I have an RP idea in mind where you play either a militarized task force designed to eliminate paranormal activity, or something akin to the Umbrella Secret Service.
1 yr ago
I am trying to worldbuild god civs akin to the Time Lords or Xeelee, but so far I've yet to get anything concrete down. It is a tad frustrating, but I'll come up with something eventually. I hope.
1 yr ago
@Obscene: And that is true. I might try that with a character I'm making for a fic actually. Though they'll be no-nonsense in a largely jovial kind of way.
1 yr ago
Yeah. Static was just what popped into my head as the closest descriptor since those are less focused on the character's arc or internal struggle. Not the best wording to use admittedly.
1 yr ago
I just want more protagonists with that same resolve, or barring that ones who aren't confused young adults looking to find their place in life analogues.
@Zyx I know your plate is full, but there's room for you here if you're interested.
@Sniblet Yeah I think I may have had a slight knee-jerk reaction to seeing such an inflated number on the sheet. I think if you wanted to make them 4000 or thereabouts it would feel more in line with the others (assuming there will be others). Given what you're saying I think the character is functional as it stands. I only worry that this character's inhumanity might make them monotonous to play, but I leave it at your discretion.
>Tempting, but I'm good. Offer is appreciated though.
Name: OPHANIM (traditionally written in allcaps, think “the LORD”; not an acronym)
Epithets: Divine Beyond; Lord of Hosts; Shroud of Heaven; Beacon of Salvation; Perfector; Tyrant in Splendour; etc
Age: ~40M years
Home-Plane: The plane of OPHANIM, once a medieval fantasy archetype, was conquered and utterly reshaped within mere centuries of its manifestation, and now lies permanently bathed in searing light. Its inhabitants, once human, orc, and elf, are now – better. Tall, crystalline, polygonal, featureless, identical humanoids populate land, sea, and sky, pursuing no purpose but their faith. Idolatry is a capital sin. Doubt is a capital sin. Freedom is a capital sin. Only the sinful know death in its eternal embrace.
Description: It may manifest as a large, symmetrically faced, androgynous humanoid in white, otherwise superficially resembling nearby mortals; a searing yellow or white glow with no source; or a wheel of perpetual flame laced with never-blinking, never-still, bloodshot eyes. When humanoid, its eyes are never visible. The stories say that they glow so brightly that they instantly incinerate the evil. Stories that are never told in OPHANIM’s realm debate the meaning of evil in this case. OPHANIM is fierce, commanding, and fanatically stubborn, as if relentlessly following the commandments of a twisted holy book never written. It never raises its voice, but its voice is said to boom exactly as loudly as it needs to, even if that is loud enough to bring a forest to knee.
Backstory: OPHANIM may be recognized as an archetype that appears in stories across many shards, but its tale is true in only one. The stories follow similar basic premises: the road to hell, and you know the rest. Sometimes it is a king. Sometimes it is an adventurer. Rarely, it is an angel – perhaps you’ve heard of Lucifer. In no telling is it known as what it is: an utterly inhuman elder spirit obsessed by the trappings of divinity. There were never good intentions. The Shard was taken like every sealed treasure of OPHANIM’s world; a vault was found, followers commanded to gather as a flock and retrieve it. Traps and enchantments were shoved aside with force of numbers. Only the sinful died in that crusade. Do not doubt this.
Shard: The Book of Perfect Light is kept in OPHANIM’s possession at all times. The Book of Perfect Light is said to contain the whole of OPHANIM’s doctrines, written plain. The contents of the Book of Perfect Light have never been read by any mortal being. The Book of Perfect Light is not full of often incoherent, wholly self-contradictory dictates writ tightly in a script only OPHANIM can comprehend. Do not doubt this.
Powers: OPHANIM’s power is broad, but relies universally on faith and followers. Its golden-tongued missionaries shout its truth from the mountains, and listeners are taken by the unnatural draw held by its arbitrary doctrine. Its faith is intransigent. Its followers worship madly and fervently in pursuit of mutually exclusive visions of paradise, and at the peak of their faith, when a village, city, continent shouts its name in unison, OPHANIM drinks of their love, and rebuilds them into something without it. In those parts of Creation it has reached into and perfected, its power is like a god's. Shrieking streaks of light erupt from the temples built in its name to shatter the armies of the as-yet unfaithful. Its perfected followers are nearly as vicious, their form beyond pain, beyond fear and doubt, beyond hunger and thirst, and beyond what most beings would call morality.
Eldritch thing with a Biblical(ly accurate)/divine light theme. Drastically more powerful and versatile in places where it is worshipped. Its religion is unnaturally alluring, compensating for the fact that a critical eye would realize it’s an insane totalitarian. It seizes absolute control of its most devoted followers down to shaping their body and soul into its uniform vision of perfection.
Misc: A playable entity in the superbly obscure indie game Shadows of Forbidden Gods. This iteration makes a lot of extrapolations from a character that had precious little actual character. I hope this counts as original.
>Iastur sends his regards. Or, he will rather, as soon as they stop running away.
*leans* Why not use the image space on here? That's not even off-grid proposing other caches. Atomic is solo, yeah, but it's not a spectrum - first you gotta represent the Underground; That's this turf here, that other stuff's in anarchy.
*flicks open a zippo off his pants leg, and returned the movement up the pants leg to get the flame* Heh, if you don't know the entertainment value of a Computer at least as a Party Junkie then now's the time to become a real Harbinger, People.
>A good reason is that the actual server is in like the hands of one guy in Mexico, and likely doesn't have a bunch of redundancies, off-site storage, or recovery systems/RAID in place. So if it goes down again, your shit's probably fucked.
>Again. Unless things have changed since then, as I have been out of the loop with what's going on with the Guild hosting wise for a bit now.
I don't really follow the LoZ series, so the only thing I know about ToTK is that people are making crazy builds with it. Some are "humorous", others are designed to commit war crimes. Such is the duality of man.
>Give a human a plank of wood and they will, inevitably, create a Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit Bomber.
Personally, I suggest just making a separate Discord channel/server for your image uploads. Most people already have Discord anyway, so it helps to keep everything in one place.
>For the images I really want to keep I just download them to my machine, stick them in an appropriate subfolder (or create one if it doesn't already exist), and then transfer them to a USB drive. The reason putting CYOAs on Discord isn't such a great idea is the fact that you'd need to upload a bunch of separate images for most of them, since they tend to get long. A prime example of this is the JRPG Traitor CYOA, which as you can see is quite long. As for images to use as faceclaims or maps or whatever, I just upload them here to the Guild or point directly to whatever page I originally found them on since we can't directly upload them to the site's server in a post.
>I know they have a multi-image/album-ish feature now, but still. You'd need to make a whole server and join it just to see a CYOA, which is why almost all of them are on ImgChest now. Easier for an entire subreddit of thousands and the rest of the internet to access that way.
>Also coming here to let people know that places like ImgChest exist. A ton of CYOAs from r/makeyourchoice and the like have already been reuploaded there, sans the ones that were put their periodically by various users. So if you want an alternative it's there.
>Lets say I decide to worldbuild a Clarketech heavy, post-heat death or big rip setting purely for fun (not for a story or RP). Besides watching tons of Isaac Arthur videos and consuming science fantasy series, where would be the best point to start? A timeline? A civilization? A bit of technology? A map or general tech level? I know this is largely a question that I could answer myself (not to mention an extremely general one akin to "Where do I start worldbuilding?"), but with the sheer amount of incomprehensible shit a polity could do at this scale (never mind whatever their semblance of culture is), I kind of need some help narrowing down a good starting point.
