World of Terra

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@HokumPocus Not at all! OOC does not launch until the 3rd.

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@OliveYou@Genni@baraquiel@Verticus@Fabricant451@Bishop@MasterOfChaos@Syn
For your consideration, here is the complete character sheet. Those of you writing magically based characters might have to make more edits because I'm still figuring out the rules of magic, and because I know I want it to be rare, magical sheets will be judged with a bit more scrutiny.

Also, the third section of the sheet should only include relationships other characters could reasonably tack on to their sheets, such as ex-wives, rivals, siblings, adventuring partners, and so on. The first "plot" of this largely sandbox world will be reasonably bringing our characters into one or two groups, depending on if there is a strong divide between nocturnal and diurnal sheets.

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Charactername, The Race/Subrace

Profile

Tell me your character's name, gender, species, approximate age relative to their lifespan, and basic appearance without writing these details in a listed format.

Biography

Tell me your character's personality, history, motivations, strengths, weaknesses, and skills without writing these details in a listed format.

Relationships

Relationship type - Loosest possible requirements for another PC to be this role. Example as follows.

Rival - A beastfolk who crossed paths with Firstname many years ago, who stole the coveted Plotdevice Crystal Firstname has been looking for.

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@MissCapnCrunch@DeadbeatWalking@T Risket@Cu Chulainn@Tenslashsix@Heat
For your consideration, here is the complete character sheet. Those of you writing magically based characters might have to make more edits because I'm still figuring out the rules of magic, and because I know I want it to be rare, magical sheets will be judged with a bit more scrutiny.

Also, the third section of the sheet should only include relationships other characters could reasonably tack on to their sheets, such as ex-wives, rivals, siblings, adventuring partners, and so on. The first "plot" of this largely sandbox world will be reasonably bringing our characters into one or two groups, depending on if there is a strong divide between nocturnal and diurnal sheets.

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Charactername, The Race/Subrace

Profile

Tell me your character's name, gender, species, approximate age relative to their lifespan, and basic appearance without writing these details in a listed format.

Biography

Tell me your character's personality, history, motivations, strengths, weaknesses, and skills without writing these details in a listed format.

Relationships

Relationship type - Loosest possible requirements for another PC to be this role. Example as follows.

Rival - A beastfolk who crossed paths with Firstname many years ago, who stole the coveted Plotdevice Crystal Firstname has been looking for.

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@Tenslashsix Launch is scheduled for 2/3/18.

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Glad to see all this interest. Currently working on a character sheet. For those of you into that sort of thing, PM me for access to the discord server. Launch is scheduled for 2/3/18.

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@Genni That works great!

@baraquiel Not in the sense you're thinking. There are ancient creatures that look and act like demons, but they're just people/animals affected by radiation who are not rot-touched or greens. There are no zombies reanimated from the ground by necromancers, but there are "Rot-Touched" humans who were directly created by the two nuclear apocalypses the world has seen. They look like zombies, can't go out in the sun, and perhaps after the bomb, slept for very long periods before waking up beneath a foot of newly-formed soil? To an observer, a rotting dude waking up from a four-hundred year dirt nap would very well resemble a zombie, save for rot-touched retaining their humanity and not having to be decapitated to die.

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EDIT: Currently working on a character sheet. For those of you into that sort of thing, PM me for access to the discord server. Launch is scheduled for 2/3/18.

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I'd be interested in playing as a goblin girl, but would need to know more about the Greenskin culture before committing fully.

Unfortunately, the answer for all of your questions is "It depends". Greenskin culture varies from place to place, but the unifying theme shared between all Greens (and non-Terra Fantasy Orcs) is that people pretty much hate them for being green. Aside from that, an actual unifying theme between all Greens is that they're tougher than elves and humans -- they have adapted to the worst parts of the world, and are probably not a very frilly, sanctimonious people.

What level of technology do the races have, are we talking Horizon: Zero Dawn, or World of Warcraft?

Excellent question. Aside from the use of ancient technology, we are in the iron age. Because Terra is not totally explored and societies are still forming, we are not yet in an era of mass consumption; Everybody but the wealthy have things only as nice as they are personally capable of crafting, swords are more likely to be found or inherited, and so on. Some parts of the world have clocks, some parts bang rocks together to make fire. There are broken robots walking around that were made in the first and second ages, as well as other working technological relics scattered about (vending machines, vehicles, computers, etc.) You might find a working gun, but finding enough working bullets to learn how to shoot is another matter entirely.

How prevalant is radiation in the new world, is it considered a constant danger or an occasional nuisance?

Depends where you are, who you are, and what the plot calls for. Greenskins and the Rot-Touched are essentially immune to radiation, Humans and Elves are sensitive to it. Some of it gives you mutant appendages, some of it gives you magical abilities, mostly it just gives you cancer or an immediate death. Radiation and magic are both under the same "Potentially really useful, but too dangerous to handle" umbrella.

How 'hideous and deformed' are Greenskins?

The least hideous and deformed of them look like green people with slightly pronounced fangs/tusks. The most hideous and deformed of them look like melting gorillas.

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@Bishop Currently, no. The first reason is that I'm still figuring out how powerful magic will be, how directly related to radiation it will be, and how common it will be. A human who temporarily stops being human depending on the phase of the moon is on the edge of all of those rapidly-shrinking confines, so it would be unfair to let you keep writing a character who might be too magical for the final OOC. The second is that while Terra is a pastiche of hard fantasy tropes, there should be no direct transplants of these tropes without running them through an irradiated filter -- the Greens are descendants of mutant humans who do not necessarily act "orcish", the elves are all weird mute psychics, catgirls/satyrs/angels are all direct results of bestiality, etc.

A halfbeast who coincidentally happens to look like the 1930's wolfman would be fine, a human with an incurable disease slowly turning them into a wolf would be fine, a wolf given a human body who still thinks and acts like he's a wolf would be fine, but a straight-up werewolf is not. Hope I have answered your question.

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1.5 weeks till launch! I have learned so much, including the use of human keyboards and vernacular! Groovy!