As some of you people know, I'm an avid Newgrounds goer, even though I don't have an account on the website (and likely won't untill I get a flash program.. don't hold your breath for THAT) and from time to time I share particurally moving movies with the rest of you. (or games, as the recent kitten cannon epidemic shows)

Anyway.. a couple days ago I found a trailer to a "non-existant movie" on newgrounds, and to be quite honest, it simply took my breath away.. I have no words in which to discribe my true feelings for the movie... suffice to say it's somethat that Kirstie, Nova, and myself all enjoy without bickering over the best parts.. and something of that magnitude is extreamly rare. The movie can be found HERE

Now I know I've got a couple RPG's I've said I'm working on (Chibiforce, Testcoarse, that other one with the guy who does the things with that stuff)
but I'm really inspired by this movie.. and while there's not alot of source material, I can see it having vast potential as an rpg..

While I'm not entirely sure about it how the rpg would run.. the movie has some deffinate quasi Mononoke aspect to it.. with the fight between humans as the various animal people.. so we could deffinatly take use that.. I'm not sure on the powerlevel.. as video leads me to beleave that the animal people are on average around the same level as normal humans.. maybe as strong as 3 people put togeather... Some exceptions will occour, of course (that guy with the fire wings looks like a pretty mean customer)

Humans seem to have some technology in the movie.. as shown by the guns and the boat... Probobly no more advanced that current day.. And infact, I get the feel from the movie that Technology is archiac... and won't be found in large pockets..

So... People.. any interest in an rpg inspired by the movie? Yes? No? Salami?

something low-key, simple, easy, and pretty much basic. yeah i think we could use that. as for power level i'd go with human level but with the animal talents. ex: if you played a tiger-human you have the speed and reflexes of a tiger as well as the grace.

as for a time and place why not go with most animes on this one. you have simple modern tech but the world fits more with midevil japan.

Sounds good, nothing more powerful then a slightly above average human would be good for the place.

I say go for it, but you already know that ^_^

I got dibs on an animal person if this ever gets made. (Now you alll shoulda seen that one coming.)

*Whacks WZ over the head Inuyasha style with his fist planting him firmly into the ground* We'd all be an animal human hybrids genius :P

*Puts a collar of beads around Kaiser's neck silently and steps back*

Sit Boy ^_^

*Watches Kaiser slam head first into the ground*


Kaiser is right though, we'd all most likely end up being animal human hybrids

what so we'd all be fighting agaisnt humans, with no one realyl being a human?

I'm sure there will be enough human characters, and I'm sure we wont be limited to just one character either warrior

Accually.. I was thinking that you WOULD be restricted to just one character.. atleast in the begining.. Sort of like how the NPC's began showing up at some point in MadG...

Allthough if you wanted, you could play a human character.. I might even let humans have a small gun or something for protection..

I'll likely work more on this concept when I get better.. I've felt sick all week.

Hey, thats fair, its your RPG ^_^

So is this *drugs Riv with catnip and goes to work on breaking every bone in his body before skinning him alive to make a new throw rug* :wolfy:

Isn't there some saying about there being more then one way to skin a cat? B)

Having standard humans with some sort of protection is a good idea, that way it won't scare away everyone from trying to play a human at least once.

Ok, well for official note, I call reserve dibs on teh spider like dude in the flash, if I'm mistaken and that wasn't a spider like dude in the flash I call dibs on one anyway cause I want one and I'm going to call dibs on it damn it.

Anyway, thank you for listening

Hmmmm maybre I'll play a beast person whose part parahna....yeah I think I'll do that.

Well.. after some thinking (and watching the movie for the 400th time) I've got some basic info ready..

They'll be four kinds of character

The first kind is Human.. with no physical bonuses.. however, a human character will probobly be given a gun and perhaps a small blade for protection.. Humans will have the reasorces needed to manufacture these things.. so All human characters will start with them.

Then you half half-men.. which are mostly humanoid, but have several animal traits.. the girl with the moth antennae and wings is a good example of a half-man.

