#namekkos

[dude1818]

What’s the set you’ve been designing?

I'm glad you asked! It's a gimmick set where every creature card is an colored artifact creature, set on a plane called Namekkos where all life is mechanical. Very steampunk in style: lots of gears and clockwork animals and people, but because there's literally no organic life, everybody just thinks that's normal

I started this in 2014 and centered it on the mechanic Clockwork. An artifact with Clockwork N enters the battlefield with N counters on it (+1/+1 for creatures, charge for noncreatures), and when it becomes tapped, you remove a counter at the beginning of your end step. I spent a lot of time on the worldbuilding and vague plot idea, but didn't get much farther than that

This summer I had a lot more focus, so I decided to go back to it. I came up with Scrap tokens (1, T, Sacrifice this: Proliferate target permanent) and added cipher as a returning spell mechanic in UBR. I recently came up with the 10 limited archetypes and am meaning to sit down and rebuild the set skeleton

The lore synopsis is that it's a prequel to Scars of Mirrodin. Venser discovered this plane while looking for Mirrodin, and met a local naturalist who had a planeswalker spark. Venser is baffled that this clockwork person could have a spark, so he's trying to figure out what's up. The larger threat is the empire to the north, which is a Borg-like hivemind trying to conquer the planet. The neat part is that the technology level is Industrial Revolution, so they don't have wireless communication; instead, vanguard members of the hivemind have to regularly plug back in or else they start to desync

[dude1818]

I actually designed a world kind of like that for a custom Magic set a few years ago. Not just warforged in a normal world, but all life was mechanical but was filled with normal-ish things like your warforged village. My favorite bit of world-building was that the bad guy was the evil hivemind empire in the north, except I was keeping the tech at a low clockwork-and-telegraph level, so the drones slowly developed independence if they didn’t plug back into the mainframe regularly.

Forest elves, high elves, sea elves, dark elves – it’s always elves who get all the goof environmentally adapted subspecies, isn’t it? I say we shake things up – I want to see some aquatic dwarves. Arboreal halflings. Goblins who dwell in high towers of silver and starlight. I want to see a fantasy RPG setting where the obligatory folksy burrow-dwelling pastoralists with a dozen kids per family are a bunch of robots.

[evji]

Nedele 25. 3. | BsAs - treti den.

Necitim se uplne dobre, trochu me boli v krku a mam divnej pocit kolem zaludku, takze pro jistotu snidam jen suchy chleba. Kdyz si natocim vodu, kterou tady normalne pijou a pila jsem ji ted i minule, tak mi najednou strasne smrdi, coz bude asi znameni.)

Sofii taky neni dobre (mozna ty vcerejsi drinky na ledu?) do toho musi pracovat, protoze misto psani sla vcera se mnou na veceri, tak si beru Tea a hraju si s nim. Normalne mam z deti trochu strach, zvlast z takhle malych, ale on je klidas a asi me ma i rad, takze to spolu davame v pohode. Rad kouka z okna na stromy, tak koukame z okna, neco mu zpivam a tancujem a nevim co vsechno, je to fajn, ale jsem z nej obcas trosku namekko, protoze je strasne roztomilej 😅

Sofia s Nachem pak jedou na obed k sestrenici nebo komu a navazuje jim na to neci oslava narozenin. Jen nevedi, co se psem, je po operaci a navic ta sestrenice ho nema rada.) tak se nabidnu, ze budu jeste chvili odpocivat doma a pujdu ven jen na chvili. Ctu si na balkone a vyhrivam se tam na slunicku. Pak vyrazim ven, jdu asi deset minut a citim se fakt divne zeslable, premyslim, ze to otocim zpatky. Tak si koupim colu, abych uklidnila zaludek a doplnila cukry a je to lepsi.

Jdu a jdu a protoze jsem na techhle samo-cestach trosku paranoidni, nejak se mi ta ctvrt prestava pozdavat, asi celkem bezduvodne, lidi ru jezdi na kole, deti skejtujou, nic zvlastniho… I tak pro jistotu mavnu na taxik, kterej tu stoji par pesos. Jenze me zacne strasne rozcilovat, ze jede asi nejhorsi ulici na svete, takovou malou, kde je na kazdym bloku semafor (prednost z prava tady asi nefrci). Za chvili uz to nemuzu vydrzet, zaroven zjistuju, ze v tu chvili mam tak akorat hotovosti, a nechavam se vysadit u Teatra Colon, kde jsem pri posledni navsteve byla na baletu ❤️

Dojdu az ke Casa Rosada, kde jsou pozustatky vcerejsiho statniho svatku. Tady se totiz v takovy extra volny den asi nejede na chatu, ale jde se do ulic, pripomenout si to, co ten den pripominat ma. Coz je sympaticky.

