...or Dragon Adoption. Or Game. Something like that. Basically, I've been thinking lately about doing some sort of Pernese Dragon Adoption similar to the Didragons or Rachael's YWIAW awhile back. I.E. When there's a clutch, fill out a short questionnaire thingy that helps determine what color you get, and later mating flights.
However, if possible, I would also like to include Thread-fighting and--this is the part I'm not sure people would like--death. There'd be a points system for successfully destroying thread which you can pool together the more characters you have, which would eventually allow you to 'buy' things like flitter eggs, 'armor' or protection against injuries in Thread-fall, and maybe even alterations for the dragons. Injuries in thread-fighting would probably be either point deductions with a very small but random chance of death, or an HP thing, which if it goes to zero, the dragon and rider die.
Obviously, you can only have a character killed if you have two or more adult dragons, and you can have as many dragonrider pairs as you like. You wouldn't be required to develop the character beyond name, gender, and the candidate questionnaire, and I'd be hosting all the information...probably on livejournal or something like that. I'm not entirely sure yet.
So, yeah, I think it would be a lot more interesting with the possibility of characters dying, but I understand how people wouldn't like it. :/ What's your all's opinions?
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Darkling Dawn: Fauna Frenzy Open to candidates; flights open to males/females; rukel eggs/breedings available.
Drockh-Tallahn Castle: 3 eggs, 2 available. Females and males needed.
Sgiath Wolfkeep: 7 pups available
Sedona Weyr: 12 eggs, Deadline March 8. Chasers and a female needed.
Drockh-Tallahn Castle: 3 eggs, 2 available. Females and males needed.
Sgiath Wolfkeep: 7 pups available
Sedona Weyr: 12 eggs, Deadline March 8. Chasers and a female needed.
I would love to. I've had my Dragonmasters of Zekira thing essentially on hold for years, but it's the same idea. However with them, your dragon master themself isn't likely to be killed, their dragons are - though it's possible.
I like the idea.
I like the idea.
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Okay, some more detailed information about this idea. Some parts are definitely subject to change, and I would appreciate help fleshing out areas that might need it.
Events occur in week-long 'rounds', first a Clutching round where the queen lays a clutch, usually around 10-20 eggs, and candidates are accepted to stand on the Hatching Grounds. Next is the Hatching round, when the eggs actually hatch and Impress. But this is also the time when the next queen starts getting proddy--this is the time to send your queens to attempt to mate. After that is the Mating round, when the chasers are submitted to chase the rising gold. At the end of this round, the mating flight itself takes place, and goes immediately to the Clutching round. Threadfall rounds occur irregularly within this Cycle, and may start and end at different times as the other rounds.
Clutches and Hatchings
1. Do not send candidates when there is no clutch on the sands.
2. The quiz can help your chances of getting the color you want, but the final result is still a matter of chance. Please don't whine or ask to redo it if you get something other than you wanted.
3. You may send up to two candidates to a single clutch, but there's no limit for your total number of dragons. Please complete a new form for each candidate.
4. There's no limit to the total number of candidates accepted for a clutch, so if it ends up more candidates than eggs, your character may not Impress. Better luck next time.
4. Any candidates who don't Impress would have to be submitted again to the next clutch, but there's no limit to how many times they can stand.
5. In general, girls Impress gold and green, boys Impress blue, brown, and bronze. Male-female and female-male pairings are rare but possible, depending on availability of suitable candidates and the dragons' own quirky personalities.
Sexuality doesn't enter into it.
6. You are allowed to name your dragons after they impress, but they must end in -th like all all Pernese dragons.
7. Dragons are not considered adults until a full cycle has been completed and the next clutch has hatched.
8. The only information I need for your candidate is name, gender and quiz answers. Dragons come with their color and a personality trait or quirk. You need never develop the characters beyond this, but embellish them however you want. There may be a roleplay area if anyone's interested.
Matings
...are pretty straightforward. One gold can rise at a time, not twice in a row, and bronzes and browns can chase her. For now, only golds can rise. It might change, though.
Threadfall
A Threadfall round lasts five (real) days, and the following Item round lasts for two. A Threadfall can start at any time, but there'll usually be at least 5-7 days between them, or more. After the round is announced, characters have four days to announce their intention to fly. On the fifth day the actual Fall itself takes place, and a random dice roll decides how your character does.
Each character begins with 10 HP at the beginning of the fall, injuries sustained fighting Thread cause this number to go down. If it reaches zero, the character dies. If they survive, all HP is refilled at the end of the Fall. Each time a dragon successfully destroys a piece of Thread, they win a point. 'Critical hits' can occur for particularly large clumps destroyed, which earn more points than normal. This is, again, randomly determined. Threads which injure or even kill a rider still earn the owner points.
