Races of Nevermore v 1.04

Body:
Strength
Dexterity
Endurance

Mind:
Intelligence
Wisdom

Soul:
Luck
Personality

Zombies!

First of all, welcome to the lab.

Its certainly helpful to decide on what denizens populate your world and what they're like when designing a setting/game. However, I was wondering if you could tell me a bit of the reasoning behind your choices. Why does you setting need elves and so forth? What stories do you hope to tell?

There is a term in gaming circles - "Fantasy Heartbreaker". It refers to games that regardless of how well thought out, innovative, or unusual seem derivatives of the mainstream published works. From what I've seen so far, your game seems quite close to the d20/D&D paradigm.

I'm sure that you do not deserve to be regarded as a merely derivative ludographer. We are here to help breath a bit more life into each game that appears on our pages.

Perhaps it would help if you could tell us a bit more about the mechanics or the setting itself rather than simply listing the races and classes. Might each race be given a new order in your world?

There is a fine line between hobby and obsession. I seem to have lost sight of it some time ago.

You'll have to wait and watch the mechanics evolve they can be rather tedious as i'm sure you know. I've worked on several fantasy/Horror/Sci-fi over the last six years and have developed a system of creation which works best for me. The eventual goal of "Castle of Nevermore" is to be a building block for a nearly true to life Historical/Fantasy based off world Folklore/Mythology with a little psychotic twist. I'm a console gamer above all else and my work will show that influence in time. Truth be told that D&D comment of yours is insulting I could RPG circles around Gary Gygax.

Zombies!

It was never my intent to insult you. Sometimes its necessary to warn newcomers to this site about the heartbreaker phenomenon - apparently this wasn't one of those occasions.

Would you care to share some of your experience with the lab? We've discussed mechanics first vs setting first creation before - but character first hasn't really come up. How do you define "true to life"?

Sorry if I sometimes appear a little impatient. I've been working with games for nearly a decade, and I find the emergence of new works very interesting.

There is a fine line between hobby and obsession. I seem to have lost sight of it some time ago.

The idea behind Character first comes from player observations. Who you are (the character) is often associated with perception and interaction. How you see your world and how you react to it. With this in mind i've been in process of optimizing a system of cross genre character creation. This holds significance in an "Omniverse" (a multi-dimensional anything is possible playing field) in which past, "present" and futures are capable of meeting at a crossroads. If all your character is capable of is hack and slash in a predominately diplomatic playing style you lose most if not all the possible enjoyment of the scenario.

As to the true to life comment, through research of old world belief systems if I wished to incorporate the persona of Tiamat into a dragon deity I'd turn to Babylonic or Sumeric mythos for "True to Life" representations of what/who Tiamat is/was for example.

The whole insult thing may and probably comes from my history of a non-gaming circle of friends who only knowing D&D as the closest comparative to what i do in my spare time would constantly reference my work as such.

Zombies!