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Yup, it's that time again.

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You guys want me to dump my pics? I haven't found much since last thread.

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Might as well get the usual images out of the way and see if anyone's got something new.

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>>27464511
Sure, why not?

Captcha: the roaress

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>>27464532

Cool. So, what's on the agenda today?

So, would kemo's latest fashion fad be fake human ears?

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Can I get a description on the world/races to date? Last I knew basically everything was in flux, and I'd love to know what's been hammered down - and what most people seem to agree to with only a few dissenters.

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>>27464537
How would they know what human ears look like?

Also, what stats do we need to iron out?

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>>27464537
Hell if I know. I'm just killing time until the other regular posters show up.

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>>27464558
Well we have Catgirls, Doggirls, Rabbitgirls, Foxgirls, and Beargirls.

>>27464445
I'm not sure breaking with grimdark is a great idea. Maybe you could apply the heavy metal aesthetic of Hail and Kill, and make the kemonomimi hyper-violent superpowered killers based on big cats?

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>>27464581
Dude, you best be trolling.
>>27464574
Okay then, why don't we fluff out a town/island? someone give me a name.

>>27464558
Re: the world: A lot of information about any particular campaign is left to the GM's discretion (like exactly how far the waters have risen and how much of the planet is covered), but there are a few commonalities: for one thing, THERE ARE NO MORE LIVING HUMANS ON THE PLANET. Whether they're all dead or on Mars or whatever is the GM's choice, but we're not going to have any secret bunkers underwater or isolated pockets of Earless stashed away. Endless Blue belongs to the Kemomi, and the humans aren't coming back, ever. (That ought to stop any grimderp HFY crap from seeping in.)

>>27464578
Alright, what about the world as it is? Not the history, but the present?

A friend has convinced me to start up a new RP with him in the universe, is why I ask. Last I new there were a fucktonne of ideas up in the air, but then the drama got too much and I dipped out. The PDF is too rules-packed for me to get a good handle on the world with - a good thing, while you guys are focusing on the rules, as you should be! - and I couldn't find a wiki or anything.

So far we have his lion-man swordsman (It's just a big cat! And if it's mary sue and the players both like it, it's not mary sue), my cunning catgirl diver who stole his ship (He just left it laying around! She always wanted to be a pirate), about 9 catgirl mooks as crew, and we just finished picking up a shut-in bunnygirl Earless expert. I'm looking for ideas to expand it from there.

Are kemos the only sentient bipeds on Earth?

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>>27464581
Not bloody likely. Breaking with grimdark has been one of the stated intentions of the setting right from its inception.

I think we should write a more extensive FAQ. With questions like:
>So, are all humans dead?
>Only catgirls? Can i play a male character?
>What about conflict and overall tone in the setting?
These questions are asked very frequently and sometimes derail the thread for 20+ posts.

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>>27464604
Palmwave is a small island in an archipelago that has developed a thriving community. It's number 1 export is catnip, grown on the island's arable land that's fertilized by the fish meal from the town's cast-offs. A bustling dock has been built to handle the island's various shiny hunters and merchants looking to trade earless tech for catnip and various other supplies, and the merchants have taken to hanging bright lights around their shops to attract customers.

>>27464604
>>27464649
Hey, I just think Grimmjow from Bleach and Viral from TTGL tooling around the ruins of the world to a soundtrack of Pantera, Iron Claw, and Jaguar would be cooler.

>>27464631
>lion-man swordsman
Not a mary sue. Lion is just a big-ass (and lazy-ass) cat, after all.

kemomimi aren't really that different from humans
why are they kept in the setting?
I'm only asking because all the other unnecessary stuff got pelted

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>>27464661
Good idea for the FAQ, we might want to put in on the 1d4chan page.
As far as i know,
-No humans whatsoever
-You can be a male, there's just a hell of a lot more girls.
-lighthearted romp and diving for shinies.
>>27464677
Well, you can do that for when you're running your game, but the whole idea for this is to be a cheerful romp to give folk a break from seriousness. But you never know, find a group online or in your lgs who want to play your game and they might enjoy it.

>time to don a trip-oh wait
>>27464677
And it's wholly possible. The main thing is, kemi can be violent, but are not murderous. Plus they are tougher than humans - tough enough that they can be kicked through the wall and get only a couple of bruises, keep consciousness, but lose some fighting spirit.
If anything, stuff can get shounen as fuck - all battles are not to the death, all villains are recurring (which is a good thing) and characters can withstand absurd amounts of punishment.

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>>27464695
Because human scientists genetically altered certain animals to be humanities' successor race. That's how I understand it.

Kemomi are genetically engineered by a guy who really wanted catgirls to happen, right? Do you think the sort of person who would do this wouldn't naturally program in a sexual preference? Because I can see him choosing to make them fill his fantasies.

So do you think they're all naturally dominant, or submissive?

>>27464696
A serious question. Why is skewed gender ratio important? Eternal Blue is land of equal opportunity, there's no explicit need to state gender ratios for a village... Apart from finding suitable picture for a catguy character (which is a pain in the ass) there's no dude limit.
I'm seriously considering removing this bit of lore frommy system right now.

>>27464661
Well, I'll draft up a few answers to that right now.

>So are all humans dead?
There are no living full-blooded humans left on the planet, and they are not coming back. Whether this means they're all dead or that they've all gone to Mars or whatever is up to your own GM's tastes, but you won't ever meet any actual Earless in your campaign.

>Only catgirls? Can I play a male character?
Sure you can! The primary differences are more or less cosmetic, though; surviving in the Endless Blue has made the Kemomi's gender roles rather more fluid than ours. Regardless of sex or subspecies, anybody can do whatever it is they want to do and are good at doing -- be that piloting, treasure diving, cooking, farming, fishing, scholarship, predicting weather, lighthouse watching, or anything else. Boy or girl, it doesn't matter how you make yourself useful.

>What about conflict and overall tone in the setting?
As we've said, CATastrophe is a deliberate step away from grimdark and HFY. Not that the Endless Blue isn't full of its share of dangers -- the underwater ruins that you search for treasure are often still protected by the Earless' old machines (the Kemomi call them the Oldguard), there may be pirates looking to steal your salvage, you might have to work together to survive a storm on the open sea -- but the ideal is to face adversity with a swashbuckler's courage, and come out of it hardly the worse for wear and ready to party.

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>>27464733
>Apart from finding suitable picture for a catguy character (which is a pain in the ass)
Not my fault dudes don't look good in swimwear.

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>>27464733

I think the only reason the skewed-gender-roles thing happened is that the pictures that inspired the setting have a preponderance of female characters in them -- there's like ONE identifiable male, and even that's iffy.

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>>27464733
I honestly have no idea, I'm just an anon who decided to collect pics of catgirls for this.

>>27464757
People are already going to go against genre because they can. All this means s they get to feel edgy for doing it.

>>27464445
Ok so the world is flooded over, where do they grow food to survive? Where are the factory's to produce everything I'm looking at? I see a cell phone, so who cares for the cell towers and the satellites?

>>27464706
no I mean why keep the story element
I read the old threads and it started of really rich but then the unique things were taken away to make it more accessible or just because they were plain unnecessary
except for them being animal people, couldn't they just be humans that have forgotten about their ancestors?

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>>27464774
Catgirls are more cute. This is a setting for whimsical creatures with a love of parties and diving for shinies.

>>27464771
The mythical electronic old men who run the world.

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>>27464771
The world isn't completely flooded over, there are still a few patches of land and whatnot. As for the tech, that's all found by shiny divers. These folk go out adventuring to find all this earless (human) tech and bring it back up to trade and look at.

>>27464771

Cat/fox/dog girls can probably get away with eating fish and bird only. Rabbit girls probably grow vegtables and such in gardens on top of skyscrapers that were big enough to survive above the water. like >>27464706

Scientists are already drawing up plans for vertical gardens that can grown crops better, and all year long instead of seasonal with indoor climate control. If they have the technology to make catgirls, I imagine they have towering vertical gardens full of farming machinery just waiting to be discovered.

>>27464751
Yup, there's this problem - yaoi fangirls. 99.9% of catguy pictures are fruitcakey as hell.
...yes, i am writing this on /tg/ofall places.

>>27464786
okay
I mean, not to make a thing out of it but humans can be whimsical

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>>27464771
Another thing for FAQ, i guess?

Here's the map. There's more than enough land, plus ship-settlements, such as Diver's Bay and floating platforms have their own gardens.

>>27464819
I agree with you on that, but it isn't our defining characteristic. Hence, kimonomimi.

>>27464818

Most of the art used to define the setting is cheesecake anyway. It makes it very easy to troll by taking the pics at face value and claiming it's an erp.

>>27464834
You can easily look at the art of anything and claim it is ERP at face value.

Big burly warriors and slender women wearing revealing robes? Obviously they shag after every adventure.

>>27464733
Because the setting isn't very serious. And Catgirls are cute.

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Guys.
Hey guys.
FF14 has standalone character creation benchmark, with all the stuff from full version.
Just sayan.

>>27464830
Could easily have some shit like Geo-thermal energy mixed with pole shift have the south pole become fertile grassland.

>>27464847
....i want to pet her ears.

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>>27464818
I am having buckleys trying to find male pics that aren't furry or fetish fuel.
Here's what I've got so far.

