Re: Tentacle Ranching
I've got some suggestions before I join fully. Firstly, that there is some form of colour-coding, given at birth to each tentacle. Something like, "green thinks heavily of itself, blue thinks more of others, brown is completely unintelligent, red is extremely intelligent, white has better magic abilities, black is <joke>far larger</joke> more endearing..." something like that. With possible 'rare' colourations. We'll go the full pokemon! *Grins* Since we seem to be staying away from adding stats, it'd be limited to stuff like personality and, I dunno, probably "productiveness".
Second, I'd like to expand the ol' ranch eventually, get more tentacle breeds, I've got many ideas for 'em (I've basically thought up a Flintstones-esque society, with the animals that run things replaced by tentacles). There should be a way to expand, eventually... maybe using this money we're trading around? (ah, whoops, Wallpaper already mentioned this.)
I'd like to be a ranch owner, but there's just not enough farmhands currently. If we're allowed multiple characters, I may make a farmhand first and start up a ranch with another character later on, when more farmhands become available.
what are peoples ideas on races? Any generic fantasy (Elves to catgirls to humans), just humans, only non-humans, etc?
I'd say... don't limit it species-wise. Since we're in a high magic world, the chance of random and weird species popping up out of nowhere should actually be fairly high; if they wanted to play some horrible fiend, I say let ‘em. Of course, you should only allow them to be aesthetically different – if someone wanted to make some powerful magic user, they couldn’t due to magic advantages, or if they wanted to make a giant or a dragon, they couldn’t due to size and weight advantages, but if they wanted to make a lizardman or some demon, as long as it was the general size and strength of a person, and didn’t have too many unhuman advantages, (flight, for instance) that would be fine. Also, while there may be many varied humanoid species, the main ones would be humans, along with elves and the ilk, with the other species being far smaller in number. Gah, 6am post, bedtime now.