Heritage Posted July 1, 2004 Share Posted July 1, 2004 Okay, seeing as Ezekiel has now lost all respect for me, I might as well give everyone else the chance.I admitted to the estimable Zeke that I use astrology, that wacky psuedo-science, in designing NPCs for my games. I find the subject fascinating, but am unable to commit fully to the concept due to my logical upbringing; however, as a Unitarian-Universalist, I can't ignore anything out of hand ::winkAny thoughts on astrology in RPGs, astrology in general, or any other dark secrets of the EON community?Let's hear from you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcanum_V Posted July 1, 2004 Share Posted July 1, 2004 It's not really astrology, but I like to use the Chinese Portrait from Chaosium's Nephilim RPG for all games. It's simply one of the most intriguing dimensions of character design I've ever seen.Chinese PortraitFor each blank, ask yourself what would describe your character best. The answers may be as normal, exotic, or strange as you like. They can come from any game, media experience, or reality. As long as they help you the player to imagine your character, they work. Metals and Weapons may be fantastic (mithril, lightsaber, Death Star Main Array, etc.), the Famous Person can be fictional, and any answer may be as general or specific as you like.What would I be if I wereA natural phenomenon?A metal?An animal?A color?A mythological being?A famous person?An activity?A work of art?A weapon?An object?I also use Tarot affiliations. For any given character, I think about which card might be the most representative of him or her. This also works the other way: if I'm stuck for an NPC, a random draw from a Tarot deck can sometimes inspire something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bahamut810 Posted July 1, 2004 Share Posted July 1, 2004 I have on occasion made characters based off birth dates and the Zodiac for their personality.No harm in that now...is there? ::devilangel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezekiel Posted July 2, 2004 Share Posted July 2, 2004 pssst! He knows the zodiac signs of every NPC except Delacroix 'cause he's new! ::blink ::blink ::tongue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heritage Posted July 2, 2004 Author Share Posted July 2, 2004 Hey! ::tongue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madcat82 Posted July 2, 2004 Share Posted July 2, 2004 Hmmm... I dont know...Im can wrap my mind around the thought of using the zodiak to create npcs for fantasy games... but not Aeoniverse (its a wee bit to non-supernatural for me)I usualy create a random character generator and link it so that it creates all the npcs for my whole game world (I have to tweek them of course, but usualy the bulk of the work gets done... ::biggrin )An example: A long time ago (a year ago) I made a Trinity series that revolved around a chinese freighter (It was a horror series,actualy quiet fun :-) and I fixed out 400 characters, there shift, name and there position (medical, command, machine, science and a couple more whom I dont remember :-) I never used all four hundred of course, but It was kind of nice to be able to give the players a crew manifest with names, ranks and positions out of hand when they asked for it :-)I dont use this method for the realy important characters of course... :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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