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Post by Mr. Pooka on Feb 16, 2021 15:49:47 GMT -5
Actually following Cam's post... that brought up a question I had about De'syl. He has the copper wings on the cat tail. If I wanted to keep the wings, would the tail be turned into a dragon tail? I'm honestly happy with the latter—just making sure I understand for when he's up for growings ^^  Quirky! (-8 I just about had things figured out, ha! (and I don't expect this to be the last interesting mix!) ... So, we did a bunch of test appearances (testing wing and tail test file combos) and its in both Pooka and my opinion that this extra frill that goes down the tail looks the best on the dragon tails only. So, in a situation like this one, we'd give you your own options, Either have her gain a dragon tail when she became an adult or Pooka could still try make this work with a cattail but it would be sort one off thing and wouldn't be templated for any future use. I'd add an extra not in general, we don't really have a lot of 100% rules but rather strong guidelines about how we like things to work or what we think looks the best, and are always happy to work on older bits like this in ways that make everyone happy, (-8 14 years ago and 5000 Sphinxes ago some things seemed like a good idea at the time but maybe not now! |
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Post by Mr. Pooka on Feb 16, 2021 16:00:23 GMT -5
So... We don't seem to have a fox tail template. (I'd already been going though looking all over... to no avail unfortunately.) Ah ok, drat. I had gotten my hopes up a bit when I saw that teen girl with the fox looking tail that A.E did. No worries though, I appreciate you looking everywhere for me.  thank you Mr. Pooka! also, sorry for the sort of telephone loop of a suggestion! (This is the IT department, let me redirect you to our customer service... this is customer service, oh that sounds like an IT problem, let me reconnect you... Sorry IT is out you are being redirected to customer service now...) It's alright Mr. Pooka, no worries. it is very irritating when telephone people do that though. lol One of the reasons I hate calling any health care insurance places its always frustrating. Lol XD Finding a version of a trait should, 98% of the time at least, mean we have it... but there are just a few odd bits and missing things with children and teens... eventually I'll have a good list, (-8 also I'm glad I don't have to answer questions about American health care! That would be a super pain in the butt, which I should point out, is a condition that is probably still covered up here, (-8 |
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Post by Siopilos on Feb 16, 2021 16:01:32 GMT -5
Quirky! (-8 I just about had things figured out, ha! (and I don't expect this to be the last interesting mix!) ... So, we did a bunch of test appearances (testing wing and tail test file combos) and its in both Pooka and my opinion that this extra frill that goes down the tail looks the best on the dragon tails only. So, in a situation like this one, we'd give you your own options, Either have her gain a dragon tail when she became an adult or Pooka could still try make this work with a cattail but it would be sort one off thing and wouldn't be templated for any future use. Makes sense. I will probably just stick to the dragon tail for this boy because I can imagine the rounded curve of that tail to be easier to work with than the cat tails. Cool! I just wanted to make sure ^^ Thanks, Mr. Pooka! |
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Post by wolfrysk on Feb 17, 2021 0:24:36 GMT -5
For a female/female or male/male pair, do we still specify which part of the pair serves as the "stud" and which serves as the "carrier"? Can females still serve as a stud to any f/f pair even if she has been a carrier to another breed? I assume also a male can only serve as a carrier once per season as a female would?