1. People will die in Threadfall. Deal with it. There's nothing keeping you from getting as many dragons as you want. Enough points will eventually allow you to redeem items belonging to a deceased rider for a fraction of the original price and (possibly) even allow you to bring a dead rider back to life.
2. Dragons don't /have/ to fight Thread and, therefore, possibly die, but they won't be able to earn any points.
3. All adult dragons can participate in Threadfall. Golds don't get many chances to destroy Thread, but they're less likely to die as a result. The other colors fight Thread directly, earning more points, and have a higher chance of being injured and killed.
4. Weyrlings cannot fight Thread.
5. There's no limit to how many of your dragons can fly in a single Threadfall.
6. Your characters can only die if you have two or more adult dragons.
Points (or maybe Marks?) and Items
Once Threadfall ends and your points have been tallied up, the Item round begins and you can actually buy stuff. Some items give you bonuses in Threadfall, others are pets or tattoos for your dragon. There are even some that will allow you to get back some things lost by dying riders.
Some examples: (Ahah, I really need some new names. Two of them don't even have any yet. XD) I need ideas for more items, too.
10p: Fire lizard egg: will hatch soon after bought
25p: Safety Straps: Increases chances of dodging Thread. Reusable.
35p: Numbweed: Automatically heals 3 HP's worth of damage when injured. One use.
55p: Good Numbweed: Automatically heals 5 HP's worth of damage when injured. One use.
55p: Wherhide Straps: Drastically increases chances of dodging Thread. Reusable.
35p: Firestone: Increased chance of successfully searing Thread. Reusable.
50p: Good Firestone: +1 point for a successful searing. Reusable.
100p: Paint/Ink: White, Black, Blue, Bronze, Brown, Gold, Green, Red, Orange, Purple--allows small tattooes or markings to be put on a dragon. One color per 100p.
200p: ?????: Allows you to buy back items from deceased riders for 50% of the original cost. Reuseable. (One use per round)
500p: ?????: Resurrect a dead rider. Once per character, Limited supply.
Prices might change, I'm not exactly sure what a fair price would be, or how quickly points are earned. I'll have to do some tests.
Events occur in week-long 'rounds', first a Clutching round where the queen lays a clutch, usually around 10-20 eggs, and candidates are accepted to stand on the Hatching Grounds. Next is the Hatching round, when the eggs actually hatch and Impress. But this is also the time when the next queen starts getting proddy--this is the time to send your queens to attempt to mate. After that is the Mating round, when the chasers are submitted to chase the rising gold. At the end of this round, the mating flight itself takes place, and goes immediately to the Clutching round. Threadfall rounds occur irregularly within this Cycle, and may start and end at different times as the other rounds.
Clutches and Hatchings
1. Do not send candidates when there is no clutch on the sands.
2. The quiz can help your chances of getting the color you want, but the final result is still a matter of chance. Please don't whine or ask to redo it if you get something other than you wanted.
3. You may send up to two candidates to a single clutch, but there's no limit for your total number of dragons. Please complete a new form for each candidate.
4. There's no limit to the total number of candidates accepted for a clutch, so if it ends up more candidates than eggs, your character may not Impress. Better luck next time.
4. Any candidates who don't Impress would have to be submitted again to the next clutch, but there's no limit to how many times they can stand.
5. In general, girls Impress gold and green, boys Impress blue, brown, and bronze. Male-female and female-male pairings are rare but possible, depending on availability of suitable candidates and the dragons' own quirky personalities.
Sexuality doesn't enter into it.6. You are allowed to name your dragons after they impress, but they must end in -th like all all Pernese dragons.
7. Dragons are not considered adults until a full cycle has been completed and the next clutch has hatched.
8. The only information I need for your candidate is name, gender and quiz answers. Dragons come with their color and a personality trait or quirk. You need never develop the characters beyond this, but embellish them however you want. There may be a roleplay area if anyone's interested.
Matings
...are pretty straightforward. One gold can rise at a time, not twice in a row, and bronzes and browns can chase her. For now, only golds can rise. It might change, though.
Threadfall
A Threadfall round lasts five (real) days, and the following Item round lasts for two. A Threadfall can start at any time, but there'll usually be at least 5-7 days between them, or more. After the round is announced, characters have four days to announce their intention to fly. On the fifth day the actual Fall itself takes place, and a random dice roll decides how your character does.
Each character begins with 10 HP at the beginning of the fall, injuries sustained fighting Thread cause this number to go down. If it reaches zero, the character dies. If they survive, all HP is refilled at the end of the Fall. Each time a dragon successfully destroys a piece of Thread, they win a point. 'Critical hits' can occur for particularly large clumps destroyed, which earn more points than normal. This is, again, randomly determined. Threads which injure or even kill a rider still earn the owner points.
