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XWayfarer	Alien Race Generator	Lead	[-]
Posts: 3024 (06/26/07 20:02:19) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Tags : None Well my super animal generator detoured into too much Doctor Who, so I'm working on an Alien Race Generator now: The many-tentacled race of amoeboids. They work happily with other races. The many-tentacled race of reptiles. They rule a single solar system. The elephant-like race of traders. They come from the future. The many-tentacled race of traders that can teleport. They live only as nomads and work happily with other races. The race of crossbreed primates. They are obsessed with technology. The primate-like/reptilian race that have superior strength. They rule a single solar system and work happily with other races. The race of half-breed rinoceri that can eat time. They control a vast empire and work happily with other races. The equine race of merchants that can see the future. They have never left their homeworld and were artifically created. The race of crossbreed mercenaries that can change shape. They control a decent-sized part of the galaxy and are obsessed with technology. The feline race of scholars that have incredibly short lifespans. They exist only to conquer.
Boss Hamster	Re: Alien Race Generator	#1	[-]
Posts: 2968 (06/26/07 22:50:35) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Yes. Yes yes yes. My only beef right now is that it seems to focus quite a bit on aliens that resemble Earth animals. I'm hoping that won't be the case with the finished product? That wasn't really a question, was it? ----- ~ Wolfgang Kaiser, Zeppelin Vigilante ~ "Kidnapping Nubile Victorian Ladies Since 1867"
Ablean Buckslinger	Re: Alien Race Generator	#2	[-]
Posts: 3459 (06/26/07 22:56:47) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Heh heh, beef. Love that phrase. This looks good, but still looking forward to that animal one.
XWayfarer	Re: Alien Race Generator	#3	[-]
Posts: 3024 (06/27/07 19:06:58) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Debating how to make it more than just animaloid. Any thoughts?
Boss Hamster	Re: Alien Race Generator	#4	[-]
Posts: 2968 (06/27/07 22:04:49) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Maybe go for some more ambiguous adjectives. Slimy, many-headed, glowing, spindly, buoyant, festering, amorphous, tiny, conical, bulgy-eyed, immaterial... Y'know. ----- ~ Wolfgang Kaiser, Zeppelin Vigilante ~ "Kidnapping Nubile Victorian Ladies Since 1867"
Ablean Buckslinger	Re: Alien Race Generator	#5	[-]
Posts: 3459 (06/27/07 22:37:19) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Festering is a beautiful word. And a beautiful thing to do. I love spending a day just festering. Also, "light-based", "water-based", "energy-based", "fire-based", etc.
XWayfarer	Re: Alien Race Generator	#6	[-]
Posts: 3024 (06/28/07 18:29:43) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Hmmm, keep the suggestions coming people, this is pretty interesting!
Ablean Buckslinger	Re: Alien Race Generator	#7	[-]
Posts: 3459 (06/28/07 23:07:10) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Cuboid, two-dimensional, four-dimensional, time-based, spherical, two-hearted, one-lunged, four-livered, etc, etc. with stink glands, with no sense of smell, with a highly-developed sense of taste, that talk via smell, that can see sound, that can hear colour, etc, etc. Oh, and get skunks in there.
Ablean Buckslinger	Re: Alien Race Generator	#8	[-]
Posts: 3459 (06/29/07 01:28:37) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	with gills, with no sense of humour, that communicate with ultrasound, that feed on rocks, feed on blood, feed on nectar, feed on air, feed on hair, feed on bones, feed on light, are completely cannibalistic, have no sense of citizenship, believe that they are not alone, have split personalities, etc, etc My favourite idea for a race is one a small mole-like race that lives underground its whole life. They are completely white and have no eyes, nose or ears. They cannot see, hear or smell, and spend their whole life digging tunnels searching for food, which it finds only by feeling or tasting. Very long tongues. Unrelated, but I like the idea. Sapient plants, get them in too. And artificial intelligence.