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Post by Mr. Pooka on Feb 17, 2021 14:58:56 GMT -5
For a female/female or male/male pair, do we still specify which part of the pair serves as the "stud" and which serves as the "carrier"? Can females still serve as a stud to any f/f pair even if she has been a carrier to another breed? I assume also a male can only serve as a carrier once per season as a female would? Interesting questions! So, I'm not planning on adding any hard or written in stone answers for this one but I'll explain why. So, we follow a fairly logical and straightforward realistic system (as far as magical Sphinxes in an fantasy rp setting go for realistic). Most couples will have a male and a female involved and without an item use its implied that the female is carrying the child and can't participate in another breeding until she has the child. (this would include Superfecundation situations which would have been dealt with in the breeding form.) Almost everything beyond that involves using items. Items that people will have from games of have purchased and they are meant to represent a plethora of different Roleplaying options. ...and I want to leave it open to players interpretation. Nothing about the breeding system is meant to be Min-Maxy or overly technical, so if we stumble into some sort of system breaking forms we'll simply address it (like some sort of Sphinx breeding mill), but other than that its really up to the people involved and how they want to roleplay it. How some of these items work might have some semi-canon examples in our RPs but they can also represent other things from peoples personal RPs as well. How you want to imagine a Statue of Hapy working (a statue that allows same sex breeding) is really up to you! (anything from praying really hard and one partner becomes pregnant, to a magical stork delivery to a one night gender swap, to magic ritual, to a surrogate blessed by Hapy, to... unlimited! It's a world of magic so whatever works for your RP!) I think I can go into a bit more detail, but I think that covers the questions? If you had a male/male pair who used an item to breed its up to you if one is carrying a baby or if they created a child via magic or ..again, whatever your preferred rp imagination desires. So the male in questions could theoretically still participate in breeding (even while 'pregnant') as long as it works for the RP and doesn't feel like the rules are being bent to far. |
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Post by wolfrysk on Feb 17, 2021 20:25:33 GMT -5
Really, I think the more concerning thing would be for females and their ability to stud/carry since the written rule is females can only participate in one breeding. I'll use my girl Ubasti as an example, she only wants to breed with other females, but doesn't necessarily want to carry the offspring given she is a warrior and takes her work seriously. Say one season I have 3 people who want to use her with their females, is she allowed to "stud" to all three of them? Since the rule says "Female Sphinxes may only be involved in one breeding per season/thread. (There may be items, events or magic that can change this.)" I assume that the hapy statue would fall under the item portion and she could play "stud" freely? If I wanted her to carry one cub and breed to the other two is that possible?
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Post by Phoenix Stardancer on Feb 18, 2021 3:55:34 GMT -5
Do Greeks have a teen stage?
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Post by Rayvin_Kittiy on Feb 18, 2021 13:03:55 GMT -5
Ok so me and mooph just thought up an interesting question. If one or both parents in a breeding are were's of some kind. Could that be a trait passed to an offspring? Could or would the artist roll to see if it passes and add a were form to the cub? Similarly to like how a trait would pass? For example if passed The were form could be artist interpretation or an offset of the parent like a weredove could make another weredove offspring or just stay in the bird family and make a werecrow or something. If so what would the percentage be of that trait passing? I think it could be a really neat option to have if its possible. |
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Post by Mr. Pooka on Feb 18, 2021 15:09:53 GMT -5
Really, I think the more concerning thing would be for females and their ability to stud/carry since the written rule is females can only participate in one breeding. I'll use my girl Ubasti as an example, she only wants to breed with other females, but doesn't necessarily want to carry the offspring given she is a warrior and takes her work seriously. Say one season I have 3 people who want to use her with their females, is she allowed to "stud" to all three of them? Since the rule says "Female Sphinxes may only be involved in one breeding per season/thread. (There may be items, events or magic that can change this.)" I assume that the hapy statue would fall under the item portion and she could play "stud" freely? If I wanted her to carry one cub and breed to the other two is that possible? I think the Hapy statue in this situation would/could be one of the exceptions mentioned. I'm not sure if I need to, but I may tinker with the wording in the main post if this comes up a lot, but I think an FAQ note might be more applicable. Like I mentioned above, its not meant to be super technical, just clear. If there were any hard rule about this stuff it would be; Roleplaying is more important than technical rules, every time. And the second rule being common sense and Artist work negates any loopholes or unforeseen situations. ...so the plan mentioned above with Ubasti should be fine! The roleplaying behind the rule is that in a normal breeding there should be a time limit for someone (a female in most breeding situations) to carry a pregnancy. In the plan above, Ubasti would not be in this situation so should be able to participate in other breedings. also, depending on how this breeding system works out, we have a short list of other items and effects that we might put in to add more roleplaying options... ------------------------------- Oh, and another good note that fits in here, under the roleplaying note, is that everyone is welcome to impose their own time limits for their own Roleplaying! The lack of strict rules is in place, just for that kind of reason... as not to interfere with others stories. For example if you had two males and a statue of Hapy breeding we wouldn't really concerned if the males were involved in other breedings, strictly by the rules at least, because we're assuming something 'magic' is going on and the normal rules might not apply. Now this doesn't mean that you can't limit yourself if you wanted to have an RP where one of the male partners is carrying a full pregnancy, including the time involved. Roleplaying is always more fun than rules, (-8 |
