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- | Welcome to Star Army! This article has the basic steps and info you'll need to participate. Please read it thoroughly. | + | {{ : |
- | {{https://stararmy.com/images/people_and_armors.jpg}} | + | |"//What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?//" |
- | ===== Setting Overview ===== | + | **Welcome to Wandering Star Role Play!** This article has the basic steps and info you'll need to get up to speed. It includes |
- | //Earth is just too small and fragile | + | |
- | — attributed to Robert A. Heinlein - [[https://en.wikipedia.org/ | + | Take your time if you feel overwhelmed or lost - maybe look at the relaxing scenery, grab a cup of tea, and smell the breeze for a bit. If you want, we have some [[/inspiration|recommended media]] for your consumption. Wandering Star's game master and community feel it can reflects the setting' |
- | Earth was a long time ago. Perhaps as far from us now as the first recorded history is from now, but we have no way of knowing. Time and time again, humanity has been cast down to the dust to lift itself | + | ===== How To Play ===== |
+ | Like a classic text-based roleplaying game, or tabletop game such as [[wp> | ||
- | Technology has advanced in strange directions and our fundamental understanding | + | The outcomes |
- | We have escaped | + | Roleplaying is a form of communication between its **Players** and their **Game Master**((Also called a Storyteller.)), |
- | There are however threats to that peace; lawlessness, civilizations unmet, aliens incomprehensibly strange | + | These stories often take place in colonies, towns, cities, spacecraft, space stations, starships, or may move from place to place over known locations |
- | === | + | ==== Styles of Participation ==== |
+ | Other methods of roleplay do also exist, but detailed below are the methods most used: | ||
- | ==== Yamatai ===== | + | === Joined Post === |
- | The {{yamatai:flag_of_yamatai.png? | + | | **Players:** 2 to 4\\ **Requires: |
+ | | **+** Reads like a short story or novella when completed.\\ | ||
+ | | **!!** Can serve as a catalyst | ||
+ | | **-** Requires players to have agreeable timezones/scheduling.\\ **-** Does not scale well with more players. | | ||
- | ==== Nepleslia ==== | + | The posts two or more players make are conjoined with direct interaction, over a chat program or pad, and edited for readability |
- | In stark contrast, The {{nepleslia: | + | |
- | ==== The Vast Universe ==== | + | However, they require the participating players |
- | As you go through character creation, you'll be introduced | + | |
+ | === Sequential Post === | ||
+ | |**Players: | ||
+ | |**++** Format lends itself well to long term, episodic plots.\\ **++** Asynchronous posting playerbase possible.\\ **++** Possible for new players to join and begin participating quickly.| | ||
+ | |**!!** Run and told by a Game Master/ | ||
+ | |**--** Possible for players to drop out unexpectedly.\\ **--** Lots of players can mean lots of work for a Game Master. | | ||
- | ===== Roleplaying Overview ===== | + | Posts which come one after another |
- | In Star Army, you and other members create | + | |
- | Most RP occurs in ongoing RP plots. After their second RP thread starts, they can get their own subforum. A //plot// in this case refers to an ongoing role playing story and its group of players. In the Star Army RP, these are often based on starships. | + | - Game Master makes a post with events |
+ | * This includes | ||
+ | - Players post their character's responses to the above, | ||
+ | - Game Master reads player responses, dictates their outcomes with further events and non-player actions. | ||
+ | - Repeat until suitable conclusion is reached. | ||
- | For the full guide to roleplaying on Star Army, see [[guide: | + | === Messages === |
+ | |**Players: | ||
+ | |**++** Ideal for news broadcasts, announcements, | ||
+ | |**??** Basically, a forum within a forum, if that makes sense.\\ **--** Not normally used for actions.| | ||
- | === Play-by-Post ==== | + | Messages are communications made in character, which can be result of, or a cause for a plot. They are written |
- | **Star Army** is a play-by-post roleplaying community, which means we operate by posting text on the forum. Unlike tabletop roleplaying games, Star Army is mostly just writing and does not use complex game mechanics (math). Most story plots have a **Game Master** (GM) assigned whose job is to guide the story, describe the setting, and write the actions of background characters (NPCs). In the Open Roleplay forum, the creator of the RP thread may act as a GM. | + | |
- | **In Star Army RPs, we usually write in third-person past tense**, the way most novels do. For example: //A scowl of disgust appeared on Sayuri' | + | |
+ | | ||
+ | * A character' | ||
+ | * A phone call made outside of a plot | ||
+ | * A private bulletin or edict within an organisation | ||
+ | * The outcome of a game played between friends | ||
+ | * Advertising material or promotions | ||
+ | * The contents of a document or in-character book | ||
+ | | ||
+ | | ||
+ | * Job openings | ||
+ | * Government propaganda | ||
+ | * An interaction with a government agency | ||
+ | * Trade, such as between a character and a vendor, an auction, or offers to sell goods and services locally | ||
+ | * Strange sounding alien gibberish from an unknown source | ||
- | === Flexible Time === | + | ==== How to start a Plot ==== |
- | At a site-wide level, a year in real life is equivalent to a year in the Star Army universe. However, you are not required to stay aligned with the actual dates throughout the year. To help keep track of space and time, please include the location, date, and time at the start of your posts as needed. | + | To get a plot started, Wandering Star has a place, which acts as a rallying call and springboard: |
- | === A Shared, Living Setting === | + | Players then reply with their interest, bring forward character ideas, and ask questions. It is possible for the planning and brainstorming |