Boss Hamster	Re: Alien Race Generator	#9	[-]
Posts: 2968 (06/29/07 08:14:04) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	And don't forget their relation to Earth - have they visited here in secret? Are they responsible for crop circles? Are they studying us? Do they walk among us, disguised as lawyers/FBI agents/plumbers? Is the government trying to cover up their existence? Did they help the Egyptians invent the pyramids, or cause the fall of Atlantis? Are they documented in cave art or clay figures or the Nazca lines? More adjectives: bubbling, humungous, gelatinous, amphibious, hyperintelligent, telepathic, mechanical, bulky, clumsy, dextrous, cunning, bat-winged, many-eyed, industrious, hostile, and of course squamous. ----- ~ Wolfgang Kaiser, Zeppelin Vigilante ~ "Kidnapping Nubile Victorian Ladies Since 1867"
Ablean Buckslinger	Re: Alien Race Generator	#10	[-]
Posts: 3459 (06/29/07 11:12:39) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Their ancestors evolved on Earth. Their home is a very small planet, has very low gravity, is the moon of a gas giant, is the moon of a rocky planet, is an asteroid, has a very dense atmosphere, has seven moons, is heavily forested, has been farmed completely of resources, is smothered in clouds of poisonous mist, etc, etc.
XWayfarer	Re: Alien Race Generator	#11	[-]
Posts: 3024 (07/03/07 20:46:44) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Well it keeps modifying itself. However I think I got it worked out. I have general modifiers, general earth-animal comparisons, integuments, motive method, limbs, senses, abilities/general modifiers, technologies, and psychologies.
Boss Hamster	Re: Alien Race Generator	#12	[-]
Posts: 2968 (07/03/07 22:25:56) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Now all you need is their favourite TV shows. ----- ~ Wolfgang Kaiser, Zeppelin Vigilante ~ "Kidnapping Nubile Victorian Ladies Since 1867"
Ablean Buckslinger	Re: Alien Race Generator	#13	[-]
Posts: 3459 (07/03/07 22:56:23) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Have you got where they're from and what they control?
XWayfarer	Re: Alien Race Generator	#14	[-]
Posts: 3024 (07/04/07 10:56:19) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	No. I'm leaving those out. Frankly, I want to get an idea - but not too much of an idea. I may make it optional in the future. The basic issue is do I want to make a race, or make a race in its PLACE, if you know what I mean. How much leeway do I leave the person using the generator?
XWayfarer	Re: Alien Race Generator	#15	[-]
Posts: 3024 (07/04/07 21:06:26) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Samples form the latest - NOT done and more complex ones to follow . . The misshapen, feline race. This race has elongated limbs. This race moves bipedally. They are masters of medicine. The skinless race. They have strange and unusual senses. This race moves quadrupedially. They are masters of time travel. The thin crystalline race. This race has no specific manipulatory appendages. This race moves bipedally. They have incredible strength. The cainine race. Their skin is their major sensory organ. This race has many-fingered limbs. This race moves quadrupedially. They are blood-drinkers. The bulky race. This race moves along on tentacles instead of legs. They are blood-drinkers. The race of reptiles. This race has elongated limbs. Religion is very important to them. The insectoid/feline race. They have strange and unusual senses. This race moves along on tentacles instead of legs. Their intellect is very advanced. The thin, skinless race. This race moves along on tentacles instead of legs. They are masters of space travel. The muscular race of mercenaries. They have prominent ears. They are masters of computer technology. The race of merchants. They have strange and unusual senses. This race has no specific manipulatory appendages. They are masters of computer technology.
Ablean Buckslinger	Re: Alien Race Generator	#16	[-]
Posts: 3459 (07/04/07 22:37:13) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Is there going to be Simple/Elaborate options?
XWayfarer	Re: Alien Race Generator	#17	[-]
Posts: 3024 (07/06/07 10:00:48) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	. . . I never thought of that. But holy shit, if I did that I could have plain descriptions, expanded, and full (which WOULD have the worlds they evolved on, etc.) The only flaw - YOU KEEP GIVING ME GREAT IDEAS AND I HAVE TO KEEP INCORPORATING THEM! But hey, you guys are good at that! What I might do is release it, then tweak it in the next generation.
XWayfarer	Re: Alien Race Generator	#18	[-]
Posts: 3024 (07/06/07 11:20:24) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	. . . actually you may have just given me an idea of how I can reorganize this generator to make it massive-ass expandable . . .
Ablean Buckslinger	Re: Alien Race Generator	#19	[-]
Posts: 3459 (07/06/07 14:47:49) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Wooo! Massive-ass expandable! I'm not 100% sure what that means but it sounds BIG!
XWayfarer	Re: Alien Race Generator	#20	[-]
Posts: 3024 (07/06/07 21:53:16) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	As in, I can reverse engineer it to a more complex structure that will be easily modifiable as things suggest themselves. It means its more intense (so as opposed to generating 1-50 it'll be 1-10), but it can work.

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