Avatar Battle Royale Discussion Thread XXXIV - "Go Go Power Lanterns!"

[HalfTangible]

Originally Posted by Darklord Bright

(For instance, post-nuke settings are anything but dystopias.)

In that there's no government to be opressive, maybe.

[Darklord Bright]

Originally Posted by HalfTangible

In that there's no government to be opressive, maybe.

I'd say that's a fairly large factor, yes.

[Keveak]

Originally Posted by Darklord Bright

Edit: An idea. Why not a post-apocalyptic Fallout-esque setting?

I like it! How much do you want for the permission to merchandise the soul out of the idea?

By the way, what happened to the steampunk setting?

[Darklord Bright]

Originally Posted by Keveak

I like it! How much do you want for the permission to merchandise the soul out of the idea?

By the way, what happened to the steampunk setting?

Got swept under the rug I suppose when the Lanterns came out. I had, I think, two people even notice I had mentioned it as well as the specific ideas I'd had, and one person think I hadn't specified setting ideas.

[CrimsonAngel]

Originally Posted by Goblin Scribe

Ooh, sort of first post!

Okay, I probably won't have too much Plotgoblin stuff anyway. Just Grayscale trying to avoid getting caught taking over a tower, which is hard when the catchers are genre savvy.

You seem familiar... *suspicious*

[Goblin Scribe]

Originally Posted by CrimsonAngel

You seem familiar... *suspicious*

Oh, I do, do I? Why should we take your word for it, Crimson....if that is indeed your name!

[Nageto004]

Originally Posted by CrimsonAngel

You seem familiar... *suspicious*

Quick, activate detective mode!

[Goblin Scribe]

Originally Posted by Nageto004

Quick, activate detective mode!

*Hands over a magnifying glass and that hat Sherlock Holmes supposedly wore*
*Dons a black hat and a fake goatee*

[HalfTangible]

Does anyone have any tips on making the black hands of a stick figure show up against the blackness of space?

[Gimliggamer]

Originally Posted by HalfTangible

Does anyone have any tips on making the black hands of a stick figure show up against the blackness of space?

Either make the hands or the space a little bit lighter. Or stick a randomn planet, ship, or a few stars behind the hands/liines in question. It is space, afterall.

[Zexion]

Originally Posted by Gimliggamer

Either make the hands or the space a little bit lighter. Or stick a randomn planet, ship, or a few stars behind the hands/liines in question. It is space, afterall.

Whoa, what are you doing here?

Erm, I meant "hey Gimliggamer, are you planning to join this?"

[Green-Shirt Q]

Originally Posted by HalfTangible

Does anyone have any tips on making the black hands of a stick figure show up against the blackness of space?

I've had a similar problem with hair. I think I'm personally going to make space a bit lighter instead, but Gimliggamer's idea aint bad either.

And Zexion, not everybody who posts or reads here wants to join ABR. Occassionally we have people who regularly comment but don't post comics, or just people who simply lurk and wish their opinions heard once or twice. Thery're curious or, dare I say it, fans?

[HalfTangible]

Ketham VS Fantasicman

Taking all bets, guys! Takin' all bets!

[Mad Mask]

Originally Posted by HalfTangible

Does anyone have any tips on making the black hands of a stick figure show up against the blackness of space?

Put a coloured aura around the character. Like Vaarsuvius in this OotS merchandise.

Originally Posted by Green-Shirt Q

And Zexion, not everybody who posts or reads here wants to join ABR. Occassionally we have people who regularly comment but don't post comics, or just people who simply lurk and wish their opinions heard once or twice. Thery're curious or, dare I say it, fans?

ABR has fans? Amazing!

[HalfTangible]

Originally Posted by Mad Mask

Put a coloured aura around the character. Like Vaarsuvius in this OotS merchandise.

Fantasticman doesn't have a colored aura to put around him

[Mad Mask]

Originally Posted by HalfTangible

Fantasticman doesn't have a colored aura to put around him

Neither does Vaarsuvius. There's a thing called artistic license that's useful in this situation. It's better in this situation to add an unmentioned white aura around a character than have his visibility reduced, and the quality of the comic as a result.

[Threeshades]

Originally Posted by Darklord Bright

I was just throwing ideas out there.

Edit: Besides, "Overdone" is hardly an argument when it comes to ABR, seeing as we thrive on tropes, and it's all about having fun anyways . FI and Fallout-style settings are also vastly different. (For instance, post-nuke settings are anything but dystopias.)

F³ - Fat Fish Fallout

Sounds catchy :smallbiggrin


@Q (again)
I only notice it now, you actually included MR's character in there. And he's not just a blue lantern either, he went Super Cyan!

[Darklord Bright]

Originally Posted by Threeshades

F³ - Fat Fish Fallout

Sounds catchy :smallbiggrin

Keeping in mind that pretty much every time I've made a post-nuclear setting it's been the nuclear winter sort where the world is a tundra, because I prefer the "blue-lighting, all-white" to the "green lighting, all brown" of the typical wasteland.

