Sub and stubs like this are how I explore the Cosmic Era. The 100 word submission is purposely short to cut out the fluff, and that is what I am looking for as I write little thIngs like this. Go to Comment

I think that the conversation would loose a great deal of it's humor and charm if it was condensed into a single concise post. Would the FTZ's be as funny without the argument over the basis of their fur? I think it should go into a humor category. Eyebrow Smiley...Attack! Go to Comment

If we are going to bring up Ashes Falling from the Sky, I would also have to bring up Ar'ael who while not sharing the Cosmic Era freetext is in the early version of the setting, identified mostly with the ScrasTech freetext. The aliens have been involved since the very beginning of the project.

I have since fallen out of love with the idea of having Summonings in the setting. This is why Ar'ael isn't linked. I've also lost interest in having the aliens being an engaged enemy. So I moved them to the edge of the current Cosmic Era timeframe.

The Cosmic Era is also something that is growing as I evolve the setting. Some old ideas go away, new ideas pop up. Go to Comment

The Themes are overriding. M12 and the Alien Invasion are subject to the Cosmic Era themes and shaped by them, not the other way around.



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Don't know how this one slipped by me, but it certainly is interesting. I get kind of a Romance of the Three Kingdoms vibe, mixed with some Mesopotamian demon ass-kickery and certainly an epic feeling to it. Go to Comment

If I expanded any of them into a full sub it would be Judas Go to Comment

Shockwave Ops

There are very few missions that involve Shockwave Ops. These are the Failure is a Not an Option, and the Ends Justify the Means. For the powers that be, this is bringing the full force to bear that they are able to. In the Cosmic Era this is truly impressive. 

Space to Surface capital ordnance

Long range missiles

Arcanotech weapons

Hypertech Weapons

Weapons of Mass Destruction

Full Mecha brigades including heavy and assault machines

Psychoframe Power Armor

Black Ops

The end result of a Shockwave Operation is a charred wasteland of shattered wreckage and mangled bodies.

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Lana was just a random tangent, but I have a feeling she's the real gem in this submission. There are so many story potentials there, the cynic scientist purging a compromised test clone because she has bonded with a lab assistant, the lab assistant trying to break her out of the facility, the inhuman treatment of the clones.

I love you, but it's publish or die. In your case, kiss, its you die and I get published.

Sometimes my own setting makes me feel sad and hollow inside. Go to Comment

I am looking forward to seeing it, Echo. It would be interesting to see a group of mercenary/shadowrunner Lana clones. The general public would probably guess they are clones, but the Lana series isn't a mass produced version, so people outside of human testing labs (if it doesn't make your skin crawl writing about that part you're not doing it right) aren't going to know that they are escaped buxom ginger lab mice. Go to Comment

It's an interesting idea, but I feel there is a huge piece missing. What is the angle?

The PCs could be some of those soldiers, or they could be the members of the time bending mages. This could create a Terminator style game, where the focus isn't the Terrible War, its in the events leading up to it, or survivors working out a plan to go back in time when the council does it's 15 year reset. If they kill General Amazing while he's still a middle lieutenant, and assassinate Lord Bastardo before his father dies, then it changes the whole dynamic of the war to come/that was.

It could also be played as a straight time loop, but the loop is starting to come apart, and people are starting to realize that this has all happened before. The loop has just restarted and the PCs must do what they can to prevent the war, or change it's course so that the time bending spell isn't cast again for the utterly unknownth time. Go to Comment

I would say after you've submitted within the 30 minute time frame, you can certainly go back and make grammatical corrections, spelling and punctuation and so forth. Go to Comment

An interesting item, but rather than being used against the PCs I can see this being used as a plot device, the Queen has been afflicted by a soul cherry and she's gone all Queen of Hearts on the kingdom. Alternately what could be a more devastating weapon against a highly chivalrous knight? Use inside a game group would require a good deal of maturity IMHO so. So I would use these with caution.

2.5/5 because it is not a bad idea but it's vague. Who made them, and to what purpose? How common are they, and how well known are they? Go to Comment

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I like him, you can chose to keep the errant spirit aspect and play him up as the Tom Bombadil of the Tundra or you can drop it completely and have an excellent northern merchant character.

I would give him a stamagast as a companion Go to Comment

We do like meat on them bones, as well as a generous marbling of fat, a crisp glazed skin, and a nice wine reduction as well as the personal history of the chef who made it.

Maybe we need to be more accepting of the Lean cuts?

Le honest vote: 2/5

OK Idea: magic heavy armor is always okay by me, boosting stats and regeneration are also sweet deals.

It can be improved quickly and easily by answering a few questions, and these can be short answers, some of which you have already addressed and some you havent:

1. Appearance, what does it look like?
2. Who made it? In this case, it was made by the best blacksmith in the Empire
3. Why was it made? Again, this is one you've already answered, it was made as a gift/prize for Ademythys for his victory over the demonic hordes.
4. What does it do? This is the sticky part because the Citadel is non-system specific, and not all stats translate so easily. In the case of the armor, it adds 600 HP, but how many HP does the typical person have, or the typical hero/adventurer? If a typical A/H has 5-600 HP, then the armor doubles the wearer's HP, or triples it, or adds 10%.

Welcome to the Citadel and I hope we don't scare you off. Go to Comment

Africa is split into three major regions, and I have mentioned it repeatedly.

North and North-East Africa are nominally part of the Eurasian Alliance, but for the most part are backwater areas, ruled by tribal, religious, and other factions. This is a trend that runs from Morocco to the Indian/Pakistan borders. Lacking oil, most of the OPEC nations have imploded.

The Central region, specificallty Congo, Nigeria, the Gold Coast region, etc are a gleaming First World part of the Atlantic Federation and Lagos and Kinshasa are now on par with cities like Paris, London, New Nuyork, and so on.

The South part of the continent consolidated and formed the South African United Republics as a power bloc to resist expansion of the Atlantic Federation because seriously screw those guys. Jo-Burg is a bustling first world city, and space port. Go to Comment

Don't tell your inner cynic about the hover bikes and hovercraft which can do the recon job just as well but cheaper.

There isn't an Ostrich replacement seriously on the table because it is not economically feasible to replace the mech. Better mechs can be made, but they are dramatically more expensive. It's the situation the US is facing with the B-52. The bomber is pretty much as good a bomber as you are going to get (altitude, payload, range, speed) and any attempt to replace is doomed pretty much to fail because any replacement is dramatically more expensive. The potential replacements are all also invariably inferior to the Stratofortress in some aspect.

As for the the Lion's Share, its an expression that means the biggest piece. The majority of Ostriches are built in Michigan. Go to Comment

we have met the alien, and the alien is us.

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A very gnomish gnome (without venturing into the realm of the tinker) who has some interesting motivation and use in a game. I particularly like his tiny bookshelf, and that if it tips over all the books fall out regular size.

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Make it drab colored, gray green or black and boom, what commando force in the world wouldn't use them? Go to Comment