Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Just gonna leave this here
"Their leader ###NAMETHISGUY### is rumored to ride on the outside of their flagship, firing an automatic weapon as it screams into battle."
Sunday, May 15, 2011
New cover and New race
Ive designed a new cover that is now on the character creation portion of theory, and im also working on a new race: The Asiri. here's a preview:
The war between Ural and the forces of the altay had been a raging stalemate for years. The altay began doing research into kez artifacts to try and find a way to turn the tide in their favor; To end the war once and for all. In time, they discovered an ancient kez process in which they took volunteers from their society and put them on an uninhabited planet. Then, using chronomagic they accelerated time on the planet so that years were passing in seconds. The inhabitants would then breed their strongest and smartest to create a society of extremely powerful mages and warriors in only a matter of months. The altay attempted this feat on a neigboring planet known as ###NAMETHISPLANET###. They sent a colony of 100 people, including warriors, mages, and history keepers, then began the process. The planet sank into a monochrome darkness as time began to accelerate. Immediately, all attempts to contact the planet or its inhabitants was lost and any attempt to physically move through the time rift ripped ships apart. The colony was alone in the dark as 1700 years passed every month. Within the first 100 years the history keepers were lost, and the altay on the planet forgot who they were or why they were there. They began to form their own society, their own culture. After three months of real time (4,100 years colony time), the Chronorift dissipated and the planet came out of its accelerated state. Attempts to contact the people from space were met with radio silence, so a reconaissance ship was sent to the surface. The altay discovered a much different type of colony had spread and consumed the planet under a single flag. They called themselves The Asiri. Their physicality was drastically different from the altay. Their skin ranged from grey to ashen, they had two rows of teeth and sunken hollow eyes. They had about twice the muscle mass of an altay. They were hostile. None of the reconaissance troops made it back alive, they were ripped apart upon first contact. Study of this race from space showed that these Asiri lived in a Theocracy, ruled by a line of God-Kings known as the Viscer. Punishment for even the smallest crime was met with ritualistic mass murder known as Excoriation. Attempts to meet the asiri with diplomacy were met with such a fate. Finally, the altay determined that the asiri presented more of a threat than a promise, so the decision was made to scrap the project; To assassinate the viscer and allow the society to crumble from the inside. The operation was initially a success, altay forces got on the ground and managed to infiltrate asiri society. However, the viscer's elite guards known as the Extinerate slaughtered the assassins without quarter. Survivors were excoriated; and the project was abandoned entirely.
The war between Ural and the forces of the altay had been a raging stalemate for years. The altay began doing research into kez artifacts to try and find a way to turn the tide in their favor; To end the war once and for all. In time, they discovered an ancient kez process in which they took volunteers from their society and put them on an uninhabited planet. Then, using chronomagic they accelerated time on the planet so that years were passing in seconds. The inhabitants would then breed their strongest and smartest to create a society of extremely powerful mages and warriors in only a matter of months. The altay attempted this feat on a neigboring planet known as ###NAMETHISPLANET###. They sent a colony of 100 people, including warriors, mages, and history keepers, then began the process. The planet sank into a monochrome darkness as time began to accelerate. Immediately, all attempts to contact the planet or its inhabitants was lost and any attempt to physically move through the time rift ripped ships apart. The colony was alone in the dark as 1700 years passed every month. Within the first 100 years the history keepers were lost, and the altay on the planet forgot who they were or why they were there. They began to form their own society, their own culture. After three months of real time (4,100 years colony time), the Chronorift dissipated and the planet came out of its accelerated state. Attempts to contact the people from space were met with radio silence, so a reconaissance ship was sent to the surface. The altay discovered a much different type of colony had spread and consumed the planet under a single flag. They called themselves The Asiri. Their physicality was drastically different from the altay. Their skin ranged from grey to ashen, they had two rows of teeth and sunken hollow eyes. They had about twice the muscle mass of an altay. They were hostile. None of the reconaissance troops made it back alive, they were ripped apart upon first contact. Study of this race from space showed that these Asiri lived in a Theocracy, ruled by a line of God-Kings known as the Viscer. Punishment for even the smallest crime was met with ritualistic mass murder known as Excoriation. Attempts to meet the asiri with diplomacy were met with such a fate. Finally, the altay determined that the asiri presented more of a threat than a promise, so the decision was made to scrap the project; To assassinate the viscer and allow the society to crumble from the inside. The operation was initially a success, altay forces got on the ground and managed to infiltrate asiri society. However, the viscer's elite guards known as the Extinerate slaughtered the assassins without quarter. Survivors were excoriated; and the project was abandoned entirely.
Friday, May 6, 2011
Reformatting complete... almost
The major reformatting of character creation is complete! you can view the new layout by clicking "character creation" to your right. I'd Like to add some more crisp textures as well as some character art, but the meat of the thing is already way better.
Reformatting... in progress
The reformatting of character creation is going well and I'm already liking the new layout better than the old one. things are already much easier to find, and much easier to read. ETA on Reformatting completion will be this weekend! (pending psionics)
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Psionics, New meta and formatting changes
First, the new meta:
Surge- 10ap, 10mana. 250Xp to learn. The spells critical strike range is increased by 2. in addition, if the spell successfully confirms critical, you may immediately cast another spell that costs 0 mana and 15 less Ap.
this meta allows a mage to cast spells back-to-back more effectively. another change on the way is the way metas are used and categorized. Metas will now be split into two categories: Shape Metas, and Power Metas. you may only have one Shape meta on a spell at a time, but you may have as many power metas as you like. This change should simplify spellcasting and streamline spell creation and resolution. In addition you will now be able to add a single meta multiple times and cause its effects to stack. so, with our surge meta here, a double shot of surge means that our spells critical threat range is increased by 4, and if we confirm a crit, our next spell costs 30 less mana, however the double shot of surge would cost us 20ap and 20 mana.
Psionics:
Psionics are now being looked at more critically and will likely make it into character creation sometime soon.
Formatting Changes:
Ive decided to split the Character Creation book into chapters with abilities first and meta abilities in the latter part of each chapter. the chapters will likely begin with equipment, then move into martial, then magic, and finally psionics.
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