[Goblin Scribe]

Originally Posted by Darklord Bright

Keeping in mind that pretty much every time I've made a post-nuclear setting it's been the nuclear winter sort where the world is a tundra, because I prefer the "blue-lighting, all-white" to the "green lighting, all brown" of the typical wasteland.

You should make it a magic apocalypse so everything glows purple and most of the plants are dead and turned a silver color. It'd be pretty.

[Darklord Bright]

Originally Posted by Goblin Scribe

You should make it a magic apocalypse so everything glows purple and most of the plants are dead and turned a silver color. It'd be pretty.

Nah, I kinda wanna stay away from having another fantasy setting in ABR. Even FI and ABRcorps are grounded in FFF.

[HalfTangible]

Start by making it somewhere BESIDES Avbaroy if you wanna move away from FFF and FI.

Obvious advice is obvious. =(

[Falgorn]

Originally Posted by Darklord Bright

Nah, I kinda wanna stay away from having another fantasy setting in ABR. Even FI and ABRcorps are grounded in FFF.

Ooh, I like the idea! can I bey a drugged-up pyscho that's addicted to spraypaint?

[CrimsonAngel]

Originally Posted by Darklord Bright

Nah, I kinda wanna stay away from having another fantasy setting in ABR. Even FI and ABRcorps are grounded in FFF.

As long as there can be guilds I'll join

[-skimmer-]

Originally Posted by Darklord Bright

Keeping in mind that pretty much every time I've made a post-nuclear setting it's been the nuclear winter sort where the world is a tundra, because I prefer the "blue-lighting, all-white" to the "green lighting, all brown" of the typical wasteland.

Originally Posted by Darklord Bright

Nah, I kinda wanna stay away from having another fantasy setting in ABR. Even FI and ABRcorps are grounded in FFF.

Too bad, it would be awesome to have a post cataclysm setting during the "Dark ages" someday....

Then again, we're currently running 3 plots at the same time....

Originally Posted by Falgorn

Ooh, I like the idea! can I bey a drugged-up pyscho that's addicted to spraypaint?

You still make comics?

[Darklord Bright]

Originally Posted by HalfTangible

Start by making it somewhere BESIDES Avbaroy if you wanna move away from FFF and FI.

Obvious advice is obvious. =(

You say to the guy who has continuously pitched this idea (and implied it in the quoted post) and made his own plot that took place outside of Avbaroy before.

Originally Posted by Falgorn

Ooh, I like the idea! can I bey a drugged-up pyscho that's addicted to spraypaint?

Once we figure out the world itself, we can work out the details, but I don't see why not!

Originally Posted by CrimsonAngel

As long as there can be guilds I'll join

Why would there be guilds in a post-apocalyptic world? If anything, there'd be gangs like the raiders, maybe some liberator-esque roving lawbringers, and a whole bunch of lunatic survivors and scroungers living in the odd town made of bits of everything's leftovers. I mean, I guess someone could make a group and call it a guild but the chances of anyone outside their immediate area even having heard of it before are slim to none, and there probably wouldn't even be enough people around to legitimately actually be a guild.

Then again, crazy people.

Edit: interestingly, the only real guild in the fallout world was the Slavers Guild, because it was the only one that was relatively global.

[Goblin Scribe]

Okay, I looked at the Novaris planning threads (I call them that because that seems to be all you talked about ). What would you say went wrong with it, DL? Once we work that out, we can try and make a proper setting without messing up.

For instance, should we not have many races? Should magic be D&D based? Should I play the king of the world/scrapyard?

[-skimmer-]

Originally Posted by Goblin Scribe

For instance, should we not have many races? Should magic be D&D based? Should I play the king of the world/scrapyard?

I think we started Novaris exactly by solving those questions

[Darklord Bright]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure we already decided the basic idea of the setting, at least if people would be into a Nuclear Winter setting which focusses on most of the people in the world having gone at least a little kooky from surviving in the post-apocalyptic tundra.

Plus, I don't really want magic and stuff because I'd rather we have at least one non-fantasy plot, and I don't think we ever restricted people to DnD classes anyways. As far as 'races', I'd say normal human races and maybe allow some leeway for mutants.

I'd also say we set this in a world similar to earth but not earth, or at least never specify where anything is or anything about the world before the nukes.

Edit: oh, and Novaris went wrong in that people argued too much to go against the original ideas of the setting after they had been established and pretty much we had some cases of things being decided without consent of the whole. I tried to police what I could, but things kinda fall down when you really stop caring anymore

[Goblin Scribe]

Originally Posted by -skimmer-

I think we started Novaris exactly by solving those questions

The answers to all of them were no, though. I'm asking if they should be yes, if that makes the sensiness.

[Darklord Bright]

Originally Posted by Goblin Scribe

The answers to all of them were no, though. I'm asking if they should be yes, if that makes the sensiness.

I've already covered the answers. I've given the very bare idea, now it needs to be expanded upon. I always believe that groups and characters should be characterized beyond 'classes' and 'races' (hence why I typically frown upon setting which are fantasy kitchen sinks when it comes to races).