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Character: One Eye Tsui Archetype: Maverick Cop Juncture: Contemporary Melodramatic Hook: One Eye Tsui is involved in a nasty feud with his brother Johnny Tsui, who fell in with the wrong side of the law and is now working for a major Triad gang. Johnny is a member of a cop family involved in...

I headed over to Chris Pound's Generators, went through some names, and came up with One Eye Tsui as the name for my maverick cop. I like the "one eye" thing -- it gives him character, and is going to tie into his melodramatic hook in a big way. As for melodramatic hooks, I'm thinking on the...

Mainly, you can create any rules you like for how your fantasy world works -- but then you have to stick to those rules to the end, or else the audience/readers will hate you. Magic is often used as an explanation for why the fantasy realm is different from the world we live in. So one has to...

The secret war is summarized quite nicely in the introduction to the game. There are certain sites scattered all across the world that harness and intensify the life force of man and nature, or chi. These sites are known as Feng Shui sites, and those who control these sites will have things go...

OK, now for archetypes... Like I mentioned in my last post, I'm looking at a maverick cop as my first character. Now, is the campaign going to involve the Secret War, or do you have something else in mind? Are we going to be in Hong Kong, or some other city?

I also have the book, and having seen The Killer and Desperado, I think I'm ready for some action. It would be interesting to see how this works out on PBP. I haven't played before, even though I've amassed quite the collection of games in the last few years. I think I'm going for the Maverick...

The only changes I make to a quote other than snippage of long posts are small spelling and punctuation changes (I'm a real stickler for those, let me tell you), but I leave the general content of the quote intact and unchanged. I take the twisting of one's words in an online quote very...

I'm sure there's a free Microsoft Word Viewer on the net that does with Word documents what the Acrobat Reader does with PDFs.

Here's one for a campaign that I'm thinking about running someday... The King of the Ironlands has died without an heir to the throne, leaving the rule of the realm in the hands of the seven powerful Sorcerer Lords who were his loyal vassals for a hundred years. So far, peace has reigned in the...

While all of the melee routes would make for good ways to take a sorcerer down, those mainly hinge on the assumption that the sorcerer in question is willing enough (read: stupid enough) to let you get close; and believe me, there are few who are. And even if he is willing to let you get close...

One of mmadsen's many excellent ideas in the Archive thread Little Changes with Big Flavor was to give powerful supernatural monsters a weakness, or some other way of defeating them with wits instead of force, but I did not see a corollary from anyone in the entire thread that dealt with...

The culture one of my characters comes from in one of my stories has a custom of wearing different funeral garb depending on how the person died. If the person died of old age, disease or starvation, the people wear black. If the person died from the cold (winters where the character comes...

Thanks a lot! :D

Back when I was lurking on these boards, there was a thread where people posted various ideas for customs. The custom from the thread that most stuck out in my mind was a warrior culture's way of greeting people: they punched or smacked them in the face as a show of respect for their strength...

I like the Gun Mage. Especially considering that I'm working on a setting that has a tech level equivalent to the colonial era -- except for the guns, which are Civil War tech and handmade by sorcerer gunsmiths. What can I say? Magical Guns are cool.

Just came over from RPG.net where a mirror of this thread is in the Open forum. Someone on the thread (second poster, in fact) pointed out the fact that the saints of the medieval church were, in essence, "vassal gods," and then went on to call the various named demons in Christian theology...

I like the "first born for the priesthood" idea, and if I'm not mistaken, it was common practice in the medieval age for noble families to give one of their kids to the clergy for training as a priest. Of course, if they were unwise enough to pick an evil church for bringing their pals back...

NICE! I am liking this Story Hour! Especially this particular update, with such gems as: I also like that little visual I've got of Jo going both-guns-blazing on the cthulhoid alien dude like Chow Yun-Fat (though to be honest with you, I don't think CYF has killed an alien in a movie yet)...

The way I understand from reading this post, the barbarian started the fight by blasting the smart-mouthed thief with a good right to the face. He probably didn't intend to kill the guy; just teach him a lesson or go for some fisticuffs if the thief wanted a fight. The thief, however, instead...

I think the paladin should consult his own god and lay the situation down for him as plainly as he can. I've got just one question: how do the paladin's god and Lord Death get along with each other? Although the paladin did give his word of honor to the bartender that he would bring Molly...