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[Felix]

Hey kids! I'm the local cynic for Broken Doll Studios (and sadly also their editor)

I'm 25, been working with BDS since 1999... still haven't seen a dime so I also do freelance graphic design work and work management at the UPS Dallas Hub. It's more fun than a boy should hope for.

Interesting tidbits about me.. I have a forked tongue and webbed feet. And that's all you're getting out of me. But tell us a bit about yourselves and get to know one another. I'm gonna talk to Ashe about setting up a section of this thing for organizing gaming groups. That's right.. get off your damned computers and be social!

...unlike the rest of my crew :roll:

[Solarious]

Hello Felix. You can call me Solarious, and I'm also a cynic. Nice to meet you.

I suppose this is where I'm supposed to tell a few things about myself? Well... you can thank Endling (that's Shaun Healey to you) for letting me know about this emerging system. He hooked and reeled me in with his depiction of a Razor (http://www.deviantart.com/view/26684108/). Call me the first of many Razor fans. :twisted:

So. Whom else may we share our pointless lives with?

[Felix]

Shaun's artwork makes me happy in pants...

Great to have ya, Solar =) The site's been up all of a day, so you'll get to share yourself with hopefully many Razor fans to come! Also avatar fans, ethromancer fans, a few things I'm not at liberty to reveal yet... and most importantly...

Our fellow late night gamers who are too socially awkward to approach members of the opposite sex outside of game.

:shock:

Strike that... I meant totally cool super dudes and dudettes who rock the dice like crazy mofos... :oops:

[Christopher Ashe]

Christopher Ashe (or GHosT)

I made all this up pretty much, been working on various incarnations of Seven13 since i was 12...i'm 26 now. I've eaten. slept and breathed tabletop roleplay for most of my life. Nothing like it.

When I'm not working lately i'm either with the kids (i have a 6yr old son and a 4yr old daughter) or on WoW (Wildhammer server if any of you play).

Right now between working on the book and all of this I'm cooking up the next couple of supplement ideas. If you fancy a sneak peak one is an expansion on all of the powers systes in CoE (Avatar, Raze and Ethromancy) which will include new methods of casting as well as a new branch, and a book that details the races in the game.

Other than that I'm cooking up stuff for our campaign and currently listening to the Pixies.

[Domini]

My name is Matt Hall.

Like Christopher, I've roleplayed all my life, my guess would be since I was 7. Starting with Dungeons and Dragons, and later World of Darkness. Lately, I've been active on .hack//Divergence, an online form roleplaying game.

Coincidentally, that same picture of the Razor introduced me to S13, and for the past few weeks, I've been almost obsessed with the little bit of information there was until yesterday.

[Solarious]

Shaun's artwork makes me happy in pants...
Who doesn't get that feeling from his work? Wait, don't answer that question, I won't like the answer.

Great to have ya, Solar =) The site's been up all of a day, so you'll get to share yourself with hopefully many Razor fans to come! Also avatar fans, ethromancer fans, a few things I'm not at liberty to reveal yet...
Emphasis mine. I'm drooling already. :D

And please, call me Soly. I also respond to Kal, I suppose.

and most importantly...

Our fellow late night gamers who are too socially awkward to approach members of the opposite sex outside of game.

:shock:

Strike that... I meant totally cool super dudes and dudettes who rock the dice like crazy mofos... :oops:
Hey, HEY! No revealing secret identities online! :shock:

Christopher Ashe (or GHosT)

I made all this up pretty much, been working on various incarnations of Seven13 since i was 12...i'm 26 now. I've eaten. slept and breathed tabletop roleplay for most of my life. Nothing like it.
Oooh, I bet there's nothing like it too. How does that affect your psyche? What do you see when you look at a pencil?

*pulls out a notepad and scribbles notes down*

When I'm not working lately i'm either with the kids (i have a 6yr old son and a 4yr old daughter) or on WoW (Wildhammer server if any of you play).
Nothing escapes the long arm of World of Warcraft!

:twisted: Bwahahahahahaha! :twisted:

Right now between working on the book and all of this I'm cooking up the next couple of supplement ideas. If you fancy a sneak peak one is an expansion on all of the powers systes in CoE (Avatar, Raze and Ethromancy) which will include new methods of casting as well as a new branch, and a book that details the races in the game.

