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What's your take on Halflings and what's your take on races? General character concept stuff.

Humans
Grey Aliens
Star Wars like aliens
Halflings
Dwarves
Cybernetic implants
Straight up Androids

Are you doing like FTl travel in the setting or do trips always take a long while?

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I'm definitely down for some space western-ness, if you'll have me. The couple of ideas I have right off the top of my head are a reverse cyborg (a droid slowly trying to become more organic), a space cultist who's sect worship a AI or a particular AI (maybe an offshoot of the Arc Luminous if that fits), a classic plucky pilot (I love playing pilots) or maybe a disgraced small-world marshal. I love space westerns so I've got a lot of different ideas I'll want to sort through before I really settle.

I'd be interested too. Several stupid ideas bouncing in my head.

Mini Han Solo or Jyong Wang (Jackie Chan John Wayne in Space)

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Well, a couple of characters come to mind.

J'nkai - alien mechanic, blue-skinned humanoid with multiple limbs, got stranded on a world with a long abandoned mine and no way to get outsys until they got rescued a decade later.

His silent partner (they're mute) calls herself Seven. She's a human and very good with guns, blades, even her hands. J'nkai believes she's a Wilder - a sect of humans who claim they were the first to leave the long lost mythical Earth. He actually found her in an active frozen berth in the wreckage of one of the orbiting ships.

I have an idea of a Terran who is in their mid-50s. They are generally quite unassuming, light-hearted, and use humor a lot in response to tense situations. I was considering having their name be Colter "Colt" Dutton.

He participated in the Umbral War for many years on the Crux Tenebrous side and held the rank of Colonel (or lore equivalent). Colt was a loyal, dedicated soldier who believed in the Crux's cause. However, on his last mission, he was ordered to commit an atrocity of genocidal proportions. Since then he was given the moniker "Nightmare of Votian" (Votian is just a word I came up with for a group of people). After that moment, he deserted his post and became a space outlaw.

Rhun the Halfman aka Mini Han Solo:

One of a nearly extinct now race, bred to be smaller, with a slower metabolism, and longer lived. They were bred this way to serve longer and take up less space on long distance transport ships prior to the proliferation of FTL travel. Physically they fit the purpose well, but they would come to develop a culture and typical personality that fared less well as long term workers. Slaves really though transport conglomerates never admitted to it.

Perhaps due to their inability to make their own choices these people, once the Halfmen, later the Halflings, and then when their usefulness ended the Ratlings, grew (no pun intended) to revere the things they had long been denied.

Freedom
A home
Good food
Standing

Rhun grew up on a Pirate ship, a stowaway at first, and found himself trying to learn as much as possible to protect his position. Small as he was at any time the captain might decide his small living quarters would be better suited to hold a few footlockers of loot or a cask or two of wine.

He failed in many endeavors but succeeded in three. He was an excellent shot, he was good at moving about unnoticed, and he was a neigh unparalleled chef. At least to the taste buds of a collection of dirtbag pirates.

Now, decades later, Rhun the Halfman has a rather outsize reputation for such a small man.

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This looks really cool, at first I was getting a kind of Cowboy Bebop vibe, but with all the latin terms and the massive chronological scale I'm getting more of a Dune/E.Y.E. kind of far future vibe from it.

I'd enjoy either, but I'm still kind of confused on the scale you're going for.

Who maintains and operates the hyper-rings? Do they house enormous populations themselves, or just skeleton maintenance crews? Would a maintainer have to be trained from birth to limit the chance of them defecting with trade secrets? I'm imagining they are something like navigator's from Dune. A clandestine, almost pseudo-religious organisation.

I have some possibly interesting ideas for a character. Don't want to spoil you, will DM you with more details once the ball gets rolling.

Pledging interest. The details revealed so far have me excited but I would like to see what shape this takes before committing fully.



Looking forward to seeing what might come next.

Interested! I've been listening to a podcast along these lines and it's been tickling my brain just right. Y'all still open to characters? Depending on the setting and general dynamic I can build almost anything up. Will hover for a couple days while I marinate character ideas. Have you got an idea of a player or character limit? I tend to get overwhelmed when there's a huge cast and can't keep up so if there's going to be a lot of PCs I may bow out.

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I see Rhun as sort of the crusty old hand. Dirty old fuck with a heart of gold.

Cook on the ship, does repairs, talks a lot of shit but also tries to share his wisdom, sometimes just shares his own dumbshit theories, ventures off into the wilderness to scout when we get out into the weeds. Probably gets into trouble whenever we stop at a trading post. Lots of stories to tell in bars. Some of them even true. General rapscallion activities.

Cool!!! I have two ideas starting to brew.

Idea 1: Friendly jock-coded hardware/electrical engineer. Perhaps a terran, perhaps with a few prosthetics from some work accidents. Very smart guy, very friendly, perhaps a touch overconfident, but charasmatic enough to make up for it. Was definitely raised on some backwater planet, no clue who his parents are, but had a strong community around him. Adventerous and just wants to explore the galaxy, to see things, try new drinks, perhaps pocket some trinkets along the way - perhaps trinkets that are advanced pieces of technology, perhaps landing him in trouble with the law reguarly. However, he is a brilliant engineer and tinkerer, making him a valuable asset on a ship as he can fix almost anything, shoot the shit with anyone, and drink almost everyone to the moon and back. He really just wants to explore, collect cool shit and make cool shit and meet cool people. No thoughts, only vibes on his days off. No major goals in life, he's just here to have fun.

Idea 2: An ex-exployee of the Spacer Commerce League. She found it more profitable to steal and sell information to the highest bidder from inside the League than to co-operate with it. If (GM willing for this) someone was willing to pay enough, she could give them access to the Hyper-Rings. This black market trade was high risk, high reward, and she was inevitably caught. She knew that things would fall through and was able to escape with nothing but the clothes on her back and a frankly obscene amount of credits (or whatever currency). Since then she has been zipping around the galaxy, unable to integrate back into society for fear of being caught, and avoids using the Hyper-Rings for fear of being recognised. Unsure what her job on the ship would be.... Perhaps some kind of communications manager/hacker/general tech support?

Lore idea: SCL employees may have some kind of implanted chip that gives them access to company files/facilities/etc which she now needs to remove because it will DEFINITELY ping if she goes through a Hyper-Ring.

What's the ratings for this in terms of language/violence/explicit scenes/romance? Obvs keeping to the site rules, but what's your limits?

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@Dead Cruiser Okay sweet! I only skim read other OC concepts so happy to work around what other people are vibing with! Thank you

Happy late holidays y'all

Ok, lemme know if this idea works/doesn't overlap with anyone boss-man:

A gung-ho Cult-y pilot with some whacky cybernetics that border on psychic. The big inspirations I've got here are psykers and (to a much lesser extent) orks from 40k. Basically his sect believe there's something beyond just AIs, literal ghosts in the shell and each has their own affinity for different technologies which is augments by cybernetics that have been reversed engineered on multiple occasions only to determine that they shouldn't work. He'd be really Zealous and have parchments written out and stuck around the cockpit (where he'd also sleep), trying to preach his gospel anywhere the team goes. However, he'd always try to avoid any other members of his sect and get really clammy when interacting with them (I can spill the beans on why if ya want in DM or out in the open, just like adding a little dash of mystery).

Does that sound ok? If the psychic-y bits are pushing it too far I can change it to a more physical interface thing (like pluggin into the ship).

How far does the fantasy aspect of it go?