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>>27464865

>>27464865
Being fair, what you mark off as 'fetish fuel' in men would be just another day in women.

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>>27464865
>I am having buckleys
that can't possibly be healthy.

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Here's one pic I did showing different races and physical builds. (I'm actually doing a piece of writefaggotry featuring these four, but I don't know if I'll have enough done to post a complete version.)

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>>27464880
I was looking in dA. My own fault, but still.
>>27464883
It's an old Aussie slang from a guy named buckley who went native so much that he forgot how to speak english. Therefore, he had buckley's luck in speaking a civilised tongue

You guys want me to whip up some writefaggotry? I have an hour before I gotta ht the hay.

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>>27464930
Might as well. What's the character limit here, by the way -- in case I start posting mine?

Captcha: rocality necessary

>fox/bear girls

I thought these posters were gone. What happened?

>>27464883

Dude, don't post CAD in the CATastrophe thread, not only are you tkaing up space for useful images but you know those faces are gonna get shopped from :^U to ∑:^U at some point, and no one needs NekoCAD happening.

after all thos threads on tg i'm going to read the 1d4chan page.
let's see what is this about..

>>27465035
the premise is extremely cool, but should the world be fluffed more?
should we make an example village with all stuff in there?

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>>27465064
We have stuff like that actually happening. Wait around till That Damn Catfolk Pilot shows up, he'll be happy to tell you some of the stuff he's got planned for the FATE module.

Captcha: shewn NSWorld

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Oh, by the way: New drawfag stuff. It occurred to me that we had a definite lack of Nezumi (mice), Kumami (bears), and old people in the setting so far -- so this picture has all three of them.

Captcha: oldolud water

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>>27464945
I have no idea, sorry.

"Catnip! Catnip for sale!" The young Bunnygirl called out amongst the clamour of Palmwave dock, her stock moving fast as a boatload of Catfolk merchants moved through. Her haul of shinies was getting bigger, If I kept this up, she thought to herself, This is gonna be one hell of a party!

"Hey! Hey Flopsy, hey!"
Flopsy looked up to see a familiar foxgirl walking up to her carrying a box that piqued her intrest.
"Hi there Rusty, what's up?" Flopsy asked, leaning on her store table between the canvas bags of catnip.
"Oh nothing much," Smiled Rusty, her russet tail flicking as she grinned wolfishly. "I've heard that you're planning a party and I want to trade you some earless tech for a couple of sacks of your catnip."
"A couple of sacks?" This had better be some good tech." Flopsy remarked, patting her stock protectively.
"Trust me on this one." Rusty assured. The foxgirl set the box down and looked around in case anyone was looking, her ears pivoting towards any sound as she reach in. After a few moments of rummaging around, Rusty pulled out a strange device, Something that looked like a bunch of black balls with coloured circles of glass all around them with a stand on the bottom.
"Trust me Flopsy, you plug this sucker in and everyone's gonna go wild!"
"...aaaalllright, I'll give you two sacks for it." Flopsy said, scratching the back of her head.
"Four"
"Three."
"Done!" Rusty chimed happily, the two spitting into their hands and shaking to seal the deal.
With Rusty walking away with her sacks of catnip and Flopsy sneaking into the back of her store to find a power point to test it out on, both knew this was gonna be a night to remember.

>>27464578
But do you have BEARGrylls?

>>27465179
He was too busy drinking his piss when the floods came.

>>27464445
What does that sign say on the top level? in ends in " Your friends cant help you now." Thats pretty fucking creepy.

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>>27465130

All right, screw it, I'll start posting my writefag stuff here as well.

Shit I Ought To Tell You: The story is a thinly veiled proposal for a "dungeon" run. It can probably be fleshed out as needed from the details I provide, but this will tell you what happens when you go in through the front door. It's also a (hopefully rare) case of the party finding a completely unbroken piece of advanced Earless tech.

Here's my party again, this time labelled with the names I'm going to be using.

>>27465230
It's from a pretty famous definition (of unknown origin) of surrealism.

"surrealism, n. 1. the youthful expression of dreamlike spontaneity which daily life conspires to suppress. 2. a state of mind embracing unconscious, poetic juxtaposition which is eroded by responsibility. 3. You pursue the terrible beauties of fear and hope. Your friends cannot help you."

https://soundcloud.com/arizona-music/sets/catastrophe-soundtrack

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>>27465238
Go ahead mate, let's keep this thread going and get plenty of fluff for the setting.

Allec made a hand signal and pointed. 'Right there, that's it.'

Renner and Mata followed the direction of his finger, while Bean swam down beneath them to get a better view. The giant building they were hovering over did not quite have the look of the Earless' usual constructions; it seemed to have been built actually in the water, or with the knowledge that the site it stood upon would be underwater some day. The old Inumi on the island had been right about that. What made Bean nervous (and Mata too, though she was too much the stoic to show it) was what else the Inumi had told them:

"We haven't been back down there in years, not since I was a pup. There's no Oldguard in the area, but there's something else inside -- something whose nature I can't even begin to guess. My sister heard it calling out once, the last time we were down… and to this day, she says it sounded like a ghost."

Ghost indeed! Renner would have snorted, had the scuba mask permitted it. There was fear of the Oldguard, and there was fear of the outright supernatural; one was just natural caution against a proven threat, and the other was an overreaction to the unknown. They'd just have to be extra careful, that was all.

>>27465293
If this counted as careful. They were doing something that the superstitious islander had warned against: "We think that IT, whatever it really is, is confined to the main entry. That's why we stuck to using the alternate entrances around the back." Thanks to the design of the place, it was impossible to mistake which of the entrances was the actual front door; it was a gargantuan hatch, its seam running horizontally across the middle. And they were swimming straight towards it.

As they arrived, Renner gave a few hand signals of his own, and the other three members of his diving party began examining the edges of the door frame, looking for some kind of way in. Allec dove down to investigate the bottom edge, his fox tail rippling behind him like a banner in a high wind; the two girls moved to the sides, and Renner himself to the top.

It was Bean who found a panel, off to her side of the door; there was no knob or handle on it, but it swung gently open when she pushed hard against it. She waved to the others (shaking her head to get her oversized ears in on the action), and Mata floated over to help her examine it. Mata's knowledge of the Earless' devices, though rudimentary, promptly inspired her course of action -- her hand ran down the array of buttons and levers the panel had concealed, found a lever with traces of red paint still on it, and pulled it.

An alarm went off, the horn bleating loudly and repetitively even underwater, and a series of small but very bright red lights suddenly switched on all around the perimeter of the door. The power was still on? Well, so much for the possibility of making their entrance without drawing the attention of the unknown thing that lived here.

>>27465307
The two doors of the hatch hissed and began to open outward, one rising and the other swinging downward. A passing school of fish scattered and fled at the noise and movement; Renner and Allec kicked off the side of the building and paddled furiously to get out of the way. The doors continued to swing until they stood out horizontal, perpendicular to the wall. Mata and Bean, staring through the doorway, could see nothing at first; all was dark within -- and then the lights came on, a brilliant and almost blinding white. The divers took this as an invitation, and moved in as one.

The walls and floor of the inner chamber appeared to be of metal and concrete, but there was no trace of any natural growth on them: no kelp, no coral, and nowhere near the amount of algae it should have had. Some of the lights were affixed to the ceiling, but a great many of them were embedded in the walls. The divers floated in the middle of the chamber, uncertain as to how to proceed.

The sound of the alarm suddenly changed from a loud, blatting horn to a quieter beeping tone. A loud creak of metal came from behind, and Bean spun around in the water to see the hatch beginning to swing closed; she began swimming nervously back toward the entrance, but Allec grabbed hold of her leg and shook his head. He gave another signal: 'Wait.'

>>27465325
The hatch clanged shut, hissing loudly as it did so. For the first time, the adventurers noticed the green lights lining the inside of the door frame; as they watched, these lights went out and were replaced by red ones. The lights in the walls began to dim, while the ones in the ceiling grew brighter. There was a loud gurgling and whooshing noise -- and the divers looked up to see that air was beginning to fill the uppermost part of the chamber as the ocean water receded. The room appeared to have two separate levels, and they settled down in the lower one, among a set of metallic rails jutting up from the floor; Renner had time to wonder: 'What are those doing there? It looks as though some sort of vehicle's supposed to land here…' It would certainly explain the gantry that extended over one side of the lower level -- evidently a walkway.

The water level continued to drop, surprisingly fast, and they soon found themselves seated or standing on a relatively dry and slip-proof floor. Mata made a quick gesture to everyone, then removed the rebreather mouthpiece from her mouth and slowly inhaled.

"Well?" Allec asked, severely muffled by his own mask.

"A little stale, but it's okay," Mata said. "I don't think we'll have any problem breathing this."

This pronouncement was met with sighs of relief, as her companions began to shrug off their diving kits; they stripped off their masks, swim fins, and the harnesses of their air supplies, and stacked them against the nearest wall. Allec wrung his long hair out, then moved on to trying to squeeze the water out of his sodden tail; Renner and Mata did the same with theirs. Bean didn't have a tail long enough to make this necessary, but she did run her hands over her long ears, sweeping excess water out of the fur.

>>27465334
Allec was examining their surroundings closely. "So," he said, "what's our first move?"

