Boddynock
First Post
Hi, Yellow Sign.
This sounds like fun. I'm afraid I'm another of the people who doesn't know the setting or have a copy of the rules but I had a couple of thoughts for character concepts which I'd like to run past you.
First, an academic (Oxford don) with an interest in parallel development theories of intelligence. A philologist, he is also something of a cultural anthropologist and is interested in studying alien cultures. As I'm writing this I'm thinking he sounds like Daniel Jackson from Stargate - but at any rate, I think a scholar like this could be fun to play, if you think he would fit.
Another idea I had was a big-game hunter - particularly keen to bag some dinosaur. Or else a soldier of fortune type, who might hire on as a mercenary or who might get caught up in some sort of rescue mission. This could also be a servant of the Crown entrusted with a mission of vital importance.
Or how about a Colonial - from Australia, set to make his fortune in any way he can. Or a pastoralist's youngest son, looking to find some promising stock to cross-breed for a hardier, more drought-resistant breed of sheep.
Or what about an Oriental mystic seeking enlightenment? Or a Church of England clergyman seeking to convert the natives? The White Man's Burden, you know! (I can't imagine that this latter would last as a character concept - but there's no reason that it couldn't be the hook to get him offworld in the first place.)
What do you think?
Boddynock
This sounds like fun. I'm afraid I'm another of the people who doesn't know the setting or have a copy of the rules but I had a couple of thoughts for character concepts which I'd like to run past you.
First, an academic (Oxford don) with an interest in parallel development theories of intelligence. A philologist, he is also something of a cultural anthropologist and is interested in studying alien cultures. As I'm writing this I'm thinking he sounds like Daniel Jackson from Stargate - but at any rate, I think a scholar like this could be fun to play, if you think he would fit.
Another idea I had was a big-game hunter - particularly keen to bag some dinosaur. Or else a soldier of fortune type, who might hire on as a mercenary or who might get caught up in some sort of rescue mission. This could also be a servant of the Crown entrusted with a mission of vital importance.
Or how about a Colonial - from Australia, set to make his fortune in any way he can. Or a pastoralist's youngest son, looking to find some promising stock to cross-breed for a hardier, more drought-resistant breed of sheep.
Or what about an Oriental mystic seeking enlightenment? Or a Church of England clergyman seeking to convert the natives? The White Man's Burden, you know! (I can't imagine that this latter would last as a character concept - but there's no reason that it couldn't be the hook to get him offworld in the first place.)
What do you think?
Boddynock