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Re: Can we talk about the Sexbot bar.

Aurelius said:
I wrote a mindsim personality that took some inspiration from him.

This game, is going to be the best game.

Malash

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Re: Rogues and Soloers

This thread shoulda been called 'Solo: A Starmourn Experience'.

Hopefully that doesn't trigger copyrights, though

Satomi

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Re: Character gender in Starmourn - the final word

I love this! While this won't affect me or any character I play personally, just seeing how the Starmourn team is truly and quantifiably listening and innovating couldn't be more inspiring.

Meder

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Shen - Pretty obvious.
Human - Obvious.
Jin - like the liquor "gin".
Amaian - Ah - MY - an
Decheeran - De-CHEER-an
Elgan - EL-gan
Krona - Like KROHN-ah
Tukkav - TOO-kahv
W'hoorn - Whoorn. Almost like the word 'warn' but not quite.
Nusriza - noos-REE-za
Ry'nari - reh-NAR-ee
Nath-el - nahth-el. The 'a' is like ah.

Aurelius

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Re: Can we talk about the Sexbot bar.

Aurelius said:

We don't do ratings, but if we had them, Starmourn would be R.

This is excellent news for me. Everything I’ve been reading about Starmourn points to this and I’m happy to hear I wasn’t just seeing what I wanted to see. And personally, I appreciate the restraint; I’m glad it’s R and not anything beyond.

Playing in a Bladerunner-esque world with sexbots, drugs, bourbon, exosuits, guns, and eyes getting poked out of their sockets is a dream-come-true for me, but a furry-porn chat room would be too much.

Theograth

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To Catch a Criminal (OOC)

Hello, everyone, I have come up with something that I hope you will like and want to take part in.

I've come up with a story - fairly short, I think - for a campaign. Now, I've never GM’d before, or even participated in tabletop roleplay, so if anyone wants to take the reins and be the GM, or just work alongside me, feel free to PM me. The story is pretty simple, though, and focusing on RP rather than rules, so it will not be difficult. Basically I'm taking the RP forums idea and adding a simple plot to it. See rules below. The story is also adaptable, if the players go a different direction than expected.

The premise of this story is that there is a criminal to catch. The chase will include moving to a few different locations. The cast is as follows:

For 4-6 players

The leader, a W’hoorn detective, also in the military
A starship pilot
A hacker
Muscle

Optional:

*Medic

*Diplomat

*Mechanic

*Scientist (Biologist, Anthropologist…)

*your choice

- You can choose the gender, name, and (except for the W'hoorn) race of your character. And, of course, their personality and motivations will be fashioned by you.

- Your character CAN die - but will of course resurrect in a cloning facility. So they will be out of the story, but not forever dead, so no worries if you're using your most favorite character.

- The GM handles ALL events and NPCs. You control only your character’s actions (and any pets/personal NPCs that belong to your character). And as was stated in the other list of rules, you may only state that you try to hit someone in the head, you don't get to say if the blow connects or not.

- The actions are decided not by dice rolls, but by whatever makes sense or makes a good story.

- When you are taking a turn, sign off with your name, and the name of the person that you think should logically come next, like this: Joe > Bob or Joe > Captain Thel (NPC). If another player thinks that they urgently need to react to the situation, they may steal, signing as follows: Joe > (Bob) > Captain Thel, Bob being the person who stole. Play fair, and don't hog the limelight.

- Respond within 2 days or someone else will take over your character. Exceptions can be made if you PM the group a heads up that you will be away for a bit.

- You may also be booted at the group's discretion if you don't play nicely. For example - not following the storyline, going against the other players or the GM, or otherwise being dumb or a jerk.

Please comment below if you're interested in playing, and comment or PM if you want to help me behind the scenes.

Traveler

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Character gender in Starmourn - the final word

There's been some discussion over the months on this thread - http://forums.starmourn.com/discussion/124/character-gender - about whether we should have more than two gender options (three if you include Decheerans, who have no gender).

We've decided that we're going to have a third after all, though we're not intending to go beyond that for a number of reasons.

We'll have male, female, and non-binary as gender options. The pronouns the game will use for the non-binary option are the familiar they/them/theirs (unlike Decheerans, who use 'it').

We feel like this is the best way to go because there are too many permutations of potential gender (especially in a sci-fi universe with the advanced cloning and genetic manipulation tech available) to cover mechanically and it gives players space to define what it means for themselves in whatever way they want, via descriptions, dress, actions, etc. We realized, in fact, that we never even have to address biological sex mechanically, and so we won't. Gender is going to refer to just that, gender. If you want to write your personal description so that your gender is a woman but you have a penis or vice-versa, that's up to you. You can do that in any of our games already anyway, since descriptions are free-form. (Not that I encourage you to include your genitals in your description. That's kind of tacky imo.)

So, anyway, that's what we're doing!

Aurelius

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You Make the Mob, S01E01: Pilot

Hi all. I'm Oryx, a staff builder here at Starmourn.

I'm going to run a series of polls here, in which you guys can vote on (and suggest) various attributes for a denizen/NPC/mob in Starmourn, and eventually you'll see him/her/it in the game! Kind of making a collaborative character sheet.

BUT you won't have to wait until opening day for a preview - at the end I'll put together a log that shows just what happens when you greet, flirt with, start a fight with, or otherwise interact with them.

Feel free to call me a lazy builder, but it actually takes way more time to do it this way, especially for a single character. So know that this is all for YOU, our treasured community of early Starmourn fans.

In each thread I'll take suggestions for options in the next poll. But for now we'll start out with some stock characters to turn into something awesome.

We'll add race/gender next, so comment with combo(s) you would like to see! They can be player races or not.

Oryx

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Re: Any advice for a first-time MUD player?

Haha that's a fair question! Let me see if I can make any sense of it...

I'm a big gamer, and have always loved pen & paper games (especially the rp involved), so about a month ago I just googled "best games for roleplaying" and Achaea came up in one of the forums I found. As I was researching it, Starmourn instantly stole my attention on the main page because I’m a huge sci-fi fan, and then I saw that it was releasing this year and decided to join the forums and follow its progress.

The only other MUD-like experience I’ve ever had (aside from my preliminary adventuring in Achaea) is when I applied for a character in the Shadowrun Denver MUSH, but I never made it in because of all the character rules, I went through three rounds of character revisions before calling it quits (but that is more the fault of Shadowrun’s massive amount of rules rather than the MUSH itself).

I am also a backer of Star Citizen and while waiting for it to release I thought this would be a cool game to get into. Turns out I now have to wait for two amazing space games xD

Theograth

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IRE Book Club

The good folks over at Achaea have had a book club running for about a month now. Today at the latest IRE staff meeting a bunch of us decided to make one the entire community could participate in! Check it out over at Goodreads and join if you like! We will probably follow a once-a-month book reading format with discussions.

Eukelade

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