July 10, 2007
The first morning rant
The first morning rant! Hooray!
I'm partly doing this to let other people see the pearls of wisdom I come up with in the morning. This process usually consists of having various ideas in my head when I wake up and then pondering them as I take a shower.
Point #1: My kingmaker character. I'm not going to go into what's up with the kingmaker story-wise, but I had an idea for an outfit that a noble would give the kingmaker to try and woo her. An outfit that she wouldn't wear, of course, but it gives me another mini-plot idea. The initial idea of the color scheme was dark red and black, but when I actually type it up, I'll probably change the color scheme because A) I don't think the colors would look nice on the character and B) I don't like the colors dark red and black together. The boots were high-heeled, thigh-high boots. The gloves went half-way up the upper arm (which I'm pretty sure there's a good term for that which I'll have to look up). For the main outfit (starting from the neck down), a the dress clasps around the neck (leaving the shoulders bare), and the dress clings to every curve as it goes down the front (emphasizing the hourglass figure), leaving the back completely open. The dress wraps around just above her rear so that the rear is covered, but the dress shows the curves of her rear just as much as the rest of her. The dress then does that two-flap thing, one in front and one in back (kinda like a dual-slitted chinese-dress-like-thing) so that her legs still have room to move and be seen. There's also a semi-expensive jewel that rests in the decolletage of the dress that's meant to draw the eye to the bust area. I have no idea where this idea came from, but it makes me giggle just thinking of the kingmaker's reaction to such an outfit.
Whew, that was long.
2: Projectra. Projectra is a superhero in a game I'm playing/running. Her player had to tone down Projectra for being so much more powerful than every other PC. Toned waaaaaay down. Anyway, the player of the character wants to upgrade the character during downtime, which strikes me as a bad idea. We wanted her toned down, so you're going to try and upgrade her? No! Bad! Heroes don't normally get upgrades until they are needed because the bad guys came up with something that the heroes can't counter with their current toys/powers. Necessity IS the mother of invention. Especially with bloody plasma weapons! You just come off as a fanboy that wants every bloody mecha toy there is for your character. STICK WITH YOUR THEME! Don't keep making your character more powerful just because you watched another mecha anime.
3: Epic D&D characters. With epic D&D characters, they have most of the toys that they want by then. How do you bribe them with the shinies that you know they want? Unless you specifically tailor items to be better than what they have, they're just going to sell the stuff. Maybe creating a spell or feat that lets you transfer bonuses between items. I'm not sure how one would balance such a thing, though.
My points got shorter and shorter as I typed them up. Oh well.
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I'm partly doing this to let other people see the pearls of wisdom I come up with in the morning. This process usually consists of having various ideas in my head when I wake up and then pondering them as I take a shower.
Point #1: My kingmaker character. I'm not going to go into what's up with the kingmaker story-wise, but I had an idea for an outfit that a noble would give the kingmaker to try and woo her. An outfit that she wouldn't wear, of course, but it gives me another mini-plot idea. The initial idea of the color scheme was dark red and black, but when I actually type it up, I'll probably change the color scheme because A) I don't think the colors would look nice on the character and B) I don't like the colors dark red and black together. The boots were high-heeled, thigh-high boots. The gloves went half-way up the upper arm (which I'm pretty sure there's a good term for that which I'll have to look up). For the main outfit (starting from the neck down), a the dress clasps around the neck (leaving the shoulders bare), and the dress clings to every curve as it goes down the front (emphasizing the hourglass figure), leaving the back completely open. The dress wraps around just above her rear so that the rear is covered, but the dress shows the curves of her rear just as much as the rest of her. The dress then does that two-flap thing, one in front and one in back (kinda like a dual-slitted chinese-dress-like-thing) so that her legs still have room to move and be seen. There's also a semi-expensive jewel that rests in the decolletage of the dress that's meant to draw the eye to the bust area. I have no idea where this idea came from, but it makes me giggle just thinking of the kingmaker's reaction to such an outfit.
Whew, that was long.
2: Projectra. Projectra is a superhero in a game I'm playing/running. Her player had to tone down Projectra for being so much more powerful than every other PC. Toned waaaaaay down. Anyway, the player of the character wants to upgrade the character during downtime, which strikes me as a bad idea. We wanted her toned down, so you're going to try and upgrade her? No! Bad! Heroes don't normally get upgrades until they are needed because the bad guys came up with something that the heroes can't counter with their current toys/powers. Necessity IS the mother of invention. Especially with bloody plasma weapons! You just come off as a fanboy that wants every bloody mecha toy there is for your character. STICK WITH YOUR THEME! Don't keep making your character more powerful just because you watched another mecha anime.
3: Epic D&D characters. With epic D&D characters, they have most of the toys that they want by then. How do you bribe them with the shinies that you know they want? Unless you specifically tailor items to be better than what they have, they're just going to sell the stuff. Maybe creating a spell or feat that lets you transfer bonuses between items. I'm not sure how one would balance such a thing, though.
My points got shorter and shorter as I typed them up. Oh well.
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