Renner pointed. "Up that ladder, I think, and examine the rest of this room first. Then we'll move on to exploring the rest of the joint."

"Well, duh." Mata shrugged. "I mean, what else CAN we do?"

The ladder was a series of rails, like giant staples, built into the wall. Bean was the closest, and the first up. "Ah… Now THIS looks like it needs investigation!"

The others heard the sound of Shiny in her voice, and followed her up the ladder with enthusiasm; by the time they had all reached the upper level, Bean was already across the room, examining a row of lockers against the wall that appeared to be watertight. One was already open, and still slightly wet inside like the floor. 'I'm guessing that one wasn't sealed properly,' thought Renner.

The Usami tried the latches of all the lockers, finding one or two unlocked. Her ears drooped in disappointment. "Sorry, guys," she said. "No shiny here. Lockers themselves might float if they weren't stuck to the wall, but that's about it."

"Wonder if someone already searched this room," said Allec, examining a lifebuoy held by clamps to the nearest wall. Stylized letters in the Earless fashion were printed around its circumference; reading them, he wondered what SCRIPPS meant, or whether it might be someone's name.

>>27465352
There was a hiss from the opposite wall, and Mata's voice spoke up. "Found these!" Allec and Renner turned; a watertight panel had opened at Mata's touch, and the black-haired Nekomi was holding two handfuls of uninflated life jackets. "Sort of thing that could come in handy in an emergency… You never know, right?"

"Could probably make a little dosh back on the island, sellin'em," Allec grinned.

"We'll consider it," said Renner. "In the meantime, let's go exploring. Who knows, maybe we'll get some ACTUAL shiny out of this -- the old guy did say there were parts of this place nobody ever went into."

"Yeah, including the front entrance." Bean shivered a little, and her tail twitched anxiously. "Let's do this quick and quiet, okay? I don't wanna run into… whatever's down here."

"Probably just superstition," Allec said. "Nothing could live down here that long."

>>27465358
Another door, this one closer to Kemomi proportions, was set in the far wall. There was a ring of red lights around this one as well. "How do we open this thing, then?" said Bean.

"I'm guessing this has something to do with it." Mata pointed to a softly glowing panel positioned by the door. It was colored red, but when she placed her hand against it, the color cycled from red, through blue, to green. The lights around the door turned green simultaneously with the panel; a soft chime rang out, and the door hissed open loudly, withdrawing straight up into the wall.

"Anybody else freaked out by the fact that everything still WORKS down here?" said Allec.

"Yeah, I know," Renner replied. "Everybody keep your eyes and ears open, you dig?"

"Aw, shit!" Bean quickly reached up to her own ears and pulled out her waterproof earplugs; she smiled bashfully, tucking them away in her bikini top. "Sorry about that. Thanks for reminding me."

The door was wide enough for them to proceed through, two by two. Mata and Renner went first, with the others following close behind. Perhaps they followed a little too closely -- when the pair in front came to a sudden stop at the other end of the short corridor, Bean and Allec almost walked straight into them.

"What are you doing?!" spluttered Allec.

"Dude…" Renner said. "Shut up and look at this." He stepped forward, allowing the Kemomi behind him a better look, and Allec's jaw dropped open.

>>27465365
The corridor opened up into a large entrance hall, roughly the shape of a cylinder, with a gently rising domed ceiling. At the apex of the dome was a massive skylight, crisscrossed with a tracery of steelwork, that bathed the interior in a shimmering blue; the blue was enhanced by a series of wall sconces, giving off a pale bluish-white light. Two larger corridors forked off, leading out of the room into other parts of the building. Of the remaining wall space, one portion was taken up by a massive map of the facility, while another portion bore two massive circular logos, mounted to the wall; one appeared to be a symbolic representation of a kelp forest, while the other seemed to be a globe. (Not a very accurate globe, of course; the outlines of the continents were ludicrously oversized.) Beneath them, in stylized lettering, again appeared the mysterious name SCRIPPS. There was a large hemispherical alcove at the opposite end of the room from where the divers stood, with what appeared to be a desk or a wide, semicircular podium in front of it; the back wall was covered with screens, all of them either turned off or glowing a dull gray.

"What is this place, anyhow?" said Mata, with a definite touch of awe in her voice. "What'd they use it for?"

"Maybe this'll tell us," Allec said; he maneuvered around Mata and walked over to peruse the map.

"One thing's for sure," Bean said, following him. "These folks certainly liked circles."

Renner's eyes passed over the room's contents again, then moved down to the floor. "Man, look at all this dust. When they said nobody's been down here in ages, they weren't kidding."

Bean lifted a foot to brush off the gray film that had accumulated on its wet sole; Allec did likewise.

>>27465374
"What do you suppose THAT is?" Mata asked, waving a hand in the direction of the darkened alcove.

"Might as well investigate," said Renner, moving to do just that. "We can cover this room, then move on to the rest of the building."

"Not till I'm done memorizing this," Allec interjected, his eyes still fixed on the map. "Just for safety's sake."

The podium standing before the alcove, Renner saw, had a word written across it in one of the old Earless scripts, but it wasn't any word he was familiar with:

NFORM TI N

At the foot of the desk, an I, an A, and an O lay on the floor; that was enough to enable him to reconstruct the word. "Information?" he said aloud, then looked up. He knew what that meant, but nothing here looked as though it would be capable of providing much information. The screens, as in most Earless ruins, were dead, and behind the desk (the surface of which, he now noticed, was covered in buttons) there was no chair, just a small circular pedestal, of the kind you'd usually set a vase or something on. The topmost surface of it, though a little dusty, was unusually white and reflective, and upon it rested several strange gadgets; they looked more like gloves or gauntlets than anything else, mechanical hands that retained a dull, dusty polish -- golden hands with silver fingers.

>>27465384
A single button was flashing, bright blue, on the top panel of the desk. Mata pointed it out: "What do you think?"

"…Yeah," said Renner. "We might as well--" Before he could say anything, Mata had reached out and pressed it. "What did you do THAT for?!" he said indignantly.

"I thought you said we might as well," retorted Mata. "Make up your mind!"

A loud humming arose from the pedestal behind the desk, causing all four of the adventurers to prick up their ears. There came a flash of light from the wall of screens in the alcove as they all simultaneously turned on; the screens began to cycle through pastel colors -- soft blue, soft purple, soft green, and back to blue -- and the logos from the other wall appeared on each of them, somehow appearing to orbit each other.

"Hey," said Bean unsteadily, "what's going o--"

The uppermost surface of the pedestal suddenly turned a radiant white, and the humming increased in volume for a few seconds, as though there was some old machinery turning on beneath the floor. The humming quickly grew quieter, the surface of the pedestal ceased to be blindingly bright (though the light did not die out entirely) -- and an image began to appear, impossibly, in the air above it.

>>27465404
The Kemomi gaped as the image wavered blurrily before them. At first its shape was hard to make out; in a matter of seconds, though, it resolved itself into a translucent picture of what seemed to be the head and limbless torso of an Earless. It glowed a warm orange all over, except for two shining points of silver at each of the shoulders (where the arms should have been), two more on the sides of the head, and an alternating blue and green pulse of light at the neck.

Allec, who had been approaching the desk, leapt back in an instant and shrieked in a most un-Allec-like voice: "What the f-- Look out, they're MOVING!" Renner and Mata blinked, staring mutely down at the pedestal, then gasped and jumped back as well. Bean, who had not bothered to look before jumping away, peered timidly around Renner.

The six gauntlets rose gracefully from the podium and hovered in the air before the blurred, armless image. The fingers on each hand flexed, slowly curling and uncurling, as if shaking out the soreness of long disuse.

>>27464771

>GROWING FOOD
>CATGIRLS ON THE OPEN SEA

you done goofed son

>>27464774

Well that could legitimately be the twist about the earless if the GM wants to go there, and too be fair, they kinda ARE humans who have forgotten their ancestors, it's just that they were a phylum born of science rather than nature.

>>27464716

Dude they're cats, they're all dominant, and bipolar and WHY AREN'T YOU FEEDING THEM NOW ANON WHY WHY FEED THEM NAOW.

>>27464815

This is why I see Rabbits sticking more to the major land settlements, but the Foxes & Cats (& dogs but they're just doing it to fit in) run places because they're so bossy and the rabbits are bit submissive.

Actually, thinking in that vein, there was an argument about how to crunch "racial" stuff wrt different types of -mi.

Why not implement something like the virtue/vice system from nWoD - basically in WoD games there temporary willpower points, and you can spend these to get guranteed successes without rolling, but they only regenerate when you sleep (1 point per good night's sleep) or when your character does something in line with their virtue or vice.

So let's say instead of attribute or stat differences, make the difference between races their possible "good qualities/bad qualities", like with dogs they could have good qualities like Loyal/Detirmined/Friendly to pick from during CHARGEN, and cats could be detirmined/curious/proud and rabbits could be curious/kind/generous - with bad traits for each as well like possessive/yappy/uncouth and uncouth/snooty/scaredy and scaredy/introvert/push-over.

Keep it vague and it can give structure to roleplaying, like the alignment system in D&D, but with more choice and "race creation" would just be a matter of laying out their qualities, and mention that if Players want play a dog with a cat quality or a rabbit with a dog quality just ask the GM if that's okay - the clustering is a suggestion, not gospel.