Other than that I'm cooking up stuff for our campaign and currently listening to the Pixies.
Now you're being just plain cruel. You've got all these little fishing hooks implanted under our skins with not even the Core book out, and then you gentle tug at them with this taunting half-whisper of supplements! :evil:

I like your style. :twisted: Can we be friends? :)

My name is Matt Hall.

Like Christopher, I've roleplayed all my life, my guess would be since I was 7. Starting with Dungeons and Dragons, and later World of Darkness. Lately, I've been active on .hack//Divergence, an online form roleplaying game.

Coincidentally, that same picture of the Razor introduced me to S13, and for the past few weeks, I've been almost obsessed with the little bit of information there was until yesterday.
Hello Matt. We're the first pair of Razor fans to meet over the internet! Glee! :D

Should we start a fanclub?

[Domini]

My name is Matt Hall.

Like Christopher, I've roleplayed all my life, my guess would be since I was 7. Starting with Dungeons and Dragons, and later World of Darkness. Lately, I've been active on .hack//Divergence, an online form roleplaying game.

Coincidentally, that same picture of the Razor introduced me to S13, and for the past few weeks, I've been almost obsessed with the little bit of information there was until yesterday.
Hello Matt. We're the first pair of Razor fans to meet over the internet! Glee! :D

Should we start a fanclub?

That would be an interesting idea... though if going from the pictures says anything about how kickass the races are, then I have to lean half towards the Defilers because of this picture (http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/26224712/).

I'm still looking forward to the Razors though... definitely.

[Christopher Ashe]

Oooh, I bet there's nothing like it too. How does that affect your psyche? What do you see when you look at a pencil?

*pulls out a notepad and scribbles notes down*

It goes both ways actually. The gods you read about in Chapter 1 have been with me longer than the concept of the Cycle of Existence has...it's been debated by some which came first ;) also...there's a chharacter in the metaplot who's become such an incarnation that Felix and Church actually called me up to wish her a happy birthday.

When I look at a pencil I see an open door. ;)

Now you're being just plain cruel. You've got all these little fishing hooks implanted under our skins with not even the Core book out, and then you gentle tug at them with this taunting half-whisper of supplements!

I like your style. Can we be friends?

In point of fact I already have enough supplemental material to last for along time. Years likely in terms of publishing. There are some of these that I'll be posting on the Wiki site for free simply on the basis that they don't quite warrantt the costs of full publication. But I'm always hinting at supplements here and there not only to generate interest, but to let you guys know that there are things in the works and what they are. Guaging response is a large part of marketing ;)


That would be an interesting idea... though if going from the pictures says anything about how kickass the races are, then I have to lean half towards the Defilers because of this picture.

I'm still looking forward to the Razors though... definitely.

Defilers are not actually considered a playable race under the core rules...the races are the Asana-Lea, Oraki, Silana and Lirie-Kana (humans)...Though with the Seven13 rules and the information given about the defilers in the book a GM could easily translate them out for a campaign if the characters wished to play the forces of the Dark. Demons are tricky though just based on the concept of the CoE theology: a demon is a timeless, indestructible creature that, even if destroyed on the physical plane, is merely returned to the Deep. Many return with their memories intact. For this reason and their level of power I don't really consider them good PCs unless the campaign deals directly with the players as servants of teh Dark.

As for Razors, they are very cool. Raze is the newest branch of power to enter 7/13, Avatars and Ethromancers have been around in various incarnations since about '00 or so. Razors came about from a conversation I had about the difference in casting method between a kid and Gandalf/Tellah/Aged Mage. While the elder would consider cause and effect and tailor a Casting/Spell to fit a specific purpose or need in arefined form, a child with the same power would simply operate it on need alone, fueled more often than not by raw emotion. Raze is more limited than Ethromancy but provides extreme potency to the wielder. [/quote]

[Domini]

That would be an interesting idea... though if going from the pictures says anything about how kickass the races are, then I have to lean half towards the Defilers because of this picture.

