattering with plotlines--- such as a plague, or corruption from an outside force…. A rival kingdom setting up on your planet…etc..
(For the Rival Kingdom—this kind of thing is canon. In Sailor Moon, during the Silver Millennium, Queen Nehelenia’s family established a kingdom on the other side of the Moon Kingdom and it wasn’t until Nehelenia got grabby that she was banished. (Oh, she also killed off her populace in an effort to remain immortal and beautiful- but details right?)
“Population” would be based on rough figures – higher populated planets would have better armies were lower populated places would have more natural resources- or higher magical output (like Pluto- who has the space/time door and wouldn’t have a very large population out in the boundaries.)
Players would also influence their population’s growth with some kind of bonus, the more “characters” in your cities the more people there are- and the more they are in control as there is are “multiple” leaders in a city. (Ie: One Royal, One Knight and One Senshi, as a court, would be stronger than just a city with a Royal who was also a Senshi.)
And yes, this is fully in “concept” stage not actual stats, this is just to give everyone an “idea” of where we could go with this. Obviously it would be a lot of inter-planetary politics… and various other things… But it’d give people a lot of freedom to do things. And we can have outside forces, like the Snow Queen, attack and give people a chance to negotiate for assistance… that kind of thing.
The second idea is that we do a modern ages thing. Toss the kids into the 2000th century and just do a more classical monster-youma- tag team fun thing. More classical, more RPG… more… more? And then choose you know, do we have all heroes, all villains, a mixture of both like right now…etc.
I don’t mean to make the “second” idea sound less awesome- it just needs a lot less “here’s the potential sprawl”—frankly we all know what a modern Sailor Moon based game looks like. We’ve done them before in one way or another. However it is something we can do again. We could give everyone a chance in the next few months to tap friends, enemies, etc, and set up a solid moon court in the galaxy cauldron (or a villain court) and have them have a go of it.
I was going to wait until later to start asking “where do you want to go with this” but it’d help ‘me’ for planning purposes and ‘where I’m taking your characters in the now’ where we are going to go with it in the future.
So.
How do you feel?
Do you have any other ideas of what you’d like to play? What you’d like to explore? These are just two potentials and there’s a thousand more- from playing Canons directly (Piff Liz and Astra, we could have an Usagi!) or ditching sailor moon all together as a group n doing something else…
What does the group want to do? Where do we go from here?
My ears and doors are open.
(Please Keep this conversation CIVIL. If you don’t like someone’s idea you don’t need to say anything. This is purely to get ideas out there- a sandbox as it where- we’ll narrow down the pros/cons after this and do a vote… there’s no need to do anything negative ok? Thanks.)
Joy.
So before anyone asks. I have always been fascinated with ‘pre’ silver millennium and Crystal Cities. Those are my two babies. I have no problem playing modern or silver millennium, or whatever. I love Sailor Moon and Playing with all of you. I’m sure I will find something to love regardless of what we choose. I’d even be willing to drag your sailor moon characters to Harpeah- though I’m pretty sure brains would break at that point hehe…
There are multiple factors and ways we can take our quest in the galaxy cauldron… And many “formats” our game can take. So since we all play here we’re going to be making it a conversation. Ultimately it needs to be something I can push a story for so I’m going to have a large “veto” on various ideas- but I’d like, and prefer, that we all come together as a group for the conversation about what game we’d like to play.
There have been two serious conversations about it in the staff chat between Kat, Nick, Sam and myself. Those are the two I’m going to detail below. If anyone else has an idea or a concept they think might be worth developing, this is your chance to throw for it- including things you’d like to see from the sailor moon universe specifically- such as the Ice Age or Rise of Crystal Tokyo…
The first “concept” is that we take our intrepid heroes (and villains) back to the golden millennium where everyone is just establishing their kingdoms. There were ten planets, and of course, the moon. The Asteroid field between Mars/Jupiter was a planet that Solaris destroyed and was the “home base” of both the Rhapsody’s berth as well as the Solar Kingdom- between the Inner and Outer planets. The moon was established as a science research center that was working with the crystal that was found (In Sailor Moon Crystal this is the giant Crystal in the prayer tower--- and in our mythos the base of all crystal technology with the silver, gold, prism and the other crystals, including black.)