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Wow, it's been a while since the last thread, I'm actually surprised it took so long.

>>27465415
The head of the image came into sharp focus as the hands worked off their stiffness. It was a woman's head, but almost a cartoonish simplification of the real thing: there was a gentle protrusion in the middle of her face, but no actual nose to speak of; the eyes, though closed, were just a little too large to be credible; the eyebrows and the point of the chin were too neatly drawn; and the thing's long bangs were blatantly unreal, for they hung before the face in solid, flat wings of hair. It -- she -- appeared to be an Earless, judging by the lack of ears sticking out of the top of her head, but the glimmer to either side of her face revealed itself as a shining silver pair of earphones, with what looked like a radio antenna sticking out the back of each cup.

Now the rest of the thing came out of the blur. It was definitely intended to be female, but you could only tell by the general shape -- as with the face and hair, there was a distinct lack of realistic detail to it. The hands changed their position: one pair moved down to the rows of buttons covering the desk and waited there patiently; the other two pairs clasped themselves together politely, even primly, at about the chest level of the translucent woman-thing. The creature's eyes opened, sclera glowing a mellower, lighter yellow-orange behind the deep orange of the irises. It examined each of the divers briefly, then abruptly broke into a cheerful smile and spoke, its lips moving in synchronization with a voice that emanated from within the pedestal itself:

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>>27465436
"Good afternoon! My name is Arachne Forty-Seven, and I'm delighted to welcome you to the Scripps Oceanographic Institution's Mid-North Pacific Offshore Laboratory and Museum! I hope the submersible ride down was a pleasant one…" As the thing spoke, it swept two of the hands, no, SHE swept HER hands out in a magnanimous arc that took in the entire room; the movement of her shoulders made it seem as though the hands were connected to her by invisible arms. "I'm afraid none of the staff are available at the moment to give you a tour of our facility, but I would be pleased to assist you with any inquiries which you may happen to have. Is there anything you would like to ask me about today?"

The face of the woman-thing -- of Arachne -- bore a wide and endearingly confident grin as Renner stepped forward to ask his first question…

>have catplay fetish
>see this thread
Dammit /tg/. Keep that art up though.

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Figured if there's any ca/tg/irls around, they'd appreciate a little more of that cute mouse boy.

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Captcha: increase bertrod

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Well, until TDCP or one of the other guys shows up, I might as well throw this up. It's a very early working draft, I'm told, of what will eventually be the complete CATastrophe module for FATE.

>>27464888
You can't swim very well in shoes.

Does he drive the boat or something?
That makes sense, everyone knows boys are shit at treasure diving.

>>27466331
Too big to fit into the small crevices where the good shines are.

>>27464985
They came back and kept pushing, apparently.

>>27464695
Because they're in the pictures, more or less. Because the whole reason for CATastrophe was that people saw the pictures and thought "I want to play in that setting!"

(And damn near everything that anyone has tried to add to it since has turned out only to subtract from it.)

>>27465101
Lack of old people is almost certainly a legitimate beef. However, the reason for the lack of mice and bears is that PEOPLE DON'T WANT THEM ADDED TO THE SETTING.

>>27466386
>people don't want them added to the setting

Other people do.

Hi, Drawfag here. Taking a small break from work atm. Might have time for a request.

>>27466331
>everyone knows boys are shit at treasure diving
that's old lore.

>>27466399
I'm still a bit disgusted by the 'cute' moust boy in the speedo wearing sneakers with no socks.

He can't possibly be good at swimming, and his feet must smell like ass.

>>27466433
But if boys can go treasure diving then how are the girls going to make them take on sedate research based jobs will the girls compete over who can bring the boy they like the most shinies?

>>27466293
>gather group of edgy tryhard powergamers
>"Tonight, we will be running a setting based around the end of the world. Comets have struck the earth, altering the atmosphere and raising sea levels in what can only be described as an apocalypse." Ect, ect, ect.
>get players very hyped to run Fallout/Wasteland/Mad Max scenario
>break out this
>cackle maniacally
>they react as expected
>iron bars close over all doors and windows
>strip to leather catsuit
>straps lock all players in place
>YOU'RE IN MY FANTASY NOW!

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>>27466331
>Boys are shit at shiny diving
Get. Out.

>>27466502
that's old lore too.

>>27466401
How about an Old Guard, preferably something in the vein of Megaman Legends Reverbots?

>>27466659
Mind reposting the fluff/description for them and I'll see what I can do.

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>>27466648
More GM flavor really. Not that but I like it.

It does seem to rustle Jimmies however so it should probably be left up to the GM to decide gender ratio, gender roles, and all that stuff.

Even this >>27464677 wierdo is free to run his strange grimdark version of CATastrophe if he wants to.

(Though he seems like the type of person Tabbeus's GM was frusterated with.)

>>27466725
Old Guard are robots basically. They hang out in Ruins and impede adventurers. There are Swat Bots which apprehend and imprison Kemos when caught, Stalkers, which are massive spider tanks, Ad-Bots which are floating balls which display holographic ads at anyone they can find, Silver Snakes, which are serpantine drones that sabotage equipment, PDAs, Personal 'Droid Assistants which are a series of robots sold as companions to humans that some Kemonomimi like to collect (Combination Robotic Pet, Alarm Clock, Calandar, and companion if they have a humanoid AI) and AIs which come in may different types. (Mostly they run shops, or maintain buildings by directing rbots)

Presumably there are janitorial robots or repair bots.

Really just draw some robots doing robot stuff that would make digging through ruins harder. Bonus points if they look damaged or are malfunctioning.

>>27466726
I've said it before and I'll say it again: it should take actual EFFORT to run a grimdark game of CATastrophe.

>>27466867
>post-apocalyptic setting full of genetically engineered, human/carnivorous animal hybrids
>yeah, it will take SO much effort to grimdarken this.
No matter how much happy fluff you add, the central idea is still very open to subversion.

>>27466726
Why does that picture remind me more of the Panther Moderns from Neuromancer than of any actual catgirls?

>>27467034

That's why we're handling the happy fluff. Any dark stuff that's introduced is at the GM's discretion, not our recommendation.

>>27467084
I think there must be some kind of ghostly teenage DNA at work in the Endless Blue, something carries the coded precepts of various short-lived subcults and replicates them at odd intervals.

>>27465192
The flood IS his piss

>>27467191
So the whole setting is a magical realm?

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>>27466805
Something like this?

>>27464558
Cats, dogs, and bunnies are the Big Three. Some people also like to include bears for whatever reason and to me, foxgirls fits under doggirl.

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>>27464558
I did a sort of FAQ/Bestiary thing a week or two back, but I dont think anyone saved it.
>>27464563
>How would they know what human ears look like?
Pictures found in ruins.

>>27464661
I actually already covered the top two in a previous thread. Lemme dig up the posts. It starts here and continues down for three or so posts.
https://archive.foolz.us/tg/thread/27261462/#q27281826

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>>27464716
>>27464695

>>27465005
CADastrophe

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>>27464865
He aint a cat, but have one manly motherfucking bunny.

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>>27467237
Yep. This picture used to get tossed around a lot when talking about the more dangerous ones.

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> want to run CATastrophe
> can't convince my fur-phobic friend that it ain't fur shit
> can't convince my 2nd group member that it isn't 100% silly 24/7
> only my 3rd group member is down, but he doesn't give a shit about what we play; so long as we're playing something at the end of each month.
> can't convince the 3rd guy's GF that it's wroth playing on any level, which is weird because she ususally goes for potentially cutesy animal persons

> MFW I will never get to run CATastrophe

Hrm. Just for the sake of worldbuilding, what would you guys think the music scene would be like in CATastrophe's setting? I know it would differ from culture to culture, but I usually think of it as some form of techno/glitch, perhaps, Boddika-esque type.

I don't mean to come off as some sort of douche... but I notice the PDF doesn't really have some sort of Table of Contents on a page, and that could make it hard to navigate should one decide to print it out.

>>27467237
Oooh! Nifty, that's very nice, spot on draw buddy!

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I still think the setting needs merfolk.
Not as a player-option, just as part of the world.
That the scientists when the obvious rout and tried to make people that could breathe underwater, but the genes of fish do not mesh as well as the genes of other animals; so there were very few in the beginning, and their total population now may add up to that of a single island-city's worth of a population; world wide.

They'd be something mystical that players may bump into. Or, if you trust them to roleplay properly, a player could hold out for a late introduction and be an oddity that can't follow them into the cities; or they could make for great DMPCs/quest guids/givers.

>>27467713
It'd have to be a very punky, thrown-together sort of techno, in the unlikely event that they can get a rack of electronic instruments working again. I imagine a lot of acoustic sounds, but played live instead of sampled.

Actually I would imagine Kemomi music to be a distant cousin of mine -- there might at least be a family resemblance.

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>>27467835
Theres been several good reasons why they shouldn't be included, though, such as it takes away from the exploration aspect of the setting by making it more of trespassing and an invasion and it takes away from the foreign and foreboding feeling of everything beneath the waves.

Of course, none of that stops you from running a game where some forgotten AI is pumping out genetically engineered fishgirls, though.

>>27467911
My opinion is that any merfolk should be a GM included thing.

