Public Game Ideas: Intrest Check/Poll

Closer to 2.5 I think, but, yes, you are quite right.

 

If you ever make a game somewhere between 1 and ~2, let me know.

 

Will do, though I don't expect that will happen any time soon, as 2-2.5 is my sweet spot.

 

No biggy, we can still play 0 furry

 

Anything that can stay relevant and sustainable for a long period.

 

I'm going to post some more information on the two front runners now, in hopes of attracting more interest.


Priestesses and Priests to a Goddess of Sex:



The High Temple Of Yuki:

Yuki's high temple is built like an immense Japanese castle atop a massive extinct shield volcano in the middle of an area of land vaguely similar to a cross between Japan and Greece. The temple is composed of five wards, each representing one of the five elements of this world, Earth, Fire, Air, Water, and Wood. Entrance into the temple can be made directly only at the outermost ward, that of Air, from there you must spiral your way deeper into the temple, passing through water, then fire, then wood, and finally into earth, which consists only of an immense zen garden, and the holy-of-holies where Yuki's avatar lives, attended by a number of lesser spirits/monsters.

The City Of Yuki-Polis:

The city that surrounds and supports the temple, "Yuki-polis", is ecumenical and prosperous, not the least of which is because miscarriage and death in childbirth are almost unheard of there, happening about once a year out of the entire population of 40,000 people, or less. This is due to the city's water supply coming from the River Dyne, which flows out of a sacred spring inside the "Water" ward of the main temple, then spiraling down the mountain through a great channel dug into the living rock. The River Dyne is sacred to Yuki and polluting it is a blasphemy, as well as the typical cause of death in childbirth. The city, unlike the temple, is built in a more Greek kind of style, or maybe more Italian, as the roofs are tiled in red ceramic tile while the walls are Adobe.

The technology level of the city and the surrounding countryside is equal to the early Renaissance era, with spring powered clocks, matchlock guns, cannon, windmills, and so forth. Only sustainable farming is permitted and the city and villages are required to grow 'up' rather than 'out' so as to preserve the good farmland for future generations. The streets of Yuki-polis are wide enough for two carriages to pass abreast in all areas except a few allies between buildings, which are required by law to be narrow enough that carriages can't use them at all, only narrow hand carts and wheelbarrows being able to pass. The streets of Yuki-polis are laid out on a northwest-to-southeast and southwest-to-northeast grid, terrain permitting, with the walls that separate the districts being positioned so that none of the streets are continually downslope their entire length without major flat sections on which horses and cart dogs can rest.

The city is divided into five "Districts" each separated by a fortified wall, and each able to access three other districts, except the central one which can access all four of the others. These districts each have a specific character and racial profile, but no one allowed in the city is forbidden in any of them, and trying to make it so is illegal.

To the north, is the Hempstead district, which is much concerned with textiles and clothing. If you want a good suit of clothes tailored, or a fine brocade woven, you will go to Hempstead. The ethnic makeup of this district is diverse but includes a large number of Humans, Neffals, and Kitsune.

The east is occupied by the Gilded-Hand District. Here you will find all manner of fine crafts, such as jewelry, scrivening, and illumination. It also is home to the majority of the arcane practitioners of the city. The dominant races in this district are Elves, Half-Elves, and Dragon-Born, with a significant number of Humans as well, but members of nearly every race can be found here.

The south is known as Loraine District, and here is where you find the financiers, factors, and generalist mercantile houses of the city. The ethnicity of this district is made up mostly of the smaller races, Halflings, Gnomes, and Nuisha are common here, though members of every race are represented to a lesser degree.

The west is occupied by the Fire-Wander district, and here is found the guild halls of mercenary companies, blacksmith shops, livery stables, tanneries, and all other more polluting pursuits. This district has many Dwarves, Orcs, Half-Orcs, Slieths, and Spider-kin, and is known to be a rough place.

The Central District is called the 'Temple District' and with good reason. Here is not only the high temple of Yuki, from which the city grew, but the diplomatic temples of all the other gods and goddesses that wished to open pantheistic relations with the goddess of love, childbirth, pregnancy, and sex. The ethnic makeup of the temple district is the most diverse of the city, but overall there is a large percentage of humans, with the other races being a real melting pot.

In addition to being a major city-state with plenty of surrounding farmland in its own right, Yuki-polis is a tourist destination for hundreds of leagues in every direction for expectant mothers, as drinking from the waters of the Dyne is known to aid those who might otherwise have difficult or dangerous birthings, and even merely having someone sacrifice on your behalf in the Air-Ward of the High Temple can often be enough to aid a lady who is at risk of miscarriage. (Comming to drink the waters of the dyne is almost always more effective, however, and it is known that the waters of the dyne lose half of their effectiveness outside the temple district, and half again beyond the city walls. Some say that they are even more potent inside the high temple itself, but drinking from the Dyne there is forbidden, and rumors tell of hideous mutations in the child caused by doing so. Those same rumors state, however, that no one who has drunk from the waters within the temple without polluting them, has ever failed to deliver their baby successfully, even if the child WAS mutated...)

Being A Preist/Priestess of Yuki:

Yuki's Priests and Priestesses are the glue that holds Yuki-polis together. Wearing the uniforms of maids and butlers, either over or under their armor if required, they train in martial arts and sex magic to enforce the will of their goddess on the city, in a sort of benevolent-theocratic-dictatorship. Priests and Priestesses of Yuki can be called out of the temple for any number of reasons: investigating crime, suppressing riots, officiating at naming ceremonies and weddings, and blessing new buildings to bind them to the geomancy of the city, to name but a few. Most of the time, however, they live in the high temple, keeping it clean and running smoothly and fucking each other enthusiastically when not 'on call'. Only those with high sex drives can be priestesses or priests of Yuki, and they are encouraged to have unprotected sex and get the priestesses pregnant whenever possible. In a related note, one of Yuki's granted powers to her clergy is they are immune to all infectious diseases, so they can screw all they want without risk of spreading STIs.

