TigerwiseVillain
Inactive Member
TigerwiseVillain here. I'm not actually new, strictly speaking; I set up an account last year, if I recall correctly, but I never really posted or joined a plot, which I'm guessing is why the account got deleted.
I'm unlikely to get along with any of you, but I'll try my luck regardless. I'm a cantankerous mad bastard from Canuckistan, and I'm looking to improve my writing skills. The only anime I've enjoyed thus far have been Berserk, FLCL, and Serial Experiments Lain, while in science fiction I favour the extremes of soft and hard: Blindsight, Event Horizon(though that one was a bit soft for me), Doctor Who, Futurama, A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and Transmetropolitan. Neuromancer's a bit of an outlier for me, but I liked it well enough. I like cyberpunk for the skeptical take on the claim that technology will solve our problems, but not for the genre conventions.
I've tried my hand at DMing in DnD, but I find I get too caught up in setting details that have nothing to do with the players. I tend to treat fantasy roughly the same way that hard SF writers treat science fiction, so the settings I come up with usually have weird alien psychology for the nonhuman races and really overelaborate metaphysics to justify the presence of magic and all the other fantasy elements. I should probably write a novel like that, but it's a terrible way to run a game.
Naturally, this leaves me in an awkward position here. I'd like to get started in a roleplay, but Yamatai's too soft for my tastes and, in my opinion, completely abominable. Neplesia's about Event Horizon hard, but it's too full of grizzled space marines for my liking and has precious few open plots. The only faction I really like are the Freespacers, and I doubt I could do them justice even if I could find a plot to join. On top of it all, my work schedule's completely unpredictable, so I'll probably want a slow plot. Where would you recommend I begin, if at all?
I'm unlikely to get along with any of you, but I'll try my luck regardless. I'm a cantankerous mad bastard from Canuckistan, and I'm looking to improve my writing skills. The only anime I've enjoyed thus far have been Berserk, FLCL, and Serial Experiments Lain, while in science fiction I favour the extremes of soft and hard: Blindsight, Event Horizon(though that one was a bit soft for me), Doctor Who, Futurama, A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and Transmetropolitan. Neuromancer's a bit of an outlier for me, but I liked it well enough. I like cyberpunk for the skeptical take on the claim that technology will solve our problems, but not for the genre conventions.
I've tried my hand at DMing in DnD, but I find I get too caught up in setting details that have nothing to do with the players. I tend to treat fantasy roughly the same way that hard SF writers treat science fiction, so the settings I come up with usually have weird alien psychology for the nonhuman races and really overelaborate metaphysics to justify the presence of magic and all the other fantasy elements. I should probably write a novel like that, but it's a terrible way to run a game.
Naturally, this leaves me in an awkward position here. I'd like to get started in a roleplay, but Yamatai's too soft for my tastes and, in my opinion, completely abominable. Neplesia's about Event Horizon hard, but it's too full of grizzled space marines for my liking and has precious few open plots. The only faction I really like are the Freespacers, and I doubt I could do them justice even if I could find a plot to join. On top of it all, my work schedule's completely unpredictable, so I'll probably want a slow plot. Where would you recommend I begin, if at all?