Pak uz prochazim kazdotydennim trhem v ulici Defensa ve ctvrti San Telmo, kde panuje hrozne prijemna atmosfera. Zacina zapadat slunce, takze je cas vyrazit domu. Kdyz cestuju sama nekde takhle daleko, pripadam si v tomhle jak vlkodlak.)) Do zapadu slunce doma 🙈

Mam chut se chovat jako spravny ,,porteňo” a vyuzit tedy metro nebo autobus. Do metra me nepusti bez Subte karty, kterou si ale takhle jednorazove kupovat nechci. Tak zkousim stesti s autobusem. Pro jistotu jsem ale na sve oblibene milionoproudovce, asi nejvetsi dopravni tepne. Platformy autobusu se tahnou v neskutecny delce, proste klidne kilometr, mozna i vic. A na kazdy platforme stavi tri neco ctyri cisla. Takze procento uspesnosti toho, ze to trefim, je dost maly. Snazim se pochopit ten system, najdu tam jednu hlavni ulici, u ktery Sofia bydli, coz je prvni uspech. Smer taky trefim, vzhledem k tomu, ze bydli v Barrio Norte, tipuju, ze to bude Norte.)) Jenze autobus zastavi, pan zjisti, ze mavam penezma a ne Subte kartou a pekne me vypoklonkuje. Takze co? Mavam na taxik. Ale snaha byla.)

Celou dobu tady hraju takovou hru, ze se tvarim jako lokal. Vzdycky kdyz vyjdu ven, nasadim lehce arogantni neohrozenej vyraz, aby me nikdo neotravoval, a vykracuju si jakoze presne vim, kam jdu a kde jsem, i kdyz to obcas neni uplne pravda. Celkem mi to vychazi, jen obcas premyslim, jestli me nekdo prokoukne a vypadam jako arogantni Evropanka nebo me neprokouknou a jsem arogantni Jihoamericanka.) Co se barvy pleti tyce, Buenos Aires je absolutni mix, od blondatych po tmavy typy (jen asiatu tu moc neni), takze tohle me neprozradi.

V tom mym autobusovym zmateni ke me prijde kluk a pta se me na nejakou trasu, coz me dost pobavi, ze nerozklicoval muj uzaslej vyraz plnej nepochopeni. Pak se blizi starsi pan a ja jen doufam, ze se taky nechce zeptat na cestu, protoze to uz bych nesla hur, starym lidem ja pomaham nejradsi. Nastesti jen ukazuje na telefon a rika, ze nema bryle, jestli bych mu mohla precist zpravu, co mu prisla. Tak mu ji ctu, on vi, kam ma vyrazit (doufam, ze tam ma rande!), moc dekuje a ja s timhle peknym pocitem odjizdim domu ❤️

[strawberrymilk04]

@namekko my package arrived safely!! No scratches or anything thank you so much!!! 😆

[dude1818]

Completely filled in the rough draft of my set skeleton for Namekkos tonight. Now I get to start the fun part: writing a custom CSV -> MSE importer!

[dude1818]

Namekkos: The Clockwork Plane

On the plane of Namekkos, everything is mechanical. The beasts and birds whir and click across the land, the people wind themselves up each day, and even the vegetation consists of simple machines. Whether the plane was artificially created as a mad experiment by an oldwalker, or was once truly alive before technology ran unchecked, no one knows. To the inhabitants, this is what Namekkos has always been.

In the northern reaches of the continent of Terle, the Kosmengeve Empire plots dominion. Led by Kosmen, the self-titled World Mind, Kosmengeve is a singular hive mind that aims to enfold all sentient organisms into itself. The proliferation of telegraph technology in recent years has allowed Kosmen to rapidly extend its reach. The lack of wireless technology limits how fast Kosmengeve can expand; however, long enough exposure to Kosmen can break down an organism's individuality enough that, even disconnected from the World Mind briefly, it still thinks of itself as an extension of Kosmen. Having expanded to the northern border of Terle, the Empire now feels its way southward, where the people are less than pleased to be absorbed.

South of Kosmengeve and somewhat protected by the Gensto mountain range lies the Association of Artina. Led by the Council of Vyst, Artina is a scientifically-focused society. Home to artificers, bioengineers, and naturalists, Artinans believe that nature is the greatest inventor. That's no excuse for stagnation though: it is every person's right, and even imperative, to continuously improve the mechanisms of nature. The Association doesn't have an end goal in mind, but posits that the process itself is the point. The leading minds of Artina are known as clockmakers, and their latest discovery is a mysterious energy called anima, which may be the motive force powering all life on the plane.

To the south of Terle, on the smaller continent of Tersol, the Morex Syndicate is in control. Less a political structure and more a response to Kosmen's growing reach, the Syndicate is an anarchistic collection of individuals who simply want what's best for themselves. Inhabitants of Tersol disdain the Terlian notions of societal evolution; rather, they desire merely to be allowed to modify themselves however they want, and don't care how that impacts those around them.

Venser has come to Namekkos while in search of another metal world. Intrigued by the artifice he finds, he decides to spend just a little time looking around, and discovers something shocking. He meets a promising young naturalist named Temmar; to Venser's surprise, he can tell that Temmar has a planeswalker spark, throwing into question what it means to be alive. As the Kosmengeve Empire presses into Artinan territory, Temmar gets thrown into the labyrinth of Association higher political and academic circles, while also trying to study this stranger who seems to be studying him in return.

[dude1818]

A couple years back I started working on an original custom set (as opposed to the DW-themed set I worked on a couple years before that). I don’t think I got too far with the cards, but I was quite proud of where the worldbuilding was going. I think I’m going to start posting about it on the url I saved for it right at the end (@namekkos). The cooler story stuff I’ll probably reblog here, but if you’re interested in individual card stories that’ll stay on that blog.