I'm still looking forward to the Razors though... definitely.

Defilers are not actually considered a playable race under the core rules...the races are the Asana-Lea, Oraki, Silana and Lirie-Kana (humans)...Though with the Seven13 rules and the information given about the defilers in the book a GM could easily translate them out for a campaign if the characters wished to play the forces of the Dark. Demons are tricky though just based on the concept of the CoE theology: a demon is a timeless, indestructible creature that, even if destroyed on the physical plane, is merely returned to the Deep. Many return with their memories intact. For this reason and their level of power I don't really consider them good PCs unless the campaign deals directly with the players as servants of teh Dark.

As for Razors, they are very cool. Raze is the newest branch of power to enter 7/13, Avatars and Ethromancers have been around in various incarnations since about '00 or so. Razors came about from a conversation I had about the difference in casting method between a kid and Gandalf/Tellah/Aged Mage. While the elder would consider cause and effect and tailor a Casting/Spell to fit a specific purpose or need in arefined form, a child with the same power would simply operate it on need alone, fueled more often than not by raw emotion. Raze is more limited than Ethromancy but provides extreme potency to the wielder. [/quote][/quote]

Awww... but they look so amazingly awesome... But I guess I'll just have to live with Razors. The way they operate sounds very interesting.

[merlynsphoenix]

Hey, My name is J
I'm 27, been playing for about 6 years. Been a sounding board and play tester for Ashe since '00.

[Christopher Ashe]

Actually J you've been with us since '99 that was the year I ran Last Days Special Edition ;)

[Outside]

Heya, my name is Clayton. Im 22, and while i dont have anything to do with the company really ive been playing with Ghost and them for a few years now. I have seen the game morph over the years into what it is now and the game and story both rock.

[Endling]

Howdy. My name's Shaun.

I'm one of the artists who worked on the book. My favorite race in 7/13 are the Asa. (Followed closely by the Oraki, damn fun to draw.) Though I think I resemble more of a plague bearer in real life. With more hair.

Never really roleplayed much in the tabletop sense, unless you count on the consoles, which I'm an avid fan of. PS2 in particular. :D But I do love drawing me some crazy monsters n' demons n' half-naked women, which 7/13 seems to have no shortage of. (Hooray! :lol: ) So I've been on board since Ashe picked me up from my DA site.

[Anonymous]

But I do love drawing me some crazy monsters n' demons n' half-naked women, which 7/13 seems to have no shortage of. (Hooray!)

Damn right. I grew up with heavy metal, horror flicks and punk. All of which appreciate the necessity of scantily clad fantasy women in fiction and literature ;)

Well it's Ashe if you couldn't tell I'm on the other mac so I wasn't logged in

[Coroidan]

Hello, I be Coroidan. Came here because Endlings Deviantart journal told me to (note: is easily convinced to do things by complete and utter strangers)
I'm 19, played tabletop games for about 7 years i think - haven't been able to play so much recently though.
umm... on deviantart, obviously, but don't worry about checking out my site 'cause its crap ;)
Also been RPing on a free-form online text based RPG called Ashenshire for a while now.

so yeah, all this S13 art popping up on Deviantart had me intrigued, so when Endling put up a link in his journal, i came wandering in :D....
....blame Endling and Shirotsuki

[Felix]

Hey, strangers have the best munchies... or something to that order.

Besides.. I woulda joined up based on Shaun's art. I've never met him and already hate him for doing what I can never seem to... draw things that look like... well.. things...

Either way, welcome aboard and great to have ya =) All artists and RPG enthusiasts welcome. Be sure to grab your complimentary torch, pitchfork, and picket sign at the door.

[Coroidan]

sounds like just enough stuff for me to mcguyver into a crossbow! :D I'll get the message across alot better when the picket sign is embedded in someones chest :twisted:

i'll have to go and look at all the other S13 artists on the main page now

[Outside]

Bah with those essentials if you were Macguyver you could reverse engineer a tank. The whole time it was killing people it would be advertising S13

[Tenchan]

=D I am Ten(chan), 24, and am so bloody new, it's not funny anymore. I came here because I have a habit of collecting genius artists on my DA flist, and EndlingShaun happens to be among them, and he just wouldn't stop going on about 7/13 and then he linked the forum and .. yeah. It's all his fault.

