The Realm of Vorpal Lhura

Current Status:

[9.2.12]
Oh.
My.
GODS.
Vorpal Lhura's First Adventure is ON ITS WAY TO YOU!

It's going to be rocky. There's still a LOT to do. But...eh, fuck it, you guys are my friends, and we'll figure this stuff out together, right? I cannot tell you how much I'm looking forward to this. I hope it'll be fun and educational for us all (well, more educational for me and more fun for you guys)!

[2.21.11]
I have been working on this! I've just been too lazy to update the status log. And I'm still working right now, but I realized I should let y'all know I'm still on it.

So, what exactly have I been doing?

Well the most major thing is that I KILLED OFF SPIRIT MAGIC. It's gone. This reduces mages to two schools they can know (because you can't know both Holy & Unholy). But, in its place, I give you a new class: Blood Mages, or, more properly, Theurgists, Shaman, and Warlocks. It's the same basic concept behind Spirit Magic - using HP to power your spells - only you use it to power the existing Holy, Unholy, or Elemental spells. So while Spirit Magic is gone, its ...heh, spirit... lives on.
I am working on Elemental Magic right now. I'm creating Elemental spells like mad. I have some very interesting concepts for it, which you can read about here. Matt has, of course, been a huge help with certain aspects of plotting out this school.
A lot of the changes I've been doing are not, as a good writer friend of mine says, "sexy": editing to remove aspects of previous systems, working on the CSS conversions. They're things that are important to me and take scads of time, but I can't actually show them off to you.

I'm not going to say that I've been diligently working day by day. Last week's "work on VL" time got sidelined by TV Tropes. BUT! There has been stuff going on and improvements being made! We are closer and closer to being playable! And I just wanted you to know that before I go back to making Elemental spells.

[1.12.11]
I am now convinced that making a game by oneself is entirely impossible. I am fortunate that I do not have to do this alone. My co-conspirator, Matt, has been a lifesaver, as he knows much more about game systems and mechanics than I do. I can make (what I think are) interesting fantasy worlds to play in; I kind of suck at telling people HOW to go about playing in them. Matt's knowledge and help has been invaluable here.

The Elven template is updated, for the time being. Rather than go to work on Weres, I made an elf to challenge Matt's Brewmaster and we worked out a basic combat system for unarmed and melee weapons. From there, the plan is to work on magic systems (esp. Elemental) and magic combat. Matt has some interesting ideas for Elemental that WILL mean a rework of it, but it's such an improvement, I don't see how to avoid it. ;)

Oh, and speaking of character creation: updated character creation sheet! Boo-yah! 'Course, who knows how else it might change soon.

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