You could even include Lamias and Harpies if you felt like it but we should stick to Kemonomimi for the time being.

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>>27467911
Did you miss the part where I said I'd have them be incredibly rare and not a core player race?
I mean like: the majority of people never see one (or know they saw one) levels of rare.

The only change that I made to the setting is that there are islands formed where mesas and mountains still poke out of the ocean.
However, the radiation from the meteor and chemicals from the experiments and blown-out labs have mutated the natural wildlife of the decades between now and then.
So from these islands comes the most valuable recourse of all: natural, raw resources. however, these islands are full of mutated monsters and strange diseases; gives players something to fight other than pirates.
^this, has actually worked out quite well.

I'm also playing around with the concept of tribal inhabitants with feral tendencies (cannibalism and ritual sacrifice) for said islands, but I'm not confident or sure enough to do anything with it yet. So, for now, mutated monsters and mind-fuck magic diseases.

>>27468042
>cannibalism and ritual sacrifice
Yeah, I'm gonna stop you right here and say CATastrophe probably isn't the setting for you.

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>>27467835
>>27467979
"Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away." — Antoine de Saint Exupéry

>>27465435
They don't have ears... what are they doing...

I'm scared.

Oh, I got something, it'll be uploaded in a couple hours. It's been raining like cats and dogs over here at Vanguard Home and I got soaked hardcore.

>>27466293
Yes! it my FATE writeup, I got the latest update but it's on my laptop. I'm making darn sure everything is dry first before getting it up.

Patience, ca/tg/irls. It's HAPPENING.

Oh, added more artwork to it. Also the next revision will have Chumimi (Mice).

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>>27468042
Cannibalism, Ritual Sacrifice, and Mutant Monsters which can kill and maim are not part of the standard setting for CATastrophe.

Remember, this is a break from grimdark settings.

That said you are free to run a game, or discuss things with your GM. You will just have to fluff CATastrophe on your own.

To Quote Freakazoid "THIS IS A HAPPY PLACE!"

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>>27464581
Actually, I like the idea of a kemomi who thinks she's a fierce lion, listens to earless heavy metal, shouts all the time because she's screwed up her hearing, and is really just a small and cute catgirl. Or maybe a bunnygirl.

>>27468282
I think a catgirl version of KISS would work better, if only for the mental image.

>>27468271
Actually, i DID add injuries. They're "lives" the character has. Once you get 3 you retire, pursuing less risky stuff.

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>>27468420
Screw your injuries old man! I'll go to Akadmee and get my legs replaced with metal ones!

Also, who else thinks a sunken city surrounded by defunct giant robots would make a good dive area?

>>27466867
>>27467110
>>27468271
>Happy happy, joy joy! Happy happy, joy joy! Happy happy, joy joy joy!

Not trying to be overly critical, but is their really any element of conflict or danger at all? So far I see pirates and robots, "and absolutely no one gets hurt".

I mean there's "breaking away from grimdark", and there's building a setting so saccharine it makes My Little Pony look like the Deathstalker series.

>>27468133
>Also the next revision will have Chumimi (Mice).
Fuck it, I'm gone. At this rate it'll be impossible to convince a group that it isn't just furry wish-fulfillment. (And frankly, I'm not convinced it isn't anymore.)

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>>27468078
> say I'm not sure about the tribesmen
> "yeah, I'm gonna stop you right here --"
>>27468271
> point out that the changes the person made aren't part of the core setting.

It may well be a "happy place," but there needs to be some conflict. Pirates are great for this, contesting treasure hunters / persons who hunt treasure hunters so they don't have to do the digging/diving/questing. However, that gets real repetitive real quick. Monster islands are a great way to add more things to fight without adding something additional, so much as just something different; since there would totally be mountains peaking out of the ocean, and any 'natural' wildlife would be a little different by this age anyway, and the meteor radiation and chemicals n' radiation from the apparently successful and pseudo-science-tastic laboratories would surely have had some effect on them; especially since they would have had to have been perfectly sealed or underground to to have corroded and flooded by now.

I'm just taking things that are already there and reorganizing them to fit an action movie. If hollywood has taught you anything it should be that violence doesn't have to be violent.

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>>27468513
Tension over air supplies, fightan monsters deep in earless ruins.

Maybe battling against high winds as you try to make the fastest route to Diver's Bay with your cargo of shinies and catnip?

Otherwise, if you don't like happy, optimistic, bright settings, CATastrophe isn't for you.

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>>27468507
>I'll go to Akadmee and get my legs replaced with metal ones!
Possible. And actually, it's one of the characters' backgrounds.

>>27468133
Quit adding races! The original three were fine!

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>>27468564
>>27468133
> No merfolk, but mice are okay

>>27468622
>>27468621
I've got mice people in my version, but they're more like skaven. Not evil or nasty, mind you, but they're smaller and more animal-like than the other races. They live in the pipes and creases of the under-cities, running maintenance and black-market deals.

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>>27468596
> monsters on islands = unacceptably violent
> monsters underwater = fine

Let's get this failboat in the water, me hearties! Adventure *HIC* awaits!

>>27468513
Basic facts about Kemi:
1. They were created to live in environment unwelcome to humans.
2.They're superhumanly tough. Have you seen Tom and Jerry cartoon or any slapstick anime? That tough.
3.They have strong aversion to killing.
Fights may happen, injuries are part of the job, but most encounters end when one side sees that they cannot possibly win here and runs away/gets blasted off/parts with shineys. Some of people here DO overdo the noblebrightness, but overall CATastrophe doesn't feature overly dark stuff.

>>27468596
It's impossible to have real danger and still be optimistic and bright?

I'm sorry, are you on the drugs?

>>27468742
The prsesnce of voilence doesn't even come close to validating the term, "overly dark."
Further more: pirates and monsters are already things, but apparently monsters on land is out of the question.


That's all I"m saying

>>27468767
I'm becoming more and more convinced it's ''Why is this world so mean and cruel, I wish I could go live on an island planet," furry wish fulfillment.

Which is a shame, because it could be really really cool.

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>>27468578
>>27468698
Emphasis was on mutated monsters, hideous mutants. Though dangerous wild life is fine.

I would focus more on dangers like natural disasters but I suppose you could include a dangerous island or violent pirates.

The point here is that emphasis should be on treasure hunting, not getting into D&Desque brawls with beasties and baddies, though that may be a nice aside if diving and exploring gets old.

As a suggestion towards the the sort of things you'd like in this arena I'd suggest taking a look at the video game for Peter Jackson's King Kong, the Skull Island levels totally blow away anything involving Kong.

>>27468819
Fuck this, let's hijack it.

Is 'arrrr'-p on /tg/ banned?

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>>27468507
>immense steel penises
W- What?

>>27468578
Pirates are there. Some are straight up thugs, some work subtler, but they are there and they want your shineys. Contesting hunters also fall under that category.
Monsters... There are Kaiju, underwater wildlife, lands have Grumblehops and Thunderhooves fluffy, extremely angry descendants of wild hares and huge goddamn cows respectively. And those are very badass hares and cows.

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>>27468819
Originally this was about cute catgirls diving for cute treasures, but now it's slowly becoming more about a minority's ability to create a new fursona.

Anyone who thinks that races should be "aesthetic" and thinks males should be playable are a part of the problem.

>>27468801
>The prsesnce of voilence doesn't even come close to validating the term, "overly dark."
that was what i was saying.
>but apparently monsters on land is out of the question.
>>27468879


And you are forgetting oldguards, who will fight until they are disassembled and a legitimate threat to trespassers.

>>27468819
I completely agree. It started with catgirls and adventure. Now it's about 30 animal races and constant euphoria.

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>>27468841
Diving and exploring gets real old, real fast. Like 2-4 sessions, tops.
It's 1/2 the reason I can't convince my original group to try it again now that I've got this other shit I'm working on. Who says that fighting monsters and pirates has to be horrific and gory? Have you never seen Pirates of the Caribbean? Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas? Shrek? any Disney-fantasy movie ever? Monsters =/= maiming, and fighting =/= gore.

Also, telling people the game is supposed to be played X way, not Y way, because reasons, is kinda' hypocritical, especially when I never said that these changes should be implemented into the core game, and only stated that I found them to be improvements.

>>27468801
>but apparently monsters on land is out of the question.
Nobody ever said this, I think they were just against all that mutant zombie bullshit and cannibalism faggotry. Its the execution, not the location.

That said, 90% of all action will be taking place either on or under the water, so bitching about land being mostly a safe zone is kinda dumb.

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>>27468856
I would hope not, Captain.

>>27468988
30 animal races? There's only Catgrills, Doggrills, Bunnygrills, Beargrills and Foxgrills.

>>27468960
> And you are forgetting oldguards, who will fight until they are disassembled and a legitimate threat to trespassers

I think some of these posters are, yes.

>>27468861
It's from a Transmetropolitan Special Edition, Giant Robots with "Immense Steel Penises" are pretty low on the outlandish scale of things.

>>27468564
Yeah, it looks like its going down the same damn road that killed CATastrophe last time - obsessing over mouse/beargirls and grimderp faggots trying to ruin the setting. I think these weekly CATastrophe threads were a terrible idea.

>>27464520
Is the girl on the far right taking upskirt shots with her cellphone?

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>>27469046
Honestly, it should be a monthly thing.