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Post by Mr. Pooka on Feb 18, 2021 15:13:18 GMT -5
Do Greeks have a teen stage? No, there is no Teen stage for anyone except Egyptians. |
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Post by Mr. Pooka on Feb 18, 2021 15:51:23 GMT -5
Ok so me and mooph just thought up an interesting question. If one or both parents in a breeding are were's of some kind. Could that be a trait passed to an offspring? Could or would the artist roll to see if it passes and add a were form to the cub? Similarly to like how a trait would pass? For example if passed The were form could be artist interpretation or an offset of the parent like a weredove could make another weredove offspring or just stay in the bird family and make a werecrow or something. If so what would the percentage be of that trait passing? I think it could be a really neat option to have if its possible. That is an interesting question! For now I'd say no, these sort of extra traits/cert notes etc. won't pass with our normal breeding system. There's two main reasons for this one, first extra work for the Artist (colouring an extra wolf or horse can be time consuming which can double the work... not as much as say a dove, or bat, but then we'd have to put a weird limit on only some kinds of weres) and for the roleplaying reasons behind what a were is. For example, in D&D a were can be passed down genetically, or can be infected, or in White Wolf a werewolf is only passed genetical but with 1 in 10 type numbers, and in another system weres are created through magic ritual... and we don't really have an rules or limits for what and how people want their weres to work! I have another shapeshifter type coming up for another setting (a something for a something, lol, super sneaky wording.) which work like weres, but are a society and members gain the type from joining the society, not breeding... Now, all that being said, we might revisit this option when all the kinks are worked out of the breeding system... perhaps. Maybe an item or option or idk what yet but everything we do is sort of a living and growing system, (-8 I'd also add that this sort of thing CAN be done through customs. |
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Post by Siopilos on Feb 19, 2021 10:05:31 GMT -5
Oh! I had another question but isn't related to breedings/growings. I had missed a portion of that Heb but will the Raptors be available for customs or were they a special for that Heb year? ETA: And I was just thinking... is it possible to add a cat pattern potion to growings? I think color potions were mentioned, but not sure about patterns. |
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Post by Mr. Pooka on Feb 19, 2021 18:34:04 GMT -5
Oh! I had another question but isn't related to breedings/growings. I had missed a portion of that Heb but will the Raptors be available for customs or were they a special for that Heb year? ETA: And I was just thinking... is it possible to add a cat pattern potion to growings? I think color potions were mentioned, but not sure about patterns. Raptors will be on the custom list, (-8 Yes you can use pattern potions with growings as well as colour potions. (I've added this to the growing info) |
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Post by Rayvin_Kittiy on Feb 20, 2021 16:40:45 GMT -5
Ok I have two questions....
One is in reference to my last question. So I understand the points you made about weres but if we wanted the gene/trait to be rolled for during a breeding. Would it be possible to make a note of it in the form if It didn't add any extra work to the artist?
For example what I was thinking would be to literally just have the artist roll for it like any other trait and they would only have to mark it on their cert under species if it passes. For instance they roll for the trait and if it passes the child's cert will say were and if it doesn't it says egyptian. Then the were form would be left up to the owner to get at a later date, such as during customs or refashionings. Would something like that work or be ok?
The second question was that I'm kind confused about how breeding and growing will happen every month. So a breeding/growing thread is posted and people put in their forms. Then the forms are randomized and some are done and some are not. But next month is another thread put up and everyone(new people and ones that were not done last thread)has to add forms again for another chance? Or is the same list of people randomized until it's done and after a few months when finished a new thread is put up for new forms? Sorry was just kinda confused on how it worked.
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One more I thought of XD
I had previously thought that twins could be rolled naturally during a normal breeding but that it was just a very very slim chance like 1 in 10 or something But is that right? Or are twins are only possible with a breeding item and not a possibility during a normal breed at all?
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Post by Phoenix Stardancer on Feb 20, 2021 20:11:33 GMT -5
Is this the hourglass for breeding? It does not look the one in the samples  |
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thank you Mr. Pooka! 