1. People will die in Threadfall. Deal with it. There's nothing keeping you from getting as many dragons as you want. Enough points will eventually allow you to redeem items belonging to a deceased rider for a fraction of the original price and (possibly) even allow you to bring a dead rider back to life.
2. Dragons don't /have/ to fight Thread and, therefore, possibly die, but they won't be able to earn any points.
3. All adult dragons can participate in Threadfall. Golds don't get many chances to destroy Thread, but they're less likely to die as a result. The other colors fight Thread directly, earning more points, and have a higher chance of being injured and killed.
4. Weyrlings cannot fight Thread.
5. There's no limit to how many of your dragons can fly in a single Threadfall.
6. Your characters can only die if you have two or more adult dragons.
Points (or maybe Marks?) and Items
Once Threadfall ends and your points have been tallied up, the Item round begins and you can actually buy stuff. Some items give you bonuses in Threadfall, others are pets or tattoos for your dragon. There are even some that will allow you to get back some things lost by dying riders.
Some examples: (Ahah, I really need some new names. Two of them don't even have any yet. XD) I need ideas for more items, too.
10p: Fire lizard egg: will hatch soon after bought
25p: Safety Straps: Increases chances of dodging Thread. Reusable.
35p: Numbweed: Automatically heals 3 HP's worth of damage when injured. One use.
55p: Good Numbweed: Automatically heals 5 HP's worth of damage when injured. One use.
55p: Wherhide Straps: Drastically increases chances of dodging Thread. Reusable.
35p: Firestone: Increased chance of successfully searing Thread. Reusable.
50p: Good Firestone: +1 point for a successful searing. Reusable.
100p: Paint/Ink: White, Black, Blue, Bronze, Brown, Gold, Green, Red, Orange, Purple--allows small tattooes or markings to be put on a dragon. One color per 100p.
200p: ?????: Allows you to buy back items from deceased riders for 50% of the original cost. Reuseable. (One use per round)
500p: ?????: Resurrect a dead rider. Once per character, Limited supply.
Prices might change, I'm not exactly sure what a fair price would be, or how quickly points are earned. I'll have to do some tests.
Darkling Dawn: Fauna Frenzy Open to candidates; flights open to males/females; rukel eggs/breedings available.
Drockh-Tallahn Castle: 3 eggs, 2 available. Females and males needed.
Sgiath Wolfkeep: 7 pups available
Sedona Weyr: 12 eggs, Deadline March 8. Chasers and a female needed.
Drockh-Tallahn Castle: 3 eggs, 2 available. Females and males needed.
Sgiath Wolfkeep: 7 pups available
Sedona Weyr: 12 eggs, Deadline March 8. Chasers and a female needed.
I'd love to give this thing a beta run. Adjust prices and add/change items depending on how well they work and how quickly people are earning dragons vs. earning points.
How about a cheap 'klah' item that allows riders to be more alert during Threadfall, decreasing chance of death or injury a little bit?
I love the tattooing idea. I can totally see dragons and their riders getting tattoos of tallies for how many falls they've survived. XD
How about a cheap 'klah' item that allows riders to be more alert during Threadfall, decreasing chance of death or injury a little bit?
I love the tattooing idea. I can totally see dragons and their riders getting tattoos of tallies for how many falls they've survived. XD
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Iiiinteresting. I'd give it a try.
As for those two as-yet-unnamed bits, my brain is insisting on referring to them as "Bribe the Quartermaster" and "PHOENIX DOWN LOLZ"
*facepalm* I'm gonna stay over here with my science fiction fandom and my "have only ever actually read two pern books in the history of ever" before you all lynch me. XD;
As for those two as-yet-unnamed bits, my brain is insisting on referring to them as "Bribe the Quartermaster" and "PHOENIX DOWN LOLZ"
*facepalm* I'm gonna stay over here with my science fiction fandom and my "have only ever actually read two pern books in the history of ever" before you all lynch me. XD;
Ooh yeah, not necessarily an "item" per se, but how about a "feast" or event that you can buy into, which raises your spirits and perhaps changes your fighting chances?
Oh this sounds so fun... >_> I already want to make a new website for my riders, dead or otherwise....
Oh this sounds so fun... >_> I already want to make a new website for my riders, dead or otherwise....
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Hey, would you like help with the image portions of the game? :D It might be fun to have an image 'header' for each round so that people scanning through can instantly tell what round there is. X3 Would make the game flashy, too. Item images, available tattoos, even flits and dragon images (of course!) would be cool, too. :D
Added the 'klah' item, the prices are tweaked a bit but for the most part, they work pretty good. Deaths still seem to be pretty rare in my trials, but since it's just starting out, I can up the ante a bit once there's a better population. 
(Ooh, by the way--the color of the dragon does affect their advantages and disadvantages in battle, too. 