>>27469028
And mousegrills, fishgrills, snakegrills, birdgrills, etc.

>>27469066
At most. Either way, lets let this be the last CATastrophe thread for a while. It caught the attention of furfags and grimderp fag once again so its time to lay low. Not to mention TDCP is trying to hijack the setting into his personal magical realm yet again.

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>>27469076
I would hope not. While GMs have the final say in what actually is in their game and can add whatever, CATastrophe at a base doesn't have any o' those.

>>27468988
>>27468988
> Constant Euphoria
Actually that brings me to another topic: What do Kemomi believe in? Is there any religion at all or are they enlightened by their own intelligence to the point the deepest belief they hold is the playful accusation of Kleptomanders being behind everything? Thoughts?
Cause I believe it wouldn't hurt to have it be canon rather than having everyone house rule it, to be honest.

>>27468998
Look dude. If you want to include Skull Island, complete with dinosaurs and giant crabs go ahead.

But we've had this setting high jacked by losers who tried to create an enormous cluster fuck of grimderp before. So we tend to swing a little in the other direction. You want to create an island of adventure with Iguanas of Unusual Size go ahead, no one will stop you.

We're just trying to keep this from devolving to the clusterfuck of races fighting over resources in a thinly veiled water world expy like it was when the IRC group started on it.

>>27468930
If you care that much about each race having carefully laid out stats so that you know a bunnygirl is a bunnygirl because of her stats, not her ears why don't you make a system to reflect that instead of kvetching?

I still think that we should have the three core races be, well, core, and have any other race be, "You want it? You write up a splat for it."
Maybe add a splat called Mermaids & Mutants for non-core NPC races too. (Provided the mermaids are as rare as you were saying, and possibly non-setient).

>>27469032
dohoho.

>>27468998
>Who says that fighting monsters and pirates has to be horrific and gory?
nobody? If i see it right, we're just against cannibalism, ritual sacrifices, over 9000 playable races and horrific mutants.
Kaiju can stay, they're cool.

>>27469129
>If you care that much about each race having carefully laid out stats so that you know a bunnygirl is a bunnygirl because of her stats, not her ears why don't you make a system to reflect that instead of kvetching?
>putting words in my mouth

Yeah, whatever min-maxer. Sorry my need for good RP disrupts your build.

>>27469046
At some point, I think we just need to bring our fist down on the table and say, That's it, we're sticking with THESE FIVE races. No more. If you want to play something else and your GM will let you, fine, but we're not going to crunch that shit for you.

And the grimderp stuff is far more crass than anything we're trying to put in; I agree it's got no place in this setting -- hell, getting away from it was one of the main ideas behind CATastrophe in the first place.

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>>27469114
"In this moment I am euphoric; not because of any phony Earless Shinies' blessing. But because I am enlightened by the red dot."

>>27469160
>FIVE
You mean three. I'm putting my foot down at three.

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>>27467678

Well the traditional way a GM gets unwilling players to play a game is to TPK them and then be like... "well we can TRY restarting from scratch, though I'm not really prepared for that, we COULD start a new game but the only thing I've really got ready right now is..." and then you explain the setting thusly:

Imagine if you were technically in charge of caring for the remnants of human civilisation after humanity went somewhere, rumors say they're still around under the water, sleeping, or on the moon or in space but some say they're just dead.
And then you kinda didn't fulfill your duties to them particularly well, which is when a giant salty asteroid hit the north pole and flooded the earth with water, so now shit's all Waterworld crossed with America's Deadliest Catch, battling pirates who think they can more easily find shiny old tech by stealing from honest divers one day then fighting one of the out-of-no-where storms that threat to sink your boat.
But underneath the blue above, and down amonst the remains swallowed by the blue below maybe THIS dive you'll find what you're searching for, that thing that drives you to the depths and through the storms and pirate attacks and past the security bots that protect their former owner's treasures.
That thing to make life right again.
And when there's no wind, and no clouds and no pirates, you chill and party and lounge and swim, because, well, who knows?

You are bad for my mental health /tg/. Last night I dreamt I was a catboy, and I'm not even (that much of) a furry.

>>27469161
ENTRANCED — Debunking the origins of the Red Dot Culture. A free book by Jace Chick.

>>27469155
Please enlighten me.

How would you lay out the races?

'Cause all I'm getting from you is a demand for stats and fixed races. So far everyone agrees that Cats, Rabbits, and Dogs are the main races and some guys want to include bears, foxes and mice. Who gives a fuck about the extras? They don't matter. Just keep it to six at most and we're fine.

Explain to me in what way the races having stats as opposed to traits picked from a table or made up on the spot with your GM effects RP?

Because I don't need a blurb in a player book to know how to play a dwarf or an elf. Do you?

>>27469150
I'm against cannibalism, ritual sacrifice, and more than 6 races at most. 3 is much better, GMs can worry about ferret girls or whatever.

I don't mind combat but I'd prefer a more slice of life game, less combat, more exploration and building stuff. That's just me.

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>>27469137
Here's my question:
Why would you rather piss away your gaming hours pretending to be a catgril in a swimsuit (seriously here, no joke answers), when you could be roleplaying privateers and explorers on the open seas who are a dangerous but necessary part of modern society because they are either treasure hunters and/or resources gatherers (and you can still be a catgirl in a swimsuit)?

Because right now, you're telling me you'd rather play a generic slice-of-life anime that takes place on a island-planet, over a fantastic version of Treasure Island; which is utterly preposterous; especially when you seem to think that the rules should not wholly facilitate both options to the greatest potential, and your option would be the easiest to house-rule as it only involves taking things away from the game.

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The real problem here is that we currently have at least FIVE systems made separately, each with its own fluff nuances. Some of those are the subject of holy wars, sadly. Some are universally agreed upon. Some are universally agreed upon, except for those two guys in far left. Add to this the fact that there's no centralized storage for all fluffbits and we get magnificently tangled clusterfuck of a lore.
...what i am saying, we probably need to store the lore somewhere. ALL of it. Divided into "agreed upon" and "controversal subjects". Because it's mightily unproductive to argue same lore points each thread.

Can't the "darker and edgier" faction just make there own damn setting? CATaclysm. There, I gave you the name.

Not enough? Shit, I'll give you a soundtrack
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YYIy1YHvZc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YqNV2aCv9U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sulY3bixDxI

Want a fucking tagline?
>In the stygian depths of the Open Blue, there is only war. And shinies.

There, a third of your work done. Damn it.

>>27469191
I'm down for
>>27468676
it kinda' works

>>27469337
I don't want it to be dark and edgy, I just want it to be exciting and engaging.

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>>27469331
then again,
>implying "agreed upon" category wouldn't be blank

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>>27469284
> I'm against cannibalism, ritual sacrifice -
Yeah, and I said I myself (as the guy who brought it up in the first place) am not confident in those concepts and have not implemented them into my house rules; let alone insinuate that it should be part of the core rules.

Please try to pay attention you brainless furry fucktard.

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>>27469284
>>27469431
>i'm against it!
>no, I'M against it!
>no, i said I AM against it!
...well, no point in arguing, then?

>>27469330
....At what point have I ever said I don't want that?

What I want to avoid is the D&D bullshit where every fucking race has to have numbers and stats to identify them as a race. That, I suppose makes sense in a game designed to be a hack and slash brawler and each race has a build designed around this or that.

No, see all the races are descended from humans so they're essentially humans with added on traits. Ergo a system built around traits and some very simple stats would be better.

I think you want a crunch fest when I want a narrative system.

You don't want a crunchfest then we don't have a problem.

You want to play a combat heavy game go ahead, I'm not going to stop you. We shouldn't have mutants but dangerous animals are fine, above, or below the sea. Hostile natives are fine as long as we stick to PG-13 action scenes with a little stylistic blood and lots of showy combat.

I want slice of life, but that's easy to do if the GM just ignores combat and sticks to a more happy go lucky game.

Now I asked you to lay out races, you actually gonna give me your cersion of Crunch or are you going to keep looking for weebs and furry infiltrators?

>>27469465
Cannibalism and sacrifice, specifically.
I still want fighting, pirates, and monsters.

>>27469388
I completely agree with this. We need a maximum of 3 races and danger for the players to confront. If you expect it to be just relaxing slice of life stuff, it's just going to end up being a furry ERP.

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>>27469478
Sorry, linked to the wrong guy.

HEY
>>27469129
READ THIS SHIT
>>27469330

>>27469191
I agree with >>27469368 . Cat, dog, bunny. Any more is unnecessary padding and getting away from the initial vision.

So. Harpoon guns, anyone?

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>>27468801

There's not enough land to be adding land monsters, and it defeats the fucking point of a GAME ABOUT SAILING, start inserting land monsters and everytime characters hit port the GM's gonna be like ALL THE LAND MONSTERS ATTACK THE PORT, like what happens with aquatic monsters whenever a D&D party go within 10' pole distance of a sizable body of water.

fucking "underground stream Krakens"

Let's face it, every goddamn thing under the sun is SOMEBODY'S fetish. Matter of fact, that's probably why we have such a problem with these guys who want to drag the setting back into grimderp territory.

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>>27469501
I AM that guy.

Like I said, I just want to take a break from the hack and slash fest in a tropical setting.

