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So
what exactly is Geoza, anyway? And what's this about Roleplaying? |
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How
is Geoza different from all the other game systems out there? |
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Where
can I play this game? And with whom? |
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How
do I contribute to Geoza? |
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How
can I create a Geoza Persona? |
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If you have any questions which we
haven't anticipated, please drop us a line and let us know about them! We'll either
add them to this page or answer them directly to you. |
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 So what exactly is
Geoza, anyway? And what's this about Roleplaying? |
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Geoza is a world setting for
what is known as a Fantasy Role Playing Game (FRPG, or often just RPG, for short).
A Fantasy Role Playing Game is a system for telling stories - stories in which
everyone playing the game has a role. Roles are very similar to the parts which
actors and actresses play in a movie. Each player "acts out" the role of a
character in the story - known as a Persona in this system, which is based upon
the ARIA Roleplaying system from the former Last Unicorn Games.
Each Persona has his or her own
goals, motivations, and background, which the player portrays through role
playing. Role playing is a lot like acting, except that instead of huge stage sets and multi-million
dollar special effects, the Personas in a role playing game exist in the imagination of the
players. The ability to evoke colorful descriptions and dialogue replaces the huge
expense of the movies. And role playing allows something that movies
can't provide: interaction and control over the storyline. Personas, unlike actors,
aren't limited to what the script-writers have given them, or what the director or
producers think will make the best scene or the most money at the box office.
Instead, a player is able to take any action within the capabilities of the Persona.
Those capabilities are defined by the system - such as how good that knight is with his
sword, or how skilled the magician is at casting a spell. Different systems use
different methods to define the capabilities of the Personas, but the intent is the same -
to create a framework within which the players can help create a story. Creating an
entertaining (and, if possible, dramatic, tragic, or comedic) story is what
role playing is
all about. |
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How is Geoza different from
all the other game systems out there? |
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Geoza is different for
several reasons: |
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1) Geoza is based upon the ARIA
system. ARIA emphasizes storytelling through Mythic images and roles. Some of
the many superior features of the ARIA system include:
- the ability to use Interactive Histories to tell the stories of entire peoples
and kingdoms;
- enhanced social interaction systems to enable Personas to do more than just kill
monsters and find treasure;
- a detailed and smooth combat system which allows Personas who do need to fight to do so
with creativity and style. Players aren't limited to "roll-playing"
through combat.
- The most comprehensive magic system ever devised. The ARIA Reality Creation rules
allow for any magic system ever conceived to be used - and the Geoza World
Setting has taken full advantage of those rules. |
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2) Geoza has a wide variety of cultures
and narrative environments in which to tell your stories, and a richly detailed cosmology,
including a multitude of deities, several kinds of magic, and an intuitive connection
between the world and its magical nature.
This website doesn't have nearly enough of the Geoza world available on it - but more is
added from time to time, and will continue to be added. Geoza is full of potential for
enrichment, and details and story ideas are too numerous to ever be complete. Geoza
is and will remain a "work in progress." |
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Where can I play this game?
And with whom? |
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Anyone with the ARIA
Roleplaying system can use Geoza as a setting for their role playing.
ARIA can be hard to find now that it is out of print, but If you use
Geoza, please let us know. We'd like to know how you are using it, and what
creativity you bring to the world. Who knows, maybe your contributions will end up
on this site, available for everyone to enjoy? |
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How do I contribute to
Geoza? |
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Send email to webmaster@geoza.com with any suggestions,
complaints (let us know about problems with the site!), or ideas you have. |
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How can I create a Geoza
Persona? |
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You can create a Persona two different
ways: |
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1) Until the complete rules are in
place on this site, you can contact us (see above) with a character idea or questions you
might have, and then we can work with you from there. |
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2) Or, you can use the Persona
creation rules on this site, in concert with the ARIA Roleplaying manual, to create a
Persona. If you want to have your character included on this site as a
part of the
Geoza world setting, send it to the webmaster for approval - Geoza is full of variety, but
we still like to ensure that characters "fit" into the world-view we've
established for Geoza. |
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We advise players who want to play an
adept to contact us first, anyway. There are many helpful tips we can give you about
creating adept Personas in Geoza. Adepts in Geoza are potentially very exciting and
influential Personas, but they also require the most effort. |
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