I'm roleplaying (in all its incarnations) for ... uh .. I think about 7 years now. Videogaming since I've been a little annoying brat. I love good art, good stories and I am addicted to creating characters. Addicted.

[Coroidan]

Bah with those essentials if you were Macguyver you could reverse engineer a tank. The whole time it was killing people it would be advertising S13

technically, it'd have to be a wooden tank, since i'm pretty sure there's very little metal in those items. but it'd be a wooden tank OF DOOM!!!! (and S13)

[VeX]

I am me and you can find me here. (http://vexbeast.deviantart.com) If I scare you that's good.

It's good to see that the forums are up and running. I'll take one of those pitchforks if you don't mind.

I'm not just RPG obsessed, I'm obsessed with everything and I write poetry because I have nothing better to do with my life.

I can't be bothered thinking of other things to say about me so I'm going to go rape other peoples pictures with photoshop now. Bye.

[Domini]

Bah with those essentials if you were Macguyver you could reverse engineer a tank. The whole time it was killing people it would be advertising S13

technically, it'd have to be a wooden tank, since i'm pretty sure there's very little metal in those items. but it'd be a wooden tank OF DOOM!!!! (and S13)

That would be so cool to be shot by that... Dying in the name of S13.

[Escape]

I came here because I have a habit of collecting genius artists on my DA flist, and EndlingShaun happens to be among them, and he just wouldn't stop going on about 7/13 and then he linked the forum and .. yeah. It's all his fault.

I guess this kind of qualifies for me too. But i don't know if it's all Shaun's fault because my curiosity played a part in this ;p.

My name is Kate(Katie, Kat etc.). I've been Rping for about 4 years now, RPGing on platforms for 10. I'm not a part of Broken Doll Studios in anyway. All I do is love the artists and their styles.

Well there’s a bit about me :D

[Felix]

Welcome to the board, Kate. We're actually hoping to reel in as many of the uninformed as possible. Maybe even the uniformed... and unicorns are a must... Either way, hopefully something along the way will wet your appetite in time for the corebook's release. If not, always good to have another voice on the board.

[Escape]

Well thank you Felix and I don't think there's a doubt that I would like the book. ^_^

[Solarious]

Anyone notice how all the registrations suddenly spiked when Mr. Endling posted a link to the forums? You must admit star power helps the cause greatly.

[Coroidan]

Shirotsuki just posted a link in her last Deviation too, so it could spike some more :P

[Domini]

We all should post the link in our devArt journals and deviations, that way the board/community keeps growing.

[Christopher Ashe]

I've also got Gunner Romantic working who has a link and her stuff totally rocks, she's recently done color work n some of Endling's sketches

[VeX]

Shirotsuki just posted a link in her last Deviation too, so it could spike some more :P

could=will right?


We all should post the link in our devArt journals and deviations, that way the board/community keeps growing.

I agree, then we could tell apart the supporters from other people too...
I'm putting a link into my sig right now.

And yeah, Gunner is awesome too. ^^

[Domini]

It's not in my signature, but I think I link to/mention the forums in the last couple of my journals.

Anyway, here's mine:

avalloney.deviantart.com

[simon_church]

Well, its very nice to meet all of you. :)

Im Evans btw, one of Ashe's bros and freelance/pro-bono employee of BDS. Many apologies for not posting on here sooner, i have been busy trying to finish both my web project for school and to come up with new material for a game i have been running for Ashe and Felix. Its been almost a month now since i last ran anything from it, and i hope they can forgive me.
U guys can feel free to drop me a line if you wish about any questions you have, but know that i will not give out company or game secrets, so will have to be happy with some complimetary 7/13 drool bibs i will be working on.

[Johnson]

Just wanted to let ya'll know I am watching..........


:)

Shoot me an email or somthing if you "old souls" want to shoot the shit...

[Karma1Apple]

Longtime lurker, finally registered. :D

I'm Kristen, just another supporter of the BDS(&M) crew.