You want to explore and trade and dredge up...I dunno giant robot heads or something go ahead.

Fuck the 4chan effect.

We've been arguing over a non issue.

Can we just agree to keep the tone to a Mildly Mature Saturday Cartoon and have done with it?

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>>27469480
And fighting, pirates and all manners of strange creatures are already there.

>>27469539
At 1000 meters there'd be reconizable chunks of old continents.

and fuck any DM that attacks a port with land monsters, that is a bad DM.

Land monsters should be reserved for wild islands or ruins.

>>27469486
But there already are dangers. Tons of em. Just because theres no ritualistic cannibalism doesnt mean that its nothing but erp.

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>Never ran or been part of a tabletop before
>Usually come on /tg/ just for the MTG threads
>See this in catalog
>"Huh, I wonder what this is?"
>All these cute catgirls
>All this cute and potentially fun gameplay
>oh gosh.jpg

Alright how do I run a tabletop over IRC/Skype because Jesus H. Christ I need to play this game and become the catgirl of my dreams.

>>27469539
"Never get on the boat" becomes "never dock your boat".

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>>27469545
>worrying about fetishes
Any setting can be used for ERP.
Period.
As far as I'm concerned some guys are just slightly nuerotic and feel the need to prove they aren't furries or weebs.
Fuck those guys, they ruin lots of things that would be fun otherwise.

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The setting is basically Monster Hunter meets Indiana Jones meets Waterworld, all glued together by catgirls. Theres monsters, pirates, boobytrapped ruins, robots, insane AIs, and kaijus, just to name a few.

I really don't understand where these accusations of a lack of danger comes from.

>>27469615
Simple enough, get your usual materials together, though if you depend on visual aids you may want to use GIMP or Paint or something to make maps for your players.
Narrate the game to your guys, via voice if you're into that or via text if you aren't.
Hit /tg/s gamefinder threads or contact some friends you think would be down for this.
I'd suggest using a rules lite system like Fate or Savage worlds but you could run it in Gurps or fucking Dark Heresy if that suited you better.

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>>27469665
fuck, forgot Monster Hunter.

Anyway, Behold the abomination born of my hand, and tremble in despair!

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Okay... a few things as I've read the flame war that erupted after I posted.

1: I keep hearing Yes add this or No don't add this. There's no democracy here just rule by mob.

2: Mousefolk were a idea, nothing more. Many of the systems have the 5 race concept (Cat, Dog, Fox, Rabbit, Bear) and this upload follows that paradigm.

3: There is nothing furry about CATastrophe. Know your fetishes and know your shit from your shinies.

4: My contact info is in the document, but my e-mail is on the tag this one time.

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Bloody hell, I wake up and a shitstorm's broken out.

You guys want me to writefag a one shot action scene?

>>27469766
You forgot SeaQuest DSV. If you want a little tech with your animal ears. ;)

>>27469546
> Mildly Mature Saturday Cartoon
I can agree to that, yes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=k2xEhjMSJrI#t=289
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_AdxJWFUh4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=I_5F1zYQF5M#t=6
^ like that (-magic n' modern weaponry)?

>>27469766
>Pirates of Dark Water
Mah Kemo
I thought I was the only one who watched that.

>>27469766
You get that Gargantia bullshit out of there.

>>27469794
Please do. I'll try and get on with writing myself, if my muse and this whatever the fuck I'm sick with cooperate.

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>>27469800
I forgot a lot of stuff.
IT KEEPS EVOLVING
THIS IS NOT EVEN ITS FINAL FORM

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>>27469773
Hey, is it cool with you if I work on my own iteration?

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>>27469705

When I say "I've never played a tabletop before", I mean I have literally never interacted with anything to do with a tabletop RPG before. This includes rulebooks, making maps, etc. I kinda feel like I'm doing all this backwards but by hook or by crook I'm playing this damn game.

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>>27469897
I think it is a safe observation that if it involved watery shenanigans, CATastrophe is compatible with it. BTW, 2032 SeaQuest is worst SeaQuest. Just saying.

I think my WIP is good for now, so I'm a week EARLY from my October 5th target date! I do think though as we're at 218 posts, we should prepare to have a second thread (although I think we should make CATastrophe CATurday threads monthly instead of weekly, personally) once we've started autosage and are sinking to Page 10. Until let's take what we have left after the shitstorm and do something useful.

You think every month is a better idea? Like let's say the first Saturday of the Month, Starting in October?

>>27469953
CATastrophe is a /tg/ idea, run with it. It's what I did. This is the /tg/ community's game.

>>27470002
That would be good. Hopefully i'll cobble together a playable beta with some semblance of formatting by then, since TAIL at this point disturbingly reminds me of duke nukem forever/Starbound situation.

>>27469663
I've dealt with furries and weeaboos before, and frankly the Stop Liking What I Don't Like fags come across as more autistic than all of them.

>>27469897
Dont forget Sealab 2021. At the very least, theyre probably the science team responsible for a world full of catgirls in the first place.

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>>27470067
Cool. The more the merrier.

Also, I really wish there were cat ears on these two in this pic...

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>>27469773

Yeah, keep seeing a lot of people dropping "furry" when talking about CATastrophe, and I do not think that word means what they think it does.

Basically, CATastrophe is no more furry than 40k, probably a lot less in fact.

>>27470100
that's a whole new "disappearance of earless" theory.

>>27469897
I almost feel like that old anime Blue Submarine No. 6 should be added.

>>27469804
>OG Johnny Quest
>Pirates of Dark Water
>Swat Kats
Wow that's some pretty good taste anon. I'd say those set the tone pretty well, though I'd go easy on the magic.

>>27470187
Well, if you're going to suggest that one, I may as well throw in Fushigi no Umi no Nadia.

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>>27470161
Speaking of 40K, that chart also applies to identifying felinids.
>>27470187
I would say the whole humanity living on tiny artificial islands is very BS6, but CAT lacks the whole land vs ocean thing. In fact, I think people wanted to avoid fishgirls in the setting so as to avoid the whole man vs fishman war dealie of BS6.

I'm sure the kemos still love jazz, though. Everyone loves jazz.

>>27470188
Magic is just replace by hyper advanced futuretech that everyone mistakes for magic.

>>27470024
Oh.
You've been posting that thing so often I thought you were running the show.

>>27470298
No. Last I checked I'm just one creator inspired by this chaotic little setting.

Now if you don't mind I am untagging, unless I am answering a question directly about my FATE offering.

>>27470100
Or 2020. 2020 works fine too.

>>27469985
Oh wow.

First thing is first. You need a basic story for the sake of an example lets say "All of you meet in a bar, but you can't get any booze because the still is broken and a bunch of jerks are hording the parts to make a still."

Your players can either:
A: go diving for still making equipment
B: Use some gear that have to repair the still
C: negoiate a new price for the still parts
D: beat up those guys and take the still parts
E: leave and go do something else.

In general you should treat the game like a sandbox, make up some basic quest types and come up with a few plotlines for your players to get involved with.

You're going to need basic stats for monsters and NPCs and tiers of them. A City guardsman should be able to wreck your player's shit in if he can call for help but be fucked if he's on his own for instance. (And you'll need city guards to make crimes exciting/undesirable, though Kemonomimi are just as likely to use angry mobs.)

Once you have some stats set up you need to arrange them in a coherent manner so you can grab them later and make use of them, flexibility is important.

Lets say you set up and adventure where the guys fight pirates, but instead of turning the pirates in they become pirates themselves, well then you need to adjust the game so they can have fun fighting pirates.

Basically it's free form story telling with dice and rules to keep "everything proof shield" from becoming an issue.

My advice would be to set up a "first time GM" thread on /tg/ and take away anything useful that fa/tg/uys tell you.

Also check into VELOcity, apparently it's a Jet Set Radio RPG and may appeal to your sensibilities (judging by that one reaction image anyway.)

>>27470298
He's running his own show, TAIL Guy is off running his, the IRC guys are running theirs, and the rest of us are just trying to hammer out stuff that they might find useful.

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>>27470452
Yeah, TDCP, Kav, TAIL, and the IRC crew are their own "ships" if you will.

Although right now it seems TDCP is only the captain of a rubber dinghy while Kav and TAIL have a solid head start in their galleons.

I think the split comes from the complexity of system more than anything. TDCP's heart is in the right place by opting for a pre-existing system that is simple to work with to begin with.

Oh does anyone have a larger version of this image?

>>27470605
TAIL is more of a shabby submarine.

>>27470605
>>27470452
Are there any other versions of the system, other than that one on 1d4 chan and TDCP's Fate Variation?

