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This RPG system I'm writing.

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  • If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.
    No. Just no.
  • Why shouldn't I use them....?

  • edited 2011-04-29 16:34:10
    Presumably because Cygan just doesn't like laser-based weapons, for whatever reason.
  • If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.
    Presumably because laser-based weapons won't work semi-realistically.
  • Not sure why that should matter.

    Especially since this is apparently inspired by Warhammer 40k, which isn't exactly trying to be realistic in the first place.
  • Cygan.


    This is a game where people can punch hard enough to warp time. There are guns in this series which warp space to instantly hit opponents. Magic exists. There are mecha the size of the Empire State Bulding, tanks the size of entire cities, and portable anti-matter cannons. There are guns overtaken by demonic energy, and laptops and cell phones run by gasoline engines,


    Did I also mention that magic is done through computers in this series? Computers in the mage's brains. Magic in Full Auto works by these computers hacking into the laws of physics and changing them to suit the mage's need.


    Full Auto is like the unholy love child of Warhammer 40K, Exalted, and Gurren Lagann.

  • edited 2011-04-29 16:42:59
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.
    mah god

    Emphasis on the unholy
  • edited 2011-04-29 16:45:47
    I am Dr. Ned who is totally not Dr. Zed in disguise.
    How does it all gel together?

    As it kinda comes off as trying too hard with all that stuff.
  • Actually, to me this feels a little like Star Frontiers.  But I'd be careful worried about letting your characters become too powerful with the crazy awesomeness,

  • If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.
    exactly.
  • It's a massive set of utter insanity.


    I may have exxagerated the parts slightly, but the point of the story is that WWIII happened, and now life sucks.


    Before WWIII happened, humans had basically become near gods. We built a Dyson Sphere around the Earth. We had utopias that actually worked, with absolutely no one working and simply living in absolute hedonism. Pretty much all everyone did was fuck, drink, do drugs, and other entertainint shit. We developed FTL-travel, made contact with literally thousands of alien civilisations, extended our natural lifespans to 1000s of years, mead death basically impossible (you died, they just made a new body for you), and made bunches of crazy shit.


    Then a few guys from our other colonies were kinda pissed that Earth was so awesome. So they decided to come on and slaughter a bunch of countries. Then WWIII happened. So yeah, they caused WWIII For Teh Evulz.


    Of course, world leaders at the time were a combination of drunk, high, and in orgasmic bliss at the time, so, being lazy as hell and not wanting to cause a war, they thought that nuking everything to hell was a good idea.


    So they nuked Earth to hell, which not only left it a World Half Empty, but also dropped our population from 800 quadrillion to around 300 million. Humanity was pretty much knocked back to the stone age, but given that there was all that old tech lying around, we quickly got up to about 2007-2010 levels of tech, with some future stuff thrown in (like the laser weapons).


    But the world is still a den of misery and horror, anyway.


    WWIII is called "Revelations" by New Earth citizens. The days the nukes fell is called "Genesis".

  • One thought is approach the setting like the Star Wars RPG, maybe.  Sure, tanks the size of cities exist, but the average character has never seen one.  Most characters have to make do with jury - rigging anything that's all that much more powerful than a blaster or aircar, and jury-rigging has a lot of drawbacks.
  • Also, guys: Most of the crazy stuff isn't in the game, it's in the show.


    Full Auto was actually a show I wanted to create--an anime, specifically--and it's a little more over-the-top and optimistic than the RPG. The RPG stays more sane, the show pretty much tries to be "Gurren Lagann IN THE DEPRESSING HELL THAT IS NEW EARTH!

  • edited 2011-04-29 17:01:38
    Isn't Gurren Lagann already set in a dystopia?  ...sort of?
  • I once tried to write a system for a DragonBall Z RPG. It was too complex.
  • OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    Gurren Lagann is set in a dystopia for most of the first episode, and it's more the "leader is strict because he doesn't want people to die" kind. After that, not so much.
  • But you see, INUH, I don't remember anything that happened after the first episode, and I only ever watched the first four.
  • OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    Ah.
  • DYRE:But Full Auto has more Steam Punk, Diesel Punk and Gear Punk.


    New Earth is a sucky place. By the time you are six years old, you have to know how to shoot a pistol and reload it. By the time you graduate middle school, you have to know how to fire a machine gun and kill a living target (Gun training classes are mandatory at all schools in the world, from elementary to college). By the time you finish High School, you have damn good training in firearms.


    And you'll get experience all right. Those lucky ones who can stay in the bigger cities can live free, but most people have to see a shoot-out every day. You may just be walking, and a gang tries to shoot you. It's perfectly legal to pull out a grenade and blow them to smithereens (bounty hunting is also legal). You should always keep your gun at your side. Always. Even in school (and, starting in the sixth grade, students are allowed to be armed in the campus). And at home.


    The world of New Earth does not forgive. Those too weak to survive shall be crushed, the mourns of their family rising out into the sky, to be heard by no one. Thoe strong enough to live shall inherit the earth.


    Just remember--always be on the look out, always keep a close eye on suspicious people and things, and, most importantly, always keep your gun on Full Auto.

  • If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.
    It's perfectly legal to pull out a grenade and blow them to smithereens

    Yeah no.
  • It is in New Earth. The world sucks that much.


    Long as they wanted to kill you, it's okay. Hell, if the cops are trying to take down a perp, and you can fight and have time, you're not only allowed, but expected to join the cops and help them take the perp out.


    Also, if you're outside the designated zones, there's not really much the cops can do to you. So lottsa killing goes on there as well.


    There are only a few guns that are completely illegal in Full Auto to own. Such as the nanomachine gun, which you really don't want to hear about...

  • If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.
    ... Yeah, I'm not seeing how there's not full-blown anarchy.
  • I am Dr. Ned who is totally not Dr. Zed in disguise.
    So define the culture?

    Is it define in an America across the globe style or maybe a Chine eventually spread more, or some kind of crazy hey we met aliens style.
  • There isn't really a unifying culture in Full Auto. People took up the culture of their ancestors, pretty much.

    About the most unifying thing about everyone in New Earth is a rabid hate for any kind of Gun Control. And a "stop complaining and do some damn work for once" meme.
  • I am Dr. Ned who is totally not Dr. Zed in disguise.
    ^ So American then. ;)
  • No rainbow star
    Sounds a little rough, but could potentially be a gem
  • Yeah, I'm working on this some more.

    The Vehicle rules will be tough. And given that Full Auto has an emphasis on vehicles (that's actually where the name comes from), they need to be good--you're expected to spend almost all your time out of battle and towns in vehicles.

    But there's choice: Cars, bikes, APC's, tanks, helicopters, mecha, planes, mecha that transform into planes....
  • I am Dr. Ned who is totally not Dr. Zed in disguise.
    Mopeds?
  • Hell, why not?

    They can just use bike rules.
  • I am Dr. Ned who is totally not Dr. Zed in disguise.
    Haha, that would be pretty cool.
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