Drafting Done! Also, Call for Players

[rowyn]

I finished the first draft of Birthright today! \o/

It needs All The Editing still: this is the roughest draft I've ever finished. But I told myself that I would take a break from this book once I finished the draft, so I do not plan to begin editing it for at least a month or so.

I talked to Bard about its book series, Mating Flight, and it struck me that an astral dragon mating flight might make for a fun RP setting. For those not familiar with the setting (available at Amazon! First book here! also serialized on sythyry), a "mating flight" consists of 9 dragons: 3 females, 6 males.  The females compete for the right to choose first for a husband among the males, and the males compete to be the first dragon chosen.  The dragons have vast magical and physical powers, and are stereotypically interested in hoarding rare and valuable items, in controlling territory (which only mated pairs may do), and in amassing honor (more-or-less defined as "demonstrating one's physical prowess" and "respecting the rules of draconic society".)  The mating flights stereotypically compete based on physical and sexual prowess.

If I ran this as a game, players would make up some of the dragons on the flight, and NPCs would fill out the rest.

I will see how much interest there is and then decide if I want to run it, and talk to the players about how they want the game structured. Some possible options:

• Mating flight entanglements and competition: PCs compete with other dragons of the same sex for the highest position in the flight and the highest-quality mate.


• Mating flight trainwreck from within: for whatever reasons, the PCs and/or NPCs are unfit for a standard competition. Dragons try to hide their faults and make a show of it, and the story is mostly about "will they succeed in disguising their weaknesses or will they have to find a way to make the life they want work?"


• Mating flight trainwreck from without: External forces derail the mating flight, forcing the dragons to deal with the petty  problems of other people, instead of their own petty problems.

Other possibilities also open!

Note: while the mating flights do compete on sex, I would not expect the game to have explicit sex any more than the books do. It'd be about relationships and character choices, not erotica.

I backed the Kickstarter for Storium ages ago, and never gave the site a try. So I might try running a game there. Use of the site is free, though I think there's some advantages to having a paid account. If Storium looks too awkward to use, I'll use a Google group for it, as I've done in the past. In either case, it'll be a play-by-post game, and I'd expect players to post once or more per day.Past experience has been that my games run with great enthusiasm for a few weeks and then peter out before the story arc is complete. So think of it as about the journey, not the destination. O:)

If you'd be interested in playing an astral dragon, leave a comment! Or you can email me (my Gmail account is LadyRowyn) or tweet me on Twitter, or whatever's convenient.

Comments

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

I'm in!

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

And I will give an ebook copy of the first book to anyone thinking of playing — or anyone who emails me with this special code: "I'd like a copy of Mating Flight for Kindle please!" or "I'd like an ePub copy of Mating Flight please!"

(Or anything I can confuse with one of those special codes)

My Gmail account is bard.bloom@gmail.com

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

Note: while the mating flights do compete on sex, I would not expect the game to have explicit sex any more than the books do.

So this isn't just a way to get lots and lots of tinysex? }:)

I'm kind of interested, although PBEM games are iffy... Storium looks interesting, though? I'd be interested in playing to try out the system.

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on finishing the first draft of Birthright! ^_^