Next is the Far-men.. who are closer to animal than human... a good example would be the Sphynx in the movie..

and finally, we have freaks... I'm not sure if these are suited to player characters or not, becuase they'ld be the pinnicle of whatever spawned all the human/animal Hybrids.. Freaks can appear to have traits of several differant animals, or traits that don't even exist natturally in other creatures.. as well as strange powers.. The guy with the flaming wings would deffinatly come under my classification of freak.
(Off limits as primary character.. I MIGHT allow a couple people to create a freak once the rpg is well underway)

Now for the Tribes.. or your character's Element...

Forest Tribe characters will be tied to the earth element.. and will have traits of various insects, arachnids, or annielids (worms or catipillars) Other animals oftian found in forest will also be Forest tribe members... like Bears and wolves.. although the Bug-men will outnumber the non-bug forest tribemembers by nearly 3to1.

Sun tribe characters are tied to fire, and will probobly have traits of planes dwelling animals such as preditory felines, wild horses and other equids.. as well as low elivation mountain dwellers like mountain goats.. Most reptiles are also sun-tribe characters.

Sea Tribe characters are tided to water.. So if it's a fish/shark/marine mammal, then it's a sea tribe... Sea tribe also includes Aquatic invertibres like shellfish, mollusks, and anemonie.

Sky Tribe characters, tied to the air element, will probobly be Bird style characters.. although there weren't any such hybrids in the movie... Possable other sky tribe characters would be mammals with flight and/or gliding capacity such as bats, sugergliders, and flying squirrels.

I might make a 5th tribe is I get a good idea, but I'm planning on trying to keep things simple, since it's a low powered rpg and won't need alot of stuff..


I also use tribe here to mean that all characters that fall under those guidlines are connected.. but each element tribe is accually composed of hundreds of smaller Family-tribes, each composed of 10-20 individual families. ... People gennerally mate only within members of the same element-tribe and outside thier own family-tribe. This isn't law, however, and people can mate with someone from outside the element tribe, or even inside the same family-tribe. Offspring, however, tend to have the highest survival rate past infancy if the parents are from the same element, but differant family tribes. Offspring are always of the mother's element tribe if the parents differ.

Any character can breed with another of the oppisate gender... even human and beast men.. however offspring from such a union are unlikely to be very strong, and are veiwed with distrust by both human and beastman..

There's no set pattern to freaks... they just spring up randomly. There's no telling when one will appear in a population.. a freak child is obviou at birth, and is oftian jeliously guarded by it's parents, for fear that beast and true man alike will atempt to destroy it.. Freaks who survive to adulthood are powerfull individuals who can singlehandedly turn the tide of a battle in whatever direction they choose... Freaks are oftian moody, cruel ,and prone to frequant changes in additude.. It's rare to find a freak who care's about a cuase other than his or her own amusement and continued wellbeing.



Of course, the "true" humans want to kill off the beast men in the name of racial purity.. the beastmen try to survive day by day, and the freaks are just wildcards.. Fate has suffled the deck, my friends... Just hope the hand she deals you is strong enough to make it to the next round, becuase the stakes are your life.

RPG will be up... sometime.. I'ld give you a deffinat date, but then I'ld have to wait untill afterwards to post, just so I'l l be consistant with my slackerness.

Post 16... In which things of some imporance happen.

Okay.. this post I'll touch on character information..

Since I'm guessing most of you will want to play Half-men... I'm going to get them first.. using an NPC I'm currently working on for an example.

Name: Obvious
Race: Human, Halfman, Farman, or Freak
Tribe: By animal type ( In the case of human or freak characters, use Mother's tribe. Humans don't have a tribe unless they have a beastman for a mother.
Animal: This should be obvious.
Traits: YEs.. the space is there for a reason.. In this section, you post the traits of your choice of your animal type... Halfmen get 3 traits (or all traits if less than three are available) Far men get all traits listed unless that trait is canceled out by thier human characteristics.. Freaks traits are on a case by case basise.

Example:
Name: Karee
Race:Half-Man
Tribe: Sun
Animal: Feline, Domestic.
Traits: Increased Speed/Reflexes
Claws
Keen Hearing.