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>>27469794
"RUUUUUN!"
Three figures ran through the sunken mall laden with shinies, jumping over fallen stands and flower pots an an attempt to get away from the Oldguard chasing them.
**SHOPLIFTER ALERT. STAND DOWN AND COME ALONG QUIETLY. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE** The trundling robot boomed, it's four stubby legs moving with surprising speed as it simply walked through anything in its way in persuit of the shiny divers.
"Let's just drop our stuff and run, guys," the small white haired rabbit girl huffed. "It's just weighing us down!"
"No way, Lily!" A russet foxgirl yelled back as she vaulted over a bench. "All this tech is gonna make us rich!"
"Shut up Rusty and keep running!" the tabby catgirl yelled back before a forboding discharge of air was heard followed by a shriek from Lilly, causing the two to look behind them. What they saw caused the two to stop, as Lily was being dragged towards the robot, tangled up in a fishing net being pulled by a pod under it's bulbous body.
"Rusty! Twitch! Save me!" The scared bunnygirl screamed, struggling against the net she was caught in.
"LILY!" Twitch yelled as she quickly came up with a plan.
"Rusty, can you get on its back? I'll distract it while you find a way to stop that thing>"
"Easier said than done," Rusty replied, her tail swishing with agitation as she synched up her toolbelt.
"Just do it." Twitch grumbled before turning to the Oldguard. "Hey ugly! You wanna catch us? Good luck!" The tabby taunted, waving her arms about and pulling a face at the huge robot.
**RESISTANCE IS FUTILE** The Oldguard turned to face the catgirl and launched an opened claw at her, Twitch nimbly dodging out of the way and embedding itself into a pillar behind her.
"Ha! That's the best you've got? Have another go!" The robot's winch whined as it pulled on the tether attached to its claw, pulling it out in a spray of rock chips and winding it back to its arm before trying again.
[1/?]

>>27470651
Heh, at least it's easy to sink it.
I kid. Can't wait to see TAIL.

Also I drew the comparison of TDCP's dinghy as it seems he likes those two catgirls and the raft pic that pops up in this thread from time to time.

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>>27470653
Also, how is currency usually handled in the setting?

I was just going to have them use Koins, which are similar to modern pocket-change, with a Silver (like a Quarter), Little Silvers (like a Nickle), and Brasses (Like a Penny). They don't know what they're made of, or that they're old money, but they use them like money because you can find them here n' there in the nooks and crannies of the ruins, so they're just common enough for everybody to have some, but really hard for Kemomi to reproduce them selves. Sometimes they'll find jars, boxes, and strangely shaped pots full of the things.
1 Silver = 10 Small Silver = 100 Brass
(their value is based solely on size and color. phonies are spotted by the absence of bumps and ridges where their used to be engravings, though few Kemomi care enough to get upset about it, unless it's a seriously large purchase or a persistent offender. Primarily they just use Koins as an "I owe U" tracking system. ).

> inb4 bartering system

I'd like to have some kind of currency.

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>>27470888
I happen to like a barter system for primitive communities but Koins are a good as anything else.

I'd lean towards Bolts. Nuts, Washers, maybe Bottle Caps (metal ones) all produced by pre-flood machinery.

I recall one guy came up with a setting where they had exercise bikes and giant hamster wheels and the people there would trade time served producing electricity on the things for goods.

I'd just go with a "Barter Unit" and assign a value of Koins, Bolts, Caps etc. to it and do things that way sinceI like the idea of there being lots of kinds of money.

>>27470888
Actually it's "Fangs".

Pretty much Fangs are little crystals or other objects that have a certain value but only as a currency. It's sort of like a fiat currency, but it represents a certain amount of something that the community uses.

>>27471006
The exercise bike idea would definitely explain everybody being in such great shape.

>>27470888

The world is flooded with water, right?

What about Waterworld tier of currency, dirt?

Are any of the fish smart?

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>>27471234
Smart on like, what level?

>>27471019
Personally I prefer Koins to Fangs since that whole "Alien Moss reproductive cycle" shtik rubs me the wrong way.

Its either Koins or Bottle Caps, or Bolts, or whatever. I think currency should be something Kemos can counterfiet and produce on their own.

>>27471119
ugh, I typed "stting" when I meant "settlement" anyways, yeah, electricty could be something else that gets traded. Whether it comes from exercise bikes, solar panels, or an old fusion reactor doesn't matter overly much.

and I'd say everyone is fit because they have "The Best Genetics" and the muscley Cat People are the ones who dug up self help books and body builder manuals.

>>27471253
Like chimpanzee or even human toddler smart.

>>27466726
Is that from yuumei's Fisheye Placebo?

>>27471277
I'd say some of them. Octopi are already intelligent, the expy for them should be as well.

>>27471254
Alien Moss Reproductive Cycle? I... don't follow you.

I just wagered that Fangs represented something material. And the differing settlements have different items that represent "One Fang". You can tell a settlement from what they use to represent a fang.

>>27471234
Some people run it with strait-up merfolk.

>>27470658
Suddenly, the robot jolted as Rusty landed on top of the robot's body, frantically searching for a panel as the oldguard tried to shake her off whilst launching another fist at Twitch. Unfortunately, Twitch wasn't fast enough this time and the claw caught her full in the stomach, sending the catgirl flying into the wall with a yowl and an unsettling crunch.
**RESTRAINING TARGET. YOUR PARENTS WILL BE NOTIFIED.** The oldguard boomed as it began to close the claw around the poor tabby. Rusty saw this and picked up the pace, prying open a maintenance hatch with a crowbar and furiously smashing at whatever she could find inside. The robot jerked and shuddered as essential circuitry was pulverised underneath the heavy blows of Rusty's crowbar. Eventually smoke started to billow out of the maintenance hatch as the Oldguard finally shut down, collapsing on the floor. Rusty jumped off the robot and posed with a cheerful grin on her face, brandishing her crowbar like what some of the earless did in their pictures.
"Eh? did you guys see that?I am awesome!"
"Yeah, that's great." Twitch deadpanned. "Can you get this claw off me? I don't feel like dragging this thing back to the surface."

Well, that's it! What do you think? Sorry it took so long.

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>>27471315
>>27471254
He's got it wrong; fangs are byproducts of the mosses digestive cycle.

>>27471347
Why do I have a suspicion that if you say this "Alien Moss" thing enough it'll become true?

That's never been a thing.

QUESTIONS CATASTROPHE:
1. Are there crab merchants?
2. Any monstrous folk (besides cats)?
3. How do you deal with all the underwater skeletons?

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>>27471367
It's been around for a while now.

>>27471381
1. GIANT ENEMY CRABS
2. GIANT ENEMY CRABS
3. GIANT ENEMY CRABS

>>27466805
I like the idea of AIs created by the Earless surviving into the future, but I think it has to be a little bittersweet; there can't be a shitload of survivors, just a few. That writefag stuff I posted upthread was more or less a proposal for introducing *one* AI into a campaign.

And it ought to go without saying that I don't believe we should stat up any piece of Earless tech as a PC.

>>27471406
this only answers one, maybe two of my questions.

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>>27471401
Nope, I've worked with two different CATastrophe teams. Neither of them had the Alien Moss thing.

>>27464739
>wont meet any actual Earless
surely it is possible for Earless interaction and still have happylight setting
i.e. last human survivors on spacestation waving via a video recorder

>>27471482
If... and I mean IF there was a Earless encounter at my table, it would be a crash-landed escape pod from a exploratory ship. In my head canon if there are Humans around, they're strictly observing the Kemonomimi observing some sort of prime directive.

Yes, my Earless are as noble bright as the setting.

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>>27471482
It's possible, I'd say. If your GM does it, it's hardly going to end the world. In the setting though, earless are pretty much from a bygone era however, and are best kept extremely rare if not completely out of the picture.

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>>27471401
>>27471367
>>27471315
>>27471254
>>27471019
>>27470888
I prefer the "Koins," idea, or the Nuts n' Bolts over "ALIEN MOSS CRYSTALS!"

My only issue with using nuts n' bolts is that they're a necessity. They have an immediate and extremely important function. You could argue that this adds to their value, but at the end of they day you'll have people needing them more for their actual function than their socially assigned value.

So, I still vote for my idea: Koins.
Because, frankly, Alien Moss Crystals are a little too out-there.

>>27471524
>>27471482
I prefer to keep them wholly extinct.
I'd come closer to having there be stasis pods in the ruins, if any at all; which I probably wouldn't, unless I thought of something awesome to do with them.

>>27471451
Kav did. now that I think about it >>27471347 is right Fangs come from pollution that the Kav Moss eats. Either way I dislike it.

Kemos should make use of currency that they can make or scavenge in large numbers like Koins or Poker Chips or whatever.

>>27471416
I can see allowing a player to be a reprogrammed robot. (Though I'd lean more towards Persecomms than warbots.) and I can see lots of functional earless tech provided there's a high tech settlement like Vanguard Home or Diver's Bay (Though DB is more like a junkyard got turned into a settlement by Kemos who ar every good at repairing and repurposing tech) Pero Pero would have utilitarian tech, mostly just solar panels and engines and machine shops and stuff, and Silver Mountain would have a few solar panels and some appliances to make life easier. So tech should depend on your origins as much as anything else.

>>27471444
Crabs are decidely non sapient.

Kemos aren't monstrous, they're humans with minor additions and heavy genetic modification to make them tougher so they can survive a postapocalyptic world with relative ease, that said you could easily run it with lamias and harpies and stuff.

Most human skeletons would likely have rotted by the time Kemonomimi swing around, though I doubt any Kemo would be shocked by an underwater carcass since they'd probably butcher their own meat on a regular basis.

>>27471516
if earless did crash land
>are earless inferior
>different language?
>less intelligant
i know they would be terrible at surviving
but if earless ever did arrive
would it be an ironic case of aliens finding thier original planet and being useless there

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>>27464445
Everyone in the thread should read this book.
Post human animal-esque people surviving on a flooded world.