Fractured world rp (Name pending) comments/planning thread!!!

[Marvelous Miscreant]

I think things keep getting added to counteract something on the other side so it's just becomes this stack of of counteracting forces.

[Zaleramancer]

Rock Paper Scissors?

[Marvelous Miscreant]

Possibly, i'm not sure....I'm not really even a true GM for this...more like a figurehead.

[Zaleramancer]

You are the master of the Tech side.

WHAT IS IT THAT YOU WISH, ROBOTIC OVERLORD?

[Marvelous Miscreant]

A nice sentiment, but seriously Cabanilla makes more decisions regarding the Tech side than I do.

[The Junkyard Cat]

Okay so we need to balance the sides then. Hmm could use help with that.

[Marvelous Miscreant]

Basically, what i;d do is instead of trying to match one sides assets to the others. Start by picking one thing each side has that the others don't. This will be the main focus of each side. Then add two or three supports for that one things and it should all balance out so long as each main asset is at least some-what similar in power level.

But I;m pretty tired so that might not have made any sense.

[Zaleramancer]

Take away everything.

Now there is Balance.

[Zaleramancer]

Magic! has...

Wizards.
Magic Weapons.
Magic.
Halves.

Science! has..

Soldiers.
Guns.
Mechas!
Sorcerium.

People in the Middle! Has..

Fighters(?)
Guns/Magic Weapons.
Magic! & Science!
???

[The Junkyard Cat]

so is there more or is that it?

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

I don't think the people in the middle should really be balanced to the other two. They don't have the resources or the manpower to keep up with the other factions. Instead, the strength of the people who walk away should come from their location and their ability to innovate and try new things.

The way I see it, the neutral side isn't actively at war with the other two factions, but if the leaders issued a statement to the effect of "If you march out to fight, our troops will hit you in the back" then they become a deterrent by virtue of their very existence. Magic and tech can't war seriously with one another because of the risk the neutral will roll in behind them and trap them in a pincer. Likewise, an attack on the neutral city by either side would leave the attacking faction wide open to their enemy.

So neutral doesn't have to be as  strong as the other two, just strong enough that it isn't worth it to wipe them out.

[The Junkyard Cat]

thanks for that I've never been good at explaining.

[Zaleramancer]

That reminds me of an Eddings book I once read.

An army was laying seige to a town with walls they had no chance of penetrating.

The army couldn't run off without the town's milita rushing them from behind and slaughtering a good deal of their troops.

So they were stuck there.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

 Goodness...

[Zaleramancer]

Don't worry.

The Army was composed of the bad guys.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

 Ah.

I could live with that.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

Cab, if you still interested in stuff for the neutrals I have some ideas. Pretty cliche stuff like Caster guns and spell drives, a super computer that could theoretically cast thousands of spells a second when running at full capacity, Magitek engines and batteries you can charge by pumping you're mana into, cobbled together robots who've gotten a soul transplanted into them.

You know, if magic is nothing more than manipulating energy then I don't see any reason robots couldn't cast spells.

[The Junkyard Cat]

Well to be honest the neutral side is still figuring out bit by bit out to mix the two. Most of those ideas I thought of I'm just working the kinks on to get the neutrals to have it.

I however thought of some things that weren't listed, but again I want to work out a few things so they would work. So the only one I got working right now weapon design that was originally made by the tech side but was considered inefficient for combat. A small piece of tech that can moves around the body changing to either a weapon or armor, but it only worked when there was a small amount cause too much of it on the body or it would rip the user apart (So more like the amount to cover at least one limb). The neutral side stole the schematic for it and after some time were able to combine elemental cores to it for a more effective defense and offense.

[Marvelous Miscreant]

Any new developments?

[The Junkyard Cat]

unfortunately none a lot of personal things have been keeping me busy. I think I'll get a better chance to when school starts so I can talk to dryad.