So, still gotta test out some things, but it should be ready to start soon, and there'll be a clutch a clutch on the sands! Need to figure out where to host it, though. I can make a topic on the board, but I still want to host it on a separate site and do some advertising places for some new blood. Anyone know any good forums or the like?
(Ooh, by the way--the color of the dragon does affect their advantages and disadvantages in battle, too. So, still gotta test out some things, but it should be ready to start soon, and there'll be a clutch a clutch on the sands! Need to figure out where to host it, though. I can make a topic on the board, but I still want to host it on a separate site and do some advertising places for some new blood. Anyone know any good forums or the like?
Darkling Dawn: Fauna Frenzy Open to candidates; flights open to males/females; rukel eggs/breedings available.
Drockh-Tallahn Castle: 3 eggs, 2 available. Females and males needed.
Sgiath Wolfkeep: 7 pups available
Sedona Weyr: 12 eggs, Deadline March 8. Chasers and a female needed.
Drockh-Tallahn Castle: 3 eggs, 2 available. Females and males needed.
Sgiath Wolfkeep: 7 pups available
Sedona Weyr: 12 eggs, Deadline March 8. Chasers and a female needed.
>_> I certainly wouldn't be adverse to hosting it here but obviously that's not my call to make.
I don't know if it's anything like what you want to do, but I've just gotten into a cute online thing from friends in city of heroes.
http://lgd.kjsr.net/home.php?
It's fun once you get rolling, and it's essentially open-source programming. Would something like that work?
I don't know if it's anything like what you want to do, but I've just gotten into a cute online thing from friends in city of heroes.
http://lgd.kjsr.net/home.php?
It's fun once you get rolling, and it's essentially open-source programming. Would something like that work?
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Dray: I like those names for the special items, too! (Rider's Will Forgery Tools!)
I'd really like image headers for different rounds. Don't know about items, but I do want to do the dragons and flitters myself. (Ooh! Other pet species. Another thing to add.)
I'd really like image headers for different rounds. Don't know about items, but I do want to do the dragons and flitters myself. (Ooh! Other pet species. Another thing to add.)
Darkling Dawn: Fauna Frenzy Open to candidates; flights open to males/females; rukel eggs/breedings available.
Drockh-Tallahn Castle: 3 eggs, 2 available. Females and males needed.
Sgiath Wolfkeep: 7 pups available
Sedona Weyr: 12 eggs, Deadline March 8. Chasers and a female needed.
Drockh-Tallahn Castle: 3 eggs, 2 available. Females and males needed.
Sgiath Wolfkeep: 7 pups available
Sedona Weyr: 12 eggs, Deadline March 8. Chasers and a female needed.
I still like the LJ idea, since I can access it while browsing my friends list (two birds with one stone!) though if you're looking for an RP-ish sort of place, I've seen Inksome touted... Pern IS sort of 'fandom' based, as it's based off of the books, so you might be able to draw people in from that angle!
Yeah I think I'm either going to host it on livejournal or make a separate forum for it (if I can find out how, anyway). I'm...not entirely sure where to advertise it, though; I can't decide whether it's more cyberpet-based, RPG, or a game. Whatever.
Darkling Dawn: Fauna Frenzy Open to candidates; flights open to males/females; rukel eggs/breedings available.
Drockh-Tallahn Castle: 3 eggs, 2 available. Females and males needed.
Sgiath Wolfkeep: 7 pups available
Sedona Weyr: 12 eggs, Deadline March 8. Chasers and a female needed.
Drockh-Tallahn Castle: 3 eggs, 2 available. Females and males needed.
Sgiath Wolfkeep: 7 pups available
Sedona Weyr: 12 eggs, Deadline March 8. Chasers and a female needed.
It's sort of a mix of all three! XD I'd pick a strong theme if I were you, with which to advertise: "We're a Pern-based Roleplay with elements of cyberpet adoption and turn-based gaming!" where you put the emphasis on one or the other part: "We're a Pern-based cyberpet adoption game with elements of roleplay and turned-based gaming!" or "We're a turn-based dragon adoption game with elements of roleplay, all based out of a Pernese setting." XD Depending on what you want to emphasize will direct you were to advertise (RP for the LJ community, cyberpet adoption for the adoption communities like that Orchard place or on Skysong's Samanayr forum, and turn-based game for the simple gaming forums set up like Whazzit Weyrd off of Acornrack or various pro-boards action-based games. :D
Speaking of which, if you're interested in setting up a forum/website, Acornrack has a built in system for building/altering a website and advertising board. :D
Speaking of which, if you're interested in setting up a forum/website, Acornrack has a built in system for building/altering a website and advertising board. :D
I'd say stress the turn-based play, danger, and the like - because typical cyberpet collectors won't necessarily want to try adopting something that's just gonna die.
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