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prophet118
08-25-2005, 08:32 PM
(reposting this from a previous post by me, about the Chimerean "invasion")


well ok i may do that, but have a bit of narative at the beginning about who the aliens are thought to be (from a human stand point... i may have 1 black gene in the group who knows).. then kind of have it where the chimereans have been building up a power base.... i really wasnt happy with the idea that the chimereans appear to be hive minded on their world, apear to be so here, but dont appear to be very well connected on earth... yes, i know they use ka to communicate, but it seems to me that they might have come up with a way around that flaw... given all the years they've been on earth..



the concept i have so far is that yes, they've been communicating, they have been building up power, they have infiltrated several of earths top officials (x files anyone?), they are here, now. but as the atlanteans predicted, there will be an invasion, there will be more, but these chimereans arent coming from their home world, they are the ones that were "lost"...

i cant recall exact circumstances from the book, but the chimereans that left the planet many many years ago and supposedly lost contact.

anyone remember that?... or am i just going nuts and placing the wrong group?

anyways, the idea as that those "lost" ones needed some other atmosphere to breed a stronger warrior, and so they've been doing just that, they've branched out and have inhabited a few of our planets, most notably jupiter, saturn mars and venus... each planet producing a specific breed of chimereans.

the idea i have for an upcoming Story of my own (whether an online game, or offline, im not sure....)

basically, i would like this to be more of an epic story kind of thing, the players would likely start some time before the suggested start time in the book, possibly starting January 1st, 2000, and working towards 2008, alot of the story would really be backstory building to the final event.


if i did an online game, can you guys think of some places where i could run this that is:
1.) free
2.) easy to use and post
3.) works
4.) doesnt irritate me with banners and pop ups

?

seriously, i cant seem to keep an offline group together, because all my friends go to colleges around the country, and came home only for the summer :mad:

Jerry D. Grayson
08-25-2005, 08:52 PM
Thats a tricky one. Id alos be interested in finding a viable online place to play sometime...
I have a few guys who run sites, I'll ask them

Magog
08-25-2005, 09:00 PM
Would it cost much to put another forum up here on aethereal for games? I play in an online Exalted game at www.alabrax.com and we've found message board games work pretty well after one gets used to the format.

prophet118
08-25-2005, 11:40 PM
well, i used to run games on delphi forums, but ive let my membership go back to basic, and i can only host start forums, AND i wasnt totally fond of that set up, even though i used it for 6-7 years for various games.

the plus account costs like 30 a year

i know of a few places, but one in specific, ive got to wait til my friends finishing coding it..lol

prophet118
08-25-2005, 11:42 PM
i do have the ability to run a message board on my personal webspace (phpbb), it would work for what i need, so let me know if thats a viable option for the players..

i have always liked message board games, as i can compose messages and not be all like "ummm uhh... this dude, like umm"

ive started doing that alot in the last few years, and its a really hard habit to break.

let me know if anyone would be interested, i'll set the board up tonight

prophet118
08-25-2005, 11:52 PM
im so silly... yeh, the phpbb i have through my webhost will work great..lol

i'll give you guys the url here in a bit

prophet118
08-26-2005, 12:02 AM
http://jamesandjennifer.net/GodsendAgenda

Magog
08-26-2005, 07:28 AM
Yup. The boards for my business site are PHP based, as are Alabrax's boards that we play his online game on. PHP boards rock, and come with almost any web host these days.

Thus far we have had absolutely no complaints about our online game. We just follow a few rules.

"Anything spoken by the character is highlighted in their specific color"

Internal thoughts are in italics

[Out of character discussions/power activation/die rolling are in brackets]

Thus far it's worked really well for us. Think the game has been going on for about a year with over a thousand posts. :)

prophet118
08-26-2005, 07:47 AM
i think that might work well... im going to have to see if i can find a good online d6 die roller though..lol

i may just do what i did for all my delphi games, and roll the stuff myself, letting people focus on story

Magog
08-26-2005, 10:43 AM
Alabrax rolls for all of us too. We declare what powers we're using and what we're spending to bump up numbers and he gets back to us with totals. As ours is an Exalted game, our GM/ST uses the online White Wolf die roller, so thereby we can actually go to the site and see what he rolled for us. 'Course that makes it hard for a GM to fudge. ;)

I have a great little program that'll roll from d4 up to d100 and list the rolls if you want it, but it's LITTLE, and won't do bonuses or anything like that, and I'm sure they have an online d6 die roller SOMEWHERE.

prophet118
08-26-2005, 10:45 AM
well, i still have my star wars d6 dice roller..lol

Jerry D. Grayson
08-26-2005, 12:33 PM
I have a great little program that'll roll from d4 up to d100 and list the rolls if you want it, but it's LITTLE, and won't do bonuses or anything like that, and I'm sure they have an online d6 die roller SOMEWHERE.

Im almost positive that there is a D6 roller. Ill have to track it down for you

Jerry D. Grayson
08-26-2005, 05:03 PM
found one

http://www.westendgames.com/html/dice2.html

This one does the trick

prophet118
08-26-2005, 05:25 PM
that'll do donkey, that'll do..

hehe, it'll work for now

prophet118
08-27-2005, 03:15 AM
the rules for creation will end up being pretty standard, i'll be doing pl 3 characters, i am restricting the factions though, i dont want alot of elohim, or chimereans running around, maybe 1 of each... at the aboslute max.

the other factions however, are fine.