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The Faraway Land: Dragonbound (CLOSED, non-starter)

@SilverPaw@Blizz@Forett@duskshine749@kitramos@Dark Cloud@rabidporcupine@Vertigo@aia2022

The Faraway Land: Dragonbound (9 players interested as of 11/23/22)

@Dark Cloud Absolutely! Let me know what you need my input on.

@Vertigo Not late at all! You're just in time. I'll put your name in the main thread.

The Faraway Land: Dragonbound (9 players interested as of 11/23/22)

The main thread is up! Submit your character sheets whenever you're ready, please.

The Faraway Land: Dragonbound (CLOSED, non-starter)

Character Sheet

• Identity: In the Kingdom of Aetherion, where most of this story takes place, standard medieval fantasy names are common, but you may use any naming convention you wish. Provide a picture if possible.
• Demographics: Your homonculus bodies are grown from the idealized versions of your self-image. As such, you will closely resemble how you imagine yourself to look. What do you look like? Eye color, hair color, height, gender, and unique features belong in this section.
• Story: Who are you? Where are you from? Where are you headed? Perhaps you were once a NEET from Japan who got isekai'd into this fantasy world, or a Crown Prince hoping to earn his father's approval? Your memories of your lives in this world after meeting Regret have yet to return, but your pre-heroic memories are still yours.
• Strengths: This can include skills, magic powers, special equipment, and such like. For an idea of how powerful you should be, your bodies are ageless and at the peak of human physical capabilities. Your Dragon Blood is spent like mana to cast magic spells, granting at most the power to do something flashy and overpowering once per encounter (or something efficient and tactically smart on the regular). This power will grow over time.
• Preferred Patron: This is primarily for my benefit as GM. Let me know whether you wish to grow closer to Regret, Yddrog, or neither over the course of the story.
• Stake: This is arguably the most important part of the CS. A thousand years ago, you rose to your feet and swore allegiance to the Archon of Regret. Why? What drove you to kneel before your Lady and risk life and limb for her cause? What drives you now? There must have been something you dearly wished for more than anything, something that even death itself could not deter you from pursuing. What was it?

The Faraway Land: Dragonbound (CLOSED, non-starter)

The Faraway Land

Dragonbound

Out-of-Character Thread

Interest Check

@SilverPaw@Blizz@Forett@duskshine749@kitramos@Dark Cloud@rabidporcupine@Vertigo@aia2022

The Faraway Land: Dragonbound (9 players interested as of 11/23/22)

@Blizz Not much. I was mainly helping some players decide what characters they wanted to play. Currently in the process of making OOC atm; I'll let y'all know when it's up.

Oh, and I need to finish my discussion with one player about his character's origin story.

The Faraway Land: Dragonbound (9 players interested as of 11/23/22)

@Dark Cloud We start soon, tomorrow I'm thinking, if I don't get roped into more all-day house-cleaning, emotional damage, and network trouble like today. Also developing some ideas for integrating player characters into the plot, which should solidify when I post the OOC and CS sections.

@kitramos I think we can do a kitsune. The way this can work is, your character would initially be human, and you'd contract with a fox goddess who can possess you to grant you her powers. If you want to be a natural kitsune, there's two methods available: 1) The foxlike features are mainly cosmetic. You have up to nine tails (depending on the character's age; 1 new tail per 100 years) and two fox ears, with none of the other arcane powers their kind are known for. Lifespan is approximately the same as normal humans, at around 70-120 years. 2) You ascend to demigodhood and become a kitsune, complete with all their usual powers. This may only be achieved with a sufficiently powerful desire and sacrifice during gameplay.
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Now, regarding the matter of game systems, it seems like everyone is relatively neutral about it, with a few expressing preferences for numerical resolution systems. So how about this: We'll try out a few battles using narrative vs numerical systems and decide which one we like better after seeing them for ourselves?

The Faraway Land: Dragonbound (9 players interested as of 11/23/22)

@duskshine749 How about an artificer, then? This planet, Aion, is stuffed with ancient artifacts from a civilization long past, and learning about who they were and how they made these things sounds like precisely the sort of work a knowledge-seeking artificer would seek out. Regret is the only person alive who lived through the ancient era, so striking up a contract with her might appeal to this character.

The Faraway Land: Dragonbound (9 players interested as of 11/23/22)

@Zyx Best of luck to you too!

@kitramos@duskshine749 Now that I finally have a week off to myself, I can focus a bit more. What character ideas are on the table? I can offer some suggestions with a few prompts to work from, if need be.

The Faraway Land: Dragonbound (9 players interested as of 11/23/22)

@Forett To tell you the truth, I've been interested in playing D&D with a group, but never figured out how to get into it. Everything just looks so daunting, including the dedicated websites meant to host it and all the rulebooks stuffed with content. I'd DM a game if I knew how. Most of my experience has been with GMing for narrative RP, which this game operates on. I've toyed with introducing some kind of mechanical system from time to time, but nothing seems to function quite as well in a forum environment as pure narrative systems. I would enjoy either kind of RP.

That said, I would definitely consider trying to implement some sort of D&D-like system if everyone present were on board with it (we'd put it to a vote). Hand-holding would be absolutely necessary, but I'd be more than happy to put in the work.