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Ok, enough about that game, now to talk about the other one...

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Iasakitis Blues:

The Multiverse:

In an age long ago there was the realm of Umber-Home. There were created the first dimensional skimmers, ships which could travel between alternate realities and carry people and goods back and forth.

Umber-Home is long gone now, destroyed by a cataclysm that no one now understands which left that mighty planet-spanning city shrouded in fog and haunted by monsters.

However, the successor States they fostered during their age of dominance remain, and their dimensional travel technology has propagated throughout the multiverse.

Some of those Successor States are benevolent and kind, like "The United Federation of Realities", and the "Union of Socialist Global Democracies". Others are evil in the extreme, such as "The Trans-Dimensional Third Riech" and the "American Empire of Christian-Fundamentalist States". Most are somewhere between those extremes, such as "The Solarion League", "The Trans-Universal Republic of the Free Americas", "The Grand Imperium Of Nova-Roma," and "The Union Of All Chinas".

The Pirates:

However, in the margins surrounding such behemoths, operates a shadowy realm of lawless freebooters and cutthroats who acknowledge no authority beyond their own dimension ship but the business end of a blaster, and will engage in all manner of illegal activities if the price is right, from smuggling to slave taking.

The characters in the game are the victims of one such operation, kidnapped from a dozen primitive worlds and taken to be sold at an illicit trans-universal pirates den known as "Shangramanda".

Us:

What the pirates weren't counting on, was their ship had been infiltrated by a 'Libertine', a member of the "Libertine's Organization", the trans-universal movement of radical anti-slavery activists. The Libertine sabotaged the ship, especially the lifeboats, set a bunch of tailored viruses loose in the computers, and sealed themselves inside one of the empty stasis pods in which the slaves were transported, which then were jettisoned as the ship crashed. All this happened in the skies above a world where humanity didn't survive the 'near extinction event' about 150 thousand years ago, and thus, our group of survivors awakens in a pristine wilderness near the IRL location of Allentown, Pensylvania, USA, and must join with the other kidnapped slaves to survive.

Among the NPC's in this game will be an angel, some "living-construct" sex robots, (Players would have the option of making one as their own character,) and members of several D&D fantasy races, plus humans of every ethnicity.

 

Damn, I guess by the detail I can guess which one you'd prefer.

 

That's part of it, but only like 5%. The other 95% is how much your characters can reasonably be expected to know at the outset of the game: in one there's pamphlets and guidebooks to tell you about the setting IC, the other, you've just been dropped into an untamed wilderness on a virgin planet...

 

You've convinced me. Iasakitis Blues may be fine too.

 

Oh, yeah that makes sense. Slaves wouldn't know jack while the priests would be well informed.

It's an amazing setting. Now I don't know if I want to be a transdimensional Commie or Nazi.

 

Just going to throw it out there that in this world, as IRL, everyone hates the NAZIs, even other NAZIs.

 

That's true, of course. But I would probably play a cog in the Nazi machine not Heinrich Himmler.

 

I'm also going to mention something else, I have a bunch more information I haven't shared yet on all four games, either because I didn't think it would interest people, or because it wouldn't be common knowledge.

 

Iasakitis Blues sounds sort of fun.....hmmm wonder what I should play as thennn

 

You added transdimensional Rome and China? Damn, now I can't decide at all what to play!

 

welp you got a roman here

 

Y0u still need an Islamist nation, can't have Dune vibes without that

 

Couldn't decide what category to file them in, though I suppose they could go in multiple ones like the Americans. (FYI, there are a lot more trans-universe nations out there, way too many to list, this is just a handful of the biggest ones.

As an example of a smaller one, there's one universe where God is still directly involved in mortal affairs and made Martin Luthor into Pope Martin Luthor the First, reforming the Roman Catholic Church from within without the protestant split. On that world, the Papal States became the rulers of all of Italy, and eventually most of the world directly or indirectly, and now they are an inter-dimensional nation that seeks to peaceably unite all the various Catholic churches behind a single multiverse-spanning Papacy. It must also be noted that on that world the Moslems and Jews have no conflict with the Catholics, and never have, as all of them recognize each other as worshiping different faces of the Trinitarian God, the Jews worship YHWH, aka God-the-Father, the Catholics Jesus, aka God-the-Son, and the Moslems follow the teachings of Mohamed, the Great Prophet of Allah, aka God-the-Holy-Spirit. It helps that the Jews are-and-[nearly]-always-have-been in control of the Holy Land in that universe, so, no 'crusading' happened. [Also, there are no Mormons, for some reason...] Furthermore the Moslems still have an unbroken line of succession from Mohamed's children until the present day as Califs, so a lot of the heresies that took root following the Mongol invasions never did here. [When the Mongols tried to trample the man that was the Last Calif in our world beneath a herd of horses, instead of snatching him up to heaven God made the herd divert around him by surrounding him with a pillar of lightning. The entire Mongol army converted to Islam on the spot.])

 

Why do I get mortal engine steampunk vibe when reading Iasakitis Blues? The other turns me off. I am into a South Afrikan character.

 

Seems like Iasakitis Blues is number one by far at least by vocal interest