- | Star Army is a shared, living world that is always growing. Your writing can add to the setting, and your RP may be affected by events | + | |
- | ===== Account Setup ===== | + | Once the Game Master and/or players signal a ready to start, the Game Master gets to work on an introduction post, and places it in the [[https:// |
- | You must be **16 or older** | + | |
- | Register | + | This prologue post acts as the beginning of the sequence of events of a given sub-story within the setting and can be thought of an **Episode**. Following |
- | Optional: Create a wiki account. The wiki login system is separate from the forum one, so you will need to register for both.** You'll need a wiki account to create and edit wiki articles (such as if you want to make a page for your character). [[http:// | + | After that, it's just a matter of making more episodes until the plot reaches |
- | :!: If you have trouble registering, | + | ====== OOC: NEED TO CODIFY. WORK LATER ====== |
+ | ^ | ||
- | ===== Creating Characters | + | ===== The Story So Far... |
- | When you're ready, start making characters using the guides found on the **[[creating_a_character|Creating A Character]]** wiki page. Once your character | + | //Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for mankind to keep all its eggs in. |
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+ | — attributed to Robert A. Heinlein - [[https:// | ||
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+ | Many never agos since Earth, Humanity has been cast to dust and lifted itself once more elsewhere. Plagues, war, occupation; all speed-bumps in the great journey. Earth itself too now is but legendary - the dimension it occupied left behind, all for the great journey. | ||
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+ | Technology has grown in strange directions that challenge the functions of reality itself; from the mechanus of high energy, gravity, space-time and faster than light into aurus - to impress upon reality one's own will momentarily and with great peril, seemingly akin to magic. | ||
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+ | We escaped. Exodus, exile, abandon and loss; we now stand at a literal crossroads: a backwater system walled off by deadzones of space and great galactic gates of interstellar trade - the only ways either in or out. | ||
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+ | Equal parts fortress, ambassadorial meeting point, staging ground and a market ripe with oppertunity, | ||
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+ | === Luca Ver === | ||
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+ | . Perhaps as far from us now as the first recorded history is from now, but we have no way of knowing. Time and time again, humanity has been cast down to the dust to lift itself and begin anew - by war, plagues and occupation. The Earth itself is a legend and now too, the dimension it occupied as we leave it behind. But humanity survives, as distant travelers with new homes and new colonies as familiar to them and as home to them as Earth is to us. | ||
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+ | Technology has advanced in strange directions and our fundamental understanding of reality has changed. Gravity, high energy weapons, faster than light travel, the transmutation of the mind into information and a means of taking energy from space itself, but not without consequence. | ||
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+ | We have escaped a world not unlike the one we have described to you and venture forth into something strange and new in exodus, exile, abandon and loss. The remains of civilizations which arose in this strange place begin anew at peace. | ||
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+ | There are however threats to that peace; lawlessness, | ||
- | * [[http:// | ||
- | * Got an idea for a roleplay thread? Start an interest check thread in the [[http:// | ||
- | * Find other players to RP with in the [[http:// | ||
- | Star Army is a community, so get the most out of this site by being proactive; get (and stay) involved. Make friends | + | ===== Infinity Ver ===== |
+ | The local cluster | ||
- | ===== Questions and Assistance ===== | + | With resources depleted asymmetrically based on complex power structures, many systems cordoned off their wormholes - constructing spherical walls about them to ensure anyone entering would be crushed - becoming part of the inner wall themselves - crushed under near impossible pressure. |
- | Getting into Star Army is easiest when you ask someone to mentor you through it, and we're happy to do that! If we haven' | + | |
- | * Post on the forums (Ask questions in the [[http:// | + | Lasting thousands of years, |
- | * Talk to people in the [[https://stararmy.com/ | + | |
- | * You can also contact [[user: | + | |
- | * if you can't log in, email stararmy@gmail.com or text to 1-209-782-7276 | + | |
- | ===== Roleplaying Jargon ===== | + | |
- | The following are some common terms in the Star Army Roleplay Community. | + | |
- | * [[Damage Rating]] ([[:DR]]): A guideline for how much damage weapons do. | + | With the local cluster soon realizing its life-expectancy was limited |
- | * [[gamemaster]] (GM): A plot's storyteller/ | + | |
- | * [[:In Character]] (IC): Content that is in the story world. | + | |
- | * Joint Post (JP): A chat role-play session between multiple players, later posted on the forums. | + | |
- | * [[guide: | + | |
- | * Open Roleplay: Roleplaying threads that anyone may join. | + | |
- | * [[:Out Of Character]] (OOC): Content that is not part of the story world (real life). | + | |
- | * [[guide: | + | |
- | * [[: | + | |
- | * [[:SARP]]: Star Army Roleplay ([[: | + | |
- | * Single Post (SP): A role-play post by a single player, posted directly on the forum. | + | |
- | ===== Related Pages ===== | + | And so begins our tale. |
- | * [[computer_glossary| Computing]]: | + | |
- | * [[iromakuanhe: | + | |
- | * [[stararmy: | + | |
- | * [[firearms_terminology]] | + | |
- | * [[: | + | |
- | * [[guide: | + | |
- | * [[guide: | + | |