Some Example Animals
Feline (all felines use this section, as they're so alike) Claws (retractible or not, Either works) Keen hearing (with Cat ears instead of human) Incresed speed/Reflexes (package deal) Heightened balance (comes with tail) Keen Scent (Comes with cat nose)

Bear Claws (no-retractable only) Inscreased endurance, Increased strength. Fangs

Bird Wings (This one is free to birds, doesn't count against your limit) Keen Eyes, Talons, Increased Speed.

Shark WaterBreathing (free to all sea tribe members) Teeth. Swift swimming (shark tail) Rough skin.

Spider Webs (you decide where they come from) 360 degree vision (multiple eyes) Extra arms (only two extra) Poison fangs. Hightened Climbing. (can climb any surface)


So.. there are some animals to get you started... Feel free to pm me an animal you'ld like to use, and I'll work out a list of traits for you to choose from.


Note: Far men are More animal than man... so with Farmen, you choose what part of your body is still human. This is ussually the head.. but can be arms on a snake, or hands on a wolf... I don't expect alot of you to play Far-Men.. but I encourage atleast some of you to try this potentially difficult, but still interesting character class. I can't promise anything to those who do.. but it might still be worth your while.

Oooooh, this sounds good. I'll definitely want to be in this one.

I'll be adding two new animals atleast once per day for the next week.. and by then I'll try to have gotten the rpg started...

Today are Canines and Lapines

Canine (any species of dog, wolve, or fox works here) SunTribe
Enhanced scent (compleate with puppydog nose) Fangs, Increased run speed. keen Ears.


Lapine ForestTribe. Increase leaping, heightened running, keen ears..
Camoflodge coat (Hair turns white in winter, or in cold environments, but takes a week to change from natural color to white, or back again)
(and and ALL rabits get the addorable cotton tail for free)

Yes! Finally canines are in the picture.

......O.o when did you become alive again bane? Anyway I'm glad Lapines been added, though i think they was added just for me. (> ^.^)> <(^.^ <) (> ^.^)> kirby dance!

So no hybrids between animal species eh?

you ean like a chimera type animal?

When I finally got my computer time in :lol:

Chimera huh? (winks at Fullmetal alchemist)

As for being part animal, This brings me back to days when I played Furcadia. (Starts dreaming and slaps himself)

I'm going off topic sort of so I'm gonna stop writng in this post.

Not unless your a freak..

But don't worry about that, as you can't play a freak at the start anyway..

Hey If were going to be canine and feline like creatures, does that mean we'll have double jointed legs?

Nope... Not unless your animal has a trait that alters his leg structure and you choose that as one of your three..

Or a Freak.. but like I've said before.. don't worry about those..

No freaks, got it. :P

These two Catagories should make up for the fact that i forgot to post yesterday's updates, as they're such increadable broad catagories..

Remember, you can only pick three traits from those available.

Insect, Forest Tribe. (I made Insect it' own catagory becuase there are so many differant kinds, It would be stupid to try and make a catagory for each of them)
Wings, Claws, Fangs (poisonious or not, your choice) climbing, extrahard carapace, spines, poisonskin, Stinger, boiling acid farts (You can thank the bombadier beatle for that one.) Adaptive Coloration (takes a week to blend into current environtment)


Lizards, Sun Tribe. (the lizards catagory will include ALL four legged reptiles, from chameleons to aligators to Komodo dragons)
Cold-Blooded (gives you inhuman speed in hot areas, but your sluggish in colder areas), spines, fangs (option of normal, deseased, or poisonious) claws, indipendantly focusable eyes, projectile tongue, poison skin, Increaded lung capacty (for water dwellers) striking tail (for larger reptiles) Instant Adaptive coloration. Radioactive Breath (Okay.. that one's not really allowed.. but It'll get a couple giggles)

Tomarrow I'll work on some Sea and Wind tribe submissions

I have a feeling thsi idea died....

It's not dead... I just got distracted with... um..

Yeah.. when I think of a good excuse, I'll be sure to put it here.

hehehehe. technically it's dead and in need of a necromancer <.< come back when you found one :P

Distracted like you were in the making of that Chibi RPG too Blood? :bang:

Anyways I thought of a new animal. Blood how about otopie. The can change color instanly, can have extra arms and shoot ink but are fragil or somthing. I'll live it to u.

Octipuss