8)

[UmbraVentus]

I found out about S13 from....what else...the Razor art...I searched threw alot of the art and finnaly found the companies name...googled it and look I am here... =D

You can call me by my user name or by Zeek or by Spike

[Felix]

Welcome aboard, Zeek. Right now we're in post-production phase and it's turned into more of a waiting game, but hopefully we'll find ways to keep you amused till then. We've still got Ashe workin' on a Wiki site... and naturally, we'll be blogging and name-dropping like the sick, sadistic folks we be.

[GunnerRomantic]

Hiya, everybody! I've got to turn lurker mode back on before I inadvertently hurt myself, so-

[Stellos~Core]

The stars shine bright as a being from another dimension enters this realm, and settles down...

Greetings all. I am the Stellos~Core. You may call me SC for short, if you wanna.

I will begin my analysis of this place and what it contains very soon. I have yet to figure out exactly WHAT Broken Doll Studios is for. Anyone care to elighten me?

[Christopher Ashe]

We're a publisher of tabletop role-playing games. Particularly Seven13: Cycle of Existence, due out in June this year. Other than that all of us are graphic designers. We also watch a lot of movies and read a lot of books.

[Felix]

Speak for yourself.. I'm illiterate...

[Domini]

And here we sit, trusting the book to be produced for us in a flawless form when the editor can't tell "the" from "floccinoccinihillipillification." Or maybe he can, but only from the shape recognition he learned in kindergarten...

(Sorry Felix, but it was too perfect an opportunity to pass up... DON'T LET LEVI KILL ME!!!!one!11!eleven!!!)

[Stellos~Core]

*grins* I can already tell I'm going to enjoy it here...

[VeX]

More than you know SC, more than you know...

[Elune]

Christopher Ashe (or GHosT)



When I'm not working lately i'm either with the kids or on WoW (Wildhammer server if any of you play).

.

I play on the Wildhammer server too (but the European one).

[Christopher Ashe]

Well actually I don't really play WoW much anymore - I'm back in college these days and don't have all that much time for video games. When I do play lately it's been either Call of Duty 4 or Age of Conan - 'cause really you can't beat glorious violence and half-naked women ;)

[Elune]

I am beginning to lose interest in WoW myself actually.

My pc could handle COD 1, and refused to even look at COD 2, so I haven't tried the others in the series.
I plan to upgrade in the very near future (finally-almost taken as long as the_painter to upgrade!).

I have not had a look at Conan either- heard mixed reports of it so far. Is there a free trial for Conan? I do like to try before buying-games are expensive in the UK.

DDO was very dissapointing - I would have loved to have played through somewhere like Greyhawk, and all the old official modules.

[Christopher Ashe]

I was quite disappointed in DDO as well - honestly it couldn't stand up at all to a lot of the player-created worlds on Neverwinter Nights.

I don't know that they have a free trial for Age of Conan yet. As of now there are plenty of bugs and there's a lot of content still in production (only 3 months since release). It's main angle is seriously nasty PvP and ultra-violence. If I were you I might give it another month or two for a couple mroe patches and maybe more info on the Directx10 version/upgrade. All-in-all though it's amazingly vicious and playing it is more than point in click: some combat knowledge will actually serve you. I'm in love with the game, bugs or no.

[Elune]

Hmm PVP is one aspect of all these games which does not appeal at all, to be honest. The only time I enjoyed pvp was in the 200 player Christmas snowball fights in knight Online.

In WoW I have been ganked too many times by characters 20+ levels higher than me to enjoy pvp. :rolleyes:


WoW suffers from many pvp related problems - such as the constant attacks on various settlements such as The Crossroads by the opposing faction which achieve nothing but lower level characters from handing in quests as the quest givers are invariably dead for several hours .
The problem I have with these attacks is that they are without real reason , and there is no reward for success.

I would be quite happy for these settlements to be capturable - then the npc's there would become friendly or (neutral at least ) to their new masters, the flight point unusable by the previous faction etc. Of course, the new masters would have to maintain a presence there constantly, or the settlement would revert back to the previous faction, and they would no doubt have to defend their new settlement from the opposite faction who would undoubtedly try to recapture their former settlement.