Each planet has a sort of “pre-established mindset” in Sailor Moon and the Greek Mythology that it spawned from. (For Example) Mars is spiritual but war like, Venus is love and seduction, Mercury are fast, brilliant messengers and healers… Jupiter are strong warriors with heightened abilities to make plants grow. Earth is one of the only places where there was an established ecosystem that wasn’t need to be created by scientists and is something of a “nature preserve” and back up world if the other worlds fail – thus it’s protected.—etc. Each planet is sponsored by a “Royal House” who are from the original planet and people who weren’t apart of the nobility “choose” which “path” of thought/belief to follow. Knights and Senshi are born and created out of those royal families/ military people from the Sol House.
Game would be just as much about establishing your house on your planet, trade between planets, dealing with outside threats inside threats, etc. Players would play either Royalty or Senshi/Knights (they are ‘not’ exclusive… being a knight or Senshi takes time away from being a royal… it’s hard to protect a queen when nobles want money and peasants want to .. you know.. EAT!) Players would be in control of most of their populace- with Storytellers influencing NPCs or sending people scattering with plotlines--- such as a plague, or corruption from an outside force…. A rival kingdom setting up on your planet…etc..
(For the Rival Kingdom—this kind of thing is canon. In Sailor Moon, during the Silver Millennium, Queen Nehelenia’s family established a kingdom on the other side of the Moon Kingdom and it wasn’t until Nehelenia got grabby that she was banished. (Oh, she also killed off her populace in an effort to remain immortal and beautiful- but details right?)
“Population” would be based on rough figures – higher populated planets would have better armies were lower populated places would have more natural resources- or higher magical output (like Pluto- who has the space/time door and wouldn’t have a very large population out in the boundaries.)
Players would also influence their population’s growth with some kind of bonus, the more “characters” in your cities the more people there are- and the more they are in control as there is are “multiple” leaders in a city. (Ie: One Royal, One Knight and One Senshi, as a court, would be stronger than just a city with a Royal who was also a Senshi.)
And yes, this is fully in “concept” stage not actual stats, this is just to give everyone an “idea” of where we could go with this. Obviously it would be a lot of inter-planetary politics… and various other things… But it’d give people a lot of freedom to do things. And we can have outside forces, like the Snow Queen, attack and give people a chance to negotiate for assistance… that kind of thing.
The second idea is that we do a modern ages thing. Toss the kids into the 2000th century and just do a more classical monster-youma- tag team fun thing. More classical, more RPG… more… more? And then choose you know, do we have all heroes, all villains, a mixture of both like right now…etc.
I don’t mean to make the “second” idea sound less awesome- it just needs a lot less “here’s the potential sprawl”—frankly we all know what a modern Sailor Moon based game looks like. We’ve done them before in one way or another. However it is something we can do again. We could give everyone a chance in the next few months to tap friends, enemies, etc, and set up a solid moon court in the galaxy cauldron (or a villain court) and have them have a go of it.
I was going to wait until later to start asking “where do you want to go with this” but it’d help ‘me’ for planning purposes and ‘where I’m taking your characters in the now’ where we are going to go with it in the future.
So.
How do you feel?
Do you have any other ideas of what you’d like to play? What you’d like to explore? These are just two potentials and there’s a thousand more- from playing Canons directly (Piff Liz and Astra, we could have an Usagi!) or ditching sailor moon all together as a group n doing something else…
What does the group want to do? Where do we go from here?
My ears and doors are open.
(Please Keep this conversation CIVIL. If you don’t like someone’s idea you don’t need to say anything. This is purely to get ideas out there- a sandbox as it where- we’ll narrow down the pros/cons after this and do a vote… there’s no need to do anything negative ok? Thanks.)
Joy.
So before anyone asks. I have always been fascinated with ‘pre’ silver millennium and Crystal Cities. Those are my two babies. I have no problem playing modern or silver millennium, or whatever. I love Sailor Moon and Playing with all of you. I’m sure I will find something to love regardless of what we choose. I’d even be willing to drag your sailor moon characters to Harpeah- though I’m pretty sure brains would break at that point hehe…
